47 research outputs found
Degradation of complex casein polymer: Production and optimization of a novel serine metalloprotease from Aspergillus niger KIBGE-IB36
No full textAn Analysis of Cultural Types and Categories in Moroccan ELT Textbooks: Primary School Case
No full textAbstract: Language is not only a tool of communiqué, but it is a clue to discover the culture. It allows the learner to discover how other people in other cultures believe, think, and live within their societies. Besides, culture and language are two topics linked in every ELT textbook. In Morocco, the English language is considered a foreign language that students’ study from the secondary school until they graduate from high school. This study investigates the cultural contents, aspects, and categories of the Moroccan ELT textbook TICKET1. This study was conducted by employing qualitative data, particularly analyzing the cultural contents of TICKET ELT textbooks. It analyses the written and visual texts in ELT textbook «ticket 1" adopted by the ministry of education in Morocco in 2018. The results reveal that source culture is dominant, followed by the target culture, then the international culture in the ELT textbooks. In addition, the cultural standards presented in the textbook show how the cultural patterns help present culture in the Moroccan ELT textbook. In addition,
Keywords: culture reference, ELT textbooks, language, culture, big culture,a little culture.
Title: An Analysis of Cultural Types and Categories in Moroccan ELT Textbooks: Primary School Case
Author: Hafsa Krych
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
Vol. 10, Issue 2, April 2022 - June 2022
Page No: 149-159
Research Publish Journals
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Published Date: 10-May-2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6535815
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The role of stem cells in precision medicine: next-generation cancer treatment
No full textAbstract Background Precision medicine has transformed oncology by tailoring treatments to the molecular and genetic characteristics of individual tumors. Stem cell-based strategies hold unique potential to complement these approaches by enabling regenerative support, targeted delivery of therapeutics, and novel models for drug screening. Methods This review synthesizes current evidence on the integration of stem cell biology into precision cancer therapy, highlighting advances in tumor profiling, next-generation sequencing (NGS), and genome editing that enable personalized interventions. Results Emerging applications include engineered stem cells for selective delivery of oncolytic agents, immune modulation through stem cell–derived platforms, and the use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) for modeling tumor heterogeneity. Advances in NGS are accelerating tumor-specific profiling, facilitating gene editing of stem cells, and refining patient selection for therapy. Challenges Despite progress, translational barriers remain, including risks of tumorigenicity, ethical concerns, high costs, immune rejection, and limited large-scale clinical validation. Conclusion Stem cell–based precision oncology is a rapidly evolving field with significant promise. Future directions include integrating NGS-driven tumor profiling with engineered stem cells, optimizing safety through gene-editing technologies, and advancing clinical trials to establish efficacy. These efforts could reshape the landscape of individualized cancer care
Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2023, xiii + 366 pp., $32, ISBN 978-1-5036-3603-3
No full textKashmiri life is expendable for the Indian state. While the love for the land is close to national imaginaries, the people have been subjected to decades of abuse and violence, and infringement of their basic human rights. In this book, Hafsa Kanjwal delves into the history of Kashmir, tracing the role of two pivotal political figures – Sheikh Abdullah (1947–1953) and Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad (1953–1963) – and their relationship with the Indian project of state-building in Kashmir. The author characterizes this as the ‘politics of life’ (9), where the Indian government and client regimes in Kashmir have normalized occupation with the propagation of ‘development, empowerment and progress’ along with bureaucratic integration and the forging of affective intimate relationships with the people of the state. However, the politics of life and appeals to emotions did not mean that there was an absence of coercive measures used by the Indian state to shape conforming and confronting subjectivities
پاپولر فکشن میں تصوف کی پیش کش : تنقیدی مطالعہ: Presentation of mysticism in poplur fiction
No full textMysticism is an ancient term, which is not only a collection of spiritual and inner values, but also the name of sincerity and kindness in intellectual, social and cultural aspects. Mysticism is the source of the relationship between the Creator and the creatures to create the universe, which researchers and scholars have divided into the theory of unity of existence and the theory of unity of witness, respectively. Due to these ideas, Mysticism established far-reaching affirmations on Urdu language and literature. In this context Urdu and Persian poets made different topics of Mysticism (contentment, trust, negation, selfishness, coercion and authority, real knowledge of intuition) as the main theme in his poetry. Later, in Urdu prose, especially in Urdu novels, novelists made Mysticism the main and secondary theme through the dialogues of the characters. In this paper, various themes of Mysticism have been covered in these Urdu novels, which we keep in the category of popular literature or novels. These include Aleem-ul-Haq Haqqi's "Ishq Ka Sen" and Hashim Nadeem's "Khuda aur Muhabat". A study of these novels suggests that their themes are purely religious in nature and the facts of life are presented in a rich manner in the guise of Mysticism
SPATIO-TEMPORAL PATTERN OF TROPICAL CYCLONES: THE CASE OF CYCLONES OF THE BAY OF BENGAL
No full textFor the last few decades, the generalized pattern of tropical cyclones has gone through an unstable system transformation in the global changing climatic scenario. Thus, the broad aim of this research work was to explore the spatio-temporal changing pattern of tropical cyclones in the basin of the Bay of Bengal between 1985 and 2019. Cyclone track information data have been collected from Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) server and Bangladesh Meteorological Department. The loss and damage statistics has been collected from different published sources. Geographical distributional characteristics such as mean center and standard directional distribution have been explored using the spatial statistical tool of ArcMap. The mean geographic center has been identified near the district of Bhola and Patuakhali. The cyclonic occurrences in the research area are oriented north–west to south–east according to standard directional distribution. Hot spot analysis was used to identify the most affected parts in the study area and found that there are no significant hotspots, but the distribution pattern is rather random. However, there are two minor concentration zones in the study area, one near Barguna and another one near Sandwip coast. SPSS software was also used here to analyze the relationship between cyclonic events and the loss/damage scenarios of the study area. The relationship between cyclonic velocity and damage of life and livelihood showed a strong correlation of .804 with a significance level of 99% (p<.01). Random cyclonic trends and patterns indicate a change in this region's climatic variability over the past 35 years
Laboratory Test Utilization Practices in Hamad Medical Corporation; Role of Laboratory Supervisors and Clinicians in Improper Test Utilization; a Descriptive Pilot Study
No full textBackground: The use of diagnostic laboratory tests is increasing worldwide. Improper test utilization (ITU) is a common problem for all healthcare systems as it costs substantial expenses for the health systems and impacts optimal patient care. Purpose: The present small-scale survey aims to highlight the current practice of ITU among the labs and physicians, and investigate the actions of diagnostic laboratories towards ITU, and identify the reasons affecting test ordering decisions among physicians. Methods: A cross sectional study based on two different surveys was developed and distributed from March 2017 to April 2017 to laboratory supervisors and physicians (clinicians) at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Qatar. Fourteen laboratory supervisors and eighty-nine physicians were surveyed about improper test utilization practices. The overall results are descriptive data. Results: The overall proportion of improperly utilized tests detected by the laboratory supervisors were 50.0%, 35.7%, and 14.3% for overused, misused, and underused lab tests, respectively. Among the physicians, 91% used the electronic ordering template to select the appropriate tests. Moreover, 78.7% of the physicians used the clinical guidelines, while 73% were not employing the laboratory handbook. Furthermore, 95.5%% of the physicians preferred to get feedback about inappropriate tests, while 51.1% were not receiving any, and 40.9% were rarely receiving. Finally, 67.4% were unaware of the tests’ costs among surveyed physicians, and 63.6% showed a willingness to reduce their orders if the cost was high and unnecessary. Conclusion: The physician’s and the laboratories’ communication were inadequate and not systematized, causing ITU practices. The improvement strategy should focus on the communication between clinical labs and physicians and enhance physician implementation to order appropriate lab tests. This could be achieved by conducting legitimate educational methodologies, continuous feedback reviews, ongoing audits, executing health information technology instruments, engaging laboratory practice guidelines, and applying demand management and testing algorithms.The study is categorized under quality management IRB, approved by the Institutional Review Board (HMC research center) of Hamad Medical Corporation (#MRC0184/2017). Dr. Rizk (corresponding author) and Ms. Hafsa (first primary author, during her work at HMC labs) are included in the study approval by HMC. In addition, Dr. Nesrin from HMC is acknowledged for help and support in the study
Abortion in Islamic law
No full textConcerned about giving women fatwas that a 4-month-old baby can be aborted, based on the views found in classical Islamic law, Hafsa Kesgin's book has helped him write. In addition, Hafsa Kesgin stated that there is no study in the type of book that combines positive law and Islamic law in any type of book. Her desire to make a contribution to this deficiency led to the emergence of this study. The book consists of a short introduction and five main titles. The author dealt with the subject in terms of medicine, previous sharia, sociology, positive law, and Islamic law. It can be said that the author, who hopes that her work will be instrumental in helping another baby cling to life, is working toward society. At the same time, it can be stated that this work can be one of the beginning books for those who make academic studies on the subject, and it will be a good guide for reaching classical and contemporary sources from various sciences about abortion. This study aimed to examine this work
Collected Papers (on Neutrosophic Theory and Applications), Volume VII
No full textThis seventh volume of Collected Papers includes 70 papers comprising 974 pages on (theoretic and applied) neutrosophics, written between 2013-2021 by the author alone or in collaboration with the following 122 co-authors from 22 countries: Mohamed Abdel-Basset, Abdel-Nasser Hussian, C. Alexander, Mumtaz Ali, Yaman Akbulut, Amir Abdullah, Amira S. Ashour, Assia Bakali, Kousik Bhattacharya, Kainat Bibi, R. N. Boyd, Ümit Budak, Lulu Cai, Cenap Özel, Chang Su Kim, Victor Christianto, Chunlai Du, Chunxin Bo, Rituparna Chutia, Cu Nguyen Giap, Dao The Son, Vinayak Devvrat, Arindam Dey, Partha Pratim Dey, Fahad Alsharari, Feng Yongfei, S. Ganesan, Shivam Ghildiyal, Bibhas C. Giri, Masooma Raza Hashmi, Ahmed Refaat Hawas, Hoang Viet Long, Le Hoang Son, Hongbo Wang, Hongnian Yu, Mihaiela Iliescu, Saeid Jafari, Temitope Gbolahan Jaiyeola, Naeem Jan, R. Jeevitha, Jun Ye, Anup Khan, Madad Khan, Salma Khan, Ilanthenral Kandasamy, W.B. Vasantha Kandasamy, Darjan Karabašević, Kifayat Ullah, Kishore Kumar P.K., Sujit Kumar De, Prasun Kumar Nayak, Malayalan Lathamaheswari, Luong Thi Hong Lan, Anam Luqman, Luu Quoc Dat, Tahir Mahmood, Hafsa M. Malik, Nivetha Martin, Mai Mohamed, Parimala Mani, Mingcong Deng, Mohammed A. Al Shumrani, Mohammad Hamidi, Mohamed Talea, Kalyan Mondal, Muhammad Akram, Muhammad Gulistan, Farshid Mofidnakhaei, Muhammad Shoaib, Muhammad Riaz, Karthika Muthusamy, Nabeela Ishfaq, Deivanayagampillai Nagarajan, Sumera Naz, Nguyen Dinh Hoa, Nguyen Tho Thong, Nguyen Xuan Thao, Noor ul Amin, Dragan Pamučar, Gabrijela Popović, S. Krishna Prabha, Surapati Pramanik, Priya R, Qiaoyan Li, Yaser Saber, Said Broumi, Saima Anis, Saleem Abdullah, Ganeshsree Selvachandran, Abdulkadir Sengür, Seyed Ahmad Edalatpanah, Shahbaz Ali, Shahzaib Ashraf, Shouzhen Zeng, Shio Gai Quek, Shuangwu Zhu, Shumaiza, Sidra Sayed, Sohail Iqbal, Songtao Shao, Sundas Shahzadi, Dragiša Stanujkić, Željko Stević, Udhayakumar Ramalingam, Zunaira Rashid, Hossein Rashmanlou, Rajkumar Verma, Luige Vlădăreanu, Victor Vlădăreanu, Desmond Jun Yi Tey, Selçuk Topal, Naveed Yaqoob, Yanhui Guo, Yee Fei Gan, Yingcang Ma, Young Bae Jun, Yuping Lai, Hafiz Abdul Wahab, Wei Yang, Xiaohong Zhang, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Lemnaouar Zedam
Evaluating neural load disaggregation for ambient assisted living applications
No full textNon-intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), also known as Load Disaggregation, is the problem of identifying the power consumption related to individual appliances through only a single metering point. It gained significant attention during the past decade, notably with deep neural networks. These models offer a promising alternative to traditional activity monitoring of older adults living alone, relying on more intrusive sensing technologies. Yet, this adoption faces several challenges. First, load disaggregation techniques are perceived as privacy-violating technologies since they can reveal sensitive information, notably with data sampled at the high frequency required by deep models. Second, the comparability problem in NILM scholarship is still a research gap. Little is known about state-of-the-art performance and models suitable for each appliance due to heterogeneous evaluation setups. Third, despite the fact that a handful set of frameworks for activity monitoring based on NILM have already been proposed in the literature, none of them evaluated the potential errors propagated by the disaggregation approaches.The current thesis addresses these issues. First, an open-source energy measurement system is suggested leveraging open-source technologies to enable local processing of the data with a NILM module. The system is evaluated on two real energy datasets and one synthetic energy dataset. Second, the author addresses the problem of comparability in NILM through the adoption of machine learning best practices implemented and made available to the research community through an open-source python package. Furthermore, the author develops an open-source NILM benchmark repository containing both baselines and recent models to facilitate comparability in future work. A simulation study of federated learning for local processing and privacy-preserving NILM is furtehr presented, highlighting promising results and potential future research directions. Finally, a novel activity monitoring framework is presented and evaluated on a synthetic dataset quantifying the error propagated by a NILM algorithm.Hafsa BousbiatDissertation Universität Klagenfurt 202
