45 research outputs found
Reinterpretasi Monumen Bagindo Aziz Chan Karya Arby Samah dalam Ikonografi Erwin Panofsky
No full textABSTRACTResearch was entered to trace the Bagindo Aziz Chan monument by Arby Samah trough the iconographicapproach put forward by Erwin Panofsky, as well as to uncover the reason for the contruction of themonument. The research uses qualitative methods of observation interviews and document.The figure Arby Samah described in the “Bagindo Aziz Chan Monument” is indeed a Bagindo figure,which was made using cement plaster technique, making the work began in 1973 by Arby Samah. Reliefsmade in the foundation of the statue tells the sequence of event killed Bagindo Aziz Chan. The use ofthe realist style found by the author on the Bagindo Aziz Chan monument although the cultivation ofthe statue still looks tough, but the delivery of the sign on the statue is the hope and ideals of BagindoAziz Chan during his leadership as mayor of Padang is clearly depicted. The making of the statue uses acement plaster which is a technique commonly technique. Used by sculpture artists in the 1970s. In 2005Bagindo Aziz Chan was awarded as a national hero from west Sumatera by the central government, andalso on July 19 the people of Padang commemorated the day of death of Bagindo Aziz Chan which was atribute to the leader of Padang. And also the name Bagindo Aziz Chan has been enshrined as the name ofa street and a building in the city of Padang.Keywords: Bagindo Aziz Chan Monument, Iconographic, Erwin Panofsky.ABSTRAKPenelitian dimaksudkan untuk menelusuri monumen Bagindo Aziz Chan karya Arby Samahmelalui pendekatan ikonografi yang dikemukakan oleh Erwin Panofsky, serta mengungkapalasan dibangunnya monumen tersebut. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif yaitupengamatan, wawancara dan dokumen.Tokoh yang digambarkan Arby Samah pada karya “Monumen Bagindo Aziz Chan” ini memangsosok Bagindo Aziz Chan, yang dibuat memakai teknik plaster semen, pembuatan karya tersebutselesai mulai dilakukan pada tahun 1971 dan selesai pada tahun 1973 yang dibuat oleh ArbySamah. Relief yang dibuat pada landasan patung menceritakan urutan peristiwa terbunuhnyaBagindo Aziz Chan. Pemakaian gaya realis yang didapati penulis pada monumen BagindoAziz Chan walaupun penggarapan patung tersebut masih terlihat kasar, namun penyampaiantanda pada patung tersebut merupakan harapan dan cita-cita Bagindo Aziz Chan selamakepemimpinannya sebagai wali kota Padang tergambarkan dengan jelas. Pembuatan patungtersebut menggunakan teknik plaster semen yang merupakan teknik yang umum dipakai olehseniman patung pada tahun 1970-an. Pada tahun 2005 Bagindo Aziz Chan dianugrahi sebagaipahlawan nasional asal Sumatera Barat oleh pemerintah pusat, dan juga pada tanggal 19 Julimasyarakat kota Padang memperingati hari wafatnya Bagindo Aziz Chan yang merupakanpenghormatan kepada pemimpin kota Padang yang tegas dan berani tersebut. Dan juga namaBagindo Aziz Chan sudah diabadikan sebagai nama jalan dan gedung di kota Padang.Kata Kunci: Monumen Bagindo Aziz Chan, Ikonografi Erwin Panofsk
Samah seleem: the popular novel and the origins of the novel
No full textBu çalışma öncelikle, Semah Selim’in romancılığın esaslarına dair araştırma ve incelemelerini tanımlamaya yöneliktir. Bu minvalde Arap romancılığına ait başarılı öncü çalışmalarda Avrupa romancılığından etkilenimin, Arap kültüründen ve özellikle Arap halk kültüründen etkilenim ölçüsünde olmadığı betimlenmiştir. Her ne kadar yazar, temelsiz tercümelerin revaç bulmasında popüler romanların baskın etkisini gündeme getirmiş olsa bile yazarların konu seçiminde toplum zevkinin ve ilgisinin önemli rollleri olduğu bir vakıadırThis study primarily aims at introducing Dr. Samah Seleem’s work and academic endeavor concerning the popular novel and its origin/ the origin of novel to the readers. Her work has revealed that the beginnings of that novel are not attributed to the impact of European achievements. Rather, they could be attributed to the Arabian legacy and its popular roots in particular as the audience has played a major role in directing the writers’ attention to their areas of interest. However, the author thinks that the popular novels had tremendously led to the preponderance of fake translations.تسعى هذه الدراسة أّواًل للتعريف بجهود الدكتوره سماح سليم، واشتغاًلتها بالبحث
عن أصول الرواية، والتي انتهت فيها إلى أ ّن إرهاصات ال ِّرواية العربّية ًل تعود
ُّرها بالتراث العربي،
ُّرها بالنتاجات األوروبية، بقدر ما هي تعود إلى تأث
لعالقة تأث
اب حول
وخا َّصة ال ّشعبي. حيث كان لذائقة الجمهور الدور الكبير في توجيه ال ُكتَّ
رى المؤلفة أن الروايا ِت ال َّشعبي َة الموضوعات التي يهتمون بها، وإن كانت َت كان لها
دو ٌر ُمهٌّم في رواج الترجمات الكاذبة
Effective Maintenance by Reducing Failure-Cause Misdiagnosis in Semiconductor Industry (SI)
No full textInternational audienceIncreasing demand diversity and volume in semiconductor industry (SI) have resulted in shorter product life cycles. This competitive environment, with high-mix low-volume production , requires sustainable production capacities that can be achieved by reducing unscheduled equipment breakdowns. The fault detection and classification (FDC) is a well-known approach, used in the SI, to improve and stabilize the production capacities. This approach models equipment as a single unit and uses sensors data to identify equipment failures against product and process drifts. Besides its successful deployment for years, recent increase in unscheduled equipment breakdown needs an improved methodology to ensure sustainable capacities. The analysis on equipment utilization , using data collected from a world reputed semiconductor manufacturer, shows that failure durations as well as number of repair actions in each failure have significantly increased. This is an evidence of misdiagnosis in the identification of failures and prediction of its likely causes. In this paper, we propose two lines of defense against unstable and reducing production capacities. First, equipment should be stopped only if it is suspected as a source for product and process drifts whereas second defense line focuses on more accurate identification of failures and detection of associated causes. The objective is to facilitate maintenance engineers for more accurate decisions about failures and repair actions, upon an equipment stoppage. In the proposed methodology, these two lines of defense are modeled as Bayesian network (BN) with unsupervised learning of structure using data collected from the variables (classified as symptoms) across production, process , equipment and maintenance databases. The proofs of Asma Abu-Samah et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. concept demonstrate that contextual or statistical information other than FDC sensor signals, used as symptoms, provide reliable information (posterior probabilities) to find the source of product/process quality drifts, a.k.a. failure modes (FM), as well as potential failure and causes. The reliability and learning curves concludes that modeling equipment at module level than equipment offers 45% more accurate diagnosis. The said approach contributes in reducing not only the failure durations but also the number of repair actions that has resulted in recent increase in unstable production capacities and unscheduled equipment breakdowns
Politics and Paratext: On Translating Arwa Salih\u27s al-Mubtasarun / السياسة والنص المصاحب : ترجمة رواية ((ﺍﻟﻤﺒﺘﺴﺮﻭﻥ)) لأروى صالح
No full text[This article explores the importance of paratext in political translation by considering activist translation as a dynamic field of call and response shared across political consciousness rather than language. Building on the work of Maria Tymoczko on activist translation and Gayatri Spivak on intimacy, the author uses her translation of Arwa Salih\u27s al-Mubtasarun (1996; an autobiographical work by an Egyptian leftist) to discuss the ways in which the relationship between author, translator, and the target community of readers shapes the political translation, and how the translator\u27s paratextual interventions (introductions, footnotes, glossaries) are central to the production of historically situated radical knowledge. تستكشف هذه المقالة أهمية النص المصاحب في الترجمة ﺍﻟﺴﻴﺎسية من خلال النظر إلى الترجمة المقاومة باعتبارها حقلاً ديناميكياً للدعوة والاستجابة يتشكل عبر الوعي ﺍﻟﺴﻴﺎﺳﻲ عوضاً عن تشكله عبر اللغة . وبناءً على كتابات ماريا تيموكزكو حول الترجمة المقاومة وكذلك كتابات جياتري سپيڤاك حول الحميمية ، تتناول كاتبة المقالة ترجمتها لرواية المبتسرون لأروى صالح (١٩٩٦ ، سيرة مناضلة مصرية) للنظر في أهمية العلاقة بين الكاتب والمترجم ومجموع القراء ، بالإضافة ﺇلى مداخلات المترجم (من مقدمة وهوامش وتعريفات مصطلحات) ، في إنتاج معرفة راديكالية وتأريخية في ذات الحين .
Comparative study of hospitalization characteristics and predictors between hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism of patients in the United States
No full textBACKGROUND:
Hypo- and hyperthyroidism are the most common types of autoimmune diseases of the thyroid gland. Although the prevalence of overt hypo- and hyperthyroidism is 0.3% and 0.5%, respectively, the majority of patients with these disorders suffer from cardiovascular complications, which are considered to be a significant risk of mortality. The thyroid disorders and their complications affect patient quality of life and life spans, and elevate the government’s economic burdens regarding health care. The objective of the present study is to highlight the similarities and differences of hypo- and hyperthyroidism in terms of risk factors related to hospitalization outcomes such as mortality, length of stay, and total medical charges when there is a presence of cardiovascular and other complications.
METHOD:
The study implemented a cross-sectional design to achieve the primary objectives. Data were downloaded and extracted, with permission, from Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS). A total of 721,958 patients with hypo- and hyperthyroidism were admitted to hospitals in the United States in 2012. The collected data included patient demographic characteristics, such as age, gender, race, insurance type, and income. Patient medical information included the number of medical procedures, chronic diseases, co-morbidities, and the type of thyroid disorder. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 was used to analyze the data of the present study, and all outcomes with a p-value less than 0.05 were found to be significant. Multinomial logistic regression and multiple linear regressions (the dummy method) were the appropriate statistical tests to determine the predictors of the study outcomes.
RESULTS:
A descriptive analysis of the present study revealed the highest incidences of thyroid disorders to be in those who were older than 80 years of age (29.3%), white (76.7%), female (74.9%), on Medicare (68.2%), and who had a household income in the 25th percentile (27.1%). Patient medical information showed the highest comorbidities to be hypertension (63.8%), fluid-electrolyte disorders (29.1%) and uncomplicated diabetes (24.4%). The incidence of mortality for patients with thyroid diseases was 2.4%. The mean (± SD) length of hospital stay and total medical charges were 5.06 (±6.113) days and $41829.47 (±60920.47), respectively. There was a higher prevalence of hypothyroidism than hyperthyroidism (97% vs. 3%). Overall mortality showed a higher incidence of hypothyroidism than of hyperthyroidism (2.4% vs. 1.75%). The incidence of mortality increased with cardiovascular complications, to 5.42% vs. 4.87% for congestive heart failure (CHF) and 2.47% vs. 1.99% for hypertension (HT), for patients with hypo- and hyperthyroidism, respectively. Risk factors for patients with hyperthyroidism related to length of stay were paralysis, weight loss, pulmonary circulation, fluid and electrolyte disorders, age, neurological disorders, coagulopathy, psychosis, and the number of procedures. Risk factors of length of stay for patients with hypothyroidism patients were weight loss, paralysis, fluid and electrolyte disorders, age, the number of procedures, and insurance type.
Risk factors of total charges for hyperthyroidism patients were Hispanic or Asian-Pacific Islander descent, younger than 30 years of age, paralysis, the number of procedures, weight loss, fluid and electrolyte disorders, coagulopathy, and neurological disorders. In patients with hypothyroidism of Hispanic or Asian-Pacific Islander descent who were younger than 30 years of age, risk factors related to total medical charges of patients with were the number of procedures, weight loss, coagulopathy, paralysis, and fluid and electrolyte disorders. Risk factors for patients with hyperthyroidism related to mortality were the number of procedures, age, metastasis, fluid and electrolyte disorders, insurance type, and renal failure. Risk factors for patients with hypothyroidism related to mortality were the number of procedures, age, fluid and electrolyte disorders, metastasis, weight loss, and coagulation.
CONCLUSION:
Several factors were observed to increase the risk of mortality, the total medical charges, and the length of stay for patients included in the present study. Comorbidities can increase cost and mortality, which are considered to be serious risks for patient outcomes. Similarities found in risk factors between hypo- and hyperthyroidism were attributed to the physiological changes of thyroid function, which worsened the patients’ health statuses; however, differences were found depending on the strength of each risk factor in relation to each type of thyroid disorder. These risks also increased the cost and mortality for patients with cardiovascular diseases. The government and researchers are required to manage preventable risk factors to minimize incidences of mortality and to control the costs of therapy and health services administered to patients with thyroid diseases.
Ph.D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Samah Ismai
Sustainable Social Entrepreneurship : Motives beyond economic value creation in rural enterprises
No full textThis study sheds light on sustainable social entrepreneurship by investigating the main motivators of rural entrepreneurs to start and continue in their businesses beyond financial gain. In this paper, case study design with local entrepreneurs and organizations from two different countries: Sweden and Palestine, was used as the unit of analysis. In order to unleash more creativity, the author adopted iterative abductive thinking, which allows the researcher to go back and forth between theories and empirical data. Systematic review approach in reviewing the literature was used as the research purpose and questions are clearly defined in the research. Guided and semi-structured interviews were employed to collect empirical data. "Initial coding" was used for data analysis, allowing the author to identify themes and thus perform complete research. Rural entrepreneurs' motivations are heavily focused on achieving sustainable development. Sustainable entrepreneurs recognize the significance of creating businesses that are good for the environment and benefit their communities. While financial gain is still one of the most important factors they seek when starting businesses in order to survive and continue to achieve social and environmental benefits, the extent varies depending on several factors such as the entrepreneur's level of involvement in entrepreneurship, their backgrounds, resources availability, policies, and support. The journey is still full of challenges and difficulties, and much support from government agencies and communities is required. However, there is a growing awareness among these parties about the significance of understanding and supporting rural entrepreneurs on their path
Sustainable Social Entrepreneurship : Motives beyond economic value creation in rural enterprises
No full textThis study sheds light on sustainable social entrepreneurship by investigating the main motivators of rural entrepreneurs to start and continue in their businesses beyond financial gain. In this paper, case study design with local entrepreneurs and organizations from two different countries: Sweden and Palestine, was used as the unit of analysis. In order to unleash more creativity, the author adopted iterative abductive thinking, which allows the researcher to go back and forth between theories and empirical data. Systematic review approach in reviewing the literature was used as the research purpose and questions are clearly defined in the research. Guided and semi-structured interviews were employed to collect empirical data. "Initial coding" was used for data analysis, allowing the author to identify themes and thus perform complete research. Rural entrepreneurs' motivations are heavily focused on achieving sustainable development. Sustainable entrepreneurs recognize the significance of creating businesses that are good for the environment and benefit their communities. While financial gain is still one of the most important factors they seek when starting businesses in order to survive and continue to achieve social and environmental benefits, the extent varies depending on several factors such as the entrepreneur's level of involvement in entrepreneurship, their backgrounds, resources availability, policies, and support. The journey is still full of challenges and difficulties, and much support from government agencies and communities is required. However, there is a growing awareness among these parties about the significance of understanding and supporting rural entrepreneurs on their path
Critical Pedagogy and Socio-Political Agency within Technical and Vocational Education and Training: A Critical Autoethnographic Study
No full textTechnical and vocational education and training (TVET) has historically been viewed through a human capital ideological lens, one which strives for a skilled labor force that works to secure national economic prosperity. However, TVET can be more than a mechanism through which to supply workers for an insatiable market, or a tool for global economic competitive advantage. This doctoral study employs a critical ethnographic approach from the qualitative research paradigm to analyze cultural contexts, exposing power and social injustice through the personal narratives of the author-researcher. The research seeks to illustrate a professional knowledge landscape through a series of vignettes about personal lived experience, the practice of teaching, and the execution of educational administration, in order to meaningfully engage educators and administrators in a critical interrogation of the potential for a humanistic, transformative, and emancipatory education through TVET. The findings of the study suggests that vocational and technical curriculum have the potential to promote democratic ways of understanding and being that have significant impacts on society, and that personal experiences and histories, when excavated and analyzed through a critical lens, can serve as rich sites for nurturing critical consciousness and formulating sociopolitical positionality in TVET educators
(Re)writing the other/self : autoethnography in the transcultural arena of representation
No full textAbstract:
In Imperial Eyes Mary Louise Pratt (1992: 7, emphasis original) defines autoethnography
as "instances in which colonized subjects undertake to represent themselves in ways that
engage with the colonizer's own terms ... in response to or in dialogue with . .
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metropolitan representations." Although Pratt's conceptualization of autoethnography has
much to offer post-colonial studies, it has received little attention in the field. In this
thesis, I interrogate Pratt's notion of autoethnography as a theoretical tool for
understanding the self-representations of subordinate peoples within transcultural terrains
of signification. I argue that autoethnography is a concept that allows us to move beyond
some theoretical dualisms, and to recognize the (necessary) coexistence of subordinate
peoples' simultaneous accommodation of and resistance to dominant representations of
themselves. I suggest that even when autoethnographic expressions seem to rely on or to
reproduce dominant knowledges, their very existence as speech acts implicitly resists
dominant discourses which objectify members of oppressed populations and re-create
them as Native Informants. I use Pratt's concept to analyze two books by Islamic feminist
sociologist Fatima Memissi. Memissi's Dreams ofTrespass and Scheherazade Goes
West illustrate the simultaneity of accommodation and disruption evident in
autoethnographic communication. Across the two books, Memissi shows herself
renegotiating the discourses which discipline her (and her speech). She switches back and
forth between the positions of reader and author, demonstrates the reciprocity of the
disciplinary gaze (she looks back at her dominants, reading their own reading of her
representation of her social group), and provides a model of autoethnographic dialogue
