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Az Zaban-e Modari : Raqs-e Aab Raqs-e Setareh
No full textCatalogue of an exhibition held at SASA Gallery, Adelaide, 14 September-15 October 2010."All that I do, all that I am, all that I love and all that I resist are from my mother tongue. My encounter with these notions is the reflection of a sensibility
that is hope, arising from Persian mysticism and Bahai literature, to give a tone of optimism towards universal human values where resistance, equity, love, being, beauty and truth are implemented to deal with history and explore issues pertaining to the human condition - Siamak Fallah."--SASA Gallery website
DAMPAK MANAQIB TERHADAP PENINGKATAN IBADAH (Studi Kasus Pada Santriwan dan Santriwati Pondok Pesantren Bustanul Fallah, Kelurahan Palapa, Kecamatan Tanjung Karang Pusat, Kota Bandar Lampung)
No full textABSTRAK
Dzikir Manaqib merupakan salah satu wujud kegiatan keagamaan yang
dilakukan masyarakat muslim, yang pada akhirnya menjadi sebuah rutinitas
ritual pada momen-momen tertentu yang merupakan proses akulturasi antara
budaya lokal dengan Islam. Yang dimaksud dengan manaqib secara istilah
adalah membaca kisah tentang orang-orang sholeh, seperti kisah Nabi atau
Auliya’ (para kekasih Allah) dengan tujuan meneladani akhlak terpuji mereka
dan ditulis dengan menggunakan bahasa yang sangat indah dengan susunan
kalimatnya yang benar-benar indah.
Rumusan masalah dalam penelitian ini: 1) Bagaimana Proses
Pelaksanaan Manaqib Dalam Peningkatan Ibadah Para Santriwan/santriwati
Pondok Pesantren Bustanul Fallah, Kelurahan Palapa, Keceamatan Tanjung
Karang Pusat, Kota Bandar Lampung. 2) Bagaimana Dampak Manaqib
Dalam Peningkatan Ibadah Para Santriwan/santriwati Pondok Pesantren
Bustanul Fallah, Kelurahan Palapa, Kecamatan Tanjung Karang Pusat, Kota
Bandar Lampung. Dan tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui Proses
Pelaksanaan Manaqib Dalam Peningkatan Ibadah Para Santriwan/santriwati
Pondok Pesantren Bustanul Fallah, Kelurahan Palapa, Keceamatan Tanjung
Karang Pusat, Kota Bandar Lampung. Dan untuk Dampak Manaqib Dalam
Peningkatan Ibadah Para Santriwan/santriwati Pondok Pesantren Bustanul
Fallah.
Jenis penelitian yang digunakan penulis adalah field research (penelitian
lapangan) dan sifatnya kualitatif deskriptif. Sumber Data Penelitian data
primer dan data sekunder, dengan teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan
observasi,wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Lokasi penelitian ini di Pondok
Pesantren Bustanul Fallah terletak di Jl. Darabirra Lampung, Palapa,
Kecamatan Tanjung Karang Pusat, Kota Bandar Lampung.
Hasil Penelitian ini bahwa proses pelaksanaan manaqib dalam
meningkatkan ibadah para santriwan dan santriwati Pondok pesantren
bustanul fallah kelurahan palapa, Kecamatan Tanjungkarang Pusat, Kota
Bandarlampung yaitu: Semaan Al-quran, Shalat tasbih dan shalat hajat,
Pembacaan manaqib syekh abdul qodir al-jailani, Pemberian motivasi,
Perjalinan hubungan, Penyelenggaraan komunikasi dan Pengembangan dan
peningkatan pelaksanaan manaqib. Dan dampak manaqib dalam
meningkatkan ibadah para santriwan dan santriwati Pondok pesantren
bustanul fallah kelurahan palapa, Kecamatan Tanjungkarang Pusat, Kota
Bandarlampung bahwa manaqib membawa dampak positif bagi santriwan
dan santriwati di pondok pesantren bustanul fallah, hal ini dikarenakan
bahwa sebelum santriwan dan santriwati menempuh pendidikan di pondok
pesantren tersebut mereka cenderung bermalas-malasan dalam beribadah,
namun setelah rutih melakukan kegiatan manaqib terjadi peningkatan ibadah
santriwan dan santriwati. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan perubahan sikap sehari
hari oleh 25 santriwan dan santriwati setelah melakukan kegiatan manaqib
rutin.
Kata Kunci: Manaqib, Syekh Abdul Qodir Al-Jailani, Peningkatan Ibadah
ABSTRACT
Dhikr Manaqib is a form of religious activity carried out by the Muslim
community, which in the end becomes a ritual routine at certain moments
which is a process of acculturation between local culture and Islam. What is
meant by manaqib in terms is reading stories about pious people, such as the
story of the Prophet or Auliya '(lovers of Allah) with the aim of imitating
their commendable character and written using very beautiful language with
really beautiful sentence structures.
The formulation of the problem in this study: 1) How is the Process of
Implementing Manaqib in Improving Worship for Santriwan/students at the
Bustanul Fallah Islamic Boarding School, Palapa Village, Tanjung Karang
Pusat District, Bandar Lampung City. 2) What is the Impact of Manaqib in
Increasing the Worship of Santriwan/students at the Bustanul Fallah Islamic
Boarding School, Palapa Village, Tanjung Karang Pusat District, Bandar
Lampung City. And the purpose of this study was to find out the process of
implementing Manaqib in improving the worship of students at the Bustanul
Fallah Islamic Boarding School, Palapa Village, Tanjung Karang Pusat
District, Bandar Lampung City. And for the impact of Manaqib in Increasing
the Worship of the Santriwan/students of the Bustanul Fallah Islamic
Boarding School.
The type of research used by the author is field research and is
qualitatively descriptive. Sources of Data Research primary data and
secondary data, with data collection techniques using observation,
interviews, and documentation. The location of this research at the Bustanul
Fallah Islamic Boarding School is located on Jl. Darabirra Lampung,
Palapa, Central Tanjung Karang District, Bandar Lampung City.
The results of this study indicate that the process of implementing
manaqib in improving the worship of santriwan and female students at the
Bustanul Fallah Islamic Boarding School, Palapa Village, Central
Tanjungkarang District, Bandarlampung City, namely: Al-Qur'an chanting,
prayer beads and prayers, Reading of Manaqib Sheikh Abdul Qodir al�Jailani, Giving motivation, relationship, communication implementation and
development and improvement of manaqib implementation. And the impact of
manaqib in increasing the worship of santriwan and female students at the
Bustanul Fallah Islamic Boarding School, Palapa Village, Central
Tanjungkarang District, Bandarlampung City, that manaqib has a positive
impact on students and female students at the Bustanul Fallah Islamic
Boarding School, this is because before the students and the female students
studied at the Islamic Boarding School. At the pesantren they tend to be lazy
in worship, but after rutih doing manaqib activities there is an increase in the
worship of santriwan and santriwati. This is evidenced by changes in the
daily attitude of 25 students and female students after carrying out routine
manaqib activities.
Keywords: Manaqib, Sheikh Abdul Qodir Al-Jailani, Increased Worshi
Automated configuration of negotiation strategies
No full textBidding and acceptance strategies have a substantial impact on the outcome of negotiations in scenarios with linear additive and nonlinear utility functions. Over the years, it has become clear that there is no single best strategy for all negotiation settings, yet many fixed strategies are still being developed. We envision a shift in the strategy design question from: What is a good strategy?, towards: What could be a good strategy? For this purpose, we developed a method leveraging automated algorithm configuration to find the best strategies for a specific set of negotiation settings. By empowering automated negotiating agents using automated algorithm configuration, we obtain a flexible negotiation agent that can be configured automatically for a rich space of opponents and negotiation scenarios. To critically assess our approach, the agent was tested in an ANAC-like bilateral automated negotiation tournament setting against past competitors. We show that our automatically configured agent outperforms all other agents, with a 5.1% increase in negotiation payoff compared to the next-best agent. We note that without our agent in the tournament, the top-ranked agent wins by a margin of only 0.01%.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Interactive Intelligenc
New foundations of ethical multiagent systems blue sky ideas track
No full textEthics is inherently a multiagent concern. However, research on AI ethics today is dominated by work on individual agents: (1) how an autonomous robot or car may harm or (differentially) benefit people in hypothetical situations (the so-called trolley problems) and (2) how a machine learning algorithm may produce biased decisions or recommendations. The societal framework is largely omitted. To develop new foundations for ethics in AI, we adopt a sociotechnical stance in which agents (as technical entities) help autonomous social entities or principals (people and organizations). This multiagent conception of a sociotechnical system (STS) captures how ethical concerns arise in the mutual interactions of multiple stakeholders. These foundations would enable us to realize ethical STSs that incorporate social and technical controls to respect stated ethical postures of the agents in the STSs. The envisioned foundations require new thinking, along two broad themes, on how to realize (1) an STS that reflects its stakeholders' values and (2) individual agents that function effectively in such an STS.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Interactive Intelligenc
Elessar: Ethics in Norm-Aware Agents
No full textWe address the problem of designing agents that navigate social norms by selecting ethically appropriate actions. We present Elessar, a framework in which agents aggregate value preferences of users and select ethically appropriate actions through multicriteria decision making in different social contexts. Via simulations, seeded with a survey of user values and attitudes, we find that Elessar agents act ethically and are effective than baseline agents, in terms of (1) exhibiting the Rawlsian property of fairness, and (2) yielding a satisfactory social experience to users. Our results are stable across agent societies of different sizes and connectedness.Accepted Author ManuscriptInteractive Intelligenc
Design for sustainability in Iran throughout an open network of local design universities. The diffusion strategic path and an enabling open learning resource package
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALENegli ultimi anni, con la maggior parte delle crisi ambientali ed economiche, la popolazione iraniana ha dovuto affrontare molte sfide. Le sfide che rimangono irrisolte. Da qui, la società iraniana è più permeabile verso il processo di innovazione radicale che deve essere preso seriamente in considerazione per cambiare i consumi e i modelli di produzione che, allo stato attuale, sono insostenibili. Per arrivare ad avere uno schema di consumi e produzione sostenibili sarà necessario un completo rinnovamento dell’intera struttura.
La sostenibilità è una sfida per i contesti industrializzati ed emergenti così come quelli a basso reddito. Tuttavia, raggiungere questo obiettivo nei diversi tipi di contesto richiede il seguire percorsi differenti (Hart e Milstein 1999) e Design for Sustainability (DfS) è un dominio emergente e significativo. È altresì necessario considerare principalmente il peso del consumo umano e della produzione.
La ricerca ed il relativo progetto presentati in questa tesi delineano un percorso per la comunità del design iraniana, in questo caso la nuova generazione di designer iraniani, per promuovere la loro capacità di progettazione in relazione al design per la sostenibilità (DfS). Questa tesi presenta una visione ed un percorso strategico che potrebbe essere adattato a un sistema educativo di progettazione di più ampio respiro e utilizzato come una risorsa per i progettisti di tutto il mondo.
I contenuti principali di questa tesi includono, esplorare innanzitutto la situazione attuale dell’Iran in relazione allo sviluppo sostenibile ed il suo ruolo nel sistema di istruzione superiore dell’Iran, un’analisi completa sul ruolo del progetto di sostenibilità nelle scuole di disegno industriale iraniano e cercare punti di criticità ed opportunità basati su problemi relativi ai programmi di sostenibilità esistenti. A seguito della fase di ideazione, si è giunti alla proposta di una soluzione di design, un concetto rilasciato; questo concetto contiene due parti, l’introduzione della rete di apprendimento LeNS sulla sostenibilità come una risorsa perfetta per la comunità del design iraniana, che aderendo a questa piattaforma fornisce la migliore risorsa per condividere materiali e strumenti da più contesti culturali negli ethos open source e copy-left, come secondo parte, progettare un pacchetto di risorse di apprendimento aperto rivolto ai due livelli di istruzione universitaria nell’industrial design (bachelor e master degree) applicati formalmente all’attuale curriculum del sistema di educazione alla progettazione industriale. Entrambe queste parti sono state sviluppate ricevendo l’approvazione di quattro università del design Iraniane (con la collaborazione e la supervisione del professor Mehdi Fallah, capo del dipartimento di disegno industriale della Art University di Teheran), applicati formalmente all’attuale curriculum del programma formativo del Disegno industriale .
L’autore ritiene che il proposito di questa tesi, progettando questo percorso strategico e pacchetti di risorse di apprendimento tipo Open-learning consenta ai progettisti iraniani di dare un contributo efficace allo sviluppo di soluzioni innovative e sostenibili basandosi sulle loro sfide locali e ambientali e ai modelli di consumo insostenibili esistenti.In recent years with the most environmental and economic crises, Iran’s society suffers from many challenges. The challenges that remain unresolved. Hence, Iran society is more permeable towards the radical innovation process that needs to take place seriously to change current unsustainable consumption and production patterns. In order to create this sustainable human consumption and production, a complete revamp of the consumption structure is needed.
Sustainability is a challenge for industrialized, emerging as well as low-income contexts. However, achieving this goal in the different types of context requires differing paths (Hart and Milstein 1999) and Design for Sustainability (DfS) is an emerging and significant domain. It is also one of the prime needs of our considering the burden of human consumption and production.
The research and project presented in this thesis outlines a path for Iranian design community, actually, the newest generation of Iranian designers to promote their design ability in regard to design for sustainability (DfS). In fact, this thesis presents a vision and strategic path that could be adapted to higher design educational system and used as a good resource for all designers.
The main contents of this thesis include; first explore the current status of Iran related to the Sustainable development and the role of it in the Higher education system of Iran. Then a full analysis around the place of sustainability design in Iran’s Industrial design schools and look for opportunities based on problems on existing sustainability design-related programs.
Then, following the ideation session, this lead to a proposed design solution, a concept released, this concept contains two parts. First, arrange a strategic path by introducing the LeNS learning network on Sustainability as a perfect resource to the Iranian design community, which by joining this platform it provides the best resource for sharing materials and tools from multiple cultural contexts in open source and copyleft ethos. As the second part, design an open learning resources packages for two levels of Industrial Design (undergraduate and postgraduate) Education System, applied them on LeNS platform then formally insert them into the current curriculum of the Industrial Design Education System.
Both of these parts were performed by receiving acceptance of four Design Universities in Iran (with the cooperation and supervision of Professor Mehdi Fallah, head of the Industrial Design Department of the Art University of Tehran), applied formally to the present Industrial Design Education System curriculum.
The author believes that propose of this thesis by designing this starategic path and open learning resource packages is to enable Iranian Designers to make an effective contribution to the development of innovative and sustainable solutions based on their local and enviromental challenges and existing unsustainable consumption patterns
Stimulant use in medical students and residents requires more careful attention
No full textBackground: Stimulant pharmaceuticals are abused among academic students to elevate mood, improve studying, intellectual capacity, memory and concentration, and increase wakefulness. This study was designed to evaluate the current situation of stimulant use among medical students and residents of Babol University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 560 medical students and clinical residents of Babol University of Medical Sciences during the academic year 2014-2015. A self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection.
Results: Four hundred and forty-four (79.3%) students filled out the questionnaires. 49 (11%) individuals reported amphetamine and methylphenidate (ritalin) use. The mean age of the stimulant drug users was 24.6±4.8 years. The main initiator factor was to improve concentration (29 persons; 59.2%). There were significant statistical correlations between stimulant drugs abuse and male gender, living in dormitor in residence and internship and past medical history of psychiatric disorders (depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and substance abuse) (p<0.05).16 (32%) students started the drug use on their friends’ advice; 15 (30%) due to self-medication and 12 (24%) persons with physician´s prescription.
Conclusions: Because of significant prevalence of stimulant use, regulatory governmental policies and also planning to improve essential life skills, awareness about the side effects and complications of these drugs, screening of at-risk college students and early identification of the abusers are suggeste
Identification of Candida Species Associated with Blood Infection by Multiplex PCR and Phenotypic Characteristics
No full textBackground and Aim: The correct identification of Candida species is one of the most critical procedures in prognostic and therapeutic significance, allowing an early and appropriate antifungal therapy. This study aimed to evaluate multiplex PCR as a rapid diagnostic method and traditional phenotypic tests in identifying Candida species isolated from candidemia cases.
Methods: In this study, 38 Candida spp were isolated from culturing of human blood obtained from patients suspected to candidemia. The isolated species were evaluated by phenotypic and molecular methods including carbohydrate assimilation test, colony colour on CHROMagar Candida, chlamydoconidia production, germ tube formation and Multiplex PCR. Multiplex PCR was performed using specific primers of 4 common species. The results of multiplex PCR were compared with those obtained from phenotypic tests.
Results: According to multiplex PCR findings, the isolated Candida species were identified as C. albicans, C. parapsilosis, C. glabrata, and C. tropicalis. Phenotypic tests identified that 23 (60.52%), 8 (21.05%), 5 (13.15%), and 2 (5.26%) isolates belonged to C. albicans, C. parapsilosis, C. glabrata, and C. tropicalis, respectively, that were confirmed by multiplex PCR results. C. albicans and C. parapsilosis had the same carbohydrate assimilation pattern but were differentiated based on their colonies color on CHROMagar and the ability of C. albicans to produce chlamydoconidia and germ tube. C. glabrata (100%) and C. tropicalis (100%) assimilated trehalose and cellobiose, respectively.
Conclusion: Our study showed that the both phenotypic and molecular techniques provide appropriate information for identification of Candida spp from blood samples.
*Corresponding Author: Masoomeh Shams-Ghahfarokhi; Email: [email protected]; ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2562-965X
Please cite this article as: Fallah B, Shams-Ghahfarokhi M, Salehi M. Identification of Candida Species Associated with Blood Infection by Multiplex PCR and Phenotypic Characteristics. Arch Med Lab Sci. 2023;9:1-9 (e1). https://doi.org/10.22037/amls.v9.3840
Generalized Optimistic Q-Learning with Provable Efficiency
No full textReinforcement learning (RL), like any on-line learning method, inevitably faces the exploration-exploitation dilemma. When a learning algorithm requires as few data samples as possible, it is called sample efficient. The design of sample-efficient algorithms is an important area of research. Interestingly, all currently known provably efficient model-free RL algorithms utilize the same well-known principle of optimism in the face of uncertainty. We unite these existing algorithms into a single general model-free optimistic RL framework. We show how this facilitates the design of new optimistic model-free RL algorithms by simplifying the analysis of their efficiency. Finally, we propose one such new algorithm and demonstrate its performance in an experimental study.Virtual/online event due to COVID-19Algorithmic
Comparative Analysis of \u3ci\u3eAl-Ard\u3c/i\u3e by ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi and the Film by Youssef Chahine: Prison Literature and Collective Memory
No full textDuring the beginning of the twentieth century, works of literature began to center the Egyptian fallah- or peasant- as a political subject, as well as the most authentic representation of national identity. Prior to that, the fallah was negatively depicted, constantly portrayed in a derogatory manner. Al-Ard, a 1954 novel by Egyptian author ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi has been described by many literary critics as a nationalist social realist novel that centers the fallah as a political agent. In the 1970s, al-Ard was adapted into a film by Youssef Chahine, an internationally acclaimed Egyptian film director whose works have addressed a wide range of issues in Egypt. This thesis will read the text as: (1) a form of prison literature by al-Sharqawi that critiques the feudalism in the 1930s and 1940s, mass imprisonment of political dissidents in the 1930s and alludes to the possibilities of further repression in the 1950s; and (2) that Chahine’s adaptation of the novel portrays different themes to depict the social-political changes in post-1967 Egypt
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