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Teknologi bayi tri-induk menurut bioetika Islam berasaskan Maqasid al-Shariah / Abdul Halim Ibrahim
Get PDFTri-parent baby technology is a medical treatment in the form of assisted reproductive
technology (ART) with the purposes of reducing or eliminating the risk of maternal
inheritance of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) disorders. The development of this
technology has implications on the Muslims’ way of life, in the context of the five
essential components of al-ḍarūriyyāt al-khams namely the protection of faith, life,
lineage, intellect, and wealth. The objectives of this research are to explain what
mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) disorders are, and the role of ART in overcoming the
disorders through the application of tri-parent baby technology, as well as the Islamic
view on genetically related diseases; to explain concept of Islamic bioethics based on
maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah; to analyse Islamic views and decrees on ART-related diseases and
implications of the tri-parent baby technology on stakeholders; and to assess status of the
tri-parent baby technology from the perspective of Islamic bioethics based on maqāṣid
al-Sharīʿah. This research uses the critical interpretation approach as this is an ethical,
interpretive, textual, and contextual research. This study analyses the tri-parent baby
technology from three major aspects namely intention/cause, methods, and final
goal/output of the technology by looking at their positive and negative implications
towards al-ḍarūriyyāt al-khams. Subsequently, the status of these implications of the
three aspects towards al-ḍarūriyyāt al-khams is determined based on maqṣad
standardised determination methods from the view of preservation of human interests
(ḍarūriyyāh, ḥājiyyah, or taḥsīniyyah), inclusivity of stakeholders (ʿāmmah or khāṣṣah),
and status of certainty (qaṭʿiyyah, ẓanniyyah or wahmiyyah). This study of the tri-parent
baby technology from the perspective of Islamic bioethics based on maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah
shows that there are elements of maternal lineage confusion in the tri-parent baby due to
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both pronuclear transfer (PNT) and maternal spindle transfer (MST) techniques involving
the use of third party gamete cells, thus violating the preservation of lineage. Mixing of
maternal lineage of the tri-parent baby will threaten the Islamic family institution because
the technology leads to confusion that shakes the Islamic concept of motherhood and
family. Confusion of maternal lineage gives significant implications involving marriage,
social relationship, and property heritance, hence indirectly threatenning the preservation
of religion. Also, this study shows that the safety of the tri-parent baby technology
application on human is yet assured. The argument that this technology will preserve the
lineage by conceiving healthy baby is inapplicable because conception via this
technology is only an act of embellishment (taḥsīniyyah) to fulfill the mtDNA affected
couple to have a genetically related child. There are other options for this couple to have
a child such as through preimplantation genetic diagnosis PGD. Therefore, this study
suggests that the tri-parent baby technology should not be permitted for Muslims in
Malaysia. The impermissibility of tri-parent baby technology is also a preemptive
measure (sadd al-dharīʿah) because there are elements of mixed lineage in the techniques
of the technology. This is to avoid the conceived baby from being an illegitimate child
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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