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Supplemental Material - Microstructure, hardness, and wear properties of AA6061/WC nanocomposite fabricated by friction stir processing
No full textSupplementry Material for Microstructure, hardness, and wear properties of AA6061/WC nanocomposite fabricated by friction stir processing by AA Megahed, Mostafa A Mohamed, M Abdel Hamid, and Said H Zoalfakar in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science</p
Writing from the shadowlands: how cross-cultural literature negotiates the legacy of Edward Said
No full textThis thesis examines the impact of Edward Said's influential work Orientalism and its legacy in respect of contemporary reading and writing across cultures. It also questions the legitimacy of Said's retrospective stereotyping of early examples of cross-cultural representation in literature as uncompromisingly 'orientalist'.
It is well known that the release of Edward Said's Orientalism in 1978 was responsible for the rise of a range of cultural and critical theories from multiculturalism to postcolonialism. It was a study that not only polarized critics and forced scholars to re-examine orientalist archives, but persuaded creative writers to re-think their ethnographic positions when it came to the literary representations of cultures other than their own. Without detracting from the enormous impact of Said, this thesis isolates gaps and silences in Said that need correcting. Furthermore, there is an element of intransigence, an uncompromising refusal to fine-tune what is essentially a binary discourse of the West and its other in Said's work, that encourages the continued interrogation of power relations but which, because of its very boldness, paradoxically disallows the extent to which the conflict of cultures indeed produced new, hybrid social and cultural formations.
In an attempt to challenge the severity of Said's claim that 'every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric', the thesis examines a number of different discursive contexts in which such a presumption is challenged. Thus while the second chapter discusses the 'traditional' profession-based orientalism of nineteenth-century E. G. Browne, the third considers the anti-imperialism of colonial administrator Leonard Woolf. The fourth chapter provides a reflection on the difficulties of diasporic 'orientalism' through the works of Michael Ondaatje while chapter five demonstrates the effects of the dialogism used by Amitav Ghosh as a defence against 'orientalism'. The thesis concludes with an examination of contemporary writing by Andrea Levy that appositely illustrates the legacy of Said's influence.
While the restrictive parameters of Said's work make it difficult to mount a thorough-going critique of Said, this thesis shows that, indeed, it is within the restraints of these parameters and in the very discourse that Said employs that he traps himself. This study claims that even Said is susceptible to 'orientalist' criticism in that he is as much an 'orientalist' as those at whom he directs his polemic
Eksistensi dan peran Badiuzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960 M) dalam perkembangan peradaban Islam dari Turki Muda sampai Turki Modern (1908-1960 M)
No full textSkripsi ini membahas tentang “Eksistensi dan Peran Badiuzzaman Said Nursi (1877-1960 M) dalam Perkembangan Peradaban Islam dari Turki Muda sampai Turki Modern (1908-1960 M)”. Peneliti memfokuskan pembahasan pada tiga permasalahan, yakni biografi tokoh, situasi dan kondisi Negara Turki pada masa Turki Muda sampai Turki Modern (1908-1960 M), dan eksistensi dan peran Badiuzzaman Said Nursi. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan sejarah dan pendekatan intelektual. Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah teori peran. Peneliti menggunakan metode penelitian sejarah dengan beberapa tahapan, yakni heuristik, verifikasi, interpretasi, dan historiografi. Dari penelitian ini, penulis menyimpulkan bahwa Said Nursi merupakan anak dari Nuriye dan Mirza yang lahir tahun 1293 H/1877 M pada masa pemerintahan Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1876-1909 M). Sejak kecil Nursi sudah menimba ilmu dari berbagai tempat dan wilayah di Turki. Karena kecerdasannya, ia berhasil mendapatkan gelar “Bediuzzaman” dari Syaikh Fathullah Afandi. Badiuzzaman Said Nursi hidup pada masa transisi sistem pemerintahan Turki, dari kerajaan menjadi republik sehingga sekularisasi dan westernisasi terjadi pada seluruh aspek kehidupan di Turki. Kontribusi Said Nursi sangatlah besar dalam perkembangan Islam di Turki. Mulai dari idenya mendirikan Madrasah az-Zahra, ikut andil dalam Perang Dunia I melawan Rusia, menjadi bagian dari Darul Hikmah al-Islamiyyah, dan pemikirannya yang dituangkan dalam karya monumentalnya, Risalah Nur
A gendered 1993-94 Social Accounting Matrix for Bangladesh
No full textThis working paper documents the construction of a 1993-94 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Bangladesh. The SAM distinguishes 10 agricultural sectors —including two different kinds of rice technology — and 19 manufacturing sectors, out of 43 sectors in total. It also differentiates between twelve socio-economic groups, allowing detailed analysis of household welfare and poverty. The SAM has ten factors of production: one type of capital, one type of land and eight different types of labor which are disaggregated by both level of education and gender. The innovative feature of the SAM is that it separates out female and male labor value-added for each educational level and in eachsector of the economy, providing a base for gender-sensitive analyses of policy changes. The SAM is estimated with a cross-entropy approach, which makes efficient use of all available data in a framework that incorporates prior information and constraints.Mathematical models. ,Households. ,Labor Gender issues. ,Rice Bangladesh. ,TMD ,
What said the economic theory about Portugal. Another approach
No full textWith this work we try to analyse the agglomeration process in the Portuguese regions, using the New Economic Geography models. This work aims to test, also, the Verdoorn Law, with the alternative specifications of (1)Kaldor (1966), for the 28 NUTS III Portuguese in the period 1995 to 1999. It is intended to test the alternative interpretation of (2)Rowthorn (1975). With this study we want, also, to test the Verdoorn´s Law at a regional and a sectoral levels (NUTs II) for the period 1995-1999. The importance of some additional variables in the original specification of Verdoorn´s Law is yet tested, such as, trade flows, capital accumulation and labour concentration. This study analyses, also, through cross-section estimation methods, the influence of spatial effects in productivity in the NUTs III economic sectors of mainland Portugal from 1995 to 1999, considering the Verdoorn relationship. The aim of this paper is, yet, to present a contribution, with panel data, to the analysis of absolute convergence and conditional of the sectoral productivity at regional level (from 1995 to 1999). The structural variables used in the analysis of conditional convergence is the ratio of capital/output, the flow of goods/output and location ratio.new economic geography; Verdoorn law; convergence; cross-section and panel data; Portuguese regions
The Development of Historical Instruction/Teaching Material in Senior High Schools Based on Local History with SOI Approach
No full textABSTRACT
Purpose: The purpose of this research is to develop more comprehensive model of
historical instructional materials that is a model of local history-based teaching
materials and oriented to local historical events. The method used in the
development of historical instructional materials is Research and Development (R
& D) approach. This research is to formulate a development model of teaching
materials on Indonesian history with local history. So the appropriate method in
this research is the R & D method/approach.The development of historical
materials based on local history will give students an understanding of the
historical values that occur in their environment so that the understanding level of
historical values will more achieve the target in the historical learning objectives.
Method: The method used in the development of historical instructional materials
is Research and Development (R & D) approach. This research is to formulate a
development model of teaching materials on Indonesian history with local history.
So the appropriate method in this research is the R & D method/approach.
Findings: The developed product is teaching materials about Indonesian history
arranged on the concept of SOI (Selecting, Organizing, and Integrating.). The
development of historical teaching materials with SOI begins with the gathering
of local historical sources which are relevant to the national curriculum on the
history subjects. The selection result based on the observations of historical
objects and oral sources is combined with existing knowledge of history and
sorted which is included in national curriculum. After the materials are
selected/sorted then the next stage is to organize them which are suitable with
material orders (basic competence) on nasional curriculum. The last stage before
organizing the teaching materials is to combine the local history with national
curriculum of history subjects into the historical teaching materials. The product
of teaching materials is able to accommodate the materials of local history
relating to the basic competence in the national curriculum
Nudging Payment Behaviour: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Pay-as-You-Go Off-Grid Electricity
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Oxford University Press via the DOI in this recordData availability:
Anonymised, unit-level data along with the do files that are required for replication of the findings presented in this paper can be provided on request.This paper reports results from a randomized control trial with a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) solar system provider in Pakistan. In the default treatment, customers are told the amount to pay every month to keep the system active. In a first treatment, customers are assisted in planning this monthly payment. A second treatment discloses that payments can be made flexibly within the month. This disclosure may reduce contract cancellation by helping minimize transaction costs but may increase contract complexity and reduce discipline. A third treatment combines flexibility with assistance in planning payments. Disclosing flexibility increases contract cancellation relative to the default, but combining flexibility with planning offsets this effect. Treatment effects appear stronger among users facing high mental constraints and transaction costs. These findings support the idea that behavioral factors, such as inattention and commitment problems, lay behind the negative impact of flexibility on cancellation. The results suggest that providers of PAYG systems may face a trade-off between disclosing complex contractual features and customer retention. Planning helps customers handle the added complexity.International Growth CentreEuropean Union FP
BEDIUZZAMAN SAID NURSI AND THE SUFI TRADITION
No full textBerbicara tentang pribadi dan pemikiran Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, artikel ini dimaksudkan untuk mengungkap jati diri tokoh sufi modern dari Turki ini. Analisis diawali dengan melihat ajaran dasar sang tokoh bahwa sufisme di satu sisi masih merupakan sesuatu yang penting bagi seorang muslim, tetapi di sisi lain juga sangat mudah menjadikan keimanan seseorang mengarah pada titik yang salah. Meskipun tidak semuanya, ada beberapa praktek dan tradisi sufisme yang tidak benar dan tidak lagi cocok untuk diamalkan pada masa Said Nursi hidup, bahkan mungkin juga pada masa sekarang. Terkait dengan hal ini, Nursi menawarkan satu alternatif yang menurutnya didasarkan pada al-Qur’an dalam meniti jalan sufisme, tanpa menafikan adanya cara-cara yang lainnya. Alternatif yang disebutnya sebagai haqiqa, cara a la Risalat al-Nur ini terdiri dari empat langkah, bukan tujuh atau pun sepuluh langkah sebagaimana umumnya dalam ajaran sufisme: al-‘ajz, al-faqr, al-shafaqa, dan al-tafakkur. Di samping itu bagi Nursi, Sufisme harus dipraktekkan dalam bingkai dan tanpa meninggalkan shari’a karena shari‘a bukanlah sisi luar dari Islam, tetapi merupakan satu system utuh yang mencakup inner dan sekaligus outer aspect dari Islam. Artikel ini juga melihat jejak-jejak pengaruh pemikiran tokoh-tokoh besar sufi dalam pemikiran Nursi, seperti Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, dan Ahmad Rabbani al-Sirhindi.</span
M. Brothers Enterprise / Mohd Azrul Md Said... [et al.]
No full textM. Brothers Enterprise is a join venture of partnership company that are been managed by five partners that contribute their share. This company is situated at Sungai Petani Industries Estate, Sg. Petani Kedah that will full operate on 1 January 2000. Main activities of this company are producing and supplying casing of radio component
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