165 research outputs found
Measuring microfinance access : building on existing cross-country data
No full textGiven the acknowledged need for a new effort to expand the set of available data on direct access to financial services, including a focus on access by those at low income, Honohan provides a selective review of the diverse sources of data that exist and considers how best to build on them. He proposes a basic framework within which to consider the analysis of the interesting questions: (1) How does access affect poverty and productivity? and (2) What hinders access? The author discusses existing and potential contribution of household and business user surveys, surveys of providers and their regulators, and surveys of experts, and assesses their relative strengths.Banks&Banking Reform,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Economics&Finance,Poverty Assessment,Governance Indicators
Communication Technologies for Vehicles: Third International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains 2011 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, March 23-24, 2011 Proceedings
No full textThe Communication Technologies for Vehicles workshop series provides an international forum on latest technologies and research in the field of intra- and inter-vehicle communications in which to present original research results in all areas relating to communication protocols and standards, mobility and traffic models, experimental and field operational testing, and performance analysis
Simulation and Modelling of Maximum and Minimum Temperature of Karachi
No full textIn the recent past weather derivatives have developed significant interest in surface air temperature and its modeling. In this work, we modelled and simulated daily average temperature. We used three different methods to model and simulate the recorded data at Karachi airport from 2010-2014. The methods used in this work are moving average method, polynomial fitting and maximum entropy method. Both polynomial fitting and maximum entropy methods can be used to find missing data. The simulated graphs and graphs of recorded data are in good agreement. Keywords: Karachi airport, surface air temperature, moving average, polynomial curve fitting. Maximum Entropy method
ゾレドロン酸処理した腫瘍に対するγδ型Ｔ細胞反応性とファーネシル二リン酸合成酵素阻害の比較
No full text京都大学0048新制・課程博士博士(医科学)甲第17786号医科博第45号新制||医科||3(附属図書館)30593京都大学大学院医学研究科医科学専攻(主査)教授 生田 宏一, 教授 杉田 昌彦, 教授 長田 重一学位規則第4条第1項該当Doctor of Medical ScienceKyoto UniversityDA
Interleaved Multilevel Boost Converter With Minimal Voltage Multiplier Components for High-Voltage Step-Up Applications
No full textIn this article, a new interleaved multilevel boost converter (interleaved-MBC) is suggested with minimal voltage multiplier (VM) cells for high-voltage step-up applications. The interleaved-MBC is derived in such a way that the maximum utilization of the VM circuit operation can be achieved by the interleaved structure. Furthermore, compared to existing multilevel interleaved converters, the reduced number of capacitors and diode with equal voltage rating makes it more attractive. Similar to the existing multilevel converter, the feature of the interleaved-MBC provides the extension of the number of levels to achieve the necessary voltages just by adding similar capacitor-diode stages (single capacitor and single diode are required to increase the stage by one). The features like continuous input current, low-input ripples, high voltage conversion ratio, and reduced stress on devices make the proposed converter more suitable for the voltage step-up applications, such as dc link, hybrid distribution systems, hybrid photovoltaic systems, etc. The detailed analysis of the converter is carried out by considering the nonidealities in the power circuit. The operation of the interleaved-MBC is presented for continuous and discontinuous conduction modes with boundary conditions. The components selection criterion and the comparison of converters are presented with suitable discussions. The converter is experimentally tested, and the obtained results validate its performance and functionality.Manuscript received October 5, 2019; revised January 11, 2020 and March 20, 2020; accepted April 20, 2020. Date of publication May 5, 2020; date of current version July 31, 2020. This work was supported in part by the Qatar National Library, Doha, Qatar, and in part by the Qatar National Research Fund, Qatar Foundation, under NPRP Grant X-033-2-007. Recommended for publication by Associate Editor Y. Siwakoti. (Corresponding author: Atif Iqbal.) Mohammad Meraj, Atif Iqbal, and Nasser Al-Emadi are with the Department of Electrical Engineering Qatar University, Doha, Qatar (e-mail: Meraj@ qu.edu.qa; [email protected]; [email protected]).Scopu
Optimization of Kiln Feed Yield through an Analysis of Drilling and Blasting Parameters in a Quarry
No full textBlasting and drilling serves as an essential element for a mining operation to excel. Optimization of this operational aspect, requires consideration of various parameters that can be controllable or uncontrollable. To overcome the tediousness of analyzing each element selectively, some major parameters are outlined, and each blast is rendered relative to the other, by organizing the data from each blast design and integrating it in an empirical model called Kuz-Ram Model, which further can be used for predicting the impact of these parameters on fragmentation. Image analysis aids in validating the model credibility for using it as step forward for proposing alterations to the current practices in drilling and blasting area. Each image is processed with the help of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, for safety and coverage of complete muck-pile. The study involves in depth focus on the impact of rock mass characteristic over fragmentation as well. Discontinuities, fractures, joint orientation and fillings are considered in designating each rock zone to specific class with the help of a geo-mechanical classification system called, Rock Mass Rating. To test the theory, an exercise is performed by separating two zones of variable rock mass properties and then the procedure is followed with empirical calculation, image analysis and supported by preferential loading to acquire a broad image of each zone fragmentation profile. Suggesting the variation in particle size distribution due to rock mass influence. The collected data and analyses shall serve as supporting tools for changes to blast design for obtaining desired fragmentation, which is synonymous to increasing the feed of kilns.Applied Earth Sciences | European Mining Cours
Mysticism and ethics in Islam
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Standardized name for editor Bilal Orfali from the Library of Congress is: Urfahʹlī, Bilāl http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010019407The relationship between Sufism or Islamic mysticism and ethics is largely untilled land. Mysticism and Ethics in Islam attempts to survey this fertile area of investigation by attempting to come to a clearer idea of what is meant by the terms “ethics” and “mysticism,” both in relation to each other and to Islam. The articles in this volume do not have an eye so much on defining what mysticism and ethics in Islamic civilization are per se, as much as on coming to terms with the parameters and boundaries within which they have historically been conceptualized. As such, the book falls into four clearly demarcated time periods and foci: early, classical, late pre-modern, and modern and contemporary. Taken as a whole, this collection of contributions by leading specialists in their fields offer rich insights into some of the most important articulations of Sufi ethics to have animated the tradition, from past to present, in such geographically diverse regions and countries as Egypt, India, West Africa, Iran, Turkey, Russia, Central Asia, and China.Editors' introduction -- I. EARLY PERIOD -- Aḥlām al-mutaṣṣawwifah wa-atharuhā ʻalá ʻilm al-taʻbīr al-Islāmī, fī al-qarnayn al-rābiʻ wa-al-khāmis lil-hijrah / Lina Jammal -- To grieve or not to grieve? The ambivalence of Ḥuzn in early Islam / Riccardo Paredi -- The treasurers of God : Abū Saʻīd Al-Kharrāz and the ethics of wealth in early Sufism / John Zaleski -- On patience (Ṣabr) in Sufi virtue ethics / Atif Khalil -- Min naqd al-taṣawwuf ilá iṣlāḥ al-akhlāq : al-kashf ʻan aʻmāl Shams al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Malik al-Dulaymī (t. 593 H/ 1197M) / Khaled Abdo -- Does Al-Ghazālī have a theory of virtue? / Sophia Vasalou -- II. CLASSICAL PERIOD -- Theo-Fānī : ʻAyn Al-Quḍāt and the fire of love / Mohammed Rustom -- Marātib Al-Taqwā : Saʻīd Al-Dīn Farghānī on the ontology of ethics / William Chittick -- Transcending character and the quest for union : the place of union (al-jamʿ) in commentaries on Anṣārī's Waystations / Cyrus Zargar -- Seeing is believing : Sufi vision and the formation of the ethical subject / Richard McGregor -- Disciplining the soul, freeing the mind : spiritual practice (al-riyāḍa) in Fakhr Al-Dīn Al-Rāzī's Sharḥ Al-Ishārāt Wa-l-Tanbīhāt / Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed -- al-Nasaq al-maʻrifī li-iʻādat intāj al-mafāhīm al-akhlāqīyah ʻinda al-Ṣūfīyah > namūdhajan / Chafika Ouail -- ʻAḍud Al-Dīn Ījī's ethics : a translation of Al-Akhlāq Al-ʻAḍudiyya and some notes on its commentaries / Feryal Salem -- III. LATE PRE-MODERN PERIOD -- ʻAbd Al-Wahhāb Al-Shaʻrānī's Laṭāʼif Al-Minan and the virtue of sincere immodesty / Matthew Ingalls -- Finding new life among the dead : the ethical mysticism of The Book of Pure Gold / Paul Heck -- Sufism and ethics in the works of Shāh Walī Allāh / Marcia Hermansen -- "Dogs have left you in the dust!" Mockery in Panjabi Sufi poetry / Syed Rizwan Zamir -- Churning nectar on the path of Muhammad : of ethical imaginaries in Kashmiri Sufi poetry / Peter Dziedzic -- The Chinese classics in the light of Ibn Al-ʻArabī's Metaphysics -- IV. MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS -- Sufism and ethics in Central Asia : Ṣūfī Allāhyār's Thabāt Al-ʻĀjizīn and its legacy / Alexandre Papas -- Sufism, ethics, and the Muslim modernist project / Ahmed El Shamsy -- Sufism and modern Muslim ethics in 14th/20th century Russian Islamic thought / Leila Almazova -- A Nietzschean mystic : Muhammad Iqbal on the ethics of selfhood / Muhammad Faruque -- The transcendent ethics of Tarbiya : Ibrahim Niasse's Maqāmāt Al-Dīn al-Thalāth / Oludamini Ogunnaike -- Becoming what one is : liberative knowledge and human perfection in the writing of Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Author biographies
Primary Health Care Systems (PRIMASYS): Comprehensive Case Study from Pakistan
No full textHealth systems around the globe still fall short of
providing accessible, good-quality, comprehensive
and integrated care. As the global health community
is setting ambitious goals of universal health
coverage and health equity in line with the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development, there is
increasing interest in access to and utilization of
primary health care in low- and middle-income
countries. A wide array of stakeholders, including
development agencies, global health funders, policy
planners and health system decision-makers, require
a better understanding of primary health care
systems in order to plan and support complex health
system interventions. There is thus a need to fill the
knowledge gaps concerning strategic information
on front-line primary health care systems at national
and subnational levels in low- and middle-income
settings.
The Alliance for Health Policy and Systems
Research, in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, is developing a set of 20 case
studies of primary health care systems in selected
low- and middle-income countries as part of an
initiative entitled Primary Care Systems Profiles
and Performance (PRIMASYS). PRIMASYS aims to
advance the science of primary health care in lowand middle-income countries in order to support
efforts to strengthen primary health care systems
and improve the implementation, effectiveness
and efficiency of primary health care interventions
worldwide. The PRIMASYS case studies cover key
aspects of primary health care systems, including
policy development and implementation,
financing, integration of primary health care into
comprehensive health systems, scope, quality and
coverage of care, governance and organization, and
monitoring and evaluation of system performance
Advances in Behavior Modeling
No full textThis chapter provides a survey of existing approaches to discrete event behavior modeling. The comparison is based on the selected set of semantic elements useful for the major system life cycle activities, such as requirements engineering, analysis, system understanding, system design, and evolution. The semantic elements are identified in the observed approaches and illustrated with examples of models. The advantages of the semantic elements for the major system life cycle activities can be taken into account for the choice and for the design of behavior modeling approaches.The survey is based on a series of successful international workshops on behavior modeling run by the author and is enriched by the results of her research experience
Travelogue "Butterfly Rays and Tornadoes" Intellectual Review
No full textTravel is part of human nature. He wants to get acquainted with the culture and way of life of
the place where he is traveling. The First travelogue is “Ajaibat e Farang” the author of which
is Yousaf Hussain Kambal posh. After him Sir Syed Ahmed khan, Allama Shibli Noumani and
Muhammad Hussain Azad also wrote travelogues. The twinth century remained popolur
because of travel. Travelogues of Shafiq ur Rehman, Ibn e Insha and Begum Akhtar Riaz ud
Din came to light during this period. Women travelogues Sheen Farukh, Bushra Rehman and
Parveen Atif. Parveen Atif wrote two Urdu travelogues “Kiran Titli Or Bagoly” and “Taper
Wasni”.Her travelogues are beautiful gift in intellectual terms.
 
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