40 research outputs found
Interview with Mahmoud Azmy
No full textفي هذه المقابلة، يتحدث الخبير الاستراتيجي محمود عزمي عن الانسحاب الإسرائيلي المُبكر من لبنان وتأثيره على المفاوضات السورية الإسرائيلية. أجرت الحوار إيمان رافع.In this interview, strategic analyst Mahmoud Azmy discusses Israel's early pullout from Lebanon and its implications on Syrian-Israeli negotiations. The interview was conducted by Iman Rafi
Report on Naguib Mahfouz and Salah El-Din Hafez
No full textفي هذا التقرير، تقدم إيمان رافع عرضًا عن ردود فعل الكتاب والمراقبين، من بينهم نجيب محفوظ والدبلوماسي صلاح الدين حافظ والخبير الاستراتيجي محمود عزمي، عن عقد قمة كامب ديفيد برعاية أمريكية.In this report, Iman Rafi outlines the opinions of writers and observers, including Naguib Mahfouz, diplomat Salah El-Din Hafez, and strategic specialist Mahmoud Azmy, to the Camp David conference being held under US sponsorship
KONSTRUKSI HUBUNGAN HUKUM PARA PIHAK DALAM PERJANJIAN KERJA SAMA SEBAGAI WUJUD PERLINDUNGAN BAGI PEKERJA (Studi Kasus Perjanjian Kerja Sama Mudharabah Go Fish Tuban PT Indonesia Berkah Mandiri No:005/IBM/PKS/V/2019 dengan Ir. Sardjono Santoso)
No full textMohamad Azmy, Ratih Dheviana Puru HT., Budi SantosoFakultas Hukum, Universitas Brawijaya MalangEmail: [email protected] Indonesia sedang berkembang inovasi perjanjian kerja sama yaitu waralaba / franchise. Salah satu waralaba yang baru didirikan dan mulai berkembang di beberapa kota adalah PT Indonesia Berkah Mandiri dengan brand Go Fish. Go Fish merupakan sebuah restoran cepat saji. Terkait dengan pekerja yang menjadi pihak dalam penyelenggaraan waralaba, selain pemberi waralaba dan penerima waralaba, maka penting untuk mendapat perlindungan hukum sebagai hak pekerja yang harus diberikan kepada pekerja. Sebagai waralaba baru yang berkembang, penyusunan perjanjian menarik untuk dikaji lebih dalam, khususnya terkait dengan konstruksi hubungan hukum para pihak dalam perjanjian tersebut sebagai wujud perlindungan bagi pekerja. Didalam perjanjian tersebut menggunakan frasa yang tidak sesuai dengan tujuan dan maksud seperti “Investasi atau Penanaman Modalâ€, sehingga menimbulkan ketidakjelasan bagi para pekerja untuk mendapatkan hak – haknya. Penulis menggunakan metode penelitian hukum normatif dengan menggunakan pendekatan perundang-undangan (statue approach) dan pendekatan konsep (conseptual approach ). Berdasarkan hasil penelitian dapat disimpulkan bahwa perjanjian kerja sama tersebut dikualifikasikan sebagai perjanjian waralaba / franchise sebab adanya kesesuaian antara karakteristik waralaba dengan isi perjanjian Go Fish. Berkaitan dengan wujud perlindungan bagi pekerja, di dalam perjanjian Go Fish tidak menyebutkan tentang hak perlindungan bagi pekerja yang ikut dalam penyelenggaraan kerja sama waralaba sehingga dapat disimpulkan lemahnya dalam memberikan perlindungan hukum bagi pekerja.Kata Kunci : Konstruksi Hubungan Hukum, Perjanjian Kerja Sama, Perlindungan Hukum ABSTRACT Cooperation agreement in franchise is growing in Indonesia. PT Indonesia Berkah Mandiri with Go Fish brand, a fast food restaurant, is one of franchises that can be found in Indonesia. In addition to protection provided for both franchisors and franchisees, the staff working in franchise companies also deserve protection for their rights as workers. As a new developing franchise, the company holds an agreement that attracts the author to look deeper into it, especially regarding construction of legal connection among parties involved in the agreement as part of protection provision for employees. The agreement used a phrase irrelevant to the objective and intention of the company “investment and capital investmentâ€. This phrase has sparked ambiguity for employees in terms of obtaining their rights. This research employed grammatical interpretation to seek into the agreement further. The research learns that the agreement made is categorised as franchise agreement because it met what is required in the Government Regulation Number 42 of 2007 concerning Franchise. Several Articles also imply that the employees work for PT. Indonesia Berkah Mandiri, and thus regulation concerning social security for workers in franchise companies is also required.  Keywords: agreement, franchise, capital investment, Mudharabah, social security Â
Monolithically integrated microelectromechanical systems resonators and oscillators in standard IC technology
No full textThesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-255).Frequency sources and high quality filters based on mechanical resonators are essential building blocks for communication systems as well as analog and digital electronics. Driven by the continuous demand for reduction in power, size and overall cost, monolithic integration of mechanical resonators in standard integrated circuit (IC) technology has been the focus of multiple research efforts. Micro-Electro-Mechanical (MEM) resonators offer an ultimate solution, with 100x higher quality factors and 10⁴x smaller footprint, when compared to on-chip LC tank circuits. A new class of truly solid-state, monolithically integrated, GHz-frequencies CMOS-MEMS resonators is presented. No post-processing or special packaging of any kind is required beyond the standard CMOS process. Resonant body transistor (RBT) is constructed by using active field-effect-transistor (FET) sensing. A phononic crystal (PnC) implemented in the CMOS back-end-of-line (BEOL) layers along with the bulk wafer are used to create a phononic waveguide. The latter confines acoustic vibrations in the CMOS front-end-of-line (FEOL) layers. Operator-theoretic analysis for these waveguides is presented in explicit analogy to quantum mechanics and photonic waveguides; with a study of perturbation theory, coupled-mode theory and adiabatic theorem. Superior energy confinement is achieved, allowing record high Q ~ 14, 800 and fo - Q ~ 4.85 x 10¹³ for CMOS-RBTs at 3 GHz. Simulation, modeling, optimization, proto- typing and testing of these resonators is presented. RBTs in FinFET technologies are also exploerd, for resonance frequencies up to 33 GHz. The thesis also explores the integration of Lamb-mode resonators in standard GaN monolithic-microwave-IC (MMIC) process. The first monolithic 1GHz MEMS-based oscillator in standard GaN MMIC technology is demonstrated, together with monolithic lattice and ladder filters. This allows for complete RF front-ends in GaN MMIC technology.by Bichoy Waguih Azmy Bahr.Ph. D
Outcome of single-stage breast reconstruction using the natrelle 150 expander implant
No full textThe Natrelle 150 offers the advantage of single-stage reconstruction. However, there is lack of published data on its long term outcomes, which does not allow for definitive conclusions as to whether it truly meets its design objective of a lasting single stage breast reconstruction. This is a retrospective review of all Natrelle 150 reconstructions by a single surgeon over 5 years. A total of 143 procedures were performed in 125 patients with a mean follow-up of 33 months (range, 3-65 months). Most (120, 84%) received the implant after oncological mastectomies, 22 (15%) after risk-reducing mastectomies, and 1 (0.8%) for hypoplasia. Fifty-one (35.7%) implants were explanted an average of 12.9 months after implantation. A Kaplan-Meier survival analysis demonstrates an explantation rate of 25% by 11 months. Explantation was more likely after subpectoral placement compared to reconstructions in combination with latissimus dorsi flaps (P < 0.05). Risk-reducing reconstructions were also more likely to undergo explantation (P < 0.05) compared to reconstructions for oncological reasons. Our data suggest that this prosthesis is only successful as a 1-stage procedure in certain patients, and has led to more careful patient selection and counseling.</p
Cost-effectiveness of one-stage versus two-stage breast reconstruction in the United Kingdom
No full textAim: Permanent expanders allow for breast reconstruction as a single stage. These prostheses are more expensive than conventional tissue expanders, but this excess cost is markedly offset as only one operation is required. However, if the revision rate is sufficiently high, then this effect is negated. We aim to compare costs of one-stage vs. two-stage reconstruction at a single centre, taking into account explantation and unexpected admissions following complications.Methods: A retrospective review was carried out on all patients who underwent one-stage and two-stage reconstruction over a 5-year period by a single surgeon. A cost analysis was performed taking into account, explantation and additional admissions.Results: One hundred and forty-three one-stage and 45 two-stage procedures were included. The explantation rate for one-stage procedures is 36%, at a mean of 12.9 months postimplantation, the majority of which were exchanged for silicone implants to improve cosmesis. Four (9%) of the two-stage procedures were explanted a mean of 18 months postreconstruction. Overall, one-stage reconstructions were significantly more expensive than the two-stage group (P = 0.016).Conclusion: There are many benefits of one-stage breast reconstruction. However, it does not appear to be cost-effective when additional admissions for explantation surgery are taken into account
Quality Estimation for Scarce Scenarios within Mobile Crowdsensing Systems
No full textMobile crowdsensing (MCS) is a paradigm that exploits the presence of a crowd of moving human participants to acquire, or generate, data from their environment. As a part of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) paradigm, MCS serves the quest for a more efficient operation of a smart city. Big data techniques employed on this data produce inferences about the participants' environment, the smart city. However, sufficient amounts of data are not always available. Sometimes, the available data are scarce as it is obtained at different times, locations, and from different MCS participants who may not be present. As a consequence, the scale of data acquired may be small and susceptible to errors. In such scenarios, the MCS system requires techniques that acquire reliable inferences from such limited data sets. To that end, we resort to small data (SD) techniques that are relevant for scarce and erroneous scenarios. In this article, we discuss SD and propose schemes to tackle the problems associated with such limited data sets, in the context of the smart city. We propose two novel quality metrics: 1) MAD quality metric (MAD-Q) and 2) MAD bootstrap quality metric (MADBS-Q), to deal with SD, focusing on evaluating the quality of a data set within MCS. We also propose an MCS-specific coverage metric that combines the spatial dimension with MAD-Q and MADBS-Q. We show the performance of all the presented techniques through closed-form mathematical expressions, with which simulation results were found to be consistent.Manuscript received January 10, 2020; revised April 11, 2020; accepted April 27, 2020. Date of publication May 14, 2020; date of current version November 12, 2020. This work was supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada under Grant RGPIN-2019-05667.(Corresponding author: Nizar Zorba.) Sherif B. Azmy is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada (e-mail: [email protected]).Scopu
Efficacy of post-operative pain control with the help of patient controlled wound soakers (continuous infiltration of local anaesthetic infusion) following breast reconstruction
No full textBreast reconstruction following seat belt bisection – A case report and review of literature
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