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PEMIKIRAN AKIDAH MUHAMMAD BIN KHALIL AL-SAKUNI
No full textAbu ‘Abd Allah Mu?ammad bin Khalil al-Sakuni al-‘Ishbili al-Qayrawani atau lebih dikenali dengan Muhammad bin Khalil al-Sakuni merupakan seorang tokoh ulama terkemuka dalam mazhab akidah Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama?ah al-Asha’irah pada abad ke 7 Hijrah. Beliau meneruskan kesinambungan pemikiran akidah yang dibawa oleh Imam Abu al-Hasan al-Ash’ari (m. 324H) di dunia barat Islam. Beliau merupakan seorang sarjana yang banyak meninggalkan sumbangan kepada keilmuan Islam khususnya dalam bidang akidah. Muhammad bin Khalil al-Sakuni mendapat sanjungan sebagai seorang mutakallimin yang terkemuka dalam kalangan ulama sezaman dengannya dan para sarjana Islam berikutnya sehingga ke hari ini. Ketokohan beliau terserlah berdasarkan karya-karyanya yang banyak dijadikan sebagai sumber rujukan para ulama Islam sepanjang zaman. Namun begitu, perbincangan berkaitan sumbangan beliau tersebut dilihat tidak banyak dikaji oleh pengkaji muta’akhirin di rantau ini. Justeru itu, fokus utama kajian ini adalah untuk mengkaji sumbangan beliau dari aspek pemikiran akidah dan implikasi sumbangan tersebut terhadap perkembangan akidah Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama’ah al-Asha’irah di dunia barat Islam. Bagi mencapai tujuan tersebut, kajian ini akan menggunakan kaedah kualitatif melibatkan analisis kandungan sumber primer (ma?adir) sama ada berbentuk manuskrip atau bahan bercetak dan juga sumber sekunder (maraji’). Kemudian data-data yang diperoleh, akan dianalisis menggunakan kaedah diskriptif. Dapatan kajian mendapati bahawa Muhammad bin Khalil al-Sakuni merupakan seorang ulama akidah terkenal yang telah memberikan sumbangan besar terhadap penyebaran mazhab al-Ash’ari di dunia barat Islam. Pemikiran akidah yang ditonjolkan oleh beliau dapat dijadikan sebagai iktibar dan rujukan umat Islam dalam menghadapi kemelut serangan pemikiran yang bertentangan dengan ajaran Islam yang sebenar
Variations on the Author
No full text“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
Exploring Emptiness: An Investigation of MA and MU in My Sonic Composition Practice
No full textThe commentary investigates Japanese aesthetics of space, silence and emptiness - ma and mu - that informed my compositional practice during the research period 2012 - 2015. The portfolio comprises text compositions and sound installations in which forms of micro events and sustained events are employed. Throughout, the emphasis is on my personal engagement with, and manifestation of emptiness that concerns a particular model of listening and perception.
Chapter 1 discusses six primary research areas: ma and mu, material, text, form, listening and perception. Firstly, I introduce ma and mu by examining noh culture and Zeami's teaching of senu hima (where there is no-action) in the context of my personal approaches to music. The following subjects are then used to contextualise my PhD practice by means of examples from various composers and visual artists. Here, these particular and enigmatic concepts are explored through Japanese art as well as Western contemporary works by Alvin Lucier, Eliane Radigue and those of the Wandelweiser collective.
Part 2 provides contextual commentaries on selected compositions from the portfolio that mostly articulate my aesthetics in relation to the topics covered in Chapter 1. koso koso addresses my methodologies to investigate the essence of senu hima, followed by treow that discusses my approach to materials and the importance of space. I move on to grade two and grade two extended in order to examine text scores, and then, look into Espèces d'espaces 03 and 04 as examples of musical forms that I employ.
Finally, listening and perception are investigated through the compositions gnome and con.de.structuring. Throughout, I describe how my works explore emptiness as a result of my particular emphasis on listening over composing
Eric Ma : Farewell Innocence [EP]
No full textFor my final project at SAE, I produced, wrote, composed and engineered a five track EP under the electronic genre.
This EP is all about growing up, and reaching adulthood. Each track uncovers a moment in time during my life.
Although we all have to say goodbye to our innocence at one stage during our lifetime, we can still reminisce the good memories we created in the past.
My vision was to allow the listeners to be taken back to a time where they were younger and carefree.
Although the EP gradually gets darker, I made the ending track end on a sweet and much livelier note. Expressing my view that life will always get better. “No matter how long the storm lasts, the sun always shines behind the clouds - Khalil Gibran
"I monologhi della vagina” in India: dissenso e resistenza su sessualità e maternità
No full textCon l’adattemtento in lingua hindī de "I monologhi della vagina", il cui titolo è "Kissā yoni kā", traducibile come "Discorso sulla vagina", la regista Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal fa luce sulle difficoltà di affrontare il tema della sessualità femminile nel contesto socioculturale indiano, mettendo in discussione gli standard sociali e i pregiudizi della società indiana. L’adattamento in lingua hindī pone all’attenzione del pubblico le contraddizioni interne alla società indiana quando ci si trova ad affrontare discorsi inerenti la vagina e la sessualità in generale, celebrando la 'vagina' e mettendola al centro del discorso la vagina in tutte le sue sfumature, essenze, e possibilità, tra le quali quello di organo che dà la vita. L’organo della procreazione e la sua capacità di dar vita vengono liberati dal contesto patriarcale, che invece insiste sulla funzione generatrice delle donne come unico ruolo socialmente accettabile a cui dover aspirare. Con la declamazione dei monologhi avviene una presa di coscienza della vagina anche nella sua capacità riproduttiva, ma fuori da un sistema di imposizioni dettate da altri
The construction of Karen Karnak: The multi-author-function
No full textThis thesis is situated within the comparatively recent developments of Web 2.0 and the emergence of interactive WikiMedia, and explores the mode of authorship within a Read/Write culture compared to that of a Read/Only tradition. The hypothesis of this study is that the role of the audience has become merged with the author, and as such, represents new functions and attributes, distinct from a more conventional concept of authorship, in which the roles of audience and author are more separate. Read/Write and participatory culture, as defined by this study, is focused on collaboration, and includes the influences of D.I.Y. culture, Open-Source practices and the production of text by multiple authors. Multi-authorship presents a re-thinking of several concepts which support the notion of the individual author, since the focus of multi-authorship is not on attribution and ownership of a finished text, but on the continued malleability of a text. Modes of multi-authorship, demonstrated in the use of the pseudonyms Alan Smithee and Karen Eliot, represent declarative authors whose names signify multiple origins, whilst concurrently indicating a distinct body of work. The function of these names form an important context to this study, since primary research involves the construction of an experimental mode of multi-authorship utilising WikiMedia technology and the interaction of thirty nine participants, who are invited to create a body of work under the collective pseudonym Karen Karnak. The data generated by this experiment is analysed using aspects of Michel Foucault's author-function to identify and determine power structures inherent in the WikiMedia context. The interplay of power structures, including concepts such as identity, ownership and the body of work, affect the resulting mode of authorship and contribute to the construction of Karen Karnak, suggesting further areas of research into the emerging multi-author
A note on Kim-Ma characterization of the Hilbert ball
No full textThis is an open access article under the CC BY license.[No abstract available]Kortney Rose Foundation, KRF, (2002-070-C00005); National Research Foundation of Korea, NRF* Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (K.-T. Kim), [email protected] (D. Ma). 1 Research supported in part by the grant KRF 2002-070-C00005 from The Korea Research Foundation
Less might be more: 1 mA but not 1.5 mA of tDCS improves tactile orientation discrimination
No full textBackground: Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a frequently used brain stimulation method; however, studies on tactile perception using tDCS are inconsistent, which might be explained by the variations in endogenous and exogenous parameters that influence tDCS. Objectives: We aimed to investigate the effect of one of these endogenous parameters—the tDCS amplitude—on tactile perception. Methods: We conducted this experiment on 28 undergraduates/graduates aged 18–36 years. In separate sessions, participants received 20 min of 1 mA or 1.5 mA current tDCS in a counterbalanced order. Half of the participants received anodal tDCS of the left SI coupled with cathodal tDCS of the right SI, and this montage was reversed for the other half. Pre- and post-tDCS tactile discrimination performance was assessed using the Grating Orientation Task (GOT). In this task, plastic domes with gratings of different widths cut into their surfaces are placed on the fingertip, and participants have to rate the orientation of the gratings. Results: Linear modeling with amplitude, dome, and session as within factors and montage as between factors revealed the following: significant main effects of grating width, montage, and session and a marginally significant interaction effect of session and amplitude. Posthoc t-tests indicated that performance in GOT improved after 1 mA but not 1.5 mA tDCS independent of the montage pattern of the electrodes. Conclusion: Increasing the stimulation amplitude from 1 mA to 1.5 mA does not facilitate the tDCS effect on GOT performance. On the contrary, the effect seemed more robust for the lower-current amplitude
An analysis of characterization in the diary of ma yan
No full textThis research aims to observe The Diary of MA YAN uses characterization method through figurative language by Albertine Minderop. This research explains how characterization method through figurative language can characterize the character of Ma Yan and Ma Yan's Parent. Moreover, characterization method can build the theme of the novel itself. By using qualitative method and content analysis technique, the writer would like to reveal the meaning of the text which the researcher is selected. This research finds Ma Yan's character to be a sensitive, joyful and hard worker. It can be seen from her words. Flowers are to describe her joyful and the word of tears to describe her sensitivity. In addition, she also uses the word of sweat and rush to describe her enthusiasm and optimism to face her life and achieve a better life in the future. Furthermore, Ma Yan usually uses the word of sweat and blood to characterize her parents as a hard worker and to describe how very hard her parents worked. The last, theme in the autobiographical novel of The Diary of MA YAN is about hard working and struggle to survive in bitterness and difficulty in life.viii, 58 hlm.; ilus.; 30 cm
Localized physical vapor deposition via focused laser spike dewetting of gold thin films for nanoscale patterning
No full textFocused laser spike (FLaSk) excitation has been demonstrated as a reliable technique for the patterning of micro-to-nanoscale features locally by thermocapillary shear of thin films. Recent work on polymer thin films has revealed that overlapping laser scans can leverage coupled thermal and fluid effects to create subwavelength patterns. Compared to polymeric films, metallic thin films possess both a lower melt viscosity and higher surface tension. Here we investigate overlapping effects in the dewetting of ~15 nm gold thin films on borosilicate and quartz glass substrates with a 532 nm continuous wave laser. During this process, FLaSk initiates capillary and thermocapillary dewetting simultaneously. Further, the low oxidation potential and high vapor pressure of gold lead to non-equilibrium vaporization during heating. Since the parameters of overlapping scans control the amount of material that is heated and to what temperature it is heated, selection of laser power, scanning distance, writing speed, and numerical aperture results in particles with different sizes and spacing deposited on the writing substrates or a positioned superstrate through a laser-induced localized physical vapor deposition (LILPVD) process. If the laser parameters are selected within a specific working range, uniform or periodic particle distributions can be repeatably deposited in this fashion, which can then be used as seeds for nanomaterial growth. In addition, if the substrate melts during FLaSk, the viscous forces of the liquid-on-liquid dewetting broadens the range of patterning conditions by resisting the motion of the gold leading to more uniform particles over a large range of parameters.Peer reviewe
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