108 research outputs found
Reinterpretasi Terhadap Kedudukan Perempuan Dalam Islam Melalui Takwil Gender KH. Husein Muhammad
No full textPara ulama klasik dalam memberikan penafsiran terhadap teks nash dengan sangat tendesius dan berorienstasi patriarkhis (patriarchalism theological oriented). Hasil dari penafsiran tersebut, terkadang ditafsirkan yang disesuaikan dengan selera orang yang menafsirkannya dan juga tidak lepas dari kepentingan. Pada artikel ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap secara metodologis atas reinterpretasi terhadap teks nash tentang kedudukan perempuan yang dilakukan oleh KH. Husein Muhammad. Jadi fokus kajian pada artikel ini terdapat pada bagaimana cara penafsiran KH. Husein Muhammad terhadap teks nash yang berhubungan dengan perempuan sebab KH. Husein Muhammad mencoba melakukan reinterpretasi terhadap teks nash tersebut dengan pandangan yang baru melalui pemikiran yang lebih progresif dan peka terhadap berbagai persoalan perempuan dalam kesetaraan gender. Jenis penelitian keperpustakaan (library research) dalam pengumpulan data adalah jenis penelitian pada artikel ini melalui pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode deskripptif-analitis dan content analysis yang disukung melalui interaksi antara konsep dan penafsiran dengan analisis data model Miles dan Huberman. Maka dari itu, artikel ini menghasilkan kesimpulan bahwa analisis yang dilakukan oleh KH. Husein Muhammad merupakan sebuah hasil prestasi intelektual yang cerdas dan sebagai bentuk pengamalan terhadap nilai-nilai dalam ajaran Islam sebagai agama yang ramah terhadap perempuan
Non-parametric natural image matting
No full textNatural image matting is an extremely challenging image processing problem due to its ill-posed nature. It often requires skilled user interaction to aid definition of foreground and background regions. Current algorithms use these predefined regions to build local foreground and background colour models. In this paper we propose a novel approach which uses non-parametric statistics to model image appearance variations. This technique overcomes the limitations of previous parametric approaches which are purely colour-based and thereby unable to model natural image structure. The proposed technique consists of three successive stages: (i) background colour estimation, (ii) foreground colour estimation, (iii) alpha estimation. Colour estimation uses patch-based matching techniques to efficiently recover the optimum colour by comparison against patches from the known regions. Quantitative evaluation against ground truth demonstrates that the technique produces better results and successfully recovers fine details such as hair where many other algorithms fail. ©2009 IEEE
Assessment of the Ecological and Health Risks of Potentially Toxic Metals in Agricultural Soils from the Drosh-Shishi Valley, Pakistan
No full textSoil pollution is a highlighted concern of modern society, particularly in developing countries. The Drosh-Shishi valley, which is a hilly region near Afghanistan with a land area of around 15,000 km2, is situated in the south of Chitral District (Pakistan) and has a population of approximately 450,000. Nowadays, this region is being explored for soil pollution, specifically heavy metals which pose a potential risk to human health. Therefore, our main goal was to investigate possible sources of heavy metals’ spread and to assess the content levels in soil and the associated risks for human. We collected 34 representative samples from transported sediments and 31 from agricultural crops. We analyzed the soil samples for the contents of Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb, and Zn using ICP-OES analyzers. These values were used to obtain the contamination factor (CF) and to estimate the potential health risk caused by heavy metals according to the USEPA dose–response model. Our results suggest that the heavy metal pollution has a geogenic source, but it is also aggregated by chemical fertilizers used in farming. Regarding levels, most of the metals except Pb showed contents above the permissible level, with CF values from moderate to high. Overall, Cu and Ni showed a significant total cancer risk (TCR > 1 × 10−4) in children. Therefore, we conclude that heavy metal pollution is causing a serious threat to humans in this area, and we recommend that authorities should make more efforts in monitoring the heavy metals content in soils to reduce potential health risks
Nature and death in the poetry of al-Malā'ika, al-Shābbī and Shukrī, and certain English Romantic poets : a comparative study
No full textThe first part of this thesis, divided into two
chapters, deals with the early background of European
Romanticism; the reasons behind its appearance and
problems of definition. There follows a discussion on
the question of the originality of Arabic Romanticism,
with ,a brief review of the roots and main literary groups
of this movement in Arabic poetry.
Part two examines the influence of English poetry
and thought on three Arab Romantic poets: Nāzik Sādiq
al-Malā'ika, Abū al-Qāsim al-Shābbī and
Abd aI-Rahmān Shukrī.
This is discussed parallel with the channels of
this influence.
The main focus of this research is however, to show
the ways in which al-Malā'ika, al-Shābbī and Shukrī perceived and reflected nature and death in their poetry.
Their attitudes towards certain phenomena in nature
such as the countryside, night, the sea, childhood and
moral and social lessons of nature are compared with
certain attitudes of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and
Shelley.
Themes such as life and death, fear of death,
fatalism, immortality and death as a welcome experience
are also the concern of this thesis, with a comparison of
these themes in the poetry of the Arab and English
Romantic poets.
However, owing to the popularity of Keats and
Shelley with the three Arab Romantic poets, this thesis
concentrates on their poetry.
This research has selected only certain phenomena
and themes from nature--and death because of the dominance
of these subjects in the poetry of al-Malā'ika, al-Shābbī and Shukrī. The translations of Arabic poetry in this thesis are
intended to convey the general sense of the source texts,
rather than to give a precise rendering of these texts
into English
Non-parametric and wide-baseline natural image and video matting
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Natural image matting for multiple wide-baseline views
No full textIn this paper we present a novel approach to estimate the alpha mattes of a foreground object captured by a widebaseline circular camera rig provided a single key frame trimap. Bayesian inference coupled with camera calibration information are used to propagate high confidence trimaps labels across the views. Recent techniques have been developed to estimate an alpha matte of an image using multiple views but they are limited to narrow baseline views with low foreground variation. The proposed wide-baseline trimap propagation is robust to inter-view foreground appearance changes, shadows and similarity in foreground/background appearance for cameras with opposing views enabling high quality alpha matte extraction using any state-of-the-art image matting algorithm. © 2010 IEEE
Wide-baseline multi-view video segmentation for 3D reconstruction
No full textObtaining a foreground silhouette across multiple views is one of the fundamental steps in 3D reconstruction. In this paper we present a novel video segmentation approach, to obtain a foreground silhouette, for scenes captured by a wide-baseline camera rig given a sparse manual interaction in a single view. The algorithm is based on trimap propagation, a framework used in video matting. Bayesian inference coupled with camera calibration information are used to spatio-temporally propagate high confidence trimap labels across the multi-view video to obtain coarse silhouettes which are later refined using a matting algorithm. Recent techniques have been developed for foreground segmentation, based on image matting, in multiple views but they are limited to narrow baseline with low foreground variation. The proposed wide-baseline silhouette propagation is robust to inter-view foreground appearance changes, shadows and similarity in foreground/background appearance. The approach has demonstrated good performance in silhouette estimation for views up to 180° baseline (opposing views). The segmentation technique has been fully integrated in a multi-view reconstruction pipeline. The results obtained demonstrate the suitability of the technique for multi-view reconstruction with wide-baseline camera set-ups and natural background
INTERNALISASI NILAI-NILAI KEISLAMAN BERBASIS WAWASAN KEBANGSAAN DALAM SISTEM PENDIDIKAN
No full textThis article examines the internalization of Islamic values based on national insight into the education system. While the discussion includes; the application of Islamic values based on national insight and urgency in the education system with the aim that Muslims are always enthusiastic in maintaining Islamic and national values so that they are not easily influenced by various understandings that can threaten the diversity of life in the Pancasila state. Then, the preparation of this article uses a literature study through qualitative descriptive analysis because the information presented is in a descriptive form with an explanation in the form of a statement through an inductive nature. Furthermore, the results of this article state that the application of Islamic values based on national insight can be carried out through the order of personal, family, social, economic, political and national life. Meanwhile, the urgency of its application in the education system aims to remind all elements of the Indonesian nation, including Muslims in particular, that the national education system must adhere to divine values, just and civilized humanity, unity, deliberation and justice, which are essentially in line with various values in Islamic teachings
Duodenum Inversum: Case Report with an Updated Review of the Literature
No full textIn duodenum inversum (DI), the third part of the duodenum follows a superior, posterior course before crossing over the midline above the pancreas. A 35-year-old female presented with right upper quadrant (RUQ) pain for the last 2 months. The patient did not have any other medical conditions and had visited multiple hospitals for treatment of the RUQ pain. Upon abdominal examination, tenderness was noted in RUQ, leading to initial suspicions of costochondritis and cutaneous nerve inflammation. Symptoms were resolved with neuromodulator drug, Pregablin. A CT scan was then carried out, revealing incidental findings consistent with the Duodenum Inversum. This case report describes an incidental finding of Duodenum Inversum and an updated literature review, including 17 articles covering diagnostic procedures, treatment modalities, and associated complications
Non-Parametric and Wide-Baseline Natural Image and Video Matting.
No full textIn this thesis we address natural video matting which is a classic problem in video processing. Natural digital matting refers to the problem of extracting the foreground along with the proper opacity from an image or a video having a natural uncontrolled background. This allows compositing foreground objects in a different background to obtain a novel scene. This is one of the most common and important visual effect used in commercial media production. In this research we investigate the natural image and video matting problem in single and multiple views. The use of local non-parametric image statistics is investigated for natural image matting. Image patches are used to represent the local colour appearance and structures in a given image. Furthermore we present an extension of the proposed non-parametric image matting algorithm to videos. The proposed approaches are compared to different state-of-the-art techniques on a variety of synthetic and natural images and videos. The results obtained are comparable to state-of-the-art approaches for images with locally smooth regions while improved performance is observed for textured images. Our second line of research focuses on image and video matting of scenes captured by multiple wide-baseline cameras. To the best of our knowledge, the matting problem in wide-baseline images and videos has not previously been investigated. We present a novel framework based on inferential statistics to spatially propagate the user provided constraints across wide-baseline views. The approach helps to limit the user interaction to a single view. In the second stage we present an extension of the proposed wide-baseline image matting to wide-baseline videos. The framework reliably propagates the user provided constraints spatio-temporally across views and over time. To minimise the user interaction we dynamically update the information available from all views to incorporate the temporal variations in the scene caused due to intensity variations, shadows, motion blur, occlusion and shading over time. Results are presented on different indoor and outdoor scenes containing nonrigid fast foreground motion which presents a challenging matting problem for existing single view video matting techniques. Results are comparable to state-of-the-art single view video matting algorithms applied independently on each view. The proposed approach significantly reduces the manual interaction required to matte multi-view wide-baseline videos
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