48 research outputs found
An Analysis of Cultural Types and Categories in Moroccan ELT Textbooks: Primary School Case
No full textAbstract: Language is not only a tool of communiqué, but it is a clue to discover the culture. It allows the learner to discover how other people in other cultures believe, think, and live within their societies. Besides, culture and language are two topics linked in every ELT textbook. In Morocco, the English language is considered a foreign language that students’ study from the secondary school until they graduate from high school. This study investigates the cultural contents, aspects, and categories of the Moroccan ELT textbook TICKET1. This study was conducted by employing qualitative data, particularly analyzing the cultural contents of TICKET ELT textbooks. It analyses the written and visual texts in ELT textbook «ticket 1" adopted by the ministry of education in Morocco in 2018. The results reveal that source culture is dominant, followed by the target culture, then the international culture in the ELT textbooks. In addition, the cultural standards presented in the textbook show how the cultural patterns help present culture in the Moroccan ELT textbook. In addition,
Keywords: culture reference, ELT textbooks, language, culture, big culture,a little culture.
Title: An Analysis of Cultural Types and Categories in Moroccan ELT Textbooks: Primary School Case
Author: Hafsa Krych
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
Vol. 10, Issue 2, April 2022 - June 2022
Page No: 149-159
Research Publish Journals
Website: www.researchpublish.com
Published Date: 10-May-2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6535815
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Mechanical Design and Fabrication of a Data Buoy
No full textA data buoy for measuring coastal wave-action has been designed and constructed. The buoy is essentially a 0.6 m diameter sphere that is made of fiber-glass with aluminum, steel and polymer parts. While the overall geometry of the buoy is superficially similar to that of existing commercial spherical buoys (e.g. Wave-Rider by Datawell), the present design is based on a simple robust structure and mass-market electronics. A significant dual-use feature of this design is that the structure is usable as a float in a wave-energy generation device. This is possible due to the essentially isolated central structure and an electronics enclosure that is sealed both from the external environment and from the bulk shell of the buoy. This also allows the electronics to be mounted in an easily- modified, rack configuration that can be removed from the buoy shell. In a wave-energy generation set-up the electronics rack would be removed and the central cylinder will become part of a linear-motion type generator, with at least +/- 25 cm of internal movement available to it that is waterproof (for near surface or shallow immersions). Alternatively, for large wave motions, the buoy can couple to an energy-generating device using flanges that mate with its bolt circle pattern. However, at the moment, the buoy enclosure is dedicated to wave-action measurement, i.e., a data buoy with an onboard inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a radio-link to send real-time data to a receiving unit that can be on a boat or at the seashore. Basic GPS data are also transmitted. This is of interest if the buoy is being deployed in a drifting (un-moored) mode. This paper will only discuss the mechanical design and fabrication of the structure
Building a New Kashmir: Bakshi Ghulam Muhammad and the Politics of State-Formation in a Disputed Territory (1953-1963)
No full textThis dissertation is a historical study of the early postcolonial period in the Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir (1953-63). It traces the trajectory of “Naya [New] Kashmir,” a leftist manifesto of the National Conference (NC). The NC was a secular nationalist Kashmiri political party that came to power in the state in 1947, in the aftermath of Partition and the accession of Kashmir to India. This dissertation recuperates the relevance of Naya Kashmir during the rule of Bakshi Ghulam Mohammed (1953-63), the second Prime Minister of the state. Naya Kashmir originated as a progressive project of state and socio-cultural reform, emanating from the particular context of the Jammu and Kashmir princely state in the late colonial period. However, this dissertation argues that it was still utilized by Bakshi in his project of state building and reform nearly a decade later. In moving the manifesto out of the context of its own production, and into the period of Bakshi’s government, we are able to see the durability of the ideas that undergird the project, and the ways in which the local leadership attempted to fulfill its aims of economic, educational, and cultural transformation, even after the state was divided and became part of a new political reality.
Naya Kashmir’s trajectory also reveals the tensions within the state building project. While the government was attempting to produce a secular modernizing Kashmir, it was also dealing with the realities of Kashmir’s unresolved political context, as the region remained a disputed territory between India and Pakistan in the international arena. This dissertation argues that while Naya Kashmir had the potential to revolutionize Kashmiri society, its actual impact was constrained by Kashmir’s unresolved political context. As a result, these policies cultivated an opposition from the very class they meant to integrate into the Indian Union, evidenced by the mass movement for self-determination that erupted against the state during the Holy Relic Incident, just a few months after Bakshi’s rule had ended in 1963.
This dissertation allows us to see developments in Kashmir outside the framework of India-Pakistan relations or India-Kashmir (center-state) relations. Under Bakshi, Naya Kashmir’s trajectory constituted a local logic, borne out of local concerns and needs. It also foregrounds the perspectives of a diverse set of Kashmiri political and social actors, as they sought to resolve the problems of their diverse and marginalized society. In doing so, it contributes to a growing body of South Asian historiography that examines governance and state-building in the immediate aftermath of decolonization, as well as the everyday postcolonial state and state-society relations.PhDHistory & Women's StudiesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/138699/1/hafsak_1.pd
Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation Colonizing Kashmir: state-building under Indian occupation , by Hafsa Kanjwal, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2023, xiii + 366 pp., $32, ISBN 978-1-5036-3603-3
No full textKashmiri life is expendable for the Indian state. While the love for the land is close to national imaginaries, the people have been subjected to decades of abuse and violence, and infringement of their basic human rights. In this book, Hafsa Kanjwal delves into the history of Kashmir, tracing the role of two pivotal political figures – Sheikh Abdullah (1947–1953) and Bakshi Ghulam Mohammad (1953–1963) – and their relationship with the Indian project of state-building in Kashmir. The author characterizes this as the ‘politics of life’ (9), where the Indian government and client regimes in Kashmir have normalized occupation with the propagation of ‘development, empowerment and progress’ along with bureaucratic integration and the forging of affective intimate relationships with the people of the state. However, the politics of life and appeals to emotions did not mean that there was an absence of coercive measures used by the Indian state to shape conforming and confronting subjectivities
Laboratory Test Utilization Practices in Hamad Medical Corporation; Role of Laboratory Supervisors and Clinicians in Improper Test Utilization; a Descriptive Pilot Study
No full textBackground: The use of diagnostic laboratory tests is increasing worldwide. Improper test utilization (ITU) is a common problem for all healthcare systems as it costs substantial expenses for the health systems and impacts optimal patient care. Purpose: The present small-scale survey aims to highlight the current practice of ITU among the labs and physicians, and investigate the actions of diagnostic laboratories towards ITU, and identify the reasons affecting test ordering decisions among physicians. Methods: A cross sectional study based on two different surveys was developed and distributed from March 2017 to April 2017 to laboratory supervisors and physicians (clinicians) at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Qatar. Fourteen laboratory supervisors and eighty-nine physicians were surveyed about improper test utilization practices. The overall results are descriptive data. Results: The overall proportion of improperly utilized tests detected by the laboratory supervisors were 50.0%, 35.7%, and 14.3% for overused, misused, and underused lab tests, respectively. Among the physicians, 91% used the electronic ordering template to select the appropriate tests. Moreover, 78.7% of the physicians used the clinical guidelines, while 73% were not employing the laboratory handbook. Furthermore, 95.5%% of the physicians preferred to get feedback about inappropriate tests, while 51.1% were not receiving any, and 40.9% were rarely receiving. Finally, 67.4% were unaware of the tests’ costs among surveyed physicians, and 63.6% showed a willingness to reduce their orders if the cost was high and unnecessary. Conclusion: The physician’s and the laboratories’ communication were inadequate and not systematized, causing ITU practices. The improvement strategy should focus on the communication between clinical labs and physicians and enhance physician implementation to order appropriate lab tests. This could be achieved by conducting legitimate educational methodologies, continuous feedback reviews, ongoing audits, executing health information technology instruments, engaging laboratory practice guidelines, and applying demand management and testing algorithms.The study is categorized under quality management IRB, approved by the Institutional Review Board (HMC research center) of Hamad Medical Corporation (#MRC0184/2017). Dr. Rizk (corresponding author) and Ms. Hafsa (first primary author, during her work at HMC labs) are included in the study approval by HMC. In addition, Dr. Nesrin from HMC is acknowledged for help and support in the study
Abortion in Islamic law
No full textConcerned about giving women fatwas that a 4-month-old baby can be aborted, based on the views found in classical Islamic law, Hafsa Kesgin's book has helped him write. In addition, Hafsa Kesgin stated that there is no study in the type of book that combines positive law and Islamic law in any type of book. Her desire to make a contribution to this deficiency led to the emergence of this study. The book consists of a short introduction and five main titles. The author dealt with the subject in terms of medicine, previous sharia, sociology, positive law, and Islamic law. It can be said that the author, who hopes that her work will be instrumental in helping another baby cling to life, is working toward society. At the same time, it can be stated that this work can be one of the beginning books for those who make academic studies on the subject, and it will be a good guide for reaching classical and contemporary sources from various sciences about abortion. This study aimed to examine this work
Evaluating neural load disaggregation for ambient assisted living applications
No full textNon-intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), also known as Load Disaggregation, is the problem of identifying the power consumption related to individual appliances through only a single metering point. It gained significant attention during the past decade, notably with deep neural networks. These models offer a promising alternative to traditional activity monitoring of older adults living alone, relying on more intrusive sensing technologies. Yet, this adoption faces several challenges. First, load disaggregation techniques are perceived as privacy-violating technologies since they can reveal sensitive information, notably with data sampled at the high frequency required by deep models. Second, the comparability problem in NILM scholarship is still a research gap. Little is known about state-of-the-art performance and models suitable for each appliance due to heterogeneous evaluation setups. Third, despite the fact that a handful set of frameworks for activity monitoring based on NILM have already been proposed in the literature, none of them evaluated the potential errors propagated by the disaggregation approaches.The current thesis addresses these issues. First, an open-source energy measurement system is suggested leveraging open-source technologies to enable local processing of the data with a NILM module. The system is evaluated on two real energy datasets and one synthetic energy dataset. Second, the author addresses the problem of comparability in NILM through the adoption of machine learning best practices implemented and made available to the research community through an open-source python package. Furthermore, the author develops an open-source NILM benchmark repository containing both baselines and recent models to facilitate comparability in future work. A simulation study of federated learning for local processing and privacy-preserving NILM is furtehr presented, highlighting promising results and potential future research directions. Finally, a novel activity monitoring framework is presented and evaluated on a synthetic dataset quantifying the error propagated by a NILM algorithm.Hafsa BousbiatDissertation Universität Klagenfurt 202
Evaluating neural load disaggregation for ambient assisted living applications
No full textNon-intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM), also known as Load Disaggregation, is the problem of identifying the power consumption related to individual appliances through only a single metering point. It gained significant attention during the past decade, notably with deep neural networks. These models offer a promising alternative to traditional activity monitoring of older adults living alone, relying on more intrusive sensing technologies. Yet, this adoption faces several challenges. First, load disaggregation techniques are perceived as privacy-violating technologies since they can reveal sensitive information, notably with data sampled at the high frequency required by deep models. Second, the comparability problem in NILM scholarship is still a research gap. Little is known about state-of-the-art performance and models suitable for each appliance due to heterogeneous evaluation setups. Third, despite the fact that a handful set of frameworks for activity monitoring based on NILM have already been proposed in the literature, none of them evaluated the potential errors propagated by the disaggregation approaches.The current thesis addresses these issues. First, an open-source energy measurement system is suggested leveraging open-source technologies to enable local processing of the data with a NILM module. The system is evaluated on two real energy datasets and one synthetic energy dataset. Second, the author addresses the problem of comparability in NILM through the adoption of machine learning best practices implemented and made available to the research community through an open-source python package. Furthermore, the author develops an open-source NILM benchmark repository containing both baselines and recent models to facilitate comparability in future work. A simulation study of federated learning for local processing and privacy-preserving NILM is furtehr presented, highlighting promising results and potential future research directions. Finally, a novel activity monitoring framework is presented and evaluated on a synthetic dataset quantifying the error propagated by a NILM algorithm.Hafsa BousbiatDissertation Universität Klagenfurt 202
Welcoming Diversity : Accommodating Muslim Faculty and Students in Japanese Academic Institutions
No full textThis study merges personal reflexivity with empirical research to explore the experiences of Muslim international students and faculty in Japan, highlighting the integration challenges within the framework of Japan's higher education internationalization. As a Muslim faculty member at Senshu University, the author employs a reflexive narrative to examine the interplay between personal experiences and broader institutional practices affecting Muslim community members in a non-Muslim majority academic setting like Japan. This approach reveals systemic barriers to inclusivity and offers insights into practical strategies for enhancing cultural and religious accommodations. By detailing the implementation of practical measures such as halal-friendly food provisioning, prayer facilities, and cultural sensitivity training, the study advocates for comprehensive institutional reforms that support diversity and enrich the educational landscape for all academic community members.departmental bulletin pape
Business model of Islamic banks in Turkey
No full textPurposeThe purpose of this paper is inductively identifying the business model of Islamic (participation) banks in Turkey via using bank characteristics, meaning balance sheet ratios.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology starts from bank characteristics and ends with identification of bank business model according to these characteristics under the assumption that there is one single business model (say Model A) for all Turkish Islamic banks. What the author aims to find is the properties of this business model. Regarding the method, seven bank characteristics from liability side and five characteristics from asset side of bank balance sheets were established. While representing these characteristics, the author uses charts and tables. Necessary data are gathered from the Central Bank of Turkey. Time frame of monthly data is from December 2005 to March 2015. In total, there are 1356 observations.FindingsValue proposition of business model of Turkish Islamic banks depends on participation in collecting funds. In terms of customer segmentation, there is dominance of private sector. While using the funds, the main preference is loans, meaning that value proposition depends on loan products, especiallymurabahah. Thus, revenue streams depend on mark-up. Overall, business model of Turkish Islamic banks seems similar to traditional banking based on intermediation with some peculiarities. There are also some evidences which can be interpreted as signs toward decline in this traditional role like decrease in deposits, increase in funds from financial institutions and decrease in loans.Practical implicationsIt can be said that original idea of participation banks has been followed on the liability side of Turkish Islamic banks. However, decrease in deposits recently needs detailed investigation to create convenient policies especially by Islamic banks. Similar investigation and policy creation is needed also for the developments of increase in funds from financial institutions and decrease in loans. Furthermore, as the original idea of participation is not followed by business model of Turkish Islamic banks, rethinking and acting is needed in that regard.Originality/valueMain contributions of this paper are as follows: first, it fills a gap in the field where studies regarding business model of Islamic banks are scarce. Second, it fills a gap in literature of Islamic banking in Turkey where most of the studies are about development or jurisprudence of Islamic banks. Third, it provides a decade-long evidence regarding business model of Islamic banks in Turkey. Fourth, the findings provide an initial step for the construction of a business model canvas for Turkish Islamic banks. Fifth, discussion of findings leads to number of important questions which can pave the way for new research studies.</jats:sec
