384 research outputs found
One Text, Two Receptions: Mahfouz's Children of the Alley
No full textA Master of Arts thesis in Translation and Interpreting (English/Arabic/English) by Muhammad Ismail Muhammad Ismail Omar Ghorab entitled, "One Text, Two Receptions: Mahfouz's Children of the Alley," December 2013. Thesis advisor is Dr. Said Faiq. Available are both hard and soft copies of the thesis.Received wisdom in translation studies tells us that both source and target texts should enjoy the same reception by the source and target cultures. However, Mahfouz's Children of the Alley has been negatively received in the East, banned in all Arab countries for alleged blasphemy over its allegorical portrayal of Allah and faiths, but positively received in the West, even the Nobel Committee referred to it when Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988. Taking Children of the Alley as its case study, the aim of this thesis is to explore the reasons behind different receptions of the same text. The East-West duality is examined to establish why and how reception of this text is different. The thesis examines examples from Mahfouz's original Arabic text as well as its English translation by Peter Theroux. It may be concluded that the English translation of the novel seems to manipulate reception.College of Arts and SciencesDepartment of Arabic and Translation StudiesMaster of Arts in English/Arabic/English Translation and Interpreting (MATI
Method of installation septic tank / Wan Muhammad Faiq Wan Ahmad
Get PDFThis report is a brief discussion about the an installation method of septic tank of the type polysept ps3, which is made of fiber reinforced plastic. This practical report is produced based on the experience that has passed by me for 6 months practical training at the build site housing 114 units of terrace houses, at Kuala Berang, Terengganu Darul Iman. This report is divided into several sections and begin with the background of the company and project. I have to undergo practical training at company Nafas Permata Sdn. Bhd. which is a subsidiary company to Gemilang Mega Sdn Bhd. The main purposed of this study is to understand the real work happens at a construction site where the topics I choose are related to installation work from beginning phase of installation septic tank ready to install. After several months of my practical training at a construction site, I find the most appropriate title in the title of the report made. In this report there are also explained briefly about the types of septic tanks commonly used type of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP), concrete, and plastic material. during installation work is carried out a number of septic tank problems associated with the installation of septic tanks have been identified and this report has ended with several recommendations to resolve the perceived problems identified. In conclusion, this report can be expected to explain in more detail to their readers on how to install a septic tank from the start of work until it complete all
Peran Muhammad Minhaj dalam berdirinya Markas Besar Jemaah Tabligh di Desa Mayangan, Jombang
Get PDFSkripsi ini berjudul “Peran Muhammad Minhaj dalam Berdirinya Markas Besar Jemaah Tabligh di Desa Mayangan Jombang”. Dengan fokus penelitian: 1) Bagaimana perjalanan Muhammad Minhaj mengikuti Jemaah Tabligh? 2) Bagaimana gejolak yang dialami Muhammad Minhaj saat mengikuti Jemaah Tabligh? 3) Dan bagaimana sejarah masuknya Jemaah Tabligh dan berdirinya markas besar di Desa Mayangan? Penelitian ini menggunakan jenis penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan fenomenologi. Metode penelitian kualitatif yaitu di mana suatupenelitian ini hanya bertujuan untuk memaparkan suatu peristiwa atau fakta terhadap objek yang diteliti saja. Teori yang digunakan adalah teori Peran. Menurut Soerjono Soekanto, Peran didefinisikan sebagai sebuah aktivitas yang diperankan atau dimainkan oleh seseorang yang mempunyai kedudukan atau status sosial dalam organisasi. Hasil penelitian ini menyimpulkan, bahwa: 1) Awalnya Muhammad Minhaj merasa tertarik ketika melihat cara beribadah Jemaah Jaula yang dinilai mengundang syirik khofi (ringan). Setelah itu, Faiq Zarkasi, santri Muhammad Minhaj, diminta mencari tahu terkait ajaran Jaula. Faiq mendapatkan hasil bahwa tidak ada yang menyimpang dari ajaran mereka, baik dalam akidah maupun syariatnya. 2) Muhammad Minhaj banyak mengalami penolakan. Bukan hanya dari keluargasendiri, tetapi juga dari masyarakat sekitar. Masyarakat Mayangan yang mayoritas menganut Islam Nahdlatul Ulama’ (NU), memandang asing terhadap model dakwah Jaula. 3) Menjelaskan sejarah masuknya Jemaah Tabligh di Desa Maynagn dan kontribusi Muhammad Minhaj dalam pembangunan Markas Jamaah Tabligh, yang mana Muhammad Minhaj berhasil menyatukan warga Mayangan dan Jamaah Jaula
Flex Up Store / Wan Muhammad Iqbal Faiq Wan Ismail
Get PDFFlex Up Store is the online business that focusing on the online platform for instance Facebook as the main targets. Our company providing the appearances products for our customer and categories in product/services. customer can also use our services to find some other products that demand and hard to be found.
The fundamental concept is to sell a shoe both new shoes and used shoes. New shoes that being resell by our company with specific prices according to the market prices and also the used shoes that rare and shoes that has been stop their productions. We are here as purpose to resell shoes that demanded by our customer and also following the trend regarding what people are more into nowadays. Reselling shoes are legal, and people would usually contact us for demanding to some of the pair that cannot be bought in Malaysia.
We are targeting sneakerhead, sneaker collector and also teenagers especially students from university as the trend we brought in throughout our product more into what teenagers nowadays prefer the most. We also provide delivery services especially in Selangor area would save up their pockets since their place is near with us. Customer in other places can also buy our product with delivery charges as low as RM 10.
Flex Up Store use updates our Facebook page frequently and communicates with their consumer via the internet platform. They can literally contact us via Messenger in Facebook and email us at [email protected] . We also use various types of delivery companies such as J&T, Poslaju, Lalamove, and Gdex. Flex Up Store use the social media to provide soft sell, hard sell and teaser posting to attract our customers
Is Spiking Secure? A Comparative Study on the Security Vulnerabilities of Spiking and Deep Neural Networks
Get PDFSpiking Neural Networks (SNNs) claim to present many advantages in terms of biological plausibility and energy efficiency compared to standard Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Recent works have shown that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, i.e., small perturbations added to the input data can lead to targeted or random misclassifications. In this paper, we aim at investigating the key research question: "Are SNNs secure?" Towards this, we perform a comparative study of the security vulnerabilities in SNNs and DNNs w.r.t. the adversarial noise. Afterwards, we propose a novel black-box attack methodology, i.e., without the knowledge of the internal structure of the SNN, which employs a greedy heuristic to automatically generate imperceptible and robust adversarial examples (i.e., attack images) for the given SNN. We perform an in-depth evaluation for a Spiking Deep Belief Network (SDBN) and a DNN having the same number of layers and neurons (to obtain a fair comparison), in order to study the efficiency of our methodology and to understand the differences between SNNs and DNNs w.r.t. the adversarial examples. Our work opens new avenues of research towards the robustness of the SNNs, considering their similarities to the human brain's functionality
Recycle weighing scale / Muhammad Bukhhari Abdul Rashid & Muhammad Faiq Mat Nor
Get PDFThis project is called a recycle weighing scale. This project was invented from a conventional weighing scale which was designed to help user to know the price of the object that was measured. This project has its limitation which is 5 kilogram. For this project, we had used Arduino Uno, load sensor (5kg), LCD keypad shield, LED, battery, and buzzer. The LCD will show the weight and the price of the object measured. This project has several objectives that to be achieve. The objectives are as follow, first, to design a system that can make multitask in a time. Next, to design a simple task that can be run with the program. Lastly, to make the system and circuit function well like we had planned. The process of the project is the user can choose the item that want to be measured like newspaper, plastic, aluminum, and glass. Then, the LCD will display the actual weight of the item measured with its price per kilogram
Gene expression analysis of chronically stressed Danio rerio treated with aqueous ethanolic Moringa oleifera leaves extract / Muhammad Faiq Najmi Tajudin
Get PDFAnxiety disorder is a mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide.Common treatments for anxiety include psychotherapy and medications, such as benzodiazepines and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs).However, these treatments have adverse effects and may not be suitable for everyone. As a result, there is a growing interest in exploring natural remedies for anxiety, including those derived from plants.Moringa oleifera, a plant known for its medicinal properties, has recently gained attention for its potential anxiolytic effects.This plant has been traditionally used to treat various ailments, including anxiety. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of understanding on the mechanism of action of M. oleifera in anxiolytic effects. The aim of this study was to investigate the anxiolytic effects and mechanism of action of ethanolic extracts of M. oleifera (MOLE) leaves,by observing behavioural changes in Danio rerio (zebrafish) and analyzing differential gene expression. For 14-day chronic behavior study, zebrafish were grouped into different treatment groups, including a non-stressed untreated group, stressed untreated group, a positive control group treated with fluoxetine and MOLE treatments group. MOLE was administered at three different concentrations (500 mg/L, 1000 mg/L, and 2000 mg/L) in the stressed treatment groups. The anxiolytic effects were evaluated using the novel tank test (NTT) and light-dark test (LDT). After the behaviour study, RNA was extracted from the fishes’ brains for gene expression analysis using a custom RT² Profiler PCR array. 33 compounds were profiled after LCMS-QTOF analysis. LC50 values of MOLE, 1231 mg/L,were deemed save to be used for this research. Meanwhile, behavior study results showed that 1000 mg/L MOLE significantly reduced anxiety levels in the stress-induced zebrafish group compared to the other treatment groups. The fish also exhibited significant changes in the expression of crhb, faah2a, mao, and pah genes; which potentially affected by MOLE compounds such as quercetin and kaempferol. This study suggests that MOLE may serve as a potential new supplement for anxiety treatment, given its anxiolytic effect on the zebrafish model. However, the result of this study would need to be replicated in other animal models and human before it is marketed as treatment for anxiolytic effects
Energy Minimization in Piperazine Promoted MDEA-Based CO2 Capture Process
Get PDFA piperazine (PZ)-promoted methyldiethanolamine (MDEA) solution for a carbon dioxide (CO2) removal process from the flue gas of a large-scale coal power plant has been simulated. An Aspen Plus® was used to perform the simulation process. Initially, the effects of MDEA/PZ concentration ratio and stripper pressure on the regeneration energy of CO2 capture process were investigated. The MDEA/PZ concentration ratio of 35/15 wt.% (35 wt. MDEA and 15 wt.% PZ) was selected as an appropriate concentration. The reboiler duty of 3.235 MJ/kg CO2 was obtained at 35/15 wt.% concentration ratio of MDEA/PZ. It was considered a reference or base case, and process modifications including rich vapor compression (RVC) process, cold solvent split (CSS), and the combination of both processes were investigated to check its effect on the energy requirement. A total equivalent work of 0.7 MJe/kg CO2 in the RVC and a reboiler duty of 2.78 MJ/kg CO2 was achieved in the CSS process. Similarly, the total equivalent work, reboiler duty, and condenser duty of 0.627 MJe/kg CO2, 2.44 MJ/kg CO2, and 0.33 MJ/kg CO2, respectively, were obtained in the combined process. The reboiler duty and the total equivalent work were reduced by about 24.6 and 16.2%, respectively, as compared to the reference case. The total energy cost saving was 1.79 M per year
Writing through Translation
No full textA Master of Arts Thesis in Translation and Interpreting (English/Arabic/English) by Ilham A. M. Alghadiri entitled, "Writing Through Translation." Thesis advisor is Dr. Said Faiq and was submitted in May 2012. Available are both hard and soft copies of the thesis.Each culture can represent any other culture. Translation, in this sense becomes a cultural representation of an original. Translation and cultural representation in the West are often seen through the lenses of Orientalism; an ideology suggested by the late Edward Said in 1978, as the dominant approach in the West to the cultural representation of the East and ever since influenced the post-colonial studies. However, little attention is accorded into the orientalist cultural representation inherent in the writings of Arab authors who represent (translate) their own native culture in the language of the former colonizer. In this thesis, Amin Maalouf's historical novel Samarcande, originally written in French and translated into English and Arabic, is examined, and the cultural representation of the medieval Muslims and history through the life of the controversial poet Omar Al Khaiyam are analyzed to identify whether it is resistant or not to the Western master discourse of Orientalism (Faiq, 2004). The author, his works and background, the novel influence and structure were highlighted and a considerable number of selected text samples on the socio-political, historical, and Omar AlKhaiyyam's philosophy depictions were investigated for language, poetics, ideology, and universe of discourse as parts of the methodology adopted in this thesis. The sample translations into Arabic were dealt with in terms of language and poetics. It was concluded that, the novel is another orientalist representation of the Muslim culture that seems to conform to the French literary norms and adopts foreignization as a dominant approach emphasizing exoticism. The source and its translations represent instances of writing through translation.College of Arts and SciencesDepartment of Arabic and Translation StudiesMaster of Arts in English/Arabic/English Translation and Interpreting (MATI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Trends in Dentistry: A Literature Review
Get PDFGlobal health systems face challenges due to various socio-political factors, and there’s an increased demand for delivering health services efficiently with optimal resources while ensuring patient safety. AI methods support dental professionals in multiple aspects, including reducing chairside time, streamlining procedures, providing effective infection control, and delivering precise and accurate treatments. AI proves effective in-patient diagnosis, aiding clinical decision-making, and predicting dental issues, making it a dependable approach for future applications across different dental fields
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