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The Effects of Price-support Programme on Farm Tenancy Patterns and Farm Profitability: Some Evidence from Malaysia
No full textTranslog normalised restricted profit function model is specified and estimated for the four rice granary areas, each administered by a local government body, namely, the MIP, the KIP, the NWSP, and the KEIP, in which the price-support programme has some noticeable effects on farm tenancy and farms profitability. So far, there have been no empirical studies that have used this methodological framework to analyse such economic phenomenon in Malaysia. This, in fact, is the main contribution of the present paper. From the estimated function, the shadow values of land and labour are computed, which in turn are used to elucidate the behaviour of rice farmers in Malaysia. Together, the estimated and computed results, to a large extent, are successful in explaining the observed changes in farm tenancy patterns and the way the farmers (comprised of owneroperator, owner-tenant, and tenant-farmer) are “economically” responding to the sum of profits generated from rice farming and, subsequently, from the programme. Further, given the price-support programme, the results also point to the fact that rice farming in Malaysia is as lucrative a job as any other sub-sector outside this, in particular unskilled urban workers and electronics workers, and thus this programme could be pursued further.
Saving behaviour in Islamic framework: the case of International lslamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
No full textIslam menggalakkan umatnya menggunakan barangan dan perkhidmatan secara sederhana, dan melarang mereka mengamalkan pembaziran. Melalui adunan galakan dan larangan tersebut di dalam ajaran Islam, adalah diharapkan umat Islam dapat menabung lebihan pendapatan mereka. Malahan, konsep halal dan haram dalam Islam adalah potensi yang baik kepada umat Islam untuk meningkatkan usaha penabungan tersebul. Sikap ini membolehkan umat Islam yang mutlaq?, yang taatkan segala peraturan syariah lebih cenderung menabung berbanding dengan mereka yang bersikap sebaliknya. Artikel ini cuba mengukur kaitan di antara ketakwaan dan sifat menabung. Tumpuan adalah terhadap pelajar-pelajar UIAM. Daripada hasil kajian didapati faktor keagamaan mempunyai signifikan positif terhadap sikap menabung responden
A technical note on the derivation of Zakat Effectiveness Index (ZEIN)
No full textEffectiveness of policies is very much dependent upon the quality of the measures used to guide the formulation of those policies. Thus, methodological and practical issues surrounding poverty and inequality indices are of paramount importance in poverty alleviation efforts. This paper attempts to propose a Zakat Effectiveness Index (ZEIN) to address some of those issues. The strength of the index is as follows: 1) it can be used to verify and compare how effective is the expenditures on poverty alleviation by the government as represented by the amount of zakat distributed to the eligible zakat recipients2) it is flexible enough to incorporate different sub-groups analysis such as types of employment, sectors or ethnic group
Interview with Sofie Abdullah
No full textفي هذه المقابلة، تتحدث الكاتبه صوفى عبد الله عن أسرار مهنة الكتابة.In this interview, Sofie Abdullah, a well-known Egyptian author, discusses the intricacies of the writing industry
Interview with Abdullah El Tayib
No full textفي هذه المقابلة، يتحدث الأديب والناقد والشاعر السوداني عبد الله الطيب عن مؤلفاته في النقد والقصص الشعبية ودواوينه الشعريه.In this interview, Sudanese author, intellectual, and poet Abdullah El Tayib discusses his collections of poetry, well-known stories, and critical writings
Interview with Abdullah Al-Baradouni
No full textلقاء مع الشاعر اليمنى عبد الله البرادوني للتكلم عن مكانة الشعر اليوم. أجرى اللقاء إبراهيم عابدين.An interview with Yemeni author and poet Abdullah Al-Baradouni about the role of poetry in modern times. Interview conducted by Ibrahim Abdeen
Task-Guided and Semantic-Aware Ranking for Academic Author-Paper Correlation Inference
No full textWe study the problem of author-paper correlation inference in big scholarly data, which is to effectively infer potential correlated works for researchers using historical records. Unlike supervised learning algorithms that predict relevance score of author-paper pair via time and memory consuming feature engineering, network embedding methods automatically learn nodes' representations that can be further used to infer author-paper correlation. However, most current models suffer from two limitations: (1) they produce general purpose embeddings that are independent of the specific task; (2) they are usually based on network structure but out of content semantic awareness. To address these drawbacks, we propose a task-guided and semantic-aware ranking model. First, the historical interactions among all correlated author-paper pairs are formulated as a pairwise ranking loss. Next, the paper's semantic embedding encoded by gated recurrent neural network, together with the author's latent feature is used to score each author-paper pair in ranking loss. Finally, a heterogeneous relations integrative learning module is designed to further augment the model. The evaluation results of extensive experiments on the well known AMiner dataset demonstrate that the proposed model reaches significant better performance, comparing to a number of baselines.We would like to thank Yuxiao Dong for suggestions. This work is supported by the Army Research Laboratory under Cooperative Agreement Number W911NF-09-2-0053 and the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant IIS-1447795. This work is partially supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Kajian Sastra Perjalanan dalam Hikayat Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah ke Mekah Karya Abdullah Bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi
No full textThis research is aimed to identify and to reveal a hikayat as classic travel literature of Indonesia by the travel writing theory of Carl Thompson. To gain those purposes, this research used literary criticism and descriptive-analytic methods. The object of this study is Kisah Pelayaran Abdullah ke Mekah by Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munsyi (1854), focusing on the six elements of travel writing by Carl Thompson’s approach based on the hikayat. This study shows that the hikayat contains six elements of travel writing. Those are self, other, movement, space, encounter, and writing. Abdullah as a sailor puts himself in his hikayat as the main character by using “sahaya” and “aku” to articulate “self” in his hikayat. The “self” during travel met new and foreign things that the author had never seen before. He drew and expressed his point of view, feeling, and observation of all the encounters that he had met during sailing in to hikayat.Keywords: Carl Thompson, hikayat, travel writin
Dynamic augmentation of SCORM pre-authored course materials with adaptive links to supplementary resources
No full textIn a SCORM compliant courseware, content and the pedagogic approach to be taken are predefined by the course author. As a consequence, users are unable to learn according to their preferences, and implicitly they will all encounter the same learning experience. Recent attempts to personalise learning in SCORM often resulted in either modifying or substituting SCORM specification elements. Nonetheless, SCORM is a widely-used solution to interoperability problems. For this reason, this work focuses on supplementing SCORM rather than redefining it. This is accomplished by dynamically associating each pre-authored learning material in a SCORM package with adaptive links to relevant supplementary resources upon delivery. As a result, we have developed a Personalised Link Service (PLS) to deliver these links into user’s SCORM-compliant learning environment. In this paper, we present the design of a PLS authoring architecture which enables the automatic generation of a concept map from a SCORM package and consequently links to alternative learning resources, and a PLS run-time service oriented architecture which delivers these alternative resources, alongside the SCORM defined resources, according to a user model. We demonstrate the feasibility of our architecture by implementing a service to support a simple notion of a user model (Preferred Learning style)
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