73 research outputs found
Rancang Bangun Sistem Keamanan Cerdas Sepeda Motor Berbasis IoT dengan Integrasi Aplikasi Telegram
No full textPencurian sepeda motor adalah kasus yang sering kali terjadi di Indonesia. Target utama dari pelaku pencurian ini biasanya tertuju pada kawasan, salah satunya adalah Kota Malang dan Kota Surabaya. Hal ini bukti bahwa sistem keamanan bawaan pabrik kurang efektif untuk keamanan sepeda motor, sehingga perlu inovasi yang mengembangkan sistem keamanan agar lebih optimal. Penelitian ini memiliki tujuan utama yakni merancang desain sistem keamanan smart security pada sepeda motor berbasi IoT dan terintegrasi dengan aplikasi Telegram. Jenis penelitian ini adalah RnD (Research and Development) dengan pembuatan desain, pembuatan sistem pengaman, pengujian kinerja alat. Hasil dari penelitian ini yakni sistem bisa mendeteksi gerakan mencurigakan yang dapat memberikan informasi kepada pengguna sehingga dapat memantau titik sepeda motor secara akurat setiap waktu, serta dapat menyulitkan pelaku tindak pencurian dengan mematikan mesin dan mengunci rem sepeda motor.  
Conservation in an Islamic context a case study of Makkah
No full textThe Holy Qu’ rān contains many injunctions for Muslims to respect and conserve the natural environment but few address the built environment. Habitat at the time of the Prophet (PBOH) was in the vernacular and relatively impermanent. The first habitat was the cave, the second the tent and then simple flat roofed buildings of post and lintel construction made of mud and rubble. Later buildings were not indigenous but reflected the architectural styles and techniques of Muslim pilgrims from beyond the Arabian Peninsula. Permanent exotic buildings were later erected as reminders of holy places and events. This work advances a case to restore and preserve historic and religious sites in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Makkah is the destination for millions of Muslim pilgrims who annually pay homage to Allah during the occasions of Hajj, Ramadan and Umra. The tranquillity and peaceful ambience that one associates with the holiest of Islamic experiences have, over the years, given way to jostling crowds of people who must be expediently housed, fed, transported, and protected. Due to the lack of planning and the insensitive but profitable development of the city, Makkah is in grave danger of becoming a bustling metropolis instead of a sanctuary where pilgrims gather to perform their religious rites and reaffirm their dedication to Allah. The author calls for professional planning and international cooperation to guide future development for this expanding and sensitive area. The author's ideas are grounded in practical and aesthetic study, therefore, the political, environmental and economic issues are examined in relationship to religious, historic and artistic values. The author makes proposals for a future Makkah that would provide pilgrims with the physical comforts, security, and serene environment they deserve—without destroying the city they came to visit. The author discusses preservation and conservation in the western world and the need for their acceptance in Muslim countries, the former being an aesthetic and intellectual concept sustained by law and the latter being the prescribed free expression of the individual unhindered by material considerations. Both worlds are rapidly being overwhelmed by materialism, but body, mind and spirit combine in making us aware of our surroundings and the way in what we see around us has come into being
Adapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
The detection of porosity on designed references samples with various porosity levels produced by 3D printing to investigate the accuracy of computed tomography (CT) scans (XTH225ST)
No full textNon-destructive testing (NDT) is a technique used to analyse the internal and external features of a part without causing any damage to it. There are wide varieties of NDT methods being practiced in the different engineering fields and for this project, we will be investigating mainly on Computed Tomography (CT) scanning and the experiment of Archimedes’ Principle. In contrast to other NDT scanning methods, CT scan is capable of scanning and reconstructing the scanned image into a full 3D image with all the internal and external features of the part. Hence, it helps to reveal any defects or porosities that maybe present in it. For this project, the author will be investigating on the accuracy of a CT scan machine; Nikon XTH225ST. A comparison will be made based on the results obtained between Archimedes’ Principle and CT scan and the author is interested to find out what is the deviation of the CT Scanning machine capabilities as compared to the theoretical results. Therefore, for this project, 3D printed specimens with different percentages and sizes of designed porosities will be used for analysis. Each specimen with different porosities will be analysed and a comparison between theoretical data from the CAD model and the results obtained through CT scanning will be made.Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering
A comparative analysis of ethnopolitical movement strategy: the Kurds and Pashtuns
No full textWhy do some minority-based social movements seeking autonomy or separatism respond to state repression with armed resistance while others respond with unarmed resistance? To answer the research question, I examine variations in strategies of resistance that have occurred across two structurally similar ethnopolitical struggles in Islamic countries: the struggle for Pashtun rights in Pakistan and the struggle for Kurdish rights in Turkey. Incorporating a longitudinal paired comparison methodology, the research explains how and why strategic shifts between armed and unarmed resistance have occurred over time among groups struggling for autonomy or separatism and how and why challengers engaged in unarmed resistance may or may not gain leverage in authoritarian contexts. The research findings should be generalizable beyond the two struggles and provide insights into the possibilities of civil resistance in autonomist and separatist struggles more generally. The research contributes to the comparative and historical study of ethnopolitical conflict and the literatures on social movements and ethnopolitics. Keywords: Kurds, Pashtuns, Turkey, Pakistan, ethnopolitical, nationalism, ethnonationalism, non(violence)Ph.D.Includes bibliographical reference
The Islamist movement in Sudan : the impact of Dr Hassal al-Turabi's personality on the movement.
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The translation of identity in the satanic verses: a love song to our mongrel selves
No full textThis thesis examines the translation of character identities within Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses, and seeks to demonstrate how the dynamics of translating a text can be used as a model for discussing the transformations of characters within the book. Rushdie uses the term "translation" as a metaphor for the migrant experience of uprootedness that is a result of being "borne across" from one culture to another. From it, however, can be derived a metaphor for the universal experience of alienation that is a part of our shared humanity, and which describes the process of responding to a sense of "otherness" within ourselves and within a pluralistic culture. The framework which will be used to examine characters within The Satanic Verses responding to such conditions is George Steiner's translation hermeneutic outlined and discussed In his book. After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation. The Introduction will set the context for the use of the term "translation”. Chapter One will discuss Steiner's position within translation theory and Rushdie's affinity to it as well as explain the basic translation model. Chapters Two through Five will look closely at Rushdie's text, analyzing the two protagonists, Gibreel and Saladin, as they undergo, or fail to undergo, the translation process. Finally, the conclusion will suggest that the Rushdie affair engendered by this novel is, ironically, a linguistic debate provoked by a text that urges its readers to be translated. By making its readers acutely aware of what is "other" to them, the The Satanic Verses proposes and attempts to answer a single, profoundly religious, question: "How are we to live in the world?
Transistor-based biosensing: expanding the functionality of field effect transistors
No full textSince the invention of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)-based amplification of nucleic acids by Kary Mullis in 1983(1), researchers have spent significant efforts to improve the sensitivity and selectivity of PCR assay and have dramatically enhanced its application(2). PCR is now an integral tool of modern biotechnology processes and biological identification. Due to the growing demands for on-site, rapid diagnosis, attention has been paid in realizing portable, fast, and low cost PCR machines. Through expanding the uses of the field effect transistor platform to include a novel design of heating/cooling, ultra-localized cell lysis, and electrical detection of nucleic acid amplification using an on-chip electrode, this thesis aims to enable the next generation of portable biosensors for primary care and on-site diagnostics.
Chapter 2 presents an overview of the current state-of-the-art of electrical biosensors. In keeping with the goal of complete, integrated systems, methods for both sample preparation and detection were evaluated. Electrical sample preparation methods provide a unique opportunity to utilize electrical fields for cell lysis, concentration, and sample flow without the need for additional moving parts or reagents. Electrical detection methods offer a means of reducing reagents by eliminating the need for optical labels. Together, electrical sample preparation and detection will aid the development of portable, low-cost integrated biosensors.
Chapters 3 and 4 look at utilizing transistors as platform for sample preparation and manipulation through DNA denaturation and cell lysis. Through application of a 10MHz, AC field between the shorted source-drain and the back-gate of the chip, fringing electric fields located just above the transistor surface are generated. These fringing electric fields can be used for dielectric relaxation of water molecules to generate heat for DNA denaturation as discussed in chapter 3, or to generate a transmembrane potential across a cellular membrane for ultra-localized cell lysis as discussed in chapter 4. These methods expand the functionality of the transistor platform by extending their uses into the realm of sample manipulation.
Since the development of ISFETs for biosensing applications, transistors have been used for detection of biological analytes. Chapter 5 extends this functionality to electrical detection of nucleic acid amplification with an on-chip quasi-reference electrode. This method eliminates the need for a bulky/difficult to fabricate reference electrode and enables parallel detection of a large array of individual nucleic acid amplification reaction volumes. This method promises to reduce cost of PCR assays by eliminating optical components as well as improve the portability of the equipment by localizing the detection element to a disposable chip.
As discussed in the future outlook presented in chapter 6, the silicon CMOS compatible technologies introduced can be made portable, rapidly heat and cool reaction volumes, and remain inexpensive so the ultimate vision of an array of PCR reaction chambers, where the target sample can be interrogated against an array of primers, can be realized.
This thesis has added three new functionalities to the transistor platform. 1) Rapid DNA denaturation 2) Localized single cell lysis and 3) Electrical detection of amplification by-products with an on-chip electrode.Item withdrawn by Laura Spradlin ([email protected]) on 2014-02-11T21:23:55Z
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Recycled PET Plastics Filament: Characteristic and Cost Opportunity
No full textPiyungan Integrated Waste Disposal Site (TPST) is a waste disposal site in Yogyakarta province. With an estimated increase in the amount of waste of 8% per year, it is estimated that the TPST will not be able to accommodate waste from the community. One of these wastes is PET bottle. This research aims to develop a new recycling method by converting PET plastic waste into 3D Printer machine filament and investigate the opportunity of this PET filament. This research uses several stage methods: PET filament making, Tensile test, macroscopy photography and opportunity analysis. This study concludes that PET bottle waste can be used as 3D printer filament with a diameter of 1.7 mm. Processing PET bottle waste into 3D printer machine filament can increase the economic value of PET bottle waste. And this can contribute to the potential for processing plastic bottle waste
Host range expansion of wheat stem rust resistance genes into barley
No full textIn the last 20 years, stem rust caused by the fungus Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici (Pgt), has re-emerged as a major threat to wheat and barley cultivation in Africa and Europe. In contrast to wheat with 82 designated stem rust (Sr) resistance genes, barley’s genetic variation for stem rust resistance is very narrow with only seven resistance genes genetically identified. Of these, only one locus consisting of two genes is effective against Ug99, a strain of Pgt which emerged in Uganda in 1999 and has since spread to much of East Africa and parts of the Middle East. The objective of this study was to assess the functionality, in barley, of cloned wheat Sr genes effective against Ug99. Sr22, Sr33, Sr35 and Sr45 were transformed into barley cv. Golden Promise using Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. All four genes were found to confer effective stem rust resistance. The barley transgenics remained susceptible to the barley leaf rust pathogen Puccinia hordei, indicating that the resistance conferred by these wheat Sr genes was specific for Pgt. Cloned Sr genes from wheat are therefore a potential source of resistance against wheat stem rust in barley
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