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Global Commodities: Physical, Financial, and Sustainability Aspects
Get PDFFor many academics, students, and professionals, the field of commodities is a black box. This book explores commodities in a holistic manner, presenting concepts from a multidisciplinary business and financial perspective, and offering a panoramic view of the global commodity business and markets. In this book, the author presents core issues related to global commodities with recent data including COVID-19. The book introduces the key physical commodities traded globally and some related issues such as the global supply chain, global trading, transportation, storage, and how to finance global commodity trades. Then, it discusses how global commodity businesses and traders manage global risks related to commodity production (generation or extraction), transportation, storage, the final delivery, and currency exchange. Additionally, the book discusses financial commodities, the origins of global commodity derivatives and exchanges, the rationale behind the birth of commodity futures and trading, hedging, speculation, financialization, and manipulation of commodity markets, and how financial trading is executed in real life. In the last section, the author also discusses sustainability issues related to global commodities and the financial valuation aspects of the global commodity businesses supported by examples from real cases with recent data
book named Kitâb-ı Kümük by Murad Çelebi: promotion and evaluation
Get PDFKitâb-ı Kümük adlı eser, 16. yüzyılda Azmî mahlaslı Murad Çelebi tarafından kaleme alınmıştır. Bu eser klasik
Türk edebiyatının edebî faaliyetleri arasında önemli bir yere sahip olan mensur-manzum hikâyelere bir
örnektir. Türk Edebiyatı İsimler Sözlüğü için Murad Çelebi (Azmî) hakkında yaptığımız biyografik çalışma
sonucunda tek nüshası British Museum Or. 7836 numarada kayıtlı olan Kitâb-ı Kümük3 adlı eserin
çalışılmamış olduğunu tespit ettik. Müellif nüshası olan bu eser Murad Çelebi’nin de kendi ifadesiyle birebir
şahit olduğu ya da birinci ağızdan duyduğu hikâyeleri içermektedir.
Bu çalışmada, Murad Çelebi( Azmî)’nin hayatı hakkında kısaca bilgi verildikten sonra British Museum Or.
7836 numarada kayıtlı olan Kitâb-ı Kümük adlı eserin nüsha tanıtımına yer verilecek olup eserin içinde yer
alan hikâyelerle ve bu hikâyelerin dil-üslup özellikleriyle ilgili bir değerlendirme yapılacaktır.The book named Kitab-ı Kümük was written by Murad Çelebi, pseudoynm name Azmî, in the 16th century.
This book is the prose-poetic examples of story that has an important place among the literary activities of
the classic Turkish literature. As a result of biographical work on Murad Çelebi (Azmî) for Türk Edebiyatı
İsimler Sözlüğü we have determined that one copy of Kitab-ı Kümük has registered in number Or. 7836
hadn’t been worked. This one copy of book written by author, includes story exactly as he witnessed or heard
first-hand with Murad Çelebi in his own word.
In this study after briefly informed about Murad Çelebi’s life, the book named Kitab-ı Kümük registered
Biritish Museum number Or. 7836, was identified. An assement will be made about story and language and
stylistic features of the story
Systematic reviews with language restrictions and no author contact have lower overall credibility: a methodology study
No full textZhen Wang,1–3 Juan P Brito,4 Apostolos Tsapas,5 Marcio L Griebeler,4 Fares Alahdab,1,3 Mohammad Hassan Murad,1,3,61Robert D and Patricia E Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, 2Division of Health Care Policy and Research, Department of Health Sciences Research, 3Knowledge and Evaluation Research Unit, 4Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism, and Nutrition, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; 5Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece; 6Division of Preventive, Occupational and Aerospace Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USABackground: High-quality systematic reviews (SRs) require rigorous approaches to identify, appraise, select, and synthesize research evidence relevant to a specific question. In this study, we evaluated the association between two steps in the conduct of an SR – restricting the search to English, and author contact for missing data – and the overall credibility of a SR.Methods: All SRs cited by the Endocrine Society's Clinical Practice Guidelines published from October 2006 through January 2012 were included. The main outcome was the overall A Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR) score, as a surrogate of SR credibility. Nonparametric Kruskal–Wallis tests and multivariable linear regression models were used to investigate the association between language restriction, author contact for missing data, and the overall AMSTAR score.Results: In all, 69 SRs were included in the analysis. Only 31 SRs (45%) reported searching non-English literature, with an average AMSTAR score of 7.90 (standard deviation [SD] =1.64). SRs that reported language restriction received significantly lower AMSTAR scores (mean =5.25, SD =2.32) (P<0.001). Only 30 SRs (43%) reported contacting authors for missing data, and these received, on average, 2.59 more AMSTAR points (SD =1.95) than those who did not (P<0.001). In multivariable analyses, AMSTAR score was significantly correlated with language restriction (beta =-1.31, 95% confidence interval [CI]: -2.62, -0.01, P=0.05) and author contact for missing data (beta =2.16, 95% CI: 0.91, 3.41, P=0.001). However, after adjusting for compliance with reporting guidelines, language restriction was no longer significantly associated with the AMSTAR score.Conclusion: Fewer than half of the SRs conducted to support the clinical practice guidelines we examined reported contacting study authors or searched non–English literature. SRs that did not conduct these two steps had lower quality scores, suggesting the importance of these two steps for overall SR credibility.Keywords: evidence-based medicine, research design, validity, quality of evidenc
Power Relations Reflected In Leo Tolstoy’s Hadji Murad (1904) : A Sociological Approach
Get PDFThe objectives of the study are (1) To identify the indicators of power relation in Hadji Murad.(2) To describe how the power relation depicted in the literary work.(3) To reveal why Leo Tolstoy addressed power relation related the novel. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative research, because it does not need statistic data to get the fact. Descriptive qualitative research is a research which is the result of the data is a written data. The researcher uses two data sources, The primary data source of the study is Hadji Murad novel by Leo Tolstoy which is published in 1904. and The sources of secondary data are taken from other resources which are related to the study; website, articles, biography of the author, and some books which dealing with the research. Based on the analysis, the researcher gets some conclusions. (1) Authority, where the cahracter in the novel have their own authority as a power of relation, such as Hadj Murad with his charismatic character he can make great relationship with his fellowship. (2) The Depiction of Power Relation in the Novel can be seen through Character, where Hadji Murad is an assertive, ambitious, imposing, forgiving and permissive character. Through style it shows that Hadji Murad has power through his appearance (3) there are some messages that Tolstoy wants to address, related to how people can form their selves supposed to get good relation in society. Tolstoy uses Hadji Murad as an example where he is a great moeslem leader who is really charismatic. Tolstoy wants to show that leader with great power especially who has charisma, they can make good relationship event without a contract. It meanst that when people has good charisma, people around them can feel comfortable and give their believes on them
Death of Murad Hofmann: Some thoughts and recollections
Get PDFBorn a Catholic in Germany’s Aschaffenburg, Hofmann began his university education at Union College in New York in 1951. Then he studied law at Munich and Harvard Universities with a PhD in jurisprudence from the former in 1957 and a Master of Law from Harvard Law School in 1960. A prolific author of about a dozen books and an eloquent speaker, Hofmann embraced Islam in 1980, performed hajj in 1992 and describes his hajj experiences and his thoughts and reflections on various aspects of Islam in Journey to Makkah
A POETIC NASIHAT-NAME WRITTEN FOR MURAD IV: MIFTAH-I CENNET OF QADIRI HUSEYIN
Get PDFMany nasihat-names have been written with the aim of improving the individual and society in Turkish Islamic Literature field. These works can be written for the general community, they are also written for a spesific part of the society such as women, children, brethren, state administrators. The work named Miftah-i Cennet of Qadiri Huseyin was written for Sultan IV. Murad, one of the 17th century Ottoman sultans. The aim of the work is to guide the sultan who ascended the throne at the age of just a child. Sultan is the collocutor of the advices given to lead him to the happiness of the world and the hereafter. In this study, Miftah-i Cennet that was written for Sultan IV. Murad and has the feature of a poetic nasihat-name will be introduced. In the first part of the study, which consists of two parts, the life and works of Qadiri Huseyin, the author of the work, which does not have any information about his life in the biographical sources, will be mentioned. In addition, the opinions that the person known as Muhyiddin-i Qadiri may be the same person as Qadiri Huseyin will be presented. In the second part, the copies of Miftah-i Cennet which is the subject of our study will be introduced and general information about the content of the work will be given
Погребения Гераев в архитектурном комплексе Мурад Рейса / The Gerays burial in the architectural complex of Murad Reis
No full textВ настоящей работе рассматриваются захоронения Гераев на острове Родос в контексте архитектурного комплекса Мурад Рейса. В ней дается описание этого комплекса с выборочной библиографией и краткой историей изучения. В рамках публикации приводятся все выявленные на данный момент погребальные памятники Гераев в составе комплекса, показывается возможность и перспективность их дальнейшего изучения. / The paper deals with Gerays graveside on the island of Rhodes in the context of Murat Reis architectural complex. It describes the complex and provides selective bibliography and concise history of studying it. The author lists all Gerays burial monuments of the complex discovered to date, shows the possibilities and prospects of their further examination
Asymptotic normality of wavelet estimators of the memory parameter for linear processes
Get PDFWe consider linear processes, not necessarily Gaussian, with long, short or negative memory. The memory parameter is estimated semi‐parametrically using wavelets from a sample X1,…, Xn of the process. We treat both the log‐regression wavelet estimator and the wavelet Whittle estimator. We show that these estimators are asymptotically normal as the sample size n → ∞ and we obtain an explicit expression for the limit variance. These results are derived from a general result on the asymptotic normality of the scalogram for linear processes, conveniently centred and normalized. The scalogram is an array of quadratic forms of the observed sample, computed from the wavelet coefficients of this sample. In contrast to quadratic forms computed on the basis of Fourier coefficients such as the periodogram, the scalogram involves correlations which do not vanish as the sample size n → ∞.We thank the referee for his comments. Murad S. Taqqu thanks Telecom ParisTech for their hospitality. This research was partially supported by the NSF Grants DMS-0505747 and DMS-0706786 at Boston University. (DMS-0505747 - NSF; DMS-0706786 - NSF)First author draf
The life and works of Mizanci Mehmed Murad and the transcription and evaluation of the works of Muhtasar Tarih-i Umûmî
No full textRusya'dan İstanbul'a göç eden Osmanlı Devletine ve İslâm dinine büyük hizmetlerde bulunan önemli fikir ve düşünce aydınlarından olan Mizancı Mehmed Murad'ın hayatını ve eserlerini ele aldık. Ayrıca tezimizin ana konusu olan "Muhtasar Tarih-i Umumi" adlı eserinin transkribini ve değerlendirmesini yapmaya çalıştık. Muhtasar Tarih-i Umûmî İnsanlık tarihinin başlangıcı olan Hz. Âdem'in yaratılışından başlayarak, bütün güçleri ellerinde bulunduran, büyük devletlerin oluşumlarına kadar olan konuları sırasıyla İlk Çağ, Orta Çağ ve Yeni Çağ şeklinde üç ana başlık altında değerlendirmiştir. Genel dünya tarihini özet bir şekilde anlatan ve Osmanlıca olarak yazılan eser, Mülkiye Mekteplerinde ders kitabı olarak okutulmuştur. Eser toplumların yaşadıkları önemli gelişmeleri öğretici ve sorgulayıcı bakış açısıyla ele almıştır. Böylece Mülkiye Mekteplerinde okuyan öğrencilerin ayrıntılı bir şekilde dünya tarihi ile ilgili bilgi ve kültüre sahip olmaları için yazılmıştır. Yazar, eseri çok sade ve açık bir üslupla kaleme almıştır. Mizancı Mehmed Murad, "Muhtasar Tarih-i Umumi" adlı eserinde yaşanan olayların özet şekilde anlatım örneklerine yer vererek, olayları silsile halinde doğrudan doğruya aktararak paylaşmıştır. Tarihi olayları paylaşırken de olayların yaşandığı şehirlerin coğrafi bilgilerine yer vererek, birçok yerde objektifliğinin yanında duygusal anlatım tarzı ile farklı bir yöntem ortaya koymuştur. Yazar özellikle dini, toplumu bir arada tutan, devleti var eden unsurlardan bir unsur olarak görmüştür.In this study, we have discussed the life and works of Mizancı Mehmed Murad, who migrated from Russia to Istanbul, served greatly to the Ottoman Empire and Islam, and was an important intellectual idea and thought. In addition, we tried to transcribe and evaluated the "Muhtasar Tarih-i Umumi" which main subject of our thesis. Muhtasar Tarih-i Umûmî evaluated the topics starting from the creation of Prophet Adam, the beginning of human history, to the formation of the great states that hold all powers, under three main titles as First Age, Medieval Age and New Age respectively. The work, which briefly describes the general world history and was written in Ottoman, was taught as a textbook in Mülkiye Schools. The work dealt with the important developments that societies experienced from an instructive and questioning point of view. Thus, this work was written so that students studying in Mülkiye Schools have a detailed knowledge and culture about world history. The author has written the work in a very simple and clear style. In his work titled "Muhtasar Tarih-i Umumi", Mizancı Mehmed Murad shared the events by giving a brief description of them and transferring them directly in a sequence. While sharing the historical events, by presenting the geographical information of the cities where the events took place, he has put forward a different method with his emotional expression style in many places besides his objectivity. The author especially saw religion as one of the elements that hold the society together and make the state
Genetic polymorphism of IL-40 in male patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Get PDFBackground: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a kind of arthritis marked by persistent inflammation in the spine\u27s joints, usually at the point where the spine and pelvis meet. Such a disease has different causes, including immunological causes. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the role of the immune system in this disease to improve a potential treatment strategy. In this context, the present study examined the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of the IL-40 gene of IL-40 in a group of Iraqi males with AS to determine their associations in AS pathogenesis. Method: The study included a total of 200 Iraqi male participants (100 with AS and 100 healthy subjects). The detection of SNPs of IL-40 was performed using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) techniques followed by the Sanger sequencing method. Multinomial logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the SNPs under five genetic models (allele, recessive, dominant, and co-dominant). Results: Detected that the heterozygous genotype (GA and AA) and alleles (G and A) of rs72896265, the heterozygous genotype (AG and GG) and alleles (A and G) of rs60316778 and both heterozygous genotype (CC) and alleles (C and T) of rs9915090 were significantly associated with AS risk (p < 0.001)
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