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Determinants of corporate hedging practice in Malaysia / Ahmad Akmal Sadiq Ahmad Suhaimi
No full textRisk management is formally defined as the process by which an organization assesses and addresses its risk. It helps an organization to identify, evaluate, analyse, monitor, and mitigate the risks that threaten the achievement of an organization's strategic objectives in a disciplined and systematic way. It has always been a matter of continuous concern to most corporations, especially, the changes in the exchange rate have been a major risk to firms involved in the imports and exports. Therefore, to minimize the risk associated, hedging can reduce underinvestment costs since it reduces the probability of financial distress by shielding future stream cash flow from the changes in the exchange rates. Choice of hedging instruments and determinants of derivatives hedging seems to reflect decision making of managers in developed countries as they tend to have less information asymmetry, efficient market for corporate control, better institutional and legal systems. Hence, this research intends to show the determinants of corporate hedging practice would be different outside developed countries, specifically, Malaysia due to different firm specific characteristics
فارسی ناول اور زویا پیر زاد
No full textThough novel writing is of late phenomenon in Persian literature yet Iranian novel has emerged and attracted literati across the world. Sadiq Hidayat is the pioneer of novel writing in Iran and is duly recognized as its representative. Contemporary fiction writer include Buzurg Alvi, Sadiq Chobak, Jalal Aal e Ahmad, Ibrahim Gulistan, Ahmad Mahmood and Mamood Daulatabadi besides Sadiq Hidayat. There is a long list of women like Semeen Danishwar, Guli Taraqi, Shahar Nosh Parsipur, Ghazal Alizada, Manero Rawanipur and Zoya Pirzad are known internationally for their fiction work. This article focuses contemporary fiction writer Zoya Pirzad's work
Implementation of KH Ahmad Dahlan's educational thoughts in the merdeka curriculum
No full textThis research aims to see how the thoughts of KH Ahmad Dahlan are implemented in the kurikulum merdeka that is being promoted by the government through KEMDIKBUDRISTEK. The research method used is a literature review where the author collects data on the educational thoughts of KH Ahmad Dahlan, independent curriculum and discusses how it is implemented. The results of the study show that the thoughts of KH Ahmad Dahlan are implemented in the independent curriculum in several aspects including: in the education system, namely the integration of religious and Scientific knowledge curricula, in the aspect of educational goals, namely the formation of students who are religiously knowledgeable and intelligent in insight and scientific views which are reflected in the Pancasila student profile, in terms of technical implementation, namely indications of pending development of educational implementation, in terms of learning methods namely contextual learning which is reflected in intracurricular and cocurricular learning models on independent curriculum. In addition to these four aspects, both KH Ahmad Dahlan and the concept of independent curriculum focus on developing students both individually and socially. The implication of this research is the formation of educational institutions that truly become an answer to the needs of students in facing the development of time, not just schools as a formality to get a diploma. As for educators, they should be more open-minded so that they are ready to develop and ready to become a solution for student development
sj-docx-1-pin-10.1177_23977914231161443 – Supplemental material for Medical imaging and nano-engineering advances with artificial intelligence
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-pin-10.1177_23977914231161443 for Medical imaging and nano-engineering advances with artificial intelligence by Khalid Al Utaibi, Usama Ahmad, Sadiq M Sait and Sohail Iqbal in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part N: Journal of Nanomaterials, Nanoengineering and Nanosystems</p
Enabling sustainable value creation by engineering capacity building
No full textDr. Sadiq Ahmad Muhammad Abd Elall was born in Khan younis, Palestine. From 2010 to 2014 he worked as a research engineer at the Institute of Machine tools and Factory Management, at Technische Universität Berlin, Germany. Profit and growth are the major targets of industries. Industrial value creation can be measured by the level of achieving these targets. The balanced scorecard focuses on the factors that affect the industrial value creation. At the same time, industry activities have several interactions with society and the environment that significantly shape global sustainability. In this view, a so-called sustainable value creation model has been developed which integrates factors influencing industrial value creation and sustainability. In the perspective of this dissertation, human resource and especially engineers are considered as key enablers of the sustainable value creation. The development of engineering curricula that is based on the sustainable value creation model will alter the attitude of engineering students to balance the economic profit with the environmental and social benefits in their engineering solutions
Developing Guidebook of Sexual Violence Prevention and Control in Universitas Ahmad Dahlan
No full textHigher education should be a safe and comfortable place for students to receive education. However, in reality, many cases of sexual violence occur in the university environment. Many victims of sexual violence do not dare to report the incident to the authorities. Meanwhile, some victims who have reported their cases have not received a resolution to the problems they complained about. Based on the results of a student needs survey, as many as 64.7% of students need a guidebook for preventing and controlling sexual violence. Based on the survey results, the author aims to research and develop a guidebook for preventing and controlling sexual violence. After going through four stages of R&D 4D model, this guidebook contains the background, scope, juridical and empirical studies, and mechanisms for preventing and controlling sexual violence. Based on the results of media expert validation tests, this book obtained an Index Aiken’s V Coefficient of 0.81 which is in the high category. Meanwhile, the results of material expert validation tests show that the Index Aiken’s V Coefficient of this book is 0.83, which is also included in the high category. This guidebook will be used as a reference in realizing efforts to prevent and overcome sexual violence in the higher education environment, especially at Universitas Ahmad Dahlan
Ahmad Bashir\u27s essay: Ahmad Bashir\u27s essay
No full text"Ahmad Bashir was a renowned journalist and aliterary icon of Urdu. He wrote essays / articles andcolumns equally in English and Urdu. Among thevarious of his journalistic and literary facets, sketchwriting, novel-writing and editorial-writing are worthmentioning. He got education in film-making fromAmerica, and then started film-making and directionin Pakistan. He produced few documentaries, andmade the first and the last to date belly film of70Pakistan "Chirree Kahaani" that achieved an awardin belly film festival of Iran. He chose journalism formaking his livelihood, and learnt journalism fromCharagh Hassan Hassrat in the daily "Amroz". Hewas called the founder of Urdu feature-writing. Hewrote his debut feature on Gaamma Pehalwaan.After the daily "Amroz", he started writing for theweekly "Qandeel". He never sticked long to anewspaper owing to his truthfulness and ideologicalthoughts. He exhibited his writing power, along witheditorial writing, in both English and Urdu journalsand newspapers like: "Chataan", "Lail-o-Nahaar","Nawa-e-Waqt", "Jang", "Musawaat", "FridayTimes", "The Muslim", "The Star", "The News" and"Frontier Post". His last writing, featuring thejournalistic; political; analytical and ideologicalcharacteristics, continued to publish in the monthly"Naya Zamaana" from Lahore. His style heldtruthfulness and candidness. He had to write uderdifferent false names due to the atrocities of thegovernment. He adopted the names of BhulleyShah, Shah Anyat and Ahmad Khan Kharal for thispurpose. He never let the journalistic and literaryvalues fall a prey to worldly strategies andimpurities. He was a staunch socialist and flagbearer of social justice
Flexible superconducting ceramic polymer composites and method of making same, U.S. Patent 5,108,981
No full textSuperconducting ceramic material is woven into an interconnected structure and embedded in a polymer to produce a flexible, superconducting ceramic material. The polymer also provides protection from moisture. The ceramic polymer composite is fabricated by soaking a carbon fabric in a solution of metal nitrates, ethylene glycol and citric acid to yield a nominal composition of, for example, YBa2Cu3O7-x. Heat treatment results in the decomposition of the nitrates, organics and carbon fabric to produce an interconnected structure of the superconducting ceramic material which takes the shape of the original carbon fabric on a reduced scale. In addition, the processing conditions yield significant grain orientation. The superconducting grains of the ceramic material align along the direction of the original fabric weave which provides an improvement of the critical current densities
TAFSIR DAN PEMBAHARUAN PEMIKIRAN ISLAM DI INDONESIA ERA KEMERDEKAAN: (STUDI ANALISIS KITAB TAFSIR AL-FURQAN KARYA AHMAD HASSAN)
No full textThe conflict dynamics of revivalist and traditionalist Islamic groups always colorize development of ideological contest of religious live in Indonesia. One of the important episodes of this conflict dynamic occurred in the era of independence. Through this paper, the author is interested in portraying episodes of Islamic Revivalist dynamics in the independence era through the thoughts and works of influential revivalist scholars, namely Ahmad Hassan. This study aims to reveal the form of mediation of Ahmad Hassan's Islamic renewal in his book of tafsir Al-Furqan. The author uses a descriptive method of analysis with literature study techniques in reviewing the interpretation of Al-Furqan as the main object of research. The results showed that in mediating Ahmad Hassan's Islamic renewal, Kitab tafsir Al-Furqan accommodates and mediates Islamic renewal in two ways, namely formative and substantive ways. Formative way of mediation is indicated through the form of tafsir Al-Furqan as a literal and meaningful translation of tafsir. Critically, this form of translation aimed to make Al-Furqan accessible for Indonesian people at that time when they haven’t had proper understanding on Arabic literacy so that people could understand and refer to the meaning of the Qur'an directly. This is in line with Ahmad Hassan's renewal though about the Qur'an and hadith as the main sources of muslims. As for the substantive ways of mediation, tafsir Al-Furqan contains and expresses the thoughts of Ahmad Hassan's renewal as a substance in interpreting the verses of the Qur'an
Industry 4.0 technologies and their applications in fighting COVID-19 pandemic using deep learning techniques
No full textThe disease known as COVID-19 has turned into a pandemic and spread all over the world. The fourth industrial revolution known as Industry 4.0 includes digitization, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence. Industry 4.0 has the potential to fulfil customized requirements during the COVID-19 emergency crises. The development of a prediction framework can help health authorities to react appropriately and rapidly. Clinical imaging like X-rays and computed tomography (CT) can play a significant part in the early diagnosis of COVID-19 patients that will help with appropriate treatment. The X-ray images could help in developing an automated system for the rapid identification of COVID-19 patients. This study makes use of a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to extract significant features and discriminate X-ray images of infected patients from non-infected ones. Multiple image processing techniques are used to extract a region of interest (ROI) from the entire X-ray image. The ImageDataGenerator class is used to overcome the small dataset size and generate ten thousand augmented images. The performance of the proposed approach has been compared with state-of-the-art VGG16, AlexNet, and InceptionV3 models. Results demonstrate that the proposed CNN model outperforms other baseline models with high accuracy values: 97.68% for two classes, 89.85% for three classes, and 84.76% for four classes. This system allows COVID-19 patients to be processed by an automated screening system with minimal human contact
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