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Psychometric properties of two Islamic measures among young adults in Kuwait: the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam and the Sahin Index of Islamic Moral Values
No full textGiven the importance of developing reliable and valid measures in the psychology of religion, and recent growing interest in developing empirical studies within an Islamic context, the present study discusses the properties of two specially designed instruments: the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam and the Sahin Index of Islamic Moral Values. Data were provided by a sample of 1,199 students, selected from secondary schools in six educational districts in Kuwait. The sample comprised 603 males and 596 females; 812 were 17 years of age and 387 were 18 years of age. The data support the internal consistency reliability and construct validity of both instruments and commend them for further research
Marphysa cinari Sahin 2014, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Marphysa cinari</i> sp. nov. (Figures 2–5) <p> <i>Marphysa disjuncta</i>: Kurt Sahin and Çinar 2009: 145–150, figs 2, 3; Simboura et al. 2010: 345–346 (not in Hartman 1961).</p> <i>Material examined</i> <p> Holotype: ESFM-POL/2010-46, Sea of Marmara, 15.04.2010, Station 4, 40° 27'17.64 <i>″</i> N, 27°4'6.28 <i>″</i> E, 65.8 m, grab, on mud, coll. Nabucco Project. Paratypes: ESFM-POL/2010-105, three specimens, Sea of Marmara, 15.04.2010, Station 4, 40°27'17.64 <i>″</i> N, 27°4'6.28 <i>″</i> E, 65.8 m, grab, on mud, coll. Nabucco Project. Non-types: ESFM-POL/2010-85, one specimen, Çanakkale Strait, 16.12.2010, Station 4, 40°20'17 <i>″</i> N, 26°38'01 <i>″</i> E, 94 m, grab, on mud, coll. TEIAS Project; ESFM-POL/2010-96, one specimen, Çanakkale Strait, 16.12.2010, Station 7, 40°20'37 <i>″</i> N, 26°37'35 <i>″</i> E, 38 m, grab, on mud, coll. TEIAS Project; ESFM-POL/ 2005-3039; Fethiye Bay, 06.10.2005, G34, 36°38'25 <i>″</i> N, 29°03'40 <i>″</i> E, 100 m, grab, on mud, coll. Tübitak 104Y065 Project.</p> <i>Description</i> <p>Holotype incomplete with 112 chaetigers, 43.1 mm long, 1.8 mm wide, L10 = 4.4 mm. Body cylindrical, light pink colour in preserved specimen (Figures 2A, 5A). Prostomium rounded, wider than long. Prostomium (1 mm) longer than peristomium (0.75 mm) with five prostomial appendages one pair of palps, one pair of lateral antennae and a median antenna. Prostomial appendages in a horseshoe pattern, longer than prostomium, similar thickness. Palps shorter than antennae, digitiform, reaching front of chaetiger 1. Antennae tapering, lateral antennae reaching middle of chaetiger 3, median antenna reaching middle of chaetiger 4. Palpophores and ceratophores short, wider than long. Palpostyles and ceratostyles without articulations. Eyes absent. Peristomium cylindrical with distinct rings; anterior ring (0.5 mm) more than twice as long as posterior one (0.2 mm). Peristomial cirri absent.</p> <p>Maxillary apparatus with five pairs of maxillae. Maxillary formula = 1 + 1; 7 + 6; 6 + 0; 3 + 6; 1 + 1.</p> <p>Branchiae pectinate, from chaetiger 14 to 25, always longer than dorsal cirri; eight filaments at first one, up to 15 at chaetiger 23, stems tapering; filaments tapering, similar in size and thickness.</p> <p> (<i>Continued</i>)</p> <p>Dorsal cirri Anterior cirri cylindrical and elongated, Anterior cirri cylindrical, inflated First two cirri cylindrical and small, longer than parapodium after slightly, elongated through the elongated through the median part, chaetiger 3, twice long as after branchial chaetigers, thin and become thinner and tapering on the chaetiger 7, tapering, thin, as long as tapering on the postbranchial branchial chaetigers, median cirri branchial filaments on branchial chaetigers thin and filament shaped, tapering chaetigers, median cirri thin-filament and small on the posterior shaped twice as long as parapodium, parapodium tapering and spindle shaped on posterior parapodium</p> <p>Ventral cirri First two cirri conical and small, leaf- Anterior cirri conical, small; become First cirri conical, small and basally shaped after chaetiger 2, median shorter at the branchial chaetigers, inflated, decreased on the median ventral cirri triangular and flattened; reducing and swollen basally at the part of the body pad-like shaped, reduced to small notches in posterior postbranchial chaetigers with thin dramatically decreased through the parapodium tips posterior, like small conical bulge with tapering tips</p> <p>Limbate chaetae Smooth, 10–15 per parapodium Smooth, long 6–8 per parapodium Smooth, long 18–20 per parapodium on anterior; 5–10 on posterior</p> <p>Pectinate chaetae Marginal tooth longer, around 7 Marginal tooth long, around 8–10 long Marginal tooth long, around 8–9 long tapering teeth. Thinner than other coarse teeth with filament-like coarse teeth with filament-like species have extensions. Two or three per extensions. Two or three per parapodium parapodium</p> <p>Compound falciger Bidentate, both teeth facing laterally, Absent Absent proximal teeth triangular, margin of distal part slightly serrated, not present all chaetigers, present at posterior chaetigers, one per parapodium</p> <p> (<i>Continued</i>)</p> <p>Anterior dorsal cirri cylindrical, longer than parapodia after chaetiger 3 to chaetiger 7, twice as long as parapodia after chaetiger 7 to chaetiger 24; elongated and spindle shaped in median parapodia (between chaetigers 25 and 46), tapering and filament shaped in posterior parapodium (between chaetigers 47 and 112). First two ventral cirri small, and conical; leaf shaped after chaetiger 2 to chaetiger 25; triangular and flattened from chaetiger 26 to chaetiger 46; reduced to small notches in posterior parapodia. Anterior ventral cirri swollen basally compared with posterior ones.</p> <p>Prechaetal lobes inconspicuous, transverse fold in all chaetigers. Postchaetal lobes conical and longer than prechaetal lobes in anterior chaetigers, decreasing gradually until becoming inconspicuous (Figure 3A–C).</p> <p>Supra-acicular chaetae with 10–15 limbate in anterior chaetigers, two to five in posterior ones. Three to five pectinate chaetae in all chaetigers except anterior ones. Subacicular chaetae with 20–25 compound spinigers in anterior chaetigers; five to ten compound spinigers and one compound bidentate falciger in posterior ones. Limbate chaetae slender, marginally smooth (Figure 2B); one type pectinate chaetae present from postbranchial segments, heterodont, marginal teeth longer than others, shafts narrow, thick, with seven teeth (Figures 2F, 5B); compound spiniger chaetae with smooth and tapering blade approximately 156 µm long (Figures 2C, 5E); shafts inflated. Compound falciger chaetae present only in posterior chaetigers, observed one per parapodium. Proximal tooth triangular, distal tooth thin, smaller than proximal one; blade 39 µm long; shafts inflated, marginally serrated (Figures 2E, 5D). Aciculae black with pale tips, two to three per parapodia, tapering, distally blunt. Subacicular hooks dark brown with light tips, unidentate with a terminal hood (Figures 2D, 4A–C, 5C), first present from chaetiger 38.</p> <i>Distribution</i> <p>Eastern Mediterranean.</p> <i>Etymology</i> <p>The new species is dedicated to Prof. Dr Melih Ertan Çinar, from Ege University, who made excellent contributions to the understanding of polychaete diversity inhabiting the Turkish coasts.</p> <i>Type locality</i> <p>Sea of Marmara, Turkey.</p>Published as part of <i>Sahin, Güley Kurt, 2014, Marphysa cinari, a new species of Eunicidae (Polychaeta) from the coasts of Turkey (eastern Mediterranean) and re-descriptions of Marphysa kinbergi McIntosh, 1910 and Marphysa disjuncta Hartman, 1961, pp. 1989-2006 in Journal of Natural History (J. Nat. Hist.) (J. Nat. Hist.) 48 (33 - 34)</i> on pages 1991-1998, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2014.905125, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5194079">http://zenodo.org/record/5194079</a>
Assessing attitude towards religion : the Astley–Francis Scale of attitude towards theistic faith
No full textThis study builds on the research tradition modelled by the Francis Scale of Attitude towards Christianity, the Katz–Francis Scale of Attitude towards Judaism, the Sahin–Francis Scale of Attitude towards Islam and the Santosh–Francis Scale of Attitude towards Hinduism to propose a generic instrument concerned with attitudes towards theistic faith. The scale properties of this new instrument, established among a sample of 284 (200 female and 84 male) 16–18-year-old students, commend it for use in future research
FABER POLYNOMIAL COEFFICIENTS ESTIMATES OF BI-UNIVALENT FUNCTIONS
No full textIn our present investigation, we use the Faber polynomial expansions to find upper bounds for the n ? th (n ? 4) coefficients of general subclass of analytic bi-univalent functions. In certain cases, our estimates improve some of those existing coefficient bounds. © 2020, Bayram Sahin. All rights reserved
Fixed Point Results For Multivalued Mappings Of Feng-Liu Type On M-Metric Spaces
No full textAltun, Ishak/0000-0002-7967-0554; SAHIN, HAKAN/0000-0002-4671-7950In this paper, we present some fixed point theorems for multivalued mappings of Feng-Liu type on complete M-metric spaces. Some illustrative examples are also provided to support our main results
The Williams Scale of Attitude toward Paganism: development and application among British Pagans
No full textThis article builds on the tradition of attitudinal measures of religiosity established by Leslie Francis and colleagues with the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity (and reflected in the Sahin-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Islam, the Katz-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Judaism, and the Santosh-Francis Scale of Attitude toward Hinduism) by introducing a new measure to assess the attitudinal disposition of Pagans. A battery of items was completed by 75 members of a Pagan Summer Camp. These items were reduced to produce a 21-item scale that measured aspects of Paganism concerned with: the God/Goddess, worshipping, prayer, and coven. The scale recorded an alpha coefficient of 0.93. Construct validity of the Williams Scale of Attitude toward Paganism was demonstrated by the clear association with measures of participation in private rituals
Caristi-Type Fixed Point Theorems and Some Generalizations on M-Metric Space
No full textAltun, Ishak/0000-0002-7967-0554; SAHIN, HAKAN/0000-0002-4671-7950In this paper, taking into account Caristi's fixed point results on both metric spaces and partial metric spaces, we present their some extensions and generalizations on M-metric spaces. First, by providing a counter example, we noticed that a recent result on Caristi-type fixed point theorem on M-metric space is not suitable. Then we propounded two versions of Caristi's inequality and proved some related fixed point results on M -metric space
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
Developing a Five-year Maintenance and Rehabilitation (M&R) Plan for HMA and Concrete Pavement Networks
No full textAbstractIn the face of increased demand and exposure to environmental effects, the condition of road pavements continues to decline while resources for their preservation remain limited. Thus, the task of managing pavements has to be done systematically and objectively. This paper outlines the steps involved in developing a multi-year pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation (M&R) plan. These include: (1) condition assessment; (2) network inventory and database development; (3) identification of pavement sections requiring M&R; (3) needs analysis; and (4) impact analysis. As a case study, the project was performed on the road network inside the Texas A&M University campus that consists of 13.95 miles of roadway, 80% and 20% of which are concrete and HMA pavements respectively. Condition assessment was done according to ASTM D 6433-07 and using the Pavement Condition Index (PCI) as indicator of pavement performance. Data collected were then entered into a database which also contains information on traffic and roadway characteristics. PCI threshold values were established to identify sections that are in need of M&R and the most cost- effective treatment based on long-term performance benefit and life-cycle cost was proposed for each project. Candidate projects were then prioritized by ranking based on benefit-cost analysis. The needs estimate provides meaningful information on the total amount of budget required to correct all deficiencies in the network. Finally, the impact analysis is used to determine the impact of a reduced budget on network condition as well as the amount of backlog that needs to be addressed
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