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Tomb of Hazrat Syed Shah Raju
No full textSon of Shah Raju I, Shah Raziuddin better known as Shah Raju II came to Hyderabad during the reign of Abdullah Qutb Shah, 1626-72. Among his disciples was the future Sultan Abulhasan Tana Shah. Shah Raju II persuaded Abdullah Qutb Shah to marry his daughter to Abulhasan. Upon Shah Raju’s death in 1684, Abulhasan Tana Shah built a splendid dome over his grave in Ghazibanda, outside Fateh Darwaza. Extensive dalans, courtyards and masonry colonnades mark this three-storied Dargah of finely proportioned arches. A golden spire tops the dome affixed by Tahniyatunnisa Begum, the mother of Nasiruddawlah. Nasiruddawlah himself added a canopy and wooden litters. Within the dargah is another dome built over the grave of Sayyid Shah Shamsuddin, a spiritual guide of Shah Raju II. The dome dates from the time of Sultan Abulhasan Tana Shah. The dome is profusely decorated with Arabic and Persian inscriptions in Nastaliq and Thulus styles. The massive doors of the mausoleum are of highly polished black basalt.exterior, 200
Stages of socio-economic development: Shah Wali-Allah's concept of al-irtifaqat
No full textThe present paper introduces Shah Wali-Allah Dehlawi’s concept of the stages of socio-economic developments (al-irtifaqat). According to him, starting from simple primitive village life to an international community, the socio-economic development of human society can be divided into four stages. The first stage is dominated by simple economic struggle while the last stage is developed to maintain just political order on international level, to safeguard the socio-economic interests of different states and establish peace and justice among them. All economic ideas of Shah Wali-Allah are related, in some way or the other, to his concept of irtifaqat or stages of socio economic development.‘Stages of History’ approach to development, Theory of Socio-Economic development, Dehlawi’s Theory of Development, al-irtifaqat, Four stages of Humankind Development.
Rain or shine? Forecasting search process performance in exploratory search tasks
No full textMost information retrieval (IR) systems consider relevance, usefulness, and quality of information objects (documents, queries) for evaluation, prediction, and recommendation, often ignoring the underlying search process of information seeking. This may leave out opportunities for making recommendations that analyze the search process and/or recommend alternative search process instead of objects. To overcome this limitation, we investigated whether by analyzing a searcher’s current processes we could forecast his likelihood of achieving a certain level of success with respect to search performance in the future. We propose a machine-learning-based method to dynamically evaluate and predict search performance several time-steps ahead at each given time point of the search process during an exploratory search task. Our prediction method uses a collection of features extracted from expression of information need and coverage of information. For testing, we used log data collected from 4 user studies that included 216 users (96 individuals and 60 pairs). Our results show 80–90% accuracy in prediction depending on the number of time-steps ahead. In effect, the work reported here provides a framework for evaluating search processes during exploratory search tasks and predicting search performance. Importantly, the proposed approach is based on user processes and is independent of any IR system.This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Shah, C., Hendahewa, C. and González-Ibáñez, R. (2015), Rain or shine? Forecasting search process performance in exploratory search tasks. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, which has been published in final form at https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.23484. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.Peer reviewe
Capturing collabportunities: A method to evaluate collaboration opportunities in information search using pseudocollaboration
No full textIn explicit collaborative search, two or more individuals coordinate their efforts toward a shared goal. Every day, Internet users with similar information needs have the potential to collaborate. However, online search is typically performed in solitude. Existing search systems do not promote explicit collaborations, and collaboration opportunities (collabportunities) are missed. In this article, we describe a method to evaluate the feasibility of transforming these collabportunities into recommendations for explicit collaboration. We developed a technique called pseudocollaboration to evaluate the benefits and costs of collabportunities through simulations. We evaluate the performance of our method using three data sets: (a) data from single users’ search sessions, (b) data with collaborative search sessions between pairs of searchers, and (c) logs from a largescale search engine with search sessions of thousands of searchers. Our results establish when and how collabportunities would significantly help or hinder the search process versus searches conducted individually. The method that we describe has implications for the design and implementation of recommendation systems for explicit collaboration. It also connects system-mediated and user-mediated collaborative search, whereby the system evaluates the likely benefits of collaborating for a search task and helps searchers make more informed decisions on initiating and executing such a collaboration.This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: González-Ibáñez, R., Shah, C. and White, R. W. (2015), Capturing Collabportunities: A method to evaluate collaboration opportunities in information search using pseudocollaboration. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66: 1897–1912, which has been published in final form at https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1002/asi.23288. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.Peer reviewe
Resident’s perception on public facilities provided in Bukit Bandaraya, Shah Alam / Adli Shah Mansor Shah
No full textThis study focuses on residents’ perception on the public facilities provided in Bukit Bandaraya, Shah Alam. There are a few public facilities provided in Bukit Bandaraya that are taken into account in surveying the residents’ perception such as public hall, playground, football field, surau and bus stops. The method used is for this study is by observation and quantitative method which is questionnaire survey is used in order to survey the residents’ perception at once the residents’ level of satisfaction. The questionnaire also takes in residents’ comments and suggestions on the facilities provided. The questionnaire responds totalled up to 30 respondents which the respondents involved are residents or community of Bukit Bandaraya, Shah Alam. The survey on residents’ perception of the public facilities provided is evaluated by several aspects. The aspects are; condition including cleanliness and maintenance, allocation, size, safety and distance. The result of the survey is analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) software and generated into different kind of graphs and tables. The findings shows that majority of the respondents are not satisfied with the provision of public facilities in Bukit Bandaraya, Shah Alam with different reasons of dissatisfaction. This explicitly proves the quality of life and neighbourhood quality of the area. However, the satisfaction of the respondents also varies according to the aspects listed of the public facilities
Reading: Sonia Shah
No full textIn this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 24, 2021, as part of the 52nd Annual UND Writers Conference: “Roots of the Earth,” Sonia Shah reads from her work. She begins by discussing how she became a writer and how she decided to write about science, history, and politics as a journalist. Shah reads from Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond. Shah also responds to audience questions about the effect that the establishment of nation-states had on migration, how political and racial conflict affect the writing of her book, how she balances research and writing, the future of science reporting in the mass media, and advice on narrative structure and form in creative nonfiction.
Introduced by Dr. Brad Rundquist, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences
The Impact Of The Development Of ICT In Several Hungarian Economic Sectors
No full textAs the author could not find a reassuring mathematical and
statistical method in the literature for studying the effect of
information communication technology on enterprises, the author
suggested a new research and analysis method that he also used to study the Hungarian economic sectors. The question of what
factors have an effect on their net income is vital for enterprises. At first, the author studied some potential indicators related to economic sectors, then those indicators were compared to the net income of the surveyed enterprises. The resulting data showed that the growing penetration of electronic marketplaces contributed to the change of the net income of enterprises to the greatest extent.
Furthermore, among all the potential indicators, it was the only indicator directly influencing the net income of enterprises.
With the help of the compound indicator and the financial data
of the studied economic sectors, the author made an attempt to find a connection between the development level of ICT and
profitability. Profitability and productivity are influenced by a lot of other factors as well. As the effect of the other factors could not be measured, the results – shown in a coordinate system - are not full but informative.
The highest increment of specific Gross Value Added was
produced by the fields of ‘Manufacturing’, ‘Electricity, gas and water supply’, ‘Transport, storage and communication’ and
‘Financial intermediation’. With the exception of ‘Electricity, gas and water supply’, the other economic sectors belong to the group of underdeveloped branches (below 50 percent).
On the other hand, ‘Construction’, ‘Health and social work’ and
‘Hotels and restaurants’ can be seen as laggards, so they got into the lower left part of the coordinate system.
‘Agriculture, hunting and forestry’ can also be classified as a
laggard economic sector, but as the effect of the compound
indicator on the increment of Gross Value Added was less
significant, it can be found in the upper left part of the coordinate system. Drawing a trend line on the points, it can be made clear that it shows a positive gradient, that is, the higher the usage of ICT devices, the higher improvement can be detected in the specific Gross Value Added
The memoirs of Shah Tahmasp I:Safavid ruler of Iran
No full textA remarkable first-person narrative by a sixteenth century Iranian ruler, the Memoirs of the Safavid Shah Tahmasp (1514-1576), originally written in Persian, represent a vitally important primary source for the history of the Middle East in the period. In particular, they shed light on the Safavid conflict with the Uzbeks and Ottomans, which played a decisive role in shaping the modern frontiers of the region. The Memoirs also represent an invaluable source for the internal political and religious life of the Safavid court, and the ways in which Shah Tahmasp, one of the most important rulers in Iranian history, wished to be remembered and viewed. This book represents the first English translation of this important text, and is furnished with an extensive introduction and notes that situate the work in its literary and historical context
A fiscal needs approach to equalization transfers in a decentralized federation
No full textThe author reviews the conceptual basis for fiscal equalization transfers, analyzes the theoretical implications for optimal design of equalization transfers, and suggests quantitative approaches for assessing the fiscal needs of subnational governments and determining their entitlement to transfers. The author illustrates proposed methods using data for local and provincial Canadian governments. The proposed methods could be useful tools, he says, for undertaking systematic objective reviews of aggregate and sectoral public spending in developing countries. The author argues that in a decentralized federation, fiscal inefficiencies and inequities arise because of subnational governments'differing levels of ability to provide comparable public services at comparable tax rates. Fiscal equalization transfers that reduce or eliminate differentials in net fiscal benefits create a rare instance in economics when considerations of equity and efficiency coincide. These transfers must allow for differences in the spending needs and revenues-raising abilities of the various subnational governments. The author argues for a two-tiered approach to equalization. The first tier would be a federal responsibility to equalize the burden of federal taxes. The second tier would be an interprovincial equalization fund to be administered by the Council of Provincial Finance Ministers. It would entail a comprehensive equalization system that takes into account provincial spending needs. The standard of equalization would be negotiated.Public Sector Economics&Finance,Banks&Banking Reform,Municipal Financial Management,National Governance,Environmental Economics&Policies
Oral History Interview, Hemant Shah (2438)
No full textIn his 2023 interview with Asian American Studies Program Director Lori Lopez, Hemant Shah discusses his background and career and how he eventually came to UW Madison to teach. For more information on this project, go to https://asianamerican.wisc.edu/about/our-stories/. To learn more about this oral history, download & review the index first (or transcript if available). It will help determine which audio file(s) to download & listen to.In his 2023 interview with Asian American Studies Program Director Lori Lopez, Hemant Shah discusses his background and career and how he eventually came to UW Madison to teach. Shah talks about his research projects, teaching classes, and working as a reporter. He then talks about the Asian American Studies department, key figures in the program, the formation of an Asian American Studies certificate, and working with students in the program. Finally, Shah discusses how he eventually moved away from the program to step more into administrative roles with journalism. This interview was conducted for inclusion into the Asian American Studies Project of the UW-Madison Archives & Records Management oral history collection
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