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Kompetensi Kerja Pegawai Polis Konstabel Dari Cawangan Tugas Am, Shah Alam, Selangor
No full textTujuan utama kajian ini ialah untuk mengenal pasti
keperluan kompetensi kerja pegawai polis konstabel
Cawangan Tugas Am . Kajian ini juga akan menentukan
tahap guna masa, kepentingan,kerumitan dan kekerapan
kompetensi tersebut .
Sistem Survei Prestasi Kerja ( WPSS ) telah
digunakan untuk mengenal pasti kompetensi kerja .Tiga
teknik yang digunakan untuk mengumpul data WPSS ialah
melalui pemerhatian,analisis kandungan kerja dan
temuduga .
Seramai 53 responden telah dipilih daripada
pegawai polis konstabel yang bertugas di Cawangan Tugas
Am di Ibu Pejabat Daerah Polis,Shah Alam,Selangor
Protecting Animals 36: Author Witi Ihimaera
No full textIn this very special episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by beloved New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. Witi has written many books featuring nonhuman animals. He offers us a non-colonial lens through which to think about the human/nonhuman relationship
I Think I Am Philip K. Dick
No full textFor years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dickthough in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writers work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, while researching for his recent book The Devil Notebooks , it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dicks writing as well as a recognition of Rickelss own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick , a profound thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary. I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick explores the science fiction authors meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Covering all of Dicks science fiction, Rickels corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dicks popular and influential science fiction.Intro -- Contents -- Introjection -- Part I -- Endopsychic Allegories -- Schreber Guardian -- Belief System Surveillance -- Part II -- Deeper Problems -- Veil of Tears -- Go West -- Dick Manfred -- Timing -- Glimmung -- Part III -- Spiritualism Analogy -- Imitating the Dead -- Indexical Layer -- Ilse -- Hammers and Things -- Crucifictions -- Over There -- Martyrology -- Can't Live, Can't Live -- Lola -- Umwelt, Mitwelt, and Eigenwelt -- Outer Race -- The German Introject -- Part IV -- Materialism, Idealism, and Cybernetics -- Startling Stories -- A Couple of Years -- Android Empathy -- Homunculus and Robot -- ALL OF YOU ARE DEAD. I AM ALIVE. -- Go with the Flow -- Part V -- Room for Thought -- Caduceus -- Jump -- Still -- A Wake -- Spätwerk -- Let the Dead Be -- Play Bally -- Das Hund -- Notes -- BibliographyFor years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dickthough in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writers work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, while researching for his recent book The Devil Notebooks , it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dicks writing as well as a recognition of Rickelss own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick , a profound thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary. I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick explores the science fiction authors meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Covering all of Dicks science fiction, Rickels corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dicks popular and influential science fiction.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Danyal Niyat Shah and his 14 deu
No full textI have 14 deu (which appear when juniper is smoked). The purpose of smoking juniper is that juniper is totally clean and these deu like cleanliness and only appear when the juniper has made everything entirely clean. Initially, when I started seeing these deu, they used to tell me that they would take me to the mountains or arrange my marriage. They claimed to have come from Karbala and even showed me visions of Karbala. At first, there were few of them, starting with 1, then 2, then 5, then 7, and finally, there are now 14. These deu have been serving me, and over time, word spread that there is a person named Niyat Shah, a Danyal who makes amulets and performs spiritual healing. Consequently, people started coming to me with their problems. I ask my deu about their illnesses and the purpose of their visit, and they tell me the details along with the treatment. Ultimately, it is Allah who provides the cure, but these deu serve as the intermediaries. For many years, I have been performing this work. When people come to me, I recite Surah Yaseen and different mantras over water, honey, and oil and give it to them, and through this, Allah grants them healing. Additionally, there is a type of danyal who is associated with devils and has 21 devils under his command. He sends them to different areas such as Sakwar, Rawalpindi, or Iran, assigning those tasks to observe and report back. Many of these devils lie and fabricate stories, but one among them tells the truth. Therefore, the words of a devil's danyal cannot always be trusted, as they may often be incorrect.
People call me a danyal, but I am not a danyal. A danyal is someone who communicates with devils and dances in gatherings. However, if there is any singing or dancing, it causes me discomfort because the deu with me are very pure, and if I take them to such places, they cause me distress. Let me describe their appearance.
These beings have eyes that are oriented upwards. While they resemble humans, there are slight differences. For example, humans have horizontally aligned eyes, whereas these beings have vertically shaped eyes. Fairies always wear blue dresses and nothing else, while the spirits wear either black, red, or white, only three colours they wear. Our area, Naupur, is the oldest area of Gilgit and was the first to be inhabited, where the deu originally lived. People from Iran, India, America, and China have also lived here. There is also a Buddha here that we call yasheni, which was created by the Chinese. The Chinese left this Buddha on the mountain as a mark of their presence.2.5.20.
Development of the all-vanadium redox flow battery for energy storage: a review of technological, financial and policy aspects
No full textThe commercial development and current economic incentives associated with energy storage using redox flow batteries (RFBs) are summarised. The analysis is focused on the all-vanadium system, which is the most studied and widely commercialised RFB. The recent expiry of key patents relating to the electrochemistry of this battery has contributed to significant levels of commercialisation in, for example, Austria, China and Thailand, as well as pilot-scale developments in many countries. The potential benefits of increasing battery-based energy storage for electricity grid load levelling and MW-scale wind/solar photovoltaic-based power generation are now being realised at an increasing level. Commercial systems are being applied to distributed systems utilising kW-scale renewable energy flows. Factors limiting the uptake of all-vanadium (and other) redox flow batteries include a comparatively high overall internal costs of 0.10?kW?1?h?1. There is also a low-level utility scale acceptance of energy storage solutions and a general lack of battery-specific policy-led incentives, even though the environmental impact of RFBs coupled to renewable energy sources is favourable, especially in comparison to natural gas- and diesel-fuelled spinning reserves. Together with the technological and policy aspects associated with flow batteries, recent attempts to model redox flow batteries are considered. The issues that have been addressed using modelling together with the current and future requirements of modelling are outlined
Liftings for noncomplete probability spaces
No full textThe current state of knowledge concerning liftings for noncomplete probability spaces is discussed. This is a somewhat expanded version of the author's talk given at the 1991 Summer Conference on General Topology and Applications in Honor of Mary Ellen Rudin and Her Work.PT: S; CR: BURKE MR, IN PRESS P AM MATH S BURKE MR, 1991, ISRAEL J MATH, V73, P33 BURKE MR, 1992, ISRAEL J MATH, V79, P289 CARLSON T, THEOREM LIFTING CHRISTENSEN JPR, 1974, TOPOLOGY BOREL STRUC FREMLIN DH, 1989, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS, P877 INOESCUTULCEA A, 1966, 5TH P BERK S MATH ST, V2 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1967, CONTRIBUTIONS PROB 1, P63 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1969, TOPICS THEORY LIFTIN JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY JOHNSON RA, 1980, P AM MATH SOC, V80, P234 JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S KUPKA J, 1983, INDIANA U MATH J, V32, P717 LOSERT V, 1983, LNM, V1080, P95 MAHARAM D, 1958, P AM MATH SOC, V9, P987 SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90 TALAGRAND M, 1982, P AM MATH SOC, V84, P379 VONNEUMANN J, 1931, CRELLES J MATH, V165, P109; NR: 18; TC: 0; J9: ANN N Y ACAD SCI; PG: 4; GA: BZ86BSource type: Electronic(1
Gas-phase and heat-exchange effects on the ignition of high- and low-exothermicity porous solids subject to constant heating
No full textThis article investigates the ignition of low-exothermicity reactive porous solids exposed to a maintained source of heat (hotspot), without oxygen limitation. The gas flow within the solid, particularly in response to pressure gradients (Darcy’s law), is accounted for. Numerical experiments related to the ignition of low-exothermicity porous materials are presented. Gas and solid products of reaction are included. The first stage of the paper examines the (pseudo-homogeneous) assumption of a single temperature for both phases, amounting to an infinite rate of heat exchange between the two. Isolating the effect of gas production and flow in this manner, the effect of each on the ignition time is studied. In such cases, ignition is conveniently defined by the birth of a self-sustained combustion wave. It is found that gas production decreases the ignition time, compared to equivalent systems in which the gas-dynamic problem is effectively neglected. The reason for this is quite simple; the smaller heat capacity of the gas allows the overall temperature to attain a higher value in a similar time, and so speeds up the ignition process. Next, numerical results using a two-temperature (heterogeneous) model, allowing for local heat exchange between the phases, are presented. The pseudo-homogeneous results are recovered in the limit of infinite heat exchange. For a finite value of heat exchange, the ignition time is lower when compared to the single-temperature limit, decreasing as the rate of heat exchange decreases. However, the decrease is only mild, of the order of a few percent, indicating that the pseudo-homogeneous model is in fact a rather good approximation, at least for a constant heat-exchange rate. The relationships between the ignition time and a number of physico-chemical parameters of the system are also investigated
Methodological Challenges in Estimating Soil Organic Matter: A Review
No full textSoil organic matter (SOM) plays a crucial role in soil health, fertility, and carbon cycling, making its accurate estimation essential for sustainable agriculture and ecosystem management. However, the quantification of SOM is fraught with methodological challenges that can introduce variability and uncertainty into assessments. Traditional techniques may lack specificity and accuracy, while advanced methods pose challenges related to calibration and standardization. The selection of an appropriate method is critical and requires careful consideration of soil characteristics, land use, and research objectives. This article reviews the key methodological challenges associated with estimating soil organic matter, aiming to provide an understanding of the complexities involved, and provides insights on the latest instrumentation for SOM measurements.Full Tex
Kajian perkhidmatan pengangkutan bas awam, kes kajian: Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Subang, Selangor / Norzaina Che Mek
No full textKajian ini bertujuan untuk memperbaiki perkhidmatan pengangkutan bas awam yang sediada dan juga mempertingkatkan lagi perkhidmatan tersebut ke tahap yang lebih memuaskan berdasarkan perkembangan semasa dan juga fungsi Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Subang, sebagai pusat tumpuan. Kajian ini ditulis bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti keberkesana/i sistem perkhidmatan pengangkutan bas awam di kawasan Lapangan Antarabangsa Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Subang, Kampung Melayu Subang dan juga di Kampung Baru Subang. Di samping dapat menjelaskan secara am apakah langkah-langkah yang periu diambil untuk menjamin keberkesanan perkhidmatan pengangkutan bas awam ini. Kajian dibuat berdasarkan kajian teoritikal yang mengandungi aspek-aspek dalam proses perancangan pengangkutan awam dan kriteria-kriteria yang perlu diambilkira. Daripada hasil kajian ini beberapa cadangan am yang berdasarkan kajranjteoritikal dan kes kajian akan dirangka sebagai alternatif untuk memberi perkhidmatan yang berkesan kepada orang ramai
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