141 research outputs found
Optimizing Lemon Balm (Melissa Officinalis L.) Cultivation: Effects of Different Manures on Plant Growth and Essential Oil Production During Consecutive Harvests
No full textThis study examined the impact of organic manures from different sources (poultry, sheep, and cattle) on lemon balm (Melissa officinalis L., Lamiaceae) during different harvests. Manure application increased the photosynthetic pigments levels (chlorophyll-a, 9–41%; chlorophyll-b, 24–60%), biomass (41–60%), and essential oil yield (60–71%). Sheep manure treatment exhibited the highest antioxidant capacity among all the manures tested. Through GC-MS and GC-FID analysis, 10 chemical constituents were identified in the essential oil, accounting together for 91–95% of the total composition. The primary chemical component was geranial (39–46%), followed by neral (28–35%), (E)-caryophyllene (4.7–11%), geranyl acetate (2.7–5.9%), and caryophyllene oxide (1.7–4.8%). The utilization of livestock manures significantly improved the quality of the essential oil in terms of neral and geranial percentages compared to the control. Notably, during mid-August and early September, there was a substantial rise in these valuable compounds. However, a decrease in geranyl acetate and oxygenated monoterpenes resulted in a decline in the antioxidant capacity to 3%. Consequently, it is recommended to utilize essential oils from the second and third harvests for industrial purposes. Overall, the use of livestock manures, especially sheep manure, as a nutrient source for lemon balm cultivation proves to be a viable approach for producing high-quality essential oils
Az Zaban-e Modari : Raqs-e Aab Raqs-e Setareh
No full textCatalogue of an exhibition held at SASA Gallery, Adelaide, 14 September-15 October 2010."All that I do, all that I am, all that I love and all that I resist are from my mother tongue. My encounter with these notions is the reflection of a sensibility
that is hope, arising from Persian mysticism and Bahai literature, to give a tone of optimism towards universal human values where resistance, equity, love, being, beauty and truth are implemented to deal with history and explore issues pertaining to the human condition - Siamak Fallah."--SASA Gallery website
Improvement of production and quality of essential oils in multi-cut peppermint (Mentha x piperita L.) through eco-friendly fertilizers in the semi-arid highlands
No full textThe semi-arid highlands offer favorable temperature and radiation conditions for cultivating medicinal plants organically. This practice not only supports the sustainability of the ecosystems in these regions but also presents a valuable opportunity for the production of medicinal plants. Peppermint, a highly sought-after medicinal plant, presents a favorable choice for farmers residing in semi-arid regions due to its versatile applications across various industries. To assess the biomass and essential oil (EO) of peppermint, the utilization of diverse fertilizer sources across different cuttings has been examined. The experimental treatments consisted of four fertilizer sources including poultry manure (POM), sheep manure (SHM), cattle manure (CAM), and chemical fertilizers (CHF), and different cuttings, namely first cutting (CUT1), second cutting (CUT2) and third cutting (CUT3). Plants treated with POM and SHM gave the highest biomass in CUT1 and CUT2, respectively. The nutrient content (macro- and micro-) raised with the application of POM and SHM. The highest EO content was recorded in POM treatment and CUT2. Plants amended with POM had the greatest EO yield in three cuttings. The major EO constituents were menthol (35.2%-58.3%), menthone (3.1%–33.6%), menthyl acetate (1.1%-9.4%), iso- menthone (0.41%-8.8%), with the highest percentages of these compounds reached in treatments with organic manures in various cuttings. High-quality EOs (high menthol and low menthoufuran content) were obtained with organic manure treatments in three cuttings. Plants amended with POM, CHF and CHF showed the highest antioxidant capacity of EO in CUT1, CUT2 and CUT3, respectively. Overall, the usage of POM and SHM can be recommended for increasing biomass and improving the quality of peppermint EO during the growth season, while maintaining ecosystem sustainability by replacing chemical fertilizers in the semi-arid highlands
Effects of Macronutrients on the Growth, Essential Oil Production and Quality of Echinophora platyloba (DC.) in Natural Ecosystems
No full textEchinophora platyloba DC. (Apiaceae) is recognized for its important secondary metabolites and antifungal agents. To evaluate the effects of macronutrient fertilizers on the growth parameters and essential oils yield of E. platyloba, a study was conducted in 2018 at Shahrekord University, Iran. The treatments included the individual and combined application of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, along with control groups. The results revealed that nitrogen application significantly influenced biomass accumulation in stems, leaves, and inflorescences, with phosphorus-treated plants showing a notable increase in leaf weight. Compared to a positive control, phosphorus increased the essential oil yield by 488%, while nitrogen enhanced biomass accumulation by 165%. The primary compounds identified included (E)-β-ocimene, (E)-sesquilavandolol, and β-pinene, with percentages ranging between 21.3–32.1%, 14.1–42.0%, and 2.0–8.8%, respectively. The levels of β-pinene, (E)-β-ocimene, γ-decalactone, and spathulenol were found to be higher in the phosphorus and potassium treatments than in nitrogen. In contrast, limonene, linalool, geraniol, and (E)-sesquilavandulol concentrations were greater in the nitrogen treatment compared with phosphorus and potassium treatments. In conclusion, phosphorus fertilization can substantially increase the essential oil yield in E. platyloba compared to other treatments, potentially enhancing production per unit area, which supports farmers’ income and helps prevent the degradation of this species in natural habitats
DAMPAK MANAQIB TERHADAP PENINGKATAN IBADAH (Studi Kasus Pada Santriwan dan Santriwati Pondok Pesantren Bustanul Fallah, Kelurahan Palapa, Kecamatan Tanjung Karang Pusat, Kota Bandar Lampung)
No full textABSTRAK
Dzikir Manaqib merupakan salah satu wujud kegiatan keagamaan yang
dilakukan masyarakat muslim, yang pada akhirnya menjadi sebuah rutinitas
ritual pada momen-momen tertentu yang merupakan proses akulturasi antara
budaya lokal dengan Islam. Yang dimaksud dengan manaqib secara istilah
adalah membaca kisah tentang orang-orang sholeh, seperti kisah Nabi atau
Auliya’ (para kekasih Allah) dengan tujuan meneladani akhlak terpuji mereka
dan ditulis dengan menggunakan bahasa yang sangat indah dengan susunan
kalimatnya yang benar-benar indah.
Rumusan masalah dalam penelitian ini: 1) Bagaimana Proses
Pelaksanaan Manaqib Dalam Peningkatan Ibadah Para Santriwan/santriwati
Pondok Pesantren Bustanul Fallah, Kelurahan Palapa, Keceamatan Tanjung
Karang Pusat, Kota Bandar Lampung. 2) Bagaimana Dampak Manaqib
Dalam Peningkatan Ibadah Para Santriwan/santriwati Pondok Pesantren
Bustanul Fallah, Kelurahan Palapa, Kecamatan Tanjung Karang Pusat, Kota
Bandar Lampung. Dan tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui Proses
Pelaksanaan Manaqib Dalam Peningkatan Ibadah Para Santriwan/santriwati
Pondok Pesantren Bustanul Fallah, Kelurahan Palapa, Keceamatan Tanjung
Karang Pusat, Kota Bandar Lampung. Dan untuk Dampak Manaqib Dalam
Peningkatan Ibadah Para Santriwan/santriwati Pondok Pesantren Bustanul
Fallah.
Jenis penelitian yang digunakan penulis adalah field research (penelitian
lapangan) dan sifatnya kualitatif deskriptif. Sumber Data Penelitian data
primer dan data sekunder, dengan teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan
observasi,wawancara, dan dokumentasi. Lokasi penelitian ini di Pondok
Pesantren Bustanul Fallah terletak di Jl. Darabirra Lampung, Palapa,
Kecamatan Tanjung Karang Pusat, Kota Bandar Lampung.
Hasil Penelitian ini bahwa proses pelaksanaan manaqib dalam
meningkatkan ibadah para santriwan dan santriwati Pondok pesantren
bustanul fallah kelurahan palapa, Kecamatan Tanjungkarang Pusat, Kota
Bandarlampung yaitu: Semaan Al-quran, Shalat tasbih dan shalat hajat,
Pembacaan manaqib syekh abdul qodir al-jailani, Pemberian motivasi,
Perjalinan hubungan, Penyelenggaraan komunikasi dan Pengembangan dan
peningkatan pelaksanaan manaqib. Dan dampak manaqib dalam
meningkatkan ibadah para santriwan dan santriwati Pondok pesantren
bustanul fallah kelurahan palapa, Kecamatan Tanjungkarang Pusat, Kota
Bandarlampung bahwa manaqib membawa dampak positif bagi santriwan
dan santriwati di pondok pesantren bustanul fallah, hal ini dikarenakan
bahwa sebelum santriwan dan santriwati menempuh pendidikan di pondok
pesantren tersebut mereka cenderung bermalas-malasan dalam beribadah,
namun setelah rutih melakukan kegiatan manaqib terjadi peningkatan ibadah
santriwan dan santriwati. Hal ini dibuktikan dengan perubahan sikap sehari
hari oleh 25 santriwan dan santriwati setelah melakukan kegiatan manaqib
rutin.
Kata Kunci: Manaqib, Syekh Abdul Qodir Al-Jailani, Peningkatan Ibadah
ABSTRACT
Dhikr Manaqib is a form of religious activity carried out by the Muslim
community, which in the end becomes a ritual routine at certain moments
which is a process of acculturation between local culture and Islam. What is
meant by manaqib in terms is reading stories about pious people, such as the
story of the Prophet or Auliya '(lovers of Allah) with the aim of imitating
their commendable character and written using very beautiful language with
really beautiful sentence structures.
The formulation of the problem in this study: 1) How is the Process of
Implementing Manaqib in Improving Worship for Santriwan/students at the
Bustanul Fallah Islamic Boarding School, Palapa Village, Tanjung Karang
Pusat District, Bandar Lampung City. 2) What is the Impact of Manaqib in
Increasing the Worship of Santriwan/students at the Bustanul Fallah Islamic
Boarding School, Palapa Village, Tanjung Karang Pusat District, Bandar
Lampung City. And the purpose of this study was to find out the process of
implementing Manaqib in improving the worship of students at the Bustanul
Fallah Islamic Boarding School, Palapa Village, Tanjung Karang Pusat
District, Bandar Lampung City. And for the impact of Manaqib in Increasing
the Worship of the Santriwan/students of the Bustanul Fallah Islamic
Boarding School.
The type of research used by the author is field research and is
qualitatively descriptive. Sources of Data Research primary data and
secondary data, with data collection techniques using observation,
interviews, and documentation. The location of this research at the Bustanul
Fallah Islamic Boarding School is located on Jl. Darabirra Lampung,
Palapa, Central Tanjung Karang District, Bandar Lampung City.
The results of this study indicate that the process of implementing
manaqib in improving the worship of santriwan and female students at the
Bustanul Fallah Islamic Boarding School, Palapa Village, Central
Tanjungkarang District, Bandarlampung City, namely: Al-Qur'an chanting,
prayer beads and prayers, Reading of Manaqib Sheikh Abdul Qodir al�Jailani, Giving motivation, relationship, communication implementation and
development and improvement of manaqib implementation. And the impact of
manaqib in increasing the worship of santriwan and female students at the
Bustanul Fallah Islamic Boarding School, Palapa Village, Central
Tanjungkarang District, Bandarlampung City, that manaqib has a positive
impact on students and female students at the Bustanul Fallah Islamic
Boarding School, this is because before the students and the female students
studied at the Islamic Boarding School. At the pesantren they tend to be lazy
in worship, but after rutih doing manaqib activities there is an increase in the
worship of santriwan and santriwati. This is evidenced by changes in the
daily attitude of 25 students and female students after carrying out routine
manaqib activities.
Keywords: Manaqib, Sheikh Abdul Qodir Al-Jailani, Increased Worshi
Tracking the existence of Dioctophyma renale in Parthian Empire of Iran (247 BC-224 AD)
No full textPaleoparasitological investigation in the archeological site of the Caspian Sea littoral revealed the presence of human Dioctophyma renale infection, a ubiquitous kidney-residing helminth of mammals, during the Parthian Empire of Iran (247 BC-224 AD). This study reports the oldest human infection with giant kidney worm in the Middle East, mainly in an area where the infection is reported nowadays. The paucity of records throughout the literature suggests that the same species of parasite occurred with low frequency in the past, as well. The cemetery in the archeological site of Kiasar represented a unique opportunity of studying human and animal parasites of the Parthian Empire in Iran
Automated configuration of negotiation strategies
No full textBidding and acceptance strategies have a substantial impact on the outcome of negotiations in scenarios with linear additive and nonlinear utility functions. Over the years, it has become clear that there is no single best strategy for all negotiation settings, yet many fixed strategies are still being developed. We envision a shift in the strategy design question from: What is a good strategy?, towards: What could be a good strategy? For this purpose, we developed a method leveraging automated algorithm configuration to find the best strategies for a specific set of negotiation settings. By empowering automated negotiating agents using automated algorithm configuration, we obtain a flexible negotiation agent that can be configured automatically for a rich space of opponents and negotiation scenarios. To critically assess our approach, the agent was tested in an ANAC-like bilateral automated negotiation tournament setting against past competitors. We show that our automatically configured agent outperforms all other agents, with a 5.1% increase in negotiation payoff compared to the next-best agent. We note that without our agent in the tournament, the top-ranked agent wins by a margin of only 0.01%.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Interactive Intelligenc
New foundations of ethical multiagent systems blue sky ideas track
No full textEthics is inherently a multiagent concern. However, research on AI ethics today is dominated by work on individual agents: (1) how an autonomous robot or car may harm or (differentially) benefit people in hypothetical situations (the so-called trolley problems) and (2) how a machine learning algorithm may produce biased decisions or recommendations. The societal framework is largely omitted. To develop new foundations for ethics in AI, we adopt a sociotechnical stance in which agents (as technical entities) help autonomous social entities or principals (people and organizations). This multiagent conception of a sociotechnical system (STS) captures how ethical concerns arise in the mutual interactions of multiple stakeholders. These foundations would enable us to realize ethical STSs that incorporate social and technical controls to respect stated ethical postures of the agents in the STSs. The envisioned foundations require new thinking, along two broad themes, on how to realize (1) an STS that reflects its stakeholders' values and (2) individual agents that function effectively in such an STS.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Interactive Intelligenc
Elessar: Ethics in Norm-Aware Agents
No full textWe address the problem of designing agents that navigate social norms by selecting ethically appropriate actions. We present Elessar, a framework in which agents aggregate value preferences of users and select ethically appropriate actions through multicriteria decision making in different social contexts. Via simulations, seeded with a survey of user values and attitudes, we find that Elessar agents act ethically and are effective than baseline agents, in terms of (1) exhibiting the Rawlsian property of fairness, and (2) yielding a satisfactory social experience to users. Our results are stable across agent societies of different sizes and connectedness.Accepted Author ManuscriptInteractive Intelligenc
Design for sustainability in Iran throughout an open network of local design universities. The diffusion strategic path and an enabling open learning resource package
No full textLAUREA MAGISTRALENegli ultimi anni, con la maggior parte delle crisi ambientali ed economiche, la popolazione iraniana ha dovuto affrontare molte sfide. Le sfide che rimangono irrisolte. Da qui, la società iraniana è più permeabile verso il processo di innovazione radicale che deve essere preso seriamente in considerazione per cambiare i consumi e i modelli di produzione che, allo stato attuale, sono insostenibili. Per arrivare ad avere uno schema di consumi e produzione sostenibili sarà necessario un completo rinnovamento dell’intera struttura.
La sostenibilità è una sfida per i contesti industrializzati ed emergenti così come quelli a basso reddito. Tuttavia, raggiungere questo obiettivo nei diversi tipi di contesto richiede il seguire percorsi differenti (Hart e Milstein 1999) e Design for Sustainability (DfS) è un dominio emergente e significativo. È altresì necessario considerare principalmente il peso del consumo umano e della produzione.
La ricerca ed il relativo progetto presentati in questa tesi delineano un percorso per la comunità del design iraniana, in questo caso la nuova generazione di designer iraniani, per promuovere la loro capacità di progettazione in relazione al design per la sostenibilità (DfS). Questa tesi presenta una visione ed un percorso strategico che potrebbe essere adattato a un sistema educativo di progettazione di più ampio respiro e utilizzato come una risorsa per i progettisti di tutto il mondo.
I contenuti principali di questa tesi includono, esplorare innanzitutto la situazione attuale dell’Iran in relazione allo sviluppo sostenibile ed il suo ruolo nel sistema di istruzione superiore dell’Iran, un’analisi completa sul ruolo del progetto di sostenibilità nelle scuole di disegno industriale iraniano e cercare punti di criticità ed opportunità basati su problemi relativi ai programmi di sostenibilità esistenti. A seguito della fase di ideazione, si è giunti alla proposta di una soluzione di design, un concetto rilasciato; questo concetto contiene due parti, l’introduzione della rete di apprendimento LeNS sulla sostenibilità come una risorsa perfetta per la comunità del design iraniana, che aderendo a questa piattaforma fornisce la migliore risorsa per condividere materiali e strumenti da più contesti culturali negli ethos open source e copy-left, come secondo parte, progettare un pacchetto di risorse di apprendimento aperto rivolto ai due livelli di istruzione universitaria nell’industrial design (bachelor e master degree) applicati formalmente all’attuale curriculum del sistema di educazione alla progettazione industriale. Entrambe queste parti sono state sviluppate ricevendo l’approvazione di quattro università del design Iraniane (con la collaborazione e la supervisione del professor Mehdi Fallah, capo del dipartimento di disegno industriale della Art University di Teheran), applicati formalmente all’attuale curriculum del programma formativo del Disegno industriale .
L’autore ritiene che il proposito di questa tesi, progettando questo percorso strategico e pacchetti di risorse di apprendimento tipo Open-learning consenta ai progettisti iraniani di dare un contributo efficace allo sviluppo di soluzioni innovative e sostenibili basandosi sulle loro sfide locali e ambientali e ai modelli di consumo insostenibili esistenti.In recent years with the most environmental and economic crises, Iran’s society suffers from many challenges. The challenges that remain unresolved. Hence, Iran society is more permeable towards the radical innovation process that needs to take place seriously to change current unsustainable consumption and production patterns. In order to create this sustainable human consumption and production, a complete revamp of the consumption structure is needed.
Sustainability is a challenge for industrialized, emerging as well as low-income contexts. However, achieving this goal in the different types of context requires differing paths (Hart and Milstein 1999) and Design for Sustainability (DfS) is an emerging and significant domain. It is also one of the prime needs of our considering the burden of human consumption and production.
The research and project presented in this thesis outlines a path for Iranian design community, actually, the newest generation of Iranian designers to promote their design ability in regard to design for sustainability (DfS). In fact, this thesis presents a vision and strategic path that could be adapted to higher design educational system and used as a good resource for all designers.
The main contents of this thesis include; first explore the current status of Iran related to the Sustainable development and the role of it in the Higher education system of Iran. Then a full analysis around the place of sustainability design in Iran’s Industrial design schools and look for opportunities based on problems on existing sustainability design-related programs.
Then, following the ideation session, this lead to a proposed design solution, a concept released, this concept contains two parts. First, arrange a strategic path by introducing the LeNS learning network on Sustainability as a perfect resource to the Iranian design community, which by joining this platform it provides the best resource for sharing materials and tools from multiple cultural contexts in open source and copyleft ethos. As the second part, design an open learning resources packages for two levels of Industrial Design (undergraduate and postgraduate) Education System, applied them on LeNS platform then formally insert them into the current curriculum of the Industrial Design Education System.
Both of these parts were performed by receiving acceptance of four Design Universities in Iran (with the cooperation and supervision of Professor Mehdi Fallah, head of the Industrial Design Department of the Art University of Tehran), applied formally to the present Industrial Design Education System curriculum.
The author believes that propose of this thesis by designing this starategic path and open learning resource packages is to enable Iranian Designers to make an effective contribution to the development of innovative and sustainable solutions based on their local and enviromental challenges and existing unsustainable consumption patterns
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