203 research outputs found
Development of a virtual reality milling machine for knowledge learning and skill training
No full textCurrent methods of training personnel on high cost machine tools involve the use of both classroom and hands on practical training. The practical training required the operation of costly equipment and the trainee has to be under close personnel supervision. The main aim of this project is to reduce the amount of practical training and its inherent cost, time, danger, personal injury risk and material requirements by utilising a virtual reality technology.
In this study, an investigation into the use of Virtual reality for training operators and students to use the Milling Machine was carried out. The investigation has been divided into two sections: first the development of Milling Machine in the 3D virtual environment, where the real machine was re-constructed in the virtual space.
This has been carried out by creating objects and assembling them together. The complete Milling machine was then properly modelled and rendered so it could be viewed from all viewpoints.
The second section was to add motion to the virtual world. The machine was made of functions as for the real machine. This was achieved by attaching Superscape Control Language (SCL) to the objects. The developed Milling machine allows the users to choose the material, speed and feed rate. Upon activation, the virtual machine will be simulated to carry out the machining process and instantaneous data on the machined part can be generated.
The results were satisfactory, the Milling Machine was modelled successfully and the machine was able to perform according to task set. Using the developed Virtual Model, the ability for training students and operators to use the Milling Machine has been achieved
Islamic political ethics: civil society, pluralism and conflict/ Edit. : Sohail H. Hashmi
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Analyzing the Real Time Factors: Which Causing the Traffic Congestions and Proposing the Solution for Pakistani City
No full textAbstractVehicle ownerships integral part of modern life and traffic congestion an unavoidable inconvenience. The Western countries have a far better control on the pace of number of vehicles on a road matched with supporting infrastructure. In contrast, cash strapped underdeveloped countries have a poorly built and scarce number of main roads with problems compounded by soft car loans, leases and other discounts. As a result several developing countries have been inundated with peripheral complications such as pollution and congestion undermining their economy with enormous energy bills negatively impacting respective economy. Case in point is Pakistan, where depilating infrastructure or absence outright thereof and ever more number of vehicles on the road presents a unique and highly complicated problem. One can term traffic in Sub-Continent as controlled chaos and we plan to develop an organized solution from the chaos. This presents a unique challenge in traffic management. We have developed a smart phone application when the phone is placed in vehicles, provides data for the origin and destination routes. Taking 6 parameters, which we believe mostly impacts the destination arrival time for the driver in Pakistan we propose to develop a model supported by empirical data that will enable driver to select weather they are interested in economy of fuel or economy of time in reaching their destination. We propose to plot time it takes to reach destination versus the 6 factors that determines destination arrival time. The curve will be generated for each route and from the graph median time, standard deviation as well as confidence interval will be computed. Large data will be collected and statistical analysis will be performed to verify the integrity of the model
Miriam Sampaio : Murmur
No full textThis publication stems from artist Sampaio’s residency at Centre de production Daïmõn in the fall of 2001. The resulting exhibition comprised photographs taken by the artist while in Portugal where she was researching her Judaic-Portuguese roots. Hashmi comments on this work in a personal and poetic text that includes many quotes from the artist. Texts in English and French. Biographical notes on artist and author. 2 bibl. ref
Appel à communications : International Workshop on Islamic Peace Ethics "Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Contemporary Islamic Thought", Institut für Theologie und Frieden, Hambourg (Allemagne), 16-17/10/2015 — LIMITE : 15/08/2015
No full textInternational Workshop on Islamic Peace Ethics: Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Contemporary Islamic Thought 16-17 October 2015, Hamburg, Germany - with: Prof. Dr. Dirk Ansorge, Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georegen, Frankfurt a.M., Germany Prof. Dr. Seyed Hassan Eslami, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran Prof. Dr. Sohail Hashmi, Mount Holyoke College, USA Prof. Udo Steinbach, HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform, Berlin, Germany - Invited profes..
Appel à communications : International Workshop on Islamic Peace Ethics "Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Contemporary Islamic Thought", Institut für Theologie und Frieden, Hambourg (Allemagne), 16-17/10/2015 — LIMITE : 15/08/2015
No full textInternational Workshop on Islamic Peace Ethics: Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Contemporary Islamic Thought 16-17 October 2015, Hamburg, Germany - with: Prof. Dr. Dirk Ansorge, Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georegen, Frankfurt a.M., Germany Prof. Dr. Seyed Hassan Eslami, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran Prof. Dr. Sohail Hashmi, Mount Holyoke College, USA Prof. Udo Steinbach, HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform, Berlin, Germany - Invited profes..
Religious services for Byzantine soldiers and the possibility of martyrdom, c. 400- c. 1000
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The Two Faces of Civil Society: Islamists and Ahmadis in Pakistan
No full textThis thesis explores how democracies turn illiberal through the hijack of civil society by radicalism. Civil society, typically considered a promoter of liberal and democratic values, turns dark, hateful and violent depending on the social actors that gain salience within it. Focusing on Pakistan—a Muslim democracy—I trace the development of the Pakistani civil society from 1931, when it is part of the colonized public space, to 1974, when Pakistan obtains its first democratically elected government. I study this development through the relationship of Pakistani Muslims and their Ahmadi population - a Muslim sect considered heretical in the constitution and among the Sunni majority of Pakistan.
The Pakistani constitution declared Ahmadis non-Muslim in 1974 for rejecting the finality of Prophet Muhammad. This outcome, however, was neither inevitable nor automatic. Opposition against Ahmadis began shortly after their inception in 1889 and took 90 years to reach legal and systematic discrimination. I study how the anti-Ahmadi movement, led by the Ahrar, ulema and the Jamaat-e-Islami, perfected the use of civil space and thus succeeded in its efforts to exclude Ahmadis from the fold of Islam and Pakistani citizenship. Between 1949-1953, the anti-Ahmadi movement used the Urdu press and public meetings to penetrate hatred of Ahmadis in the Pakistani society. Until 1974, the movement gained important political alliances; and in 1974, could influence the state. The state, embedded within society and its values could not overlook country-wide protests demanding the exclusion of Ahmadis and obliged with the popular national sentiment.
Through newspapers, pamphlets, a court inquiry report, Ahmadi and anti-Ahmadi literature, in addition to secondary sources, my thesis highlights how state-led, legal persecution stemmed from a bottom-up process from within society and why majoritarian interests bifurcated civil space itself. This project also sheds light on the limits of tolerance and inclusion for heretics and minorities in democracies founded on a popular religious ideology.International Relation
Appel à communications : Workshop “Islamic Peace Studies : Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Contemporary Islamic Thought”, Institute for Theology and Peace, Hambourg (Allemagne), 16-17/10/2015 — LIMITE : 01/06/2015
No full textWith: • Prof. Dr. Dirk Ansorge, Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen, Frankfurt a.M., Germany • Prof. Dr. Seyed Hassan Eslami, University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran • Prof. Dr. Sohail Hashmi, Mount Holyoke College, USA • Prof. Udo Steinbach, HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform, Berlin, Germany This workshop is organized in the frame of an ongoing research project about “Islamic peace ethics” in Institut für Theologie und Frieden (Institute for Theology and Pea..
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