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Khoja Ubaidullah Ahror is a Spiritual Leader
Full text linkThis abstract provides a concise overview of Khoja Ubaidullah Ahror's life and legacy as a spiritual leader in Central Asia during the 15th century. Ahror's profound spiritual journey, scholarship, and influence on the religious and cultural landscape of the region are encapsulated in this summary. His teachings, emphasizing self-purification and the quest for divine knowledge, continue to resonate with individuals seeking spiritual enlightenment today. This abstract serves as an introduction to a more in-depth exploration of Khoja Ubaidullah Ahror's life and contributions
A linear regression approach to evaluate the green supply chain management impact on industrial organizational performance
No full textThe increase in the environmental pollution is one of the most important topic in today's world. In this context, the industrial activities can pose a significant threat to the environment. To manage problems associate to industrial activities several methods, techniques and approaches have been developed. Green supply chain management (GSCM) is considered one of the most important âenvironmental management approachâ. In developing countries such as Pakistan the implementation of GSCM practices is still in its initial stages. Lack of knowledge about its effects on economic performance is the reason because of industries fear to implement these practices. The aim of this research is to perceive the effects of GSCM practices on organizational performance in Pakistan. In this research the GSCM practices considered are: internal practices, external practices, investment recovery and eco-design. While, the performance parameters considered are: environmental pollution, operational cost and organizational flexibility. A set of hypothesis propose the effect of each GSCM practice on the performance parameters. Factor analysis and linear regression are used to analyze the survey data of Pakistani industries, in order to authenticate these hypotheses. The findings of this research indicate a decrease in environmental pollution and operational cost with the implementation of GSCM practices, whereas organizational flexibility has not improved for Pakistani industries. These results aim to help managers regarding their decision of implementing GSCM practices in the industrial sector of Pakistan
Identifying the critical factors of green supply chain management: Environmental benefits in Pakistan
No full textPakistan is a developing country characterized by a growing industrialization, which is the major cause of environmental pollution in the country. To control the significant increase in pollution a green incentive has started, aiming to moderate the adverse effects of environmental pollution. Thus, Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) plays an important role in influencing the total environment impact of any organizations. This study considers ten Pakistani industries that have implemented GSCM practices. The Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory technique (DEMATEL) is used to find influential factors in selecting GSCM criteria. The results show that organizational involvement is the most important dimension useful to implement GSCM practices. In addition, commitment from senior managers, ISO 14000 certification of suppliers and recycle of waste heat are considered significant factors. The paper also signifies the casual relationship among the dimensions and the factors in the form of diagraphs. The main management implication of the paper is to help decision makers to focus on the critical dimensions/factors in order to implement the GSCM practices more effectively in Pakistan
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Handover algorithm between macrocell and femtocell in LTE network / Muhammad Ubaidullah Ramlan
Full text linkWireless systems have the capability to address broad geographic area without the costly infrastructure deployment. However, the main drawback resides in the bandwidth limitation and the coverage for single access point. The deployment of Femtocell as the promising wireless access technology becomes one of the possible solution. Femtocell is a popular method to extend mobile network coverage and enhance the system capacity. Femtocell also can be called home based stations, a small communication range, low power, low cost and other characteristics. In this project the handover procedure between macrocell and femtocell network is studied. We are proposing a new handover strategy between femtocell and macrocell for LTE-based network. This handover strategy will considers on received signal strength (RSS) and velocity (V). This strategy can avoid unnecessary handover and reduce handover failure
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Pendekatan soft systems methodology (SSM) dalam menyelesaikan masalah / Nor Hasbiah Ubaidullah and Mazidah Puteh
Full text linkSSM adalah berasaskan kepada teori sistem (systems theory), di mana ianya merupakan satu pelengkap kepada sistem-sistem yang dikategorikan ke dalam Hard Systems Thinking seperti penyelidikan operasi (operational research), analisis sistem (systems analysis), dan kejuruteraan sistem (systems engineering). SSM merupakan satu kaedah penyelesaian masalah (problem solving approach) yang dibangunkan hasil dari kegagalan kejuruteraan sistem. Di dalam beberapa sistem seperti yang dinyatakan di atas, tumpuan sistem adalah terhadap pencapaian objektif. Di dalam keadaan di mana wujudnya penglibatan manusia, unsur-unsur yang berkaitan dengan tingkah laku manusia seperti tawar menawar, perbahasan pendapat, interaksi sosial dan sebagainya, perlu diambil kira. Sistem-sistem ini tidak dapat menyelesaikan masalah masalah yang ada hubung kait dengan manusia sejagat seperti yang dinyatakan di atas. SSM dikategorikan ke dalam Soft Systems Thinking. SSM berbeza dengan sistem-sistem yang dikategorikan ke dalam Hard Systems Thinking kerana di dalam sistem ini objektif bukanlah merupakan satu perkara yang penting kerana ia adalah sistem pembelajaran (learning systems). SSM mengkaji tentang masalah manusia sejagat yang komplek dan mendorong kepada tindakan yang sewajarnya untuk penambahbaikan. Sekian lama kita telah menggunakan sistem yang berasaskan kepada pendekatan keras (hard approach), sedarkah kita tentang kewujudan sistem yang berasaskan pendekatan lembut (soft approach). Sistem yang berasaskan pendekatan lembut ini adalah Soft Systems Methodology yang dibangunkan oleh Peter Checkland dari University of Lancaster, United Kingdom. Sistem ini mampu menyelesaikan masalah yang berkait dengan manusia sejagat seperti hubungan sosial, perbalahan dan sebagainya. Kertas kerja ini bertujuan untuk mendedahkan pendekatan SSM di dalam menyelesaikan masalah
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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