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الطاف فاطمہ کے افسانوں میں منفی کردار…خصوصی مطالعہ
No full textA variety of negative characters created by short story writers happen to be female characters. We see different facts of these negative female characters in different political, psychological, social and moral aspects. The most prominent writers who presented these characters includes Bano Qudsia, Hajira Masroor, Razia Fasih Ahmad, Farkhanda Lodhi, Nilofer Iqbal, Salman Awan, Raees Fatima, Fehmida Riaz, Farhat Perveen, Altaf Fatima, Mumtaz Shireen, Khadija Masroor, Atiya Sayyed, Firdous Haider and Perveen Atif. This research paper analysis the moral, religious and psychological dilemmas of the lives of these characters in Altaf Fatimas’s short stories
Measuring microfinance access : building on existing cross-country data
Get PDFGiven the acknowledged need for a new effort to expand the set of available data on direct access to financial services, including a focus on access by those at low income, Honohan provides a selective review of the diverse sources of data that exist and considers how best to build on them. He proposes a basic framework within which to consider the analysis of the interesting questions: (1) How does access affect poverty and productivity? and (2) What hinders access? The author discusses existing and potential contribution of household and business user surveys, surveys of providers and their regulators, and surveys of experts, and assesses their relative strengths.Banks&Banking Reform,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Economics&Finance,Poverty Assessment,Governance Indicators
Utilizing Location Quotient (LQ) and Shift-Share (SS) Techniques to Analyze Key Industries in Yogyakarta City
Get PDFThe current era of regional autonomy has led to an increased complexity in regional development and heightened competition among regions. To achieve sustainable development in each regency and city, particularly in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, the Provincial Government of DIY has allocated special funds to improve the welfare of the community. Analyzing the leading industries in Yogyakarta is the objective of this research. Secondary data for this research were obtained through the official websites of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of DIY Province and BPS of Yogyakarta City. Using the shift share and location quotient analysis techniques, this research is of a quantitative descriptive nature. Based on the research findings, the leading sectors in Yogyakarta from 2018 to 2022 have been identified, comprising a total of 11 fields or sectors: (1) Manufacturing Industry; (2) Gas and Electricity Provision; (3) Water Supply; (4) Waste Processing; (5) Information and Communication; (6) Financial and Insurance Services; (7) Real Estate; (8) Corporate Services; (9) Government Administration; Defense and Mandatory Social Security; (10) Education Services; (11) Health and Social Activities. In the other hand, only the health and social activities sector is deemed most suitable (primary priority) for continuous sustenance and development.The current era of regional autonomy has led to an increased complexity in regional development and heightened competition among regions. To achieve sustainable development in each regency and city, particularly in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, the Provincial Government of DIY has allocated special funds to improve the welfare of the community. Analyzing the leading industries in Yogyakarta is the objective of this research. Secondary data for this research were obtained through the official websites of the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) of DIY Province and BPS of Yogyakarta City. Using the shift share and location quotient analysis techniques, this research is of a quantitative descriptive nature. Based on the research findings, the leading sectors in Yogyakarta from 2018 to 2022 have been identified, comprising a total of 11 fields or sectors: (1) Manufacturing Industry; (2) Gas and Electricity Provision; (3) Water Supply; (4) Waste Processing; (5) Information and Communication; (6) Financial and Insurance Services; (7) Real Estate; (8) Corporate Services; (9) Government Administration; Defense and Mandatory Social Security; (10) Education Services; (11) Health and Social Activities. In the other hand, only the health and social activities sector is deemed most suitable (primary priority) for continuous sustenance and development
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We're Not in Kufa Anymore: The Construction of Late Hanafism in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, 16th - 19th Centuries CE
No full textAt the intersection of religion, law, and the state lies the opportunity to explore the impact of the state on the legal order. This study investigates such an impact through an examination of authoritative Hanafi legal works from the 16th - 19th centuries CE, casting new light on the understudied late Hanafi jurists (al-muta'akhkhirun) in the early modern period. This dissertation argues that jurists secure the authority of the late Hanafi school (madhhab) through engagement with legal texts from previous generations of Hanafis, disclosure of the reasoning that underlies late Hanafi legal opinions, and invocation of principles, authorities, and juridical formulas that construct late Hanafism in the early modern period in particular ways. I demonstrate how late Hanafi jurists develop their own identities, opinions, and consensus in relation to earlier Hanafi opinions. For late Hanafis, the past authorities, texts, and opinions were never irrelevant: the past constituted a point of reference and continuity for their scholarship. The division of Hanafis into late and early is not simply a matter of time, although it is true that the late Hanafis produce legal works chronologically later than the early Hanafis did. The distinction is more important for identifying that there is a tradition which characterizes the group of scholars identified as being chronologically "late" that develops in the Mamluk and Ottoman periods. By taking the madhhab and its juristic discourse as the central focus, this study demonstrates how late Hanafi jurists assign probative value and authority to Ottoman state orders and edicts. This is reflected in the state's ability to settle juristic disputes, to order specific opinions to be adopted in fatawa, and to establish its orders as authoritative and final reference points. The incorporation of state orders within authoritative Hanafi legal commentaries, treatises, and fatawa collections is made possible by a turn in Hanafi legal culture that embraced the indispensible nature of the state in the law-making process. Current scholarship in the field of Ottoman Studies that focuses on "structural" interventions by the state (appointing muftis and judges, developing an Ottoman learned hierarchy) does not fully capture the influence of the state on the substance of the legal discourse. This project explores late Hanafi responses to Ottoman state interventions in the process of law-making, and the ways in which late Hanafi jurists talk to and about political power. The dissertation concludes by offering two proposals. The first is that late Hanafi legal scholarship in the early modern period secures a limited space for the political authority in the process of law-making. This proposal finds that the argument for the epistemic divorce between the domain of Islamic law and the authority of the state in current Islamic Studies scholarship is untenable. The second proposal is that the late articulation of the Hanafi legal tradition is not only integral to understanding modern movements to codify Islamic jurisprudence, and the role of the state in these transformations, but also to tracing many legal norms that were incorporated in modern civil codes in majority Muslim countries. By introducing "late Hanafism" as a category of analysis, and situating the madhhab as the locus of the investigation, this dissertation fills in a gap in the fields of Islamic legal studies and Ottoman studies. This study draws the focus from Ottoman court archives to the Hanafi juristic discourse itself for understanding how Islamic law was developed and applied, offering a new perspective on the internal legal discourse of late Hanafis and their responses to state power.Release 08-Aug-201
Interleaved Multilevel Boost Converter With Minimal Voltage Multiplier Components for High-Voltage Step-Up Applications
No full textIn this article, a new interleaved multilevel boost converter (interleaved-MBC) is suggested with minimal voltage multiplier (VM) cells for high-voltage step-up applications. The interleaved-MBC is derived in such a way that the maximum utilization of the VM circuit operation can be achieved by the interleaved structure. Furthermore, compared to existing multilevel interleaved converters, the reduced number of capacitors and diode with equal voltage rating makes it more attractive. Similar to the existing multilevel converter, the feature of the interleaved-MBC provides the extension of the number of levels to achieve the necessary voltages just by adding similar capacitor-diode stages (single capacitor and single diode are required to increase the stage by one). The features like continuous input current, low-input ripples, high voltage conversion ratio, and reduced stress on devices make the proposed converter more suitable for the voltage step-up applications, such as dc link, hybrid distribution systems, hybrid photovoltaic systems, etc. The detailed analysis of the converter is carried out by considering the nonidealities in the power circuit. The operation of the interleaved-MBC is presented for continuous and discontinuous conduction modes with boundary conditions. The components selection criterion and the comparison of converters are presented with suitable discussions. The converter is experimentally tested, and the obtained results validate its performance and functionality.Manuscript received October 5, 2019; revised January 11, 2020 and March 20, 2020; accepted April 20, 2020. Date of publication May 5, 2020; date of current version July 31, 2020. This work was supported in part by the Qatar National Library, Doha, Qatar, and in part by the Qatar National Research Fund, Qatar Foundation, under NPRP Grant X-033-2-007. Recommended for publication by Associate Editor Y. Siwakoti. (Corresponding author: Atif Iqbal.) Mohammad Meraj, Atif Iqbal, and Nasser Al-Emadi are with the Department of Electrical Engineering Qatar University, Doha, Qatar (e-mail: Meraj@ qu.edu.qa; [email protected]; [email protected]).Scopu
Optimization of Kiln Feed Yield through an Analysis of Drilling and Blasting Parameters in a Quarry
No full textBlasting and drilling serves as an essential element for a mining operation to excel. Optimization of this operational aspect, requires consideration of various parameters that can be controllable or uncontrollable. To overcome the tediousness of analyzing each element selectively, some major parameters are outlined, and each blast is rendered relative to the other, by organizing the data from each blast design and integrating it in an empirical model called Kuz-Ram Model, which further can be used for predicting the impact of these parameters on fragmentation. Image analysis aids in validating the model credibility for using it as step forward for proposing alterations to the current practices in drilling and blasting area. Each image is processed with the help of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, for safety and coverage of complete muck-pile. The study involves in depth focus on the impact of rock mass characteristic over fragmentation as well. Discontinuities, fractures, joint orientation and fillings are considered in designating each rock zone to specific class with the help of a geo-mechanical classification system called, Rock Mass Rating. To test the theory, an exercise is performed by separating two zones of variable rock mass properties and then the procedure is followed with empirical calculation, image analysis and supported by preferential loading to acquire a broad image of each zone fragmentation profile. Suggesting the variation in particle size distribution due to rock mass influence. The collected data and analyses shall serve as supporting tools for changes to blast design for obtaining desired fragmentation, which is synonymous to increasing the feed of kilns.Applied Earth Sciences | European Mining Cours
Mysticism and ethics in Islam
No full textIncludes bibliographical references.Standardized name for editor Bilal Orfali from the Library of Congress is: Urfahʹlī, Bilāl http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2010019407The relationship between Sufism or Islamic mysticism and ethics is largely untilled land. Mysticism and Ethics in Islam attempts to survey this fertile area of investigation by attempting to come to a clearer idea of what is meant by the terms “ethics” and “mysticism,” both in relation to each other and to Islam. The articles in this volume do not have an eye so much on defining what mysticism and ethics in Islamic civilization are per se, as much as on coming to terms with the parameters and boundaries within which they have historically been conceptualized. As such, the book falls into four clearly demarcated time periods and foci: early, classical, late pre-modern, and modern and contemporary. Taken as a whole, this collection of contributions by leading specialists in their fields offer rich insights into some of the most important articulations of Sufi ethics to have animated the tradition, from past to present, in such geographically diverse regions and countries as Egypt, India, West Africa, Iran, Turkey, Russia, Central Asia, and China.Editors' introduction -- I. EARLY PERIOD -- Aḥlām al-mutaṣṣawwifah wa-atharuhā ʻalá ʻilm al-taʻbīr al-Islāmī, fī al-qarnayn al-rābiʻ wa-al-khāmis lil-hijrah / Lina Jammal -- To grieve or not to grieve? The ambivalence of Ḥuzn in early Islam / Riccardo Paredi -- The treasurers of God : Abū Saʻīd Al-Kharrāz and the ethics of wealth in early Sufism / John Zaleski -- On patience (Ṣabr) in Sufi virtue ethics / Atif Khalil -- Min naqd al-taṣawwuf ilá iṣlāḥ al-akhlāq : al-kashf ʻan aʻmāl Shams al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Malik al-Dulaymī (t. 593 H/ 1197M) / Khaled Abdo -- Does Al-Ghazālī have a theory of virtue? / Sophia Vasalou -- II. CLASSICAL PERIOD -- Theo-Fānī : ʻAyn Al-Quḍāt and the fire of love / Mohammed Rustom -- Marātib Al-Taqwā : Saʻīd Al-Dīn Farghānī on the ontology of ethics / William Chittick -- Transcending character and the quest for union : the place of union (al-jamʿ) in commentaries on Anṣārī's Waystations / Cyrus Zargar -- Seeing is believing : Sufi vision and the formation of the ethical subject / Richard McGregor -- Disciplining the soul, freeing the mind : spiritual practice (al-riyāḍa) in Fakhr Al-Dīn Al-Rāzī's Sharḥ Al-Ishārāt Wa-l-Tanbīhāt / Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed -- al-Nasaq al-maʻrifī li-iʻādat intāj al-mafāhīm al-akhlāqīyah ʻinda al-Ṣūfīyah > namūdhajan / Chafika Ouail -- ʻAḍud Al-Dīn Ījī's ethics : a translation of Al-Akhlāq Al-ʻAḍudiyya and some notes on its commentaries / Feryal Salem -- III. LATE PRE-MODERN PERIOD -- ʻAbd Al-Wahhāb Al-Shaʻrānī's Laṭāʼif Al-Minan and the virtue of sincere immodesty / Matthew Ingalls -- Finding new life among the dead : the ethical mysticism of The Book of Pure Gold / Paul Heck -- Sufism and ethics in the works of Shāh Walī Allāh / Marcia Hermansen -- "Dogs have left you in the dust!" Mockery in Panjabi Sufi poetry / Syed Rizwan Zamir -- Churning nectar on the path of Muhammad : of ethical imaginaries in Kashmiri Sufi poetry / Peter Dziedzic -- The Chinese classics in the light of Ibn Al-ʻArabī's Metaphysics -- IV. MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY PERIODS -- Sufism and ethics in Central Asia : Ṣūfī Allāhyār's Thabāt Al-ʻĀjizīn and its legacy / Alexandre Papas -- Sufism, ethics, and the Muslim modernist project / Ahmed El Shamsy -- Sufism and modern Muslim ethics in 14th/20th century Russian Islamic thought / Leila Almazova -- A Nietzschean mystic : Muhammad Iqbal on the ethics of selfhood / Muhammad Faruque -- The transcendent ethics of Tarbiya : Ibrahim Niasse's Maqāmāt Al-Dīn al-Thalāth / Oludamini Ogunnaike -- Becoming what one is : liberative knowledge and human perfection in the writing of Seyyed Hossein Nasr -- Author biographies
Advances in Behavior Modeling
No full textThis chapter provides a survey of existing approaches to discrete event behavior modeling. The comparison is based on the selected set of semantic elements useful for the major system life cycle activities, such as requirements engineering, analysis, system understanding, system design, and evolution. The semantic elements are identified in the observed approaches and illustrated with examples of models. The advantages of the semantic elements for the major system life cycle activities can be taken into account for the choice and for the design of behavior modeling approaches.The survey is based on a series of successful international workshops on behavior modeling run by the author and is enriched by the results of her research experience
The impact of industrialization and self-renewing energy utilization on carbon discharges in the country economics
Get PDFIndustrialization has been pivotal in driving economic development. The research problem is the negative impact of industrialization to global warming and climate change. The relevance – enabling the use of renewable energy and green solutions to decrease CO₂ emissions. This research aims to evaluate the impact of short and long-term of industrialization, consumption of renewable energy, trade openness and economic growth on carbon emissions per capita in Indonesia. This research analyses [2000–2023] data, applying econometric ARDL approach and diagnostic tools. The Breusch-Godfrey Serial Correlation (BGSC) results revealed no consistent correlations, when Breusch-Pagan-Godfrey (BPG) test heteroscedasticity was confirmed. Ramsey RESET test (RRT) showed that the model is perfectly specified and significant; CUSUMSQ and CUSUM tools proved the stability of the model, when the VIF multicollinearity results indicated that no multicollinearity exists between the variables. Research findings show: trade openness and the consumption of renewable energy demonstrate a favourable effect for carbon output per capita in Indonesia as outcomes of economic progress, while industrialization has an adverse relationship with emissions of carbon per capita. The research originality – complex evaluation of the relationship between mentioned variables interplay. This publication provides recommendations for policymakers to improve the quality of environment
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