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External interventions and the duration of civil wars
No full textThe authors combine an empirical model of external intervention, with a theoretical model of civil war duration. Their empirical model of intervention allows them to analyze civil war duration, using"expected"rather than"actual"external intervention as an explanatory variable in the duration model. Unlike previous studies, they find that external intervention is positively associated with the duration of civil war. They distinguish partial third-party interventions that extend the length of war, from multilateral"peace"operations, which have a mandate to restore peace without taking sides - and which typically take place at war's end, or at least when both sides have agreed to a cease-fire. In a future paper, the authors will examine whether partial third-party interventions - whatever their effect on a war's duration - increase the risk of war's recurrence. If that proves true, then even if interventions reduce the length of civil war, they may do so at the cost of further destabilizing the political system, and sowing the seeds of future rebellion.Children and Youth,Peace&Peacekeeping,Post Conflict Reconstruction,Post Conflict Reconstruction,International Affairs,Post Conflict Reconstruction,Social Conflict and Violence,Peace&Peacekeeping,Post Conflict Reconstruction,International Affairs
Rubaies of İbrahim Aczî kendî (The last 180 rubaies)
No full text1881-1965 yılları arasında Konya'da yaşayan İbrahim Aczî Kendî, Konya'nın XX. yüzyılda yetiştirdiği önemli şair, gazeteci, araştırmacı, yazar, mutasavvıf ve folklorculardandır. Konya'da öğretmenlik yapan İbrahim Aczî Kendî, Arapça ve Farsça öğrenerek kendini geliştirmiş, tasavvuf, edebiyat ve tarihle ilgili kitaplar hazırlamıştır. İbrahim Aczî Kendî'nin bizzat kendisinin kaleme aldığı, tek nüshası Yusuf Ağa Kütüphanesinde 10465/1 numara ile kayıtlı olan Devr-i Zaman adlı eseri, 360 Farsça rubâî ve bu rubâîlerin Osmanlı Türkçesiyle yazılmış açıklamalarından oluşmaktadır. Bu çalışmada İbrahim Aczî Kendî'nin hayatı incelenmiş, Devr-i Zaman adlı eserinde bulunan 360 rubâînin son 180 tanesi çalışılmıştır. Her bir rubâînin Farsça ana metinleri bilgisayar ortamına aktarılmış, bazen sadece tercüme, bazen de çeşitli açıklamalar içeren Osmanlı Türkçesiyle yazılan kısımlar ise latin harfleriyle aktarılmıştır. İbrahim Aczî Kendî, bu çalışmada ele alınan rubâîlerinde, genellikle ilahi aşk, toplumsal ahlâk, zamandan şikâyet, riya ve kibirden uzak durmanın gerekliliği gibi birçok konuya değinmiştir.İbrahim Aczî Kendî who lived the years between 1881 and 1965 in Konya is an important poet, a journalist, an investigate author, a mystic and a folklorist who raised by Konya in 20th century. İbrahim Aczî Kendi, worked as a tutor in Konya, improved himself by learning Arabian and Persian, prepared books about mysticism, literature and history. Devr-i zaman, which is written by İbrahim Aczî Kendî by himself and whose only transcript is registered with the number 104657/1 in Yusuf Ağa Library, is made of 360 Persian rubaies and their explanation which is written in Ottoman Turkish. In this study İbrahim Aczî Kendî's life and last 180 of 360 Persian rubaies are studied. Each of rubaies' Persian main texts are transferred to electronic environment. Parts that sometimes include translation, sometimes also include various types of explanations written Ottoman Turkish are transferred with Latin letters. İbrahim Aczî Kendî, rubaies that handled in this study, touches on many topics, such as sociel ethics, complaints about today's youht, hypocrisy and staying away from and arrogance
The water resources structures on the Syrian and Egyptian pilgrim routes to Makka and Medinah
No full textAI-Hajj in Arabic means the pilgrimage to MAKKA. This was
an ancient rite which was recognised a long time before the
rise of Islam. According to the holy Quran and Islamic
tradi tion, AI-Haj j goes back to the time of the prophet
Ibrahim. Thus MAKKA was a focus for worship but it was also
a commercial centre and a way station/stopping place on the
ancient trade caravan road between south western -Arabia and
Bilad AI-Sham,' now Syria. In part the inhabitants of MAKKA
practised this trade because their environment was not
suitable for other alternative economic activities.
The importance of MAKKA, as a ritual place increased after
the rise of Islam because it became Qibla-Kiblah -
the direction to which muslims turn in praying towards AIKa'aba.
Yathrib - later to become Medinah - is the second holy city.
In fact it was not a ritual place, but like MAKKA it was a
stopping place on the ancient trade caravan road. The
inhabitants of Medinah practised agriculture because their
environment was more suitable than that at MAKKA; water was
available and the land was fertile so that in addition to
trade, they also practised agriculture.
The importance of Medinah as a holy place only developed
after AI-Hijra - the immigration of the prophet Mohammad,
peace be upon him, to it and his establishing of Islam at
that site. Medinah became the capital of the Islamic state
both religiously and politically. Islam then spread from
Medinah over the Arabian Peninsular to the world beyond.
The consequence of the conquest of Iraq, Bilad AI-Sham,
Egypt, the north coast of Africa and Persia was that the
majority of the population of these countries accepted and
adopted Islam as their religious faith. As a result of this
the populations of these countries came annually to make AlHajj and in doing so developed several additional pilgrim
caravan routes. However, it is the Syrian and Egyptian
pilgrim routes - Tareeq AI-Hajj AI-Shami and Wal Masri which
are the objects of this work. In both these cases the
pilgrim caravan routes were previously ancient trade caravan
routes which travelled through Arabia, particularly through
the western province of Al Hijaz.
The geographical location of Arabia, the cross roads of
three continents, Asia, Africa, and Europe, made important
the pre-Islamic routes which ran through it. Of course the
function of this network at that time was commercial but
after the rise of Islam the function of this network of
routes became to transport the pilgrims. The geological and
topographical features, as well as climatic conditions, in
Arabia played a great role in determining the ancient routes
in Arabia. The availability of water was a very important
consideration on these routes and was influenced by
environmental conditions. Since the rainfall is
insufficient, the resulting absence or shortage of water on
the pilgrim caravan routes made the caliphs pay great
concern to providing the pilgrim routes with the most
essential facilities, particularly water supplies and
storage. Ever since the earliest Islamic times, they
provided for the travellers Al birak, water tanks; Ahwadh cisterns; Qanawat - channels; and abyar - wells, in order to
make AI-Hajj journey more comfortable. The pilgrim caravans
in general, and the Syrian and Egyptian pilgrim caravan
routes in particular, passed through several stages of
development since their origin in early Islamic times and
these evolutionary stages can be seen until the beginning of
this century. Because the object of this thesis is to
document the remains of the water resource structures, an
extensive survey and investigation has been completed on the
Syrian and Egyptian pilgrim caravan routes. The field work
has been conducted in Saudi Arabia, particularly in the
north western region where the Syrian and Egyptian pilgrim
routes cross the country. The field work mainly aimed at
ascertaining the location of all the way stations and their
names and surveying each station in order to record the
surviving remains of water resource structures. The field
work covered a large area of about 8, OOOkm transect and
extended from MACCA in the south through Medinah to the
North as far as Halat I Ammar on the north at the border
between Saudi Arabia and Jordan. From N.W. to S .Wit
stretched from Haql on the Gulf of AI-' Aqaba as far as
MAKKA. These routes consist of the major, or principal
caravan routes as well as a number of traverse routes which
allow travellers a choice of transit as well as connecting
routes. There are large way stations as well as small minor
way stations. As part of this dissertation, almost all the
stopping places have been identified and documented by mapping and photography
A Comparison between Parametric Structural Optimization Methods and Software-Based Topology Optimization of A Rectangular Sample Under Tensile Load for Additive Manufacturing Processes
No full textThis article presents three methods of structural optimization for a rectangular sample under tensile load to minimize von Mises stress as an objective function. In the first method, namely the position-finding method, the initial volume is reduced by cut-extrusion of some circular holes with a uniform volume gradient along the length of the sample. In this method, the position of each hole is manipulated by using a genetic algorithm (GA) to achieve the minimum von Mises stress versus a specific tensile load. In the second method, namely geometry optimization method, several circular holes with different diameters are cut-extruded with monotonically decreasing volume gradient along the length of the sample to create a volume fraction at the beginning of optimization. As an alternative approach to the first method, an algorithm is seeded to alter the diameters of holes on the sample to minimize the same objective function i.e., von Mises stress. In the third method, namely integrated position and geometry optimization approach, severalsquare holes are cut-extruded along the length of the sample with a uniform volume gradient. Then, by using a GA, the position of each square along the width of the sample is manipulated together with their dimensions to minimize the same objective function of former methods versus the same applied load. Finally, the structural resultsof each sample in addition to the generated support structures, as one of the basic elements of some additive manufacturing (AM) processes,are compared with the software-based topologically-optimized sample with equivalent volume fractio
Plane-Wave Ultrasound Imaging: Implementation and Evaluation of Different Interpolation Schemes
No full textPengaruh Content Marketing dan Product Knowledge terhadap Purchase Intention Generasi Z dalam menggunakan layanan Bank Syariah Indonesia: Studi pada generasi Z Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang
No full textABSTRAK
Perkembangan teknologi saat ini mengalami kemajuan yang pesat. Terutama dengan adanya platfrom media sosial yang menjadi salah satu alat pemasaran yang efektif dalam memanfaatkan peluang tersebut. Pemasaran melalui media sosial menggunakan konten untuk memperkenalkan dan memasarkan produk-produk kepada masyarakat dengan tujuan meningkatkan minat beli. Oleh karena itu, tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk menginvestigasi hubungan antara content marketing dan product knowledge dengan purchase intention Generasi Z terhadap layanan Bank Syariah Indonesia. Data dikumpulkan melalui penyebaran kuesioner kepada mahasiswa Generasi Z di Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang.
Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif dengan jenis penelitian eksplanatori. Teknik purposive sampling digunakan dalam studi ini dengan jumlah sampel sebanyak 100 individu dengan kriteria generasi Z yang masih aktif sebagai mahasiswa UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang dan memiliki rekening Bank Syariah Indonesia. Skala Likert digunakan sebagai alat pengukuran. Analisis data melibatkan penggunaan uji asumsi klasik, regresi linier berganda, uji t, uji F, dan uji koefisien determinasi menggunakan perangkat lunak SPSS versi 26. Hasil studi ini menunjukkan bahwa variabel content marketing berpengaruh signifikan terhadap purchase intention, variabel product knowledge memiliki pengaruh signifikan terhadap purchase intention, dan secara simultan variabel content marketing dan product knowledge berpengaruh signifikan terhadap purchase intention.
ABSTRACT
The development of technology is currently experiencing rapid progress. Especially with the existence of social media platforms which are one of the effective marketing tools in taking advantage of these opportunities. Marketing through social media uses content to introduce and market products to the public with the aim of increasing buying interest. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between content marketing and product knowledge with the purchase intention of Generation Z towards Bank Syariah Indonesia services. Data was collected through the distribution of questionnaires to Generation Z students at Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University Malang.
This research uses quantitative methods with explanatory research types. Purposive sampling technique was used in this study with a sample of 100 individuals with generation Z criteria who are still active as students of UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang and have an Indonesian Sharia Bank account. The Likert scale is used as a measurement tool. Data analysis involved the use of classical assumption tests, multiple linear regression, t tests, F tests, and determination coefficient tests using SPSS software version 26. The results of this study show that content marketing variables have a significant effect on purchase intention, product knowledge variables have a significant influence on purchase intention, and simultaneously content marketing and product knowledge variables have a significant effect on purchase intention.
مستخلص البحث
تشهد التطورات التكنولوجية حاليًا تقدمًا سريعًا. خاصة مع وجود منصة تواصل اجتماعي والتي أصبحت أداة تسويقية فعالة في الاستفادة من هذه الفرصة. يستخدم التسويق عبر وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي المحتوى لتقديم المنتجات وتسويقها للجمهور بهدف زيادة الاهتمام بالشراء. لذلك ، فإن الغرض من هذا البحث هو التحقيق في العلاقة بين تسويق المحتوى ومعرفة المنتج مع نية شراء الجيل Z تجاه خدمات بنك الشريعة الإندونيسية. تم جمع البيانات من خلال توزيع الاستبيانات على طلاب الجيل زد في جامعة الدولة الإسلامية في مولانا مالك إبراهيم مالانج.
تستخدم هذه الدراسة المنهج الكمي مع البحث التوضيحي. تم استخدام تقنية أخذ العينات الهادفة في هذه الدراسة مع عينة إجمالية من 100 فرد لديهم معايير الجيل Z والذين لا يزالون نشطين كطلاب في UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang ولديهم حساب في بنك Syariah Indonesia. يستخدم مقياس ليكرت كأداة قياس. تضمن تحليل البيانات استخدام اختبار الافتراض الكلاسيكي ، والانحدار الخطي المتعدد ، واختبار t ، واختبار F ، واختبار معامل التحديد باستخدام برنامج SPSS الإصدار 26. وتشير نتائج هذه الدراسة إلى أن متغير تسويق المحتوى له تأثير كبير على نية الشراء ، متغير معرفة المنتج له تأثير كبير على نية الشراء ، وفي نفس الوقت يكون لمتغيرات تسويق المحتوى ومعرفة المنتج تأثير كبير على نية الشراء
Elderly Activity Recognition Based Embedded Machine Learning
No full textThis paper presents the implementation of an embedded-based machine learning system for elderly activity recognition. Two types of neural networks namely Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) were used to process data from Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) sensors mounted on the legs of elderly participants. Results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system in classifying elderly activity, achieving an accuracy of 99% and 80% for CNN and MLP, respectively. The MLP performs better in inference time than the CNN with 2 ms per classification compared to 656 ms for CNN. The proposed system has been successfully deployed on an Arduino nano BLE sense providing real-time on-board elderly activity recognition
Law as a Service (LaaS): Enabling Legal Protection over a Blockchain Network
No full textIn the current world of online contracts i.e. service level agreements (SLAs), contract breaches are usually compensated by gift vouchers, however in an emerging world of online contracts i.e. smart contracts, the breaches could potentially lead to court injunctions over blockchains. This research proposes Probability based Factor Model (PFM) that can be implemented over the blockchain to automatically is-sue court injunction for the breach, which has a potential to create sub-stantial damage and has high probability to occur in the future. The un-derlying concept in PFM is built upon the notion of factor analysis and stochastic modeling from the discipline of Data Science. High perfor-mance computing (HPC) cluster at University of Luxembourg (HPC @ Uni.lu) and docker (a software container platform) were used to emulate contractual environment of three service providers: Redis, MongoDB, and Memcached Servers. The results showed that court injunction(s) was issued only for Redis and MongoDB Servers. Technically, this difference could be attributed to the fact that Memcached is simply used for caching and therefore, it is less prone to breach of contract. Whereas, Redis and MongoDB as databases and message brokers are performing more complex operations and are more likely to cause a breach. The beneficiary of the research would be an enterprise that views breach of contract as a limiting factor for implementation of smart contract in cyber-physical system or internet of things
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