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Shaleh Darat ’ s Moderate Sufism : Dialectic of Submission , Sincerity and World Affairs in Haża

Kiai Shaleh Darat is considered as a scholar who has a diversity of scientific disciplines. In contemporary Sufistic studies of the Archipelago (Indonesia), he has not obtained a decent place as in the study of Azra (2007), Mulyati (2006), Anwar and Shalihin (2006). Nevertheless, the sufistic side of the teachings of the Kiai Muhammad Shaleh al-Samarani looks very striking in each of his works. This study seeks to analyze the mysticism of the Kiai Shaleh Darat in the book Haża Al-Kitab Matnu Al-Ḥikam. Through qualitative methods, the research data comes from literature review. This study succeeded in uncovering Sufism developed by the Kiai Shaleh Darman with tasawuf akhlaqi (sunni-amali), in which not only contains Sufism teachings which emphasize the basic concept of Islam, namely the submission of a servant to his God, but also the path of humanity. The narrative of divinity and humanity merges into Sufism. Kiai Shaleh lied between traditionalism and modernity, locality and globalism. This characteristic is reflected in the discourse that was rolled out: submission, illiteracy, world problems, nationalism, hard work, and clothing models intersecting as a path to God.
Weekend effect and financial characteristics: is there any relation in Latin America?

This study seeks to investigate the presence of the weekend effect in six Latin American markets (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru) and to show the relationship between the weekend effect and investment portfolios sorted by four financial characteristics: stock market liquidity, current liquidity ratio, market capitalization (size) and price-to-book ratio. Using an extension of the French (1980) Model and a portfolio study we identify a significant weekend effect in all countries and found a negative relation between the weekend effect and four financial characteristics: the weekend effect is stronger in portfolios that contain stocks with low market liquidity, securities with low current liquidity ratios, small cap stocks (size) and stocks with low price-to-book ratios. As opposed to previous studies, we suggest that the weekend effect may be influenced by the investment of institutional investors in securitized loans issued by companies with value stocks and tight current liquidity ratios, and by the investment of individual investors in small-cap and illiquid stocks.
Examining the factors mediating the intended washback of the english language School-Based Assessment: Pre-Service ESL teachers' accounts

ing and indexing of Pertanika Pertanika is 40 years old; this accumulated knowledge has resulted in Pertanika JSSH being abstracted and indexed in SCOPUS (Elsevier), Thomson (ISI) Web of ScienceTM Core Collection Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). Web of Knowledge [BIOSIS & CAB Abstracts], EBSCO and EBSCOhost, DOAJ, Google Scholar, TIB, MyCite, ISC, Cabell’s Directories & Journal Guide. Jo u rn a l o f S o ia l S ie n ce s & H u m a n tie s Jo u rn a l o f S o ia l S ie n ce s & H u m a n tie s Jo u rn a l o f S o ia l S ie n ce s & H u m a n tie s Future vision We are continuously improving access to our journal archives, content, and research services. We have the drive to realise exciting new horizons that will benefit not only the academic community, but society itself. Citing journal articles The abbreviation for Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities is Pertanika J. Soc. Sci. Hum.
Interdepartmental dynamics and firms market orientation: An empirical evidence from service firms in Tanzania

This paper examines the relationship between interdepartmental dynamics and market orientation of service firms in Tanzania. The study used a sample of 177 hotels, insurance agents, tour operators and travel agents from seven regions in Tanzania. Complex random sampling was used to select 177 firms. It involved purposive sampling to ensure inclusion in the sample of hotels, insurance agents, tour operators and travel agents. Simple random sampling was used to pick final firms that constituted the sample. Analysis of Moment Structures was used to estimate the structural equation model using Maximum Likelihood Method. The study used MARKOR to measure market orientation of service firms in Tanzania while interdepartmental dynamics were measured by a scale developed and tested by Jaworki and Kohli (1993). Findings indicated that interdepartmental dynamics (defined as interdepartmental conflict and interdepartmental connectedness) relate to market orientation of service firms in Tanzania. Specifically, results showed that interdepartmental conflict negatively influences on intelligence dissemination and organizational responsiveness components of market orientation but has no influence on intelligence generation component. Furthermore, findings from the study showed that interdepartmental connectedness influences positively on intelligence dissemination and organizational responsiveness components of market orientation but has no influence on intelligence generation. On the basis of findings, the paper recommends to organizations to manage interdepartmental conflicts at the earliest possible stage and nurture teamwork among departments for them to implement market orientation. Empirical findings from the study contribute to theory of antecedents to market orientation.
Human papilloma virus , DNA methylation and microRNA expression in cervical cancer

Cancer is a complex disease caused by genetic and epigenetic abnormalities that affect gene expression. The progression from precursor lesions to invasive cervical cancer is influenced by persistent human papilloma virus (HPV) infection, which induces changes in the host genome and epigenome. Epigenetic alterations, such as aberrant miRNA expression and changes in DNA methylation status, favor the expression of oncogenes and the silencing of tumor-suppressor genes. Given that some miRNA genes can be regulated through epigenetic mechanisms, it has been proposed that alterations in the methylation status of miRNA promoters could be the driving mechanism behind their aberrant expression in cervical cancer. For these reasons, we assessed the relationship among HPV infection, cellular DNA methylation and miRNA expression. We conclude that alterations in the methylation status of protein-coding genes and various miRNA genes are influenced by HPV infection, the viral genotype, the physical state of the viral DNA, and viral oncogenic risk. Furthermore, HPV induces deregulation of miRNA expression, particularly at loci near fragile sites. This deregulation occurs through the E6 and E7 proteins, which target miRNA transcription factors such as p53.
Figure 1 – Cast-in-situ waffle slab structure ( Silva , 2005 ) [ 4 ] Figure 2 – Two-way waffle slab , TWWS

© 2014 IBRACON The focus of the paper is the analysis of accidental loads used for garage floors considering the recommendations of national and international norms on the load values to be applied on those floors. The Brazilian norm NBR 6120/1980 [1], on the subject, does not specify concentrated loads while Euro Code [2] and IBC international [3] norms recommend that distributed and concentrated loads shall be considered. Currently, waffle slabs are widely used in garage floors. In this context, considering the standards of the most used vehicles in the country, we ask: are the values of the distributed loads from the norms suitable for slab design? Or is it necessary to correct these loads to account for concentrated loads on the order of 8.5 kN per share corresponding to a utility vehicle tire? The objective of the present study is to find answers for those two questions through parametric analysis involving the main parameters of a waffle slab, which are: side ratio λ (lambda), spacing between the main ribs and scheme of slab support (one-way or two-way) The set of simulations shows that the loads recommended by the mentioned norms need to be corrected when used in garage floors to reproduce the effect of the loads concentrated in the tires of utility vehicles.
Isolation , identification and treatment of Vancomycin-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis May

Out of Hundred clinical samples, taken from different sources include burn, blood , wound and nasal swabs infections ; 90 isolates developed growth on mannitol salt agar. Among these, 40 (44.4%) were Coagulase positive (Staphylococcus aureus) isolates and 50 (55.5%)belong to coagulase negative staphylococci, in which the last Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates were 30(60%). Antibiotic susceptibility of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates to 12 antibiotics were determined using disc diffusion method . The results revealed that high resistance to Penecillin G10 and Amoxiclav (Amoxicillinclavulanic acid) ( 100%) and the high sensitivity to Imipenim (95%). The pattern of minimum inhibitory concentration of S.epidermidis isolates to vancomycin , was determined using MIC method; The results revealed that 12 S.epidermidis isolates ( 40 %) were vancomycin resistant, the MIC of them between (25632 μg\ml) , 4 S.epidermidis isolates (13.3%) were intermediate resistance , the MIC to 3 of them were 16 μg\ml and the last was 8 μg\ml.
Evaluating effects of de fi cit irrigation strategies on grain sorghum attributes and biofuel production *

With reduced water resources available for agriculture, scientists and engineers have developed innovative technologies and management strategies aimed at increasing efficient use of irrigation water. The objective of this research was to study the impact of deficit irrigation strategies on sorghum grain attributes and bioethanol production. Grain sorghumwas planted at Southwest Research-Extension Center near Garden City, KS, under five different irrigation capacities (1 inch every 4, 6, 8,10, or 12 days) and dryland in 2015 and 2016 growing seasons. Results showed average kernel weight, kernel diameter and test weight of grain sorghum increased as irrigation capacity increased, whereas kernel hardness index decreased as irrigation capacity increased. Starch and protein contents of sorghum ranged from 69.45 to 72.82% and 8.22e12. 50%, respectively. Starch pasting temperature and peak time decreased as irrigation capacity increased. Irrigation capacity had a positive impact on bioethanol yield, whereas both year and interaction between irrigation capacity and year did not show significant effect on bioethanol yield resulting from above normal rainfall received during the growing seasons. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Influence of news from Moscow and New York on Returns and Risks of Baltic State Stock Markets

The impact of news from the Moscow and New York stock exchanges on the daily returns and volatilities of Baltic stock market indices is studied. A nonlinear time series model that accounts for asymmetries in conditional mean and variance functions is used for the empirical work. News from New York has stronger effects on returns in Tallinn than news from Moscow. High-risk shocks in New York have a stronger impact on volatility in Tallinn, whereas volatility in Vilnius is more influenced by high-risk shocks from Moscow. Riga seems not to be affected by news arriving from abroad.
Evaluating customer perceived value of housing based on location factor and economic value

This study seeks to evaluate customer perceived value in housing in order to increase the construction of housing value from the consumer’s point of view. A total of 240 houseowners in the middle to upper housings in Medan city, Indonesia, participated in this study. The data analysis used in this study is the Partial Least Square (PLS) approach. The results indicate that the perception of consumer value is strongly influenced by the economic value of the housing and the location function of the housing. Housing offered should be able to meet the needs of consumers and has the good mobility and accessibility. The emphasis that needs to be put in encouraging the perception of consumer value is the ability of the product in general, namely housing units in answering the needs of consumers.
MASTERARBEIT / MASTER ́S THESIS

Depleted uranium (DU) is used in modern military conflicts as an ammunition. Most of the munition (90%) miss their targets and bury themselves in the ground, where the DU material is subjected to several weathering processes. Corrosion, dissolution and transport are the main processes controlling the mobility of the DU corrosion product and its potential impact to the environment. This thesis focuses on the dissolution process of the DU corrosion products. Two experimental set-ups have been performed. In batch experiments, the effect of different environmental conditions such as pH, pCO2, salinity and organic ligands on the dissolution of DU have been tested. The results show that dissolution rate is increased at both acidic(pH 3-4.5) and alkaline (pH 9) conditions. High CO2 partial pressure as well as oxalic acid showed strongly supporting effects on the dissolution rate of uranium. The second experiment was performed using a continuous-flow stirred-tank reactor set-up in which dissolution products are removed from the system and the influence of the solution saturation state on the dissolution rate can be determined. The results show that the dissolution rate of DU is influenced by the solution saturation state. Increased solution saturation state has led to a slowdown of the dissolution rate. In summary, the dissolution of DU corrosion products was shown to be dependent on varying environmental parameters. These findings could be used for risk assessment in order to identify and distinguish risky soil from unproblematic soils in the context of DU dissolution.
Ownership structure and risk profile of banks in emerging economies

This article analyzes the relationship between ownership structure and risk profile based on the data from the emerging banking market. Using Kohonen self-organizing maps, we divide banks into clusters according to the type of risk profile. This mapping technique is based on panel data dimensionality reduction, as risk profile is changeable over time. We adopted the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision recommendations regarding the types of concentration of funding serving also as a basis for determining the risk exposure of banks and used them as an input for Kohonen maps. We conclude that business models and, consequently, risk exposures of banks significantly depend on sources of capital (domestic private, foreign, state). Our empirical results show that ownership type is a major, but not the only factor influencing bank risk profiles. These findings call for a change of the regulatory paradigm in emerging (banking) markets.
A Wasting Syndrome in Released Whooping Cranes in Florida Associatedwith Infectious Bursal Disease Titers

Whooping cranes (Grus americana) have been reintroduced into central Florida beginning in 1993 until the present. Bobcat predation of otherwise healthy cranes in good nutritional condition was the most common cause of mortality. However, release cohorts in the years 1997-1998 (14/22 died) and 2001-2002 (14/27 died, 5/27 clinical illness) experienced unusually high morbidity and mortality. Positive serum neutralizing titers for infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) were identified following the 2001 event, and an epidemiological study of released birds and the captive source flocks was initiated. Serotype 1 (Lukert and Variant A) tests were mostly negative. Serotype 2 testing resulted in many more positives. Polymerase chain reaction positive results for IBDV were obtained from two whooping cranes; one that died during the first epizootic in Florida in 1998, and one captive bird that died in 2003 at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. The serotype remains unconfirmed at this time. Virus isolation has not been accomplished. The disease was characterized by chronic weight loss in young of the year birds that were actively foraging. other observations included granulomatous oral lesions, bill bruising and fractures, anemia, abnormal submissive behavior, and infection with Megabacteria and Eimeria. Eight of 10 released cranes with titers > 1:128 had detectable evidence of illness. Older birds sharing the same habitat and food remained unaffected. Some sick birds were able to recover and become members of bonded pairs. The first seropositive case occurred in 1993. Seropositive birds are not randomly distributed by year indicating differential exposure or susceptibility. The prevalence of seropositive birds (titer > 1:32, n = 256, 1993 to 2003) increased from 7% of birds leaving captive centers to 33% of birds that had spent 2 weeks in Florida. Significantly more older birds, captured because they were clinically ill or to change transmitters, were seropositive (75%). Within the wild flock seroprevalence increased with age. In wild birds monitored frequently, fluctuation in titers indicated multiple re-exposures. The source of exposure, whether within the whooping crane flock, sandhill cranes, or another species, remains unknown. ProcEEDINGS of thE North AmErIcAN crANE WorkShoP 10:176
Power and Performance of Native and Java Benchmarks on 130 nm to 32 nm Process Technologies

Over the past decade, chip fabrication technology shrank from 130nm to 32nm. This reduction was generally considered to provide performance improvements together with chip power reductions. This paper examines how well process technology and microarchitecture delivered on this assumption. This paper evaluates power and performance of native and Java workloads across a selection of IA32 processors from five technology generations (130nm, 90nm, 65nm, 45nm, and 32nm). We use a Hall effect sensor to accurately measure chip power. This paper reports a range findings in three areas. 1) Methodology: TDP is unsurprisingly a poor predictor of application power consumption for a particular processor, but worse, TDP is a poor predictor of relative power consumption between processors. 2) Power-performance trends: Processors appear to have already hit the power wall at 45nm. 3) Native versus Java workloads and their relationship to processor technology: Single threaded Java workloads exploit multiple cores. These results indicate that Java workloads offer different opportunities and challenges compared to native workloads. Our findings challenge prevalent methodologies and offer new insight into how microarchitectures have traded power and performance as process technology shrank.
Tilburg University Nonparametric estimation of the spectral measure of an extreme value distribution

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HIGH-FREQUENCY OSCILLATORY VENTILATION VERSUS CONVENTIONAL MECHANICAL VENTILATION FOR VERY-LOW-BIRTHWEIGHT INFANTS

A BSTRACT Background The efficacy and safety of early highfrequency oscillatory ventilation as compared with conventional synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation for the treatment of infants with very low birth weight have not been established. Methods We conducted a randomized, multicenter clinical trial to determine whether infants treated with early high-frequency oscillatory ventilation were more likely than infants treated with synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation to be alive without requiring supplemental oxygen at 36 weeks of postmenstrual age. Eligible infants weighed 601 to 1200 g at birth, were less than four hours of age, had received one dose of surfactant, and required ventilation with a mean airway pressure of at least 6 cm of water and a fraction of inspired oxygen of at least 0.25. Infants were stratified according to birth weight and exposure to prenatal corticosteroids and then randomly assigned to high-frequency oscillatory ventilation or synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation. Ventilation was managed according to protocols designed to optimize lung inflation and blood gas values. Results Five hundred infants were enrolled in the study. Infants randomly assigned to high-frequency oscillatory ventilation were successfully extubated earlier than infants assigned to synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation (P<0.001). Of infants assigned to high-frequency oscillatory ventilation, 56 percent were alive without a need for supplemental oxygen at 36 weeks of postmenstrual age, as compared with 47 percent of those receiving synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation (P=0.046). There was no difference between the groups in the risk of intracranial hemorrhage, cystic periventricular leukomalacia, or other complications. Conclusions There was a small but significant benefit of high-frequency oscillatory ventilation in terms of the pulmonary outcome for very-low-birth-weight infants without an increase in the occurrence of other complications of premature birth. (N Engl J Med 2002; 347:643-52.)
GENERATING INTANGIBLE RESOURCE AND INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE: INSIGHTS INTO ENTERPRISES ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND CAPABILITY AT TRADE SHOWS

This paper helps to achieve a better understanding of the relationships among organizational behaviors, capabilities and the intangible resources of firms as a micro-level origin of the internationalization of enterprises. The resource-based view, strategic management theory, knowledge absorption and establishment practice, trade show issues and model theory development are integrated and implications offered for both scholars and practitioners. It integrates a research model based on trade show practices, and concentrates on the experimental conditions targeted by the respondents. The mediating roles of enterprises’ intangible resources are also discussed. Based on a sample of trade development groups, 256 completed questionnaires were used to examine the hypotheses. The hypotheses were tested using structural equation models. The findings show that relationship building positively influences relationship performance. The relationship performance has a significant mediating role on the effects of information sharing on international performance. Moreover, commitment to learning and high absorptive capacity of a firm determines the innovation performance of firms and contributes to their international performance.