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Penyatuan Kalender Islam: Mendialogkan Wujûd al-Hilâl dan Visibilitas Hilal

Abstract: Unification of the Islamic Calendar: A Dialogue on Wujud al-Hilâl and the Visibility of Hilâl. Within the vocabulary of the Islamic calendar, particularly in Indonesia, the terms al-Hilâl and the sighting or “visibility” of the hilal (imkân al-ru’yah) are recognised. Wujud al-hilâl is a creative synthesis or half way between ijtimâ’ (qabl al-ghurub) and the theory of the visibility of the hilâl or, in other words, half way between pure hisab (calculating the hilâl) and ru’yah (the sighting of hilâl). Therefore, for the theory of wujud al-hilâl, the method used in starting the first day and a new month on the Islamic calendar is not merely the process of the occurrence of astronomical conjunctions but also considering the position of hilâl at sunset. Meanwhile, the visibility of hilâl is a construction of theories that which are sourced from the experience of observers. As a result, various typologies are created. In order to unite both concepts, an assertive and continuous dialogue is required. Keywords: hilâl, hisâb, ru’yah, matla‘ Abstrak: Penyatuan Kalender Islam: Mendialogkan Wujud al-Hilâl dan Visibilitas Hilal. Dalam khazanah pemikiran kalender Islam, khususnya di Indonesia, dikenal istilah wujud al-hilâl dan visibilitas hilal (imkân al-ru’yah). Kehadiran wujud al-hilâl merupakan sintesis kreatif atau jalan tengah antara teori ijtimâ‘ (qabl al-ghurub) dan teori visibilitas hilal atau jalan tengah antara hisab murni dan rukyat murni. Oleh karena itu, bagi teori wujud al-hilâl metode yang digunakan dalam memulai tanggal satu bulan baru pada kalender Islam tidak semata-mata proses terjadinya konjungsi tetapi juga mempertimbangkan posisi hilal saat matahari terbenam. Sementara itu visibilitas hilal adalah bangunan teori yang bersumber dari pengalaman para pengamat. Sehingga melahirkan bermacam-macam tipologi. Untuk memadukan keduanya diperlukan dialog yang asertif dan berkelanjutan. Kata Kunci: hilal, hisab, rukyat, matlak DOI: 10.15408/ajis.v13i2. 931
Improved Recognition of Far Objects by using DPM method in Curving-Effective Integral Imaging

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to enhance the recognition performance of a far and partially occluded three-dimensional (3-D) target in computational curving-effective integral imaging (CEII) by using the direct pixel-mapping (DPM) method. With this scheme, the elemental image array (EIA) originally picked up from a far and partially occluded 3-D target can be converted into a new EIA just like the one virtually picked up from a target located close to the lenslet array. Due to this characteristic of DPM, resolution and quality of the reconstructed target image can be highly enhanced, which results in a significant improvement of recognition performance of a far 3-D object. Experimental results reveal that image quality of the reconstructed target image and object recognition performance of the proposed system have been improved by 1.75 dB and 4.56% on the average in PSNR (peak-to-peak signal-to-noise ratio) and NCC (normalized correlation coefficient), respectively, compared to the conventional system.
KNOB: a mutation-based approach for generating stereotype behaviors in active decision support systems

Role playing is a natural paradigm for decision support. It closely mimics the kind of support decision makers can expect to receive from their peers and fellow human beings. People, when called for decision support, often resort to the use of behavior patterns such as expert, devil's advocate, critique, playing dumb, careful listener, etc. These forms of support have a much higher potential for enhancing decision quality than the mundane forms of support such as number crunching, data analysis, etc. It is shown how knowledge base mutation may be used for generating such behavior patterns during decision support. The author covers the basic ideas of mutation, develops a systematic approach for applying the ideas for decision support, and illustrates its application for building a practical decision support system. The preliminary evaluations of the system are very encouraging, and suggest that systems incorporating these ideas can be very effective in practice. <<ETX>>
Genetic Programming IV: Routine Human-Competitive Machine Intelligence

1. Introduction. 2. Background on Genetic Programming. 3. Automatic Synthesis of Controllers. 4. Automatic Synthesis of Circuits. 5. Automatic Synthesis of Circuit Topology, Sizing, Placement, and Routing. 6. Automatic Synthesis of Antennas. 7. Automatic Synthesis of Genetic Networks. 8. Automatic Synthesis of Metabolic Pathways. 9. Automatic Synthesis of Parameterized Topologies for Controllers. 10. Automatic Synthesis of Parameterized Topologies for Circuits. 11. Automatic Synthesis of Parameterized Topologies with Conditional Developmental Operators for Circuits. 12. Automatic Synthesis of Improved Tuning Rules for PID Controllers. 13. Automatic Synthesis of Parameterized Topologies for Improved Controllers. 14. Reinvention of Negative Feedback. 15. Automated Re-Invention of Six Post-2000 Patented Circuits. 16. Problems for Which Genetic Programming May Be Well Suited. 17. Parallel Implementation and Computer Time. 18. Historical Perspective on Moore's Law and the Progression of Qualitatively More Substantial Results Produced by Genetic Programming. 19. Conclusion. Appendix A: Functions and Terminals. Appendix B: Control Parameters. Appendix C: Patented or Patentable Inventions Generated by Genetic Programming. Bibliography.
Professional Behaviors and Attitudes: Factors Influencing Farmworkers Access to Mental Health Care

The available research on the mental health of farmworkers suggests that they are more likely to suffer from mental illness in the form of depression and anxiety when compared to the general U.S. population. Farmworkers’ mental health needs are not being met because of their marginalization; however, little is known about the role human service, health care and education professionals have on the mental health care of farmworkers. The aim of this exploratory cross-sectional study is to examine the associations between demographic characteristics, attitudes, beliefs, and mental health stigma to determine whether these variables influence professional behaviors namely their providing farmworkers with information or referrals to mental health care. Findings show that human service, health care and teachers who attach comparably higher levels of stigma to mental illness were more likely to provide farmworkers with information about and referrals to mental health care.
One To Mant And Many To Many Collective Communication Operations On Grids

Collective Communication Operations are widely used in MPI applications and play an important role in their performance. Hence, various projects have focused on optimization of collective communications for various kinds of parallel computing environments including LAN settings, heterogeneous networks and most recently Grid systems. The distinguishing factor of Grids from all the other environments is heterogeneity of hosts and network, and dynamically changing resource characteristics including load and availability. The first part of the thesis develops a solution for MPI broadcast (one-to-many) on Grids. Some current strategies take into consideration static information about network topology for determining an efficient broadcast tree for Grids. Some other strategies take into account only transient network characteristics. We combined both these strategies and cluster the network dynamically on the basis of link bandwidths. Given a set of network parameters we use Simulated Annealing (SA) to obtain the best schedule. Also, we can time tune individual SAs ,to adapt the solution finding process, on the basis of estimated available times before next broadcast invocations in the application. We also developed a software architecture for updation of schedules. We compared our algorithm with the earlier approaches under loaded network conditions, and obtained average performance improvement of 20%. The second part of the thesis extends the work for MPI allgather (many-to-many) operation. Current popular techniques consider strict hierarchical schemes for this operation, wherein from each cluster a representative ( or coordinator) node is chosen, and inter cluster communication is done through these representative nodes. This is non optimal as inter cluster communication is usually on high capacity links that can sustain more than one transfer with the same throughput. We developed a cluster based and incremental heuristic algorithm for allgather on Grids.
Multistatic isar autofocussing using image contrast optimization

In this paper we present a multistatic autofocussing approach, based on the optimization of the image contrasts in multiple received images. Other than monostatic algorithms, this method can not only estimate the range history of a target, but its full trajectory. Coherency of the received signal in different receivers is not required. The method is validated with experimental results. (4 pages)
Longitudinal Methods in the Health Sciences: Four Recommendations

volume 1 5 issue 3 Longitudinal research with multiple time points has become more popular in health psychology, fueled by the rise of eHealth/mHealth studies. This article will address common challenges using longitudinal designs in the health sciences, including sources of variance and reliability of change, the difference between within-person effects and between-person effects, within-person mediation, and power. We make four recommendations: (1) to select change-sensitive measures and calculate variance components and reliability of change routinely as a starting point of data analysis, (2) to distinguish within-person process from between-person effects in data analysis, (3) to consider within-person mediation processes, and (4) to think of the different sources influencing power in longitudinal designs and to conduct power analyses. We will discuss how the use of advanced longitudinal designs could shape theory and research in the health sciences.
Mechanical design and gait planning of a hydraulically actuated quadruped bionic robot

A hydraulically actuated quadruped bionic robot has been developed by Center for Robotics at Shandong University is described in this paper.The objective is to design a highly dynamic and high load quadruped robot that enables the adaptation to complex terrain.Based on mule/horse creature bionics,the leg configuration with passive structure and hydraulic actuation are met the needs of stability control and high load capacity.And the stability dynamic trotting gait of the quadruped robot is planned based on the forward kinematics and inverse kinematics.Experiments of the developed quadruped bionic robot platform show the rationality of mechanical design and the effectiveness of gait planning.
Open platform of self-paced MOOCs for the continual improvement of academic guidance and knowledge strengthening in tertiary education

In the academic year 2014/2015, University of XXX started the Project Orient@mente , aimed to support students in the transition from high school to university. Several Massive Open Online Courses have been developed to support three main actions: guidance to the University offer, automated self-testing of basic knowledge, self-paced review of fundamental disciplinary concepts learned in high school; all of them are useful to help students successfully attend scientific courses of the first year of University. A key feature of the Project is the continuous open-access to the platform. Contents are built according to educational models grown thanks to the experience and the research in e-learning carried out by the University, especially in the use of an accessible learning management system integrated with an advanced computing environment, an automated assessment system and a web conference system to enhance teaching and learning. In this paper, the adopted methodologies are discussed, the obtained results are presented and future developments are proposed in light of relevant data collected from the platform usage and feedback received by users.
Prevalence of scrotum bipartition in sheep in the Paraiba backwoods, Brazil

Goats and sheep have morphological characteristics for adaptation to desert and semiarid regions. The appearance of scrotum division known as scrotum bipartition has already been reported in goats. This anatomy increases the surface of each testicle exposed to environmental temperature, favoring heat dissipation and improving reproductive efficiency. Considering that there are already studies on the goat species demonstrating the presence of this characteristic as an influence on reproductive parameters, the prevalence of scrotum bipartition was estimated in the sheep herds reared in the municipality of Patos, Paraiba backwoods, Brazil. A total of 331 rams were examined from farms in four municipalities in the micro-region of Patos, Paraiba, Brazil, and the same study was also carried out at the municipal slaughterhouse in this city, where 456 animals were examined. According to the analysis, 66.67% of the farms visited presented one or more sheep with scrotum bipartition, with a prevalence of 11.48% on the farms and 14.47% at the slaughterhouse. The degree of bipartition was 9.59 ± 1.035% of the total scrotum length for the animals in the field and 12.89 ± 0.749% for those from the slaughterhouse, characterizing bipartition of less than 50% of the scrotum length. The variables intensive rearing (OR = 16.6) and the Dorper breed (OR = 6.91) were identified as factors associated to the presence of scrotum bipartition. It was concluded that scrotum bipartition is a characteristic present in sheep reared in the municipality of Patos in the semiarid region of Paraiba state, northeastern Brazil, and high prevalence was observed of farms with bipartition sheep, but a low number of animals with scrotum bipartition was identified.
Ad-hoc Holistic Ranking Aggregation

Data exploration is considered one of the major processes that enables the user to analyze massive amount of data in order to find the most important and relevant information needed. Aggregation and Ranking are two of the most frequently used tools in data exploration. The interaction between ranking and aggregation has been studied widely from different perspectives. In this thesis, a comprehensive survey about this interaction is studied. Holistic Ranking Aggregation which is a new interaction is introduced. Finally, various algorithms are proposed to efficiently process ad-hoc holistic ranking aggregation for both monotone and generic scoring functions.
Densification Methods of GPS Satellite Clock Errors and Their Impact on Orbit Determination Precision of LEOs

The application of so-called precise point positioning(PPP) method has been limited by the different interval of GPS satellite clock errors provided by IGS or its analysis centres and users.In order to cope with this problem,the commonly used densification methods of GPS satellite clock errors,especially the principle of estimation of high-rate satellite clock errors using IGS ground tracking stations have been analysed and compared.Then the results obtained by different densification method including estimation method are compared with the estimated high-rate satellite clock errors by IGS.After that the satellite clock errors gained by different densification methods introduced have been used for CHAMP orbit determination(OD) employing PPP method combined with dynamic models,and the precision of them are compared as well.The results show that GPS ground tracking data can be used for estimation of high rate satellite clock errors.The precision of estimation is about 0.1 ns to 0.5 ns,which is close to the precision of IGS.The OD precision of LEOs based on PPP method using satellite clock errors obtained by estimation discussed in this paper is less than 10 cm.
Performance of unified power quality conditioner (UPQC) based on fuzzy controller for attenuating of voltage and current harmonics

Power quality-related issues such as current and voltage distortions can adversely affect home and industrial appliances. Although several conventional techniques such as the use of passive and active filters have been developed to increase power quality standards, these methods have challenges and are inadequate due to the increasing number of applications. The Unified Power Quality Conditioner (UPQC) is a modern strategy towards correcting the imperfections of voltage and load current supply. A UPQC is a combination of both series and shunt active power filters in a back-to-back manner with a common DC link capacitor. The control of the voltage of the DC link capacitor is important in achieving a desired UPQC performance. In this paper, the UPQC with a Fuzzy logic controller (FLC) was used to precisely eliminate the imperfections of voltage and current harmonics. The results of the simulation studies using MATLAB/Simulink and Simpower system programming for R-L load associated through an uncontrolled bridge rectifier was used to assess the execution process. The UPQC with FLC was simulated for a system with distorted load current and a system with distorted source voltage and load current. The outcome of the comparison of %THD in the load current and source voltage before and after using UPQC for the two cases was presented.
Head posture in patients with whiplash-associated disorders and the measurement method's reliability – A comparison to healthy subjects

Whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) are a major problem for healthcare providers and sufferers. Neck pain is one of the most common WAD, and forward head posture may contribute to neck pain. Objective methods for assessing head posture are necessary in the evaluation of postural correction. The purpose of this study was to investigate the inter-rater reliability of the goniometer and to examine differences in head posture in patients with WAD compared with healthy individuals. Twenty-seven consecutive patients and 40 healthy subjects matched for age and gender were included in the study. Head position relative to shoulders in standing was assessed by three examiners. The inter-rater reliability for the goniometer showed an intraclass correlation coefficient of 0.95. The absolute reliability for the three testers was 1.8°. An independent t-test showed that the difference in head posture between the patients and controls was significant. The patient group showed more forward head posture. Patients with WAD had more forward head posture than persons without neck problems. The goniometer proved to be reliable with high inter-rater reliability in assessing the head position relative to shoulders.
Proactive Eavesdropping in UAV-Aided Suspicious Communication Systems

This paper considers a new wireless information surveillance scenario, where a legitimate monitor tries to eavesdrop on the suspicious messages sent by an unmanned aerial vehicle aided suspicious transmitter. By using the characteristic of the suspicious system, we propose an effective proactive jamming scheme to maximize the achievable eavesdropping rate. A successive convex approximation based iterative algorithm is first developed to solve the original non-convex optimization problem. Based on this result, the eavesdropping rate maximization problem is then solved by applying the one-dimensional search method. Moreover, we also study the special case of two suspicious receivers for gaining more useful insights on designing the optimal jamming transmission strategy. Numerical results show that the proposed proactive jamming approach can significantly enhance the achievable eavesdropping rate compared to the reference scheme.
Erarbeitung eines Konzeptes zur aktiven Steuerung einer hochzuverlässigen Leistungsversorgungseinheit für ein hybrides Navigationssystem

Mit SHEFEX III verfolgt das Deutsche Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt konsequent seine Forschungs- und Entwicklungsarbeiten im Rahmen des SHEFEX-Programms. SHEFEX III konzentriert sich auf die Aspekte von Navigation, Flugregelung, Bahnplanung und Kostenminimierung. Die Abteilung Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) am DLR-Institut fur Raumfahrtsysteme in Bremen entwickelt ein hybrides Navigationssystem, sowie die Flugfuhrung fur diese Mission. In Hinblick auf nachfolgende Missionen soll bei der Entwicklung des Navigationssystems darauf hingewirkt werden, dass es auch fur zukunftige Anwendungen verwendet werden kann. Damit dieses System hochzuverlassig und fehlertolerant ist, benotigt es eine ausfallsichere Leistungsversorgungseinheit (PDU). Um die Belastung der Energieversorgung beim Betrieb des Systems kontrollieren und uberwachen zu konnen, soll die PDU mit einer aktiven Steuerung ausgestattet werden, die es ermoglicht, flexibel auf auftretende Fehlerzustande reagieren zu konnen. In der vorliegenden Bachelorthesis wird ein Konzept zur hochzuverlassigen Steuerung der Leistungsversorgungseinheit fur das SHEFEX III-Navigationssystem erarbeitet. Zu diesem Zweck werden verschiedene Verfahren und Normen untersucht, miteinander verglichen und deren Anwendbarkeit fur SHEFEX III uberpruft. Dieses Konzept dient dem DLR anschliesend dazu, eine PDU-Steuerung zu entwerfen und zu implementieren. Diese Thesis entstand im Rahmen eines studienbezogenen Praktikums und der anschliesenden Fortfuhrung des Projektes als studentische Hilfskraft. Die Thesis wurde der Hochschule Bremen als Bachelorthesis vorgelegt, um den akademischen Grad eines Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) zu erreichen.
Handover prioritised schemes for optimal capacity and overload management in cellular mobile systems

This paper analyses the capacity maximisation in the presence of new calls and handovers (HO) in cellular mobile systems. The analysis of HO prioritisation, leads to the definition of the optimal system configuration (e.g., number of guard channels). It is shown that a 'guard channels' based scheme does not maximise but approximates the maximum capacity. A new HO prioritised scheme, that maximises the cell capacity, is then proposed. The scheme uses 'unequally shared channels', which are allocated to new calls and HO with a different priority guided by a control parameter. Finally, an analysis on the system behaviour during overload conditions leads to the identification of the optimal scheme control.
Le culte de l'Internet

Pour le premiere fois dans l'histoire de l'humanite, l'homme a construit un dispositif technique, Internet, capable de dispenser les hommes de toute communication directe. Personne n'aurait sans doute pense a un tel usage, si Internet n'etait pas devenu l'objet d'un veritable culte, porte par la promesse d'un monde meilleur, celui du « cyber espace ». Ses thuriferaires, partisans du « tout-Internet », semblent aujourd'hui l'avoir provisoirement emporte face aux « technophobes », mais surtout face a tous ceux qui reclament un usage raisonne des nouvelles technologies. Ces militants fondamentalistes appellent de leurs voeux une « societe mondiale de l'information », ou le nouveau lien social serait fonde sur la separation des corps et la collectivisation des consciences. Une vision ou se melent l'heritage de Teilhard de Chardin, le bouddhisme zen et les croyances New Age. Et qui mobilise des valeurs propres a la culture americaine, comme le puritanisme, le manicheisme, la recherche de l'harmonie sociale et le jeunisme. Elle s'inscrit dans une nouvelle religiosite, qui celebre l'utopie de la transparence, dans un contexte marque par la crise du politique, mais egalement l'affaiblissement de l'influence du monotheisme et de l'humanisme. Telle est la these de ce livre provocateur. L'un des meilleurs specialistes francais de la communication y repond a des questions tres actuelles : d'ou vient ce nouveau culte, quelles sont ses racines historiques, pourquoi son succes ? N'est-il pas porteur, dans ses exces, d'un risque majeur pour un lien social deja tres fragilise ?