Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Maslahah Based Measurement on Indonesia Islamic Banks

Every single effort or process taken by Islamic bank to maximize output should also uphold Islamic values, so that maqashid sharia (maslahah-sharia objectives) would be authomatically achieved. There were some research conducted to measure Islamic bank performance using maqashid sharia framework. However, these studies were not explicitly addressing the issue of cost-saving strategies within the framework of efficiency measurement. It is therefore this paper aims to have efficiency and maslahah measurement in one assessment framework that is maslahah-eficiency quadrant (MEQ). There are three aspects measurement of maslahah, namely education, justice, and welfare as maqashid sharia index (MSI). Hence, in order to measure efficiency level of Islamic Banking Industry especially Sharia Business Unit, this study use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method and employ Banxia Frontier Analyst 3.1 for data analysis. Within the MEQ framework, the study revealed that Permata, CIMB, BTN, DKI, Jambi, and Kalbar are excellent since both are within the first quadrant.Whereas Maybank, NISP, Sinarmas, Sumbar, and Sulselbar are considered good at the second quadrant; Danamon, Jatim, Sumut, RiauK and DIY, Jateng, and NTB are poor at the fourth sequentially. It is urge for Islamic bank that are in low level of MSI to have a critical policy to keep in line with the five factor of maqashid sharia apart of having efficiency in order to reach maslahah. keywords: Maslahah-Efficiency Quadrant (MEQ), Maqashid Sharia index (MSI), DEA, Islamic Bank
Implementation of M-government: Leveraging Mobile Technology to Streamline the E-governance Framework

Mobile-government (m-government) is the initial stage of the development of the futuristic trends of the e-government. There are several features of advanced technologies of mobile platforms, including smartphone applications, internet facilities; integrated personal computer platforms are promising developments for incorporation into various socio-economic systems. In the same purview, the growth of the technology of m-government has been tremendous. An evolution of the practice of m-government can lead to excellent communication patterns between the government and the voting population. The current study evaluates the various features of m-government, its implementation, the process of general incorporation into the system of governance. This study focuses on the generic challenges surrounding the application of m-governments across different locations in the world, its relevance to the citizens, as well as reviewing the potential requirements and possible challenges in its implementation. This current study reviews existing literature to understand the various benefits of the technology of m-government with the primary focus of this study is to determine the methods of enhancement of government information regardless of the time and location. A detailed review of existing literature pertinent to m-government and compiles the findings on the definition, usability, challenges, and implementation of m-government was conducted. Findings suggest a need for the development of a model for technical, political and social assessment of user intent for adoption for mobile services in particular. It effectively establishes a relationship between various drivers of m-government and user acceptance.
Measuring the Remode Entreprenurship Training Programme at Behaviour Level of Kirkpatrick Model in Aquaculture Industry

The objective of this paper is to reveal the findings which regard to the behaviour level of the Bottom 40 that involved in REMODE training programme. Bottom 40 is a group of household income that lower than RM3,900 per month. The aim of REMODE training programme is to increase the entrepreneurship knowledge that relates to aquaculture industry for poverty eradication. Previous studies on entrepreneurship training programme indicate that utilisation of Kirkpatrick model to measure the impact at behavioural level is still scarce. Most of the study only focuses on the reaction and learning Level. Therefore, this study measured the behavioural level of Bottom 40 who involved in REMODE training programme in order to evaluate the effectiveness of entrepreneurship training programme to fill in the empirical gaps. A qualitative approach using Focus Group Discussion was used to gather data from five groups that consist of twenty three participants. The findings from narrative thematic analysis show that the participants experienced business growth, business diversification, product innovation and business records management due to the knowledge application. This study contributes to the entrepreneurship body of knowledge from the entrepreneurship training perspective. Future research should explore the different type of entrepreneurship training programme measurement and also application to the different type of participants.
Control Strategy for Three-Phase Grid-Connected PV Inverters Enabling Current Limitation Under Unbalanced Faults

Power quality and voltage control are among the most important aspects of the grid-connected power converter operation under faults. Nonsinusoidal current may be injected during unbalanced voltage sag, and active or/and reactive power may include double frequency content. This paper introduces a novel control strategy to mitigate the double grid frequency oscillations in the active power and dc-link voltage of the two-stage three-phase grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) inverters during unbalanced faults. With the proposed control method, PV inverter injects sinusoidal currents under unbalanced grid faults. In addition, an efficient and easy-to-implement current limitation method is introduced, which can effectively limit the injected currents to the rated value during faults. In this case, the fault-ride-through operation is ensured, and it will not trigger the overcurrent protection. A non-maximum power point tracking (non-MPPT) operation mode is proposed for the dc–dc converter. The mode is enabled under severe faults when the converter cannot handle the maximum PV power. Finally, experimental validation is provided by implementing a method in an experimental setup, including a 2 kW PV inverter.
Exerting Moment Algorithms for Restoration of Blurred Images

-In this paper presents the restoration of blurred images which gets degraded due to diverse atmospheric and environmental conditions, so it is essential to restore the original image. The research outcomes exhibit the major identified bottleneck for restoration is to deal with the blurred image as an input to imaging agent employing various methodologies ranging from principle component analysis to momentary algorithms and also a set of attempts are been executed in image restoration using various algorithms. However the precise results are not been proposed and demonstrated in the comparable researches. Also detail understanding for applications of moment algorithms for image restoration and demonstrating the benefits of geometric and orthogonal moments are becoming the recent requirements for research.
Fama–French Factor Timing: The Long-Only Integrated Approach

There is ample evidence that factor momentum exists in the standard long--short mixed approach to factor investing. However, the excess returns are put under scrutiny due to the high implementation costs. We present a novel real-life approach that relies on the long-only integrated approach to factor investing. Instead of exploiting the potential momentum in factor portfolios, our strategy builds on the momentum of the optimal factor score weights in the integrated approach, which allows us to additionally profit from the serial dependence in the factors' interaction effects. One limitation of short-term timing strategies is their high turnover. By including the information of the covariance matrix and minimizing the strategy’s risk to the market portfolio, we can substantially reduce turnover. The resulting timing alpha remains significant even after transaction costs in a robust statistical test framework across the major stock markets.
How does blockchain affect the established sharing economy services (SES)

In the last two decades, dominant business models in the economy have turned to aggregating the resources of people to provide services to consumers through a platform. Airbnb, Uber, and Amazon are a few examples in sharing economy services (SES) business employing this model. Blockchain is set to disrupt these giants by facilitating direct access between users and service providers in a secure and decentralized pattern, without a need for a trusted intermediary. This study aims to make contributions to the Information Systems (IS) field by researching the effect of blockchain based SES from a business model and trust perspective through an exploratory research. Findings indicate that although there are conceptual benefits claimed by blockchain based SES at this stage, they do not have immediate potential to disrupt established SES giants as the way they operate today. Based on this research, we suggest key factors in relation to value proposition, profit formula and trust relations which can guide blockchain based SES platforms to be disruptive in near future. Moreover, we urge researchers to further explore this research phenomenon by raising novel questions to provide more effective and sustainable solutions. (Less)
Selecting The Most Significant Determinants that contributes to Islamic banks profitability using Principal Component Analysis

The existence of Islamic banks that grow rapidly in every corner of the world has caused strong competition among them and other conventional banks in Malaysia. This requires the banks management to choose wisely on the determinants that make them to remain strong and relevant in the Islamic banking sector. The main purpose of this study is to determine internal and external significant determinants for Islamic banks in Malaysia using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) was applied in this study to measure the data sampling is acceptable and adequate. While, and Bartlett’s Test is used to validate the internal and external component. The significant banking determinants selected for the study include deposit ratio, operating efficiency and market concentration. The result shows that the internal and external significant determinants are Bank Size and Gross Domestic Product. The study utilized secondary data from year 2010 until year 2016 for 13 Islamic banks in Malaysia.
Low-cost Data Analytics for Shared Storage and Network Infrastructures

Data analytics used to depend on specialized, high-end software and hardware platforms. Recent years, however, have brought forth the data-flow programming model, i.e., MapReduce, and with it a flurry of sturdy, scalable open-source software solutions for analyzing data. In essence, the commoditization of software frameworks for data analytics is well underway. Yet, up to this point, data analytics frameworks are still regarded as standalone, dedicated components; deploying these frameworks requires companies to purchase hardware to meet storage and network resource demands, and system administrators to handle management of data across multiple storage systems. This dissertation explores the low-cost integration of frameworks for data analytics within existing, shared infrastructures. The thesis centers on smart software being the key enabler for holistic commoditization of data analytics. We focus on two instances of smart software that aid in realizing the low-cost integration objective. For an efficient storage integration, we build MixApart, a scalable data analytics framework that removes the dependency on dedicated storage for analytics; with MixApart, a single, consolidated storage back-end manages data and services all types of workloads, thereby lowering hardware costs and simplifying data management. We evaluate MixApart at scale with micro-benchmarks and production workload traces, and show that MixApart provides faster or comparable performance to an analytics framework with dedicated storage. For an effective sharing of the networking infrastructure, we implement OX, a virtual machine management framework that allows latency-sensitive web applications to share the data center network with data analytics through intelligent VM placement ; OX further protects all applications from hardware failures. The two solutions allow the reuse of existing storage and networking infrastructures when deploying analytics frameworks, and substantiate our thesis that smart software upgrades can enable the end-to-end commoditization of analytics.
Fiqh Anticipation: Mitigation Concept Based on Islamic Law

Disasters as social phenomena that occur when a community suffers from disruption and loss due to natural processes or technological accidents. Based on this definition, earthquake, tsunami and other disasters are not limited to natural disasters, it can also be a social disaster if the natural disaster is directly in contact with humans and causes material and immaterial losses. Indonesia as a country with the largest Muslim population in the world cannot be separated from Islam in various aspects of life, including the issue of disaster mitigation. for Indonesian Muslims, religious entities are perceived to be bigger than state entities. Therefore, the mitigation approach of science must be harmonized with religious teachings. With the result that natural disaster mitigation is widely accepted by the community. Contemporary Islamic scholars, especially those who have been involved in statistics and other related sciences, will dare to state that future estimates based on honest and correct statistical calculations can be regarded as reality, because according to scientific calculations it is relatively certain to occur. Therefore Fiqh anticipation as one of the mitigation management in Islam can take the form in the following three steps; (1) Reducing or avoiding the impact of losses from natural disaster hazards; (2) Ensure fast arrival of assistance to victims; (3) Achieve a quick and effective recovery of society.
Applying service performance guarantees to reduce risk perception in the purchase and consumption of higher education / Nooraini Mohamad Sheriff and Faridah Hassan

The intangible nature of education is one contributor to consumers’ perception of risk prior to their purchase and consumption. This risk includes: functional risk, financial risk, temporal risk, physical risk, psychological risk and social risk. The presence of these risks often makes consumer evaluation prior to purchase and consumption difficult. Invoking a service guarantee is a platform available to enable higher educational institutions to minimize such risk perception so as to induce purchase. Specifically, service guarantee for higher education entails the application of teaching performance guarantee. This form of guarantee focuses on two important customer groups of higher educational institutions namely, students and faculty members, and focuses only on a specific performance aspect such as instructor’s performance. Thus, if students are dissatisfied with an instructor’s performance they are entitled to receive their money back. The imposition of such a teaching performance guarantee would implicate instructor’s accountability for certain aspects of their performance. It also establishes a mechanism to solicit feedback to better understand why and how instructors fail. Consequently, service performance guarantee creates a high level of customer focus and signals instructors’ care towards students.
Reach, grasp, and manipulate

This chapter seeks to identify principles that we can glean from nature regarding the design and operation of hands, and to show how they influence robotic hands and can improve their performance. The need to grasp and manipulate objects is faced by a wide range of animals, from insects to humans. The corresponding variety of solutions is immense, ranging from pincers to hands. However, a number of strategies appear repeatedly including the use of compliant, articulated appendages to achieve a large workspace and the use of automatic responses to tactile stimuli. Mobile robots face similar challenges and can exploit similar solutions. Numerical simulation is useful for analyzing hands that are required to grasp a range of objects and impart desired forces and motions. However, grasp simulation is inherently complex and the design search space is large. Hence, it is useful to examine natural exemplars to guide the design process.
Diagnosis of Faulty Sensors in Antenna Array using Hybrid Differential Evolution based Compressed Sensing Technique

In this work, differential evolution based compressive sensing technique for detection of faulty sensors in linear arrays has been presented. This algorithm starts from taking the linear measurements of the power pattern generated by the array under test. The difference between the collected compressive measurements and measured healthy array field pattern is minimized using a hybrid differential evolution (DE). In the proposed method, the slow convergence of DE based compressed sensing technique is accelerated with the help of parallel coordinate decent algorithm (PCD). The combination of DE with PCD makes the minimization faster and precise. Simulation results validate the performance to detect faulty sensors from a small number of measurements.
Aplicabilidade do software Culture And Value Analysis Tool na análise da cultura organizacional

RESUMO: Pelo viés de uma análise exploratória este trabalho busca entender por meio dos valores atuais e desejáveis, as culturas organizacionais e sua influência na gestão de recursos humanos em um determinado grupo de empresas. Trata-se de um estudo quantitativo com empresas localizadas no Estado de Mato Grosso do Sul, onde por meio da replicação do instrumento de pesquisa desenvolvido por Nelson (2006) denominado de Perfil de Valores Agregados que levando em consideração a percepção dos funcionários, levanta os valores organizacionais atuais e os desejados, estruturado com 20 afirmativas, subdivididas em conjuntos de 4 em 4, utilizando uma escala de prioridade que vai de 1 a 4. Por meio das análises, constatou-se que a cultura organizacional atual das empresas S2, R e S3 se comporta de forma homogênea, ou seja, os valores são percebidos pelos funcionários de forma mais similar. No que concerne à cultura desejada, somente na empresa S2, haveria na percepção dos funcionários alguma mudança na cultura; nas empresas R e S3, os funcionários declararam que não modificariam essa cultura. Já na empresa S1, foi encontrada uma cultura atual heterogênea e os funcionários também desejam mudanças na cultura. A técnica e ferramenta utilizada demonstrou ser útil na construção de uma cultura organizacional coesa com as necessidades impostas a este mercado. Palavras-chave: Perfil de Valores Agregados; Valores organizacionais; Valores pessoais. ABSTRACT: By bias of an exploratory analysis this work seeks to understand through the current and desirable values, organizational culture and its influence on human resource management in a given group of companies. This is a quantitative study with companies located in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, where by replicating the research tool developed by Nelson (2006) called Profile Aggregates Values, which taking into account the perception of employees, raises the current organizational values and desired, structured with 20 questions, divided in sets of 4 in 4, using a priority scale from 1 to 4. Why through the analysis, it was found that the current organizational culture of companies S2, R and S3 behaves homogeneously, so, the values they are perceived by employees more similar. Regarding the desired culture, only the S2 company, there would be the perception of employees some change in culture; in R and S3 companies, officials said they would not alter that culture. In the S1 company, we found a heterogeneous culture and current officials also want changes in culture. The technique used tool and has proved useful in building a cohesive organizational culture with the requirements imposed on this market.
Strategic Leadership

Partnerships, strategic leadership, and educational collaborative networks are paramount to underpinnings of systemic change along the education continuum. Community, political, and corporate stakeholders transcending primary, secondary, and postsecondary education markets are supporting actors in the education of a growing diversity of students throughout the 21st century. Ascendancy of academic capitalism and neoliberalism incorporated into educational institutions' strategic business model seek to establish a competitive advantage while simultaneously fulfilling higher education institutions' mission. These conditions serve as a pivotal entry point for underrepresented, minoritized students to excel academically and vocationally. A neoliberalism theoretical framework is the mechanism of disruption undergirding the education continuum.
Framework para Auditoria de Programas e Projetos em Tempo de Execução

Este relato tecnico demonstra a aplicabilidade de um framework de auditoria consultiva para a avaliacao de programas e projetos em tempo de execucao. O objetivo e medir o uso das boas praticas em gestao de projetos, de riscos corporativos, a geracao de um plano de acao e aumento do nivel da maturidade organizacional. Foi realizado um estudo de caso descritivo considerando-se trabalhos de auditoria consultiva realizada em empresa do segmento de varejo. O framework contribuiu para a identificacao dos problemas, definicoes de acoes corretivas e pode ser replicado em outras organizacoes no sentido de contribuir com o aumento do desempenho de projetos e programas. O framework pode ser melhorado atraves do uso de praticas constantes em outros modelos.
The Effect of Strategic Cost Management Tools on the Performance of Public-Private Partnership Projects

The study aims to investigate the effect of Strategic Cost Management (SCM) tools on the financial performance of public-private partnership PPP projects. A data content analysis was made. The researchers reviewed 31 studies that examined the effect of cost tools including traditional cost tools and SCM tools on the quality and profitability of PPP projects. The number of reviewed studies that confirm the effect of SCM tools on the quality and profitability of PPPs are 21 classified into 14 international studies and seven national studies. The researchers listed the most common SCM tools, as indicated in the studies reviewed, and coded them by numbers from 1 to 25 in the table (as shown in appendix 2). Finding indicate that Benchmarking and ABC tools are the most appropriate tools indicating high significance as they succeed in the reduction of costs, improvement of product quality, and the enhancement of PPP profitability. In sum, this study contributes specifically to two accounting fields of research, namely (i) strategic cost management and (ii) cost accounting.