A new reconstruction of the “Wisdom of the Hands” unit in 4QInstructiond (4Q418)

The caliphate of Hisham ibn ‘Abd al-Malik (105–25/724–43) was undoubtedly one of the most important periods in early Islamic history, and as witness to the history of this era a source of paramount importance is certainly the Ta'rīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk of al-Ṭabarī. This in itself makes the publication of Volume xxv of the English translation of this work by Dr Khalid Yahya Blankinship, covering all but the last five years of Hishām's long reign, a matter of special interest to historians of the eastern lands of Islam. The reader will immediately notice that al-Ṭabarī devotes the bulk of his narrative for this period to events in Khurāsān and Transoxania, specifically, to the Umayyad campaigns there and hostilities with the Türgish khāqān Sü-lü Čur. In the course of this narrative one finds not only a wealth of information on military matters, but also much valuable data on the customs of the western Turks and life in Central Asia in general. The author's reasons for giving his work such a markedly eastern emphasis at this point are not unrelated to a desire, as Blankinship observes, to set forth the background for the 'Abbāsid revolution. But most of what al-Ṭabarī reports for this period is in fact not of immediate relevance to the advent of the 'Abbāsids, and indeed, the subject of 'Abbāsid propaganda activities hardly seems to be a prominent one in this volume.

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Analisa Maraknya Pemanfaatan Platform dalam Pengumpulan Zakat Melalui Prespektif Strukturasi Ala Giddens

Al-Mutharahah: Jurnal Penelitian dan Kajian Sosial Keagamaan ◽

10.46781/al-mutharahah.v18i1.235 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 1-12

Author(s):

Dwiki Faiz

Keyword(s):

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Relevant Literature ◽

Digital Tools ◽

Literature Study ◽

Individual Level ◽

Digital Devices ◽

New Findings ◽

Study Techniques ◽

The Individual ◽

Two Sides

The potential and realization of zakat reported by BAZNAS as a government agency are still far from expectations. One indication that appears significantly as a cause of digital sociology is the increasing number of actors using platforms to collect zakat. This then needs to be explored further about its attention, considering the digitization will not be stopped as well. This review is analyzed using a qualitative approach with descriptive analysis through relevant literature study techniques in order to form conceptual/ new findings. The results of the review suggest that it’s easy to find support in the digital age for activism through the use of digital tools. Thus, it’s able to encourage other actors to be involved in seeking and collecting zakat. Like the two sides of the coin, the ease for muzaki in distributing zakat certainly occurs thanks to digitization. On the other hand, the supervision of related stakeholders down to the individual level as zakat/ alms collectors must be considered, especially from BAZNAS. If this is not the case, the distribution of zakat can be misused due to its own interests. In the future, because they can’t cut off the development of digital devices and actors, juggernaut symptoms will occur.

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Practical Wisdom of Tool and Task

Enhancing Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research with Technology - Advances in Knowledge Acquisition, Transfer, and Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6493-7.ch009 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 210-230

Author(s):

Nancy J Smith ◽

Kakali Bhattacharya

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Doctoral Students ◽

Mobile Technology ◽

Technology Use ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Practical Wisdom ◽

Mixed Methods Study ◽

Digital Tools ◽

Academic Rigor ◽

Effective Use

The purpose of this chapter is to explain the effective use of digital tools to display and analyze mixed methods data and to identify the challenges and possibilities of doing a qualitatively driven mixed methods study of technology use in education. To frame this chapter, examples from a qualitatively driven mixed methods study of doctoral students, which explored how the use of mobile technology affected engagement in the class experience, are presented. Additionally, the authors discuss the limits, implications, and possibilities of inductively driven mixed methods, while dealing with issues of academic rigor and trustworthiness using Morse and Niehaus's (2009) guidelines for mixed methods research design and the ways in which digital tools enhance rigor and trustworthiness.

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Practical Wisdom of Tool and Task

Research Methods ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-7456-1.ch028 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 600-619

Author(s):

Nancy J Smith ◽

Kakali Bhattacharya

Keyword(s):

Mixed Methods ◽

Doctoral Students ◽

Mobile Technology ◽

Technology Use ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Practical Wisdom ◽

Mixed Methods Study ◽

Digital Tools ◽

Academic Rigor ◽

Effective Use

The purpose of this chapter is to explain the effective use of digital tools to display and analyze mixed methods data and to identify the challenges and possibilities of doing a qualitatively driven mixed methods study of technology use in education. To frame this chapter, examples from a qualitatively driven mixed methods study of doctoral students, which explored how the use of mobile technology affected engagement in the class experience, are presented. Additionally, the authors discuss the limits, implications, and possibilities of inductively driven mixed methods, while dealing with issues of academic rigor and trustworthiness using Morse and Niehaus's (2009) guidelines for mixed methods research design and the ways in which digital tools enhance rigor and trustworthiness.

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Causes, prevention, and interventions regarding classroom disruptions in digital teaching: A systematic review

Education and Information Technologies ◽

10.1007/s10639-021-10795-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Pierre Meinokat ◽

Ingo Wagner

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Classroom Management ◽

Intervention Strategies ◽

Digital Tools ◽

International Studies ◽

Prevention And Intervention ◽

New Findings ◽

Classroom Disruptions ◽

Definition Of

AbstractDigitization and the Sars-CoV-2 pandemic are accelerating the use of digital tools in teaching. Therefore, this systematic literature review offers an overview of international studies with a particular focus on classroom disruptions and their causes, as well as on prevention and intervention strategies in digital settings. Selecting out of over 700 published articles from the last 20 years, the results show that, although the research on classroom management in general is numerous, the connection between digitization and classroom disruptions has received little attention so far. Studies of different methodological orientations have been conducted, but strongly teacher-focused. Also, there are conceptual inaccuracies leading to a variety of different findings and interpretations. Thus, this article provides a definition of the term digital teaching and critically discusses the classification of new findings, their emplacement in existing research, as well as their potential to expand existing models. Furthermore, the results summarize causes of disruptions in digital teaching, their possible prevention and intervention strategies.

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P01-242-Composer robert schumann not a bipolar. New sources

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/s0924-9338(11)71953-8 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 26 (S2) ◽

pp. 243-243

Author(s):

U.H. Peters

Keyword(s):

Bipolar Disorder ◽

English Translation ◽

Delirium Tremens ◽

Intimate Relationship ◽

Medical Advice ◽

Robert Schumann ◽

German Language ◽

Manic State ◽

New Findings ◽

Privately Owned

According to new findings the name of Robert Schumann has to be striked off the list of famous people with bipolar disorder. The author has reviewed hundreds of hitherto unknown sources, daily notes of his psychiatrists, letters, diaries, among others. Schumann turned out to have been an alcoholic, who suffered from delirium tremens, 4 days, misdiagnosed as madness by his physicians. The famous suicidal attempt by jumping into the Rhine was just a floating rumour, not reality. Schumann was admitted to a privately owned madhouse. In spite of all his painstaking he could not free himself. His wife did not want him back. Finally he died from malnutrition and pneumonia. – Schumann always worked as easy as Mozart, according to the financial needs of his fast growing family. Attributing this to a manic state is erroneous. Already in young age Schumann had trained his “inner hearing”, he just wrote down, what he had heart. Only once in his life Schumann said himself to have been a melancholic, but that was for making up a plausible excuse for an intimate relationship to an other girl, pretending medical advice against melancholia. – All of these scattered sources are available only in German language. In two books I have written lengthy quotations in order to ease the access. However, there is no English translation available.

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Further studies on the ultrastructure of the cochlea

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100159746 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (3) ◽

pp. 440-441

Author(s):

Zhixian Wang ◽

Pinjin Zhu ◽

Jianhe Sun ◽

Xuezheng Song

Keyword(s):

Hair Cells ◽

Military Medicine ◽

Outer Hair Cells ◽

Apical Surface ◽

Epithelial Surface ◽

Hearing Research ◽

New Findings ◽

Fine Structures ◽

Temporal Bones ◽

Accurate Observation

Hearing research is important not only for clinical, professional and military medicine, but also for toxicology, gerontology and genetics. Ultrastructure of the cochlea attracts much attention of electron microscopists, (1―3) but the research lags far behind that of the other parts of the organnism. On the basis of careful microdissection, technical improvment and accurate observation, we have got some new findings which have not been reported in the literature.We collected four cochleas from human corpses. Temporal bones dissected 1 h after death and cochleas perfused with fixatives 4 h after death were good enough in terms of preservation of fine structures. SEM:The apical surface of OHCs (Outer hair cells) and DTs (Deiters cells) is narrower than that of IPs (Inner pillar cells). The mosaic configuration of the reticular membrane is not typical. The stereocilia of IHCs (Inner hair cells) are not uniform and some kinocilia could be seen on the OHCs in adults. The epithelial surface of RM (Reissner’s membrane) is not smooth and no mesh could be seen on the mesothelial surface of RM. TEM.

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Insights into the biochemical and functional characterization of sortase E transpeptidase of Corynebacterium glutamicum

Biochemical Journal ◽

10.1042/bcj20190812 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 476 (24) ◽

pp. 3835-3847 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Aliyath Susmitha ◽

Kesavan Madhavan Nampoothiri ◽

Harsha Bajaj

Keyword(s):

Protein Engineering ◽

Cell Attachment ◽

Functional Characterization ◽

Protein Structures ◽

Structural Similarity ◽

Surface Proteins ◽

Sortase A ◽

Peptide Cleavage ◽

New Findings

Most Gram-positive bacteria contain a membrane-bound transpeptidase known as sortase which covalently incorporates the surface proteins on to the cell wall. The sortase-displayed protein structures are involved in cell attachment, nutrient uptake and aerial hyphae formation. Among the six classes of sortase (A–F), sortase A of S. aureus is the well-characterized housekeeping enzyme considered as an ideal drug target and a valuable biochemical reagent for protein engineering. Similar to SrtA, class E sortase in GC rich bacteria plays a housekeeping role which is not studied extensively. However, C. glutamicum ATCC 13032, an industrially important organism known for amino acid production, carries a single putative sortase (NCgl2838) gene but neither in vitro peptide cleavage activity nor biochemical characterizations have been investigated. Here, we identified that the gene is having a sortase activity and analyzed its structural similarity with Cd-SrtF. The purified enzyme showed a greater affinity toward LAXTG substrate with a calculated KM of 12 ± 1 µM, one of the highest affinities reported for this class of enzyme. Moreover, site-directed mutation studies were carried to ascertain the structure functional relationship of Cg-SrtE and all these are new findings which will enable us to perceive exciting protein engineering applications with this class of enzyme from a non-pathogenic microbe.

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