scholarly journals Penelitian Terhadap Kriteria dan Tekstual Ijazah Sanad Al-Quran

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-92
Author(s):  
Norazman Alias ◽  
Khairul Anuar Mohamad
Keyword(s):  
Current Trend ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Deductive Method ◽  
Textual Content

The method of ijazah (permission) sanad (authority) of al-Quran in Malaysia is still relatively unfamiliar and unknown to most people in Malaysia. Perhaps this practice is exclusive to the Quranic teachers, huffaz (who have memorized) of the Quran, and students of higher education. Furthermore, among the Quranic sanad holders are those who have obtained it through the Qur'anic talaqqi (acquisition) program coordinated by organizational authorities within and outside of the country such as Sultan Ismail Petra International Islamic College of Kelantan, Al Mufid Studies Center of Terengganu, Al-Azhar Maahad Qiraat of Egypt, International Islamic University of Madinah and many more. In fact, the current trend shows that many people and scholars in the field of Quranic studies especially from Arab countries have been invited to conduct home-based Quranic talaqqi programs. This is especially the case for programs organized by Ainhafeez Enterprise and Khozandaroh Studies Center of Selangor. These programs contribute more to the understanding of public towards the substantiality of the Quranic ijazah sanad that has been traditionally practiced since the time of revelation. In light of this phenomenon, there are some important issues such as the understanding of the component and the textual content of Quranic sanad among the sanad holders that need to be addressed and refined by the organizers. This process of ijazah sanad is of importance since the textual content is utterly different from other discipline of Islamic sciences like hadith or ijazah of classical turath (heritage) books. Therefore, this study discusses the concept of ijazah sanad of al-Quran as well as the textual content of Quranic sanad. This qualitative study employs library-based and deductive method in analyzing textual content of Quranic sanad in order to fulfill the fundamental characterization of Quranic sanad sciences. The preliminary findings show the diversities of textual content of Quranic sanad all over the world are unbridged from important items of Quranic sanad written text such as title, awarding body and recipient, official stamp and signature including other information. Accordingly, the understanding of textual content of Quranic sanad is essential for its preservation apart from refinement of sharia’s demand and contemporary culture. Having a proper understanding of the Quranic sanad, the transmission of this tradition from one generation to another can be confined within trustees and not be awarded to the outsiders.

Characterization of Fake News Based on Subjectivity Lexicons

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-441
Author(s):  
Caio L.M. Jeronimo ◽  
Leandro B. Marinho ◽  
Cclaudio E.C. Carmpelo ◽  
Adriano Veloso ◽  
Allan S. Da Costa Melo
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
News Article ◽  
Bag Of Words ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Feature Vectors ◽  
Textual Content

While many works investigate spread patterns of fake news in social networks, we focus on the textual content. Instead of relying on syntactic representations of documents (aka Bag of Words) as many works do, we seek more robust representations that may better differentiate fake from legitimate news. We propose to consider the subjectivity of news under the assumption that the subjectivity levels of legitimate and fake news are significantly different. For computing the subjectivity level of news, we rely on a set subjectivity lexicons for both Brazilian Portuguese and English languages. We then build subjectivity feature vectors for each news article by calculating the Word Mover's Distance (WMD) between the news and these lexicons considering the embedding the news words lie in, in order to analyze and classify the documents. The results demonstrate that our method is robust, especially in scenarios where training and test domains are different.

scholarly journals An integrated chemical and technological approach for assessing Portuguese wheat flours quality and lengthening bread shelf-life

2019 ◽  
pp. 884
Author(s):  
Fernando Cebola Lidon ◽  
Diana Daccak ◽  
Paula Scotti-Campos ◽  
Maria Manuela Silva ◽  
Ana Sofia Bagulho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shelf Life ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Food Additives ◽  
Bread Making ◽  
Technological Parameters ◽  
Full Characterization ◽  
Technological Approach ◽  
Industrial Level

The current trend of large-scale bread production is to facilitate processing at an industrial level, considering the use of flour mixtures with different chemical and technological parameters and incorporating food additives. Accordingly, costs can be minimized, whereas the quality and the shelf-life of the final product might increase, but a full characterization of the flours that must be used and the selection of the food additives to be incorporated into the dough is required. In this context, three Portuguese wheat flour varieties were evaluated (FariRamos, Nacional and AJMiranda), as well as two types of food additives with the aim to increase bread shelf-life. In these flours, the levels of K, S, P, Ca and Cl prevailed, but the moisture and ash contents of FariRamos were the highest and lowest, respectively. The colour of all flours was generally within the desired standard values. Nacional flour contained a higher fat content, but all the flours showed a higher relative abundance of linoleic acid (C18:2), followed by palmitic acid (C16:0) and oleic acid (C18:1). AJMiranda flour revealed a higher content of wet gluten and protein, but the SDS sedimentation index showed a higher value in the FariRamos flour. The fall index, which directly monitors the activity of the α-amylase enzyme, showed a lower value in AJMiranda and Nacional. Through farinograph and alveographyc analysis it was found that FariRamos has a tenacious gluten, but AJMiranda and Nacional had a balanced gluten, yet all of them can be classified as medium flours. Bread making with a mix of FariRamos, AJMiranda and Nacional flours and incorporating preservative food additives revealed the highest shelf-life (11-days) with methyl p-hydroxybenzoate [0.05 %] and benzoic acid [0.1 %], but the colour of the breads showed a relationship of intensity of white colour that depended on the additive used. At the end of the shelf-life, molds of the Eurotium, Trichoderma and Cladosporium genera developed in the bread. It was concluded that the chemical and technological approach applied in the characterization of the flour varieties, can be directly used to define the quality and shelf-life in the bakery industry, allowing the establishment of minimum commercialization prices.

scholarly journals On Vendler’s freedom of choice

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. e460
Author(s):  
Ana Clara Polakof
Keyword(s):  
Free Choice ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Speech Act Theory ◽  
Alternative Semantics ◽  
Freedom Of Choice ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Existential Import ◽  
The One ◽  
Short Essay

In this short essay, we will provide some contemporary remarks to Vendler (1962 and 1974). We will propose that his characterization of the Free Choice Item any can be properly explained if we take into account an alternative semantics framework. We will assume with Menéndez-Benito (2010) that it is a universal indeterminate pronoun, and with Aloni (2007) that it involves an exhaustification operator to explain its behavior. We will show that, if we take into account this approach, we will be able to explain what Vendler called freedom of choice, lack of existential import, lawlike propositions, among other characteristics. In addition, we will try to do some linguistics in philosophy, and try to explain how a proper understanding of FCI may help to better understand some reference related problems. Finally, we will show that if we take into account a speech act theory, as the one proposed by Searle (1985), we may account for some of the FCI particular behavior with regard to free choice.

“Sharing time”: Children's narrative styles and differential access to literacy

1981 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Michaels
Keyword(s):  
First Grade ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Conversational Analysis ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Oral Preparation ◽  
Sharing Time ◽  
Performance And Evaluation ◽  
Interpretive Strategies

ABSTRACTA discourse-oriented classroom activity in an ethnically mixed, first grade classroom is studied from an interpretive perspective, integrating ethnographic observation and fine-grained conversational analysis. “Sharing time” is a recurring activity where children are called upon to describe an object or give a narrative account about some past event to the entire class. The teacher, through her questions and comments, tries to help the children structure and focus their discourse. This kind of activity serves to bridge the gap between the child's home-based oral discourse competence and the acquisition of literate discourse features required in written communication.Through a detailed characterization of the children's sharing styles, evidence is provided suggesting that children from different backgrounds come to school with different narrative strategies and prosodic conventions for giving narrative accounts. When the child's discourse style matches the teacher's own literate style and expectations, collaboration is rhythmically synchronized and allows for informal practice and instruction in the development of a literate discourse style. For these children, sharing time can be seen as a kind of oral preparation for literacy. In contrast, when the child's narrative style is at variance with the teacher's expectations, collaboration is often unsuccessful and, over time, may adversely affect school performance and evaluation. Sharing time, then, can either provide or deny access to key literacy-related experiences, depending, ironically, on the degree to which teacher and child start out “sharing” a set of discourse conventions and interpretive strategies. (Urban communication, ethnic/subcultural differences in discourse style, the transition to literacy, American English.)

Investigation of Fiber Optic Sensor for Monitoring of Ammonia

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sistla S. Shastry ◽  
Abdeq M. Abdi ◽  
A. G. Agwu Nnanna
Keyword(s):  
Fiber Optics ◽  
Fiber Optic ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Porous Polymer ◽  
Fiber Optic Sensor ◽  
Chemical Contaminants ◽  
Optic Sensor

Detection and characterization of chemical contaminants in water network is paramount for water quality and water security. The current trend of monitoring the presence of contaminants is the batch sampling technique, where sample of water is collected and analyzed in the laboratory. While this technique is accurate, it fails to provide immediate information. In this work, the authors investigate the effectiveness of utilizing a fiber optics based sensor for detecting ammonia in water. In order for the system to sense ammonia, a small portion of the cladding of the fiber optic cable is stripped and replaced by a porous polymer material. A novel procedure of etching the glass cladding is reported. The modified cladding when interacts with ammonia causes a change in intensity of the electromagnetic wave flowing through the cable. The change in intensity caused by the modified cladding is studied parametrically which will help in forming a correlation between concentration of ammonia and absorbance.

scholarly journals A estética generalizada de Lyotard e suas consequências para a crítica da cultura [Lyotard’s generalized aesthetics and its consequences for the critique of culture]

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (45) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Luciana Molina Queiroz
Keyword(s):  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Postmodern Philosophy

Este artigo discute a relação entre ética e estética na filosofia de Jean-François Lyotard. Influenciado por Wittgenstein, Lyotard argumenta que a cultura contemporânea é caracterizada por vários jogos de linguagem localmente legitimados, o que impossibilitaria o uso de uma linguagem universal e unificadora. De acordo com Lyotard, metanarrativas tais como a autonomia do sujeito oprimiriam a diversidade. Por causa disso, as metanarrativas deveriam ser substituídas pelos vários jogos. Assim, o artigo também pretende mostrar que essa caracterização de pós-modernidade abrange uma posição ética cética e relativista que torna impraticável uma análise crítica da cultura. Uma das consequências disso é a associação entre a filosofia pós-moderna e a defesa das sociedades capitalistas.[This paper discusses the relation between ethics and aesthetics in the philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard. Influenced by Wittgenstein, Lyotard argues that contemporary culture is characterized by several locally legitimated language games, which would precludes the use of a universal and unifying language. According to Lyotard, metanarratives such as the autonomous subject could oppress diversity. Because of this, the metanarratives should be replaced by several games. The paper also intends to show that this characterization of postmodernity embraces a skeptical and relativist ethic conception that makes impractical a critical analysis of culture. One consequence of this is the link between postmodern philosophy and defense of capitalist societies.]

Philosophy

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-216
Author(s):  
Luca Castagnoli
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

As A. K. Cotton acknowledges at the beginning of her monograph Platonic Dialogue and the Education of the Reader, ‘the idea that a reader's relationship with Plato's text is analogous to that of the respondent with the discussion leader’ within the dialogue, and ‘that we engage in a dialogue with the text almost parallel to theirs’, ‘is almost a commonplace of Platonic criticism’ (4). But Cotton has the merit of articulating this commonplace much more clearly and precisely than is often done, and of asking how exactly the dialogue between interlocutors is supposed to affect the dialogue of the reader with the text, and what kind of reader response Plato is inviting. Not surprisingly, her starting point is Plato's notorious (written) concerns about written texts expressed in the Phaedrus: ‘writing cannot contain or convey knowledge’, and will give to the ‘receiver’ the mistaken perception that he or she has learned something – that is, has acquired knowledge – from reading (6–7). She claims that the Phaedrus also suggests, however, that a written text, in the right hands, ‘may have a special role to play in awakening the soul of its receiver towards knowledge’ (17). I have no doubt that Plato thought as much, but Cotton's reference to the language of hupomnēmata at 276d3, and to the way in which sensible images act as hupomnēmata for the recollection of the Forms earlier in the dialogue, fails to support her case: Socrates remarks in that passage that writings can serve only as ‘reminders’ for their authors (16). The book's central thesis is that the way in which writing can awaken the reader's soul ‘towards knowledge’ is not by pointing the reader, however indirectly, implicitly, non-dogmatically, or even ironically, towards the right views, but by developing the reader/learner's ‘ability to engage in a certain way’ in dialectical inquiry (26). The familiar developments between ‘early’, ‘middle’, and ‘late’ dialogues are thus accepted but seen as part of a single coherent educational project towards the reader's/learner's full development of what Cotton calls ‘dialectical virtue’. Plato's reader is invited to treat the characterization of the interlocutors within the dialogues, and the description of their dialectical behaviour, ‘as a commentary on responses appropriate and inappropriate in the reader’ (28). Cotton's programme, clearly sketched in Chapter 1, is ambitious and sophisticated, and is carried out with impressive ingenuity in the following six chapters (the eighth and final chapter, besides summarizing some of the book's conclusions, introduces a notion of ‘civic virtue’ which does not appear to be sufficiently grounded on the analyses in the rest of the book). An especially instructive aspect of her inquiry is the attention paid to the ‘affective’ dimension of the interlocutor's and reader's responses: through the representation of the interlocutors in his written dialogues, and the labours to which he submits us as readers, Plato teaches us that ‘the learner's engagement must be cognitive-affective in character; and it involves a range of specific experiences, including discomfort, frustration, anger, confusion, disbelief, and a desire to flee’ (263). Perhaps because of her belief that what the Platonic dialogues are about is not philosophical views or doctrines but a process of education in ‘dialectical virtue’, Cotton has remarkably little to say concerning the psychological and epistemological underpinnings of the views on, and methods of, education which she attributes to Plato. The Cave allegory in the Republic, which is unsurprisingly adopted as an instructive image of Plato's insights on learning and educational development in Chapter 2, is discussed without any reference to the various cognitive stages which the phases of the ascent in and outside the Cave are meant to represent. Two central features of Plato's conception of learning identified by Cotton – the individual learner's own efforts and participation, and the necessity of some trigger to catalyse the learning process (263) – are not connected, as one might well have expected, to the ‘theory of recollection’ or the related imagery of psychic pregnancy or Socratic midwifery. Even Cotton's laudable stress on the ‘affective’ aspects of the learning process could have been helpfully complemented by some consideration of Platonic moral psychology. Despite these reservations, and the unavoidable limitations and oversimplifications involved in any attempt to characterize Plato's corpus as one single, unified project, I believe that readers with an interest in Platonic writing and method will benefit greatly from Cotton's insightful inquiry.

scholarly journals Review on Rock Aquifers Researches Conducted in Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. 01007
Author(s):  
Vynotdni Rathinasamy ◽  
Edy Tonnizam Mohammad ◽  
Ibrahim Komoo
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
Metasedimentary Rock ◽  
World Health ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Metasedimentary Rocks ◽  
Ph Values ◽  
Negative Impacts

The exploration of groundwater in Malaysia was not very welcomed due to few misconceptions such as it is very expensive to extract, could give negative impacts to the environment and not reliable. Yet, in recent times, rock aquifers such as limestone, sedimentary rocks, volcanic rocks, igneous rocks and metasedimetary rocks are being explored. This paper aims to review the researches that have been carried out on rock aquifers in Malaysia. In general, the topics studied were potential zonation, groundwater quality and quantity, occurrence and flow of groundwater as well as characterization of rock aquifers. The highest yielding aquifer was metasedimentary rock aquifers meanwhile the quality was good in general. Most of the aquifers were having neutral pH values and the total dissolved solids more than 100 mg/l. Moreover, granitic aquifers contained more hardness than the metasedimentary rocks. The iron content in the aquifers was higher than the limit set by World Health Organisation which is 0.3mg/l while salinity of aquifers were not tested in many aquifers. It can be vividly seen that many research were focused on quality. Hence, more researches on characterization of rock aquifers must be done for proper understanding on occurrence, flow and recharge.

Location and quantification of the interface defects in stressed LDD NMOSFETs using a combination of floating-gate and transconductance techniques, and charge-pumping methods

1996 ◽  
Vol 74 (S1) ◽  
pp. 167-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. S. Kwan ◽  
A. Raychaudhuri ◽  
M. J. Deen
Keyword(s):  
Device Simulation ◽  
Floating Gate ◽  
Simulation Framework ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
Charge Pumping ◽  
Process Improvements ◽  
Hot Carrier ◽  
Substrate Current ◽  
Silicon Interface

In sub-micrometre LDD NMOSFETs we were able to correlate an evolution of hot-carrier-induced gate currents obtained from floating-gate measurements with corresponding evolution of saturation transconductances. With this correlation, additional substrate current measurements, and the help of a 2D device simulation framework, we find that negative oxide-trapped charges of magnitude 2.5 × 1018 cm−3 are responsible for the experimental observations. This damage is located in the oxide at the edge of the gate over 100 Å (1 Å = 10−10 m) above the oxide–silicon interface, which is deep into the LDD structure and difficult to probe with the existing methods. Then we demonstrate how the in-channel interface states density can be profiled using a lateral-profiling charge-pumping technique. The coupling of the techniques mentioned above leads to the characterization of the entire oxide–silicon interface along the length of the gate. This is essential for the proper understanding of the directions for process improvements and the mechanisms of defect generation.

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