scholarly journals The Qur'anic Semio-Ethics of Nature

ICR Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Elma Berisha
Keyword(s):  
True Belief ◽  
External World ◽  
Systematic Bias ◽  
Advanced Stage ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Natural Signs ◽  
Ecological Implications ◽  
Representations Of Nature ◽  
The Cost

This article goes behind the semiotic stereotypes of western representations of nature and language, to track and discuss discursive limitations in an attempt to place these semiotic concepts within their Qur’anic paradigmatic context. A cursory literature review of Western semiotics suggests systematic bias towards conventional signs, at the cost of naturally occurring ones. Drawing on the work of U. Eco, J. Deely, J. Hoffmeyer and other prominent semioticians, as well as the Qur’an as a ‘semiotician’s paradise par excellence’, I examine a more comprehensive notion of sign and its relevance as a potential epistemological bridge between nature and culture, between internal phenomenological realities and the external world. My argument is that even at this postmodern, advanced stage of semiotics as a more comprehensive and inclusive study field, the downplaying of the semiotics of nature and its communication value continues to run as a subtext of the process of secularisation. Thus, the ethical and religious meta-representations that come with nature are likely to be neglected, with further ecological implications. All these findings seem to suggest that there is a need to reconsider and review these matters in a much more comprehensive way, given that reflection on the natural signs is one of the major themes in the Qur’an, alongside the reoccurring message that the only way to attain true belief in the Creator is to think through signs.

Individuation-Attachment and Suicide Trajectory: A Developmental Guide FOR the Clinician

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalman J. Kaplan ◽  
Shirley A. Worth
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Life Stage ◽  
External World ◽  
Advanced Stage ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Fundamental Shift ◽  
Axis View

This article applies a two-axis model of human development to the problem of suicide trajectory. The two-axis approach represents a fundamental shift in the way Eriksonian stages are viewed. Typical interpretations of Erikson suggest healthy development is achieved by resolving each stage crisis horizontally in favor of the syntonic as opposed to the dystonic ego quality. A two-axis view proposes that an organism begins each stage at the negative or dystonic position in reaction to the stage-initiating life event and must move ahead vertically to achieve the positive syntonic quality and the attaining of a stage-specific syntonic equilibrium. We are suggesting that successful development involves not the avoidance of the negative or dystonic ego qualities at each stage but the very plunging into each of them as the natural sequela of the preceding life event. Successful development involves working through a stage vertically to attain the respective stage-specific positive or syntonic ego position, followed by forward regression to the next advanced stage. The logic of this developmental axis is simply that the loosening of one's defenses (i.e., greater permeability of walls) should occur in conjunction with the strengthening of one's ego (i.e., greater definition of boundaries). Incongruent resolution of the individuation-attachment dilemma results in “enmeshment” (attachment to the external world without individuation), or in “disengagement” (remaining detached even after becoming sufficiently individuated). Extreme distress can result from the attempt to simultaneously apply enmeshed and disengaged styles to cope with the overwhelming challenges of the new life stage, creating a potentially suicidal level of stress.

scholarly journals Microbialite-like structures in Cladophora sp. (Ulvophyceae) mats from a subtropical Andean basin: ecological implications

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo R. Fernández ◽  
Ana Lucia Gonzalez Achem ◽  
Marcela Correa ◽  
Virginia H. Albarracín
Keyword(s):  
Organic Pollution ◽  
Biological Factors ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
Calcite Precipitation ◽  
Annual Cycles ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Ecological Implications ◽  
First Time ◽  
Solubility Equilibrium

The solubility equilibrium of calcite is influenced by physicochemical, climatic and biological factors. Annual cycles of exceptionally prolonged drought, in conjunction with naturally occurring diffuse organic pollution, generate the unique conditions for the precipitation of lithified carbonate structures (microbialites). The aim of this article is to analyze the possible implications of calcite precipitation produced in mats of Cladophora sp. in an Andean subtropical basin, considering it is the first time this phenomenon is described for the region. We collected samples from selected sites at the Lules River Basin, in four sampling dates between the years 2003 and 2004, within a monitoring work of 15 years. Samples were analyzed using an electron microscope and X-ray diffraction analysis. We found that Gomphonema sp. attached to Cladophora sp. contributes to precipitation of calcite and formation of microbialite like structures, in the studied area. This work presents an initial discussion of the discovery of microbialites-like structures attached to Cladophora sp. mats in a subtropical Andean stream and the environmental conditions that lead to their production, as well as the possible ecological implications of these microbialites.

Wittgenstein and Anthropology

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-57
Author(s):  
Veena Das
Keyword(s):  
External World ◽  
Shared Values ◽  
Vertical Dimension ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Horizontal Dimension ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
The Way

The main theme of this chapter is an understanding of culture not as a text to be interpreted through root symbols falling on the axes of nature and culture, nor simply as shared values, but instead as providing the ability to both forge a belonging and finding resources within one’s culture to contest it and find one’s voice in its singularity within it. The chapter explores the concept of counterculture and finds its alignments with skepticism that takes us in a direction that asks not how do we know that the external world exists but how do I know that I exist, that I can trust myself in relation to others? Skepticism is engaged in this chapter as lining the everyday—using the idea of lining not to suggest a border but to allude to the way a coat and its lining, the exterior and the interior, are joined to each other. Hence skepticism is not the kind of doubt that can be extinguished once for all. The idea of forms of life is introduced in its horizontal dimension as “form” and its vertical dimension as “life” showing how forms of life are both, particular to a milieu and as drawing from our common background as humans.

The cost of herbicide resistance in white-chicory: ecological implications for its commercial release

1995 ◽  
Vol 91 (8) ◽  
pp. 1301-1308 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Lavigne ◽  
H. Manac'h ◽  
C. Guyard ◽  
J. Gasquez
Keyword(s):  
Herbicide Resistance ◽  
Ecological Implications ◽  
The Cost

Salt: Fragments from the History of a Medium

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 135-158
Author(s):  
Liam Cole Young
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Common Salt ◽  
Cultural Expression ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
History Of ◽  
Material Turn ◽  
General Material ◽  
The Many

This essay explores histories of common salt, sodium chloride, using concepts and methods from media theory. It contributes to research on media and environment and the general ‘material turn’ taken across the Humanities. I conceive of salt as what Peters calls an ‘elemental’ medium so as to show, first, the imbrication of naturally-occurring substances in the operations and supply chains of digital culture. Second, the many lives salt has lived materially, in techniques of survival and exchange, and metaphorically, in cultural expression, complicate conventional understandings of media. In showing how salt performs three functions, processing, storage, and transfer, which Kittler ascribed to technical and symbolic media, I argue for a more expansive use of ‘mediation’ as a bridge concept that speaks to matters of nature and culture, Arts and Science, and to account for deep histories of extraction and economy that shape digital culture and global supply chains.

scholarly journals The Application of Benford’s Law in Fraud Detection: A Systematic Methodology

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Nirosh Kuruppu
Keyword(s):  
Fraud Detection ◽  
Benford’S Law ◽  
Financial Fraud ◽  
Spreadsheet Program ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Systematic Methodology ◽  
Benford's Law ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Financial Transactions

Benford’s Law relies on a recently proven mathematical distribution about the frequencies of naturally occurring numbers that can be efficiently applied to the detection of financial fraud. Despite the value of Benford’s Law for detecting fraud, most financial professionals are often unaware of its existence and how to best utilise the method for fraud detection. The purpose of this paper is therefore to present a systematic methodology for incorporating Benford’s Law for detecting and flagging potentially fraudulent financial transactions, that can be further investigated. This paper describes the development of Benford’s Law and demonstrates how it can be implemented systematically through a spreadsheet program to detect potential fraud. Given that the cost of financial fraud is significant with firms losing up to a tenth of their revenues, the methodology presented in this paper for implementing Benford’s Law can be a valuable tool for auditors and other financial professionals for detecting fraud.

scholarly journals Mutual mimesis of nature and culture: A representational perspective for eco-cultural metamorphosis

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (1/4) ◽  
pp. 242-269
Author(s):  
Farouk Y. Seif
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Design Activity ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
Nature And Culture ◽  
Representations Of Nature ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
A Current

Since the beginning of history humans have attempted to represent nature and culture through mimesis. This article focuses on the teleological aspects of mimesis and offers a different perspective that transcends the notion of sustainability into an eco-humanistic metamorphosis of culture and nature. Drawing from semiotics, phenomenology and architectural design the article challenges the polarization of mimetic representations of nature and culture, which are inclusive and homomorphic phenomena, and offers insight into the mutual mimesis of nature and culture. Two different empirical observations substantiate the theoretical perspective: 1) a tradition advanced by the Egyptians’ stylization of visual representations of the mimicry of nature and culture; and 2) a current architectural design activity that integrates the mimesis of nature and culture. The article makes the case for a theoretical approach that integrates mimetic principles in creating a sustainable environment and an authentic ecoliving. The article concludes with ethical implications on the way we perceive the mutual resemblances in nature and culture, and on our semiotic understanding of the teleological aspects of mimesis.

scholarly journals An Experimental Study on the Performance of Calcium Carbonate Extracted from Eggshells as Weighting Agent in Drilling Fluid

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 3859-3862 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Iqbal ◽  
M. Zubair ◽  
F. Pirzada ◽  
F. N. Abro ◽  
M. Ali ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Drilling Fluid ◽  
Drilling Mud ◽  
Gas Well ◽  
Well Drilling ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Drilling Operations ◽  
Drilling Cost ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
The Cost

Drilling mud density is an important factor in drilling operations. The cost of the drilling mud used for oil and gas well drilling can be 10%-15% of the total drilling cost, and the deeper the well, the more the needed drilling mud. This research aims to prepare a mud that provides performance similar to the conventional mud and to lower down the dependency of primitive CaCO3 technology by exploring it from trash/polluted and naturally occurring materials. For that purpose, a mud was prepared by replacing primeval CaCO3 with the CaCO3 derived from eggshells, as eggshells contain CaCO3 in high amounts which range from 70% to 95%. The success of this project will provide an affordable solution and an alternative way to explore new methodologies for obtaining CaCO3. According to the 2017 Report of Pakistan Poultry Association (PPA) 18,000 Million table eggs are consumed per year in Pakistan. The obtained results of this research are quite satisfactory. CaCO3 obtained from eggshells is used in high amounts, 275–410g to achieve density ranges from 9.5 to 11.0 pounds per gallon whereas, pure the needed quantity of pure CaCO3 is 150g to obtain the density of 10.5 pounds per gallon. Apart from this, it is also observed that eggshell based CaCO3 samples are more efficient in rheological properties compared to the market samples of CaCO3 t. The pH of pure CaCO3 sample of 10.5 pounds per gallon density is almost the same with the sample of eggshell CaCO3 of 10.5 pounds per gallon density.

scholarly journals Crop Rotation Reduces the Cost of Colorado Potato Beetle Control in Potatoes

1998 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Speese ◽  
S.B. Sterrett
Keyword(s):  
Crop Rotation ◽  
Colorado Potato Beetle ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Economic Returns ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Potato Beetle ◽  
Insecticide Efficacy ◽  
Treatment Thresholds ◽  
Untreated Check ◽  
The Cost

The effect of crop rotation was investigated on the efficacy and the economics of various insecticide strategies for Colorado potato beetle (CPB) control in potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) in 1995-96. These included broad-spectrum insecticides and biorational (environmentally friendly, naturally occurring) combinations that targeted specific CPB life stages. CPB pressure was greater in the nonrotated than the rotated plots. Although all materials gave better CPB control than the check, significantly more spray applications were required to reduce CPB numbers below treatment thresholds in the nonrotated plots than the rotated plots in both years. Overall yields and economic returns were significantly greater in the rotated plots in 1995. Efficacy of insecticide strategies varied, with little defoliation and few CPB larvae found in the imidacloprid treatment in 1995 and 1996. All insecticide strategies except endosulfan resulted in significantly higher estimated returns to management than the untreated check; the greatest returns occurred with permethrin and cryolite. No yields or returns could be obtained in 1996 due to excessive rainfall before harvest. These results indicate that yield and the cost of the insecticide strategy should be considered as well as insecticide efficacy in developing an effective integrated pest management program.

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