Throughout this internship, I, Abhi Pasupula, have worked with my internship mentor, Barry Federici, in order to help him start up a new service. This service is targeted specifically towards veterans and their paths in their lives after they retire from the military. The service is split up into two categories, those being Jobs and Veteran Benefits. Jobs entailed creating and implement a job board into our website for retired veterans to search for. Veteran benefits showcase a list of benefits that veterans are eligible for, divided up by Federal Benefits, State Benefits, Local Benefits, and a page for all available benefits. For the Job Board page on the website, we got into contact with a job board service known as Hiring Opps and spent many days working through the features and seeing which features would serve us the best for the website. In addition, we set up a Sandbox so that we could physically see the service in action. The benefits required more menial work, such as compiling the list of total benefits and categorizing them into states with links that lead to the state Veteran Benefits commission for more information. Once organized, the benefits were organized into 4 sections, each section having its own page on the website. Both of these websites were connected back to the original website, which served as a homepage for all the services. The homepage also had services to meet with my mentor, Mr. Federici. Working on both of these websites and services really opened my eyes to the professional world of Software Development, where there was so much more apart from just programming. Similar to this internship, the real world will require me to be able to voice my thoughts as well as put them down on paper and be able to explain them well to others, something that I believe this internship set me up for very well. ; https://digitalcommons.imsa.edu/intern_reports_2021/1004/thumbnail.jpg
This research asks one simple question, a question many studies on the arranged marriage omit to ask, namely "What exactly is the arranged marriage?"Author Naema Tahir, born and bred in the arranged marriage culture, but educated in the free-choice marriage culture, argues that much literature on the arranged marriage fails to offer full exploration of this traditional marital system. Instead, the arranged marriage is often analysed through the lens of the modern free choice marriage system. However, this is not a neutral lens. It considers the free choice marriage to be the ideal. As a result, the arranged marriage is perceived to be a "marriage of shortcomings", one that fails to meet the standards of the free-choice marriage system. The author encourages readers to break this frame and offers a neutral perspective on this traditional marital system practised by billions around the world. Readers are invited to an in-depth and rigorous analysis of the foundations upon which the arranged marriage system rests. While this analysis zooms in on the case study of one particular focus group, the British Pakistani diaspora, it reveals broad insights into the arranged marriage system in general. This analysis highlights and critically examines social principles fundamental to the arranged marriage system and which are much misunderstood, such as hierarchy, patriarchy, collectivism, group loyalty and the role of parental and individual marital consent. The author argues that it is vital to first understand the traditional structures of the arranged marriage, before one can understand modernizing tendencies the arranged marriage system is currently undergoing. As such, this study hugely contributes to an unbiased understanding of the arranged marriage and changing arranged marriage patterns and is a valuable reading for those interested in marriage, marital systems and the future thereof.
Arabic language has no doubt been regarded an international language that is often used in official meetings. Besides English, Arabic can be used as the official language in international forums. Arabic is a language that has a uniqueness in terms of grammar and linguistics, therefore this language is studied in many countries around the world. Arabic has an important role in current contemporary world, especially as a medium of political, economic and cultural interaction. This paper portrays the role of Arabic in the contemporary era, especially its roles in in the development of civilization.
In 2014, an alleged "Trojan Horse" plot to Islamise education in a number of schools attended predominantly by diverse Muslim pupils in the inner-city wards of Birmingham raised considerable questions. Ofsted investigations of 21 schools explored these concerns at the behest of the then Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove MP. At the head of this so-called plot, a certain Tahir Alam, once a darling of New Labour's policies on British Muslim schools, faced the brunt of the media and political furore. Based on a series of face-to-face interviews with Alam in 2015 and 2016, this paper provides a detailed insight into the allegations, the context in which they emerged, and the implications raised for young Muslims in the education system. Ultimately, as part of the government's counter-terrorism policy the accusations of the "Islamisation" of education in these "Trojan Horse" schools foreshadowed the additional securitisation of all sectors of education. However, there was neither the evidence nor the legal justification to ratchet up anti-extremism education measures that eventually followed; namely the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015. The consequences of the negative attention heightened existing Islamophobia but, paradoxically, they also limited the opportunities for de-radicalisation through education.
Women's presence at top managerial positions is less than men across the world and Pakistan is also no exception. Pakistan is a conservative and male dominated society where working women face a lot of obstacles while making advancement in their careers. However, due to the increase in literacy rate and greater efforts from government, civil societies, and media, working women and women at managerial positions are becoming more acceptable by the society. Keeping in view this changing scenario, the objective of the current study is to understand the working women's experiences, barriers, and related issues while making advancement towards managerial level positions. The study is qualitative in nature and used phenomenology as a main mode of inquiry. Sample of the study was drawn from banking, education, and telecom sector in Pakistan. Data was collected from thirty female managers working at various levels among the three mentioned sectors. Key findings of the study are that Pakistani female managers face familial, organizational, and cultural barriers. The study also identified that there is greater acceptance of female managers as compared to the past. Moreover, Pakistani female managers also possess some unique leadership characteristics which are not very common among male managers.
Apart from the former EFTA members (Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) and afew former republics of the Soviet Union (Bjelorussia, Moldova and Ukraina) the countries ofthe Western Balkans are the only European states outside of the European Union. They are verykeen to join the Union. The Balkans have always been the poorest part of Europe. The appeal ofthe wealthy European Union is apparent. Access to the largest market in the world, investment,modern technologies and generous regional funds give a hope that by joining the EU the WesternBalkans countries will join the rich club. At the moment performance of the Western Balkancountries does not guarantee that they will become rich by joining the European Union. Theircurrent production and trade structure makes it likely that the Western Balkan countries will belocked in inter-industry trade in which they will export products of low and medium technologicaland developmental level and import products of high technological and developmental level. Thismight lead to divergence rather than convergence between them and the European Union. Inother to overcome this problem the Western Balkan countries need to conduct radical reformsin the public sector, fiscal policy, industrial trade and investment policy. They also need to tacklecorruption, simplify administrative procedure, strenghten property rights and the lawful state. Allthis with the aim to change economic structure and shift from achievements of the second andthird to fourth technological revolution. Only if these reforms are successfuly implemented theWestern Balkan countries can hope to avoid the Greek scenario and possibly experience the Irishscenario.
Als Folge der Globalisierung entstehen kommerzielle, soziale und politische Beziehungen, die letztendlich zu Multilingualismus und Multikulturalität führen. Infolge der Dynamik, die von disen Faktoren hervorgerufen wird, sind Deutschland und die Türkei zu den wichtigsten Ländern der ethnischen und kulturellen Vielfalt denn je geworden, weil der Großteil der Bevölkerung in beiden Ländern einen Migrationshintergrund hat und mehrsprachig ist. Die in dieser Arbeit sprachlich analysierten Wochenmärkte sind Orte, auf denen KäuferInnen und Standinhaber bzw. Wochenmarktkaufleute zufällig treffen, wobei ein besonderer Soziolekt entsteht, der hier untersucht werden soll. Das Deutsche verfügt über keinen entsprechenden Terminus. Daher wird hier ein Terminus vorgeschlagen. Die Wochenmarktkaufleute-Sprache ist von Sprachvarietäten, Codeswitchings und Pidginisierungen ausgeprägt, aber auch von Interferenzen, Interjektionen, Honorativa, Liedern, Floskeln usw. Die Daten dieser Arbeit wurden aus Wochenmärkten in Adana und Berlin erhoben. ; Küreselleşme birçok ticari, siyasi ve sosyal ilişkiyi beraberinde getirmektedir. Bu ilişkiler çokkültürlülüğe ve çokdilliliğe neden olmaktadır. Bu etmenlerin sağladığı hareketlilik neticesinde Türkiye ve Almanya, etnik ve kültürel çeşitliliğin en canlı olduğu ülkeler arasında yer almaktadır. Zira Türkiye ve Almanya'da halkın azımsanmayacak kısmı çokdillidir ve geçmişinde göçmenlik vardır. Bu çalışmada ele alınan pazar(cı) dili, semt pazarlarında tesadüfen karşılaşan insanların kullandığı jargondur. Bu dilbilimsel terim Almancada henüz mevcut değildir ve çalışmamızda buna dair öneride bulunulmaktadır. Bu dilin en önemli niteliği, kod kaydırma ve karma dil gibi dilsel değişkelerin çokluğudur. Bunun dışında aktarım hataları, ünlemler, yinelemeler, dinsel ifadeler, yer adları, türküler, akrabalık ifadeleri, hatta boş sözler çok sık gördüğümüz dilsel olgulardır. Bu çalışmanın verileri Adana ve Berlin'den derlenmiştir.
This study aims to describe the ideology revealed in the Bone district government public service announcements using Charles W. Morris's semiotics. Public service announcements made by the government of Bone Regency are expected to pragmatically have an effect on the community, as with commercial advertisements. Ideology in PSA is expected to have a positive effect on recipients of PSA messages. The ideology that is understood is expected to be the attitude and behavior of the people as targets of existing PSAs. This research is a qualitative descriptive type. The data is sourced from existing texts in PSA made by the Bone district government. The data collection procedures in this study are the recording technique, listening technique, and note taking technique. and interview techniques. This research will describe the ideological effects of Bone Local Government PSA based on the work culture and work spirit tagline.
In societies like Kosovo, where the administration and state authorities fail to expand their authorities and care to citizens, kinship and social networks are domains that somehow fill this gap. In the Balkans, due to the inefficiency of the state authorities, up to the beginning of the twentieth century patrilineal kin groups in some sense represented the public sphere; in the case of Kosovo this was even later, namely up until the end of the twentieth century. Depending on specific historical, economic and political contexts, the kinship system turned into a system based on a combination of descent and marriage throughout the course of the twentieth century. In dealing with the question of what Habermas identifies as the public sphere – a sphere of private people who jointly form a public, meaning those people who did not hold public/official positions, my research intends to analyse interchangeable positions and roles that kinship has in relation to private and public domains – meaning the role kinship has in terms of family relations, social organization and the political system. This research is based on ethnographic data I collected over the years 2011-2015 in Isniq (a village located in the west of Kosovo). ; U društvima poput Kosova, gdje se upravne i državne vlasti ne pridržavaju u potpunosti pravila ponašanja, taj jaz donekle ispunjavaju rodbinske i društvene mreže. Na Balkanu, zbog neučinkovitosti državnih vlasti, patrilinearne rodbinske skupine sve do početka 20. stoljeća na neki način predstavljaju javnu sferu (Kaser 1999:23); u slučaju Kosova, to traje i dulje, naime do kraja 20. stoljeća. Ovisno o konkretnom povijesnom, gospodarskom i političkom kontekstu, sustav srodstva prerastao je u sustav koji se temelji na kombinaciji podrijetla i sklapanja braka tijekom cijeloga 20. stoljeća. Baveći se pitanjem onoga što Habermas definira javnom sferom – sfera privatnih osoba koje zajednički tvore javno, to jest "ne obnašaju javne dužnosti niti su na službenom položaju" (Habermas 1991) – u ovom se istraživanju namjerava analizirati međusobno zamjenjive položaje i uloge koje srodstvo ima u odnosu na privatnu i javnu domenu, tj. ulogu koje srodstvo ima u smislu obiteljskih veza, društvene organizacije i političkog sustava. Istraživanje se temelji na etnografskim podacima prikupljenima u razdoblju od 2011. do 2015. godine u Isniqu (selu koje se nalazi u zapadnom dijelu Kosova).
Diese Dissertation enthält vier Essays über die Messung und Determinanten von Armut, Gender Gap, Ernährungsunsicherheit und Unterernährung in Pakistan. Alle Arbeiten verwenden aktuelle Methoden und Ansätze der einschlägigen Literatur und erweitern teilweise die angewandte Literatur. Eine Executive-Einführung motiviert die Papiere, Methoden, Daten und fasst die wichtigsten Ergebnisse zusammen. Das erste Papier vergleicht die objektive Einkommensarmut mit einer subjektiven Messung, bei der sich der Haushalt auf einer zehnstufigen Einkommensskala befindet. Sie stellt fest, dass einige Determinanten, einschließlich Haushaltsgröße und physische Sicherheit, unterschiedlich sind. Daher sollten spezifische zielgerichtete Determinanten Vorrang erhalten, die angesichts der begrenzten verfügbaren Ressourcen bei der Linderung der Armut eine größere Rolle spielen und gleichzeitig die öffentliche Politik umsetzen. Der zweite Aufsatz analysiert die geschlechtsspezifische Diskrepanz zwischen den Haushalten in der subjektiven Skala des Wohlbefindens. Sie stellt fest, dass der Konsum von Nahrungsunsicherheit und Mangel an sanitären Einrichtungen einen größeren Einfluss auf das Wohlbefinden von Frauen als von Männern hat, während das Gegenteil für die physische Sicherheit der Fall ist. Daher ist der geschlechtsspezifische Unterschied im subjektiven Wohlbefinden mit geschlechtsspezifischem Zugang zu zielrelevanten Ressourcen verbunden. Die Studie kommt zu dem Schluss, dass es nicht sicher ist, das Wohlbefinden nur aus einer Dimension zu beurteilen. Der dritte Aufsatz analysiert die Determinanten eines neunstufigen Nahrungsmittelunsicherheitsindex unter Verwendung der Skala für Ernährungsunsicherheit, die quantitative, qualitative, psychologische und soziale Aspekte der Ernährungssicherheit beinhaltet. Es wird festgestellt, dass eine breite Palette von demografischen, wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Determinanten die Ernährungsunsicherheit in Pakistan beeinflusst. Der letzte Aufsatz verwendet ein Multi-Level-Modell, um Determinanten der Wachstumsverzögerung in der Kindheit in der Provinz Punjab zu untersuchen. Es stellt fest, dass die Heterogenität auf Haushaltsebene die größten Ursachen für Wachstumsstörungen sind, selbst nach Kontrolle der Kovariaten. Dies zeigt, dass es eine akute Einkommensungleichheit, Zugang zu Gesundheitseinrichtungen, Ernährungsunsicherheit und Chancenmangel auf Haushaltsebene gibt. Zusammengefasst besteht diese Dissertation aus vier inhaltlichen quantitativen Übungen, die jeweils einen Beitrag zur angewandten Literatur leisten. ; This dissertation includes four essays on the measurement and determinants of poverty, gender gap, food insecurity and malnutrition in Pakistan. All papers use current methods and approaches of the relevant literature and some extend the applied literature. An executive introduction nicely motivates the papers, methods, data, and summarize the main results. The first paper compares objective income poverty to a subjective measure where household placed themselves on a ten-step income scale. It finds that some determinants, including household size and physical security differ. Thus, priority should be given to specific targeted determinants, which are more important in the alleviation of poverty, while making and implementing public policy given the limited available resources. The second essay analyzes the intra-household gender gap in the subjective 10 scale well-being measure. It finds that consumption food insecurity, and lack of sanitation has a larger impact of female than male stated well-being while the reverse is the case for physical security. Hence, gender difference in subjective well-being is associated with gender specific access to goal relevant resources. The study concludes that it is not safe to gauge well-being from one dimension only. The third essay analyzes determinants of a nine-scale food insecurity index using food insecurity experience scale, incorporating quantitative, qualitative, psychological, and social dimension of food security. It finds that a broad range of demographic, economic and social determinants affect food insecurity in Pakistan. The last essay uses a multi-level model to study determinants of childhood stunting in Punjab province. It finds that heterogeneity at the household level is the largest drivers of stunting, even after controlling for covariates. This reveals that there exist an acute income inequality, access to health care facility, food insecurity, and opportunities deprivation at household level. In a nutshell, this dissertation consists of four substantive quantitative exercises that each makes a contribution to the applied literature.
The principle of legality is a very fundamental principle in Positive Criminal Law and Islamic Criminal Law. The Indonesian Criminal Code Bill recognizes the principle of material legality (not absolute), so the consequence, even though it is not regulated in the legislation, is that someone's actions deserve to be punished. A person can be punished by referring to the law that lives in society. The principle of legality in positive law can actually be deviated, provided that the criminal act threatens order and security. In Islamic Criminal Law, the principle of legality can also be deviated with a note that it threatens public order and security
Adverse effects of fossil fuel burning internal combustion engine vehicles has alarmed nations worldwide. With recent technological advancements in electric vehicle industry, governments throughout the world are promoting wider adoption of electric vehicles to mitigate environmental issues. However, increasing popularity of electric vehicles will pose a great threat to existing electric grids due to added load of electric vehicles in power systems distribution network. This study provides solution to stabilize electric grid health in the form of two objectives. First, to develop a fast charging station to reduce consumer anxiety problems related to slow charging stations. The charging setup designed in this study caters two issues; one, to charge EV batteries in minimum time and two, provide utilities with active and reactive power support using EV batteries and charging station, respectively. The second objective of this study is to develop smart charging strategy for the benefit of electric utilities and EV owners. The approach adopted in this study to develop smart charging schedule is based on optimization technique to minimize cost of charging for both, electric utilities and EV owners. This will essentially level utility load throughout the day by providing power to charge EV batteries during off-peak hours, and, on the other hand, utilities will take power from EV batteries for peak power shaving during peak power demand hours of the day. The optimization method adopted in this study is particularly quadratic programming to minimize cost of charging.
This article critically reviews contemporary understandings of the drivers, objectives, and the social and political distinctions of far right and Islamist extremism as reciprocal and correlative threats. While social structure and identity politics are important themes in the social science literature on the radicalisation of far right and Islamist extremist individuals and groups, there remain significant knowledge and policy gaps. Based on a discourse analysis of two related concepts, this article seeks to explain the nature of similarities and differences. As exclusivist and self-reinforcing narratives, the actions and perspectives of one group embolden the other. Policymakers need to understand far right and Islamist extremism as phenomena with shared local driving forces and impacts. This approach would also avoid duplication of effort, as well as misrecognition and insensitivity, in counterterrorism efforts. It also generates valuable political inroads into grounded notions of social cohesion.
The academic area of Islamic studies is one of the most diverse area of study either in terms of methodology or object matter. Islamic studies are also suspected to host a number of value laden methodologies thus makes it unfit to stand along the line with other more established discipline in social science studies in general. This paper, therefore, aims at evaluating the politics and ideological standpoint of Islamic studies by utilizing the principle of epistemological anarchism popularized by Paul K. Feyerabend.Keywords: Epistemological Anarchism, Islamic Studies, and Social Science.
The intervention in Libya is the best example to date to judge the implementation of the Responsibility to Protect. In 2011, public demonstrations started in Libya seeking political and economic reforms in the country. In return, the Libyan President Maummar Al-Qaddafi threatened mass atrocities in Libya. This allowed the UNSC to sanction the use of force against Qaddafi's regime in order to protect civilians. First, under resolution 1970 (2011), the UNSC referred the case to the International Criminal Court and applied sanctions. Second, via resolution 1973 (2011), the application of force was approved for the express purpose of "protecting civilians." This thesis assess whether the military intervention in Libya in 2011 was R2P case. This question is answered by an analysis based upon the UNSC's Resolutions, Council's proceedings, and other official documents. ; May 2016
