Study on the predictions of gene function and protein structure using multi-SVM and hybrid EDA

制度:新 ; 報告番号:甲3199号 ; 学位の種類:博士(工学) ; 授与年月日:2011/3/15 ; 早大学位記番号:新549

Arbitration of Islamic Financial Disputes

Using arbitration as a means of resolving Islamic finance disputes is gaining popularity in the Middle East, as well as in other Muslim States in South-East Asia and Africa. This is evident in the number of studies and articles that have been presented on this subject by Islamic finance experts and the legal community at large. Major arbitration institutions in the region are also positioning themselves to cater to this industry’s growing demand for dispute resolutions because many of these disputes tend to be of high profile and value. While the industry historically has preferred litigation over adjudication, and non-Islamic venues and laws to govern the subject of the disputes, there have been calls by legal and financial experts to refer more disputes to ADR methods, particularly arbitration, and provide custom arbitration clauses, procedures and practices more in line with Shari’a Law. This is similar to what has been established for arbitration of other industries such as Intellectual Property, Construction and Sports, and many others. Cite as: 20 Annl. Survey Int\u27l. Comp. L. 35 (2014)

Shari'a Commercial Law : "old wine in new bottles?"

Suite à la crise financière globale de 2008, ainsi qu’aux différents facteurs qui y ont mené, il est étonnant qu’une alternative éthique et juste pour une finance lucrative et stable n’existe toujours pas (ou du moins, demeure oubliée). Ayant décidé de contribuer au domaine pluri-centenaire du Droit Commercial de la Chari’a, nous avons été surpris par la découverte d’une problématique à l’origine de cette thèse. En France, nous avons suivi des débats doctrinaux intéressants dont les conclusions se rapprochent de la perception générale Occidentale quand à la nature de la finance Islamique, que ce soit au niveau de la finance basée sur le Droit de la Chari’a ou encore les exigences de sa pleine introduction dans le système juridique français de l’époque. Cet intérêt initial dans la finance islamique a ensuite mené à un intérêt dans la question des avantages d’éthique et de justice du Droit Commercial de la Chari’a dans son ensemble, qui est au coeur de cette thèse. Dans le monde moderne du commerce et de la finance d’aujourd’hui, les transactions sont marquées par une prise de risque excessive et un esprit de spéculation qui s’apparente aux jeux de hasard, et menant à des pertes colossales. Pire encore, ces pertes sont ensuite transférées à la collectivité. Par conséquent, y at-il des préceptes, des principes ou des règles éthiques et juridiques qui peuvent fournir une certaine forme de sécurité et de protection dans les marchés financiers d'aujourd'hui? Est-ce réalisable? Cette thèse soutient que la richesse de la jurisprudence islamique ainsi que ses règles dont les avantages n’ont pas encore été pleinement saisis et régénérés en réponse aux nouveaux défis d’aujourd'hui, peuvent encore fournir continuellement des solutions, et réformer des produits financiers de façon à refléter des principes de justice et d'équité. Dans ce processus, un éclairage nouveau sera apporté à certains sujets déjà connus dans le cadre de la contribution prévue de cette thèse, mais ne sera pas le principal objectif de la thèse.Following the 2008 global financial meltdown and the various reasons that lead to it, it seemed inconceivable that no ethical and justice-driven alternative for highly lucrative and stable financing existed, or at the very least forgotten about. Deciding to contribute to the already centuries old and continuously developing domain of Shari’a Commercial law, we were first caught by surprise when we discovered one particular problem that sparked the start of this thesis. In France, we encountered interesting debates and doctrinal findings resembling a general and common western perception of the legal nature of Islamic Finance, being Shari’a Commercial law based financing, and the requirements for its full introduction into the French legal system at the time. This initial interest in Islamic Finance then evoked an interest in the ethical and justice driven gems of Shari’a Commercial law as a whole, and as the subject of this thesis. In today’s modern and global commercial and financial world, transactions are shrouded by excessive risk-taking and speculation akin to gambling, rendering at times colossal damages. To make matters worse, those damages are dislodged onto the public. Therefore, are there any ethical and legal precepts, principles and rules that may provide some form of a safety and social net in today’s financial markets? Is this achievable? This thesis argues that the richness of Islamic jurisprudence and its rules that have not had their benefits fully reaped and regenerated in response to new challenges till today, may still continuously provide solutions, as well as provide reforms to financial products, which exemplify justice and fairness. Within the process, new light will be shed on certain already known topics as part of the intended contribution of this thesis, but will not be the main objective of the thesis

Fusion of Visual and Thermal Images Using Genetic Algorithms

Biometric technologies such as fingerprint, hand geometry, face and iris recognition are widely used to identify a person's identity. The face recognition system is currently one of the most important biometric technologies, which identifies a person by comparing individually acquired face images with a set of pre-stored face templates in a database

Fatwa shopping as modernising Islamic finance law

The thesis examines the evolving role of Islamic financial instruments in the modernisation of Islamic financial practices. Crucial to this process of modernisation is the proper appreciation of the impact and importance of selective Sharia opinions termed fatwa shopping in this thesis. Fatwa shopping involves selecting, reviewing, and combining Islamic juristic rulings in the form of fatwas (the plural of fatwa in English and it is also referred to as fatawa in Arabic). Using this approach, medieval Islamic rules and contracts are utilised on a functional basis and as a means of developing modern functional equivalents. The thesis argues that fatwa shopping continues the classical tradition of doctrinal selections (talfiq) made by Muslim jurists to find an interpretation that best fits the circumstances. The application of this approach finds expression in the views of Muslim scholars and Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs) and their Sharia Supervisory Boards (SSBs) reviewing and selecting various Islamic juristic rulings from different schools of Islamic jurisprudence to certify modern Islamic financial products and services. This approach recognises that medieval Islamic commercial contracts have significant problems in terms of feasibility and practicality in modern banking transactions. The thesis takes a middle path between legitimacy and practicality by allowing the development of Islamic financial instruments that obey Islamic juristic rulings but also take into account economic and financial considerations. Since financial institutions including IFIs are crucial to economic development and invariably involve risks to the economy, institutions, and consumers, regulation plays an important role in ensuring financial stability and risk management. Thus, it is important to contextualise the position of Islamic finance within the global financial system. Islamic financial institutions cannot be separated from the general regulatory framework and the management of risk. A key justification for the regulation of banking and financial institutions is to mitigate and prevent risks that may jeopardise the industry and the whole economy. This is reflected in both the public interest and economic theories of regulation. The government has a central role in risk regulation to protect the public from adverse consequences of banking and financial transactions through regulations that are primarily concerned with specifics risk in the financial industry. In the case of IFIs, it is not only government that has a central role in the development of financial products and the regulation of risks in Islamic finance. SSBs, as non-governmental bodies, provides substantive determinations as to whether a particular financial activity or instrument is Sharia compliant. Unlike conventional products, the character of Islamic financial products relies on Sharia compliance. One of the main challenges for Sharia compliance is whether fatwas can accommodate modern risk management instruments. Risk management instruments are pivotal to managing and hedging risks. These include various forms of derivatives as well as insurance and limited liability corporations. As modern derivatives and insurance are considered essential to deliver benefits to the financial industry and the economy as a whole, modern Islamic finance should be able to adapt to this economic and risk management environment. Despite disagreements Muslims scholars on whether modern instruments comply with Islamic law, the method of selective Sharia rules or fatwa shopping provides a mechanism for deriving modern fatwas on which to base Sharia compliant equivalents on derivatives, insurance, and limited liability corporations. In order to assess how IFIs actually operate in a financial system, the thesis examines Islamic finance in two jurisdictions: Indonesia and Australia. These two jurisdictions are selected as providing a comparison of a system that makes little or no accommodation for a very small Islamic finance industry (Australia) and Indonesia where fatwas are recognised in the local banking system; the validity of Islamic financial instruments depends not only on satisfying conventional regulatory requirements but also on SSBs certification of Sharia compliance. The legitimacy of local Islamic financial products and services operates through a non-state agency, Sharia Advisory Boards – Indonesian Ulama Council. They set their own juristic rules. The fatwas produced by that body play an important role in harmonizing Sharia opinions in the Indonesian financial system. Local banking acts direct Indonesian regulators to adopt fatwas as a national benchmark. In addition, fatwas of that governing body allow the adoption of various juristic rules from different Islamic schools in defining local fatwas on Islamic finance. In contrast, in Australia there is decentralised Sharia regulation so that local IFIs develop their own Sharia justifications for products and services offered to the markets. Local regulators have no concerns on Sharia compliance aspects of those local IFIs. The thesis concludes that that selective Sharia rules or fatwa shopping has contributed to the modern development of Islamic finance. The method has been successful in harmonizing legitimacy and practicality of Islamic financial transactions with the needs of a modern financial system

Syntactic and Semantic Analysis and Visualization of Unstructured English Texts

People have complex thoughts, and they often express their thoughts with complex sentences using natural languages. This complexity may facilitate efficient communications among the audience with the same knowledge base. But on the other hand, for a different or new audience this composition becomes cumbersome to understand and analyze. Analysis of such compositions using syntactic or semantic measures is a challenging job and defines the base step for natural language processing. In this dissertation I explore and propose a number of new techniques to analyze and visualize the syntactic and semantic patterns of unstructured English texts. The syntactic analysis is done through a proposed visualization technique which categorizes and compares different English compositions based on their different reading complexity metrics. For the semantic analysis I use Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) to analyze the hidden patterns in complex compositions. I have used this technique to analyze comments from a social visualization web site for detecting the irrelevant ones (e.g., spam). The patterns of collaborations are also studied through statistical analysis. Word sense disambiguation is used to figure out the correct sense of a word in a sentence or composition. Using textual similarity measure, based on the different word similarity measures and word sense disambiguation on collaborative text snippets from social collaborative environment, reveals a direction to untie the knots of complex hidden patterns of collaboration