S-curve characterisation of contractors' cash flow in Nigerian tertiary institutions TETFUND Projects

It was empirically established that 82% of businesses fail due to poor management of cash flow; and that just over half of businesses prepare cash flow projections and compare them with actual figure. The paper established the characteristics of contractors' cash flow handling TETFUND projects in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions with a view to improving financial control in construction using the S-Curve as a tool. The research was exploratory in which cash flow characteristics of three selected projects were established. Project records comprising of project profiles and cash flows were used to generate data for the study. The characteristics of the S-Curves of two of the projects depicted rapid initial start-up indicating engagement of many activities at the beginning, while the third project depicted slow start-up due to unavailability of results of soil test. Subsequently, all the projects recorded average progressions and toward the end, progress of all the projects became slow. All the projects were largely executed under negative net cash flows with one at loss. It is therefore recommended that S-Curve be employed in financial planning and management in executing TETFUND projects in order to project ahead financial commitments and implications required in executing projects. The major limitation of the research was restricted case studies due to confidentiality on financial data.Keywords: Cash Flows, Infrastructural Projects, S-Curve, Tertiary Institutions,TETFUN

Use of Computer Aided Teaching In G.C.E. (A/L) Physics in Sammanthurai and Kalmunai education zones

The information communication technology (ICT) plays an important role in Physics teaching and learning process. Thus, the effect of ICT in Physics teaching at G.C.E. (A/L) has been investigated. For this study, the refraction of light in Wave and Oscillation (a sub section of Unit 03 in Grade 12) was used. The sample consisted of 169 students from four mixed classes in two 1AB schools at atSamanthurai and Kalmunai. One class in each school was randomly selected and taught by ICT method whereas the other two classes were taught in Chalk & Talk method. A Post-Test question paper was administered to all students and the students’ marks were analyzed by the statistical method using two samples T-test and CI in Mini Tab software. Our finding shows that the competency levels of students followed ICT method were larger than that of Chalk & Talk method. Furthermore, it hardly found any effect of competency levels by gender and by the schools in rural and urban areas

الأعیاد والولائم في إندونیسیا أحكامھا وآدابھا في الفقھ الإسلامي قدمت هذه الرسالة لتكملة شروط الحصول على شهادة الماجستير في الشريعة الإسلامية Holiday and wedding party in Indonesia, law and courtesies in review of Islamic fiqih

Amounts of holiday and wedding party in Indonesia that was removing and growing to cause difference perspectives of ulama in punishing and construing it. Make the reason to write it in this thesis, with the purpose knowing of law and courtesies related with holiday and wedding party. This thesis used direct analysis method to the people and literation of library with compared the oldest and contemporary ulama’s opinions in all of problem, before out of result that choose and strong. And this thesis was till at the conclusion that holiday there was in Indonesia, considerate from Islamic law divided into three sides, which are agreedable to, disagreed able to and agreed unable to. Among of important matter in this thesis is discussion about law and courtesies in holiday and wedding party and explanation how to construe the difference inside, completed with the deflections there were it, and solution for Indonesian people in this problem

The cervical smear pattern in patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease

Background: Cancer of the cervix is the commonestmalignancy of the genital tract inNigeria. In an atmosphere of opportunistic screening due to lack of a national screening programme, studies are needed to determine patients at risk of premalignant lesions of the cervix. Goal: To determine cervical smear pattern in patients with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease and investigate the potential of chronic pelvic inflammatory disease as a risk factor to cervical dysplasia. StudyDesign: Case- control study. Setting : Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital Zaria, Nigeria. Subjects: Three hundred and sixty-nine premenopausalwomen attending the gynaecologic and family planning clinics ofAhmaduBelloUniversity TeachingHospitalZaria,Nigeria fromJanuary toDecember 2000. Results: Of the 369 women that had cervical cytology by Pap smear, 163 (44%) had chronic pelvic inflammatory disease (cases) while 206 (56%) were non chronic PID patients (control). There was no statistical significance in the mean age between the two groups. The mean age at first coitus and marriage of all the womenwere 17.92.7 years and 18.5 3.4 years respectively.Therewere 52 dysplastic smears encountered, giving a prevalence rate of 140/1,000 or 14% for Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia. There were higher cases of dysplasia in the chronic PIDgroup than in the control and this differenceswas statistically significant (p4) and age of first coitus less than 20 years. Only 10%of all thewomen screenedwere aware of both cervical cancer and Pap smear. Conclusion: Women with chronic pelvic inflammatory disease are probably at higher risk of developing cervical dysplasia than women without chronic pelvic inflammatory disease.Cervical cancer screening programmes should be intensified in chronic pelvic inflammatory disease patients.However, further studies are needed in our setting to verify the association between pelvic inflammatory disease and cervical dysplasia.Keywords:  Cervical smear, pelvic inflammatory disease, cervical cancer

POLA PERDAGANGAN KOPRA MAKASSAR, 1883-1958

Penelitian ini bermaksud untuk mengkaji bagaimana ekonomi kepulauan dibangun dan dikembangkan di wilayah Indonesia bagian timur dengan merekontruksi Makassar sebgai pusat perdagangan kopra tahun 1883-1958. Ketika itu Makassar dapat menyumbangkan pendapatan negara antara 40-60%. Pada masa tersebut pulau-pulau di Indonesia bagian timur terintegrasi dengan Makassar dengan pasar dunia. Perusahaan Eropa dan Cina masuk menanamkan modalnya berbagai wilayah di Indonesia bagian timur. Lembaga perbangkan dan pabrik-pabrik minyak tumbuh dengan pesat.\ud Kajian ini berupaya menelaah dokumen-dokumen arsip sebuah upaya untuk mendapatkan informasi yang mendalam tentang bagaimana pola pembangunan ekonomi yang berorientasi kerakyatan dalam sebuah negara kepulauan seperti ditunjukkan baerbagai literatur kolonial dalam kurun kajian ini. Makassar muncul sebagai bagian ekonomi dunia, karena mampu menyatukan perdagangan antar pulau di Wilayah Indonesia di bagian tinutr dengan pasar dunia, hanya karena mempunyai komodiotas kopra. Dengan penggambara melalui dokumen arsip, juga akan dilakukan penelitian lapangan khususnya untuk mengetahui kondisi pelabuhan yang ditutup pada tahun l950 an. Hal ini bertujuan untuk manata ulang kembali fungsi-fungsi pelabuhan sebagai ujung tombak integrasi perdagangan antar pulau. Pola pengembangan ekonomi kepulauan yang diteliti dalam penelitian menjadi dasar pada pengembangan pembangunan pembangunan. Tujuan ini dimaksudkan dapat menjadi model dalam membangun ekonomi kepulaun dimasa-masa datang. Hal itu bertujuan untuk mengurangi pandangan bahwa pola pembangunan ekonomi Indonesia hingga saat ini mengabaikan sistem jaringan perdagangan antar pulau

Cyclopentyl Trisilanol Silsesquioxanes – Modified Natural Rubber (CpSSQ(OH)3 – ENR-50) Nanocomposite In The Presence Of Tin (II) Chloride Dihydrate

A nanocomposite comprising cyclopentyl trisilanol silsesquioxanes (CpSSQ(OH)3) and 50% epoxidized natural rubber (ENR-50) was prepared at reflux temperature with Tin (II) chloride dihydrate (SnCl2.2H2O) as catalyst. SnCl2.2H2O was found to be an affective catalyst to promote ring opening in ENR-50 and tailored it to CpSSQ(OH)3 via chemical reaction. The generation of carbonyl functional groups arising from epoxide ring opening can be clearly seen in FTIR spectra. 1H and 29Si NMR analyses further proved that the incorporation of CpSSQ(OH)3 in ENR-50 occured. TGA studies showed a degradation temperature with 10% weight decreased and DSC thermogram indicates a single Tg. Single peak in XRD diffractogram at 2-Theta angle further confirmed the surface modification

أحكام الحضاةً في الفقه الإسلاهي هقارةً بقاوًى الأحوال الشخصية الليبي )دراسة فقهية مقارنة( Ahkam Al-hadhonah Fi Al-fiqh Al-Islamy Muqoranah Bi Qonun Al Wa As-Syakhshiyah Al-aliby

This message looking for a nursery in the provisions of Islamic jurisprudence and Libyan law. This thesis is applied for Islamic Law master Program, Muhammadiyyah University of Surakarta. Arranged by: Tahani Mahmoud Saad. NIM: O20012000. Supervised by Dr.Muhammad Muinudinillah Basry, MA and Dr. Mohamed Abdel Khalik Hassan. Year 2014 AD - 1435 H. This message qualitative research office, which made me posting this research, is the large number of issues on the nursery in the courtyard of the judiciary in the Libyan society and the problems of supply in the following research: how to reconcile the law with the Libyan Islamic jurisprudence in the door of the provisions of the nursery? Where my goal is to liberate accountable nursery comparative study of Islamic jurisprudence with Are said the four schools with Libyan law. The approach taken by the research methodology Allosteric analytical comparison. Find the most important findings: that the law of personal status Libyan nursery door is consistent with the Maliki school except for some cases, where interest requires otherwise, because throughout the nursery are the interests of the child and because the interest on the introduction of all other interests. As it became clear that the Libyan law leave it to the judge in some cases, in the interest of the child and for the judge to rule it under the authority and with what is agreed with the doctrine the militant also criticized the Libyan law did not address some of the texts in the nursery but there is a text item number (72, paragraph b) mentions where if there is no legislative text can be applied he is condemned under Islamic Sharia principles most relevant to the provisions of this law and this indicates that the Personal Status law in the Libyan nursery door with a conciliator Islamic jurisprudence because originally derives its legitimacy from Islamic jurisprudence

Aplikasi Konsep “Ajal” Dalam Al-Quran Menurut Tafsir Al-Azhar Dan Tafsir Al-Misbah Terhadap Keruntuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Muslim

This research was done because of two problems. First, it is related to searching the meaning of “ajal” that Quran mentions in multiple diverse form and context. It was evident that there is the term of “ajal” is related to decline of umat/community/nation’s existence. Second, the decline of Moslem’s dynasties that ever built Islamic Empires was the expression of sunnatullah. The writer assumes that (1) their decline did not happen in nature, but it was caused by other factors which repeatedly occured in different places and times; and (2) the factors which are related to the tight to either “ajal” or is “ajal” itself. The two problems appear because of indepth thoughtfulness about the international Moslems condition now, especially the very latest incidents and affairs in Middle East, in the world politic and civilization constellation. This research has three goals they are: (1) explaining the meaning of “ajal” according to Tafsīr al-Azhār by HAMKA and Tafsīr al-Miṣbāh by M. Quraish Shihab; (2) comparing the meaning of “ajal” according to both of them; and (3) applicating the character of “ajal” toward the decline of Moslem nations, espescially the Three Islamic Great Empires in Middle age, they are Ottoman Turkey, Persia’s Safawi, and India’s Mughal. This research is qualitative library research. The method of data aggregation is tafsir muqārin’s method and historical method, and the method of analyzing data is descriptive-analyitic by means of method of language analysis and concept analysis. There are three products of research, they are: (1) the two of mufassir is equal in the term of the meaning of “ajal” that is related to decline of umat by “qadar” or “taqdir”, “law of cause-result”, and “sunnatullah”; (2) the meaning of “ajal” according to HAMKA is “promise, determinate, or limit”, while M. Quraish Shihab is more complete, that is “end limit of things, ages, or activities and affairs” or “limit of destruction and death’s time”. He also diferentiates between an “individual ajal” and an “ajal of group or community”; and (3) the factors caused the decline of Moslem nations, really materialized in reality after through mechanism of fulfilling qadar or standard/norm/criterion of each factor when interacting between one and others up to certain limits that is culminated in arrival of an “ajal of group or community” as “limit of death’s time”, and then ending their existence

Implementasi Pendidikan Ideal Berbasis QS. Al Alaq 1-5 di SDIT Luqman Al Hakim Surakarta

Implementasi Pendidikan Ideal Berbasis Qs. Al Alaq 1-5 di SDIT Luqman Al Hakim Surakarta. Tesis Trianawati Wahyu Ningsih Ambar Sari, NIM O 100 110 021. Program Studi Magister Pendidikan Islam. Program Pascasarjana, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. Tahun 2013. Pendidikan pada hakekatnya adalah upaya untuk memberikan bimbingan dan fasilitas dalam rangka mengembangkan potensi fitrah peserta didik, agar menjadi sumber daya insani yang berkualitas, dan mempunyai kompetensi untuk kesempurnaan manusia yang bertujuan mendekatkan diri kepada Allah serta kebahagiaan di dunia dan akhirat.Surat Al-'Alaq adalah salah satu surat di dalam Al-Qur'an yang turun pada periode awal. Ayat 1-5 merupakan ayat yang pertama kali turun kepada Nabi Muhammad saw. Ayat pertama yang diturunkan Allah ini sangat erat dengan petunjuk-Nya tentang pendidikan. Permasalahan dalam penelitian ini adalah:1) Bagaimana implementasi pendidikan ideal berbasis surat Al Alaq ayat 1-5 di SDIT Luqman Al Hakim Surakarta tahun ajaran 2012/2013? dan 2) apa hambatan dan solusi dalam implementasi pendidikan ideal berbasis surat Al Alaq ayat 1-5 di SDIT Luqman Al Hakim Surakarta tahun ajaran 2012/2013?. Metode yang digunakan dalam pembahasan adalah metode kualitatif. Data yang diperlukan dalam studi ini diperoleh berdasarkan hasil dokumentasi dan wawancara. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian tentang implementasi pendidikan ideal berbasis Qs. Al Alaq ayat 1-5 di SDIT Luqman Al Hakim Mojosongo Jebres Surakarta dapat diketahui bahwa pelaksanaan program sekolah sudah baik, budaya membaca kauniyah maupun qouliyah sudah terealisasi; kurikulum berbasis surat Al Alaq sudah terealisasi, tetapi belum maksimal karna kurangnya pembinaan SDM secara intensif; sarpras. Kurangnya alat peraga yang mendukung proses KBM; masyarakat dan orang tua wali murid sangat antusias dengan keberadaan SDIT. Hambatan pendidikan di SDIT Luqman Al Hakim yaitu sistem yang belum kuat, belum ada reward, evaluasi dan penilaian guru. Selain itu kurang ketegasan pemimpin dalam mengambil keputusan sehingga banyak karyawan yang bekerja kurang maksimal. Dengan sistem yang belum kuat akan berakibat pada SDM dan kualitas siswa. Solusi yang dilakukan untuk memperbaiki sistem yang terdapat di SDIT Luqman Al Hakim adalah dengan adanya pembiasan bagi setiap komponen yang terdapat di SDIT Luqman Al Hakim untuk berpartisipasi aktif dalam setiap kegiatan yang diadakan oleh sekolah