Encountering extremism through a counter narrative a study of the Pakistani society

This article highlights the significance of the concept of developing an effective counter narrative in response to the narrative of extremists. The study primarily focuses on the complexity of the issue of extremsm in Pakistani society and an overview of the sectarian conflicts of the country. The study further indicates the inception of the culture of the Holy War in the country and the reasons for its present conditions. The research has highlighted the works done on counter narrative in the country and how the issue of extremism has been dealt so far and what needs to be done in future. The study includes a latest survey as well which reflect the mindset of the people of Pakistan with regard to extremism. The article highlights the narrative of the extremists and a counter narrative to their narrative and presents the real concept and the purpose of Jihᾱd in Islam

Household Economics Analysis of Mina Mendong Farmers (Case Study in Wajak Village – Malang Regency)

Mina mendong farming is an agricultural activity which combines fish farming with crop cultivation in the rice fields mendong. Mina mendong farming is very important for farmers with small land area or middle and lower economic in the Wajak village. For the farmers, it can be optimize land use and reduce the risk of farming because it produces more than one output. The objectives of this research are: (1) analyzing the factors that affect the production of mina mendong; (2) analyzing the contribution of mina mending farming income to the revenue of farmers’ households. This research is use econometric model of mina mendong farmers’ households’ economy into simultaneous analysis model. The result shows that the factors affecting farm production is the use of fertilizers, the quantity of seeds mina mendong fish, and the use of pellets mina mendong. The income of mina mending farming contributes to the revenue of farmers’ households amounting 61.54 percent. Keywords: mina mendong, mendong, fish, income, revenue, household economi

Pepper Powder Quality Identification System Based on Silent Angle Imagery

This research identifies the quality of pepper powder using a computer automatically. The research method uses the stationary angle method. The design of this system is done by image processing techniques. The image of ground pepper that has been taken is then cropped to remove the unused portion of the image. The next step is to convert the original image into grayscale and then convert it to binary. The parameter of the stationary angle is when it has an angle of less than or equal to 38 °, the ground pepper includes fine ground pepper. If the angle ranges from 38o to 40o, including medium powdered pepper, and if the angle is greater than 41o, including the texture of coarse pepper powder. Testing 3 different types of samples obtained 40 mesh is 35.18 o; for 20 mesh is 40.46o and 10 mesh is 41.66o. Therefore, it can be seen that the smaller the texture of the size of ground pepper, the finer the quality.Penelitian ini mengidentifikasi kualitas lada bubuk menggunakan komputer secara otomatis. Metode penelitian menggunakan metode sudut diam. Perancangan sistem ini dilakukan dengan teknik pengolahan citra. Citra lada bubuk yang telah diambil selanjutnya di-cropping untuk menghilangkan bagian citra yang tidak terpakai. Langkah selanjutnya adalah citra hasil asli tersebut dikonversi dalam bentuk grayscale dan selanjutnya dikonversi dalam bentuk biner. Parameter sudut diam adalah ketika memiliki sudut kurang dari atau sama dengan 38o, lada bubuk tersebut termasuk lada bubuk yang halus. Jika sudutnya berkisar antara 38o sampai 40o maka termasuk lada bubuk sedang, dan jika sudutnya lebih besar dari 41o maka termasuk tekstur lada bubuk kasar. Pengujian 3 jenis sampel yang berbeda didapatkan 40 mesh adalah 35,18o; untuk 20 mesh adalah 40,46o dan 10 mesh adalah 41,66o. Oleh karena itu dapat diketahui bahwa semakin kecil tekstur ukuran lada bubuk, semakin halus kualitasnya

THE EFFECT OF ADDITIVE TYPE "X" WITH FOAM AGENT AND COCONUT FIBER ON CONCRETE

One of the building materials that has developed very rapidly is concrete. Some of the advantages of concrete include the relatively low price, high compressive strength, rust resistance, easy transport and printing, and are relatively resistant to fire. There are several ways that can be used to make concrete light, including the use of lightweight aggregates, foam agents, coconut fibers and additive types "x", where coconut fiber waste has not been used optimally. In this study a lightweight concrete mixture of additive type "was made using x 5M additive products, foam agents and coconut fibers using a cement content of 650kg / m3. The variation of the "x" additive is 2%, 4%, 5%, foam agent is 2.5%, 3%, 4% and coconut fiber is 15%, 20%, 25%. with the treatment conditions for the specimens for 28 days soaked and not soaked. Test objects are made of cubes with a size of 15x15x15cm. This study is to determine the weight / m3, the compressive strength of the lightweight concrete produced. The results showed that the increase in the use of additive types "x", foam agents and coconut fibers caused the weight of the concrete to be heavier and compressive strength. The highest weight of this lightweight concrete at the age of 28 days is not immersed in 1.867 kg / m3, while the lowest is 1.665 kg / m3. The test object for non-soaked conditions has a better compressive strength of 324 kg / cm2 than the test object with the condition soaked press test which is 293 kg / cm2

CFD Analysis Of Intake Flow In The L-Head Engine

The CNG fuel engine usually had lower performance comparing to gasoline fuel. A small single cylinder engine (L-head engine) is used in Green Technology Vehicle laboratory (GTeV) lab, which is low cost and commonly available in the market. It is difficult to experimentally to track the particle in 3D cases. Therefore, commercial numerical simulation is used. This thesis analysed the behaviour of the flow inside L-head combustion chamber for in-cylinder engine without the combustion with three different models were simulated. The objectives are to develop numerical model, to investigate the flow without combustion, to analyse flow with CNG and gasoline and to perform validation on the pressure between experiment and simulation. There are three types of simulation; steady, Port-flow and Cold-flow. The engine parameters and valve lift are measured, and the engine head were scan using ezScan 4.5 software. All of the simulations are simulated using ANSYS software. Only intake stroke is simulated for steady simulation with different crank angle and engine speed. Port-flow simulation is only simulated at intake stroke with introduction of CNG and gasoline as a fuel and three different valve lift. Cold-flow simulated a full cycle engine without combustion process. The Steady simulation is dealing with the static domain. There are only combustion chambers and piston volume involved in the steady simulation. The air inlet velocity was calculated using the standard engine formula for different piston position. The second simulation, Port-flow simulation also deals with the static geometry domain. Inplenum and outplenum was added by the presence of both intake and exhaust valve for the Port flow simulation domain. Three different valve lift was chosen. Gasoline and CNG were used as fuel, which enters the domain through the fuel intake. The last simulation is called Cold-flow where the geometry is moving according to the crank angle. The intake valve and exhaust valve are moving according to the measured valve profile. Meanwhile the piston movement was generated according to the crank angle of the engine. The result of steady flow simulation shows the velocity is high when the piston position is at 45° and engine speed of 4500 rpm. The result of Port-flow simulation shows the mass flow rate and velocity across the domain increase as the valve lift increase. The pressure difference between the intake port and combustion chamber decrease as valve lift increase. The swirl ratio decreases as going down the cylinder. The Cold-flow result shows the turbulence kinetic energy, swirl, tumble, and cross-tumble ratio inside the combustion chamber increase in the middle of the intake stroke. The temperature inside combustion chamber is increasing as the piston reaches TDC due to compression process. The result of Cold-flow simulation is validated by experiment without combustion with 22.73% of percentage difference at peak pressure. The combustion chamber head has been scanned and imported to ANSYS software. The velocity is highest when the piston located at the middle of the stroke and lowest then the piston approaching TDC and BDC. The flow pattern of gasoline and CNG has no significant change. The pressure for experiment and Cold-flow simulation is validated through its pressure pattern

A Study of Semi-Active Steering System Performance On An All-Wheel Drive Flat Chassis Vehicle

There are many type of steering system exist nowadays. However, the main focus of this paper is to study on the Semi-active steering (SAS). This project deals with the effect of using SAS in combination with the flat chassis. One of main concern for using a conventional steering method is the lack of backup steering system. The recently developed steer-by-wire (SBW) system does have a backup system. However, the difference between SAS and SBW is in the usage of a flexible shaft in the SAS system, while SBW uses a rigid shaft. This, combine with flat chassis with all in-wheel motor configuration provide a new and simpler package of car. This paper will collect the data and analyse the effect of SAS on flat chassis vehicle. The result will then be compared with the conventional system currently used

Does Brazil Ethanol Price Affect Brazil Sugar Export? An Indonesians’ Perspective

The research is financed by The Brawijaya University Abstract Besides the biggest ethanol producer, Brazil has been known as the largest sugar producer and exporter.  Different from the USA, ethanol from Brazil is made from sugarcane. The sugarcane can also be processed into sugar. Still, ethanol and sugar are not meant to substitute each other, although both are the product of sugarcane. But the apprehension may appear as one of those could be lack of stock. This ultimately leads to an increased price. An increase in sugar price is worthy for Indonesia, the largest sugar importer. The above situation urges a study to find out how far ethanol could alarm sugar export at Brazil as the primary producer for both. The result reveals that ethanol price does not affect Brazil sugar export and even the world sugar price. Brazil sugar export is noninterventionist from that situation. Factors influencing Brazil sugar exports are the country’s sugar production and domestic sugar demand. Despite this, world sugar price is affected by world sugar import, whereas world sugar export does not interrupt world sugar price. Keywords: world sugar price, ethanol price, Brazil, world sugar export and import. DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/11-25-09 Publication date:September 30th 201

Recent development of magnetic sensor

With recent advancement of sensors development, many efforts have been made in improving technologies that can turn every measurable value in the environment into something meaningful at least that is the idea of transducers – a collection of devices that can convert physical quantities into electrical value. For instance, temperature sensor converts degree of hotness (temperature) into voltages, which in turn can be hooked on an electrical signal processing circuit to produce a thermo-controller. Various other types of transducer are available nowadays that can detect many elements, for examples ultrasonic sensor for distance, pressure sensors, proximity, infrared sensors and many others..

Feasibility accuracy of three-dimensional echocardiography colour flow measurement on duct pulmonary dependent circulation

The assessment for patient with duct-dependent pulmonary circulation (DDPC) during the inter-stage intervals before first stage palliation commonly includes imaging of the heart with multiple imaging modalities. Recently, three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) was found with the ability to delineate cardiac structure that is able to do 360o rotation. Therefore, this study aimed at identifying the accuracy of 3DE colour flow in measuring PDA size compared to computer tomography angiography (CTA). This study involves randomly selected 26 patients with DDPC undergoing CTA for palliation treatment in one year. The mean patient age is 1.6 ± 0.261 months with mean weight of 3.65 ± 0.82 kg. The full-volume 3DE colour flow acquisition was performed and analysed offline using Q-lab software. The PDA diameters at the origin as well as the insertion site were measured. The data obtained by 3DE colour flow data were compared to the CTA, which was taken as the gold standard. Results showed that the offline analysis of PDA size was feasible in all patients (100%) with the mean diameter of PDA at the origin on 3DE colour flow and CTA of 0.51 mm ± 0.14 and 0.52 mm ± 0.11, respectively (p = 0.92) . The PDA diameter at insertion site on 3DE colour flow and CTA was 0.29 mm ± 0.08 and 0.27 mm ± 0.97 respectively (p = 0.5). Meanwhile, the measurement of 3DE colour flow is comparable to CTA in measurement PDA size. However, the use of 3DE colour flow in infants with rapid heart rate is yet challenging to 3DE colour flow acquisitions