The Connection between Language and Identity: the Yoruba-Arabic Literates and The Street Urchins of Ibadan

The current paper is dedicated to investigate the connection between language and identity, with a special reference to two ambivalent social groups in Ibadan, i.e., the Yoruba-Arab literates and the street urchins. The research shall be carried out with samples of online videos as well as other online resources. One major phenomenon that connects people with varying degrees of social status, religious, ages etc. is the language they speak. In every society, language plays a herculean task in reflecting the identity of the people, and in most times, its usage shows the social class of the speaker. It is incontrovertible that, language and identity go together. We identify people and affiliate them with certain tribe, race or ethnic as the result of language they speak. In other words, we may say, there is no identity without language, this is because the language we speak gives people the opportunity to link us with certain community

Keperluan Latihan bagi Staf di Jabatan Muzium dan Antikuiti dan Muzium-Muzium Negeri Terpilih di Malaysia

Kajian ini dijalankan bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti keperluan latihan bagi staf di Jabatan Muzium Dan Antikuiti dan muzium-muzium negeri terpilih di Malaysia. Objektif khusus kajian ini ialah untuk mengenalpasti bidang latihan yang diperlukan bagi empat kategori jawatan iaitu Kurator, Penolong Kurator, Pembantu Muzium dan Pembantu Am Rendah. Di samping itu ia juga bertujuan untuk mengenalpasti tahap pengetahuan dan tahap kemahiran terhadap bidang tugas utama serta mengenalpasti sumber yang ada dan sumber yang diperlukan untuk latihan bagi staf muzium di masa hadapan.Seramai 268 responden telah dijadikan sampel dalam kajian ini dan seramai 109 responden yang terdiri daripada 18 orang Kurator dan Penolong Kurator, 41 orang Pembantu Muzium dan 50 orang Pembantu Am Rendah telah memulangkan borang 5081 selidik. Data dianalisis dengan menggunakan program "Statistical Package For The Social Sciences 1& (SPSS) dan dibentangkan dalam bentuk kekerapan, min dan peratusan. Hasil kajian ini menunjukkan Kurator, Penolong Kurator, Pembantu Muzium dan Pembantu Am Rendah mempunyai tahap pengetahuan dan tahap kemahiran yang sederhana terhadap bidang tugas utama mereka. Dengan demikian, latihan-latihan berkaitan telah dikenalpasti untuk mempertingkatkan pengetahuan dan kemahiran mereka

Pulangan dan variabiliti pasaran saham rantau ASEAN: satu kajian

Kajian ini menunjukkan bahawa pasaran saham rantau ASEAN tidak saling bergantung antara satu sama lain. Perkembangan ekonomi yang berbeza antara negara-negara ini menghasilkan prestasi pasaran saham yang berbeza.Dengan demiklan pulangan dan variabilitl pulangan antara pasaran-pasaran ini dijangka berbeza. Dengan menggunakan data bulanan Indeks pasaran-pasaran ini bagl tempoh antara 1/87 hingga 11/92 keputusan statistik-Z dan statlstik-F memang menunjukkan perbedzaan pulangan dan variabiliti. Di samping itu kajian ini Juga mendapati bahawa prestasi pulangan pasaran saham ASEAN tldak bergantung kepada risikonya

Micropaleontology of Upper Cretaceous-- Lower Tertiary of North Iraq

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POTENSI DESA DAN STRATEGI PENERAPAN EKONOMI ISLAM DALAM PENGELOLAAN BISNIS BUMDES DESA RUPE

Berangkat dari permasalahan belum maksimalnya peran lembaga BUMDes Desa Rupe sebagai penggerak usaha desa yang membawa misi sosial dan misi komersial, yang disinyalir disebabkan oleh rendahnya kapasitas SDM, ketidak mampuan menentukan unit-unit usaha yang tidak didasarkan pada potensi desa serta kesadaran spiritual masyarakat yang ingin berekonomi dengan prinsi-prinsip syariah yang belum diwadahi oleh bisnis BUMDes.  Jenis penelitian ini deskriptif kualitatif menggunakan analisis SWOT dan analisis Potensi Desa. Adapun hasil analisa potensi desa sektor usaha yang layak untuk dikembangkan BUMDes Desa Rupe adalah usaha di sektor riil (pertanian, peternakan dan perikanan), sektor perdagangan, wisata, dan sektor agroindustri. Sedangkan hasil analisis SWOT merekomendasikan (a) Strategi S-O Pendekatan pengelolaan Bisnis BUMDes menggunakan prinsip-prinsip Islam dengan strategi pengelolaan unit bisnis berbasis pada sektor riil dan unit bisnis lembaga keuangan mikro syariah. (b) Strategi W-O strategi pengembangan SDM dan enterprenuership (c) Strategi S-T strategi implementasi ekonomi Islam. (d) Strategi W-T Membangun kesadaran dan dorongan motivasi untuk bekerja dan bersyirkah dengan konsep Islam, Menanamkan nilai-nilai kepedulian terhadap produk lokal desa, Meningkatkan partisipasi pelaku usaha dan Mengembangan berberapa lini usah

Kepuasan Kerja Di Kalangan Atendan Kesihatan Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan

The concept of job satisfaction had been formed since 70 years ago. Driven by the goals to increase productivity and organization's profit, job satisfaction had been extensively studied especially in the field of management and psychology. Study done in this thesis are based on 2- Factor Theory by Frederick Herzberg with the objectives to identify (a) level of job satisfaction amongst Health Attendant in the Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) in general (b) whether there are differences in job satisfaction amongst Health Attendant based on demographic atttributes of sex, level of education and period of service (c) whether there are relationship and influence of motivator factors and hygiene factors with job satisfaction amongst Health Attendant in HUSM (d) whether motivator factors and hygiene factors could significantly explain the variance in job satisfaction and (e) the most suitable element in predicting job satisfaction. Questionnaire divided with 3 sections are the instrument used in this study. Section A of the questionnaire consist of items related with demographic attributes. Section B are based on questionnaire developed by Brayfield - Rothe (1951) which consist of items to measure job satisfaction in general while Section C composed of questionnaire to measure 14 elements of job satisfaction adopted from Faculty Opinion Survey by Seegmiller (1977) and subsequently modified by Abu Bakar Hashim (1 985). 189 Health Attendant were the sample of this study. Data were analysed by SPSS Version 10.0 and descriptive statistics, Pearson Product-Moment correlation analysis, t-test, ANOVA test, multiple regression and Stepwise regression analysis were used as statistical tools. Findings of the study indicate that (a) 14.8% of Health Attendant has high job satisfaction, 84.7% in medium job satisfaction and 0.5% with low job satisfaction (b) there are significant differences in job satisfaction based on demographic attribute along level of education. There are no significant differences in job satisfaction along sex and period of service (c) there are significant relationship between job satisfaction with motivator factors but insignificant with hygiene factors. In term of influence, both motivator and hygiene factors has influencial impact on job satisfaction (d) both motivator and hygiene factors could explain the variance in job satisfaction (e) element of recognition appears as the best predictor for job satisfaction (f) two elements of motivator factors i.e recognition and job itself and one element under hygiene factors i.e personal life constitute 3 best elements in explaining variance in job satisfaction

Qualified audit reports of local authorities in the northern states of Malaysia

The reliability of information presented in the financial reports of local authorities is of utmost importance to enable the public to measure their performance in terms of efficiency and effectiveness in using public resources. The task to provide such an assurance lies with the Auditor General, who has been entrusted to enforce the auditing compliance regulations. A certificate in the form of “unqualified,” “qualified,” “adverse,” or “disclaimer” accompanied by a report on the financial affairs of the local authorities concerned will be issued after the Auditor General completes the audit of the local authorities’ financial statements. Our study on 14 local authorities comprising municipal and district councils in the Malaysian States of Perlis, Kedah and Penang found that the Qualified Certificate is the common type of audit certificate issued to the local authorities concerned during the period 1997-2001(inclusive of both years). Discrepancies in “Fixed Assets Register” ranked first among the audit incidents that led towards non-compliance to the audit procedures. This was followed by discrepancies in “Other Receivables” and “Cash Flow Statements” which ranked second and third positions respectively. Our finding also shows that size does not grant any advantage to the bigger local authority in reducing the number of audit incidents

CP Asymmetry in Charged Higgs Decays to Chargino-Neutralino

We analyze the charge-parity (CP) asymmetry in the charged Higgs boson decays to chargino-neutralino pairs, H^- -> chargino_i + neutralino_j. We show first that these modes have a large branching ratio for m_H^- > 600 GeV. We use Cutkosky rules to obtain the analytical formulas needed for the evaluation of the asymmetry under consideration. We then calculate the CP asymmetry in chargino-neutralino decays by including supersymmetric mass bounds, as well as constraints from b -> s gamma, (g-2)_mu, Delta\rho and electric dipole moments. Finally, we discuss observability of the asymmetry at the LHC by calculating the number of required charged Higgs events to observe the asymmetry for each decay channel. We show that the inclusion of constraints considerably reduces the projected CP asymmetry, and that the optimal channel for observing the asymmetry is H^- -> chargino_1 + neutralino_2.Comment: 23 pages, 8 figures, one tabl

Muslim community response on impacts of globalization

This article looks at the globalization from both, conventional and Islamic perspectives. The concept of globalization, if implemented fairly, is in line with Islamic teaching. Therefore, it is important for the Muslims to examine its response towards globalization. Muslims must be able to identify the strategic issues with regard to globalization and develop concrete measures that are implementable, as well as to be able to differentiate between the positive and negative impact of globalization. More educational and economic cooperation must be established among Muslim countries, and Muslims need to engage in more scientific research in all areas of education, economy, science and technology. The Western scholars have interest in issues in the Muslim world. They look at these issues systemically and methodically, and they seemed to show an inclination towards an open attitude in accepting the relevance of Islam in the modern world. Therefore it is really important to have research cooperation with them