<Special Feature 1 "Islam as a Source of Contemporary Thought: New Advances and Outlooks">Halal Certifi cation as a Modern Application of Shariah Morality: An Analysis of Malaysian Halal Standard

Halal certification and its standards are said to be based on Islamic law. In Malaysia, however, the Halal certification system was formally introduced as a section in the governmental administration of industries in the year of 2000. The author has found that halal standards are based on Islamic law and federal laws as well as modern administrative rules. The author also analyses the Halal Showcase or Halal Expo. These observations indicate that halal standards form an important part of the industrial policies of the Malaysian government. Furthermore, this paper argues that halal issues are related to the Shariah morality awareness of the Muslim population. The emergence of this Shariah morality after the Islamic revival from the 1970's onward should be considered as the background for the appearance of Halal industrial policies and the Halal standards in Malaysia. As seen in the actual regulations, Islamic law itself is not a monolithic body of rules, but a complex mass of different levels of legal interpretations. Through these analyses, this paper provides a new insight for our understanding of Halal certification

Big data in power systems: a statistical approach on synchrophasor application

Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) are regarded as one of the most valuable device on the power system. PMUs, being devices that are found on buses of the power system, are capable of supplying both detailed and broad situational information. The data produced by PMUs, which are synchronized by GPS timing, are referred to as synchrophasor data, and have plethora of information about the power system that has traditionally not been observed. The general trend in the use of synchrophasor data is offline, such as model validation and post-event analysis. This thesis aims to provide a significantly different approach in the synchrophasor usage. Rather than considering synchrophasor data as extra sensor data that allows for enhancement of models, this thesis treats synchrophasor data as a type of big data, and utilizes statistical methods to find solutions and insight to synchrophasor data. The chapters of this thesis start with applying statistical methods to offline usage, and continue to consider statistical methods in real-time application