Western Influences in the Arabic Literature of Egypt and Syria Between 1820 and 1879.

The French invasion of Egypt and Syria in 1798 marks the dawn of the Renascence of Arabic literature and the infiltration into it of western influences. Of the three obvious sources of these influences, French, Italian and English, the first predominates. French influence in Egypt was disseminated by numerous agencies. The first virile agency was the French invasion. The enthusiasm of the Viceroy Muhammad Ali for French culture created new agencies, such as the educational missions, the technical schools, the School of Languages and the translation bureau. These agencies produced their full effect in the reign of Ismail Pasha and out of them grew indigenous agencies, vis., journalism, the Jamiyat al-Maarif, the Dar al-Ulum and the embryonic nationalist party, which combined to speed up westernization. The most prominent exponents of the renascence in Egypt were Rifaah Bey, Abu Soud, Saleh Majdi Bey, All Mubarak Pasha, Abdallah Pasha Fikri and Othman Jalal. In Syria other agencies operated. French political propaganda, the activities of French and American missionaries and the ecclisiastical connection of native Christians with Rome combined to create a new atmosphere. The writings of Roshaid ad-Dahdah, Rizqallah Hassun and others introduced new element and the learned coterie which Cornelius Van Dyck formed with Shaikj Yusuf al-Asir, Butrus al-Bustani and Nasif al-Yaziji gave a vigorous impulse to the new literary movements. But even more substantial and effective was the contribution of the Syrian Ahmad Faris Shidyaq whose conversion to Islam was followed by an active literary and Journalistic career at Constantinople. His Journal, Al Jawaib with its press focussed the best productions of the Arab mind, past and present. In the final chapter the effect of these influences on Arabic literary style is discussed

Pengaruh Jumlah Wisatawan, Jumlah Hotel, PDRB Terhadap Penerimaan Pajak Hotel

The aim of the research is to find out effect the number of tourist, number of Hotel PDRB that become the factors determining tax revenue of hotels in Pekanbaru City. The hotel tax is levied on the facilities or resort lodging services providers, which include motels, inns, cabins tourism, tourism guest house, guest house, lodging houses and the like, as well asa boarding house with the number of room more than 10 (ten). The results of this study are expected to provide input for the benefit and the Local Government of Pekanbaru, especially the Office of Financial Management. The research was a descriptive study. The methods of obtaining the data were observation and library research. The data were secondary data of time series from year 2007-2014. The method of analysis used multiple regression analysis with Hotel Tax revenue as the dependent variable and three independent variables, namely the number of tourists, the number of hotels and PDRB. The results reveal that the number of tourist, number of hotel and PDRB has a significant influence on hotel tax revenue. The percentage effect of the independent variable on the dependent variable is 94% while the remaining 6% were caused by other factors not included in the regression equations

Pengaruh Penyajian Laporan Keuangan dan Aksesibilitas Laporan Keuangan terhadap Akuntabilitas Pengelolaan Keuangan Daerah (Studi pada Skpd Kabupaten Bengkalis)

This study aims to (1) examine the effect of the financial statement presentation of the financial management accountability and (2) examine the effect of the accessibility of the financial statements to the accountability of financial management. The method used in this research is total sampling method. Data of this study uses primary data, directly through a questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS version 20. The data were analyzed to test the hypothesis using multiple regression analysis approach. The results showed that the effect on the financial statement presentation of financial management accountability and accessibility affect the accountability of financial management. The test results which found significant results due to the better presentation of the financial statements and the accessibility of the financial statements will be good also government against users of financial statements

Perencanaan Alternatif Gedung Dekanat Fakultas Teknik Universitas Brawijaya Menggunakan Balok Prategang

Kemajuan ilmu dan teknologi berpengaruh besar dalam perkembangan Indonesia di segala aspek, terutama dalam aspek pembangunan. Pemerintah berperan aktif dalam mewujudkan pembangunan dalam rangka memenuhi kebutuhan hidup manusia yang beragam. Banyaknya fasilitas yang dibangun untuk kebutuhan masyarakat menimbulkan permasalahan dalam memperoleh lahan. Tujuan dari Perubahan balok beton bertulang biasa menjadi beton prategang parsial adalah untuk menghilangkan kolom yang berada pada tengah bangunan. Penghilangan kolom akan memberikan fleksibilitas yang lebih pada bangunan dalam pengaturan ruangan, sehingga aspek Kenyamanan pengguna gedung diutamakan. Dalam analisis perhitungan skripsi ini digunakan sistem SPRMM (Sistem Rangka Pemikul Momen Menengah) yang disesuaikan dengan daerah gempa lokasi gedung. Tujuan dari perencanaan ulang gedung ini adalah untuk mendapatkan nilai momen, lintang dan aksial pada analisa struktur yang sudah dimodelkan sebelumnya demi agar mendapat jumlah dan luas tulangan juga dimensi penampang yang akan digunakan untuk struktur balok dan kolom. Panjang bentang dari beton prategang parsial ini sebesar 16,2 m dengan dimensi lebar dan tingginya berturut-turut adalah 0,7 m dan 0,85 m. Menggunakan 40 Tendon Mempunyai tulangan non prategang tarik 22 D-22 dan tekan sebanyak 11 D-22 untuk kondisi tumpuan, dan tulangan non prategang tarik sebanyak 9 D-22 dan tekan sebanyak 4 D-22 untuk kondisi lapangan. Dimensi dan jumlah tendon dan tulangan non prategang ini sama untuk setiap lantai. Begitu juga untuk dimensi balok beton bertulang lainnya. Sedangkan Dimensi kolom dan jumlah tulangan untuk setiap lantai berbeda, yang bertujuan untuk efisiensi bahan. Lendutan yang dihitung melalu staadpro dan prosedur manual untuk jangka akhir sebesar 30,87 mm. Lendutan tersebut kurang dari lendutan ijin yang dihitung dari panjang bentang balok dibagi 480 sebesar 53,75 mm, sehingga balok prategang parsial ini aman terhadap lendutan. Hasil perhitungan yang didapat digunakan untuk gambar detail penulangan Kata

Business intelligence readiness factors for higher education institution

Higher Education Institution (HEI) have embarked on the new style of decision-making with the aim to enhance the speed and reliability of decision-making capabilities. One of the hardest challenges in implementing Business Intelligence (BI) is the organization’s readiness towards adopting and implementing BI systems. Currently, few published studies have examined BI readiness in HEI environment. Seeing this challenge, this study aims to contribute in determining the BI readiness factors in HEI specifically in the deployment strategies. Through inductive attention to BI in HEI environment, three broad factors have been identified: a) Organizational – that concerning on business strategies, process and structure, b) Technology – involves the BI system and knowledge for managing including the sources and c) Social – the culture within organization that may influence decision-making and its processes. This paper also makes recommendations for future research

Towards the Formal Reliability Analysis of Oil and Gas Pipelines

It is customary to assess the reliability of underground oil and gas pipelines in the presence of excessive loading and corrosion effects to ensure a leak-free transport of hazardous materials. The main idea behind this reliability analysis is to model the given pipeline system as a Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) of segments such that the reliability of an individual pipeline segment can be represented by a random variable. Traditionally, computer simulation is used to perform this reliability analysis but it provides approximate results and requires an enormous amount of CPU time for attaining reasonable estimates. Due to its approximate nature, simulation is not very suitable for analyzing safety-critical systems like oil and gas pipelines, where even minor analysis flaws may result in catastrophic consequences. As an accurate alternative, we propose to use a higher-order-logic theorem prover (HOL) for the reliability analysis of pipelines. As a first step towards this idea, this paper provides a higher-order-logic formalization of reliability and the series RBD using the HOL theorem prover. For illustration, we present the formal analysis of a simple pipeline that can be modeled as a series RBD of segments with exponentially distributed failure times.Comment: 15 page

Photoproduction of electron-positron pairs in bent single crystals

The process of photoproduction of electron-positron pairs in bent single crystals is considered in this paper. In particular, it is shown that the probability of the process for gamma-quanta with energies from 100 GeV on is significantly higher than the one in an amorphous medium. A possible scenario for the experimental validation of the process is discussed and the positive features of the photoproduction in bent crystals compared to straight ones are underlined from the point of view of possible applications.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figure

Fundamentals Knowledge of Investor and Its Influence on Investment in Capital Market- A Study from Dhaka Stock Exchange

A comprehensive investment literacy questionnaire surveyed to the participants in the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) to measure the basic financial literacy and its effects to the stock market participants. It has been found that the majority of the respondents shows basic financial literacy, but they don’t believe that they have sufficient basic knowledge of investing in DSE. So the conflict between knowledge and their confidence leads them to wrong prediction of investment and the dependency on rumors on their investment decision. Inadequate knowledge about capital market not only sad loss, but also turns to an unattractive place of investment. Basic financial literacy not necessary prerequisite for a good investment decision in the capital market but help to make a preliminary decision of investment as well as to avoid a major loss. Keywords: Financial information, Knowledge, Literacy, Investor, Dhaka Stock Exchang