Indonesia has been developing Islamic Banking since 1992. As the biggest muslim population in the world, it is expected that Islamic bank will have a significant role in the whole national banking system. A number of regulations have been issued by government and Bank Indonesia to accelerate the growth of Islamic Banking. Two most influential Islamic organizations –Majelis Ulama Indonesia and Muhammadiyah- have also issued fatwa on the haramness of interest and interest based banking. The fact shows, however, that the growth of Islamic Banking is not as fast as expected. Although having above national growth rate, Islamic banking is still minority to the whole national banking system. For instance, in 2010 the asset proportion of Islamic banking is still less than 3 percent of national banking asset. The aim of this paper is to identify the problems and challenges of the growth of Islamic banking in Indonesia. More specific, a survey has been conducted to identify factors influencing society not to choose Islamic banking products. The result shows that most of society are conventionally rational. Religious aspects have nothing to do with choice decision. They did not choose Islamic banking products because of economic factors such as quality of services, pricing, banking technology, and office location. This findings conclude that exploitation of religious aspect to develop Islamic Banking is less relevant Keywords : Islamic banking, rational, economic factor, religious aspects

The first article is “Furan Analysis for Liquid Power Transformers” by Cheim of ABB, Platts of PPL Electric Utilities, Prevost of Omicron, and Xu of FM Global. This review article describes the history and development of furan testing as one of several diagnostic tools to evaluate the health of transformer paper insulation. The article discusses how furans are produced, how they dissolve in oil, the correlation of known furan data with the degree of polymerization, the parameters that affect the rate of furan production, and the limitations on the use of furans for diagnostic analysis. The article also provides a technical basis for the continued gathering and evaluation of furan data and provides a structure for collecting that data.

Indonesia has been developing Islamic Banking since 1992. As the biggest muslim population in the world, it is expected that Islamic bank will have a significant role in the whole national banking system. A number of regulations have been issued by government and Bank Indonesia to accelerate the growth of Islamic Banking. Two most influential Islamic organizations –Majelis Ulama Indonesia and Muhammadiyah- have also issued fatwa on the haramness of interest and interest based banking. The fact shows, however, that the growth of Islamic Banking is not as fast as expected. Although having above national growth rate, Islamic banking is still minority to the whole national banking system. For instance, in 2010 the asset proportion of Islamic banking is still less than 3 percent of national banking asset. The aim of this paper is to identify the problems and challenges of the growth of Islamic banking in Indonesia. More specific, a survey has been conducted to identify factors influencing society not to choose Islamic banking products. The result shows that most of society are conventionally rational. Religious aspects have nothing to do with choice decision. They did not choose Islamic banking products because of economic factors such as quality of services, pricing, banking technology, and office location. This findings conclude that exploitation of religious aspect to develop Islamic Banking is less relevantKeywords: Islamic banking, rational, economic factor, religious aspects

The first article in this issue is "Development of a pocket ultrahigh frequency partial-discharge detector to warn switchyard personnel of imminent failure of a nearby high-voltage plant"

The first article in this issue is "Partial Discharge Influence on Dissipation Factor Values During Stator-Bar Testing," by Contin at the University of Trieste, Italy, and Zhu at Powertech Labs in Vancouver, Canada. The article reports on simulation studies and laboratory experiments done to examine how partial discharge affects dissipation factor measurements of rotating machine insulation. The article shows that periodic partial discharge pulses generate a frequency spectrum whose fundamental frequency corresponds to power frequency, and the signals can interfere with dissipation factor values measured at power frequency. To demonstrate this, an artificial defect was made on a virgin stator bar to generate partial discharge signals. Both the simulated and measured partial discharge signals recorded from the bar at various voltage levels were studied, and the parameters of partial discharge signals that influence the dissipation factor values were investigated.

The first article in this issue is "Further Studies of a Vegetable-Oil-Filled Power Transformer". The second article is "Load-Cycling Test of High-Voltage Cables and Accessories". The third article is "Comparison of Dissolved Gas-in-Oil Analysis Methods Using a Dissolved Gas-in-Oil Standard". The final article is "A Survey of Aging Characteristics of Cellulose Insulation in Natural Ester and Mineral Oil".

Recent years have seen the expanding presence of hospitalists, most prominently in internal medicine, but also in other areas such as neurology, pediatrics, and psychiatry. In contrast to a burgeoning literature on general medicine hospitalists, very little has been written about the role of psychiatric hospitalists-psychiatrists who work exclusively in the hospital setting-and the advantages of this model in the inpatient setting. The authors trace the history of hospitalists in psychiatry and argue that this model can fit well with the clinical and teaching mission of the modern academic psychiatry inpatient program. High quality care of acutely ill psychiatric inpatients involves a body of knowledge and a set of core competencies that may be best served by psychiatric hospitalists.

Abstract A drilling contractor has collaborated with operators, engineering firms, equipment manufacturers and a shipyard to develop the design and specifications for a mobile offshore drilling unit that is capable of working in both Arctic marine environments as well as in tropical environments. Emergency Escape and Recovery (EER) operations in an Arctic environment present unique challenges with regard to crew evacuation, equipment specification, vessel arrangement, and recovery operations for the broad theater of operations. Standard readily available solutions did adequately address the environmental and regulatory challenges. A solution was developed between equipment manufacturers and an operator and described herein. This paper addresses lifeboat operations in cold weather environments, which require special attention to life boat design, storage, location on the vessel, and recovery systems during transit and drilling operations. The specific Arctic lifeboat enhancements, Canadian State requirements, and description of the crew evacuation plan are included. Introduction The Canadian Arctic environment introduces challenges to emergency escape and rescue operations not normally encountered in the major drilling locations of the world. The presence of ice increases the complexity of EER equipment and operations. Hull crushing, engine cooling intake blockages, and obstacles seen or not seen are some of the physical difficulties ice introduces. Canadian state regulations add to this area of uncertainty, due to a lack of familiarity that must be addressed. This paper addresses these factors on how they influence crew evacuation, equipment design, and recovery operations by demonstrating them through an Arctic drillship design and specification. Background The Arctic operating locations for the vessel include the Alaskan Chukchi Sea, Alaskan Beaufort Sea, and Canadian Beaufort Sea. The environmental conditions include significant wave heights greater than that experienced in the Gulf of Mexico and ice. Ice may be present during the drilling season at any well site within these areas. Other environmental hazards include freezing fog, extended periods of darkness, freezing precipitation, and extremely low ambient temperatures. These conditions make possible a difficult worst case scenario for EER operations at the location of interest. The drilling location may be exposed to different degrees of ice during the drilling season and during transit into and out from the well site. Ice conditions range from no ice, to slush ice, to level first year ice with multi-year ice inclusions. Furthermore, wind and waves will interact with the ice to various degrees presenting impact and crushing hazards to the lifeboat. Temperatures in the location of interest vary in extremes. The cold weather condition presents the most difficult challenge to solve. Ambient outside temperatures may plunge to less than −50°C in the winter as shown in historical records of nearby weather stations. Crew exposure to the elements must be limited or removed when considering these low temperatures.

In this issue there are five articles. The first is "Power Electronics and Electrical Insulation Systems - Part 1: Phenomenology Overview" by Andrea Cavallini, Davide Fabiani, and Gian Carlo Montanari from the University of Bologna. It is the first in a series of three articles; the second and third, dealing respectively with lifetime modeling and diagnostic properties of insulation systems operating in conjunction with power electronic converters (PECs), will appear in later issues.

In most issues of the magazine, we feature summaries of DEIS-sponsored meetings and conferences with photographs taken at some of the events. It seems that most of us like to see photographs of ourselves at such events. From time-to-time we also publish highlights of AdCom meetings, announcements of upcoming meetings, and items of interest on DEIS folks. This time we have none of the above. However, we feature five articles in this issue.