Big Wall Research Articles

Confusion over the Concept of ʿAql and Logical Thinking among Young Muslims in Malaysia

A popular phrase we hear when someone said or did something wrong is “he/she succumbed to logical mind”. This paradoxical statement has become a big wall that people would go to hide and escape from giving defensible justifications for claims made especially claims on religious beliefs and the unseen existences. This pose a huge problem for those who use logical thinking to evaluate the truth value of any proposition as if logical thinking would result in wrong judgment on truth and ethical proposition. What is more, some hold the belief that the Qur’ān shuns logic and thus Muslims are prohibited from applying logical thinking to determine truth from falsehood. This study explored young Muslims’ understanding of the concept of logic to get some insight on this phenomenon, so that informed decisions and planning could be made to arrest this confusion. Moreover, an assessment of young Muslims’ understandings is very important to ensure that they are in line with Qur’ānic teachings. Qualitative analysis was used to analyse data collected from 10 participants using semi-structured interviews. Since face to face interaction was not possible because of the current pandemic, interviews were done using Zoom, Google Meet and WhatsApp. The emergent themes that could be extracted from the participants’ responses were confusion on the understanding of ʿaql and the relationship between the spiritual brain and heart; logical mind as means to solve problems of non-religious issues; and the negative consequences of logical thinking (among others, that it could lead to unbelief). However, a minority of the respondents viewed logical thinking as necessary to understand revelation. This study also found that the young Muslims were weak in logical thinking.

“Where People Come to Press Close to the Other Side”: Religion, Politics, and the American Border

“Where People Come to Press Close to the Other Side”: Religion, Politics, and the American Border Elizabeth Shakman Hurd In January 2020, I visited the US-Mexico border as a part of a group trip to northern Sonora with Border Community Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group based in Tubac, Arizona.1 We crossed into Mexico at Nogales, a city bisected by the border and often called “Ambos Nogales” (“Both Nogales”) for that reason. While at the border I was struck by a sense of inevitability and banality; the relaxed posture of a US border official on his bike at Morley Gate (Figure 1) speaks to this feeling. Contributing to this laid-back atmosphere was the fact that my traveling companion, a fellow US citizen, and I were able to cross back and forth at will between the US and Mexico, as if passing through a metro station. At the end of our trip to Sonora, after crossing over to the US to check into our hotel, we decided to go back to Mexico for happy hour at La Roca, a bar nestled into a picturesque cliff face just steps from the border. A century ago, Mexican Nogales was a boomtown and haven for US Americans seeking to escape Prohibition. It [End Page 108] is said that at least one binational bar let US patrons drink as long as they stood on the Mexican side of the room. The border was largely irrelevant for those on both sides until the 1950s. Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Photo taken by the author. Today that is not the case. At the Morley Gate crossing, while searching for the nineteenth-century border markers on the Mexican side of the wall, we noticed two people who, presumably, lacked permission to enter the United States. They were gazing through the border fence onto International Boulevard at the southern end of Nogales, Arizona (Figure 2). We wondered what they were doing. Waiting for someone? Just watching? Journalist and poet Amelia Urry observed that, “Nogales is a place where people come to press close to the other side.”2 The border was very much present for them. There were other signs of its presence. Within sight of the unimposing Morley Gate crossing sits Nogales Tactical. It sets a different tone. A block from the border, [End Page 109] Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 2. Photo taken by the author. [End Page 110] Nogales Tactical sells tactical gear and accessories for actual and aspiring border enforcers. The sign and window display leave little doubt as to what is for sale (combat gear) and who the intended customers are (white American men). Their website reads: “Nogales Tactical is proud to serve the men and women of public safety and homeland security. Nogales Tactical specializes in tactical accessories, uniforms, and boots for Customs and Border Patrol, Local Police Departments, EMS, Firefighters, Military and Security. Custom fitting, alterations, tailoring and embroidery are available. Make sure to visit our store or call us for all your tactical needs.”3 My friend hesitated when I suggested we go inside to have a look, but we went. The store was huge. The sense of a no-holds-barred, heavily militarized defense of the border, of the United States, and of whiteness, was palpable, unpleasant, and, at times, frightening. We didn’t stay long. Most US Americans think the border should be secured and defended. The border, according to this consensus, is somewhat inevitable. Good fences make good neighbors. Big walls make better neighbors. It is not only Trump and his supporters who support a fortified border. US annual budgets for immigration and border enforcement have grown almost eighty-fold since 1978, totaling about 23 billion dollars in Fiscal Year 2021.4 As of 2016, the US was spending more on border and immigration enforcement than on all other federal law-enforcement agencies combined.5 The border is not only a line in the sand or a wall but also a web of heavily militarized and often racialized, US-overseen enforcement regimes that blanket the world.6 This was palpable at Nogales Tactical and in the CBP advertisements posted...

The Facelift of E-Contracts in the Time of the Pandemic

E-Contracts are no new to India, but the rigid mindset of the people has been a big wall that comes in the way of its application and execution. Currently, the ongoing global pandemic scenario has reached out different streams pushing India towards digitalization. India’s recent developments in digitalization are a far cry from what they used to be, in a noticeably short span of time. Instances like digital classrooms or to work from home job, it is all becoming a norm today. Offices are working on limited capacity which has caused the organizations to reevaluate the manner they execute their businesses. These instances now arise a question about the upcoming future of E-contracts in India. It is now a question for the legal system whether they are prepared for the upcoming challenges that will come when E-contracts will have a spurt growth?

Investigation of an inverse thermal injection mould design methodology in dependence of the part geometry

The production of injection moulded components with low shrinkage and warpage is a constant challenge for manufacturers. The thermal design of the injection mould plays an important role for the achievable quality, especially the placement of the cooling channels. This design is usually based on empirical knowledge of the mould designers. The construction is supported iteratively by injection moulding simulations. In the case of thick-walled plastic optics with big wall thickness jumps, the shrinkage is compensated by injection compression moulding. In this process, the thin-walled areas freeze earlier and the necessary compression pressure introduces stresses into these areas which reduces the optical performance. An adapted cooling channel design can reduce these problems. At the IKV, Institute for Plastics Processing in Industry and Crafts at the RWTH Aachen University, a methodology was developed which inversely calculates the cooling requirement of the moulded part A demand-oriented cooling channel system is derived based on the computed results. The aim of the research projects is to minimise displacement and internal stresses by temperature control of the moulded parts according to the demand. In this paper, the methodology is applied to three different geometries, representing three classical parts for the injection moulding process. Three different quality areas in the mould for the inverse optimisation are defined and investigated. For each geometry the cooling channel designs are then validated in injection moulding simulations based on the results from the thermal optimisation. It can be shown that for different component geometries and thicknesses, different quality areas are advantageous and decrease the maximum warpage of the parts. For thin-walled ribbed components, a 2D approach leads to a 15% smaller displacement, for components with wall thickness jumps, all investigated quality ranges show no differences in displacement, but a surface in the middle of the part is preferred due to a 3 °C lower standard deviation of the temperature distribution.

Gender and Family in Modern Acehnese Society

Since it was declared as one of the crucial issues in the Sustainable Development Goals agenda by the United Nations, gender equality has entered every country including in the Acehnese family. As a province that implements Islamic law and rich in local wisdom, Aceh has its own perspective in responding to the issue of gender equality. Although in the past (in terms of religion and culture) Aceh recognized the existence of the same position between men and women in the family, in its implementation gender equality has not achieved completely. The cultural shift and understanding of Acehnese society towards gender, which is considered as an ideology from the West, has become one of the big walls in the realization of gender equality in the family. The culture of the society that stigmatizes men as weak people if they are involved in domestic affairs also plays a major role. In addition, the most influential thing is the absence of gender-based education both in families and social institutions in Acehnese society, therefore the generation that grows continues to develop with the same understanding as their predecessors which resulted in the discourse of gender equality in modern Aceh society being a mere delusion.

Mr. Pig's Big Wall by Glenn Hernández

Reviewed by: Mr. Pig's Big Wall by Glenn Hernández Natalie Berglind Hernández, Glenn Mr. Pig's Big Wall; written and illus. by Glenn Hernández. Random House, 2020 [38p] Library ed. ISBN 978-1-5247-7207-9 $20.99 Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-5247-7206-2 $17.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-1-5247-7208-6 $10.99 Reviewed from galleys R 4-7 yrs Little Tortoise is extremely friendly and loves to play, in contrast to grumpy Mr. Pig, who "only loved his precious garden." Increasingly annoyed by Little Tortoise's intrusions, Mr. Pig begins to build a wall of bricks around his home: "I am building a big wall to keep you OUT!" Of course, the higher Mr. Pig builds his wall, the less sunlight his garden gets, and it dies; Little Tortoise, with her enthusiastic kindness, decides to "bring some sunshine to him" by tying herself to helium balloons and floating over the obstacle to deliver a flower poking out from under the wall. Pulling the flower rips a crack in the structure, however, and Mr. Pig teeters atop the crumbling wall; when Little Tortoise saves him by lifting him into the sky, he looks down to see "a world with no walls and no fences" and has a change of heart about Little Tortoise. While the political allegory is unsubtle, the storytelling has the classic feeling of a fable, with a moral about the importance of openness, kindness, and setting aside boundaries. Digital art depicts Little Tortoise as a sweet little critter, always sporting a giant, contagious smile and charmingly uneven teeth, and Mr. Pig as a grump in construction gear; smeary gradients clearly separate scenes with excessive greenery, the overwhelming red brick wall, and the shadowy post-wall garden. This could be useful either to make way for future conversations about the modern political environment or just as a tale about the downfall of those who isolate themselves and refuse to share. Copyright © 2020 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

The Effect of Squeeze Pin Dimension and Operational Parameters on Material Homogenity of Aluminium High Pressure Die Cast Parts

Abstract The present paper is an experimental study on the squeeze pin effect on the high pressure die cast aluminium parts, as a way of improvement of material homogenity on various and big wall thickness castings. Squeeze is used in high pressure die casting technology for optimizing homogenity of big wall thicknesses of die cast parts working as structural, mechanical and hydraulic components, made of different aluminium alloys such AlSi alloys. The objective of this research is to highlight the primary and secondary effects of squeezing on the structural homogenity of high pressure die cast aluminium parts, as well as the dependence of the effects on the squeeze pin dimensions and the operating parameters.

Research on Brittle Fracture of X70/X80 Line Pipes with Big Wall Thickness at Low Temperature

Based on research of the low temperature fracture property of high grade steel pipe, it shows that X70, X80 steel pipe and X80 tee have high Charpy impact toughness. However, as the wall thickness increases, the shear area of DWTT decreases rapidly, and the thickness effect is significant. The research results show that the original wall thickness impact specimen fracture of steel pipe may not be ductile, for design temperature less than -30°C and wall thickness greater than 40mm. The brittle fracture was caused by structural factors. The Charpy impact energy, which just reflects the toughness of materials, does not show the fracture appearance as it would occur in service, because of the different specimen geometry and high rate of impact. The brittle fracture can occur at low temperature and low stress even with a high Charpy impact energy, the conditions of brittle fracture should be established under combination of the wall thickness, temperature and other factors. In this work, it is clarified that measurement of the fracture toughness under service temperature should be used to control low stress brittle fracture, besides the Charpy impact energy to ensure the material toughness.

Leaving Home: Stories about Immigration, Migration, and the Diaspora

Leaving Home:Stories about Immigration, Migration, and the Diaspora Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez (bio) Charles, Veronika Martenova. The Land Beyond the Wall: An Immigration Story. Nimbus, 2017. 32 pp. $22.95 hc. ISBN 9781771084659. Díaz, Junot. Islandborn. Illustrated by Leo Espinosa, Penguin, 2018. 48 pp. $17.99 hc. ISBN 9780735229860. Gay, Marie-Louise. Mustafa. Groundwood, 2018. 40 pp. $19.95 hc. ISBN 9781773061382. Morales, Yuyi. Dreamers. Porter, 2018. 40 pp. $18.99 hc. ISBN 978082344055. Tran-Davies, Nhung N.. Ten Cents a Pound. Illustrated by Josée Bisaillon, Second Story, 2018. 24 pp. $18.95 hc. ISBN 9781772600568. Current discourses about immigrants and refugees tend to characterize those leaving their homelands as criminals, monsters, and not deserving of being in the place to which they have migrated. In his introduction to a special issue of Children's Literature Association Quarterly on migration, refugees, and diaspora, Philip Nel notes that in 2018 "244 million people live outside the country of their birth. Of that number, 65.6 million have been forced to leave their homes. Nearly 22.5 million are refugees" (357). Now more than ever, we need books that depict these experiences and that humanize the children and families who endure difficult situations in search of a better life or in search of a safe(r) place to live. The books under review in this essay depict the difficult experiences of migration propelled by various reasons and circumstances. In The Land Beyond the Wall: An Immigration Story, young protagonist Emma leaves behind her world on the dark side of the Iron Wall and embarks on a journey on her own to a new land where she cannot speak the language and where she confronts the realities of immigration. In Mustafa, the titular young boy has moved to a new country with his family. There, he often has dreams about the dangers his family escaped—smoke, fire, loud noises—and at the same [End Page 297] time feels alone in the new country, where he neither knows anyone nor speaks the language. Dreamers depicts the experiences of a mother and her child who leave their country in search of a better life. In their new country they encounter challenges with language and navigating an unknown place but eventually find comfort and a sense of belonging in the books they read. Islandborn tells the story of Lola, who cannot remember the island she, as just a baby, left when her family emigrated to the US. Through stories from her family, she learns more about her previous country and gains an even stronger sense of belonging in both the new country and the one she had to leave. Ten Cents a Pound offers a conversation between a mother and daughter; the former encourages her daughter to leave their country in pursuit of a better life, while the latter wants to stay home to help her mother. All five books offer stories that can help facilitate conversations about immigration, migration, diaspora, and refugees. Some of them—especially those authored by what Corinne Duyvis identifies as #OwnVoices1—seem to represent the experiences in stronger and more authentic ways than others. Yet they are successful in creating for readers what Rudine Sims Bishop calls "mirrors and windows" that expand the representation of migrant experiences. By doing so, these books bring a crucial and extremely relevant issue into children's—and adults'—hands in an accessible and understandable way. Chasing Dreams The Land Beyond the Wall: An Immigration Story, written Veronika Martenova Charles, draws on her own experiences of being born and growing up behind the Iron Curtain, in the Eastern Bloc controlled by the Soviet government.2 Charles tells the story of Emma, a girl who finds herself in a new place full of opportunities but also challenges. Through a third-person narrator, the text begins by describing a world divided by a "BIG wall," where one side was bright, sunny, and free and the other a place where "the sun rarely shone" and people "were afraid of each other." The accompanying illustration depicts this stark contrast between the two worlds divided by the Iron Curtain. On the left, the sky is blue...

The design of the CNC milling machine

CNC machine tools are currently predominating in the machine-building industry. Generally, these machine tools are equipped with control systems supplied by the world's leading manufacturers, such as Siemens, Fanuc or HeidenHein, and are very expensive. In parallel, many cheap amateur and semi-professional CNC machine tool solutions are being developed. Below, a CNC milling machine of welded construction is described, which is intended to be, at the same time, a test stand. The design of the milling machine is based on steel closed sections of a large cross-section and a big wall thickness. This has allowed a rigid frame structure to be obtained. To obtain high displacement accuracy, high-accuracy profiled rail slideways have been used, along which pre-stressed linear ball bearings move. The machine tool has been furnished with a fourth numerically controlled axis, which is demountable.

Tko je izgradio veliki suhozid na istoku Bukovice?

U radu se predstavlja otkriće velikog suhozida čiji se ostatci nalaze na području selâ Ervenik, Mokro Polje i Radučić u Bukovici. Ostatci suhozida uočeni su pregledom zračnih i satelitskih snimaka, nakon kojih su provedeni ograničeni terenski pregledi kojima je do sada potvrđeno njegovo postojanje u dužini od 9 km. Po svemu sudeći, suhozid je bio dug oko 14 km te se kontinuirano protezao od padina jugoistočnog Velebita na desnoj strani rijeke Zrmanje do kanjona rijeke Krke. Suhozid je većim dijelom izgrađen na istočnim padinama raznih uzvišenja, što upućuje na njegov vojno-obrambeni karakter. Autor iznosi pretpostavku da je veliki suhozid izgrađen u 1. st. pr. Kr., s ciljem nadzora liburnskog graničnog područja i sprječavanja mogućih pljačkaških ili osvajačkih pohoda pripadnika delmatskog saveza na područje Bukovice i Ravnih Kotara.

Numerical analysis of liquid metal MHD flows through circular pipes based on a fully developed modeling

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) laminar flows through circular pipes are studied in this paper by numerical simulation under the conditions of Hartmann numbers from 18 to 10000. The code is developed based on a fully developed modeling and validated by Samad's analytical solution and Chang's asymptotic results. After the code validation, numerical simulation is extended to high Hartmann number for MHD circular pipe flows with conducting walls, and numerical results such as velocity distribution and MHD pressure gradient are obtained. Typical M-type velocity is observed but there is not such a big velocity jet as that of MHD rectangular duct flows even under the conditions of high Hartmann numbers and big wall conductance ratio. The over speed region in Robert layers becomes smaller when Hartmann numbers increase. When Hartmann number is fixed and wall conductance ratios change, the dimensionless velocity is through one point which is in agreement with Samad's results, the locus of maximum value of velocity jet is same and effects of wall conductance ratio only on the maximum value of velocity jet. In case of Robert walls are treated as insulating and Hartmann walls as conducting for circular pipe MHD flows, there is big velocity jet like as MHD rectangular duct flows of Hunt's case 2.

LIMB BODY WALL COMPLEX IN TWO HETEROZYGOTIC TWINS: A CASE REPORT

Introdution. Limb-Body Wall Complex (LBWC) is a congenital defect which includes at least two of the following characteristics: abdominal and/or thoracic body wall defects, exencephaly or encephalocoele with or without craniofacial defects (56%) and spinal defects associated with marked vertebral or sacral defects (95%). Case Report. We present a case report of an infant with LBWC, borned by diamniotic twin pregnancy. A prenatal ultrasound reported an healthy fetus and a fetus with multiple malformations. At birth we found a big abdominal wall defect, absence of scrotal sac and testicles, asymmetric chest and no major deformities in craniofacial region. At 2 hours of life, we removed the amniotic sac, we put the stomach and the spleen in the abdominal cavity, which is virtual, and positioned a spring-loaded silo. At 15th day of life we had complete reduction of the intestinal loops and liver and we closed the wall defect with a prosthesis and a cryopreserved skin. The general conditions of the patient, very severe since birth, became progressively worse and he died in the 21st day of life. Discussion. Once the diagnosis is done the physician should offer the parents a therapeutic abortion, and above all, in case they want to carry the pregnancy to term, we need to prepare them to the severity of the malformation and the high probability of death.

G-FEET STICKY HOUSE: THE STRONG AND QUAKERESISTANT HOUSING FOR POST EARTH QUAKE SOLUTION

Earthquake is a natural phenomenon occurs in Indonesia. Naturally, earthquake does not kill people, but buildings do. People were killed by the fallen debris of building parts when earthquake occurred. The key to create an entire building lies on the joint system which is why most of building failures occurred on the joint system. Prawiro et all (2010) stated that G-Feet Structural Joint System is the future alternative reversible structural joint system designed based on gecko’s feet concept. The research by Andari et all (2011) found that the joint system was optimum in shear stresses which were mostly created by lateral forces of earthquake. The idea was more lateral forces would lead the joint system to become stickier. Sticky brushes refer to the ability of joint system to easily stick and become strong enough receiving 10 tons/m² load. This can be happened due to the geometry of sticky brushes which are becoming the locking system of the joint system. Therefore, G-Feet Sticky house is supposed to be a new concept of post earthquake houses for the victims. Material selection and 3D computer modelling were used for the final design of G-Feet Sticky Houses to be safely and easily to install. The design is supposed to be useful and helpful especially for the victims as temporary houses which can be modified as the permanent one. The big wall panels are designed for faster construction process while the joint system combines the ability of sticky brushes and the geometry of wall panel edge detail.

The Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro 2007: Consequences of a sport mega-event on a BRIC country

Sport mega-events were very important for Brazil in 2007. The 15th Pan American Games took place in Rio de Janeiro. It was the largest international tournament held in Brazil since the 1950 World Cup and the 1963 Pan American Games. The latter were held in São Paulo. In 2007, 5000 athletes and 60,000 tourists were expected from the 42 participating countries. Despite being a developing country, Brazil does have a sizable middle class, but in Rio de Janeiro there are also lots of favelas (slums), where millions of poor people live. Despite vast differences in wealth, power and social status, these socially and culturally distinct groups nonetheless utilize common public spaces. We see this social confrontation as a major question for the analyses of sport mega-events and we would like to demonstrate its consequences on a local level . This social tension was such that the Organizing Committee actually constructed a ‘big wall’ around the stadiums which turned them into islands of excellence to be shown on television, thus hiding the unsightly parts of the city, that is, poor neighborhoods and favelas. This wall could be seen as the BRIC-way of organizing mega-events.

Florida Assisted-Living Facility Is Perfect Lab for Young Filmmaker

Florida Assisted-Living Facility Is Perfect Lab for Young Filmmaker

Guantanamera

144 Guantanamera Katie Rose Guest 1. My sister told me, “Buy the shoes a size too small. The leather stretches when you dance, from the sweat.” At the dancewear shop, I slip on a gold T-strap sandal with a low Cuban heel. I stand and feel the stiff leather cut my ankle and instep as my foot arches. But the suede sole grips the linoleum floor, and I think how my mambo will be so sweet, one-two-three-four. I pay sixty dollars for the shoes and throw them in the seat next to me in my car. I sing with Celia Cruz on the stereo as I drive away, Guantanamera . . . guajira Guantanamera. 2. One, two, three, four. The young girl counts the men standing on the big wall far in the distance. Her mother doesn’t like her to come here, but she sneaks away sometimes. Like everyone who lives near this place, she is careful to step around the dull metal things on the ground, feeling with her bare feet when she walks. The men on the wall don’t look like men to her, just tall dark blocks against the sun. She knows they’re men only because one day she sat on the hill on a smooth rock, for hours and hours she thought, until she almost fell asleep. She watched until finally the dark shadows on the wall moved and were replaced by new dark shadows that looked just as not-human, just as still. 3. The soldier knows something is wrong even before he looks through the bars. The cell is too still. After years at this post he has learned that even when a prisoner is sleeping the air in a cell moves with the vibrations of life. He thinks about all of the life caught inside this massive hornet’s nest. Each chamber is hollowed out and filled with captured prey, then patched over to trap the prey inside and hide it from those outside—from the ones who might poach or steal it away. It’s amazing, he thinks, as he finally makes out the man’s body hanging in the shadows, eyes rolled back in his head to give a ghastly white glare, this hasn’t happened sooner. ...

The big picture on big holes

A big hole in a big wall. The most interesting vulnerability is certainly the vulnerability in the world's most widely deployed commercial firewall, Check Point Firewall-1, which can be exploited to gain control of the firewall.

The Right Time for Research

In an effort to protect the virtue of equities research on Wall Street, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has practically reinvented it. A landmark agreement between the SEC and 10 major securities firms that were embroiled in an embarrassing conflict-of-interest scandal requires, among other things, a severing of all links between research and investment banking. In part, this means that equities research departments may no longer be subsidized by their firm's investment banking group, inevitably leading to smaller staffs at the large Street firms. Cutbacks at the big Wall Street firms will most likely create opportunities for independent research firms that avoid the conflict-of-interest issue because they don't offer investment-banking services.

Technological proposal for the improvement of the hydrological system

The establishment of program for the soundness of hydrological system has been done actively in each watershed by the administrative side, but it has struck to the big wall, small progress ratio and invisible effect in the stage which keeps executing measures. Especially, the rainwater storage and infiltration facilities are not advanced although it is located, as the important measures for the soundness of hydrological system It is important tosearch the solution steadily for the spread of the rainwater storage and infiltration facilities. On the other hand, because ofthe break through changing conception, also it is important and nesessary to think, it is something which proposes technically even from viewpoint to the grobal environmental problem, under the conditition that you construct the environmental technical property of the hydrological system which can be developed internationally.