Lot Of Luck Research Articles

KONSEP UNDIAN BERHADIAH DALAM Q.S AL-MAIDAH AYAT 90 MENURUT TAFSIR AL-MISBAH

<p><em>This study aims to explain the concept of lottery prizes in Q.S Al-Maidah verse 90. This is related to the phenomenon of giving raffle prizes from producers to consumers as a marketing strategy to increase buying interest. The prize draw in question is by providing certain conditions for customers, such as having to purchase coupons or shopping for certain products or at a certain price to be able to get the lucky draw voucher/coupon. The research method used is qualitative analysis. By analyzing the lottery, including the words azlam (drawing fate with arrows) or maysir (gambling) contained in QS. Al-Maidah verse 90. From the results of research conducted by the authors, it is concluded that the lottery with prizes is categorized as haram if it contains the following elements: 1) Maysir (gambling) which is a lot of luck where consumers will be anxious to get big prizes in an easy way. 2) Tabdzir, namely using property for something that is not useful according to the provisions. 3) Gharar, namely the uncertainty of participants to get prizes in an activity that is not clear (of a deceptive nature) by the producer/service provider through the trick of promising gifts or bonuses. 4) Dharar, namely endangering other people as a result of a hidden gambling game that is misleading by giving a winning prize on top of the losses and losses suffered by other participants. 5) Ighra 'that is making empty dreams where consumers will naturally fantasize about expecting a tempting gift. As a result, it creates a lazy mentality to work because to get the prize, it is enough to wait for the announcement. 6) Israf, namely waste, where participants spend money beyond their reasonable needs.</em></p>

On drug discovery against infectious diseases and academic medicinal chemistry contributions.

This perspective is an attempt to document the problems that medicinal chemists are facing in drug discovery. It is also trying to identify relevant/possible, research areas in which academics can have an impact and should thus be the subject of grant calls. Accordingly, it describes how hit discovery happens, how compounds to be screened are selected from available chemicals and the possible reasons for the recurrent paucity of useful/exploitable results reported. This is followed by the successful hit to lead stories leading to recent and original antibacterials which are, or about to be, used in human medicine. Then, illustrated considerations and suggestions are made on the possible inputs of academic medicinal chemists. This starts with the observation that discovering a “good” hit in the course of a screening campaign still rely on a lot of luck – which is within the reach of academics –, that the hit to lead process requires a lot of chemistry and that if public–private partnerships can be important throughout these stages, they are absolute requirements for clinical trials. Concerning suggestions to improve the current hit success rate, one academic input in organic chemistry would be to identify new and pertinent chemical space, design synthetic accesses to reach these and prepare the corresponding chemical libraries. Concerning hit to lead programs on a given target, if no new hits are available, previously reported leads along with new structural data can be pertinent starting points to design, prepare and assay original analogues. In conclusion, this text is an actual plea illustrating that, in many countries, academic research in medicinal chemistry should be more funded, especially in the therapeutic area neglected by the industry. At the least, such funds would provide the intensive to secure series of hopefully relevant chemical entities which appears to often lack when considering the results of academic as well as industrial screening campaigns.

Communication Lake

Communication Lake

Narrative Matters: Fighting not drowning - facing a harsh climate future with wisdom, hope and courage.

The most recent 2021 IPCC climate science update reminds us yet again that accelerating the transition to a just and resilient zero-carbon future clearly remains humanity's most urgent task. A great deal of hard work and a lot of luck may enable us to avoid some of the most dangerous climate change and ecological tipping points. Current and future generations are however on a journey into a world of more frequent and severe extreme weather events; more heatwaves, fires, floods and famines and more rapid extinctions of animals, birds and insects. Awareness, that this is going to be a very long emergency is a source of deep distress for many people passionately committed to decisive climate action. A rapidly expanding body of research highlights the extent to which this distress is experienced most acutely by children and young people with large numbers reporting deeply pessimistic views about the future. This article explores diverse sources of learning and wisdom - from climate scientists and activists; philosophers and social theorists; Indigenous cultures and ways of life; faith-based and spiritual traditions; artists and writers - which can strengthen our capacity to live courageous, compassionate and creative lives in a world of rapidly accelerating climatic and ecological risk.

Labor mobility and high performance

High performance typically results from complicated processes combining various resources with a lot of luck. This paper focuses on one such resource, namely experience, and on how the diverse expe...

Profile of Beatrice H. Hahn

Over the years, Hahn has earned numerous honors, from receiving a National Institutes of Health R37 Merit Award in 2008 to election to both the American Academy of Microbiology and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. In 2002, Discover magazine named her one of “The 50 Most Important Women in Science.” Hahn credits “a lot of luck, good health, a talented team, and a good husband” for her success. Together with her husband George Shaw, another international leader in human and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) research, Hahn continues to make impressive contributions to this field of medical science. Both Hahn and Shaw are now based at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine.

Property Rights and a Changing Economy

One hundred and twenty scholars from around the globe gathered at Portland State University in Portland (OR) on 13 February 2013 for the 7th International Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights' (PLPR) conference. The local hosts, Ed Sullivan (Portland State University/Lewis and Clark College), Ellen Bassett (University of Virginia), Sy Adler (Portland State University) and Al Burns (City of Portland) invited us to an inspiring event, filled with scientific presentations and discussions, social gatherings and - as PLPR President Ben Davy called it - 'meetings with friends'. As in previous years, the venue locations were splendid. During the welcome reception we admired the interior of Portland's City Hall and had the opportunity to get (re)acquainted. The conference dinner took place in the ballroom of the Governor Hotel. A show of hands at the dinner revealed a fifty/ fifty mix of planners and lawyers attending the conference. This balanced mix was a PLPR first; usually planners have been in the majority, since PLPR has its roots within AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning).Forty years' planning for PortlandGathering in Portland had an extra festive component as Oregon's pioneering state-wide land-use Planning Program celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2013 and this gave delegates the opportunity to reflect on and learn from planning in the State. The learning experience commenced during the pre-conference tour. Nancy Hales, from First Stop Portland, showed us around town using the light rail system, taking us first to Pill Hill and the new waterfront development. Pill Hill was initially designed to be part of the railway network, but as soon as the planners realised the area was such a hilly site, the plan was abandoned. After several years, a hospital acquired the land and developed new facilities and a medical university on the hill. Eventually, Pill Hill was fully developed and the hospital contacted the Portland planning department to find additional space for development. They suggested a new building site near the river waterfront, and a new 140-acre high-density, mixed use urban community is now under construction. To unite both sites a new form of infrastructure was introduced to Portland: both sites are now connected via a cable car system, which - as we experienced - provides a beautiful panoramic overview of the city. After the panoramic view of the city, Nancy Hales also showed us the Pearl district, a post-industrial neighbourhood, currently being redeveloped. This project includes historic preservation, earthquake prevention, urban retail and sustainable development. The Brewery Blocks development is a good example of Portland working towards a sustainable city, while preserving its heritage.Oregon planners reflected on their planning system in two morning sessions during the conference. Ed Sullivan defined the journey of Oregon planning as 'a story of ideas and a lot of luck' and added that the journey was 'a unique experience within the USA'. He argued 'we might not be Nirvana, but we are pretty close'. Ed also addressed challenges for the future, such as climate change. During the coming decennia the climate in the USA is expected to change in a way which will affect the south of the USA in particular, causing southern citizens to move to the north: Portland is one of the areas to accommodate the climate refugees. This raises several planning questions for the State, such as 'how to accommodate the growth' and 'how to sustain the liveability of the city'. Both the pre-meeting tour and the Oregon sessions showed us much of the true nature of planning in Portland and how, in a changing economy, Portland is getting ready for the future.Fine keynotesAs part of the conference we enjoyed two keynote speeches. Both speakers focused on the impact of planning on individual property rights, with the role of lawyers and planners being central to both. …

BiotecVisions 2012, August

BiotecVisions 2012, August

The Red Notebook by Arantxa Urretabizkaia, Kristin Addis

are earth's plague, rotten. The earth would be calmer if it were green less,without thisfury,thisblindwill that consumes everything but craves more...." This beautifullywritten, deeply disturbing vision has precedents in Merce Rodoreda's earlier fiction, and Tennent's translation will inter est readers takenwith The Time of theDoves. Death in Springwill also intrigue those who appreciate sur realist or experimental art, for the plasticity of itsdescriptions evokes comparisons to visual artists who were contemporaries of Rodoreda, such as Frida Kahlo, Louise Bour geois, Georgia O'Keefe, orRemedios Varo. The book itself is a pleasure to (be)hold. Open Letter has pro vided a beautiful setting fora trans lation so successful that one scarcely recalls that thenovel was written in another language. [Editorialnote:For more fictionby Rodoreda, see the short storyon page 57 of this issue.] GeraldineC. Nichols UniversityofFlorida Teresa Solana. A Not So Perfect Crime. Peter Bush, tr. London. Bitter Lemon (Consortium, distr.).2009 (?2008). 286 pages. $14.95. isbn978-1-904738-34-3 After winning the 2007 Brigada 21 prize forbest crimenovel inCatalan and enjoying translated success, A Not So PerfectCrime sets the stage for a series of comic novels featur ing detectives Borja and his brother Eduard. Unfortunately, the title as translated invites the comment that thebook should be called "a not so perfect crime novel." Because the author's intent seems to be more to satirize Barcelona society than to create yet another mystery, it takes quite a while to get moving. We are 122 pages in before the body hits the floor and, even after that, TERESA SOLANA -r MURDER AND MAYHEM IN BARCELONA the background stories and digres sions regularly interrupt. Sometimes these are entertaining,but often they make one impatient to get on with the story. The unlikely private eyes are twinswho pretend not to be twins and conceal their lower-class ori gins. Borja has a married mistress and a dalliance with the narrator's sister-in-law. Eduard's relationship with his wife complicates almost every attempt at detecting because she does not know he and his broth er are detectives. Borja, a sort of Poirot with a shortage of graymat ter,seems tobe in thedetecting busi ness to tease money out of high-soci ety clients and enjoy the good life. He bumbles more than he deduces and with a lotof luck talkshimself out of various pickles. Eduard seems to be in the business because Borja talkedhim into it. None of this has anything to do with the crime. A prominent politician's wife is poisoned with a marron glace that arrives anony mously in a gift box on Christmas day. The politician has a mistress, of course, and ironically hired the E brothers to discover whether his E wife was having an affairwith a E Catalan painter who never actually E appears inperson in thebook. After E about 250 pages, the solution to the E crime pops up abruptly and eas- E ily.The killer confesses quickly and E conveniently. A reader with famil- E iaritywith themerry-go-round of E Catalan politics and societypresum- E ably finds numerous inside jokes, E but most of thesewould be lost on E outsiders. The book is not without E itsmoments, however. The dialogue E is often funny, the situations hilari- E ous, and the characters similar to E theexaggerated typeswe enjoy in a E Kaufman and Hart play. E /. Madison Davis E UniversityofOklahoma E Arantxa Urretabizkaia. The Red Note- E book. Kristin Addis, tr. Reno. Center for E Basque Studies, University of Nevada. E 2008. 126 pages. $19.95. isbn 978-1-| 877802-82-9 1 Itwill come as no surprise to any E reader familiar with the political E situation in the Basque Country to E learn that the theme of politics is E never far from the surface of con- E temporary Basque fiction.What is E trulystriking, however, is thedegree E of subtlety and nuance with which E the most able writers in Euskara E have dealt with such a vexing and E complex topic.While Arantxa Urre- E tabizkaia isperhaps lesswell known E outside the Basque Country than E her peers such as Bernardo Atxaga E...

Corporate Spooks—Never Heard of 'Em

You're not alone. In fact, it's doubtful if many have. If, upon hearing the term spook, you picture a spy tiptoeing through a darkened office, armed with a tiny pen that shoots a deadly projectile into a counterspy extracting trade secrets from a computer, read on, because your image is not too different than that of William Klausman.For nearly thirty years, Klausman has led double lives as a businessman and an undercover spy in the shadowy world of corporate espionage. He began his investigative career in the late sixties with the Multnomah County Sheriff 's Office in Portland, Oregon. He took a leave of absence to look over the Washington, D.C., intelligence community but, disillusioned, he returned to Portland to continue his career in finance, business ownership, and, finally, as a corporate spy.Most of his assignments are defensive. When business clients are threatened by outside attack, he explains, I am hired to determine who, what, where, when, and why and neutralize the attack. Subject matter includes theft of trade secrets, copyright infringement, embezzling, drug dealing, product diverting, and other activities. The list is long.On call around the clock, Klausman may be found entertaining in a target's night club some evening and hours later boarding a redeye flight to Washington, Frankfurt or Pusan. appropriate identification, a bit of nerve and a whole lot of luck, he says, I've portrayed a computer programmer, accountant, chief financial officer, cartoonist, artist, writer, lecturer, master of ceremonies, advertising executive, cook's helper, warehouseman, entertainer, auditor, television newscaster, technician, race car driver, retailer, medical doctor, psychiatrist, attorney, bar tender, and countless others. He is the true chameleon.You won't find Klausman in the Yellow Pages, but he can be reached through the corporate grapevine. He also receives some assignments through advertisements in bar directories, through an attorney, and nationally renowned investigator who all maintain his secret identity.Corporate Espionage is a term that describes the arena within which he sneaks, mostly undetected, within and around the secret boardrooms and information systems of the world's major corporations, sometimes bumping against moles from different venues. And his work is, most certainly, dangerous. Oh yes, the cloak-and-dagger syndrome is commonplace in the after-hours work environment, as is a clear and present danger of being caught, especially for Klausman, a counterespionage operative.Specializing in information systems, he infiltrates a clothing manufacturer's business one day as an auditor to gain access to the books, and the next day as a janitor to find discarded documented proof in the trash. One moment he is a psychiatrist infiltrating a psychiatric hospital's records to find proof of patient abuse and the next day, a narc operating a sting operation to trap a druggist as he knowingly fills false prescriptions. From transportation director to cook's helper to television newscaster, he does them all and, as far as he knows, has only been caught once.Say, for instance, a huge American manufacturer of athletic apparel learns that their men's cross trainers are being sold by non-licensed retailers at a price less than their licensed retailers' costs. Klausman infiltrates the small company as a workers' comp auditor and, using their own system, discovers their source of the illegal shoes. With this data, he works his way to the transporter and finally to the Asian manufacturer who produces the shoes for Klausman's client during the day. But then he learns that on the other side of the clock, the socalled licensed manufacturer turns out the identical product line for someone else. Successfully, he infiltrates the international network and puts a stop to it, saving the apparel manufacturer money and grief.In most cases, the intruder is an infiltration specialist, and enters the workplace in one of many imaginable descriptions, for one reason, and will allow nothing to stand in his way-well, almost nothing. …

Code is Murphy's law

Cyberspace as a metaphor for a community has inspired many academics and others to produce further interesting ideas. However, with a metaphor as a starting point a lot of luck is needed in order to end up with a proper analysis. With Lessig's code the problem seems to be that cyberspace as a community is not the only metaphor presented. So is ‘code is law’. Code, that is the Internet's architecture, software and protocols, is not law. Code is technology, while legal rules are generally only ‘low tech’ at best. However, this does not mean that technology would be more effective in controlling people's behaviour than the legal system is. Instead of mixing the two up, it seems better to make a clear distinction between code and law. In this paper the authors' position with respect to the conflicting ideas of ‘the Internet as a place for anarchy’ versus ‘the Internet as a means of total control’ will first be explained. Then a common way of dealing with the questions raised by Lessig and others, namely the metaphor, will be examined. Implicit or explicit models of man play an important role in these discussions and attention will be paid to some of those and the rational model of man in particular. On the basis of this, a new model for analysing questions of law, society and technology is put forward. Based on the model, the authors will then address some of the issues at hand. The conclusion is that Lessig's and others' concerns will probably disappear when information technology is further assimilated in society.

NATURAL GAS IN NEW ZEALAND

ALTHOUGH THE FIRST (small) commercial hydrocarbon discovery in New Zealand was made in 1866, it was not until 1959 that modern exploration resulted in the onshore discovery of the gas‐condensate Kapuni field in the Taranaki Basin, followed in 1969 by the discovery of the giant offshore Maui gas‐condensate field. The last two decades have seen the development of these two fields, augmented by several smaller gas‐ and oilfields. An extensive gas pipeline system has been put into place in the North Island. The South Island gas needs are served by tankers and bottles.Of the many New Zealand sedimentary basins, the Taranaki Basin is the only productive one so far. As gas reserves are expected to run out by about 2006, New Zealand is faced with the challenge to find sufficient new deposits to replace the dwindling reserves. As newly‐discovered fields can take six to ten years to bring on‐stream, time is of the essence. Exploration is continuing at present, both on‐ and offshore, but statistically, based on past successes, may be of insufficient magnitude to meet the deadline. To prevent the disruption of supplies, and the closure of gas‐based industries, New Zealand needs a lot of luck in the next few years.

Managing new product design and factory fit

Nan S. Langowitz is an assistant professor at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. The author wishes to acknowledge the generous support of Lex Service PLC and the Harvard Business School Division of Research in funding the research presented in this article. Making a new product fly involves more than a good idea and a lot of luck. Managing a fit between product and factory specifications can help get that idea off the ground.