Academic literature on the topic 'TAKRAF (Firm)'

Sampah plastik di Indonesia sudah tidak asing karena begitu banyaknya, tercatat 17,2 % sampah plastik di Indonesia dan sebanyak 41,1% adalah sampah sisa makanan yang diantaranya berbahan kemasan palstik. Data ini diambil dari SIPSN (Sistem Informarsi Pengelolaan Sampah Nasional) pada tahun 2022. Dari beragam jenis sampah plastik tersebut penyumbang terbanyak dari palstik kemasan makanan. Untuk menanggulangi hal tersebut maka, diperlukan bahan pengganti material polimer yang mirip dengan plastik namun mempunyau biodegradasi tinggi salah satunya adalah edibel film. Edibel film berbahan rumput laut berjenis E-Cottonii dan pati jagung dengan komposisi takaran berbeda. Guna untuk memenuhi standar kemasan makanan edibel film diuji menggunakan pengujian fisika dan kimia untuk mengetahui ketebalan, titik leleh, titik jendal, elongasi, dan kuat tarik serta daya serap terhadap air. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa edibel film yang dihasilkan memiliki tingkat ketebalan maksimum sebesar 0,17 mm. Selanjutnya edibel film memiliki titik leleh maksimum sebesar 75,8oC. Pada pengujian titik jendal didapati titik jendal maksimum sebesar 45,7oC. Selanjutnya pada pengujian elongasi didapati elongasi maksimum sebesar 33%. Dan pada pengujian kuat tarik didapati kuat tarik maksimum sebesar 82 N/cm2. Serta edibel film emmiliki daya serap air maksimum sebesar 13,67%.

Motion tracking in different fields (medical, military, film, etc.) based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensing technology has been attracted by world's leading researchers and engineers in recent years; however, there is still a lack of research covering the sports field. In this study, we propose a new AIoT (AI + IoT) paradigm for next-generation foot-driven sports (soccer, football, takraw, etc.) training and talent selection. The system built is cost-effective and easy-to-use and requires much fewer computational resources than traditional video-based analysis on monitoring motions of players during training. The system built includes a customized wireless wearable sensing device (WWSDs), a mobile application, and a data processing interface-based cloud with an ankle attitude angle analysis model. Eleven right-foot male participators wore the WWSD on their ankle while each performed 20 instances of different actions in a formal soccer field. The experimental outcome demonstrates the proposed motion tracking system based on AIoT and MEMS sensing technologies capable of recognizing different motions and assessing the players’ skills. The talent selection function can partition the elite and amateur players at an accuracy of 93%. This intelligent system can be an emerging technology based on wearable sensors and attain the experience-driven to data-driven transition in the field of sports training and talent selection and can be easily extended to analyze other foot-related sports motions (e.g., taekwondo, tumble, and gymnastics) and skill levels.

The fast evolving present era is not only upfront in case of technological developments but also been in top for the manifestation of lifestyle disorders. The origin of almost all the diseases start basically from the food habits itself. The alterations in the gastro - intestinal system will later lead to the development of wide spectrum of diseases. Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is one of the common gastrointestinal functional disorders that affects millions of people worldwide. IBS is characterised by a complex group of symptoms including abdominal pain or bloating, diarrhoea and constipation, which can affect the quality of life of an individual. The symptomatologies explained in IBS had been explained under a spectrum of diseases called Grahani. Grahani, according to Ayurvedic classics, is caused by the imbalance of Agni or digestive fire, which leads to the imbalance in the digestion metabolism. Grahani can be effectively treated through the combination of dietary and life style modifications along with Ayurvedic medicines and therapies. The treatment aims nothing but to balance the digestive fire as well as to remove toxins from the body in order to restore proper digestion as well as overall health. Takra basti is known to have a very good efficacy in the management of Grahani roga. A successfully treated Grahani case using Takra basti and Shamana oushadhi’s will be discussed in this article.

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Abstrak Kajian ini bertitik tolak daripada ulasan-ulasan terhadap filem ‘Talentime’ arahan Yasmin Ahmad yang diterbitkan dari tahun 2009 oleh Primeworks Studios dengan kerjasama Chilli Pepper. Ulasan-ulasan ini antara lain membangkitkan isu berkenaan manifestasi-manifestasi berkaitan agama yang dianggap mencerminkan realiti masyarakat di Malaysia. Berkaitan isu tersebut, kajian ini mengenal pasti dua jalur pendirian yang saling bertentangan yang mengisi ulasan-ulasan tersebut. Pertama, jalur pendirian yang menganggap bahawa manifestasi-manifestasi berkaitan agama dalam filem ini sejajar dengan agama Islam. Kedua, jalur pendirian yang menganggap bahawa manifestasi-manifestasi berkaitan agama itu bertentangan dengan ajaran Islam. Perbezaan jalur pendirian ini mengundang satu penelitian lanjut tentang manifestasi-manifestasi berkaitan agama Islam dalam filem ‘Talentime.’ Kajian ini menggariskan dua objektif, iaitu menganalisis manifestasi-manifestasi agama dalam filem ‘Talentime’ arahan Yasmin Ahmad, dan seterusnya merumuskan manifestasi-manifestasi tersebut berdasarkan kerangka taklif. Kajian ini menerapkan taklif sebagai kerangka analisis, sebagai satu kerangka yang berasaskan Islam. Taklif merujuk kepada kebertanggungjawaban manusia kepada Allah SWT yang lahir daripada janji asli manusia untuk mengabdikan diri hanya kepada Penciptanya. Dengan menerapkan kerangka taklif, kajian ini merumuskan bahawa manifestasi-manifestasi agama Islam dalam filem ‘Talentime’ adalah bertentangan dengan ajaran Islam. Abstract This study is based on the reviews of ‘Talentime,’ a film directed by Yasmin Ahmad and produced in 2009 by Primeworks Studios in collaboration with Chilli Pepper. The reviews among others highlight issues of religious manifestations regarded as reflective of the reality of society in Malaysia. This study identifies two opposing standpoints in these reviews. The first standpoint proposes the religious manifestations in the film as being in line with Islam. The second standpoint on the other hand asserts that these manifestations are contrary to Islamic teachings. These opposing standpoints point to a need for further examination on the religious manifestations pertaining to Islam in the film. This study outlines two objectives i.e. to analyse the religious manifestations in Yasmin Ahmad’s ‘Talentime,’ and subsequently summarise these based on taklif, an analytical framework based on Islam. Taklif refers to man's accountability to Allah SWT which originates from his primordial covenant to submit solely to his Creator. Based on the taklif framework, this study concludes that the religious manifestations in ‘Talentime’ are contrary to the teachings of Islam.

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Students who are victims of violence at school can experience depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and even suicide. One way to avoid further confrontation and serious impacts is that students at SMP Negeri 10 Takari need to receive assertive training. The aim is to increase students' self-awareness of the violence they experience, then they can make practical, solution and effective preventif efforts to avoid, dispel, reject and anticipate bad situations through assertive training. The methods used are 1) Assessment Study, 2) Assertive Training with cognitive restructuring strategies, role playing, self talk, relaxation, modeling and 3) Monitoring & Evaluation. The results, 1) as many as 74% (37 students) had low self-concept, self-esteem and self-confidence. Students' attitudes and responses to violence tend to be aggressive and submissive. There are various forms of violence experienced by students. 2) Cognitive restructuring strategies can increase students' understanding and positive self-acceptance. Role playing, self-talk and relaxation activities in groups can minimize aggressive and submissive attitudes to become assertive verbally as well as forming a firm and courageous attitude in determining an assertive attitude. 3) Monitoring and evaluation results show an 11% increase in students' understanding of self-concept, self-esteem and self-confidence. A total of 22 students showed a brave attitude to complain/report, 41 students responded to situations of violence by having the courage to speak out verbally, 20 students also no longer panicked and were anxious but became calmer and did not fight back against the perpetrator but refused and pushed back firmly. Assertiveness training can provide positive self-concept understanding for students to identify various forms of violence and their impacts, as well as being able to apply assertive attitudes appropriately.

This issue of M/C Journal reclaims the language of “freedom”. The selected articles demonstrate that today freedom is frequently overruled in the name of a permanent state of emergency. Present-day politics shows countless instances in which information, knowledge and culture are not seen as an inalienable right but are rather oppressed and distorted. Freedom is the freedom to say “no”, to withdraw your collaboration, to refuse friendly cooperation! To be “free” means to be able to enact your identity without having to capitulate to the ruling forces that dictate which discourses are and are not permissible in the public sphere(s). Citizens worldwide are armchair passengers on the nightly TV news train; they dream of their lives as being “free”. After all, to be free is a guaranteed human right, enshrined by the United Nations. Are freedom, independence and autonomy merely illusions, or are sociable media succeeding in empowering citizens for a participatory democracy as Yochai Benkler argues? If information “wants to be free”, the battle between intellectual “property” and creativity must be resolved. Technology does not make freedom inevitable: the on-the-ground-realities of network and hardware access make what seems to be “open” and “free”, closed and expensive for most people on this planet. The feature article for this issue of M/C Journal is a statement on the state of free speech in a free country: in “Depiction of Muslims in Selected Australian Media: Free Speech or Taking Sides”, Dr Nahid Kabir examines the publication of 12 cartoons depicting images of the Prophet Mohammad in 2005. In exploring the response of two Australian newspapers to the Danish controversy, the article considers whether the debate in the name of “free speech” has ended in a “form of attack” on Australian Muslims. In “Freedom, Hate, Fronts”, Patrick Lynn Rivers reflects on the use of the Internet by the predominantly Afrikaner “Vryheidsfront Plus” political party to construct whiteness in post-apartheid South Africa. The creation of a politics centred on racial “cyborgs” points to the facilitation of freedom of an “oppressed minority”, continuing the Afrikaners’ historical struggle for self-determination and independence. Problematising this approach, Rivers concludes that, like freedom, whiteness after apartheid is far from defined. Authors Amita Nijhawan and Sukhmani Khorana both address Deepa Mehta’s highly-acclaimed film trilogy Fire, Earth, and Water. As a female Hindu director, Mehta engages controversial issues for Indian society: the life of widows who are forced into prostitution, for example. As observed, the trilogy has been subject to critiques of too much freedom from inside the country, counterbalanced by those outside the country condemning the Indian body-politic for its lack of freedom. In exploring post-colonial discourses in India’s construction of nation and gender, Nijhawan and Khorana present complementary accounts of the director’s struggle to resist government censorship. Hegemonic power is played out in the definition of freedom in relation to contested questions of self-representation in Indian society. Freedom of use and the notion of “property talk” are discussed by Australian lawyer and academic Steve Collins, commenting on the revival of values from Blackstonian copyright, in which ownership is seen to preclude the rights of others. Collins observes that talk of “property” risks making transformative works an elitist form of creativity, available only to those with the financial resources necessary to meet the demands for license fees. The notion of “property” thus challenges the freedom to create and to transform. Collins notes that this is no longer a philosophical question, but a practical one, as he entreats courts to move beyond the propertarian paradigm. A further angle on the issue of freedom is put forward by Nadine Henley in “Free to be Obese?” Here, Henley tackles the boundaries of state governance in controlling the bodies of its citizens: Is it ethical for a government to enforce the health of its citizens, or should obesity, for example, be a rightful choice? Two emotive Freedom Poems by Kathryn Waddell Takara conclude this issue. The editors have selected “Angela Davis” and “Mumia Abu Jamal: Knight for Justice” from the larger body of Takara’s work, Root Tapping, as representing the desire to celebrate freedom. The expectation of Angela Davis’ arrival and the transcendent revenge for the imprisonment of political activist Mumia Abu Jamal speak of the power of radical opposition in the face of oppression. The cover image of this issue, “Free” by John Fairley (“Bostich”), has been derived from the photo-sharing Flickr.com, which supports the Creative Commons licensing scheme. Acknowledgments: The editors thank all contributors and reviewers involved in this issue for their continuing dialogue and critical reflection on the notion of “freedom”. We wish to kindly acknowledge the adept assistance of copy editors Laura Marshall and Donna Paichl, and the continuing guidance of M/C General Editor Dr Axel Bruns. Citation reference for this article MLA Style Scholz, Trebor, and Rachel Cobcroft. "Free." M/C Journal 9.4 (2006). echo date('d M. Y'); ?> <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0609/0-editorial.php>. APA Style Scholz, T., and R. Cobcroft. (Sep. 2006) "Free," M/C Journal, 9(4). 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The chapter focuses on Lahore’s famous darvarzas (gateways) and mohallas (residential localities). It provides a fine grain analysis of the cultural and commercial life that took place in these surrounding areas. The inner city has been traditionally understood as a closed in area, but the chapter argues that this stereotype neglects the regional and trans-national linkages and circulation of goods and people. The three case studies of Bhati Gate, Shah Almi Gate and Mochi Gate illustrate the interconnectedness arising from commercial, cultural and political exchanges. The chapter concludes with a description both of the importance of the Mochi Gate area for training of classical musicians in Haveli Mian Khan and the musical soirees of Takia Mirasian and of Bhati Gate’s connections with the early film industry. All-India Radio Lahore which broadcast from December 1937 also provided a creative outlet for the musicians, writers and actors of Bhati and Mochi Gates and drew artists to the city.

Chapter Three shows how documentary film was a rich and chaotic site for nationalist, imperialist, and anti-imperialist experimentation. Introducing the female documentarian Atsugi Taka (1907-98) as a guide, the chapter demonstrates the development of the genre and show how practitioners worked within and around official ideologies and the restrictive media-scape. Atsugi is well-known for her translation of the theoretical treatise Documentary Film (1935) by British producer and theorist Paul Rotha. The book attracted an unexpectedly wide audience in Japan during WWII when documentary as genre flourished. Atsugi’s own films also present a tangled, complicated site of production where she navigated the gender politics of filmmaking and everyday life, state suppression of socialist and proletarian movements, and the problems of adapting socialist British theory to actual filmmaking in totalitarian Japan. (129 words)

The French-speaking Swiss traveler Ella Maillart (1903–1997) was a remarkable personality. By age thirty, she had taught French in a Welsh school, sailed in the Olympics for the Swiss team, acted on the Parisian stage, captained the Swiss women’s field hockey team, assisted on an excavation in Crete, studied film production in Moscow, published a book about a north-south walk through the Caucasus, and ridden a camel across the Kizil Kum Desert in present-day Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, southeast of the Aral Sea—in midwinter. No one knows why she had such a penchant for adventure and variety: perhaps she was rebelling against the staid and thoroughly conventional family life of her childhood. The freedom and self-assertion taken for granted by many women today could then be achieved only by being unconventional and heading off into the unknown. At the age of twenty-eight, Maillart gazed on China for the first time. “In 1932, having gone east from Moscow, I climbed a mountain nearly 17,000 feet high on foot, and succeeded in reaching the eastern frontier of Russian Turkestan. There, at least, from the heights of the Celestial Mountains I could decry, on a plain far away and still further to the east, the yellow dust of the Takla Makan desert. It was China, the fabulous country of which, since my childhood, I had dreamed. There the caravan trails that were as old as the world, still wound. Long ago, Marco Polo followed them as far as Peking.”1 But she was unable to obtain a visa to enter Chinese Turkestan, which, like Outer Mongolia, was virtually isolated from the world by political turmoil. “Sadly,” she wrote, “I retraced my steps, turning my back on the limitless unknown that beckoned.” Maillart traveled in romantic lands whose very names evoke adventure— Pingliang, Yarkand, Kashgar. For centuries, the Silk Road was synonymous with danger, mystery, and high adventure beyond the frontiers of the Western world. The men and women who explored this remote and unfamiliar realm had no illusions about the dangers and political disorder that awaited them, but they would have been quietly horrified to hear their travels described as adventures.