Kompensasi Ganti Rugi Bunga dalam Perspektif Hukum Islam

Authors: Ray Chambers* and Hukum Chandra*

An accurate estimate of the uncertainty associated with a parameter estimate is important if we want to avoid misleading inference. The bootstrap technique (Efron, 1979; Efron and Tisbshirani, 1993) is a very general way of measuring the accuracy of estimators, and was originally developed for parameter estimation given independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) data. However, random effects ...

Islam Almasri_TOCSJ

Recently, a number of methods have been proposed to improve image retrieval accuracy by capturing context information. These methods try to compensate for the fact that a visually less similar image might be more relevant because it depicts the same object. We propose a new quick method for refining any pairwise distance metric, it works by iteratively discovering the object in the image from t...

Islam in local contexts: Localised Islam in Northern Pakistan

As Clifford Geertz remarked in his Islam Observed (1968), the idea of a ‘changing’ religion is a contradiction in terms, as religion is fundamentally concerned with what is permanent and eternal. Still, one way to come to terms with religious change is to consider the many ways that religion is interpreted, by laymen and scholars alike. Social anthropologists like myself have naturally found a ...

Islam in the West: From Immigration to Global Islam

Commentary (Ganti et al): Current Issues in Lung Cancer Screening

The role of screening in order to detect lung cancer at an earlier stage has been widely debated for the past 4 decades. In this review, Dr. Mulshine focuses on the current issues in lung cancer screening in light of the findings of the International Early Lung Cancer Action Project (I-ELCAP) As the article mentions, the diagnosis of lung cancer is often made at a stage when the disease is no l...