This paper addresses the characterisation of cello sounds. In order to study to which extent a jury perceives differences between two cellos in playing conditions, we carried out two blindfolded hearing tests, involving two instruments and two professional musicians: (1) An evaluation test of the couple musician-instrument on a structured scale, for 5 different attributes defined by adjective-p...

Osmanlı Devleti’nde muhtarlıklar İstanbul’da 1829, taşrada ise 1833 yılında kurulmaya başlamıştır. Bu döneme kadar mahallenin yönetimini imamlar üstlenmişlerdir. Mahalledeki huzur ve asayişin temininden sorumlu olan imamlara devlet ayrıca göçle mücadele konusunda da önemli görevler vermiştir. Mahallelinin kefile bağlanması, kefilsiz göçmenlerin ihbarı, mahalleden ihraçları, kaldıkları yerlerin ...

PURPOSE Pakistan is a patriarchal society in which male opinion leaders play an important role in determining health-seeking behaviors pertaining to family planning (FP) among their respective communities. This research focuses on cataloguing the perceptions of opinion leaders (clergymen, health professionals, and social workers) about the barriers for using services and practical solutions for...

BACKGROUND Evidence for the association between religiosity and HIV infections is limited. Sujda, the hyper-pigmented spot on the forehead due to repeated prostration during prayers and fasting to worship, involving abstaining from food, drink and sex during daytime in Ramadhan and other specified days, are measures of religiosity among Muslims OBJECTIVES To assess the association between rel...

Convertible debt represents 10% of all USA debt yet despite its ubiquity it still posses difficult modelling challenges. This paper investigates alternative convertible bond model specifications. The work reviews the literature on convertible debt valuation especially the methodologies adopted by practitioners. Inadequacies in the historical and current valuation methods are highlighted. The di...

Current research on financial risk management applications of econometrics centers on the accurate assessment of individual market and credit risks with relatively little theoretical or applied econometric research on other types of risk, aggregation risk, data incompleteness, and optimal risk control. We argue that consideration of the model risk arising from crude aggregation rules and inadeq...

Turkish law is applied for all marriage procedures of asylum-seekers, refugees and stateless persons to be conducted in Turkey. Under law, a national an asylum-seeker, refugee or person, two asylum-seekers different nationalities, can married by the authorities. All marriages carried out authorities are subject Civil Code related regulations. Marriages officers at Marriage Departments municipal...

This paper aims to apply the principle of maalat af’al (consequences an action) in analysing issue women converting Islam without their husbands from perspective maslahah (public interest). Despite fact that majority classical scholars maintain view this marriage must be dissolved, dealing with case Muslim minority circumstances needs more consideration, particularly terms (securing benefit and...

In this article, the history of appearance fatwa process is briefly explored, as well what conditions giver must meet today. The search for answers from ordinary citizens regarding any sphere their life Koran calls for, and companions Prophet, peace be upon him, were doing. When studying issue, one can find many scholars’ statements opinions, they differ change depending on time in which speake...