The main purpose of this paper is to trace epistemological roots of conventional and Islamic finance. Based on an extensive literature review, this paper aims to highlight, explain, and discuss an ideal conventional and Islamic financial system. The ideal conventional financial system is discussed in light of various writings by Smith and Arrow, based on Arrow-Debreu model. On the other ...

Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow (1991) gave rise to much controversy when it came out, for this novella revolves around a traumatised Nazi doctor exiled in the US whose life is narrated disorienting reverse chronology by what would seem be his own dissociated conscience. Despite abundant academic publications on experimental narrative, such as those that read posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) pie...

ions A first-order abstraction in the ρpg-calculus consists of two object port graphs for the leftand the right-hand sides, and an arrow node embedding the correspondence between the two sides. The arrow node has two particular ports, a handler port p0 and a black hole port bh. Some restrictions must be imposed on the connectivity of these two types of ports. A handler port can be connected onl...

Twenty AdoMet-dependent methyltransferases (MTases) have been characterized structurally by X-ray crystallography and NMR. These include seven DNA MTases, five RNA MTases, four protein MTases and four small molecule MTases acting on the carbon, oxygen or nitrogen atoms of their substrates. The MTases share a common core structure of a mixed seven-stranded beta-sheet (6 downward arrow 7 upward a...

We investigated the influence of numbered arrows on construction of mechanical kinematic representations by using static diagrams. Undergraduate participants viewed a two-stage diagram depicting a flushing cistern (with or without numbered arrows) and answered questions about its function, step-bystep. The arrow group demonstrated greater overall accuracy and made fewer errors on the measure of...

In [Sch05a], it is argued that Boltzmann’s intuition, that the psychological arrow of time is necessarily aligned with the thermodynamic arrow, is correct. Schulman gives an explicit physical mechanism for this connection, based on the brain being representable as a computer, together with certain thermodynamic properties of computational processes. [Haw94] presents similar, if briefer, argumen...

Response compatibility effects were assessed with a Stroop-like task which involved arrow and word stimuli. The subjects were required to respond to one stimulus--an arrow (e.g.,-->) or a word (e.g., left)--and ignore the other. It was shown that response compatibility played a significant role in generating Stroop-like interference. Robust interference effects were observed when the subjects r...

A n 86-year-old man presented with recurrent heart failure and severe mitral regurgitation in the setting of previous surgical mitral repair for degenerative valve disease. Surgery had consisted of placement of a 32-mm CarpentierEdwards Physio II annuloplasty ring (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, California). Transesophageal echocardiography demonstrated a large anterior leaflet (Figure 1A, arrow...

Scientific cosmology is an empirical discipline whose objects of study are the largescale properties of the universe. In this context, it is usual to call the direction of the expansion of the universe the ‘cosmological arrow of time’. However, there is no reason for privileging the ‘radius’ of the universe for defining the arrow of time over other geometrical properties of the space-time. Trad...

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. A 65-year-old man presented with a 5-day history of fever. He took an antimalarial drug (Fansidar;sulfadoxine/ pyrimethamine) without being tested for malarial parasite. and corrected reticulocyte count, 20%. Peripheral blood smear (PBS) displayed numerous b...