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The Gülen Movement

A Sociological Analysis of a Civic Movement Rooted in Moderate Islam

This is a book about an Islamic movement, the Gülen Movement, that is rooted in a moderate version of Islam and that promotes interfaith and intercultural dialog and global peace. Based on interviews with supporters of the movement in Turkey and in the U.S. and visits to Gülen-inspired schools, hospitals, newspapers and relief organizations, the book describes a movement that has millions of supporters in Turkey and that has spread to over 100 countries on five continents.

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Publishers Cook SA (2007) Ruling but not governing: the military and political ...

The Management of Uncertainty: Approaches, Methods and Applications

For thirty years, the literature on decision-making and planning has been divided into two camps : work premised on rational models of choice and work designed to discredit such models. The sustained critic of fully rational decision-making theories has al ready a long history and a constant message to deliver : in practice, consequential decision-making hardly fulfills the canons of perfect rationality. There is also evidence that decision-making and planning are not unitary processes. Although the concept of "decision-making" connotes the idea of a single process, making a single choice involves a complex of processing tasks : structuring the problem, finding alternatives worth considering, deciding what information is relevant, assessing various consequences, and a variety of others. The aim of this volume is to bring together and try to inter relate some of the concepts and relevant knowledge from various disciplines concerned with one important aspect of this complex process : the management of uncertainty. It is hardly necessary to reiterate the case made by numerous authors about our changing and increasingly uncertain world. Suffice it to say here that it is uncertainty about the future, and in many cases about the past and the present also, which makes decision-making and planning so difficul t. The management of uncertainty may be defined as the way in which uncertainty is treated and processed in decision-making.

alternatives and Choosing a preferred line of action. Multiple Decision Aid (MDA)
is a method that does not deal directly with uncertainty. It handles unknown
consequences and lack of data in the assessment and ranking of alternatives by
using subjective assessment, discussion and structured debate in addition to
technical and statistical techniques. 3.2 Partial Uncertainty B In cases where
there is no agreement on goals negotiation is clearly the most appropriate
method to be used.

New Approaches in Classification and Data Analysis

method 1 has thus two advantages: • it requires less information • it is quicker and
easier to use since no additional estimation step is required. 1.6 Theorical link
between method 1 and method 2: We have seen in 1.4, that method 1 is a special
 ...

Development of the Rat Spinal Cord: Immuno- and Enzyme Histochemical Approaches

The studies described here were carried out in the Neuroregul ation Group, Department of Physiology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands. Over the last decade, this group, in close collaboration with the Department of Neurosurgery of the Academic Hospital of Leiden, has studied the development of the central nervous system from a neuroanatomical as well as a clinical perspective. During this period, the expression of several morphore gulators in the developing rat spinal cord was extensively investigated. Parallel studies focused on the development of the spinal cord fiber systems, which was studied by means of the intrauterine use of neuronal tracers. The main goal of these studies was to extend our knowledge about the (normal) generation of the spinal cord and to contribute to the under standing of clinical problems related to regeneration and degeneration in the mammalian central nervous system. The studies on morphoregulators, in particular, appeared to benefit two different scientific areas. Firstly, the correlation between morphoregulator expression patterns and known anatomy contributed to our knowledge about spinal cord development. Secondly, the correlation between morpho regulator expression patterns and known developmental processes may help to understand their precise function(s). This volume of Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology presents these particular studies on the development of the rat spinal cord performed over the last decade. As well as integrating the results of the tracer studies, this volume also provides an update on the development of the rat spinal cord.

... GD (1990) NT3, BDNF, and NGFinthe developingrat nervous system: parallel
as well as reciprocal patterns of expression. Neuron 5:501– 509 Marani E(1978)
Amethod for orientating cryostat sectionsfor threedimensional reconstructions.

Computational Approaches in Supramolecular Chemistry

Supramolecular chemistry has been defined by J.-M. Lehn as "a highly interdisciplinary field of science covering the chemical, physical, and biological features of chemical species of higher complexity, that are held together and organized by means of intermolecular (noncovalent) binding interactions" (Science, 1993). Recognition, reactivity, and transport represent three basic functional features, in essence dynami~s, which may be translated into structural features. The purpose of the NATO workshop which took place september 1-5, 1993 at the Bischenberg (near Strasbourg) was to present computations which may contribute to the atomic level understanding of the structural and thermodynamical features involved in the processes of molecular recognition and supramolecular organization. of "supra-molecular modeling". Other The main focus was therefore, on the many facets applications of computers in chemistry, such as automation, simulation of processes, procedures for fitting kinetic or thermodynamic data, computer assisted synthetic strategies, use of data bases for structure elucidation or for bibliographic searches, have an obvious impact in supramolecular chemistry as well, but were not presented at the workshop.

We present a method to calculate the charge redistribution that occurs during
ionophore potential of mean force (PMF) calculations. A new charge distribution
is calculated at the beginning of each simulation that is used to assemble the
PMF ...

Human-Computer Interaction: Design and Development Approaches

14th International Conference, HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings

This four-volume set LNCS 6761-6764 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2011, held in Orlando, FL, USA in July 2011, jointly with 8 other thematically similar conferences. The revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The papers of this first volume are organized in topical sections on HCI design, model-based and patterns-based design and development, cognitive, psychological and behavioural issues in HCI, development methods, algorithms, tools and environments, and image processing and retrieval in HCI.

To realize the machine lip-reading, we propose a method which detects the
distinctive mouth shapes from Japanese-speaking images based on their
techniques. We define six mouth shapes as the distinctive mouth shapes, and the
mouth ...

Formal Approaches to Software Testing

Third International Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software, FATES 2003, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 6th, 2003

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software, FATES 2003, held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on October 6th, 2003. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 43 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on program testing and analysis, test theory and test derivation algorithms, and test methods and test tools.

The solution we propose is a method and tools for constructing a feedback loop
between test generation and specification inference, using and adapting existing
specificationbased test generation and dynamic specification inference ...

Developments in Risk-based Approaches to Safety

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Safety-citical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 7-9 February 2006

This book assembles papers presented at the 14th Annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Bristol, UK in February 2006. The papers address the most critical topics in the field of safety-critical systems. The focus, considered from various perspectives, is on recent developments in risk-based approaches. Subjects discussed include innovation in risk analysis, management risk, the safety case, software safety, language development and the creation of systems for complex control functions.

In seeking a method of analysing management risk, it would be easiest to limit
the task to the junior management level. An obvious starting point is to attempt to
include the junior manager within the boundary or the system that is the source of
 ...

Approaches to Traditional Chinese Medical Literature

Proceedings of an International Symposium on Translation Methodologies and Terminologies

Proceedings of an International Symposium on Translation Methodologies and Terminologies

Röu gān 3:#f refers to a method used to treat insufficiency of liver blood (gān xué
bu zu H-IIASA and is rendered as “emolliating the liver.”Shëng AE is consistently
translated as “engendering” in our work; in this context we encounter terms ...

Advances in Production Management Systems: New Challenges, New Approaches

International IFIP WG 5.7 Conference, APMS 2009, Bordeaux, France, September 21-23, 2009, Revised Selected Papers

The present economic and social environment has given rise to new situations within which companies must operate. As a first example, the globalization of the economy and the need for performance has led companies to outsource and then to operate inside networks of enterprises such as supply chains or virtual enterprises. A second instance is related to environmental issues. The statement about the impact of ind- trial activities on the environment has led companies to revise processes, to save - ergy, to optimize transportation.... A last example relates to knowledge. Knowledge is considered today to be one of the main assets of a company. How to capitalize, to manage, to reuse it for the benefit of the company is an important current issue. The three examples above have no direct links. However, each of them constitutes a challenge that companies have to face today. This book brings together the opinions of several leading researchers from all around the world. Together they try to develop new approaches and find answers to those challenges. Through the individual ch- ters of this book, the authors present their understanding of the different challenges, the concepts on which they are working, the approaches they are developing and the tools they propose. The book is composed of six parts; each one focuses on a specific theme and is subdivided into subtopics.

The most important aspect is that a method for PIS must help to the definition of
detailed action plans extracted from measures, to measure progress, to have a
vision (a perspective as a strategic map) and to have cause and effect
relationships ...