ISLAMIC STRENGTHENING IN CHARACTER BUILDING

Building character.

life – developing caring, positive relationships; learning and educating ourselves; planning for the future – are underpinned by character capabilities such as empathy, application and emotional control. Far from being ‘soft’ skills, the capabilities that make up our character are vital for social mobility. We shape and strengthen our character throughout life, but the critical years are the ea...

Virtues and Character Development in Islamic Ethics and Positive Psychology

The development of good character in Islam is mostly a process of dealing with one’s emotions. It helps to build and support positive or good emotions or virtues and to fight and suppress negative emotions. Character building would therefore, have much to do with patience and perseverance in controlling emotions leading to negative aspects and reinforcement of emotions leading to positive ethic...

Building a Character Animation System

We describe a system for animating virtual characters that encompasses many important aspects of character modeling for simulations and games. These include locomotion, facial animation, speech synthesis, reaching/grabbing, and various automated non-verbal behaviors, such as nodding, gesturing and eye saccades. Our system implements aspects of character animation from the research community tha...

The BRAIN Initiative: Building, Strengthening, and Sustaining

Successful federal initiatives share a focus on tangible success stories, constant input and guidance from scientists, participation by a wide range of funders, ongoing interest from policy makers, and a broad and effective communications network. By comparing these elements of the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative with other initiatives, we look a...

Building an Islamic Financial Information System Based on Policy Managements