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Arab Culture in Translation: From Exoticism to Terrorism
(2016-05)The 9/11 attacks placed the Arab and Islamic World at the center of a global attention characterized by the negativity of an old inherited conception. While portraying Arabs and Muslims again within a clash of civilizations ... -
Arab Students' Attitudes Toward Western Culture and Motivation to Learn English
(2007-01)Motivation is a central component for students learning a second language. Attitude towards the target language, its culture, and its people have been proved to have a significant bearing on the motivational orientation ... -
Arab women: No longer silent, but can they guarantee rights for themselves
(2012-12)Civil unrest in the Arab world has lead to seismic political, social, and economic changes in countries such as Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Bahrain, and now Yemen. While the changes that are being undertaken in these ... -
Arabic Brand Names: To Translate or Transliterate?
(2014-01)The thesis examines the process of brand naming and brand translation, focusing on three models: Dubai, Sharjah and Saudi Arabia. In terms of brand naming and translation method, these three places illustrate different ... -
Arabic Multimodal Emotion Recognition Using Deep Learning
(2022-05)Emotions are an essential part of human communication since it shapes how information is received. As part of human-computer interaction, researchers are extending Emotion Recognition (ER) to machines. ER can contribute ... -
Arabic to English Translation of Islamic Religious Texts
(2006-04)This thesis investigates discourse strategies adopted in the translation of religious texts from Arabic into English. Such texts pose serious challenges for translators because of the orality found in Arabic religious texts ... -
Arabic-Chinese and English Relay Translation (1970-2020): A Historiographical Bibliometric Study
(2022-04)The dissemination of Arab heritage has a long history in China, but the first genuine Arabic-Chinese translation interchange did not occur until a century ago. The translation of the classic, Arabian Nights, helped the ... -
Arabicization of IT Service Management Terminology (ITSM): Introduction to ITIL as a Case Study
(2014-03)As a result of continuous advancements in the field of Information Technology (IT), many concepts are being introduced. Given that most renderings focused on subfields including: web technologies, applications, and other ... -
Arabs from a Japanese Perspective: Cultural Representation and Translation
(2015-10)Identifying similarities and differences between cultures results in the creation of certain images and representations. This thesis explores the role of translation in creating cultural images within the context of a ... -
Architectural Design Standards for Muslims Prayer Facilities in Airports
(WIT Press, 2010)Increasingly, airports around the world are becoming hubs for the coexistence of different cultures. Therefore, they need to include facilities that can accommodate, as far as possible, the needs of passengers from various ... -
Artifacts in knowledge management research: a systematic literature review and future research directions
(Emerald, 2016)Purpose - The purpose of this article is to assess the role of artifacts in the knowledge management field in the past 18 years (1997-2015) and to identify directions for future research. Design/methodology/approach - ... -
Artificial Intelligence Based Identification of the Attitude Dynamics for a Quadrotor UAV
(2014-12)Quadrotor UAVs have become very popular, recently. At the same time, having a model of a system proves rather useful in almost any engineering task. In the case of quadrotors this becomes a challenging task, because they ... -
Artificial Intelligence for Assessing the Correlation Between Sleep Apnoea and Comorbidities
(2022-08)Sleep apnoea (SA) is a chronic sleep related breathing disorder characterized by partial or complete airway obstruction, known as Obstructive Sleep Apnoea (OSA), or when the brain does not communicate the proper signals ... -
Artificial Intelligence to Enhance the Drilling of Composites
(2023-12)Advances in the study of fibre reinforced polymers have led to a huge interest in applying them to multiple fields as an alternative to more costly materials such as their metallic counterparts. However, if the machining ... -
Artificial Intelligence-Based Modeling of the Nonlinear Behavior of Buckling-Restrained Braces
(2013-03)The present research attempts to investigate and compare various artificial intelligence techniques to model the dynamic nonlinear behavior of Buckling Restrained Braces (BRBs). The various intelligent models are developed ... -
Artificial marine habitats in the Arabian Gulf: Review of current use, benefits and management implications
(2011-10)The use of artificial reefs in the Arabian Gulf have a history extending back over a century, when date palm trunks, stones, pottery and other materials were sunk in coastal areas to enhance fish catch. Historically, such ... -
Assessing Struvite Formation Potential at Wastewater Treatment Plants
(2012-12)Wastewater treatment plants, especially those employing secondary treatment and anaerobic sludge digestion, have historically encountered phosphate precipitates, one of the commonest being struvite, that foul and encrust ... -
Assessing test suites of extended finite state machines against model and code based faults
(John Wiley & Sons, 2021)Tests can be derived from extended finite state machine (EFSM) specifications considering the coverage of single-transfer faults, all transitions using a transition tour, all-uses, edge-pair, and prime path with side trip. ... -
Assessing the bond strength in thermoplastic fiber composite fabricated by an open mold process
(2021-07)Fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites have become popular in marine, aerospace, and structural applications due to their high specific stiffness and strength as well as their ability to conform to complex shapes without ... -
Assessing the Impact of Reactive Power Droop on Inverter Based Microgrid Stability
(IEEE, 2021-01)Droop control is the most common approach for controlling inverter-based micro-grids. The active power droop gain has always been considered as the main parameter for identifying the micro-grid stability margin. Increasing ...