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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 ...
Autopilot Design and Commercial Autopilot Evaluation Using Flybarless Helicopter
(2014-03)
In its effort to develop unmanned autonomous systems research capabilities, the College of Engineering is adding a rotary wing UAV to its research activities. The current thesis goal is to use the Maxi Joker 3 commercial ...
Political Discourse Analysis: An English/Arabic Translation Perspective
(2014-05)
Political events throughout history are linked to the development of political discourse which plays an essential role in shaping world political opinion. Tackling these issues linguistically has been largely successful ...
FPGA-based Parallel Hardware Architecture for Real-time Object Classification
(2014-06)
Object detection is one of the most important tasks in computer vision. It has multiple applications in many different fields such as face detection, video surveillance and traffic sign recognition. Most of these applications ...
Using a Cavitation Model to Represent the Acoustic Release Kinetics from Folated Micelles
(2014-12)
Anti-neoplastic drugs used for cancer treatment have various damaging effects on healthy cells, leading to several side effects in patients undergoing chemotherapy. The encapsulation of these agents in nanoparticles, such ...
Buckling of Inhomogeneous and Functionally Graded Columns
(2014-07)
Buckling is an instability encountered in a wide variety of problems, both in engineering and biology. Almost all engineering structures are designed with adequate safety factors to prevent failure due to buckling, yielding, ...
Statistical Modelling and Correlation of Membrane Distillation Data
(2014-07)
Membrane distillation (MD) is a process in which the driving force for mass transfer is a temperature gradient rather than conventional gradients based on density, static pressure, chemical nature, affinity, or freezing ...
Culture in Arabic to English Literary Translation
(2014-01)
This thesis explores the culture of literary translation from Arabic to English. It is assumed that English translations of Arabic literary works are dominated by an established system of representation of Arabs and their ...
Investigation of Submerged Friction Stir Welding of Marine-Grade Aluminum Alloy
(2014-01)
Friction stir welding is a newly developed welding technique utilized to weld lightweight alloys, such as aluminum alloys. Due to its low melting temperature, welding aluminum has been always challenging using conventional ...
Skopos for Children's Literature: Translation and Commentary
(2014-01)
Literature represents a nation's culture and plays a vital role in the bringing up of children. As such and unlike adult literature, translating children's literature (CL) poses difficulties for translators simply because ...