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An Investigation of Parking Problems and Alternatives at the American University of Sharjah
(2007-05)
This paper investigates parking and transportation challenges at the American University of Sharjah in response to regional and campus growth. A parking inventory was conducted in early 2007, including characteristics of ...
Translating Quasi-Technical Discourse
(2006-12)
In this thesis, the issue of translation across cultures is discussed and the importance of Foreignization and domestication in culture transfer is highlights. The dichotomy, foreignization and domestication, brought to ...
Some finiteness conditions on the set of overrings of a phi-ring
(University of Houston, 2008)
Let H = {R | R is a commutative ring and Nil(R) is a divided prime ideal of R}. For a ring R in H with total quotient ring T(R), Let phi be the natural ring homomorphism from T(R) into R_Nil(R). An integral domain R is ...
Hector Berlioz's Les Nuits d'été: A performer's perspective
(National Association of Teachers of Singing, 2005)
Exercisability Randomization of the American Option
(Taylor & Frances Online, 2008)
The valuation of American options is an optimal stopping time problem which typically leads to a free boundary problem. We introduce here the randomization of the exercisability of the option. This method considerably ...
Ideology in Translating Children's Literature into Arabic
(2006)
Children's Literature is perhaps the most controversial genre of writing, not simply because of its content but also because of its origin and purpose. Long ago literature consisted of legends, fables, and myths. None were ...
DNA Base-Calling Techniques
(2008-12)
The availability of substantial amounts of DNA sequence information has begun to revolutionize the practice of biology. So it is obvious that manual sequencing output is not adequate to keep pace with the growing demand ...
Ideology in Translating Religion Related Discourse
(2006-07)
In this thesis, the importance of equivalence in the translation of religious discourse is discussed and the role of ideology in translation is analyzed. It is assumed that equivalence, defined as the relation that holds ...
Design standards for Muslim prayer facilities within public buildings
(Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), 2009)
The construction boom in the Arabian Gulf region has resulted in an inflow of consultants from around the world. Most have little or no experience of the particular requirements of the residents of the region, who are ...
Strong ring extensions andphi-pseudo-valuation rings
(University of Houston, 2006)
In this paper, we extend the concept of strong extensions of domains to the context of (commutative) rings with zero-divisors. We show that the theory of strong extensions of rings resembles that of strong extensions of domains.