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The Pragmatics of Language Variation: Harry Potter in Translation
(2015-01)
Language variation has been talked about in many linguistics and translation books. Language variation has often been treated in a superficial manner and sometimes ignored, but when it is pragmatically driven, conveying ...
Water Quality Modeling of Dubai Creek using HEC-RAS
(2015-05)
The quality of the water resources is facing threats because of the continuous urbanization. This increase in human activities around the coastal areas changed the water quality, affecting the aquatic ecosystem. Eutrophication ...
On Studying the Effectiveness of Extended Finite State Machine Based Test Selection Criteria
(2015-07)
Automatic test derivation from formal specifications offers a rigorous discipline to functional conformance testing. In various application domains, such as communication protocols and other reactive systems, the specification ...
A Framework for Benchmarking Energy Retrofit Systems through Building Information Modeling (BIM)
(2015-06)
The rapid increase in worldwide energy consumption has raised a global concern about the future of energy use and its impact on the surrounding environment. Such impact is causing resource degradation, increased carbon ...
Intercultural Communication Gaps in the Translation of the Kite Runner
(2015-01)
Culture, nationality/ethnicity, upbringing and individual experiences are all vital contributors to the substantial differences between people. These differences affect the way people view the world, as well as their ...
Translating Emirati Folklore
(2015-12)
As a genre in its own right, folklore is an important element in any culture. In the United Arab Emirates, folktales are known as kharareef (sing. khrairifa), which form a type of sung folklore. The translation of folktales ...
Some applications of the Hyperbolic Metric
(2015-06)
This thesis is an expository of the hyperbolic geometry in general and the hyperbolic metric for several domains in particular. The thesis also focuses on the differences between the Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic ...
Green Inhibition of Mild Steel Corrosion in a CO2 Saturated Saline Solution
(2015-05)
Mild steel is extensively used in equipment such as pipelines and machinery by many industries, where it is exposed to corrosive environments. Dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) can be found in produced water and results in ...
Adsorption study of desulfurization of diesel oil using activated charcoal
(2015-05)
This research investigates the use of adsorptive desulfurization for diesel oil using carbon-based adsorbents, and it evaluates the effect of the adsorptive desulfurization on the ignition quality of diesel fuel. Two of ...
Cultural Identity and Transliteration in the UAE Educational Curriculum
(2015-05)
This thesis examines whether transliteration is the most appropriate strategy to preserve Emirati cultural identity when local cultural elements are transferred into English in educational curricula. Cultural elements ...