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Teachers' and Students' Perceptions towards the Use of Arabic in Secondary Level English Language Classrooms
(2010-05)
The debate over whether or not students' first language should be used in English language classrooms has been controversial for a long time. Findings in the literature reveal two opposing views: On one end of the continuum ...
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 ...
Sensor-based Continuous Arabic Sign Language Recognition
(2014-06)
Arabic sign language is the most common way of communication between the deaf and the hearing individuals in the Arab world. Due to the lack of knowledge of Arabic sign language among the hearing society, deaf people tend ...
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 ...
Efficient Algorithms for Constructing Preset Distinguishing Sequences for Nondeterministic Finite State Machines
(2016-06)
Derivation of input sequences for distinguishing states of a finite state machine (FSM) specification is well studied in the context of FSM-based functional testing. We present three heuristics for the derivation of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Language and Ideology: A Discourse and Translation Perspective
(2014-06)
This study attempts to analyze the way Arabic Media reconstructs news. In spite of the fact that the written press is supposed to be one of the most reliable sources for information, its output has often been controversial, ...
Language and Culture in Business Translation from English into Arabic
(2008-06)
Today, a new communication era is emerging in the fast paced world of business and economy. A case in point is our region (the Gulf and particularly Dubai) where the economy is globally expanding and with this, demand is ...
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 ...