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Cultural Challenges in Translating for Museums From English into Arabic
(2008-10)Museums assert that they can work alongside other cultural institutions, such as schools and universities, to contribute to social development. In that sense museums can be considered as educational and cultural platforms ... -
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 ... -
Cultural Schema and Reading Comprehension: A Means to an End
(2006-08)Studies on good readers have identified a number of reading comprehension strategies to be highly useful. These strategies range from the simple to the complex. A strategy that has been recommended by cognitive scientists ... -
Culture and the Translation of Self-Help Discourse
(2012-12)The discourse of self-help books has gained popularity during the last decade or so. Cross-culturally, however, this discourse incorporates different cultural beliefs that might cause problems for the "other" and for ... -
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 ... -
Culture in English Language Classrooms: Emirati Students' and UAE Teachers' Perceptions
(2011-05)Many studies have shown that teaching and learning about culture is beneficial for learning a second language. It helps in building up the four language skill, such as reading, writing, speaking, listening, and cultural ... -
Culture in Relay Audio-Visual Translation: A Case of Inevitable Culture Divergence
(2015-12)Given the basic convention that translation is a process of intercultural interaction, it is supposed that relay translation, which is a form of translation, also functions so, but its role in the transfer of culture should ... -
Culture in Simultaneous Interpreting of Political Discourse: Obama's Speech in Cairo
(2010-05)Political speeches, especially at times of international crises, play an important role in aiding or obstructing world peace. This is particularly valid for Western/Arab and Muslim relations. Inappropriate renditions (in ... -
Culture in the EFL Classroom: Western Instructions and Arab Students in the UAE
(2013-12)In the field of EFL teaching, it is common for instructors and students to come from very different cultural backgrounds. Instructors who leave their home countries and go to teach abroad may have trouble adjusting to the ... -
Cyclic Production Scheduling with Remanufacturing
(2015-06)The cyclic production scheduling problem is concerned with the development of a least-cost cyclic production schedule for a set of tasks required to produce a set of products over a given production cycle and according to ... -
Data Communication through Distribution Network for Smart Grid Applications
(2014-05)This work investigates a novel solution for overcoming excessive signal attenuation in distribution transformers for power line communication (PLC) applications in smart grids. The proposed solution avoids classical hardware ... -
Data Embedding and Extraction in Scrambled Video using Machine Learning
(2020-12)Data embedding in videos and images has various important applications such as digital rights management (DRM), content authentication, copyright protection, error resiliency and concealment as well as law enforcement. ... -
A Decision Support Model for Pre-qualifying Construction Contractors using 2S-ECI
(2023-11)The construction industry is distinguished by its complexity and the requirement for innovation and efficiency. The Two-Stage Early Contractor Involvement (2S-ECI) delivery approach has attracted international attention ... -
A Decision Support Model for Prequalifying IPD Project Participants in Construction Projects
(2022-11)Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is an innovative and collaborative delivery method in the construction industry. It has recently gained momentum after several projects in the US, and other regions, with partial utilization ... -
A Decision Support Tool for Smart Campus Applications – An AUS Case Study
(2022-12)Since the last decade, advancement in the sciences around the world is causing an unstoppable incline towards smart technologies across multiple industries. Smart technologies come with numerous benefits ranging from reduced ... -
Decision-level Gait Fusion for Human Identification at a Distance
(2014-06)Gait Recognition is one of the latest and most attractive biometric techniques currently under research, due to its potential application in identification of individuals at a distance, unobtrusively and even using low ... -
A Deployment Optimization Model for Wimax Base-Stations
(2011-06)Telecommunication technologies are growing rapidly due to the highly demanding markets for different telecom services and applications. Wireless solutions are essential in places where cable infrastructure does not exist, ...