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A Discourse Analysis of Mahfouz's Attitude to Women and to Religion: A Translation Perspective
(2016-04)
This study aims to investigate the issues related to translating literary work from Arabic into English. In particular, it focuses on the theory of foreignization and domestication. Two main ideological perspectives are ...
Developing a Framework for Evaluating Accessibility Density and Coverage
(2015-06)
The rapid changes in modern life style, technology and globalization are significantly impacting the development of major cities. A number of metropolitan cities in different parts of the world shifted their growth trend ...
Motivational Influences on Adult Arab Learners of English in the UAE
(2015-06)
This study explores the motivational influences that impact seven Arab undergraduate learners of English in the UAE as they pursue two semesters of study. The study investigates the role of English in the participants' ...
Assessing Translation Quality of Polemical Texts
(2015-05)
How to assess the quality of the translation and what criteria to be used for evaluating it, has always been a problematic issue in translation studies. Nevertheless, there is nowadays an unprecedented agreement on the ...
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, ...
Writing through Translation
(2012-05)
Each culture can represent any other culture. Translation, in this sense becomes a cultural representation of an original. Translation and cultural representation in the West are often seen through the lenses of Orientalism; ...
Translating Political Discourse King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein's Papers
(2016-05)
When researchers discuss the translation of political discourse they usually refer to the ideology of the translators in its negative meaning. This is because the term ideology as a concept involves manipulation of the ...
Prediction of Stability Limits for Binary and Ternary Systems Using the NTRL Liquid Phase Model
(2013-01)
Stability limits (spinodal loci) were determined for 53 binary systems and 26 ternary systems. Rigorous thermodynamic criteria for spinodal limits and criticality conditions in terms of mixture Gibbs free energy were derived ...
Adaptive Estimation of Li-ion Battery Model Parameters
(2016-05)
This work presents a novel application of a high gain adaptive observer-based technique for Lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery modeling. The model used in this work was originally developed by Chen and Mora. However, in Chen and ...