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Arab Students' Attitudes Toward Western Culture and Motivation to Learn English
(2007-01)
Motivation is a central component for students learning a second language. Attitude towards the target language, its culture, and its people have been proved to have a significant bearing on the motivational orientation ...
Agency, Politics, and Media Translation in Saudi Arabia
(2016-11)
The aim of this thesis is to explore the interconnection between politics, the media, and translation with particular reference to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Agency and politics play an important role in both media ...
Use of Ultrasound and Ionic Liquids to Enhance the Extractive Desulfurization of Oils
(2016-12)
Desulfurization of diesel oil has been a widely investigated process, due to the detrimental impact on health and the environment caused by sulfur dioxide emissions resulting from the combustion of diesel oil. This has ...
Effects of Operating Conditions on Water Absorption Capacity of Superabsorbent Hydrogels
(2018-04)
Superabsorbent hydrogels are three-dimensional networks of hydrophilic polymers that have an extraordinary ability to absorb and retain water. Therefore, they have been utilized in many applications such as disposal diapers, ...
Flow Simulations of Axisymmetric Prolate Particles in a Cylindrical Pore
(2015-01)
The motion of small particles in a fluid is a classical fluid mechanics problem. The present study investigates the motion of axisymmetric prolate spheroids and Cassini ovals of micro-scale through Newtonian and non-Newtonian ...
Level of Proficiency in Arabic and English, and Identity of Emirati Students in UAE Public Schools
(2012-05)
Recently, a new dimension of learning a second language has gained interest in the literature. The identity of learners has made its way as a concept that has become central in second language acquisition (SLA) and bilingual ...
Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You For The Last Time, Translation and Commentary
(2015-01)
Translation of humor is a field that may not have a fair share of research, especially in the English to Arabic field where the cultural aspect may differ more vividly compared to translating into other languages. This ...
Iterative Methods for the Numerical Solutions of Boundary Value Problems
(2014-06)
The aim of this thesis is twofold. First of all, in Chapters 1 and 2, we review the well-known Adomian Decomposition Method (ADM) and Variational Iteration Method (VIM) for obtaining exact and numerical solutions for ...
Mesoscale Thermal Conductivity and Resistivity of Polycrystalline Graphite
(2015-07)
With rapid advances in Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and Nanotechnology applications, it has become essential to predict the properties of materials at length scales that are significantly below the macroscale. ...