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Islam : A Guide For The Perplexed - Study & Evaluation Of An Attempt Of Application: Alleviating Poverty In Tafahna Alashraf, Nancy Fathy Emara

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Genetically Modified Food Crops: Another Challenge To Development, May Abul Seoud

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Texture Classification Using Transform Analysis, Mary Habib

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The work presented in this thesis deals with the application of spectral methods for texture classification. The aim of the present work is to introduce a hybrid methodology for texture classification based on a spatial domain global pre-classifier together with a spectral classifier that utilizes multiresolution transform analysis. The reason for developing a spatial pre-classifier is that many discriminating features of textures are present in the spatial domain of the texture. Of these, global features such as intensity histograms and entropies can still add significant information to the texture classification process. The pre-classifier uses texture intensity histograms to derive histogram …

Women, Power And Position Within The Household Economy, Mamdouh Kamal Hakim

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Seismic Bahavior Of Reinforced Concrete Liquid Storage Tanks, Iman Shawky Abdel-Rahman

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This thesis presents a study of the effects of seismic loading on reinforced concrete liquid storage tanks. Stresses and displacements were computed by the finite element method to ascertain that they remain within an acceptable safety range when the tank is subjected to earthquake ground accelerations of varying intensities. In the analysis different parameters were considered. This included tank radius, liquid height, and shell thickness, loading conditions resulting from both hydrostatic and hydrodynamic pressures, and a variety of boundary conditions at the top and bottom of the tank, including a cover dome. The finite element package (ABAQUS) was used to …

Utilization Of Municipal Solid Waste Rejects In The Production Of A Recycled Plastic Waste Composite Material, Mohamed Kamal Abou Khatwa

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The solid waste disposal problem has grown significantly in the last decades imposing a lot of pressure on disposal and treatment acts. In the past, incineration and landfilling were the common methods for disposing of products of municipal solid waste. With the increasing volumes of waste generation and the legislative restrictions of these treatment methods, reuse of bulk waste is foreseen as the best alternative to disposal. Due to the current widespread use of plastic products in daily life, post consumer plastics now contribute significantly to municipal solid waste generation rates with a contradicting low participation in waste minimization practices. …

Evaluation Of The Performance Of A Waste Stabilization Pond System In An Arid Region, Nadine Aly El-Aassar

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Arab States' Interests, B Ann Mclennan-Smith

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Total Productive Maintenance (Tpm), Giuma Mohamed El Waer

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Optimization Of Receptive Fields For Mlp Networks With Ensemble Encoding, Deena Osama Hassan

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Ensemble encoding is a biologically-motivated, distributed data representation scheme for MLP networks. Multiple overlapping receptive fields are used to enhance locality of representation. The number, form, and placement of receptive fields have a great impact on performance. This thesis presents four heuristics, two based on descriptive statistics, and two based on clustering, for optimizing receptive field configuration, and compares their performance on four benchmark data sets. The two statistical approaches are based on the mean and median properties of the data set. The two clustering methods are the c-means and fuzzy c-means clustering. The four data sets used are well-known …

The Laws Governing Non-Governmental Organizations In The Arab Republic Of Egypt, Karim Refaat

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Synthesis And Optimization Of Digital Systems For Low Power At Logic Level Of Abstraction, Ihab Mostafa Amin Amer

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In this thesis we tackle one of the most important fields of research, which is reducing power consumption in digital systems. The importance of this field comes from the fact that nowadays, several digital devices are intensively used in our daily life. Thus, minimizing their power consumption is a common demand from the technological as well as the economical point of view. Some basic definitions in the low power design field are introduced. Besides, a preview of different efforts that were exerted in the field of reducing power consumption of digital systems at various levels of abstraction is presented. A …

Optimization Of Municipal Solid Waste Management In Port Said, Mohamed Fathy Abd El-Rahman Mohamed Badran

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This thesis is done at the American University in Cairo, and titled "Optimization of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Port Said". This thesis is presented by Mohamed Fathy Abd El-Rahman Mohamed Badran, under the supervision of Dr. Salah El-Haggar. Optimization of solid waste management systems was not applied to any Egyptian govemorate using any operational research methodologies. A new concept is arising in the collection activity of municipal solid waste management which is the use of collection stations. This concept was not used in Egypt. In this work, a proposed model for the municipal solid waste management system in Port …

Islamic And Western Critiques Of Modernity: A Comparison Between The Critiques Of The Islamic Thinkers And The Frankfurt School, Ashraf Nabih El-Sherif

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Chemical Treatment For Lignin Removal From Non-Wood Pulping Wastewater, Ahmed Abdel-Naby Teaama

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Industrialization And Underdevelopment: Towards A Heavy Industrialization Drive In Egypt, Mohamed Ismail Sabry

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This thesis tries to answer twomain questions. The first is why a developing country like Egypt needs Heavy Industrialization? And the second is what are the best strategies to achieve such an industrialization drive? These two questions are being tackled through a theoritical analysis using the Structuralist, Neoclassical and Institutional perspectives. A special focus is put on specific heavy industrial sectors of potential or strategic value in Egypt namely: Steel, Aluminum, Petrochemicals and Machinery. Moreover, three different heavy industrialization experiences of three NICs are being analyzed, each of which had a different heavy industrialization strategy. These are namely: South Korea, …

A New Message-Based Protocol For Building A Platform And Language Independent Distributed Object Model, Hazem S. El Ashmawi

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Standardization of messaging topologies for communication in recent distributed object computing architectures is becoming more and more inevitable. The emergence of a structured and flexible document model as XML has made an entry point towards this goal. In this thesis, we are utilizing the flexibility of XML and the simplicity of low -level socket communication to build a generalized messaging model that provides a basis for standardization and supports interoperability among existing distributed object computing architectures. The proposed system is composed of the basic components of a distributed architecture constituting a number of broker components acting as naming services and …

The Localized Corrosion Behavior Of 6% Mo And 316l Stainless Steels In Chloride Media And The Effect Of Applied Mechanical Stress, Houssam El-Din Sabry Ahmed

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Electrochemical techniques were applied to study the crevice corrosion resistance of two types of stainless steel alloys namely, conventional 316L and super austenitic 6% Mo in acidified 3% NaCl solution at room temperature. Potentiodynamic results showed that 6% Mo alloy possessed a remarkable resistance to crevice corrosion compared to 316L alloy when tested in the same solution. The breakdown potential at which passivity broke down for 316L alloy was 0.00 m V, SCE, the corresponding value for 6% Mo alloy could not be reached up to the potential value of 700 m V, SCE. 316L alloy suffered extremely from crevice …

Egypt's Position Towards The Implementation Of The Convention Of Biological Diversity, Shatha Soliman Hamid

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Power-Aware On Demand Routing Protocol For Mobile Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks, Mohammed Kamel Fattouh Mohammed

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Assessment Of The Readiness Of Egyptian Companies To Implement Business Process Reengineering Programs, Hany Waguih Shoukry

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Business Process Reengineering (BPR) emerged as a performance improvement methodology in 1990. Its objective of radical process redesign to achieve dramatic performance improvements makes it a potential candidate to be applied in most Egyptian companies, especially in the Egyptian private sector that is struggling to upgrade its performance in the new global economy. Although the main problem of BPR is its high probability of failure, which is due to the failure of companies to fulfill all BPR prerequisites, very limited research exists on how to measure the readiness of a company to implement successful BPR programs. The current research addresses …

The Castaway: A Comparative Study Of Alienation In Franz Kafka's "The Trial" And J.M. Coetzee's "Foe", Alia Mohamed Taher Ahmed Tawfik Abou Zeid

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This thesis is a comparative study of alienation. It provides an analysis of the different ways in which the Czech writer, Franz Kafka, and the South African writer, J.M. Coetzee delineate alienation in their works, The Trial and Foe. Three aspects of alienation are discussed: alienation from self, world and language. Hence, the thesis emphasizes that manâ s predicament of alienation, homelessness and exile stems from a failure to recognize a self to which he can relate, an inability to find a home in an alien universe and an incapacity to develop a constructive relationship with words and language. This …

Adult Egyptians' Pronunciation Of Initial Consonant Clusters, Moharram El Rohbini

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This thesis investigated the pronunciation problems of syllable initial consonant clusters in word-initial positions for adult Egyptian Students. Several previous studies explored the incorrect strategies that adults used in order to avoid the difficulty of initial consonant cluster pronunciation. Building on the findings of the previous research, this study focused on two aspects related to initial consonant cluster pronunciation. The first aspect was related to the issue of cluster pronunciation, i.e. whether all initial consonant clusters have the same difficulty level or not. Since the EFL teacher is the basic source of input and main pronunciation model for EFL students, …

Antidumping Practices Under The Wto, Doaa Mohie Mahmoud

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Time, Nature, And The Body: Sufi Dimensions In Muhammad Afifi Matar's Quartet Of Joy And T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, Yasmine Mohamed-Samir Motawy

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War, Media And Public Opinion; Al-Jazeera's Role In The Recent Arab Israeli Conflicts", Marwa Ragaa Radwan Al-Mutafy

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The second Palestinian intifada and the way it was covered by the various media outlets caused a revolution in media coverage in the Arab World. Al-Jazeera TV channel emerged and gathered audiences, and regularly tuned in to catch the latest news and updates, reminding people of CNN during the Gulf War. However, no studies were conducted, that measured the impact of this channel on audiences and how it did or did not create a common public opinion among them.

This study's purpose is to testing the relationship between Media,

War, and Public Opinion. In other words, it studies the impact …

Memory And Literary Retrieval Of Disappearing Worlds, Heba Ibrahim Meshaal

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Desire Across Boundaries: Marriage And Sexuality In A Transnational And Global Context, Mustafa Abdalla

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Foreign Policy Decision-Making In A Developing State, Mona Abdel-Raouf Ayyad

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Church Politics: A Modernist Approach To The Role Of The Coptic Orthodox Church Of The See Of Alexandria In Constructing Group Identity Among Egyptian Copts, Ranya Abdelsayed

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