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Assessing Egyptians' Knowledge, Perceptions, And Attitudes Towards Generic Medicines, Radwa Ahmed Elmoneer
Assessing Egyptians' Knowledge, Perceptions, And Attitudes Towards Generic Medicines, Radwa Ahmed Elmoneer
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Medicines are vital component of any health system worldwide, and ensuring accessibility of affordable, effective and safe medications is a critical public policy goal considered by every country. Egypt has, recently, faced aggravated challenges in ensuring the availability of medications countrywide. In response, the Egyptian government has adopted a number of pharmaceutical policies and interventions, mainly, targeting the supply side of the market. Promoting the use of generic medicines is an effective policy intervention that addresses the demand side, a highly recommended intervention given other countries’ experiences. As the main users of medications, patients are a crucial source of knowledge …
Drug Shortage In Egypt: Causes And Mitigation Measures, Abeer Alanwar Saad
Drug Shortage In Egypt: Causes And Mitigation Measures, Abeer Alanwar Saad
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Drug shortage is a worldwide problem, which gained the attention of many authorities in recent years including the Egyptian government. The problem has markedly increased in Egypt during the past few years and has had a significant negative impact on patient care with subsequent costly financial implications. Despite the importance of the drug shortage problem and its consequences on the health of Egyptians and society as a whole, only a few researchers have addressed the topic in Egypt. This qualitative study aims at filling the gap and providing a better understanding of the problem in the Egyptian context. To achieve …
Fault-Tolerant Ncss With Video Sensors, Hadeer Ahmed
Fault-Tolerant Ncss With Video Sensors, Hadeer Ahmed
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Networked control systems, NCS, consist of smart nodes: sensors, actuators, and controllers. The use of such smart nodes is essential in smart factories to be able to with deal with Industry 4.0. NCS are widely implemented in lots of critical industrial applications. A main advantage of NCS is the abundant bandwidth. This research presents NCS that utilizes switched Ethernet with 16 sensing nodes, 4 actuation nodes & a smart controller. The model also consists of a smart sensor that has an embedded video controller and its actuator. The smart sensor processes the video captured by the onboard camera and the …
Electrospun Nanofibers Of Polymer Nanocomposite With Cichorium Intybus Extract And Investigating Their Antioxidant And Antibacterial Activities, Ahmed Emadelddin Mohamed
Electrospun Nanofibers Of Polymer Nanocomposite With Cichorium Intybus Extract And Investigating Their Antioxidant And Antibacterial Activities, Ahmed Emadelddin Mohamed
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Micro-organisms causing diseases have been quickly increasing and spreading vastly in their ability to gain resistance against current antibiotics in the market. This results in an enormous mortality rate. Fortunately, Scientists introduced nanotechnology that can further enhance properties of materials in the nanoscale. This allowed further openings to upgrade natural-based products to become more effective and safer than current synthetic antibiotics. In this study, biodegradable polymer nanocomposite made up of Poly Vinyl alcohol (PVA) with Chitosan (CS) was electro-spun using the electro-spinner embedded with Chicory root herbal extract that can potentially be used for targeting Gastro Intestinal Tract (GIT) diseases. …
The Effectiveness Of The Elements That Frame Cancer Charity Tv Advertisements In Egypt: A Case Study On 57357 Cchf, Yasmine Kasseb
The Effectiveness Of The Elements That Frame Cancer Charity Tv Advertisements In Egypt: A Case Study On 57357 Cchf, Yasmine Kasseb
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This study analyzed the elements that frame the cancer charity TV advertisements in Egypt and examined the reasons behind its effectiveness from the creator’s point of view. 57357 CCHF was taken as a case study, as it is considered to be one of the well-branded charity organizations that uses TV advertisements effectively. A mixed-method approach was conducted, and it included a content analysis and a focus group. The content analysis covered three years of Ramadan TV advertising campaigns for 57357 CCHF to examine the major elements that were used in its TV advertisements like the type of the appeals, message …
Modified Force/Displacement-Based Procedure For Performance-Based Seismic Design Of Regular Rc Frames, Soha Hassan Nashaat Elkassas
Modified Force/Displacement-Based Procedure For Performance-Based Seismic Design Of Regular Rc Frames, Soha Hassan Nashaat Elkassas
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Performance-based seismic design has been the thrust of international research on earthquake engineering for the past 20 years. The major decisive factor for the success of its most recent framework is the development of efficient “preliminary design†methodologies that follow common design formats in order to maintain the process at an affordable level of complexity for practitioners. Using the traditional force-based seismic design method for this purpose, though simple and easy, will be inefficient because it designs structures to only one performance objective (which is life safety), and any other performance objective would be part of the drift check that …
Dimensions Of Alienation And The Postcolonial Context: Hegel, Marx, And Fanon, Sherifa Amin
Dimensions Of Alienation And The Postcolonial Context: Hegel, Marx, And Fanon, Sherifa Amin
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Contemporary approaches to alienation employ the concept to refer to conditions of “rootlessness” and “homelessness” in an increasingly artificial world, particularly one in which money has come to mediate all relations. Human relations among themselves and to the world have been depersonalized, and commodified. This dimension of alienation refers to reification, a condition in which relations come to take an independent existence, and become powers on their own dominating those who constitute them. The many forms alienation has taken – reification, meaninglessness, instrumentalization, absurdity – has made the concept itself instrumental to diagnosing the crisis of modernity. Central to this …
Design And Development Of Biodegradable Microporous Polymeric Systems With Enhanced Characteristics For Food Packaging Applications, Mona Mohamed
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The principle of breathable food packaging is providing the optimum number of holes to transfer sufficient amount of oxygen into the packaging headspace. In fact, most of the commercial breathable food packaging are made from non-biodegradable plastic materials. However, these polymers are well known by their negative environmental consequences. Therefore, in this research, polylactic acid (PLA) and polycaprolactone (PCL) were chosen as biodegradable polymers to design permeable food packaging. These bio-renewable polymers were utilized in many biomedical and food packaging applications because of their contribution to the environmental sustainability. In addition, sodium chloride (NaCl) and polyethylene oxide (PEO) were used …
Is Egypt Willing To Embrace Inflation Targeting As A Framework For Its Monetary System?, Maha Emad
Is Egypt Willing To Embrace Inflation Targeting As A Framework For Its Monetary System?, Maha Emad
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Reflective Practices Of Educators In A Masters' Program In Egypt: A Case Study, Mayada Samy Elsayed
Reflective Practices Of Educators In A Masters' Program In Egypt: A Case Study, Mayada Samy Elsayed
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This paper aims at exploring reflective practices in a Masters’ Program in a private university in Egypt through graduate students’ perspectives of reflective practices. The research examines the graduates’ perception of reflective practices as a tool for enhancement of their learning. Moreover, the study explores how the enrolled graduate students approach reflective practices in terms of comprehension, language, and expression. A mixed methodology is followed where a ten-minute Likert type survey is administered to graduate students in a private Education Masters’ Program in Egypt in the quantitative phase. In the qualitative phase, the participants were voluntarily interviewed to share their …
Financial Inclusion In Egypt: Opportunities And Challenges, Farid Ghebrial
Financial Inclusion In Egypt: Opportunities And Challenges, Farid Ghebrial
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Financial inclusion in Egypt has been placed as a top priority on the government’s agenda during the last few years as an integral part of Egypt’s 2030 Vision. Financial inclusion could help Egypt with different aspects that include supporting Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), attracting the informal sector, increasing job creation, achieving sustainable growth, and realizing a higher level of financial stability. Despite the fruitful outcomes of financial inclusion, there are many supply and demand barriers that hamper the promotion of financial inclusion. Supply side barriers are closely related to the regulatory and legal constituents, and pitfalls of market structure. …
Textual And Visual Representation Of Hijab In Internet Memes And Gifs, Omneya M. Nagib Ibrahim
Textual And Visual Representation Of Hijab In Internet Memes And Gifs, Omneya M. Nagib Ibrahim
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This study provides a preliminary report of veil/hijab representation in the modern social media tools of communication; internet memes and GIFs. It bridges a gap in visual communication research by conducting an integrative -textual and visual- framing analysis of 400 memes and GIFs that used the hashtag #Hijab, to unravel the frames and stereotypes of veiled women in such online visuals. Hijabi Muslim women have been visually represented in media in overgeneralized stereotyped ways, being shown as either oppressed and subservient to others with no individual opinions, or as liberated progressives who resist western hegemony (Khan & Zahra, 2015). The …
A Proposed Assessment Scheme For Smart Sustainable Urban Development, Ilham Abdelfattah Elfiky
A Proposed Assessment Scheme For Smart Sustainable Urban Development, Ilham Abdelfattah Elfiky
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The twenty-first century belongs to the cities. For the first time in history, more than 50% of the world's population now lives in a city and the urban population is expected to double by 2050. The opportunities created by new technologies challenge the way in which we conceive our cities, how we plan, design and construct them and how we will live in them. The current large gap between smart city and sustainable city frameworks implies that there is a need for developing their frameworks further or re-defining the smart sustainable city concept, which is relatively new and can be …
The Passengers' Satisfaction With Public Bus Service Among Middle-Income Users In Greater Cairo, Mohamed Nady Aref
The Passengers' Satisfaction With Public Bus Service Among Middle-Income Users In Greater Cairo, Mohamed Nady Aref
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Public transport is an essential demand to ensure ease mobility for all the citizens to fulfill different life activities such as work, education and health. Passengers, around the world, search for a convenient bus service responds to their needs such as coverage, regular time table service, safety, facilities within terminals, better atmosphere inside the vehicle during the trip, and affordable fare. However, these basic needs are deteriorated on many countries due to lack of efficiency and responsiveness of the service operators. The aim of this study is to understand the most critical factors that influence on the passengers’ satisfaction with …
Assessment Of Needs And Barriers To Sex And Gender Education Among Social Workers In Egypt, Germeen Riad
Assessment Of Needs And Barriers To Sex And Gender Education Among Social Workers In Egypt, Germeen Riad
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Despite governmental and legislative efforts (Hassanin, 2008), societal tolerance of sexual and gender-based violence is widespread in Egypt, even among health professionals (Rasheed, 2011). Moreover, there is a lack of understanding and misconceptions regarding human sexuality. Such misconceptions often lead to harmful practices such as female genital mutilation/cutting, childhood marriage, and child sexual abuse (WHO, 2010). Child protection social workers must be equipped to deal with children who have been victims of such practices and must be able to provide the sex education that is necessary for its prevention. A survey of 86 child protection social workers and eleven in-depth …
Street Vending Challenges And Opportunities: The Case Of Women Fish Vendors In Fayoum, Mona El-Azzazy
Street Vending Challenges And Opportunities: The Case Of Women Fish Vendors In Fayoum, Mona El-Azzazy
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This exploratory research contributes to the documentation of the daily experiences of Egyptian women fish street vendors. The study explores the current situation of and prospects women fish vendors including daily constraints and potential for improvements. It informs about development interventions to improve their livelihoods; and finally, the hurdles and opportunities to optimize the benefits of interventions in a fishermen village in Fayoum governorate, Upper Egypt. Women face harassment and violence, the burden of performing paid and unpaid work, lack of access to credit, and the role of cultural norms in limiting women continuity in the business. This qualitative research …
An Assessment Of The Egyptian Government's Use Of Public Service Announcements For Development Communication, Ghada El Marsafawy
An Assessment Of The Egyptian Government's Use Of Public Service Announcements For Development Communication, Ghada El Marsafawy
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Mass media has long been used as a tool for communicating national development. It is through the use of public service announcements (PSAs) that nations could com-municate to the masses their development goals. This study examines the use of Pub-lic service announcements by the Egyptian government in order to communicate its 2030 development goals. A content analysis of television PSAs (N=69) has been con-ducted assessing the content and context of those PSAs comparing them to the crite-ria of effective PSAs. The categories analyzed in the PSAs were PSA Approach, PSA Message, PSA Appeal, PSA Source Characteristics, Personal Relevance, Message quality, …
Cobalt Sulfide/Spongy Functionalized Graphene Nanostructured Electrodes For High-Performance Supercapacitors, Israa Mohamed Afifi
Cobalt Sulfide/Spongy Functionalized Graphene Nanostructured Electrodes For High-Performance Supercapacitors, Israa Mohamed Afifi
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A simple approach is illustrated for the preparation of functionalized spongy graphene/cobalt sulfide (FG-CoS) nanocomposites as unified, porous 3-dimensional (3D) network crinkly sheets. These crinkly sheets contain the reduced spongy graphene oxide (SGO) sheets and the intercalated CoS nanoparticles within the spongy graphene. The fabricated FG-CoS composites were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and Raman spectroscopy. The synthesized materials were examined as supercapacitor materials in an aqueous electrolyte (3M KOH) using cyclic voltammetry (CV) at a wide range of potential scan rates, and galvanostatic charge/discharge at various current densities. The FG-CoS electrode …
Performance Of Steel-Jacketed Rc Columns Using Various Cementitious Materials, Saadeldin Mostafa Saadeldin Mohamed Mostafa
Performance Of Steel-Jacketed Rc Columns Using Various Cementitious Materials, Saadeldin Mostafa Saadeldin Mohamed Mostafa
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Repair and strengthening techniques of RC elements are considered to be challenging due to time, cost, and space constraints. Conventionally, several techniques have been used in the retrofitting of RC element. These techniques includes epoxy repair, concrete and steel jacketing and FRP. Recently a new technique has been introduced which is concrete filled steel jackets. Although the previously mentioned techniques have been thoroughly studied, little research has been found in this area. Consequently, more data is required towards a safe and efficient design of this technique. In this work, a strengthening technique for RC columns is proposed, which is concrete …
Understanding The Experiences Of K-12 Esl Teachers Teaching Refugees In Cairo: The Case Of Sudanese And Syrian Community Schools, Diane Joseph Lakah
Understanding The Experiences Of K-12 Esl Teachers Teaching Refugees In Cairo: The Case Of Sudanese And Syrian Community Schools, Diane Joseph Lakah
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The refugee crisis has become a global crisis and concern. Refugees flee their country of origin and seek refuge in host countries, where they need to survive in a new society and culture. English language is an international language and refugees in Egypt aspire to resettle in a developed country like the United States of America or Canada where English language is a necessity for them to communicate and find job opportunities to advance their socio-economic standard. The purpose of this study is to explore and understand in depth the aspects that shape the experiences, perceptions, and roles of English …
Women Entrepreneurs In Egypt: A Qualitative Study Of Perceptions And Challenges, Rwan Zakria Abdelrhman
Women Entrepreneurs In Egypt: A Qualitative Study Of Perceptions And Challenges, Rwan Zakria Abdelrhman
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Although all entrepreneurs and business owners encounter obstacles and barriers, the challenges that female entrepreneurs face in Egypt are surmount. Female entrepreneurs in Egypt lack the requisite training and basic advising services that would keep them updated with new technological skills. Moreover, women are more likely to discontinue their businesses due to limited access to finance. Furthermore, women face restrictive legal and institutional burdens when establishing their business or when starting a new one. In addition, cultural constraints are another challenge that negatively influence women's credibility, their empowerment and self-confidence. The current study, intends to investigate the challenges that female …
Women, Architecture And Representation In Mamluk Cairo, Amina Karam
Women, Architecture And Representation In Mamluk Cairo, Amina Karam
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Of the hundreds of documented religious monuments of Mamluk Cairo, known for its intense and often competitive building activity, about twenty are known to be associated with women, at least ten of which still exist in some form. This thesis discusses women's participation in the Mamluk culture of patronage and construction, looking at monuments associated with women not only as a body of work but as the architecture of individual players within the larger building context of Mamluk Cairo. Relying on architectural evidence as well as topographical literature and historical sources, this thesis offers a chronological narrative of women's architecture, …
Curbing The Practices Of Research Misconduct: A Qualitative Study On The Perceptions Of Researchers At Egyptian Public Institutions, Passant Elwy Moustafa
Curbing The Practices Of Research Misconduct: A Qualitative Study On The Perceptions Of Researchers At Egyptian Public Institutions, Passant Elwy Moustafa
Theses and Dissertations
Many Egyptian public academic and research institutions are facing challenges due to the rise of the practices research misconduct. These practices are data fabrication, data falsification and plagiarism. In moderately or poorly developed nations, there is a dearth of information about research misconduct. Fabrication, falsification and plagiarism are threatening the integrity of scientific research as they have become part of the research culture. Based on that, the main objectives of this study are to determine the intertwined risk factors that contribute to the occurrence of research misconduct in Egypt, and in turn, examine the perceptions and attitude of Egyptian researchers …
To What Extent The World Health Organization's Policies Of Antimicrobial Resistance Are Implemented In Egyptian Hospitals., Amira Farouk Hussein
To What Extent The World Health Organization's Policies Of Antimicrobial Resistance Are Implemented In Egyptian Hospitals., Amira Farouk Hussein
Theses and Dissertations
Antimicrobial resistance is a major public health problem. In the Egyptian hospitals, the problem was discovered since 2006; however, seven years ago, this problem drew the attention to be one of the major risk factors worldwide and in the Egyptian hospitals as well. International organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) tried to find different solutions to prevent transmission of these communicable diseases from country to another by setting different guidelines and standards to be followed by countries. The case is to assess the barriers to implementation of objectives and guidelines of WHO in one of the biggest public …
Agency And Creativity: An Eye On Gender Identity In Four Egyptian Novels, Maha Mosalem
Agency And Creativity: An Eye On Gender Identity In Four Egyptian Novels, Maha Mosalem
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For most scholars, agency is a term that has most traditionally been coined with free will, resistance, and intentionality (Giddens, 1979; Ahearn, 2001). In this study, however, the construct is examined from a linguistic perspective aiming at exploring its creative dimensions in relation to gender identity in four Egyptian novels; Bayna ʔal-qaṣrayn (Palace Walk), ʔal-Bāb ʔal-maftūḥ (The Open Door), ʔu:ri:du rajulan (I Need a Man), and ʃaġaf (Passion). By adopting a mediated discourse analysis approach (MDA) (Scollon, 2002), this study examined the connections between discourse and action in social interactions. Using the grammatical, semantic, and discursive analysis, the examination focused …
An Unsilenced Text: The Literature Of The Female Voice In Hanan Al-Shaykh's Women Of Sand And Myrrh And Leila Abouzeid's Year Of The Elephant, Mariam Mounir El Batran
An Unsilenced Text: The Literature Of The Female Voice In Hanan Al-Shaykh's Women Of Sand And Myrrh And Leila Abouzeid's Year Of The Elephant, Mariam Mounir El Batran
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This thesis provides a critical reading of Hanan al-Shaykh’s novel Women of Sand and Myrrh and Leila Abouzeid’s novel Year of the Elephant, focusing on how the women in these stories seek to articulate and enact their own agency in the face of attempts to limit them. Recent critical literature, such as Lila Abu-Lughod’s book Do Muslim Women Need Saving? have sought to use microhistories of individual women to counter the stereotypical image of Arab women portrayed in contemporary media, including modern Arabic literature in translation. My study has a parallel focus that will introduce new stories and models of …
Good Governance And Integration For Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Management: A Case Study Of Egypt, Randa El Masry
Good Governance And Integration For Sustainable Municipal Solid Waste Management: A Case Study Of Egypt, Randa El Masry
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The management of solid waste has become a major cause of concern over the past few years in both developed and developing countries. For the sustainable development of any nation, proper management of solid waste is very essential. The effect of waste accumulation can be extremely serious for many communities in developing countries. In Egypt, the issue gets more complicated as the municipal solid waste management system lacks good governance and integration among stakeholders due to unclear law and undefined roles among stakeholders. These aspects impose severe health and environmental threats on Egyptian communities and waste its resources. To solve …
The Weaponization Of Artificial Intelligence (Ai) And Its Implications On The Security Dilemma Between States: Could It Create A Situation Similar To "Mutually Assured Destruction" (Mad), Gilan Osama Dahab
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There is no a consensus in the IR literature on the possible implications of AI for cyber or nuclear capabilities, and whether AI would exacerbate, or potentially mitigate, the security dilemma between actors with varying capabilities. This capstone project explores these questions, using experts' interviews and secondary data. It has tackled the issue under study by using the most-similar method in which most of the variables are similar. The paper argues the weaponization of AI exacerbates the security dilemma between states since it increases uncertainty. What is actually problematic about the military AI applications, as opposed to other military capabilities, …
The Strategic Use Of Blockchain And Information Technology In Financial Inclusion And Sectors, Mona Khalil El-Begawi
The Strategic Use Of Blockchain And Information Technology In Financial Inclusion And Sectors, Mona Khalil El-Begawi
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Information Technology, and more specifically Blockchain, has taken over many industries, changing their fundamentals in order to increase productivity and efficiency. The world is now moving into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which merges the tangible and intangible world in ways previously not known to man, such as biotechnology and other disruptive technologies. Changes happening nowadays have affected the requirements for labor and their productivity, profitability of data in general, and the strategic use of Blockchain and Information Technology (IT); meanwhile, there are fears that occur from simple changes. This paper aims to understand the literature revolving the strategic use of …
Women In Post Revolutionary Egyptian Cinema: Female Centered Film Plots (2011-2018), May M.Kamal
Women In Post Revolutionary Egyptian Cinema: Female Centered Film Plots (2011-2018), May M.Kamal
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This thesis investigates the portrayal of women in post revolutionary Egyptian female centered film plots. Following the increase in the social status of women in Egypt as evidenced in the number of women involved in the governmental decision making positions such as the higher participation of women in the Parliament and at ministerial levels. This study explores the representation of women in contemporary Egyptian film. From the literature review, prominent features of female character existing within patriarchal film culture were identified. These characteristics of male dominated female representation include but are not limited to, the representation of women as social …