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The Reform Of Solid Waste Management In Cairo: Lessons Learned From International Models, Hoda El Mahdy
The Reform Of Solid Waste Management In Cairo: Lessons Learned From International Models, Hoda El Mahdy
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Most criticism about Cairo’s dysfunctional solid waste management system has been directed towards the multinational companies managing it since 2002. This study explores the reason for this dysfunction and accordingly devises operational reform recommendations. The study relies on qualitative primary data obtained from interviewing representatives of the Egyptian government, private sector partners, workers, civil society organizations, investors and consultants during 2014 and 2015. The study also relies on the review of secondary data about different international models, particularly Brazil, which was taken as a case study for comparative analysis. The data collected shows that the current management system is ineffective …
The Question Of Islamophobia And Marlowe's Tamburlaine The Great, Dalia Al-Abboud
The Question Of Islamophobia And Marlowe's Tamburlaine The Great, Dalia Al-Abboud
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In my thesis, I exam the way the Islamic religion had been attacked and negatively portrayed in European literature for centuries after the advent of this monotheistic religion under Prophet Mohammed’s flag in the Arabian Peninsula. Islam was demeaned and its culture was distorted as a means of building upon Christian confidence in the face of the sophisticated faith of Islam, which was spreading with surprising speed (represented by the Ottoman Empire) in Christian Europe. I look at different European examples of the negative portrayals of Islam before focusing specifically on English Renaissance writers generally and Christopher Marlowe specifically as …
Analysis Of Public Policy-Making For Civil Service Reform In Egypt: Law 18/2015, Sarah Nasr Eldeen Ibrahim El Sayed
Analysis Of Public Policy-Making For Civil Service Reform In Egypt: Law 18/2015, Sarah Nasr Eldeen Ibrahim El Sayed
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This research aims at analyzing the policy-making process for civil service reform in Egypt with a focus on the Civil Service Law no. 18/2015, its rejection in parliament, and later the proposition of a new draft-law to replace it in parliament. It deals with policies mainly in the form of laws and bylaws, as it adopts the legal definition of policy. Although there is a near consensus amongst scholars on the dire need for civil service reform in Egypt, and although the new proposed civil service law 18/2015 was perceived as one main avenue towards the much needed reform, yet …
Palestinian Rights: A Literary Multiple-Genre Approach, Marwa Mahmoud
Palestinian Rights: A Literary Multiple-Genre Approach, Marwa Mahmoud
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The year 1948 marked a turning point in the Palestinian history and a shift in the process of art production. Nakba constituted drastic changes on the political, social and demographic contexts of the Palestinians. That was necessarily followed by a similar alteration in the forms of expression adopted to articulate the new status quo of the land and its people. The artistry of the Palestinians emerged as surmounting the imposed limitations of Israeli occupation and opened up new spaces for freedom of expression denied to Palestinians. The fragmented Palestinians functioned creatively as they articulated their diverse experiences of displacement and …
The Relationship Between Performance Evaluation Systems And Motivation: A Case Study From Three Ngos In Egypt., Heba Aloush
The Relationship Between Performance Evaluation Systems And Motivation: A Case Study From Three Ngos In Egypt., Heba Aloush
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The main objective of this research is to measure the relationship between Performance Evaluation System (PES) in the NGO sector in Egypt and the employees’ motivational level. Additionally, the research will explore the employees’ perceptions of the PES in the NGO sector in Egypt. The study was conducted over three NGOs; CARE International, Save the Children, and the Misr El Kheir. Both qualitative and quantitative methods have been used to answer the main research question and to evaluate the PES in the three organizations in addition to the evaluation of the motivators and the PES challenges from the employees’ perspectives. …
On The Use Of Liposomal Delivery Systems For Oxaliplatin And In Dual Drug Delivery In Combination With Chemo-Sensitizing And Chemotherapeutic Agents, Ayat Zein-Elabedeen Mohamed Ibrahim
On The Use Of Liposomal Delivery Systems For Oxaliplatin And In Dual Drug Delivery In Combination With Chemo-Sensitizing And Chemotherapeutic Agents, Ayat Zein-Elabedeen Mohamed Ibrahim
Theses and Dissertations
Cancer is one of the rapidly growing leading causes of death worldwide where combinational chemotherapy is the most used strategy to control it. Drug delivery constitutes a major segment in chemotherapeutics including liposomes as a drug delivery system enabling the encapsulation of both hydrophilic and hydrophobic drugs. Recently, liposomes have been recognized as an efficient means for drug delivery of combinational chemotherapy. The aims of this study were to prepare stable liposomal formulations with particle sizes of less than 200 nm and that offer high encapsulation efficiency for oxaliplatin. Subsequently, the use of the developed liposomal system in dual drug …
Fabrication Of Polyvinyl Alcohol / Chitosan / Bidens Pilosa Composite Electrospun Nanofibers And Their Enhanced Antibacterial Activities, Kegere James
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Given the current Challenges faced by the increasing rate of drug resistant bacteria, a lot of attention has been shifted from synthetic antibiotic products to natural products that are eco friendly and have a wide spectrum of activity when exposed to pathogens. The main objective of this research was to successfully fabricate electrospun nanofibers from polyvinyl alcohol, polyvinyl alcohol blended with Chitosan, Bidens pilosa (Both distilled and crude extract) composite blends and invesitigate their potential antibacterial activities agains E. coli and S. aureus. Fabrication of nanofibers was performed by the electrospinner technique which applies high voltage on the polymer forcing …
Development And Characterization Of Nnvironmentally Friendly High Performance Polymeric Nanocomposite Blends Of Cellulose Acetate, Poly(Lactic Acid) And Polyurethane, Sara Moustafa
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The discovery of biopolymers, several years ago have received great interest as biodegradable-biocompatible material for several applications. Cellulose acetate, poly (lactic acid) and polyurethane, are widely employed biopolymers owing to their interesting characteristics. However, CA and PLA exhibit poor mechanical properties. Nanoreinforcement is incorporated into CA/PLA and CA/PU matrices in order to overcome their brittle nature and to improve their properties. This research focused studying the effect of blending PLA and PU with CA at different ratios to form new CA/PLA and CA/PU blend using solvent casting method. The second aspect of this study is studying the incorporation of nanoreinforcement …
“Molecular Dynamics Simulation Of An Engineered T4 Lysozyme Protein With Potential Nano-Biotechnological Applications”, Hadeer Elhabashy
“Molecular Dynamics Simulation Of An Engineered T4 Lysozyme Protein With Potential Nano-Biotechnological Applications”, Hadeer Elhabashy
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The idea of developing a Bio-molecular mechanical device has attracted the attention of many research groups due to its promising Nano and Bio- technological applications such as flow-control valves, switches and bio-sensors. T4 Lysozyme protein is an enzyme, which has been extensively studied. This protein provides a wealth of information regarding the structure/function relationship of proteins at atomic resolution. An engineered variant of T4 Lysozyme has been reported to trigger a large scale translocation of an engineered helix (∼ 2nm), upon the addition of an external ligand. The design was based on the duplication of a surface helix, followed by …
The Role Of Internal Corporate Social Responsibility In Promoting Employees' Commitment In Egypt, Mahmoud Abdel Wahab
The Role Of Internal Corporate Social Responsibility In Promoting Employees' Commitment In Egypt, Mahmoud Abdel Wahab
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This thesis highlights the importance of internal corporate social responsibility that can promote employees’ commitment to their workplace in Egypt. This study hypothesized that organizations that have high turnover rates fail to provide sufficient care towards their employees. This lack of attention comes in the form of no trainings, attractive incentives, and unsatisfactory health care insurances. Moreover, in some cases employees are forced to submit resignations at the first day of work as a condition to work. Organizations that look after their employees in terms of good health care insurance, staff trainings, continuous coaching, and employee activities engagement- turn to …
A Visitor-Centric Approach To Socially Sustainable Museums: The Egyptian Geological Museum, Eman El-Adawy
A Visitor-Centric Approach To Socially Sustainable Museums: The Egyptian Geological Museum, Eman El-Adawy
Theses and Dissertations
The greatest threat that museums are facing in different parts of the world, including Egypt, is that museums no longer have the capacity to sustain themselves and their activities. Therefore, museums are in need to change the way they function to become more sustainable. New models for museums seek to give power to its visitors. A Visitor-centric approach in museums ultimately focuses on providing a product and a service which is compatible with the needs and expectations of visitors. This research represents an initial step in analyzing the relationship between customer-satisfaction and the quality of the education service on one …
The Will Of God And Its Intervention In Human Life As Expressed In The Profane Literature From The Old Kingdom To The End Of The New Kingdom, Aisha El Ghazzawy
The Will Of God And Its Intervention In Human Life As Expressed In The Profane Literature From The Old Kingdom To The End Of The New Kingdom, Aisha El Ghazzawy
Theses and Dissertations
The “will of god” and how it intervenes in the lives of the people is a very problematic issue. There is a never-ending debate over predestination and fate versus free will. When does the one end and the other start, if they do co-exist. This debate about fate and free will, is also taking place among Egyptologists concerning ancient Egyptian beliefs. The “will of god” is featured in various ancient Egyptian didactic and literary texts. These texts contain words and phrases, which directly or indirectly express the “will of god”. This thesis will study a selection of words that express …
Genome-Wide Transcriptomic Analysis Of Alternative Splicing Modulation In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Moustafa Ahmed Abohawya
Genome-Wide Transcriptomic Analysis Of Alternative Splicing Modulation In Arabidopsis Thaliana, Moustafa Ahmed Abohawya
Theses and Dissertations
Eukaryotic genes architecture is characterized by incorporation of non-coding sequences interrupting the coding sequences. Through splicing, excision of those non-coding sequences, known as introns, is taking place co-transcriptionally, i.e. synchronically with the synthesis of precursor messenger m-RNA from the template DNA, in a precisely-regulated manner. Alternative splicing is a phenomena where not all splice sets are used in each transcript processed. Thus, this process enhances the proteome and transcriptome complexity through generating different transcripts, with different functionality or stability, from a single gene. Aberrant splicing have been associated with a lot of disease including cancer as well as Parkinsonism. Chemical …
Memories And The Everyday: An Ethnography Of A Polish-Egyptian Family, Ola Kamal
Memories And The Everyday: An Ethnography Of A Polish-Egyptian Family, Ola Kamal
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This thesis is premised on autoethnographic research in mapping and tracing the social. The thesis suggests and explores the elements of the past playing a role in the construction of the subject throughout the everyday, allowing for various ways for creating oneself and reassembling one’s paths. The thesis reflects on the workings of memory and constructions of narratives in creating the social. My case study is my family, which is a Polish-Egyptian family. The main concepts in my autoethnography center around the issues connected to the intertwined relation between the past, present and future, the everyday, and subject formation. Through …
Aroma Encapsulation For Eco-Friendly Textile Application, Asma Sharkawy
Aroma Encapsulation For Eco-Friendly Textile Application, Asma Sharkawy
Theses and Dissertations
The textile industry sector has shown a growing interest in the functionalization of conventional fabrics to produce innovative products that enhance health, safety and ergonomics. This research is concerned with developing a functional fabric with durable antibacterial and fragrant properties by employing green chemistry materials and processes. This was achieved by microencapsulation of aroma compounds in biodegradable polymers by the complex coacervation method. Afterwards, the produced microcapsules were covalently attached to cotton fabrics by means of thermofixation grafting process using a polycarboxylic acid. The effects of different processing parameters, including the type and amount of the emulsifier, the type and …
Maqasid Al-Shari'a: A Tool Of Mediation In The Politics Of The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court, Reem Shehab Khalil
Maqasid Al-Shari'a: A Tool Of Mediation In The Politics Of The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court, Reem Shehab Khalil
Theses and Dissertations
Maqasid al-Shari’a is a term that is widely used nowadays in the field of Islamic law. However, since the beginning of the 1990s, the Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) of Egypt, in its interpretation of Article 2 of the Egyptian Constitution, started endorsing the maqasid as a framework through which it conceptualizes the application of Islamic law. Also, with Islamists and religious figures using the maqasid as a framework to use reason and adopt the traditional Islamic jurisprudence to the modern contexts, it is essential to trace how the classical theory of maqasid was developed and what are the constituents of …
Environmental Education In Egypt: A Preliminary Assessment, Nouran Assyed Fadl Faragallah
Environmental Education In Egypt: A Preliminary Assessment, Nouran Assyed Fadl Faragallah
Theses and Dissertations
Giving that Egypt is facing serious environmental issues, Egypt needs to raise the public environmental awareness. Effective environmental education is needed to provide students with what is needed for achieving sustainability. This study aims to assess environmental education in formal education in Egypt through two approaches. The first approach is by assessing students' knowledge and attitudes towards environmental concepts. The second approach is by assessing the contribution of environmental policies to implementing environmental education. The study samples were selected from three public schools located in three different cities and villages. The research used qualitative methodology as the investigation was conducted …
A Hybrid Approach To Simultaneous Localization And Mapping In Indoors Environment, Amr Morssy
A Hybrid Approach To Simultaneous Localization And Mapping In Indoors Environment, Amr Morssy
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This thesis will present SLAM in the current literature to benefit from then it will present the investigation results for a hybrid approach used where different algorithms using laser, sonar, and camera sensors were tested and compared. The contribution of this thesis is the development of a hybrid approach for SLAM that uses different sensors and where different factors are taken into consideration such as dynamic objects, and the development of a scalable grid map model with new sensors models for real time update of the map.The thesis will show the success found, difficulties faced and limitations of the algorithms …
A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach For Texture Analysis, Hussein Adly
A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach For Texture Analysis, Hussein Adly
Theses and Dissertations
Texture classification is a problem that has various applications such as remote sensing and forest species recognition. Solutions tend to be custom fit to the dataset used but fails to generalize. The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) in combination with Support Vector Machine (SVM) form a robust selection between powerful invariant feature extractor and accurate classifier. The fusion of classifiers shows the stability of classification among different datasets and slight improvement compared to state of the art methods. The classifiers are fused using confusion matrix after independent training of each using the same training set, then put to test. Statistical information …
Examining The Role Of Social Trust In The Angel Investors’ Decision-Making Process: The Case Of Egypt, Salma Elhady
Examining The Role Of Social Trust In The Angel Investors’ Decision-Making Process: The Case Of Egypt, Salma Elhady
Theses and Dissertations
This study focuses on examining the role of trust in the angel investors’ decision-making process. It was developed with the aim to advance understanding of the relationship between social trust and angel investments in a developing country such as Egypt and to examine the implications on transaction cost. Studying angel investment in the Egyptian context is important due to the existing boom in entrepreneurship in the country, lack of access to finance, and the nature of the economic ecosystem in Egypt shaped by cultural and social ties. The importance of these types of investors to the economic growth and sustainability …
An Exploratory Study Of Teachers’ Beliefs And Practices Regarding The Class Opening By Teachers Of Arabic To Speakers Of Other Languages (Tasol), Ghada Abdalla Ibrahim Abdelrehim
An Exploratory Study Of Teachers’ Beliefs And Practices Regarding The Class Opening By Teachers Of Arabic To Speakers Of Other Languages (Tasol), Ghada Abdalla Ibrahim Abdelrehim
Theses and Dissertations
This study examined the beliefs of teachers of Arabic to speakers of other languages (TASOL) about class openings and the interplay between such beliefs and teacher’s in-class practices regarding class opening as the first introductory part of a lesson. A questionnaire of three parts was given to two groups of TASOL: the first group comprised 63 randomly selected teachers, to provide their beliefs in general about class opening. Observations and interviews were administered to the second group of teachers (30 observations and 10 interviews were conducted) to highlight the mentioned interplay. The investigated beliefs were inspired by similar studies and …
Impact Of Global Warming On Dissolved Oxygen Concentrations In River Nile And On The Waste Allocation Plan Of The River (Present And Future Plan), Rawnaa Imam Yassin
Impact Of Global Warming On Dissolved Oxygen Concentrations In River Nile And On The Waste Allocation Plan Of The River (Present And Future Plan), Rawnaa Imam Yassin
Theses and Dissertations
Water is the hub of life and driver of nature. That is why water quality is one of the most important concerns nowadays all over the world. Monitoring and improving water quality is considered as one of the key factors in the water quality management strategies. Water quality is extremely important to all countries and particularly in regions that depend mainly on water as a main source of life, like Egypt. The River Nile is a main source of life in Egypt. As much as water and water quality are of significant importance also climatic change and global warming have …
Assessing The International Criminal Court With The Organizational Effectiveness Approaches, Heba Yehia Abdel Megeed
Assessing The International Criminal Court With The Organizational Effectiveness Approaches, Heba Yehia Abdel Megeed
Theses and Dissertations
The International Criminal Court (‘the ICC’), located in the Hague, Netherlands, the first permanent court tasked with prosecuting the most severe crimes happening internationally. It is critical to assess the effectiveness of the ICC while in reality, there is no consensus on the criteria that should be employed to that end. There are no standards that its stakeholders and observers can refer or agree to in order to assess the Court’s effectiveness. The purpose of this research is to develop a new approach to this issue. It proposes to use the approaches of Organizational Effectiveness Theory in order to gain …
Military Contractors And International Law, Ali Deif
Military Contractors And International Law, Ali Deif
Theses and Dissertations
In the modern world, regulation is a necessity, especially on an international scale. PMSCs or Private Military Security Contractors are groups that are involved with militaries, and in conflict zones around the world. Due to their unique functions and place in international law, they essentially fall into a regulatory gap. PMSCs are non- state actors , but perform a series of roles and functions historically associated with the state. They can be used in multitudes of situations and have even been recruited in the war against drugs. Some see military contractors as, or similar to mercenaries, while others disagree. Many, …
The Use Of Egyptian Spoken Arabic In Modern Egyptian Novels, Esraa Essa
The Use Of Egyptian Spoken Arabic In Modern Egyptian Novels, Esraa Essa
Theses and Dissertations
Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is the language of novels and written literature and is thus defined as a “High” variety. Nevertheless, young Egyptian authors of the new generation prefer to use a mix between Egyptian colloquial Arabic (ECA) and MSA as a medium for creating a new spirit in novels. In fact, the sharp lines between (MSA) and colloquial Egyptian (ECA) in the Modern Egyptian Novels have begun to blur (Badawi, 1973; 2012). Badawi (1973) proposed a five-level continuum in which each level gradually merges into the next. Arabic in Egypt encompasses five levels of language: (fusha al-turath and Qur’an) …