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Political Culture And Democracy In The Arab World, Ibtissam Rakha Hassan

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Poverty Reduction, Microcredit, And The Challenges Of Sustainability, Kiros Tadesse Beyene

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Assessment Of Refugee Status Determination Procedure At Unhcr’S Cairo Office 2001-2002, Michael Kagan

Faculty Journal Articles

In Egypt, refugee status determination (RSD) by the United Nations refugee agency is frequently the single most important decision anyone will make affecting the life of an asylum-seeker. In 2001, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Cairo received the most individual RSD applications of all of the agency's offices worldwide. The Cairo office has taken some significant steps to improve the RSD process. At the same time, some important international standards of fair and effective RSD procedures have not been implemented. In recent years, the number of refugee applicants in Egypt has grown and UNHCR-Cairo's resources have …

Report On The Situation Of Refugees In Yemen: Findings Of A One-Month Exploratory Study, Nesya H. B. Hughes

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The refugee situation in Yemen is of interest to academics and field professionals working on migration in the Arab world for a host of reasons. Yemen has the Arabian Peninsula’s largest non-Palestinian refugee population . Yet, despite the apparent magnitude of the refugee population in Yemen, little field research has been conducted on this country and its refugee situation. In addition, the Republic of Yemen is the first and only country in the Arabian Peninsula to have signed the 1951 Convention and its 1967 Protocol. Regardless, Yemen is hindered from fulfilling its international obligations because it is simultaneously one of …

Three Dimensional Deformable Modeling Of The Spine, Rania Atef

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The purpose of this work is the development of a 3D deformable model of the spinal lumbar region. The data for the spine comes from the National Library of Medicine website (NLM). The 3D model uses several NURBS patches as modeling primitives. This work is part of a larger system aimed at building a 3D surgical simulator coupled with a force - feedback.PHANToM robot in a virtual reality CA VE system.

The input to this system is a set of two-dimensional CT images. They are processed and edge detected to produce a set of contoured images containing the vertebral data. …

Building General Indicator Cost Indexes For The Construction Industry Price Movement In The Egyptian Market, Bahaee Nabil Labib Khalil

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This thesis (The "Thesis") is submitted to the Department of Engineering at the American University in Cairo in partial :fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science. The aim of the Thesis is Building General Indicator Cost Indexes for the Construction Industry Price Movement in the Egyptian Market. It is prepared by Bahaee N. L. Khalil under the supervision of Dr. Amr A. G. Hassanein (Associate Professor, Construction Engineering Department, the American University in Cairo). Construction cost indexes is mainly utilized in planning estimates required at an early stage of a project conception to assist with the …

Dimension And Shape Invariant Programming: The Implementation And Application, Manal Ezzat Helal

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This thesis implements a model for the shape and dimension invariant programming based on the notation of the Mathematics of Arrays (MOA) algebra. It focuses on dimension and shape invariance implementation, and their effect in parallel computing. A new design for the MOA notation is implemented that eliminates the need for another PSI-compiler, or a language extension to functional programming languages. The MOA notation is designed as a library of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), contains object oriented classes implemented in C++. The library executes array operations correctly, and is expected to enhance the performance invariant of dimension and shape. To …

Marketing Characteristics Of The Service Of Project Management In Egypt, Mohamed Ali Alhadidi

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The Project Management profession has been facing, since its introduction, a serious impediment establishing a significant and well-defined role among the Egyptian construction community. In an attempt to uncover the reasons behind this impediment, a problem identification research was conducted with service-provider firms of different sizes, origins, and backgrounds. The research confirmed the observation. It also arrived at the main obstacle hampering the development of Project Management in Egypt. This obstacle was the poor communication of the service and its benefits to the market. A barrier, built of mismarketing, has therefore parted between Project Management professionals and their clients. This …

Construction Delays Of High Investment Projects In Egypt, Nora Mohamed El-Gohary

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In evaluating the overall performance and success of construction projects, time is usually used as a major factor in such evaluation. Unsatisfactory time performance shows up as delays. Construction delays are very critical to the owner and contractor, because they suffer due to lost profit, additional overhead costs, increased costs of financing, and payment of liquidated or actual damages. Despite that, delays in completion of projects are repetitive in the Egyptian construction industry. Current Egyptian statistics and studies did not provide sufficient information and analysis of the delay phenomenon. Studying and analyzing the problem is a step towards its solution …

A Water And Wastewater Sector Performance Assessment: A Comparative Study, Reham Khalifa

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The water and wastewater sector has been one of the infrastructure sectors gaining increasing importance recently. Governments have been focusing major efforts and significant volumes of their budgets towards the improvement of this sector and the increase of water and wastewater coverage. The key problem in most of the water_and wastewater utilities is the absence of performance assessment tools.

This research utilizes the calculation of a group of financial and operational indicators for a sample size of 234 utilities from countries across the world as a mean of comparison of their performance. Egypt is represented in the sample size by …

The Nasserist Work Ethic And The Spirit Of State Capitalism, Willa Newton Thayer

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This thesis examines Egyptian state discourse about and directed at labor during the years 1952-1967, focusing on elements that could be said to comprise a "work ethic" promoted by the state to workers. A work ethic is conceptualized as comprising the individual's approach to their job, the way they interact with management/capitalists and the role of labor within the nation. Speeches by Gama! Abdel-Nasser, articles from the daily newspaper Al­Ahram and Al- 'Umaal, a monthly magazine of the Federation of Labor Syndicates are the sources of discourse used. Samples comprising material relevant to the three aforementioned categories were culled from …

3d Finite Element Modeling Of The Welding Process, Ihab Fanous Zakaria

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The modeling and simulation of the welding process has been of main concern for different fields of applications. It is used mainly to check for the residual stresses generated due to welding. These stresses may reach a value near the yielding level and may cause several failure types in the welded strnctures. Several attempts have been clone in analyzing the welding process using different approaches. Analytical methods have been developed with many approximations and assumptions to handle the highly non-linear behavior of the problem. On the other hand, experimental methods in monitoring the residual stresses in a welded structure may …

Implementation Of Iso 9000 Standards In The Egyptian Construction Contracting Companies: A Quality Managers' View, Mohamed El-Sayed Mohamed El-Bassuni

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This thesis examines the status of the ISO 9000 standard in the Egyptian construction contracting companies. It investigates the opinion of the quality managers of the cun-ently ISO 9000 certified construction contracting companies in regard to the reasons for implementing ISO 9000 standard and the associated problems. In addition it addresses their views about the benefits that return to contracting companies as a result of implementing the ISO 9000 standards. Furthermore, the items that might prevent the construction contracting companies from becoming certified for the new standard ISO 900 l :2000 are identified, along with the recommended methods to resolve …

Secular Women Activism And Neo-Patriachy: The Case Of Egypt, Rasha S Mansour

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The Effect Of Cnn On Media And Business Decision-Makers In Egypt, Jawahir Alfaiz

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The purpose of this study is to find out if the Cable News Network (CNN) has an effect on media and business decision-makers in Egypt. The criteria used to define media and business decision-makers are those people in high level positions that are responsible for taking and executing decisions. Media decision-makers (MDMs) were defined as people in positions calling for decision-making in the media market, such as magazine and newspaper editors-in­chief, and news agency bureau chiefs in Egypt. Business decision-makers (BDMs) were defined as people in positions calling for decision-making in the business field, such as general managers, business owners, …

Participation And Resistance: Project Success In Telal Zinhom, Maysa Abbas Ayoub

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The main concern of this thesis is the different strategies that the government adopts in the process of upgrading or redeveloping squatter areas. The thesis studies two projects: a redevelopment project that applied a top­down approach and an upgrading project that applied a participatory approach. This thesis focuses on the relation between the project and the people arguing that there is a negative correlation between participation and resistance. The thesis shows the ways in which the adoption of an un-participatory approach in a development projects creates resistance on the part of the beneficiaries, which consequently negatively affects the success of …

The Impact Of Migration On Sudanese Labor Migrants And The Problems Of Integration Of Their Families In The Society Of The United Arab Emirates, Sarra El Tayeb El Harith

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This study analyzes the social effects of migration on Sudanese labor migrants 􀀉11d their families both in the host and the home country. This study also examines the problems concerning integration (social, economic and political) and citizenship of Sudanese labor migrants and their families in the society of the United Arab Emirates. This work is the result of a fieldwork that I conducted among Sudanese labor migrants in the UAE. The method used for collecting the data is qualitative. I conducted in-depth interviews with twenty-five Sudanese persons working in the UAE. I either visited the respondents in their own houses …

Us/Them: A Comparative Study Of Relations Of Cultural Difference Within The Context Of Britain's Imperialism In The Middle And Far East As Presented In Al-Tayyib Salih's "The Season Of Migration To The North" And E.M. Forester's "A Passage To India", Rasha Muhammad Wagdy Muhammad Elleithy

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Inflation, Financial Development And Growth, Hishame Gamal Khedr

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All throughout the economic tradition, economists have been interested in studying the positive effects of inflation. However, recent empirical research has found strong evidence that inflation has negative effects on economic growth. This thesis, "Inflation, Financial Development and Growth", is concerned with the degree of development of the financial markets and how these markets transmit the inflation effects. How that the availability of money alternatives allows the households and firms to escape inflation tax, and consequently results in social losses? How that the exchangeability of inside and outside money transmitted inflation effects? The main findings of this thesis are that …

Gender And Authority In Almoravid Andalusia: Subjects/Objects Of Regulation In Ibn Abdun's Risala Fi Al Qada'wa Al Hisba, Sean Connor Riordan

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Recent strands of western historical writing understand gender in medieval Islamic societies through any of number of local cultural, religious and political discourses. This type of writing shifts the focus of historical research away from questions regarding whether Islam debases or improves the status of women--questions that tend to immobilize the subject in a polemic of competing essentialisms-and instead finds gender as having been produced in historically dynamic local processes. My thesis attempts to contribute to th.is literature by exploring how gender functioned as a regulatory issue in the context of the Almoravid political-religious movement in al­Andalus through a close …

Impact Of Lignin From Non-Wood Pulping Processes On Kraft Wastewater Treatment And Receiving Water Quality, Mohamed Hamdy Nour

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The Kraft process is typically used for pulping non-wood raw materials, I ike rice straw, in order to dissolve the non cellulose organic fraction, essentially lignin, and leave behind the fibrous residual as pulp for paper production. Rice straw, however, also contains a high percentage of silica that dissolves in the process. The wastewater derived from vacuum filtration of the pulp solution is referred to as black liquor, owing to its dark color and complex makeup with high BOD, caustic, silica, and TDS. The high silica concentration in the black liquor prohibits conventional chemical recovery due to scaling of the …

The Importance Of Proverbs In Teaching Arabic, Wafaa Abu Bakr El Seddeek Abd Allah

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Proverbs are considered a key to understand the culture of any community. Proverbs show how people think, what they like, what they hate, and how and why they behave in a certain manner. Moreover, proverbs cover almost all aspects of life. Proverbs also constitute an important component of the language. In fact, Arabic native speakers use proverbs in both Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Arabic. Proverbs also used among all classes of the society. Therefore, they should not be neglected in language learning. The aim of this thesis is to emphasize and show the importance of proverbs in reflecting and …

Enhancing Image Classification And Content Query Using Perception-Based Models, Ahmed Badr El-Din

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Searching a digital image library, having large number of digital images or video sequences turned to be more and more important in this multimedia age. As time passes, a growing number of people are using the Internet for searching and browsing through different multimedia databases. To make such searching practical, effective image coding and searching based on image semantics is becoming increasingly important. In current real-world image databases, the prevalent retrieval techniques involve human-supplied text annotations to describe image semantics. These text annotations are then used as the basis for searching, using mature text search algorithms that are available as …

Classification Of Risks For International Construction Joint Ventures Projects, Yasser Abd El Ghany Azmy Elshabassy

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Impact Of Converging New Lvledia In Journalism: A New Tool To Foster Information In Egypt, Elisa Pierandrei

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Today, online journalism offers a new interesting spectrum of communication capabilities going beyond linear writing. Video and audio streaming, graphic animations, hyperlinks, as well as interactive communication and customization are only a few examples of the interesting features offered by on line newspapers. In the past few years, Egyptian newspapers launched news sites designed for the convergence of traditional media into the new on line environment. Multimedia storytelling intended to be used to produce omni-directional coverage of the news that would foster more precise and free journalism. Statistics based on a content evaluation of the on line editions of the …

Management Of Change Order Claims In The Egyptian Industrial Construction Sector: Analysis And Means Of Improvement, Waleed El Nemr

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The term claim has become a word of paramount significance on construction projects worldwide. Throughout .the past decade, several research works in Europe and North America have been dedicated to exploring the causes of claims and solutions that would help minimize their occurrence and possibly prevent them. This research is the first of its kind in Egypt, as it attempts to help gain a deeper insight of the status of claims management from the contractors perspective with respect to the Egyptian industrial construction sector. Special attention is given to change order claims, as this research demonstrates them as a major …

Child Labor In Egypt, Dina Ismail El Shafei

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Child labor is a complex worldwide problem, especially in LDCs where poverty and low educational standards are persistent. A survey of child labor worldwide finds that children are working in considerable numbers throughout many regions of the world. Each region differs in the extent of child labor and the specific sectors where children may be found working. However, the main reasons behind the work of children namely poverty and education, were common in all areas. Egypt represents a typical case where child labor exists in most of its forms, except for prostitution, traficking and child bondage, and is mainly caused …

The Influence Of Pre-Task Planning Time On The Speech Production Of "Accuracy-Oriented" And "Fluency-Oriented" Efl Learners, Hala Sayed Ayoub

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In the area of second or foreign language oral proficiency, previous research has not examined the effect of different lengths of pre-task planning time on the individual speaking habits of L2 learners. The present study aimed to address this problem by examining the influence of planning time on the speech production of accuracy-oriented and fluency-oriented EFL learners under three planning conditions: zero, one and three minutes. A pretest-posttest experimental design was employed to investigate the two research questions. Three oral picture description tasks constituted the pretest and two posttests, which were administered to the subjects in individual sessions. The pretest, …

Factors Influencing The Success Of Television Presenters, Dina Farouk Abou Zeid

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My topic is about the factors influencing the success of T.V presenters. The study is based on the viewers' opinions and views. The viewers are different in their gender, age, social class, and education. This study is the first about this topic not only in the American University in Cairo, but also in the Egyptian universities. The purpose of the study is related to the importance of the topic which is related to the importance of the T.V presenters' roles in television and in programs. From the literature review, it is clear that there is a need to study the …

Parental Guidance Involving Children's Television Viewing In Egypt, Ramza Hussein Sedky Amin

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This study assesses the relationship between Egyptian children and television as well as the impact of parental guidance on children's television viewing activities, especially with the introduction of international satellite services in region. There was no evidence of children's change in behavior due to the exposure to international satellite services. In-depth interviews with children, mothers and scholars in the area showed that parental guidance plays a very important role in immunizing children against any inconsistent contents coming from the West as well as maintaining the Egyptian culture in children's bringing up. A case study of 20 mothers and 20 children …