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South Sudan And Its Relations With Neighboring African Countries, Muna Hussien Obaid Dec 2022

South Sudan And Its Relations With Neighboring African Countries, Muna Hussien Obaid

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The state of South Sudan is one of the countries that emerged recently, after it was an area belonging to the state of Sudan. It fought a civil war that lasted many years, which led to the martyrdom of thousands of southerners, in order to obtain their independence from the state of northern Sudan. Indeed, southern politicians were able to obtain Independence and the declaration of the state of South Sudan in July 2011. The declaration of independence was the first step for the southerners who took through it to work to prove the entity of that country through openness …

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Difficulties Of Employing Instructional Technology In The Preparatory Stage From The Point Of View Of Geography Teachers, Fadhil Musaed Aged Dec 2022

Difficulties Of Employing Instructional Technology In The Preparatory Stage From The Point Of View Of Geography Teachers, Fadhil Musaed Aged

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The research aims to identify the difficulties of employing Instructional Technology in the preparatory stage from the point of view of teachers. The research population consists of (63) teachers (male s and females) from the schools of Baghdad, the directorate of education-Rusafa 3, and an exploratory sample consists of (25) teachers out of the research population. The researcher used the analytical descriptive method. The research tool is a questionnaire to the geography teachers consists of (34)items distributed on four fields ( difficulties related to the teacher, difficulties related to the student, difficulties related to the curriculum, and difficulties related to …

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Al-Munawun In The Holy Qur’An: A Pragmatic Linguistic Approach (Salsabil) As A Mode, Wathiq Galib Hashim Dec 2022

Al-Munawun In The Holy Qur’An: A Pragmatic Linguistic Approach (Salsabil) As A Mode, Wathiq Galib Hashim

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The multiplicity of facets and possibilities in the analysis of a specific linguistic issue, or a specific grammatical issue, is a familiar matter that is common in the study of Arabic, indicating the occurrence of disagreement in opinions at the level of a single issue, as occurred in the name Al-Manun (Salsabil) mentioned in the Almighty’s saying: “An eye in it is called Salsabil.” ( [Al-Insan: 18] who was chosen by the research as his field, he saw in it what is sufficient to reveal this phenomenon in the sayings of the people of Arabic and the commentators, and the …

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Jurisprudence Rules Related To The Crime Of Electronic Extortion, Haifa Mohammed Abd Dec 2022

Jurisprudence Rules Related To The Crime Of Electronic Extortion, Haifa Mohammed Abd

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

In the light of the rapid technological development that we live in, the world has become a small village, in which a lot of science and information has grown, and new problems have been born in it that are rapidly spreading like wildfire, the most prominent of which are (social communication problems), and they are many, and the most important of them is the problem of (extortion), which has become an assault on the sanctities of people and their reputation as a prominent feature in it, in which the weak of souls found a way to bargain in the exploitation …

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Nikki Giovanni: The Poet Laureate Of The Black Community, Jinan Abdulla Shafiq Dec 2022

Nikki Giovanni: The Poet Laureate Of The Black Community, Jinan Abdulla Shafiq

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Black women have a long history and practise of activism that can be traced to pre-colonial Africa. Women writers of African descents have challenged the status quo of the cultural, political, and spiritual realms of their communities by using their skills to present women who challenge traditional roles and resist attacks of oppression. The paper deals with the suffering of women in general and black women specifically. The aim of the study is to give a voice to black women through Nikki Giovanni’s poetry, whom is considered the poets’ laureate. Her poems are like weapons against the oppressors. Using a …

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The Theme Of The Quest Of Fatherhood In Charles Dickens's Novel Great Expectations, Ali Mohammed Segar Dec 2022

The Theme Of The Quest Of Fatherhood In Charles Dickens's Novel Great Expectations, Ali Mohammed Segar

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This research depends on the critical analysis method for the main events and characters in the novel. It assumes that the novelist Charles Dickens, in Great Expectations, like in his other novels, keeps on his attack on some specific abuses and injustices in the social system in England during the 19th century. From the early beginning to the end of the novel, there is a parallel and simultaneous quest. The central character, Pip is an orphan boy who needs and unconsciously searches for a father, and the convict Ebel Magwitch who has lost his daughter, is looking for …

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The History Of The Leather Industry In Baghdad Until 1964, Mohammed Lutf Allah Essa Dec 2022

The History Of The Leather Industry In Baghdad Until 1964, Mohammed Lutf Allah Essa

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This research is about leather industry in Iraq in general and Baghdad in particular. Leather industry is one of the most important industries in its modern history, which had its modern beginnings based on mechanical machines after the middle of the nineteenth century, with the individual efforts of some governors in Baghdad, such as Wali Namiq Pasha and Midhat Pasha. Leather industry was set with the aim of promoting the local industry, as this industry has gone through important developments especially after the establishment of the national government, and the policy of successive governments that encouraged industries with the aim …

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Investigating Strategies Developed By University Students In Learning English Vocabulary, Sundus Aj. Kamil Dec 2022

Investigating Strategies Developed By University Students In Learning English Vocabulary, Sundus Aj. Kamil

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Vocabulary knowledge is an integral aspect in learning a foreign language since the connotations of new vocabularies are widely highlighted, whether by language teachers or syllabus designers themselves. Vocabulary learning is the core of language learning and teaching due to the bouncing role vocabulary plays in supporting learner’s repertoire of language. The present term-paper is intended to shed the light on the importance of learning new vocabularies and the strategies developed by learners in learning more vocabularies. The research is based on an experiment that a sample of (30)students of 2nd -year students in English Department at the College of …

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Candles In Babylon: Denise Levertov's Spiritual Journey, Nadia Ali Ismael Dec 2022

Candles In Babylon: Denise Levertov's Spiritual Journey, Nadia Ali Ismael

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Through all her work, Denise Levertov’s (1923-1997) penchant for describing religious issues is evident. Various religious images punctuate her work, an indication of either her deep conviction of the existence of a supreme deity, or just a mere description of the wonders of the metaphysical world. But even though her works are punctuated with these religious emblems, Candles of Babylon seems to have taken a new trajectory. There is an admission to the effect that she is on a spiritual odyssey; she gives a clear description of how she makes this journey. Like John Bunyan’s Pilgrims’ Progress (1678), she described …

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Testing The Ability Of Efl Postgraduate Certificate Teachers To Identify Vocabulary Idiomatic Meaning In Nineveh Schools, Hiba M. Yaqoob Dec 2022

Testing The Ability Of Efl Postgraduate Certificate Teachers To Identify Vocabulary Idiomatic Meaning In Nineveh Schools, Hiba M. Yaqoob

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Given the importance of the idiomatic meaning of expressions, especially for EFL teachers who have the responsibility of writing research, so the present study aims at testing the ability of (40) of EFL teachers in Nineveh schools who have post-graduate certificates and work in schools, to identify two types of the idiomatic meaning in some sentences. The researcher prepared a test consisting of (40) items; each item consisted of four options, one is correct. Two types of idioms are included in the test which is divided equally: idioms of encoding and idioms of decoding. After confirming the validity and reliability …

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The Degree Of Faculty Use Of Authentic Assessment Strategies At A'Sharqiyah University, Sharif Abdelrahman Alsoudi, Amjad Ezat, Mueen Salman Al Nsraween Dec 2022

The Degree Of Faculty Use Of Authentic Assessment Strategies At A'Sharqiyah University, Sharif Abdelrahman Alsoudi, Amjad Ezat, Mueen Salman Al Nsraween

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The study aimed to identify the degree of faculty use of authentic assessment strategies at A'Sharqiyah University (Oman). The study sample consisted of (59) faculty at A'Sharqiyah University, the results indicated that the degree of use of authentic evaluation strategies was at the average level in general, with an average of (3.26) percentage (66%). The results also showed the statistically significant differences in the degree of use of authentic assessment strategies attributable to the variable of receiving training in favor of faculty’s who received prior training on authentic assessment strategies. As well as significant differences attributed to years of academic …

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The Structure Of The Arrangement In The Poetry Of Ali Kanaan Poem "Storm" From Divan "Question For Storms", Abdulaziz Hamady, Rasoul Balavi, Ali Khezri, Mohammad Javad Pourabed Dec 2022

The Structure Of The Arrangement In The Poetry Of Ali Kanaan Poem "Storm" From Divan "Question For Storms", Abdulaziz Hamady, Rasoul Balavi, Ali Khezri, Mohammad Javad Pourabed

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

This research aims to clarify the poem as a necessary tool for constructing and composing the poetic text, and an essential element for establishing the link between the tools of artistic foundation, structures and poetic concepts, as it is the means through which form and the idea and their semantic overlap are paved, because it is an essential component of the formal and formal construction of the poem. Ali Kanaan gripped the modern poem with great strength and skill, and mastered all the poetic techniques and modern literary arts, including clarifying the poem. In the present research, we will follow …

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Achievement Goals Orientations Among A Sample Of University Students According To Some Variables, Bushra O. Ahmed Dec 2022

Achievement Goals Orientations Among A Sample Of University Students According To Some Variables, Bushra O. Ahmed

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The aim of the present study is to identify the achievement goal orientations among students of Baghdad University according to gender and study specialization variables. A random sample of (176) University students was selected (92 males and 84 females), and (108 science, 68 humanities) as far as specialization of study is concerned. Achievement Goal Questionnaire by Elliot and Murayama (2008) was adopted, translated to Arabic, and used in the study. The questionnaire consists of four-subscales: mastery–avoidance, performance–avoidance, mastery–approach, performance–approach, and it have 12 items with 3 items for each subscale. The questionnaire is a 5-likert scale ranging from "strongly agree" …

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The Use Of Psychometric Scale Theory In Formulating Gilliam Scale Gars-3 For Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder, Abbas Fadhil Abdulwahid, Muhammad Anwar, Khalid Jamal Jasim Dec 2022

The Use Of Psychometric Scale Theory In Formulating Gilliam Scale Gars-3 For Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorder, Abbas Fadhil Abdulwahid, Muhammad Anwar, Khalid Jamal Jasim

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The present paper aims to formulate Gilliam Scale GARS-3 for diagnosing autism spectrum disorder (ADS) according to the use of psychometric scale theory. In order to achieve the aim of the paper, the researchers have followed the scientific steps in formulating the scale and verifying the credibility of the translation via checking the accuracy and subjectivity in transferring all the thoughts of the scale. Then, an expert in Arabic language has checked the scale which consists of (58) items of six dimensions. The scale was applied to (500) students inside the governmental and the private centers and on a sample …

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Socialism Of Linguistic Phenomenon: Its Concept And Implications (Readings In Positivist Social Thought And The Implications Of Its Application On Language), Ali Abdel Rahman Ibrahim Taha Dec 2022

Socialism Of Linguistic Phenomenon: Its Concept And Implications (Readings In Positivist Social Thought And The Implications Of Its Application On Language), Ali Abdel Rahman Ibrahim Taha

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

Language is a human phenomenon with multiple aspects. On the one hand, it is a psychological phenomenon and on the other hand it is a social phenomenon. Therefore, I found interest from scholars in various fields, and at the beginning of the twentieth century, and with the influence of the pioneer of sociology, Emil Dor Chayem, language was classified as a social phenomenon by the linguist de Saussure, and this classification resulted in the application of the principles of the positivism approach as defined by Dor Chayem on language. This study aims to identify the positivism approach in its social …

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Nicaea, The First Capital Of The Roman Seljuks (Ah 471-490 /1078-1097 Ad), Abbas Abdul Sattar Abdul Qadir Dec 2022

Nicaea, The First Capital Of The Roman Seljuks (Ah 471-490 /1078-1097 Ad), Abbas Abdul Sattar Abdul Qadir

Alustath Journal for Human and Social Sciences

The study addresses the period in which the Byzantine city of Nicaea became the first capital of the Roman Saljuks at the era of the reign Qutalmish dynasty, the cousin of the Seljuki Sultan Tughril of Anatolia. It was a period full of events, and we do not exaggerate if we say that the control of the Seljuks over Nicaea was the first motivator for the Byzantine Emperor Alexius Comnenus to write to Pope Urban II, who in turn declared the Crusades against the Islamic world. The study will focus on several axes, including the city location and its religious …

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Exploring Coral Reefs With Interactive Geospatial Visualizations, David Nicolas Tonning Dec 2022

Exploring Coral Reefs With Interactive Geospatial Visualizations, David Nicolas Tonning

Masters Projects

This project uses geospatial data to generate custom polygons in an interactive setting to represent the size and location of coral reefs to extract insights from coral reef-centered data sets. Historically, the data used by the Reef Restoration Group Bonaire exists in disparate sources, making it difficult to track and analyze the outcomes of their restoration work. Additionally, this information is not available in a digestible format for other audiences who would be interested in this data, such as citizen scientists seeking coral reef health statistics, the general public wanting to better understand the coral reefs surrounding Bonaire or recreational …

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Devops: Course Development, James Lee Vanderzouwen Dec 2022

Devops: Course Development, James Lee Vanderzouwen

Masters Projects

DevOps has become somewhat of a buzzword amongst software engineers in the industry. Often developers do not have a dedicated DevOps engineer let alone a DevOps team. Developers benefit when they know what happens between ‘works on my machine’ and production. Making sure those steps make sense and are safe benefits the operations team. From compliance to code review to regression testing, understanding the full SDLC, employing DevOps concepts, and minimizing overhead from dependencies is quickly becoming a pre-requisite for the modern software engineer. This project attempts to bridge the gap between buzzword and best practice by developing a college-level …

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Curriculum Development In Technical Education For Boys And Girls Club, Damanpreet Singh Dec 2022

Curriculum Development In Technical Education For Boys And Girls Club, Damanpreet Singh

Masters Projects

Technical education has been and will continue to be more and more important to succeed in the future. The Boys and Girls Club, founded in 1860, is a national organization of local chapters which provide voluntary after-school programs for young individuals. The Boys and Girls Club have life-changing programs that prepare the young individuals in the club for their future whether it’s for college, career, or life. The perfect way to prepare best prepare these kids for the future is to develop their technical education. Unfortunately, the boys and girls club of Muskegon has a lack of educational resources for …

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Malware Detection And Analysis, Namratha Suraneni Dec 2022

Malware Detection And Analysis, Namratha Suraneni

Masters Projects

Malicious software poses a serious threat to the cybersecurity of network infrastructures and is a global pandemic in the form of computer viruses, Trojan horses, and Internet worms. Studies imply that the effects of malware are deteriorating. The main defense against malware is malware detectors. The methods that such a detector employ define its level of quality. Therefore, it is crucial that we research malware detection methods and comprehend their advantages and disadvantages. Attackers are creating malware that is polymorphic and metamorphic and has the capacity to modify their source code as they spread. Furthermore, existing defenses, which often utilize …

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Notebooks Web Application, Vivekananda Marellali Dec 2022

Notebooks Web Application, Vivekananda Marellali

Masters Projects

In our day-to-day activities we often need to make quick short notes related to our work, study, or other activities. Later, those notes should be easy to access, modify, delete, share with others, or create PDF documents as and when required. It is ideal if the note content is rich text format such as HTML, as it provides many text formatting options and provide better view and readability. The Notes are better organized if they are grouped into notebooks where each notebook consists of related topic note pages and multiple users can create such notebooks and share with other users …

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College Job Portal, Harikrishna Gonuguntla Dec 2022

College Job Portal, Harikrishna Gonuguntla

Masters Projects

Through this project, I am producing a portal called "College Job Portal" that will make life easier for students, colleges, and the companies who hire the students by handling the hiring process. On-campus job placements are a crucial component in contemporary educational institutions. By entering information about their educational history, grades, technological abilities, and CV, students would register with the portal. Like students, companies would sign up with the site by supplying basic details like their address and contact information for human resources. The college would be the portal's administrator. Companies can advertise job openings using this site by including …

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Full-Text Search Using Elasticsearch, Akash Shrestha Dec 2022

Full-Text Search Using Elasticsearch, Akash Shrestha

Masters Projects

Search engines have changed the way we use the internet. They can search or filter out relevant and valuable content of interest to the users. But many of the applications we use today lack search or are just poor. So how can we leverage the same power of search engines in our applications? This project aims to look at “Full-Text Search” which allows us to do a text-based search in text-intensive data. The search will be performed by matching any, or all words of the query exactly or with some relevancy against the indexes created by the searching tool. The …

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Working Paper No. 67, Insights Into Project Cybersyn, Leah Herrera Dec 2022

Working Paper No. 67, Insights Into Project Cybersyn, Leah Herrera

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that back in the 1970s Chile’s “Project Cybersyn” offered novel approaches and specific technologies that appeared to have benefitted capitalism as a system. The Spanish name, SYNCO served as an acronym for Sistema de Información y Control. President Salvador Allende expected that the attributes associated with Project Cybersyn could assist his efforts in implementing his variant of socialism. Cybersyn consisted of a network (Cybernet), software (Cyberstride), computers, a economic simulator known as CHECO, and a control room (Opsroom.) Cybersyn reached an advanced prototype stage; however, its fate was also tied to the interests of the …

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Working Paper No. 69, Towards An Evolutionary History Of Gleaning, Stella Burlingame Dec 2022

Working Paper No. 69, Towards An Evolutionary History Of Gleaning, Stella Burlingame

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that the act of gleaning can be understood through an evolutionary approach. Because gleaning has been practiced in some form in almost every agricultural system, this inquiry shall consider several different regions and time periods, taking into account the distinct economic and social structures. The segments of history to be explored here range from antiquity, as documented in Scripture, through early modernity, and into the post-modern era.

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Working Paper No. 70, Industrialization, Retail Activities, And The Rise Of American Consumerism, Joseph French Dec 2022

Working Paper No. 70, Industrialization, Retail Activities, And The Rise Of American Consumerism, Joseph French

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that the department store can be viewed as a novel institution that emerged to facilitate an economic relationship between a burgeoning American industrial sector and a new generation of working-class consumers with rising incomes and changing needs. The development of retail in America lagged behind Europe for many decades, until the rapid pace of American industrialization acted as a catalyst for retail to evolve into a modern institution. Alongside the creation of the department store, American cities were taking to the skies, and those who inhabited them would establish a new socio-economic class that was …

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Working Paper No. 71, Max Weber: On Religion And Economic Outcomes, Celeste Aiu Taber Dec 2022

Working Paper No. 71, Max Weber: On Religion And Economic Outcomes, Celeste Aiu Taber

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that early sociologist Max Weber advances a view that religious faith could indeed affect economic outcomes. In his analysis of Reformed faiths, Weber determines that “the calling” inspired by Martin Luther transformed the work ethic of believers, instilling in them a spirit suitable for the advancement of modern capitalism. The Reformed work ethic observed by Weber served as a basis for individual Protestants to accumulate wealth. Weber also considers the developments of religious asceticism among the faiths of Calvinism, Pietism, Methodism, and the Baptist movements. The ascetic character of these religious communities assisted in generating …

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Working Paper No. 72, The 1849 Gold Rush And The Roots Of California’S Economic Development, Matthew Phan Dec 2022

Working Paper No. 72, The 1849 Gold Rush And The Roots Of California’S Economic Development, Matthew Phan

Working Papers in Economics

The Californian Gold Rush, commonly referred to as the “1849 Gold Rush” proved to be a major event which brought significant change to California. This inquiry seeks to establish that this 1849 Gold Rush provided a foundation for a broadly shared prosperity through contributing to the advancement of California’s industry. The first part in this inquiry goes into some detail regarding how the gold rush got initiated, would become a major event for the world. The second part explores what changes the gold rush had brought for California’s industry, economic development, and broadly shared prosperity. The third part explains more …

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Working Paper No. 68, Variables Precipitating The Extermination Of The American Bison, Cameron Winterer Dec 2022

Working Paper No. 68, Variables Precipitating The Extermination Of The American Bison, Cameron Winterer

Working Papers in Economics

This inquiry seeks to establish that innovations in tanning technology advanced by Europeans in the late 19th century accelerated the destruction of the bison, and subsequently the downfall of bison-reliant indigenous groups of the Great Plains, especially. The North American bison is considered as a crucial natural resource in the plains region of North America. What this inquiry seeks to emphasize is that advancements in technology, coupled with a growing demand for bison hides, contributed to the demise of bison populations. Lastly, this inquiry seeks to examine the near extinction of the plains bison and some of the effects their …

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The Challenges And Opportunities Of Scrna-Seq In Covid-19 Research And Clinical Translation, Wendao Liu, Xiaohua Ye, Zhiqiang An, Zhongming Zhao Dec 2022

The Challenges And Opportunities Of Scrna-Seq In Covid-19 Research And Clinical Translation, Wendao Liu, Xiaohua Ye, Zhiqiang An, Zhongming Zhao

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

The application of single-cell RNA sequencing in COVID-19 research has greatly improved our understanding of COVID-19 pathogenesis and immunological characteristics. In this commentary, we discuss the current challenges, limitations, and perspectives in harnessing the power of single-cell RNA sequencing to accelerate both basic research and therapeutic development for COVID-19 and other emerging infectious diseases.

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