304 research outputs found
Customer relationship management an evaluation of critical success factors in Lebanese firms - by Alain Youssef El Samarani
No full textProject (M.B.A.)--Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, AUB, 2004.Bibliography: leaves 50-51.CRM stands for Customer Relationship Management. It is used to know more about customers' needs and behaviors in order to build up stronger relationships with them. In the end, good customer relationships are at the heart of business succe ss. There are
THE LEVANT: ZONE OF CULTURE OR CONFLICT?
No full textPalestinian novelist Samir El-Youssef writes that the question in the title of this essay, “is the Levant a zone of conflict or culture?” is an ironic one indeed. Anyone with a token knowledge of the Levant, argues El-Youssef, knows that these lands are of both conflict and culture; the problem dwells in the fact that the people of the Levant need to be reminded that theirs is a land of great culture that deserves recognition and valorization as such. The author was born and brought up in Rashidiyyé—a Palestinian refugee camp in Southern Lebanon. Rashidiyyé, writes El-Youssef, was and still is as bad as a refugee camp could get. Yet, a mere fifteen minutes walk from the camp stood the ancient Phoenician port-city of Tyr; a harbour town housing the awesome vestiges of one of the greatest, most pacifist, most benevolent builders of civilization. El-Youssef concludes that "the refugee camp (in its indigence,) and the ancient city (in all its glory,) standing side by side, are a stark example of the Levant being both a land of conflict and culture."</jats:p
Interview with Abdel Tawab Youssef
No full textلقاء مع عبد التواب يوسف الأديب و المؤلف المصري و الذى إشتهر بالكتابة في أدب الأطفال بمناسبة إنتخابه أمين عام لإتحاد كتاب مصر. أجرى هذا اللقاء حسن شمس الدين.An interview with Abdel Tawab Youssef, Egyptian children's book author, on the occasion of his election as Secretary General of Egypt Writers' Union. Interview conducted by Hassan Shams El Din
Interview with Abdel Tawab Youssef
No full textمقابلة مع الأديب وكاتب كتب الأطفال، عبد التواب يوسف، يناقش فيها مهنته في كتابة كتب الأطفال وأخر دراساته في الموضوعات المتصلة بذلك المجال بجامعات أمريكية، ويتحدث عن عدة كتب مهمة مثل كتاب ""تاريخ البشرية،"" لأرنولد توينبى، كما يتحدث عن قراءات مهمة للطفل في سن المدرسة وما قبلها في موضوعات مهمة وعميقة كمناقشة الموت، الحياة والجنس. قامت بالمقابلة درية شرف الدين.An interview with writer and children's books author, Abdel Tawab Youssef, in which he discusses writing children's books and tells about books ""The History of Humanity"" by Arnold Toynbee. The interview was conducted by Doria Sharaf El-Din
A Escravidão na imprensa: política antiescravista e escravista no Rio de Janeiro, século XIX
No full textO texto é uma resenha da obra: YOUSSEF, Alain El. Imprensa e Escravidão. Política e tráfico negreiro no Império do Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, 1822- 1850) São Paulo: Intermeios/Fapesp, 2016
One of the Scientists of readings in the fifth century Alhijri Abou El-kacem Youssef El-Houdhali El-Biskri
No full textتتناول الدّراسة أحد علماء الجزائر في المشرق الإسلامي خلال القرن الخامس الهجري (الحادي عشر الميلادي)، في علم القراءات، العلامة أبو القاسم يوسف بن علي بن جبارة الهذلي البسكري، المدرس في المدرسة النظامية في نيسابور من458ه إلى 465 ه، صاحب كتاب (الكامل في القراءات الخمسين). وتكمن أهداف دراسة هذه الشخصية فيما يلي: التعريف بعلماء الجزائر منذ القرون الأولى للإسلام وسعيهم في سبيل طلب العلم ونشره شرقًا وغربًا من جهة، وإبراز مدى تعمقهم في العلوم الدّينية والدّنياوية من جهة ثانية، والوقوف على الحياة العلمية والروابط الثقافية والحضارية بين الجزائر والعالم الإسلامي من جهة ثالثة.The study deals with one of the Scientists of Algeria in the Islamic East during thefifth century AH (the eleventh century AD), in the science of readings, the ScientistAbou El-kacem Youssef ben Ali ben Djabara El-Houdhali El-Biskri a teacher at theNidamiyya School in Nishabur from 458 AH to 465 AH, the author of the book (TheComplete in the fifty Readings). The objectives of the study of this character are asfollows: firstly Introducing the scholars of Algeria since the first centuries of Islamand their quest for knowledge and its dissemination in the East and West, secondlyhighlighting the extent of their depth in the religious and worldly sciences on the otherhand, thirdly standing on the scientific life and the cultural and civilizational betweenAlgeria and the Islamic world on the one hand
A microsimulation-based analysis for driving behaviour modelling on a congested expressway
No full textRecently, simulation models have been widely used around the world to evaluate the performance of different traffic facilities and management strategies for efficient and sustainable transportation systems. One of the keys factors for ensuring the reliability of the models in reflecting local conditions is the calibration and validation of microsimulation models. The majority of the existing calibration efforts focus is on the experimental designs of driver behaviour and lane-changing parameters. Towards this end, this paper describes the necessary procedure for the calibration and validation of a microscopic model using the VISSIM software, during peak hours. The procedure is applied on Muscat Expressway in the Sultanate of Oman. The calibration parameters and the measure-of-effectiveness are identified by using multi-parameter sensitivity analysis. The optimum values for these parameters are obtained by minimising errors between simulated data and field data. In our proposed model, we used traffic volume and travel speed for model calibration, as well as average travel time for validation of the calibrated model. The achieved results showed that driving characteristics significantly impacted the merging/diverging traffic flow ratio in the merging area, the link length and the distance between on-ramps and off-ramps, as well as the percentage of heavy vehicles. The results also showed that having both the advanced merging and cooperative lane-change settings active, along with safety distance reduction factor, necessary lane change, minimum headway (front/rear), and emergency stop, had a significant influence on simulation precision, especially at on-ramps and off-ramps. Finally, our proposed model can be utilized as a base for future traffic strategy analysis and intelligent transportation systems evaluation to help decision makers with long-term and sustainable development decisionsFarrag, SG (corresponding author), Hasselt Univ, Transportat Res Inst, Hasselt, Belgium.
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Press and slavery: politics an the slave trade in brazilian empire (Rio de Janeiro, 1822-1850)
No full textA presente dissertação analisa o debate público em torno do tráfico negreiro e da escravidão, ocorrido na imprensa do Rio de Janeiro entre 1822 (quando foi fundado o Império do Brasil) e 1850 (momento em que o fim do tráfico negreiro foi decretado pela Lei Eusébio de Queirós). O corpus documental, portanto, é formado por todos os periódicos políticos e por alguns panfletos publicados na cidade do Rio de Janeiro durante o período supracitado. Os documentos foram lidos sob as considerações de algumas vertentes da história atlântica, da história social e da história política. Com elas, objetiva-se demonstrar que a imprensa foi um locus privilegiado para o desenvolvimento do debate público a respeito do tráfico negreiro no Império do Brasil. Da mesma forma, pretende-se mostrar como essa instituição dita privada exerceu um papel central na política do contrabando negreiro levada a cabo pelos Regressistas (núcleo duro dos Saquaremas) a partir da segunda metade da década de 1830, servindo como elo entre os estadistas e sua base eleitoral.The present dissertation analyzes the public debate concerning slavery that took place in Rio de Janeiro via its press, between 1822 (foundation of the Brazilian Empire) and 1850 (the end of the transatlantic slave trade, as imposed by the Eusébio de Queirós law). The sources used in this work encompass all the political newspapers published in Rio de Janeiro during that period, as well as some political pamphlets. The methods developed here are those presented by the Atlantic History approach, along with the Social History and Political History methods. This work conveys the idea that the press was crucial to the Brazilian public debate on the transatlantic slave trade. Moreover, the dissertation demonstrates how an institution generally conceived as private played a central role in the politics of the illegal trade carried out by the Conservatives (also known as Saquaremas) from the second half of the 1830s on, functioning as a link between statesmen and their electoral base
QUESTÃO CHRISTIE EM PERSPECTIVA GLOBAL: PRESSÃO BRITÂNICA, GUERRA CIVIL NORTE-AMERICANA E O INÍCIO DA CRISE DA ESCRAVIDÃO BRASILEIRA (1860-1864)
No full textOs trabalhos que analisaram a Questão Christie valeram-se da premissa de que os eventos que resultaram no rompimento diplomático entre Brasil e Inglaterra (1863-1865) podem ser explicados exclusivamente pela relação bilateral entre os dois países. Sem negar por completo essa dimensão, o artigo tem por objetivo ampliar a unidade de análise do tema, de modo a verificar como outros processos históricos em curso na década de 1860 tiveram papel decisivo no entrevero entre os dois países. Com base em artigos de jornal, anais parlamentares e correspondências diplomáticas, o texto pretende demonstrar que a Questão Christie também esteve relacionada à conjuntura histórica aberta pela Guerra Civil norte-americana e, assim, verificar suas consequências mais imediatas para a instauração da crise da escravidão brasileira
The Empire of Brazil in the second age of abolition, 1861-1880
No full textEssa tese tem por objetivo analisar a crise da escravidão brasileira em perspectiva global entre o período que vai da Guerra Civil norte-americana (1861-1865) à formação do movimento abolicionista nacional (1879-1880). Para tanto, recorreu-se ao emprego de dois planos distintos, porém relacionados de análise. O primeiro consistiu em verificar como os coevos brasileiros nortearam seu horizonte de expectativas sobre a condução da emancipação a partir dos espaços de experiência fornecidos por processos históricos nacionais e globais. O segundo consistiu em examinar como a reorganização da economia-mundo capitalista, as transformações no sistema interestatal e a mobilização social no Brasil e em outras regiões do mundo impactaram os processos políticos e socioeconômicos em curso no Império. Ao unir essas duas dimensões, a pesquisa tem como finalidade última mostrar que a crise do cativeiro no Brasil não fez parte de um aventado século de abolições, mas de uma estrutura ou mesmo de um tempo histórico específico da escravidão negra nas Américas que denomino de segunda era da abolição.This dissertation analyzes the crisis of Brazilian slavery in global perspective during the period from the American Civil War (1861-1865) to the formation of the national abolitionist movement (1879-1880). To do so, it employs two distinct but related strategies. The first one consists on verifying how Brazilians guided their horizon of expectations regarding how to conduct emancipation based on spaces of experience provided by national and global historical processes. The second is to examine how the reorganization of the capitalist world-economy, the transformations in the interstate system, and social mobilization in Brazil and other regions of the world impacted political and socioeconomic processes underway in the Empire. By uniting these two dimensions, this research ultimately demonstrates that the crisis of slavery in Brazil was not part of a fledged century of abolitions, but rather a specific historical structure or time of black slavery in the Americas that I call second age of abolition
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