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Catalogue des inscriptions latines païennes du Musée du Bardo, 2e supplément - Inscriptions publiques inédites de provenance inconnue
No full textThe author studies 25 unpublished public inscriptions kept to the Bardo Museum, fulfilling so the exam of the heathen Latin inscriptions of this museum.L'auteur étudie vingt-cinq inscriptions publiques inédites conservées au Musée du Bardo complétant ainsi l'examen des inscriptions latines païennes de ce musée.Benzina Ben Abdallah Zeïneb. Catalogue des inscriptions latines païennes du Musée du Bardo, 2e supplément - Inscriptions publiques inédites de provenance inconnue. In: Antiquités africaines, 36,2000. pp. 39-55
Supplément au Catalogue des inscriptions latines païennes du Musée du Bardo. [Inscriptions funéraires inédites de provenance inconnue]
No full textThe author presents 71 unpublished pagan epitaphs kept in the Bardo national Museum (Tunis) and whose provenience is still unknown. As some names appear for the first time in African epigraphy, the major interest of this catalogue deak with onomastics.L' A. publie 71 épitaphes païennes inédites, conservée au Musée national du Bardo (Tunis) et dont l'origine demeure inconnue. Certains noms apparaissant pour la première fois dans l'épigraphie africaine, l'intérêt de ce catalogue est avant tout d'ordre onomastique.Benzina Ben Abdallah Zeïneb. Supplément au Catalogue des inscriptions latines païennes du Musée du Bardo. [Inscriptions funéraires inédites de provenance inconnue]. In: Antiquités africaines, 32,1996. pp. 113-143
Deployment of MOOCs in Virtual Joint Academic Degree Programs
No full textThis research paper investigates the readiness of students to opt for MOOC courses in universities offering a joint master degree international programme. A study is conducted on two joint academic study programs offered by the University of Hasselt in Belgium and Princess Sumaya University for Technology in Jordan. The study examines the readiness of students to take MOOC courses and their acceptance by universities' management staff and professors. The study reveals promising results as the results suggest that such virtual study programs are readily accepted in both universities by professors and students. On the other hand, management staff and some professors expressed concerns on the approval of the equivalence of a MOOC onto courses.Sammour, G (corresponding author), Princess Sumaya Univ Technol PSUT, Dept Business Informat Technol, Amman, Jordan
LOCAL GOVERNMENT CONFLICTS AND SERVICE DELIVERY IN IGANGA DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY.
No full textBackground:The purpose of the study was to establish the relationship between local government conflicts and service delivery in Iganga District Local Government by examining the relationship between political conflicts and service delivery, assessing the relationship between administrative conflicts and service delivery, and establishing the relationship between procurement conflicts and service delivery.
Methodology:The researcher used a case study correlational and cross-sectional survey design characterized by both qualitative and quantitative methods. The population of the study was 75 participants but only 62 were selected as respondents using Krejcie & Morgan (1970).
Results:The response rate for the study was 96.7%. Findings identified procurement process conflicts, contract award conflicts, contract management conflicts, budget allocation conflicts, human resource conflicts, oversight conflicts, and protests by political leaders and citizens as common conflicts in Iganga District, There was (r=-0.751, sig=0.001) a negative significant relationship between political conflicts and service delivery in the Iganga District.The correlation between administrative conflicts and the quality of service was -0.244 with a significance value of 0.084. Therefore, there is a weak negative insignificant relationship between administrative conflicts and service delivery in the Iganga district local government. The correlation between procurement conflicts and service delivery was 0.782 with a significance value of 0.001.
Conclusion:Therefore, there was a good negative significant relationship between procurement conflicts and service delivery in Iganga District local government. This means that conflicts cause a delay in service delivery as well as limit the quality of services provided by the Iganga District Local Government.
Recommendation:The researcher recommends that; political leaders should come up with bylaws that streamline the roles and responsibilities of political and technical staff, administrators should work within given guidelines, and contracts committees should always seek the technical guidance of the technocrats for timely, effective, and quality services
Survey of the robust control of robots
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American Control Conference, 1990
Date of Conference: 23-25 May 1990
Author(s): Abdallah, C.
CAD Laboratory for Systems and Robotics, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131.
Dorato, P. ; Jamshidi, M.
On Page(s): 718 - 721
Product Type: Conference Publications
4790827 searchabstract .Abstract
In this survey, we discuss current approaches to the robust control of the motion of robots and summarize the available literature on the subject. The three major designs discussed are the "Linear-Multivariable" Approach, the "Passivity" approach and the "Variable-Structure" approach. The survey is limited to rigid robots and nonadaptive controllers.IEE
Islamic Law [236] مَمْزُوج
No full textLaw: Ḥanafite.
This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1697 in the India Office collections.
[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 236 here with further notations and hyperlinks].
236.
1697. Size 91/2 in. by 51/2 in.; foll. 839. Fifteen lines in a page.
A copious Commentary (ممزوج) on the preceding work. The author is, according to Ḥ. Kh. vi. 375, ABU’L-MAKÂRIM b. ‘Abdallah b. Muḥammad, who completed it in A.H. 907. See also Aumer, Hdss. Münch., p. 93, no. 283.
Boldly written. Some blanks on the first pages.
Inscribed مکارمی شرح مختصر وقایة. Seal of Nuṣrat Jang, A.H. 1174.
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Survey of the robust control of robots
No full textBrowse Conference Publications \u3e American Control Conference, ... Page Help Survey of the Robust Control of Robots This paper appears in: American Control Conference, 1990 Date of Conference: 23-25 May 1990 Author(s): Abdallah, C. CAD Laboratory for Systems and Robotics, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131. Dorato, P. ; Jamshidi, M. On Page(s): 718 - 721 Product Type: Conference Publications 4790827 searchabstract .Abstract In this survey, we discuss current approaches to the robust control of the motion of robots and summarize the available literature on the subject. The three major designs discussed are the Linear-Multivariable Approach, the Passivity approach and the Variable-Structure approach. The survey is limited to rigid robots and nonadaptive controllers
TunSwitch: Code-Switched Tunisian Arabic Speech Dataset
No full textThis folder contains the data used to develop and test the Tunisian Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition model developed in the following paper :
A. A. Ben Abdallah*, A. Kabboudi, A. Kanoun, and S. Zaiem*, “Leveraging data collection and unsupervised learning for code-switched tunisian arabic automatic speech recognition”, Submitted to ICASSP 2024, vol. * : These two authors have contributed equally. 2023.
It contains 4 zipped folders containing audio data :
- TunSwitchCS.zip : containing annotated code-switched data.
- TunSwitchTO.zip : containing annotated Tunisian-Only data.
- weakly_labeled_tn.zip : containing weakly-labeled (or unlabeled) audio data. Audios may contain code-switching, but the current weak labels do not.
- test_wavs.zip : contains annotated testing data, divided between a code-switched part and a tunisian-only part.
It also contains textual data, used for language modelling, contained in TextData.zip. Finally it also contains a language-detailed annotation of TunSwitchCS in the language_annotation.zip file .
More details about the data are available in the paper. The current table are in a SpeechBrain-friendly format, the column path is irrelevant and has to be changed according to your local setting. Please use the provided train-dev-test splits if you work with this dataset.
Please cite the aforementioned paper if you use or refer to this dataset. You can find models trained and tested on this dataset Here. Space demos are also available.
If you use or refer to this dataset, please cite :
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@misc{abdallah2023leveraging,
title={Leveraging Data Collection and Unsupervised Learning for Code-switched Tunisian Arabic Automatic Speech Recognition},
author={Ahmed Amine Ben Abdallah and Ata Kabboudi and Amir Kanoun and Salah Zaiem},
year={2023},
eprint={2309.11327},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={eess.AS}
}
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Fast Pump Scheduling Method for Optimum Energy Cost and Water Quality in Water Distribution Networks with Fixed and Variable Speed Pumps
No full textSupplying high-quality water at competitive cost is a major challenge for water utilities worldwide, especially with ever increasing water quality standards and energy prices. A number of pump scheduling methods for optimizing simultaneously water quality and energy cost have been developed already. However, none of these methods is ideal because of the complexity of water networks and the nonlinear behavior of water flow. In this research, a new optimization method named iterative extended lexicographic goal programming (iELGP) is developed to optimize energy cost and water quality (residual chlorine) in water networks with a mixture of fixed speed pumps (FSPs) and variable speed pumps (VSPs). Two different approaches were used to indirectly improve chlorine. The new method was tested on the C-Town water network and compared with the graph theory method from the literature. The results obtained show the ability of the iELGP method to optimize energy cost and water quality in water networks in a computationally very efficient manner. They also show that the iELGP method can identify lower energy cost pump schedules and do this faster than the comparison method. Using VSPs instead of FSPs improves the water quality and decreases the related energy and maintenance cost in water networks.Accepted Author ManuscriptSanitary Engineerin
The Arab Avant-Garde: Musical Innovation in the Middle East
No full textIn the early nineteenth century, the term “avant-garde” began to capture greater semantic territory. Once purely a military phrase used to distinguish crack troops, it then assumed a high-ranking position within cultural expression, marking out art work that forged ahead and broke new ground. What can it mean to conjoin this French phrase with the word “Arab”? French forces, along with other imperial intruders, are no strangers to Arab terrain. The colonisation of Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and Greater Syria followed in the wake of the brief Napoleonic “mission” to Egypt between 1798 and 1801. It was during this military foray that some of modern Europe’s most expansive data on Egyptian music was collected, information that comprised two whole volumes of Guillaume André Villoteau’s Description de l’Egypte. The Napoleonic campaign gathered not only military, but also cultural intelligence, if the two can be so easily separated
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