375 research outputs found
World Religions Week: Fouad Masri
No full textFouad Masri shares some of his story, speaks on Islam the for World Religions Week.
Fouad Masri was born and raised in the war zone of Beirut, Lebanon. He is a lecturer and author of the award-winning book “Connecting with Muslims.” A third generation pastor, he has a passion for sharing the love of Christ with Muslims. In 1993, he founded Crescent Project to nurture transformational relationships between Christians and Muslims and overcome misconceptions about Islam and Christianity. He lives in Indianapolis with his wife Lisa and their two children
Interview with Nemat Ahmed Fouad
No full textمقابلة مع الكاتبة المصرية نعمت أحمد فؤاد عن تطورها المهني والذي تراوح بين موقعها القيادي في المجلس الأعلى للفنون وأعمالها وترجماتها العديدة. كما تتحدث عن عملها وأفكارها في حركة الكتابة النسائية المصرية وتحدثت عن تأثير مرشديها ولا سيما الدكتور احمد حسن الزيات. قامت بالمقابلة أمال سعيد.An interview with Egyptian author Nemat Ahmed Fouad about her professional progression, her leadership position in the Supreme Council of Arts, her works in and thoughts on the Egyptian women's writing movement, and the influence of her mentors, notably Dr. Ahmed Hassan Al-Zayat. The interview was conducted by Amal Saeed
L’univers nonsensique de Fouad Laroui
No full textThrough colorful characters who populate the unique and nonsensical universe imagined by Fouad Laroui in his collection of short stories Les Noces fabuleuses du Polonais, the author puts forward one of the key functions of humor which plays as a warning against conformity to conventions. With various incredible situations, misunderstandings, high-spirited interactions, laughter bursts out thanks to a cleverly distilled humor illuminating stories that are sometimes, after all, very ordinary. Our purpose is to analyze the levels of humor in the collection, in order to try to understand how this state of mind and this type of situations which make us laugh, under its multiple facets of irony, derision, comical, laughable and absurd, become the parade against an incoherent world.Par l’entremise de personnages hauts en couleur qui peuplent l’univers unique et nonsensique imaginé par Fouad Laroui dans son recueil Les Noces fabuleuses du Polonais (2015), l’auteur met en scène l’une des fonctions essentielles de l’humour, celle de mise en garde contre les attendus, les systématisations et les conventions. Avec force de situations rocambolesques, de quiproquo, de dialogues enlevés, le rire fuse grâce à un humour savamment distillé illuminant des histoires parfois, somme toute, banales. Notre propos est d’analyser les niveaux de l’humour dans le recueil, afin de tenter de comprendre en quoi cette forme d’esprit et ce caractère des situations qui prête à rire, sous ses facettes multiples de l’ironie, de la dérision, du comique, du risible et de l’absurde, deviennent la parade contre un monde incohérent
Fluorescent recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) of a fluorescent transferrin internalized in the late transferrin endocytic compartment of living A431 cells: Theory
No full textAbstractIn previous works, other authors characterized a compartment (LCT) of A431 carcinoma cells in which markers of transferrin endocytose had accumulated during a long chase period. This compartment, was essentially formed by large stationary vacuoles. A few small vesicles budded from these vacuoles, rapidly saltated along microtubules and eventually fused with other vacuoles, causing an intracellular transport of the marker bound to the limiting membrane (M. De Brabander, R. Nuygens, H. Geerts, C.R. Hopkins, Cell. Mot. Cytoskel. 9 (1988) 30). In the present paper, we derived the fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) of a fluorescent marker of LCT. We assumed that the rate of the intracellular transport of the marker was controlled by the fission–fusion process between vesicles and vacuoles. We showed that the concentration of a bleached fluorescent marker was a decreasing exponential function of the time elapsed from the beginning of the recovery phase. The rate constant of this exponential was equal to the product of the vesicle surface by the number of vesicles which fused with a unit of vacuole surface during one second. If a fraction of the marker spontaneously reactivated itself with a much higher rate constant of reaction than the rate constant of the transport process, the fractional FRAP of the marker was the sum of the fractional FRAP of both processes occurring separately. In a companion paper (F. Azizi, P. Wahl, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1327 (1997) 75–88), our FRAP experiments will be described and analysed with the mathematical expressions derived in the present paper
Alex Lubin, Never-Ending War on Terror
No full textAlex Lubin, Never-Ending War on Terror. University of California Press, 2021. Pp.152. ISBN: 9780520297418 Author: Fouad Mami, Université d’Adrar Alex Lubin’s latest book aims to deconstruct the complexities of the so-called US war on terror, allegedly triggered by 9/11 attacks. The official US narrative prides itself on promoting transparency in dealing with enemies of the state. Differently put, the US institutional tradition boasts of not keeping what the French nomenclature defines as le..
Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) of a fluorescent transferrin internalized in the late transferrin endocytic compartment of living A431 cells: Experiments
No full textAbstractIn this work, we verified that transferrin fluorescently labelled with lissamine rhodamine sulfochloride (Tf-LRSC) is internalized in epidermoid A431 carcinoma cells through the specific endocytic pathway of transferrin. The FRAP of this fluorescent marker internalized in the late compartment of transferrin endocytosis (LCT) was measured in living A431 cells. These experiments showed the presence of an active intracellular transport of Tf-LRSC which can be interpreted by a mechanism involving carrier vesicles budding from stationary vacuoles, saltating along microtubules and fusing with other stationary vacuoles, according to previous video-microscopy observations of a membranous traffic dynamics in these cells, revealed by a gold complex of an Anti-Transferrin Receptor (ATR) (M. De Brabander, R. Nuygens, H. Geerst, C.R. Hopkins, Cell. Motil. Cystoskel. 9 (1988) 30). When the A431 cells were treated with nocodazole or metabolic inhibitors, there remained a residual FRAP which was ascribed to the spontaneous reactivation of the bleached molecules. According to a theoretical result obtained in the companion paper (P. Wahl, F. Azizi, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1327 (1997) 69–74), we derived the fractional FRAP characterizing the transport process of Tf-LRSC by subtracting the fractional FRAP of the nocodazole-treated cells from the fractional FRAP of the non-treated cells. This FRAP of transport was fitted to a formula derived in that companion paper and based on the mechanism outlined above. From the time constant value determined by this fit, the number of vesicles which fused with a unit of vacuole surface was calculated to be 0.15 μm−2 s−1. The rate value of the fusion of vesicles with vacuoles was divided by two in cells treated by AlF4−, and increased to 20% in cells treated with Brefeldin A. These results correspond to an homotypic fusion process regulated by an heterotrimeric G-protein. Our work suggests that FRAP can be used to bring information on the transport of membrane components in living eukaryotic cells
Pellet dispenser assembly files
No full textSupplementary files described in the paper: *Abel Torres-Espín, *Juan Forero, Emma Schmidt, Karim Fouad, Keith
K. Fenrich (2017) A motorized pellet dispenser to deliver high intensity
training of the single pellet task in rats. Behavioural Brain Research (*co-lead author).</div
Fouad Gabriel Naffah (plénitude et nauffrages d'une oeuvre)
No full textLes années 50-60 correspondent à l âge de maturité de la poésie francophone libanaise. Devant beaucoup au surréalisme, cette maturité trouve pourtant un de ses représentants les plus authentiques à contre-courant de ce mouvement. Fouad Gabriel Naffah (1925-1983) s est voué totalement à la poésie sans être toutefois reconnu. Marginalisé sur les plans social et littéraire, il se saisit pourtant du réel et inscrit le paysage libanais au cœur d une démarche spéculative qui se fait mode d habitation poétique. La création d une langue poétique propre élève la description au rang d une création cosmogonique. La représentation de l espace, structurée et paradoxale, est avènement de rapports inédits du sujet au monde régis par un principe d immanence. De ce fait, l œuvre crée une approche originale du lyrisme, à priori renié, et la création poétique, actualisée ou expliquée, se comprend comme une phénoménologie spontanée. Mais l ambition de la poésie de Naffah forge aussi ses propres écueils pour devenir à la fois lieu de plénitude et cause de naufrages.The Lebanese French speaking poetry reached maturity in the fifties and the sixties. Deeply influenced by surrealism, the modern generation of authors is yet represented by a poet whose art and views go against the surrealist sensibility of his contemporaries. Fouad Gabriel Naffah (1925-1983) was a poet in all means, but never got the recognition he hoped for. On the fringes of the Lebanese society as well as of the literary context, yet, he seizes the real and integrates the Lebanese landscape into a speculative creative process allowing poetic living . The creation of an intellectual poetic language raises description to the rank of cosmogony. Representing space as highly structured and paradoxical brings out new relationships between the subject and the world that are governed by the principle of immanence. Therefore, Naffah s work can be read, oddly enough, as an original approach of lyricism, and poetic creation, brought into actualization or explained by the author, can be understood as a spontaneous phenomenology. Nevertheless, obstacles to such an ambitious conception of poetry rise mostly in itself, so much so that Naffah s poems are, at the same time, a demonstration of fullness and a scene of collapse.PARIS13-BU Droit-Lettres (930792101) / SudocSudocFranceF
Modelling droplet breakage in continuous emulsification using static mixers in the framework of entire spectrum of turbulent energy
No full textDroplets breakage during continuous emulsification in static mixers is investigated in this work. It is clearly shown that for viscous continuous phases, droplet breakage occurs mostly in the dissipation range of isotropic turbulence. To consider this, a modified breakage kernel of Coulaloglou and Tavlarides based on the full turbulence spectrum of Pope is employed within a population balance model to describe the time evolution of the droplet size distribution during the emulsification process. This full-spectrum-based model is tested against a wide range of experimental data and showed to be predictive and accurate. The full-spectrum-based model requires the knowledge of the mean turbulent kinetic energy and the mean energy dissipation rate that are obtained from computational fluid dynamic simulations (CFD). To allow a rapid implementation of the model without time-consuming CFD simulations, a model reduction is proposed based on mean energy dissipation rate estimation through pressure drop measurements only. The new model gives comparable predictive capabilities as that based on CFD simulations with improved computational efficiency
Structural study using <sup>29</sup> Si and <sup>27</sup> Al Solid State MAS NMR and compressive strength analysis of metakaolin-based geopolymer paste
No full textGeopolymers are hardened aluminosilicate gel that develop strength via the crosslinking of tetrahedral silicate and aluminate. Past Research has highlighted a wide range of mechanical properties of geopolymer synthesised from various aluminosilicate materials. This research focuses on studying the effect of variation in the percentages of metakaolin, sodium silicate and sodium hydroxide at a fixed water to solids ratio on the development of geopolymer structure and compressive strength. Kaolin was thermally treated and XRD and FTIR traced the changes in crystalline Kaolin and its transformation into a more disordered structure of metakaolin. Characterisation techniques were used for the study of geopolymer produced. FTIR analysis illustrated the changes in the characteristic bands of metakaolin after being activated with sodium silicate and sodium hydroxide to form geopolymer. The 27Al and 29Si Solid State MAS NMR spectra confirmed the formation of polymerised tetrahedral silicate interconnected to tetrahedral aluminate in the form of Q4(4Al) and Q4(3Al) which are responsible for the attained compressive strength of geopolymer. The produced geopolymers exhibited high early compressive strength and high 28-day compressive strength in the range of 30–81 MPa. This promotes the use of geopolymers as a replacement to Ordinary Portland cement especially in targeted construction applications.This study is part of Ph.D of author Heba Fouad and the PhD was a fellowship granted by Yousef Jameel Foundation. Also, Heba Fouad also would like to show her gratitude to Dr. Abdel Hamid Emwas and Dr. Mariusz Jaremko for conducting Solid State MAS NMR samples in KAUST Core lab
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