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The life of a female addict in Egypt, Soha Fayed.
No full textYara Mohamed is an AUC alumna who is an addict, this is her story on how it is like being a female addict in Egypt. This audio feature is about Yara Mohamed, an AUC alumna who is a hash addict in Egypt. She describes the daily struggles she faces as an addict and as a female. A fellow friend smoker chimed in to share where Yara and herself smoke up. Yara\u27s Mother gave her feedback on how she dealt with her daughter\u27s addiction
Linking health and health-related information to the ICF: a systematic review of the literature from 2001 to 2008
No full textIntroduction. In 1976, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated worldwide disability prevalence at 10%; recent evidence suggests the prevalence is even higher. Given the extent of disability around the world, it is essential for researchers and policy makers to have a uniform language for describing and discussing disability. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) is WHO's attempt to provide that standard language. Linking rules were published in 2002 and 2005 suggesting a method for standardising the process of connecting outcome measures to the ICF classification. The objective of this study is to study the extent to which the linking rules have been used by researchers to link health and health-related information to the ICF and collect the feedback about the current practices, applications and areas to improve the linking method.Method. Using a systematic review of health-based literature between 2001 and February 2008, we (1) determined research areas where the linking method is applied, (2) examined the characteristics of studies that linked information to the ICF and (3) described current practices and issues related to the process of linking health and health-related information to the ICF both quantitatively and qualitatively.Results. The systematic review yielded 109 articles from 58 journals that linked health information to the ICF and 58 of the articles employed published linking rules. The majority of articles were descriptive in nature, used linking for connecting content of health instruments to the ICF and linked English health content. Quality controls such as reliability checks, multiple raters and iterative linking processes were found frequently among users of the linking rules. Qualitative analysis created themes about: preparing units of information, who links to the ICF, reliability, matching or translating concepts from text to ICF categories, information unable or difficult to capture, quantitative reporting standards and overall linking process.Discussion. This review also shows that the linking process is a useful way to apply the ICF classification in research. With over 100 articles published in 58 peer-reviewed journals across 50 focus areas, linking health and health-related information to the ICF has been shown to be a useful tool for describing, comparing and contrasting information from outcome measures used to collect quantitative data, qualitative research results and clinical patient reports across diagnoses, settings, languages and countries
Illustrating child-specific linking issues using the Child Health Questionnaire
No full textThe publication of the International Classification of Disability, Functioning and Health Children and Youth (ICF-CY) version as a derived classification of the ICF has enabled child health and disability researchers to implement the classification into their work. There is little discussion available in the literature specifically about challenges associated with connecting ICF-CY to child health instruments. The objective of this study was to apply new reflections about linking and previous linking rules to a child-specific instrument using the Child Health Questionnaire as an example. We discovered the importance of knowledge in child health assessment as a linking requisite, issues with linking information about child behavior, the importance of clarifying the vantage point from which one is linking (e.g., child, parent, or family), and the fact that one should carefully consider the true purpose or targets of items before linking them to the ICF-CY, irrespective of the simple language used in the item. Finally, we propose the use of a new not-defined abbreviation to denote items that assess overall child development: not-defined-development (nd-dv)
Interview with the AUC New Campus dorms resident director Maha Fayed
No full textIn this interview Maha Fayed, the AUC New Campus Dorms Resident Director, answers a few questions regarding her background and career at AUC. She talks about her job responsibilities in addition to the challenges and rewards she receives from being an RD
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad (Perak) / Muhammad Fayed Ahmad Kamil
No full textThis report includes details about Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad (ASNB) and my experiences throughout the 24-week internship program that ran from 1st March until 15th August 2023. I have included my duties, obligations, and the particular job that required me to work very hard and put a lot of effort in the actual working environment. I'm happy to tell that I appreciate my internship program because it has helped me learn a lot and develop my social skills.
Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad (ASNB), which is based in Ipoh, Perak, is where I completed my five months of industrial training. It was one of the best experiences of my life and gave me a lot of experience, education, and practical exposure to the workplace. I got to experience a real workplace, which I had never done before. I was in charge of creating documents, filling them out, batching transactions, creating office checklists, and providing customer care. This professional development can help me develop into a disciplined, self-assured, and authoritative individual. I now have a better understanding of financial institutions, which will in part aid me in deciding on a career once I graduate.
By collecting the required information, providing illustrative examples, and employing industry-standard analytical methodologies such SWOT analysis tools, this research seeks to identify and analyze the Amanah Saham Nasional Berhad (ASNB) organization performance and current issue. Two areas have been highlighted by using the SWOT analysis tools, namely internal elements (Strength and Weaknesses) and external factors (Opportunities and Threat)
Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis
No full textCryoglobulinemic vasculitis is a small- and medium-sized vasculitis characterized by immune complex deposition in various tissues. Cryoglobulins (CGs) are cold precipitable immunoglobulins that redissolve upon heating. Causes of cryoglobulinemia include infections with hepatitis C virus as the leading cause, autoimmune diseases, and lymphoproliferative disorders. Many mechanisms contribute to its pathogenesis, among which there are roles for microorganisms with their molecular mimicry, the rheumatoid factor, and host gene mutations. Other factors reported include adaptive and innate immunity dysregulation, epigenetics, as well as the physicochemical properties of cryoglobulins like hyperviscosity and self-aggregation in type І CG. Clinical manifestations are attributed to hyperviscosity in the monoclonal type І. The mixed types II, III can have cutaneous, musculoskeletal, neurological, renal, cardio-pulmonary, and other organ manifestations. There is an increased risk of malignancy with non-Hodgkin lymphoma being the classical complication. The differential diagnosis includes a wide array of disease entities that need to be considered. Diagnosis requires many modalities: laboratory, imaging, and microscopic. Treatment should be tailored based on disease severity and the underlying cause. Following the successful introduction of direct-acting anti-HCV drugs, autoimmune and lymphoproliferative disorders substituted HCV as the leading cause of CGs. Relapse of Cryoglobulinemic vasculitis was however reported following successful virus eradication
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
A fancy day in my life
No full textI am Soha Fayed, a Journalism senior at the American university in Cairo (AUC). This project is produced for the for the Audio Production course in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at The American University in Cairo. The course is taught by Professor Kim Fox. Hanady Omran is the teaching assistant. Listen to a fancy day in my life where i get ready for my cousin\u27s wedding. Script link: docs.google.com/document/d/1lcMzn…-uBo25Xr_Cc/edit# All of the NAT sounds and narration used in this audio was recorded using a zoom H5 recorder. The #AUCdiaries project is an oral history project that documents the life of the AUC community. The project was initiated by Kim Fox in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication (JRMC) along with Hoda Mostafa, Maha Bali and Nadine Aboulmagd, all from the Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT). The bulk of the content that was created for the #AUCdiaries podcasts was completed by students as part of AUC courses. As such, this is both a digital pedagogy project, since students learn while producing, and a digital scholarship project, since the output is considered to be digital scholarship
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