29 research outputs found
DRAG-ALZ-1, a first model of monthly total road demand, accident frequency, severity and victims by category, and of mean speed on highways, Algeria 1970–2007
No full textGUJARATI HANDWRITTEN NUMERAL OPTICAL CHARACTER THROUGH NEURAL NETWORK AND SKELETONIZATION
No full textThis paper deals with an optical character recognition (OCR) system for handwritten Gujarati numbers. One may find so much of work for Indian languages like Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Bangala, Malayalam, Gurumukhi etc, but Gujarati is a language for which hardly any work is traceable especially for handwritten characters. The features of Gujarati digits are abstracted by four different profiles of digits. Skeletonization and binarization are also done for preprocessing of handwritten numerals before their classification. This work has achieved approximately 80,5% of success rate for Gujarati handwritten digit identification
Inter-doubt dialogue in Slimane Benaïssa’s Prophètes sans dieu
No full textSlimane Benaïssa is a Franco-Algerian playwright and novelist of Ibadi Muslim and Chaoui Amazigh (Berber) heritage. In his play Prophètes sans dieu (1998), written and staged in France during the 1990s conflict in Algeria, Benaïssa provides a platform for an imaginary dialogue between an actor playing Moses, an actor playing Jesus, and the author who refuses to represent the prophet Mohammed, out of reverence for sacred texts and respect for (fellow) Muslims. In this way, Benaïssa attempts to straddle the sacrilegious and the sublime through a philosophical, quasi-theological debate interrogating the potential of the Abrahamic connection to both unify and divide. Through an analysis of counterfactual mise-en-scène, role play, and word play, this article reveals that, behind the apparent humor in Benaïssa’s play, there is a sharp indictment of the instrumentalization of religion, an openness to (self-)questioning, and a sensibility to doubt. The playwright challenges assumptions and invites interfaith dialogue, while remaining wary of organized religion and advocating an inclusive laïcité. Moreover, Benaïssa poses a double critique of French colonization and theocratic dictatorship, arguing that with independence must come freedom of conscience alongside freedom of speech. In this way, the stage becomes a site of inter-doubt dialogue, questioning the limits of representation, faith, and freedom
Selection of the best alternative for a road project to replace a section in a flood-prone area using GIS and AMC tools
No full textDecision-making involves the selection from various possible alternatives and generally implicates huge financial resources. In addition, one characteristic of a territory making it difficult to make a decision is its multi-criteria aspect. These multi-criteria generally have antagonistic effects and analytical methods are most congruent for solving this kind of difficult decision-making situation. The work presented in this article focuses on the problem of decision-making in order to identify the most favorable road alignment with regard to a series of topographical, geometric, geological and economic criteria. The main goal of this study is to select the best road alignment project to replace part of the road section of the CW 42 connecting the city of Sidi Belattar to National Road 90 (RN 90) using GIS and AMC tools. This road section has been blocked several times in recent years during rare winter flooding. The proposed approach deals with the following points: First, determination of the relevant criteria using GIS, then evaluation and classification of the various alternatives by applying the AHP method using AMC Expert-choice software and PROMETHEE-GAIA algorithms (laboratory-developed web.d-sight software, coded SMG, ULB). Four variants were recommended to replace the vulnerable section. From these four variants a classification was made, according to the two methods AHP and PROMETHEE. The calculated consistency of the results confirms the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Finally, Alternative 2 and Alternative 1 were ranked first by both AHP and PROMETHEE methods and are therefore a recommended choice. This work aims at helping decision makers to rank four road projects of the study area in order to replace the most vulnerable section
Antenna diversity for a narrow-band successive-cancellation multiuser detector
No full textElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Modern Algerian theatre : translations and critical analysis of three plays by Kateb Yacine, Abdelkader Alloula and Slimane Benaissa
No full textThis thesis argues that the assumption that there is no tradition of theatre or the performing arts in general in the Arab World because Islam does not allow figurative arts is not well founded. It shows how and why new theatrical trends have emerged in the Arab World and have become successful. Thus, the study starts with Chapter One - 'The Arab World And Theatical Tradition' - which is a general survey of Arab theatre including aspects of performance arts throughout history. This is followed by a survey of the emergence and development of modern Algerian theatre
in which the factors behind this emergence and the success of the three trends described in this study are analysed. These are illustrated through three plays by three
major contemporary playwrights in three similar sections each including a biography of the author with particular emphasis on his theatre career and his views on theatre in
Algeria and an annotated translation of a selected play followed by a commentary. A major concern of this work has been to make available through original translations
important plays from the contemporary Algerian theatre that have not previously been published. Chapter Two deals with Kateb Yacine and includes three parts: a) The life of Kateb Yacine - b) An annotated translation of Falistin Maghdura (Palestine Betrayed). - c) A commentary on the play.
Chapter Three deals with Abdelkader Alloula and includes a) The life of the playwright - b) An annotated translation of Al-Ajwad (The Story of The Generous People - c) A commentary on the play.
Chapter Four deals with Slimane Benaissa and includes: a) The life of the playwright - b) An annotated translation of Bu-lam zid Al-Guddam (Carry on Bu-lam- c) A commentary on the play.
The thesis closes with concluding observations
О полноте осцилляционных пространств
No full textThe author is supported by the research project CMCU 99/F1506
Amnesia and Revelation in Algerian Contemporary French-speaking Theater: Au loin, les caroubiers by Fatima Gallaire and Mémoire à la dérive by Slimane Benaïssa
No full textThe unworthy practices of the war of independence – such as infiltration, betrayal and torture – have had lasting effects on Algerian communities. This damage was insufficiently recognized and taken into account in the construction of the history and identity of the country. Yet, as Ricoeur shows in his work on historical memory 1, any concealment, any omission in the treatment of the history of a community leaves a door open for the return of the repressed. Any attempt at forgiveness and reconciliation is doomed to failure. This is also the hypothesis developed by Benjamin Stora in La gangrène et l’oubli2. The subject of amnesic amnesty granted to executioners or traitors reappears throughout the works of Algerian contemporary French-speaking playwrights.
This paper seeks to put into perspective the correlation between lack of memory and the resurgence of the wounds of history through the analysis of two plays, written by Slimane Benaissa and Fatima Gallaire. These authors from the same generation have chosen to write some of their drama in French, but always in order to directly evoke the history and problems of their native country. Both also question the paradoxical position in which they find themselves as Algerian and Berber writers steeped in French culture. Au loin, les caroubiers (1993), by Fatima Gallaire, depicts the reunion, fifteen years after independence, of an Algerian Muslim family with a “pied-noir” family of French origin. This meeting is marred by painful revelations. The revelation of a forgotten identity is also the primary dramaturgical principle of Mémoires à la dérive (2001), by Benaissa, where the character of the author, suffering from amnesia and unable to write, realizes that the French actor in his company who wants to help him recover his memory, was one of the executioners of his father, a “fellagha” who disappeared during the war
Radicalització i radicalitats
No full textThe author starts from the irruption of the concept of radicalization in political and social
discourses to analyze the evolution of the concept, the concepts that have been derived from
it and its treatment. He speaks of a distortion of the concept and bets on recovering its complexity, both in terms of its forms (different types of radicalization), and in terms of what
causes or contributes to the development of these phenomena (speaks of multicausality and
the need for an anthropological, sociological, psychological and political approach, among
others). On the other hand, the author is critical of the commitment to an almost-therapeutic “deradicalization” made by the French state, which generated more than disappointing results, and is more confident in the current commitment based on “prevention”, while
pointing out the limitations of the training of social work professionals (largely the result of
general training deficits in the French education system) to tackle this task with solvency. In
the final section, the author points out what, in his opinion, are some of the main deficits,
which, as they could be alleviated, would have an impact on a better approach to the phenomena of violent radicalization and, in general, on a better understanding. of many other
contemporary social phenomena that develop in parallel to thisL’autor parteix de la irrupció del concepte de radicalització en els discursos polítics i socials per analitzar l’evolució del concepte, dels conceptes que se n’han derivat i del seu tractament. Parla d’una distorsió del concepte i aposta per recuperar la seva complexitat, tant pel que fa a les seves formes (diferents tipus de radicalització), com pel que fa a allò que provoca o contribueix al desenvolupament d’aquests fenòmens (parla de multicausalitat i de necessitat d’un abordatge antropològic, sociològic, psicològic i politològic, entre altres). Per altra part l’autor es mostra crític amb l’aposta per una “desradicalització” quasi-terapèutica que va fer l’Estat francès, que va generar uns resultats més que decebedors, i es mostra més confiat per l’aposta actual basada en la “prevenció”, si bé assenyala les limitacions de la formació dels professionals del treball social (en bona mesura resultat de dèficits de formació generals en el sistema educatiu francès) per a abordar amb solvència aquesta tasca. A l’apartat final l’autor apunta els que a parer seu són alguns dels principals dèficits, que en la mesura que es poguessin pal·liar, repercutirien en un millor abordatge dels fenòmens de radicalització violenta i, en general, en una millor comprensió de molts altres fenòmens socials contemporanis que es desenvolupen en paral·lel a aques
Radicalització i radicalitats
No full textThe author starts from the irruption of the concept of radicalization in political and social discourses to analyze the evolution of the concept, the concepts that have been derived from it and its treatment. He speaks of a distortion of the concept and bets on recovering its complexity, both in terms of its forms (different types of radicalization), and in terms of what causes or contributes to the development of these phenomena (speaks of multicausality and the need for an anthropological, sociological, psychological and political approach, among others). On the other hand, the author is critical of the commitment to an almost-therapeutic “deradicalization” made by the French state, which generated more than disappointing results, and is more confident in the current commitment based on “prevention”, while pointing out the limitations of the training of social work professionals (largely the result of general training deficits in the French education system) to tackle this task with solvency. In the final section, the author points out what, in his opinion, are some of the main deficits, which, as they could be alleviated, would have an impact on a better approach to the phenomena of violent radicalization and, in general, on a better understanding. of many other contemporary social phenomena that develop in parallel to this.L’autor parteix de la irrupció del concepte de radicalització en els discursos polítics i socials per analitzar l’evolució del concepte, dels conceptes que se n’han derivat i del seu tractament. Parla d’una distorsió del concepte i aposta per recuperar la seva complexitat, tant pel que fa a les seves formes (diferents tipus de radicalització), com pel que fa a allò que provoca o contribueix al desenvolupament d’aquests fenòmens (parla de multicausalitat i de necessitat d’un abordatge antropològic, sociològic, psicològic i politològic, entre altres). Per altra part l’autor es mostra crític amb l’aposta per una “desradicalització” quasi-terapèutica que va fer l’Estat francès, que va generar uns resultats més que decebedors, i es mostra més confiat per l’aposta actual basada en la “prevenció”, si bé assenyala les limitacions de la formació dels professionals del treball social (en bona mesura resultat de dèficits de formació generals en el sistema educatiu francès) per a abordar amb solvència aquesta tasca. A l’apartat final l’autor apunta els que a parer seu són alguns dels principals dèficits, que en la mesura que es poguessin pal·liar, repercutirien en un millor abordatge dels fenòmens de radicalització violenta i, en general, en una millor comprensió de molts altres fenòmens socials contemporanis que es desenvolupen en paral·lel a aquest
