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The Life and Death of Saddam and Osama
Get PDFA version of this article appears in the May 5, 2003 issue of the United States publication, Newsday.
The author compares the impacts and legacies of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden
The relationship between overall quality, internet usage, user satisfaction, task-technology fit, and performance impact among employees within public sector in Yemen / Osama Mutahar Ahmed Isaac
Get PDFThe internet/World Wide Web (WWW) has become increasingly indispensable in the daily life of most individuals and has significantly impacted every facet of operations in organizations. It is, therefore, critical to understand its actual use in an organization because of its facility to be a platform for knowledge management and capability to transform knowledge acquisition, improve task efficiency, enhance communication quality, and strengthen decision quality. Yet, despite its importance and world-wide reach, internet usage in Yemen is one of the lowest among the world's countries. Organizations around the world are looking for the development and keep up to date with emerging technology. One of the sectors that are affected by the growth of Internet technology is the public sector. Many researchers have studied and proposed theories and models of technology usage in order to predict and explain user behavior with technology to account for the rapid change in both technologies and their environments. Based on three well-known topic in information technology; Technology Acceptance, Task-Technology Fit and Information Systems Success within five well-known theories and models (TAM, UTAUT, TTF, DMISM and Wang & Lai model), this study developed and validated a multi-dimensional model, Quality of Technology Usage Model (QTUM), to better understand internet usage among employees within public sector from an integrated perspective of technological, individual, social and organizational. Furthermore, proposed and validated two second-order Models within the full model; overall quality which contains seven first-order constructs (system quality, information quality, service quality, task quality, individual quality, social quality and top management quality) and performance impact which contains four first-order constructs ( process, knowledge acquisition, communication quality and decision quality). A survey questionnaire was used to collect primary data from 530 employees within all thirty government ministries-institutions in Yemen. The data analysis start with initial exploratory factor analysis (EFA), followed by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and lastly structural equation modelling (SEM) via AMOS
The relationship between overall quality, internet usage, user satisfaction, task-technology fit, and performance impact among employees within public sector in Yemen / Osama Mutahar Ahmed Isaac
Get PDFThe internet / world Wide Web (WWW) has become increasingly indispensable in the daily life of most individuals and has significantly impacted every facet of operations in organizations. It is, therefore, critical to understand its actual use in an organization because of its facility to be a platform for knowledge management and capability to transform knowledge acquisition, improve task efficiency, enhance communication quality, and strengthen decision quality. Yet, despite its importance and world-wide reach, internet usage in Yemen is one of the lowest among the world's countries. Organizations around the world are looking for the development and keep up to date with emerging technology. One of the sectors that are affected by the growth of Internet technology is the public sector. Many researchers have studied and proposed theories and models of technology usage in order to predict and explain user behavior with technology to account for the rapid change in both technologies and their environments. Based on three well-known topic in information technology; Technology Acceptance, .Task-Technology Fit and Information Systems Success within five well-known theories and models (TAM, UTAUT, TTF, DMISM and Wang & Lai model), this study developed and validated a multi-dimensional model, Quality of Technology Usage Model (QTUM), to better understand internet usage among employees within public sector from an integrated perspective of technological, individual, social and organizational. Furthermore, proposed and validated two second-order Models within the full model; overall quality which contains seven first order constructs (system quality, information quality, service quality, task quality, individual quality, social quality and top management quality) and performance impact which contains four first-order constructs ( process, knowledge acquisition, communication quality and decision quality). A survey questionnaire was used to collect primary data from 530 employees within all thirty government ministries-institutions in Yemen. The data analysis start with initial exploratory factor analysis (EFA), followed by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and lastly structural equation modelling (SEM) via AMOS. The research proposed model developed with five core constructs; overall quality as an independent variable, performance impact as the dependent variable, user satisfaction, actual usage and task-technology fit as mediator variables. The research proposed model evidenced by the goodness of fit of the model to the data, explained 81% of the variance in performance impact. The results from the descriptive analysis show that employees strongly agreed that using the Internet helped to improve task process, enhance knowledge acquisition, improve communication quality, and moderately agreed that Internet helped to improve decision quality. Results also shows that the majority of employees surveyed have the awareness of the quality of internet information, are dissatisfied with service and top management quality, have the confidence to browse the WWW, use a search engine and send an e-mail, but do not have the confidence to download and upload files. They did agree with the notion that family, friends, and coworkers think that using the internet is a good idea. Although employees find the internet easy to use, flexible, useful and enjoyable, they consider its speed to be very low, it is not secure, and its subscription is not reasonably priced. The findings of the multivariate analysis demonstrate three main results. First, overall quality has a strong positive impact on user satisfaction, actual usage, and task-technology fit. Second, user satisfaction, actual usage, and task-technology fit have great influence on performance impact. Third, user satisfaction and task-technology fit mediate the relationship between overall quality and performance impact. The result of this study will be able to provide insights into what are the factors that influence successful implementation of internet and human performance in Yemen's government organizations. Findings provide significant benefits not only for individual employees but also to the Yemeni public sector as well as the country if they utilize this information technology. A number of practical implications were found for this study such as promoting employees to make full use of the Internet in their work and improving professional practice, professional development and quality of work. Significantly, the implications of using the proposed integrated model will help promote Internet usage within government ministries and may be applied to all public sector in Yemen
Osama H and Abdulaziz S A, Journal of Innovative Engineering 2013, 1(1):2 A Novel Image Watermarking Scheme Based on
No full textCopyright: © 2013 Osama H and Abdulaziz S A. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. For secure transformation of digital media through insecure channels, digital media must be protected for copyright allegations. We have developed watermarking technique in the frequency domain to hide secure information in the DCT coefficients. DCT coefficients are modulated by Dither Modulation. We have increased the modulation step to be able to entirely recover the embedded data (watermark) and increasing the robustness of our proposed algorithm to affine transforms and geometrical attacks. Our algorithm showed simplicity in implementation and robustness against different attacks
Outcomes of African-American kidney-transplant recipients treated with sirolimus, tacrolimus, and corticosteroids
No full textAn Image of Osama Bin Laden in Middle East Media
No full textBakalaura darbā „Osamas bin Ladena tēls Tuvo Austrumu medijos” tiek analizēts kāds ir
bin Ladena tēls vadošajos reģiona medijos, kā arī tiek apskatīts kādas tendences ir novērojamas
Tuvo Austrumu plašsaziņas līdzekļos. Darba mērķis ir, apskatot bin Ladena tēlu, dot atbildi uz
jautājumu, vai Tuvo Austrumu mediji ir neatkarīgi un kāda ir viņu loma bin Ladena tēla
veidošanā. Autors nonāca pie secinājuma, ka bin Ladena tēls medijos ir atkarīgs no mediju
īpašnieku veiktās politikas. Darbs sastāv no 3 nodaļām. Darbā tiek apskatīta Osamas bin Ladena
biogrāfija, Tuvo Austrumu mediju attiecības ar politiku, kā arī tiek analizēts kā mediji attēloja bin
Ladenu pēc viņa nāves.Bachelor’s degree research paper “An Image of Osama bin Laden in Middle East media”
examines bin Laden's image in the leading mass media in the region, as well as trends observed
in the Middle East media. The aim of the work is by analyzing image of bin Laden to give answer
to the question whether the Middle East media are independent and what is their role in creating
bin Laden's image. Author concluded that bin Laden's image in Middle East media depends on
the media owner's policy. The paper consists of 3 chapters. The paper examines Osama bin
Laden’s biography, Middle East media relations with politics, as well as analyzing how the media
portrayed the bin Laden after his death
Interview with Osama Anwar Okasha
No full textمقابلة مع الأديب والسيناريست المصري، أسامة أنور عكاشة ، يناقش فيها مهنته الفنية الممتدة الأثر بالأدب والدراما والإذاعة المصرية، ويتحدث عن أهم أعماله الأولى مثل الإعداد التلفزيوني لروايته "البيت الكبير،" ومسلسل "الحصار،" و"الشهد والدموع." كما يتحدث عن تأثر جيله من الكتاب بكتابة الروائي نجيب محفوظ، وعن أعماله التي تؤرخ الواقع الإجتماعي مثل مسلسل "ليالي الحلمية،" ونوع درامي آخر يقوم على الفكاهه مثل مسلسل "أنا وأنت وبابا في المشمش." قام بالمقابلة حسن شمس الدين.An interview with Egyptian author and screenwriter Osama Anwar Okasha, in which he discusses his extended writing career, and how it impacted Egyptian literature, dramas, and radio. He also talks about his most important early works, such as the television adaptations of his novel "The Great House", the TV show "The Siege", and "Witness and Tears." He also talks about the influence of Naguib Mahfouz on his generation of writers and explains his attempt to chronicle social reality through his work, such as “Nights of el-Hilmiya,” and through humorous drama, such as his show “Dad, You, & I in Dismay” The interview was conducted by Hassan Shams Al-Din
Interview with Osama Anwar Okasha
No full textمقابلة مع الأديب والسيناريست المصري، أسامة أنور عكاشة، يناقش فيها مهنته الفنية الممتدة الأثر بالأدب والدراما المصرية، ويتحدث عن العناصر التي شكلت فنه ومنها الطبيعة في منطقة شمال الدلتا التي تربى فيها وشكلت وجدانه وذهنيته الفنية، وبعض القراءات التي أثرت فيه مثل كتاب "الأيام،" لطه حسين، و"العبرات،" للمنفلوطي من بين الكثير من الكتب الأخري. وأخيراً، يتحدث عن دراسته بكلية الآداب قسم علم نفس وعرض كتاباته في أسرة الطلائع ومسابقات نادي القصة. قام بالمقابلة حسن شمس الدين.An interview with Egyptian author and screenwriter Osama Anwar Okasha, in which he discusses his career and the different factors that influenced his art, such as the nature in the northern Delta region where he grew up and formed his artistic conscience and mentality. He also mentions novels that influenced him, such as "The Days," by Taha Hussein and “The Lessons,” by Al-Manfaluti, among others. Okasha also talks about his studies at the Faculty of Arts at the Department of Psychology, and about his early writings. The interview was conducted by Hassan Shams Al-Din
Osama bin Laden and Al-Kaida in the consciousness of the inhabitants of the West Africa
No full textThe author of the article put the question about the cause of the popularity of the Osama bin Laden and Al-Kaida in Africa. He wonders if Africans are susceptible to the ideas preached by Al-Kaida, would they be the supporters of the terrorists? Wearing t-shirts and hanging posters with the likeness of bin Laden shows the identification with the ideas preaching by Al-Kaida.
Africans, mostly Muslims, are not discouraged that Osama bin Laden is guilty of the death of thousands of people. They emphasize in unison that he is the part of the Muslim community, „he is a Muslim the same as we are". For Africans, of very important value is the person who is strong and who protects the weakest and that is exactly how the image of Osama bin Laden is created for people. In the utterances of some people we can also find the effort to deny that Osama bin Laden could be the culprit of the attacks „that is not bin Laden who organized the assassination, he is Muslim and Koran tells us not to kill".
After the WTC attack the likeness of bin Laden appeared on a mass scale in Africa. It was possible to meet it in many situations. The most obvious examples being the stickers on vehicles and t-shirts worn by people of different ages. Less visible were the watches, scarf, calendars and posters. In spite of the mass media hype that sprung up around the Osama bin Laden, he is not the most popular person in the West Africa. For example, Bob Marley or Thomas Sankara are more popular.
Wearing the t-shirts or pasting the stickers showing certain symbols, images or inscriptions are some kind of declaration. It would be too great, a simplification to say that wearing the t-shirt with Obama bin Laden is likely to identify with his actions. Some people have very little concept about him, and the shirts that they are wearing are only the fashion and the popularity of the person. The inhabitants of Burkina Faso clearly emphasize that the numerous copies of the likeness of Osama bin Laden result from the fact that „here are many Muslims and bin Laden is also a Muslim, that's why they wear his t-shirts". The identification with the strong figure does not apply only to bin Laden. In the market is possible to find posters which praise the deeds of Saddam Hussein and local traditional chiefs.
Osama bin Laden is also very popular in other continents so his popularity in Africa is not surprising. His popularity doesn't mean that Africans are more susceptible to support terrorism than people from the other part of the world. Nowadays, there is no evidence for the existence of the structure of Al-Kaida in the West of Africa, with the possible exception of Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau
Case Study of Physiotherapy Treatment of Patient after Distortion of the Right Knee
Get PDFTitle of the thesis: Case Study of Physiotherapy Treatment of Patient after Distortion of the Right Knee Author: Osama Hamed Aljeheny Work placement: Centrum léčby pohybového aparátu Mediterra Summary In the bachelor thesis, which was written by myself, it is divided in two parts, general part and case study. The general part describes anatomy of knee joint, its bones, muscles, ligaments, nerves and blood supply and surgical and non-surgical approaches of therapy of the knee joint after this injury. Information about kinesiological and biomechanical point of view were discussed as well. In the practical part I analyzed procedures I have done with the patient, all examinations, conclusions, therapies and results. Last part of the bachelor thesis contains list of literature used in the bachelor thesis, it contains list of figures and tables used in the thesis, abbreviations and the ethics committee. Key words: knee joint, physiotherapy treatment, knee distortion, knee exercises, knee ligament
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