538 research outputs found
What Mum Taught Us: Valuable Lessons and Outstanding Hospitality, Including Precious Mesopotamian Recipes
No full textThis book would not have been possible without the existence of that brilliant, vivid, bright, superb, wonderful, luminous, radiant, and very beautiful person whom the authors simply refer to as ‘Mum.’ The Authors’ mother was always there for them as they went through the highs and lows of their lives, always encouraging and helping them throughout her life, and this help continued even when the authors became adults. She continued to be a source of great help until she answered God’s call and went into her eternal sleep on that Wednesday afternoon in March of 2016.
This book is written by her five children and is an attempt to keep Bathqyomo Marine Khoury-Issa’s memory alive.
The authors’ mother hailed from Mesopotamia, “the land between the two rivers.” Mesopotamia is the place that is referred to as the“Cradle of Western Civilization.” Therefore, it was worthwhile to mention in this book some of the literature that talks about this great civilization that the authors’ parents brought them nearer to by what they taught, told and asked them to read in history books. The recipes included in this book were taught to the authors by their mother, and thus have a Mesopotamian origin.
This book is dedicated to the authors’ mother, Bathqyomo Marine Khoury-Issa, with her unique characteristics as a spouse, mother and matriarch of the Issa Family. Her care put continues to exist in the food she used to cook (both main dishes and sweets), the care she gave to the garden, the way she faced life and the way she welcomed people into her home and family
Smart technology applications in business environments
No full textTechnology continues to make great strides in society by providing opportunities for advancement, inclusion, and global competency. As new systems and tools arise, novel applications are created as well. Smart Technology Applications in Business Environments is an essential reference source for the latest scholarly research on the risks and opportunities of utilizing the latest technologies in different aspects of society such as education, healthcare systems, and corporations. Featuring extensive coverage on a broad range of topics and perspectives including virtual reality, robotics, and social media, this publication is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, students, and practitioners seeking current research on the improvement and increased productivity from the implementation of smart technologie
Fundumental One-Dimensional Analysis of Photo-Diodes
No full textTitle: Fundumental One-Dimensional Analysis of Photo-Diodes, Author: T.B. Remple, Location: Thodethe program developed by A.M. Start, in his paper, Fundamental One-Dimentional Analysis of Transistors, Philips Research Report Supplements, #4, 1976, has been modified to handle high voltage, reversed biased p-i-n photo-diodes. The physical involved in the development of stark;s model is summarized and three different p-i-n diodes are analyzed. A Schottky barrier is also analyzed by assuming the metal contact is a very highly doped semiconductor material. A listing of the program is given in the appendices, as well as a description of the program and a user's guide. Te program is written in Fortran, was run on a CDC 6400 in double precision (giving 29 digits accuracy), requiring 45 k of memory and 300 to 1000 seconds run time.ThesisMaster of Engineering (ME
Wiki tool in higher education: An Australian Perspective
No full textThis paper aims to examine the challenges of and perceptions about promoting students’ learning, communication, and interaction via the Wiki tool in the blackboard platform. Wiki intends to sustain and advance students’ professional and personal skills, the former ones including reading, writing, research, information, critical thinking, decision making, technology, digital oral presentation, drawing (i.e. concept maps), teamwork, and languages, and the latter ones including motivation, leadership, negotiation, communication, problem solving, time management, reflection, self-management, and self-appraisal. Additionally, integrating Wiki in teaching and learning will improve students’ work performance, productivity, and self-confidence, as these skills are needed for not only the current study, but also the workplace in the future. Additionally, using this tool in teaching and learning, especially in the higher education, can bring some challenges to the lecturer and students, particularly in the presentation and marking. This paper will discuss the Wiki implementation in the postgraduate unit at an Australian university. The study results confirmed that using Wiki in the postgraduate unit at an Australian university enhanced students’ personal and professional skills; in addition, students learned and absorbed the new concepts and cutting-edge-knowledge of the ITS65 unit, i.e. sustainability and Green IT
From DOS to Unicode: a literature review and a Syriac (Aramaic) standpoint
No full textThis paper aims at presenting a Syriac (Aramaic) viewpoint of the reposition of such an ancient language from a Disk Operating System DOS to UNICODE. This is of importance especially when this relates to adopting technology to the Ancient Classical Syriac (Aramaic), especially with the scholars claims that this language is the most ancient amongst the world languages, and consider it as one of the oldest with its characteristic, unique and original way of writing that started on tablets of clay. Syriac (Aramaic) is one of the Semitic tongues in which parts of the Holy Bible, such as the Prophecy of Daniel and the Gospel according to St. Matthew were revealed. Syriac (Aramaic) was the lingua franca of the area from Middle East to China; in a manner as Latin was the lingua franca of Old Europe. Syriac (Aramaic) was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent, and here lies the challenge to develop the script and font of such an ancient language and establish that marriage between the ancient world and the most modern technology
CHAINels: Journal
No full textA group of three students worked a couple of months at CHAINels for their computer science bachelor project. In these months a recommendation algorithm was designed and implemented in CHAINels. The recommendation algorithm recommends posts to a company and those posts are shown in the Journal which was also made during this project. In this report, every step of the design and implementation of the Journal and recommendation algorithm is explained.Software TechnologyElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Solving the Plan Coordination Problem
No full textIn this thesis we focus on implicit coordination for multi-agent planning problems. In such problems, agents are not able or willing to cooperate with each other and hence we need to perform pre-planning coordination in order to ensure that merging all their plans always results in a feasible joint plan. More specifically, we are interested in finding a minimal cardinality set of constraints such that when add this set to the multi-agent planning problem, no infeasible joint plan can be constructed, whatever local plan each agent develops. Finding such a minimal cardinality set is known as the PLAN COORDINATION PROBLEM (PC) which has been proven to be ?p2 -complete [44]. Previous work has focussed on approximation and special cases for PC, however some scenarios require or allow for exact solutions. Also, smaller instances might be solvable in reasonable time. This thesis discusses several exact solving methods and combines them into one exact algorithm that is able to solve instances with task sizes up to 50 planarcs within the hour.Department of AlgorithmicsSoftware EngineeringElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
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