234 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
Full text linkThrough 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
Alex Lubin, Never-Ending War on Terror
Full text linkAlex 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..
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
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
Correction: Corrigendum: Identification of pre-leukaemic haematopoietic stem cells in acute leukaemia
Full text linkNature 506, 328–333 (2014); doi:10.1038/nature13038 Author Fouad Yousif (of the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, Canada) should have been included in the author list after Andrew M. K. Brown with affiliation number 7 and listed in the Author Contributions as performing and analysing targeted sequencing; these omissions have been corrected in the online versions of this Article
Learning formal activities representation for automated quality control, alignment, and revision of construction schedules
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Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemAuthor requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemLimitedConstruction planning requires domain know-how, which is often ingrained with experienced construction planners through exposure to multiple projects over decades of work experience. Without explicit in-depth prior knowledge of the underlying processes, planning experts learn to form empirical associations between project problems and potential solutions. Almost in all situations, their experience is described through examples from previous projects as opposed to structured and principled knowledge. Given the lack of formal definitions and structured knowledge, transferring expert human planners' comprehensive knowledge to automated planning systems proves to be complex. And, while substantial research is conducted and many automated planning systems were developed, the complexities of actual construction projects on one hand, and the nuances between different construction approaches, on the other, have rendered the manual creation of explicit knowledge representations extremely tedious and, in many cases, entirely infeasible. Hence, most --if not all-- construction projects still rely on a single or a small group of experienced practitioners to manually perform their planning and scheduling activities.
This dissertation presents a suite of machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP) based methods and systems to learn formal construction planning and sequencing knowledge representations from existing construction records. The learned knowledge is leveraged to (1) generate lists of potential successor activities given a sequence of predecessors, (2) retrieve lists of predecessor activities required to enable the execution of a sequence of successors, (3) critique the quality of logic of an input construction schedule by identifying missing or wrong logical dependencies, (4) schedule a set of unordered activities, (5) align weekly work plans (WWPs) to master schedules following a semi-automated human-in-the-loop approach, (6) identify the implicit dependency constraints governing predecessor-successor relationships and their roles and flexibilities in an input construction schedule, and (7) revise lookahead plans to mitigate the effects of unavoidable activity delays. All the developed methods learn using free form activity descriptions and Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) tags only without any prior assumptions or requirements on the expressions used to represent construction activities. They are trained and tested on a dataset of 32 construction schedules collected from real projects from different industry segments and various construction companies. Quantitative and qualitative results are presented to show the validity and the potential of the proposed methods. Limitations and future work are discussed in detail
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