229 research outputs found
Alif 20: The hybrid literary text: Arab creative authors writing in foreign languages
No full textThis issue of Alif is devoted to exploring creative texts by authors from the Arab world (including Karim Alrawi, Edward Said, Rafik Schami, and Ahdaf Soueif) who write in foreign languages: Dutch, English, French, German, and Hebrew. Contributors: English Section: Shereen Abou El Naga, Magda Amin, Soraya Antonius, Anne Armitage, Andrea Flores, Nadia Gindi, Richard Jacquemond, Mahmoud El Lozy, Amin Malak, Khaled Mattawa, Cynthia Nelson, Marlous Willemsen. Arabic Section: Etel Adnan, Mahamed Lamine Ould Moulay Brahim, Ferial J. Ghazoul, Edwar al-Kharrat, Walid El Khachab, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Samia Mehrez, Dalia Said Mostafa, Tahia Abdel Nasser, Mahmoud Qassim, Bashir El-Siba\u27i, Anton Shammas, Muhammad Siddiq, Ahdaf Soueif.https://fount.aucegypt.edu/faculty_books/1169/thumbnail.jp
#747 Women and the New East.
No full textParticipants include: Begum Shereen Aziz Ahmed, Wife of the Ambassador of Pakistan to the U.S. Mrs. Hazami Fekini, Wife of the Ambassador of Libya to the U.S. Lillian T. Mowrer, Lecturer and Author of Journalist's Wife and the Indomitable John Scot
Principals\u27 Communication Styles and Processes and Their Relationship to School Performance
No full textThis study aimed to describe principals\u27 communication styles and processes and their relationships to school performance in Al Ain city in the UAE as perceived by school staff. The study was guided by three research questions and used the mixed research method. Data for this study were collected through a questionnaire and semi-structured phone interviews. The questionnaire was divided into four sections. The first section included demographic information of participants. The second part included 26 statements that were used to identify the communication processes at school. The third part was comprised of 25 statements that were used to describe the communication styles of the school principals. The last section consisted of 25 statements used to measure school performance. There were also four open-ended questions in the questionnaire that were used with the interview to probe and clarify the participants\u27 responses. The questionnaire was applied in 40 schools in Al Ain, and it was completed by 667 male and female school staff. The means, cumulative means, standard deviations, Kruskal Wallis test, Mann-Whitney test and qualitative data analysis were used to describe communication processes and styles. Pearson r and qualitative data analysis were used to answer the second question about the relationship between communication processes and principals\u27 communication styles and school performance. The third question was answered by analyzing the open-ended questions and interviews. The results of the study showed that school principals use a variety of communication processes and communication styles to communicate with different stakeholders. The study found that communication processes and styles correlated with school performance in different degrees and directions. Finally, school staff perceived that there were relationships between the principals\u27 communication styles and processes and school performance
Race and Criminal Justice in Canada: An Overview
No full textCanadian Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2014. University of Manitoba, Faculty of Law, Winnipeg, M
A Dirichlet Distribution-Based Trust-Adaptive Ensemble Approach for Pneumonia Classification from Chest X-Ray Images
No full textPneumonia diagnosis from chest radiographs is hindered by AI model variability and limited decision transparency.We present a deployment-ready, abstaining Dirichlet-evidence ensemble for paediatric CXR triage that elevates “Indeterminate”to a first-class outcome and implements dynamic, trust-adaptive weighting. Eight diverse pre-trained models each provide binary predictions, which are converted to three-way CXR supports,scaled by ongoing trust scores, and fused using a Dirichlet-evidence mechanism. Selective gates on class separation and pooled evidence allow the ensemble to defer, with auditable reasoning, when the decision is uncertain. On a 200-image paediatric hold-out, simple majority voting achieved 94.5% accuracy but dropped to 83.0%when two training models were intentionally inverted. At a fixed operating point, the proposed ensemble maintained zero errors(100% accuracy) on decided cases in both settings, abstaining on only 1–2% of studies instead of issuing incorrect labels. Unlike prior work, our system tightly integrates uncertainty, selective prediction, and per-case logging for clinical governance. This framework advances safe, interpretable automation for paediatric pneumonia assessment
A Neutrosophic Approach for Multi-Factor Analysis of Uncertainty and Sustainability of Supply Chain Performance
No full textCOII ”long fragment” reliability in characterisation and classification of forensically important flies
No full textIntroduction : Molecular identification of collected flies is important in forensic entomological analysis guided with accurate evaluation of the chosen genetic marker. The selected mitochondrial DNA segments can be used to properly identify species. The aim of the present study was to determine the reliability of the 635-bp-long cytochrome oxidase II gene (COII) in identification of forensically important flies.
Material and methods: Forty-two specimens belonging to 11 species ( Calliphoridae: Chrysomya albiceps , C. rufifacies , C. megacephala , Lucilia sericata , L. cuprina ; Sarcophagidae: Sarcophaga carnaria , S. dux , S. albiceps , Wohlfahrtia nuba ; Muscidae: Musca domestica , M. autumnalis ) were analysed. The selected marker was amplified using PCR followed by sequencing. Nucleotide sequence divergences were calculated using the K2P (Kimura two-parameter) distance model, and a NJ (neighbour-joining) phylogenetic tree was constructed.
Results : All examined specimens were assigned to the correct species, formed distinct monophyletic clades and ordered
in accordance with their taxonomic classification. Intraspecific variation ranged from 0 to 1% and interspecific variation occurred between 2 and 20%.
Conclusions : The 635-bp-long COII marker is suitable for clear differentiation and identification of forensically relevant flies
Enhanced Torsion Mechanism of Small-Scale Reinforced Concrete Beams with Spiral Transverse Reinforcement
No full textThe nonlinear torsional behaviour of small-scale reinforced concrete (RC) beams with continuous staggered spiral as transverse reinforcement stirrups is experimentally investigated. Twelve miniatures RC beams were tested under torsion load considering the closed shape of stirrups and compared with continuous staggered spiral ones. All miniatures beams were scaled down to be one-eighth the prototype beam size. The main parameters considered in this research are stirrup spacing and its configurations. Small scale RC beams were taken into account in the existing study because of their construction simplicity and financial feasibility. Mortar without coarse aggregate was applied instead of concrete to reduce the size effect of applying small scale models. Ongoing research trials have been carried out to obtain an efficacious approach to boost torsion failure mechanisms because brittle torsion failure of RC structural elements should be avoided. This study emphasized boosted torsion capacity, dissipated energy, and helical crack propagation. During testing, the primary cracking torsion moment, ultimate torsion moment, peak twist angle, and failure mechanism of the beams were inspected. The use of spiral stirrups showed great enhancement of the torsional behaviour of samples. It was observed that using spiral stirrups rather than closed stirrups could result in a substantial increase in torsion capacity and dissipated energy of 87.7% and 89.8%, respectively. As a result, the predicted capacities of the RC beams prototype were estimated in detail, taking account the scale down factor implemented by the authors. Values obtained based on international specifications and guidelines were used to compare the experimental results. Doi: 10.28991/CEJ-2022-08-11-019 Full Text: PD
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