407 research outputs found
Interview with Abdel Tawab Youssef
No full textلقاء مع عبد التواب يوسف الأديب و المؤلف المصري و الذى إشتهر بالكتابة في أدب الأطفال بمناسبة إنتخابه أمين عام لإتحاد كتاب مصر. أجرى هذا اللقاء حسن شمس الدين.An interview with Abdel Tawab Youssef, Egyptian children's book author, on the occasion of his election as Secretary General of Egypt Writers' Union. Interview conducted by Hassan Shams El Din
Analyzing economic growth: what role for public investment?
Full text linkThis paper discusses the role of public investment in the determination of output growth from different theoretical and empirical points of view. The light is shed on the factors that allegedly explain the success and/or the failure of public investment policies in enhancing productivity and supporting GDP, based on a review of empirical evidence in advanced and developing economies. The downstream objective is to provide decision makers with a set of general rules-of-thumb that are likely to help them improve the macroeconomic returns of public investment. The latter are found to be significantly influenced by efficiency and profitability-based selectivity of investment projects. Countries with a relatively low capital-labor ratio usually have higher public and private capital profitability, while the public-private investment substitutability increases the likelihood of crowding out effects. The paper also gives hints on the possible existence of an optimal growth-maximizing level of public investment
Service Quality in the Finnish Health Care System and Patients’ Decisions
Full text linkCustomer service is considered an important part of any organization and one which has a direct effect on the organization income and customer satisfaction toward organization efficiency. The value of organization services could change customer attitude. Each customer has his/her expec-tations and customer services could lead to memorable experiences, positive or negative ones and change customer perception towards what the organization offers. The customer or to be more specific healthcare patient, patient satisfaction is related to sharing in the decision making for treatment, care evaluation and cost reduction. The quality of health care services is of utmost importance to society and through research knowledge can be acquired about the importance of quality, concepts and its role in health care development and recommendations can be made to help in its improvement.
In this research the author examines the Finnish healthcare system provision and policy. Research is conducted on client types, preferences and rights, and an understanding of the client’s attitude towards healthcare services and factors affecting their decisions is desired. The author aims to investigate how much the quality of customer service in the Finnish healthcare system could affect customers decisions. Does the experience of challenges in customer services direct custom-er/patient from public healthcare services to private ones or vice versa? The purpose of the thesis project to offer guidance for healthcare professionals to improve the management of the healthcare system. Guidance includes the area which are valued by customers, the painful and joyful moments during the customer journey.
The author’s objectives during the research concern knowledge discovery; to know how much health care facilities put the quality factor in consideration, to be aware health care problems, to understand the different kinds of behaviors from the perspectives of professionals or clients, to summarize the most important elements which should be in any health organization to achieve a high level of quality and to decrease the gape between our needs and what are already offered by the health care
Military Expenditure and Economic Development
Full text linkThis working paper evaluates the effect of military expenditure on development in 77 countries from different regions and income groups. In this endeavour, we use a baseline fixed-effects panel data model, the Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood (PPML) methodology and an instrumental variable (IV) estimation in order to control for endogeneity. The paper also runs robustness checks through several model extensions and spinoffs, and uses a gravity model augmented with the number of bilateral conflict casualties to verify the IV exclusion condition through the channel of trade. Initially, the results show a negative correlation between the military burden and development. This downward influence is most robust in low-income countries; it gradually dissipates as the income level of the country increases. Our findings suggest that when military spending is merely linked to conflicts and counterproductive imports of weapons, its macroeconomic influence spirals further downward. There is also evidence of a potential offsetting combination of positive economic spill-overs (e.g. stable political situation, defence offset contracts, productivity-improving military research programmes) and negative crowding out effects (e.g. less civilian public investment, non-productive military imports) among middle- and high-income countries
Ultrasonographic cervical length and risk of hemorrhage in pregnancies with placenta previa
No full textYoussef al-Sebai as a novelist
No full textBu çalışmada, 20. yüzyıl Mısır edebiyatının önemli kısa hikâye ve roman yazarlarından biri olan Yusuf es-Sibâ'î'nin hayatı, edebî kişiliği ve romanları incelenmektedir. Sibâ'î'nin yaşadığı dönem; sosyal, siyasi ve kültürel açıdan önemli pek çok olaya şahitlik etmiştir. Bu olaylar arasında, 1919 ve 1952 devrimleri, Arap-İsrail savaşı, Mısır'ın öncülük ettiği Arap birliğinin kuruluşu, kadınların bireysel ve toplumsal hak ve özgürlüklere kavuşması gibi önemli gelişmeler yer almaktadır. Bu olaylara kayıtsız kalmayan Sibâ'î, romanları aracılığıyla Mısır'ın siyasi hayatını, bağımsızlık mücadelesini ve bu süreçte yaşanan önemli gelişmeleri kurgusal aleme taşımıştır. Bu durum yazarın romanlarının, sosyal, siyasi ve kültürel anlamda zengin bir içeriğe sahip olmasını sağlamıştır. Sibâ'î'nin fantastik, gerçekçi, romantik ve psikolojik türden kaleme aldığı romanlarında ağırlıklı olarak romantik bir eğilim kendini gösteriyor olsa da romantizmi ve realizmi aynı çatı altında başarılı bir şekilde birleştirdiği görülmektedir. Bu sayede, romanlarında gerçekçi ve romantik unsurları harmanlamış ve okuyucuya etkileyici bir okuma deneyimi sunmuştur. Ayrıca Sibâ'î'nin eserleri, Mısır edebiyatında bir dönüm noktası olarak kabul edilmektedir. Bu eserler, dönemin siyasi ve toplumsal sorunlarına dair kayda değer birer belge niteliği taşımaktadır. Bu yönüyle de yazarın eserleri Mısır edebiyatının önemli bir parçasıdır ve gelecek kuşaklara aktarılması gereken bir miras olarak değerlendirilmelidir.This work focuses on the life and literary works of Youssef al-Sebai, one of the leading short story and novel writers of 20th century Egyptian literature. The period in which the author lived witnessed many important events from political, social, and cultural perspectives. Among these events were the 1919 and 1952 revolutions, the Arab-Israeli war, the establishment of the Arab unity led by Egypt, and the achievement of individual and societal rights for women. Youssef al-Sebai did not remain indifferent to these events and addressed the significant developments that occurred during Egypt's political life and struggle for independence through his works. His works demonstrate that they have a rich content in terms of social, political, and cultural meanings. Youssef al-Sebai used fantastic, realistic, romantic and psychological genres in his works. Although a romantic tendency is mainly observed in his novels, the author successfully combined romanticism and realism under the same roof. In this way, he blended realistic and romantic elements in his works and provided readers with an impressive reading experience. Furthermore, Youssef al-Sebai's works are considered a turning point in Egyptian literature. These works are regarded as important documents on the political and societal issues of their time. In this sense, the author's works are an important part of Egyptian literature and should be recognized as a legacy that needs to be passed down to future generations
Interview with Abdel Tawab Youssef
No full textمقابلة مع الأديب وكاتب كتب الأطفال، عبد التواب يوسف، يناقش فيها مهنته في كتابة كتب الأطفال وأخر دراساته في الموضوعات المتصلة بذلك المجال بجامعات أمريكية، ويتحدث عن عدة كتب مهمة مثل كتاب ""تاريخ البشرية،"" لأرنولد توينبى، كما يتحدث عن قراءات مهمة للطفل في سن المدرسة وما قبلها في موضوعات مهمة وعميقة كمناقشة الموت، الحياة والجنس. قامت بالمقابلة درية شرف الدين.An interview with writer and children's books author, Abdel Tawab Youssef, in which he discusses writing children's books and tells about books ""The History of Humanity"" by Arnold Toynbee. The interview was conducted by Doria Sharaf El-Din
THE LEVANT: ZONE OF CULTURE OR CONFLICT?
Full text linkPalestinian novelist Samir El-Youssef writes that the question in the title of this essay, “is the Levant a zone of conflict or culture?” is an ironic one indeed. Anyone with a token knowledge of the Levant, argues El-Youssef, knows that these lands are of both conflict and culture; the problem dwells in the fact that the people of the Levant need to be reminded that theirs is a land of great culture that deserves recognition and valorization as such. The author was born and brought up in Rashidiyyé—a Palestinian refugee camp in Southern Lebanon. Rashidiyyé, writes El-Youssef, was and still is as bad as a refugee camp could get. Yet, a mere fifteen minutes walk from the camp stood the ancient Phoenician port-city of Tyr; a harbour town housing the awesome vestiges of one of the greatest, most pacifist, most benevolent builders of civilization. El-Youssef concludes that "the refugee camp (in its indigence,) and the ancient city (in all its glory,) standing side by side, are a stark example of the Levant being both a land of conflict and culture."</jats:p
Towards Online Personalized-Monitoring of Human Thermal Sensation Using Machine Learning Approach
No full textsponsorship: The Author Ahmed Youssef Ali Amer is funded by a European Union Grant through the Interreg V-A Euregio Meuse-Rhine wearIT4health project. (European Union Grant through the Interreg V-A Euregio Meuse-Rhine wearIT4health project)status: Published onlin
Interview with Youssef Idris
No full textمقابلة مع الكاتب والصحفي المصري يوسف إدريس أو يوسف إدريس، شرح فيها مسيرة المؤلف في عصر الصحافة وكيف أن الصحافة كوسيلة شجعت المؤلفين على توسيع تفكيرهم تجاه المجالات العامة والنقدية. أثناء الحديث، ذكر العديد من الكتاب، مثل إدغار آلان بو، الذين كانوا صحفيين. قامت بالمقابلة ليلى محمود.An interview with Egyptian author and journalist Youssef Idris, or Yusuf Idris, in which he explains the author's process during the era of journalism and how journalism as a medium encouraged authors to broaden their thinking in which he discusses the public spheres and criticality. During the talk, he mentions several writers that started out as journalists, such as Edgar Allan Poe. The interview was conducted by Laila Mahmoud
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