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Deterministic and Bayesian blind and semi-blind channel identification for wireless communications
No full textPreliminary report on the taxonomic revision of Fossil Equidae from Tizi’n Tadderht (Ouarzazate, Morocco)
No full textWe are reviewing the sample of fossil Equidae, belon-ging to the genus “Hipparion” s.s. (see Armour-Chelu & Bernor, 2011) from Tizi’n Tadderht (Ouarzazate, Morocco), a fossiliferous site chronologically referable to the Late Miocene.The fossiliferous locality of Tizi’n Tadderht, already known in the literature (Geraads et al., 2012; Zouhri et al., 2012), has yielded a small but significant vertebrate fossil association. It represents the first documentation of a Late Miocene vertebrate fauna in the western area of North Africa. This new fauna allows to expand the possibilities of investigation on the biogeographical and evolutionary record of the vertebrate fossils in the circum-Mediterranean are
Singular block toeplitz matrix approximation and application to multi-microphone speech dereverberation
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Celebrity endorsement, destination image and tourist intention to visit on tourism destination / Syed Samir Syed Omar
No full textPrior to the Ministry of Tourism Malaysia mission of promoting domestic tourism by local tourist, this study encompasses in exploring one creative opportunity in promoting tourism destination which is celebrity endorsement. The relationship between celebrity endorsements, destination image and tourist intention to visit towards a tourism destination were investigated. By using self-administered questionnaire adapted from previous researchers, some of the issues of interest were obtained.Samples of 412 local tourists in Kuala Lumpur has complete the set of survey questionnaire regarding the issues in order to accomplish the objective of the study. The idea is that when celebrity endorsement is communicated towards a desired target market, it could have the ability to create positive attitude towards the destination, which in turn may have positive influence on intention to visit the destination. The results show an interesting finding whereby destination image were found mediate the relationship between celebrity endorsement and intention to visit. This study will contribute to other researcher since there are few studies on celebrity endorsement in the hospitality industry especially in Malaysia. Besides that, effectiveness of celebrity endorsement in promoting tourism destination could create a large boost in sale in hospitality industry because of the increasing number of tourist to visit a particular destination
The Emergence of Analytic Philosophy and a Controversy at the Aristotelian Society: 1900-1916
No full textFor this year’s Virtual Issue, our guest editor, Omar W. Nasim, has collected together papers from the Aristotelian Society archives that represent a substantial part of a dispute that contributed to the emergence of analytic philosophy in Britain at the turn of the 20th Century. The dispute was primarily concerned with the problem of the external world – the nature of the sensible objects of perception, and how they relate to physical things and the perceiving subject. The participants in this controversy contested the nature of the appearance-reality distinction, whether it is it is possible for a thing to instantiate contrary sensible qualities at the same place and time, the distinction between presentation and representation, the nature of knowledge by acquaintance, and the nature of sense-data – e.g., whether sense-data are psychical or physical, whether they persist unperceived, and how they give rise to knowledge of the external world.
G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell were significant contributors to these debates, but so too were several philosophers whose names are now less well known: G. F. Stout, G. Dawes Hicks, Abraham Wolf, T. Percy Nunn, and S. Alexander. This Virtual Issue collects together, for the first time, the important contributions made to these debates by all of these figures. In doing so it provides a fascinating insight into the ways in which Russell’s earliest attempts to construct the external world from sense-data were influenced by the ideas and arguments of his immediate contemporaries. Omar W. Nasim’s specially commissioned introduction to the Virtual Issue sets out the historical context of these disputes about the external world, and details the prominent role played by the Aristotelian Society in making them possible
Development and democracy in the Arab World the effect of oil and civil war - by Haitham Omar Omar
No full textThesis (M.A.)--American University of Beirut, Dept. of Economics, 2006.;"Advisor: Dr. Samir Makdisi, Professor, Economics--Committee Member: Dr. Simon Neaime, Associate Professor, Economics--Committee Member: Dr. Marcus Marktanner, Assistant Professor, EcBibliography: leaves 89-90.Arab economic development in the last four decades has not been accompanied by a n expanding democratization process, in contrast with the experiences of other r egions of the world, and in defiance of Lipset's Modernity Theory (1959). This theory and
Samir Amin : intellectuel organique au service de l'emancipation du sud
No full textThis book on Professor Samir Amin retraces his family origins, intellectual itinerary, political struggles as well as his experience in economic policy formulation in Egypt, Mali and many other countries. The fundamentals which shaped Samir Amin's thinking, directed his life-long work and influenced his action spawned from his early discovery in high school of Marxism and Historical Materialism, used as a scientific analysis of the history of human societies. This book also highlights Samir Amin's invaluable contribution to the struggle against capitalism through his indefatigable fight to deconstruct the concepts that are used to disguise the true face of historical capitalism, which is nothing but an unabashed pursuit for accumulation and dispossession of dominated countries and peoples. Through a series of interviews with Samir Amin, the author unravels the poignant and great ideas which have been at the heart of his intellectual and political fight for the last half century. The author also provides a selection of texts which includes an exhaustive bibliography, with all published writings of Samir Amin in French. This rich work is meant for a large readership - students, researchers, teachers, political leaders and citizens who are interested in the phenomenon of globalisation and its impact on the so-called 'under-developed countries
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