79 research outputs found
TV debate in: Frost Over the World
No full textFollowing the upheaval in Tunisia over the last few weeks, Sir David discusses whether the internet can play a role in bringing about freedom and democracy around the world. He is joined by Evgeny Morozov, the author of The Net Delusion - How Not to Liberate the World, and Noureddine Miladi, a Tunisian academic and media expert
The Impact of Mobile Application Marketing on Brand Image Through Improved User Experience: A Case Study of the Djezzy App
No full textThis study aims to examine the impact of mobile application marketing on brand image, emphasizing the mediating role of user experience. Using the Djezzy App as a case study, the research adopts a quantitative explanatory approach. Data were collected from 391 users through a structured electronic questionnaire and analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) with Smart PLS 4.1.1.1.
The empirical results reveal that mobile application marketing exerts both direct and indirect effects on brand image through user experience, explaining 44% of the variance in user experience and 40% in brand image. The findings underscore the strategic importance of integrating personalized, engaging, and user-centered marketing initiatives within mobile apps to enhance brand perception and customer loyalty. It is recommended that telecom operators allocate greater resources to improving app usability, design, and personalization, as these factors can reduce churn, increase engagement, and ultimately strengthen brand image in a competitive digital market
Isotomurus maculatus
No full text50. Isotomurus maculatus (Schäffer, 1896) (Fig. 10) Citation from Edough: Hamra-Kroua (2016: 86); Zoughailech (2017: 137). Not cited from Algeria outside Edough. Distribution: Distribution unclear, requires revision (Fjellberg 2007). The color pattern is slightly different from the specimens from Norway figured by this author and from Italy figured by Carapelli et al. (1995).Published as part of Brahim-Bounab, Hayette, Bendjaballah, Mohamed, Hamra-Kroua, Salah, Lachi, Noureddine, Bedos, Anne & Deharveng, Louis, 2020, Checklist of the springtails (Hexapoda: Collembola) of the Edough massif northeastern Algeria, pp. 51-78 in Zootaxa 4853 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4853.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/441036
Possessive constructions in Arabic : A Cross-dialectal comparative study
No full textThis contribution is a cross-dialectal comparative analysis of possessive
constructions. The dialects under study include the Maghribin dialects and some of the dialects in the
Arabian Gulf. The paper analyses the formal aspects involved in the construction of the notion of
possession in individual dialects and its relation to Standard Arabic. The resulting strategies of
possessive formation and structure will be exhibited and formalized in a vast array of Arabic dialects
from a comparative angle.
The approach adopted in the analysis of these phenomena is more linguistic than conceptual.
It is supported by the underlying assumption that linguistic possession presupposes notional possession.
After comparative description and analysis of Standard and dialectal Arabic possessive structures, it
appears that an important linguistic shift has been and still is operating in the construction of possessive
structure. This shift is due to many reasons. One of the most important reasons is contact with other
languages or linguistic structures. In the case of Maghribin dialects, the paper finds that the shift from
'synthetic' construction to a more 'analytic' construction is due to a recognized Berber substratum. On
the other hand, and in the case of the Arabian Gulf regional dialects and Standard Arabic, European
(mainly English and French) linguistic forces are in play in the formation of a more dynamic type of
possessive structure.
In conclusion, and to summarize one of the most fundamental findings of this paper, there
appears to be a strong tendency in the field of Arabic possessive constructions toward a shift from
standardized and synthetic structures to a more dynamic and analytic construction. The 'analytic'
markers of the resulting structures are the result of a substratum and progressive language contactCorresponding Author:
Dr. Noureddine Guella, Associate Professor,
Language Unit, College of Languages and Translation, P.O. Box 87907, 11652-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Email: [email protected]
A Bibliometric Perspective on the Relationship Between Artificial Intelligence and Digital Culture
No full textThis study presents a bibliometric analysis of global research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and digital culture (2015–2025). It draws on 489 Scopus-indexed studies and follows the PRISMA framework. Findings show substantial growth during (2021–2024), with the United States leading output and robust international collaboration networks. The analysis confirms the centrality of artificial intelligence and the emergence of interconnected themes, underscoring the field’s interdisciplinary nature and the need for greater attention to its ethical, educational, and cultural dimensions
Dataset of traffic dynamics during the 2019 Kincade Wildfire Evacuation
No full textThis dataset has been sourced from the Performance Measurement System of the California Department of Transportation. The data has been processed, analysed, presented and summarized in the paper: Rohaert et al., ‘Traffic dynamics during the 2019 Kincade wildfire evacuation’, [Submitted for peer-review to an international journal.], 2022.
CRediT author statement
Arthur Rohaert: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing. Erica D. Kuligowski: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing. Adam Ardinge: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing - review & editing. Jonathan Wahlqvist: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing. Steven M.V. Gwynne: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing. Amanda Kimball: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project Administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing. Noureddine Bénichou: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing - review & editing. Enrico Ronchi: Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing
Acknowledgements
This work has been funded under award 60NANB20D191 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), U.S. Department of Commerce. The authors would like to thank the WUI-NITY team (Guillermo Rein, Nikolaos Kalogeropoulos, Harry Mitchell, Max Kinateder, Maxime Berthiaume). The authors also acknowledge the technical panel of the project for their support and guidance: Carole Adam, Amy Christianson, Tom Cova, Lauren Folk, Abishek Gaur, Paolo Intini, Justice Jones, Bryan Klein, Chris Lautenberger, Ruggiero Lovreglio, Jerry McAdams, Ruddy Mell, Elise Miller-Hooks, Cathy Stephens, Steve Taylor, Sandra Vaiciulyte, Xilei Zhao, Rita Fahy, Lucian Deaton, and Michele Steinberg
Generalized Penner model and the Gaussian beta ensemble
No full textAbstractIn this paper, a new expression for the partition function of the generalized Penner model given by Goulden, Harer and Jackson is derived. The Penner and the orthogonal Penner partition functions are special cases of this formula. The parametrized Euler characteristic ξgs(γ) deduced from our expression of the partition function is shown to exhibit a contribution from the orbifold Euler characteristic of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces of genus g, with s punctures, for all parameters γ and g odd. The other contributions for g even are linear combinations of the Bernoulli polynomials at rational arguments. It turns out that the free energy coefficients of the generalized Penner model in the continuum limit, are identical to those coefficients in the large N expansion of the Gaussian β-ensemble. Moreover, the duality enjoyed by the generalized Penner model, is also the duality symmetry of the Gaussian β-ensemble. Finally, a shift in the ʼt Hooft coupling constant required by the refined topological string, would leave the Gaussian β-ensemble duality intact. This duality is identified with the remarkable duality of the c=1 string at radius R=β
Leveraging co-authorship and biographical information for author ambiguity resolution in DBLP
No full textMany authors can share the same name and this constitutes a serious problem that affects the relevancy of retrieval results and constitutes our motivation of finding such approach to cover this issue at the author names entity level. Solving such a problem may return with positive gain at the level of document retrieval, web search and the quality of data. This entity resolution task can be tackled as an unsupervised problem, where there are set of features that can be employed for the resolution job, or as supervised problem to compute the similarities among two citations and then classify if they are the same or not. Recent approaches usually utilize features such as: co-author, venue, topic similarity, affiliations and title of publications to deal with author ambiguity. In this paper, three attributes are used to treat this problem sequentially. The co-authorship firstly which is a well-known attribute, and then the topic and affiliation extracted from biographies, which can be found inside the publication, and this is our novelty frame in this paper
Comunicación política y retórica : definición y argumentación en el discurso político de Ortega y Gasset
No full textEL discurso político es esencialmente argumentativo, es decir, un discurso cuya finalidad primordial es La de influir en Las actitudes de Los demás para Lograr que se conformen con Las de su autor. Para ello, se vale de múltiples y variadas técnicas y estrategias. De entre ellas destacan Las definiciones per suasivas. Estas consisten en definir un término de tal manera que la definición manifieste la posición favorable o desfavorable del autor respecto al objeto definido. En este artículo, nos proponemos analizar la función argumentativa de la definición en los Discursos políticos de fosé Ortega y Gasset.The polítical discourse is basically argumentative; that is, a dis course whose main objective is to act on the attitudes of other people in such a way that they conform to those of its author. That' s why, it deploys several strategies. Among these, persuasive definitions occupy center stage. They consist in defining a certain term in such a way that it expresses a subject position which is either favourable or disfavourable towards the defined object. In this paper, we intend to analyse the argumentative function of definition in fosé Ortega y Gasset's Discursos políticos
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