176 research outputs found
The ‘Second Journey’ (Al-Rihla al-thaniya) of Muhammad al-Muwaylihi’s Hadith ͑Isa Ibn Hisham Revisited
No full textIn this chapter, the author discusses the second part of Muhammad al-Muwaylihi's Hadith ʻIsa Ibn Hisham, the ‘second journey’ (Al-Rihla al-thaniya). The author published his Oxford DPhil thesis of 1968, a translation and commentary on Hadith ʻIsa Ibn Hisham, in book form upon the suggestion of Mustafa Badawi. It appeared in 1992 as A Period of Time (Fatra min al-zaman). Later in the 1990s another Egyptian scholar, Gaber Asfour, requested the author to prepare for publication the complete works of Muhammad al-Muwaylihis and his father Ibrahim. These also appeared in Cairo in 2002 and 2007 respectively. The author first provides a background on al-Muwaylihi's ‘first journey’ in Hadith ʻIsa Ibn Hisham before turning to Al-Rihla al-thaniya, al-Muwaylihi's account of his visit to Paris.</p
Adapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
A Master’s Project Presented to Department of Network and Computer Security in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science Degree
No full textToday, the wireless network devices are growing rapidly, and it is of utmost importance for securing those devices. Attackers or hackers use new methods and techniques to trick the system and steal the most important data. Intrusion Detection Systems detect the attacks by inspecting the network traffics or logs. The work demonstrated the effectiveness of detecting the attacks using machine learning techniques on the AWID dataset, which is produced from real wireless network logging. The author of the AWID dataset may have used several supervised learning models to successfully detect the intrusions. In this paper, we propose a newer approach for intrusion detection model based on dense neural networks, and long short-term memory networks (LSTM) and evaluate the model against the AWID-CLS-R subset. To get the best results from the model, we applied feature selection by replacing the unknown data with the value of “none”, getting rid of all repeated values, and kept only the important features. We did preprocess and feature scaling of both training and testing dataset, additional we also change the 2-dimensional to the 3- dimensional array because LSTM takes an input of 3-dimensional array, and later we used flatten layers to change into a 2-dimensional array for output. A comprehensive evaluation of DNN and LSTM networks are used to classify and predict the attacks and compute the precision, recall, and F1 score. We perform binary classification and multiclass classification on the dataset using neural networks and achieve accuracy ranging from 86.70 % to 96.01%.NASUNY Polytechnic InstituteCollege of Engineering, Department of Network and Computer SecurityM
Dataset for Gait Analysis of Cerebellar Ataxic Patients and Healthy Adults Using MediaPipe Pose
No full textThis dataset is composed of human gait analysis data extracted using the human pose estimation framework MediaPipe Pose applied on two types of videos:1. Cerebellar Ataxic Gait Videos.2. Normal Gait Videos.Each one of the "Cerebellar Ataxic Gait " and "Normal Gait" folders contains 20 feature datasets extracted from 20 videos. The datasets are numbered from 1 to 20 with each numbering representing a healthy subject for the normal gait dataset and the same subject mimicking the cerebellar ataxic gait. Each dataset consists of 47 gait analysis features:1. 3D coordinates (x, y, z) of 12 joints in the human body: right and left shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, and ankles (36 features).2. Kinematic parameters representing joint angles: right and left shoulders abduction and adduction, hips flexion and extension, and knees flexion and extension (6 features).3. Spatiotemporal parameters: step length, step width, feet clearance, and right and left stride speed (5 features).This dataset can be used for training medical diagnosis machine learning models, which can be beneficial for physicians in assisting patients diagnosed with cerebellar ataxia or other similar neurodegenerative diseases with their gait rehabilitation process.For those who want to use this dataset for their research, make sure to cite the following paper associated with this dataset:@inproceedings{khalil2022diagnosis, author={Khalil, Hisham and Saad, Ahmed Mohamed Saad Emam and Khairuddin, Uswah}, booktitle={2022 IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES)}, title={Diagnosis of Cerebellar Ataxia Based on Gait Analysis Using Human Pose Estimation: A Deep Learning Approach}, year={2022}, pages={201--206}, doi={10.1109/IECBES54088.2022.10079396}
Population pharmacokinetics of phenytoin from routine clinical data in Saudi epileptic patients
No full textPhenytoin (PHT) is an anticonvulsant widely used in the treatment of partial seizures,
generalized tonic-clonic seizures and status epilepticus. The narrow therapeutic range
and the nonlinear pharmacokinetic profile of the drug often constitute a difficulty for
the optimization and individualization of its dosage regimen in patients of all ages.
The pharmacokinetics of PHT are usually complicated by capacity-limited
metabolism, interindividual variability, ethnic differences and drug interaction with
concomitantly-administered medications. Because of the nonlinear kinetics
manifested by PHT, small differences in the amount absorbed could result in larger
changes in plasma concentrations in patients. Genetic differences and the effect of
saturation kinetics are considered more important determinant of steady-state plasma
concentration of PHT than any other variable (Houghton 1975).Corresponding Author:
Dr. Hisham S. Abou-Auda, Professor of Clinical Pharmacy, Department of Clinical Pharmacy
College of Pharmacy, King Saud University
P.O. Box 2457, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
Email: [email protected]
Smart Integrated Ecological Approach for Geelong, Australia
No full textREAL CORP 2019 Proceedings/Tagungsband 2-4 April 2019 – https://www.corp.atISBN 978-3-9504173-6-4 (CD), 978-3-9504173-7-1 (print) Editors: M. SCHRENK, V. V. POPOVICH, P. ZEILE, P. ELISEI, C.BEYER, J. RYSER969Smart Integrated Ecological Approach for Geelong, Australia Hisham Elkadi (Prof. Dr. Hisham Elkadi, University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK) 1ABSTRACT Regeneration of many cities is essential to enable their sustainable re-development but importantly tomaintain their viability and creativity in this global and rapidly changing world. Most cities face major ecological challenges that require immediate intervention for their future survival. The predominant focus of current sustainable cities projects is concentrated upon the challenges of natural adaptation and mitigation practices these burgeoning metropolises present. Smart Cities is one of those terms, like sustainable, resilient, carbon free, post carbon cities that mean different things to different people. Smart could mean fashionable, stylish, and chic as much as intelligent clever and shrewd. This article argues that Intelligence is the ability of a city to vary its state or actions in response to varying situations and past experience, in other term, develops a self-organising characteristics; one of the principles of ecological systems. Regeneration initiatives provide opportunities for new approaches to urban development in regional Australian cities. There is a need for innovative re-think beyond terms, like sustainable, resilient, carbon free, post carbon cities that mean different things to different people. The paper discusses the development of Vision II, a regeneration project for the City of Geelong. The paper highlights the need for new ways to theorize, contextualize, and practice the design of future smart interventions in Australian cities. The realities of climate changes on the other hand, led to the urgency to channel our thinking into a new direction, one that is capable to engage our people, one that is capable of extracting hope from the structures of fear that underpins an obsolete mitigation agenda and outdated governance structures. Impacts of climate change is also one of the causes of the shift in city agenda that also include the general decline of infrastructure, conspicuous resource depletion, and the emergence of ecology as a new paradigm in urban studies. This paper challenges the capacity of a number of cities to deal with ecological stress adversities and the ability to bounce back and maintain well-being for their inhabitants. The presentation provides a broad critical analysis of the contemporary ecological challenges. The paper, through a study of an applied project directed by the author in Geelong, considers various strategies and guidelines that have formed regenerating existing urban forms and relationships
Correction to: Feasibility of a virtual reality-based exercise intervention and low-cost motion tracking method for estimation of motor proficiency in youth with autism spectrum disorder
No full textFollowing publication of the original article [1], the affiliation of the author “Hisham M. Abu‑Rayya” was incorrectly published as “School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Doha, Qatar and School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.” The correct Affiliation is “School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel and School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.” The original article has been corrected. Author details 1 Developmental Neuromotor and Cognition Lab, School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. 2 Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. 3 School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Doha, Qatar. 4 School of Psychology and Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. 5 HITLAB, Healthcare Innovation & Technology Lab, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. 6 Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
قطر الندى / محمد سعيد العريان.
No full textSharḥ Qaṭr al-Nadā wa-Ball al-Ṣadā is an Arabic grammar book written by Ibn Hisham al-Ansari for learning the Arabic language
Pharmacokinetic interaction of ketoconazole and itraconazole with ciprofloxacin
No full textThe effect of the concomitant administration of the antifungal drugs ketoconazole
(KTC) and itraconazole (ITC) on the pharmacokinetics of ciprofloxacin (CIP) following short- and
long-term administration in mice was investigated. Animals received either a dose of CIP (20mg/
kg, i.p.), CIP (20 mg/kg, i.p.) together with KTC (50 mg/kg, p.o.) or CIP (20 mg/kg, i.p.) and ITC
(30 mg/kg, p.o.). The same treatments were repeated for 7 days. Blood samples were collected up to
4 h following drug administration and two urine samples were collected at 2 h and 4 h after drug
administration. CIP plasma concentrations were significantly higher in KTC- and ITC-treated
groups compared with the corresponding control groups. The concomitant administration of KTC
or ITC with CIP also significantly (p50:05) increased Cmax, t1/2, MRT and AUC0_1 with no change
in Tmax. CIP clearance was significantly reduced by both agents. KTC and ITC reduced CIP urinary
excretion. This study suggests that an important pharmacokinetic interaction between CIP and KTC
or ITC is likely to occur when either of the two antifungal drugs is administered concomitantly with
CIP. The results may suggest possible reductions in total clearance of CIP, owing to inhibition of its renal tubular excretion by KTC and ITC.Corresponding Author:
Dr. Hisham S. Abou-Auda, Professor
Dept. of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy
King Saud University, P.O. Box 2457, Riyadh 11451
Saudi Arabia. Email: [email protected]
Miscellaneous Correspondence on Arab-Israeli Conflict (1975-1977): Note to P. Edward Haley, April 25, 1977
No full textLetter dated 25 April 1977 from Dr Sayegh to P. Edward Haley regarding an author for an essay on Arab Unity, recommending Hisham Sharabi of Georgetow
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