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Improving appointment scheduling at the American University of Beirut Medical Center using a simulation modeling approach - by Sharif Walid Shahine.
No full textProject (M.B.A.)--American University of Beirut, Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, 2011.;"First Reader : Dr. Lina Daouk, Assistant Professor, Suliman S. Olayan School of Business Second Reader : Dr. Walid Nasr, Assistant Professor, Suliman S. OlayanIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 55-59)Health care organizations strive to insure maximum quality health care for their patients. However, the tremendous increase in health care costs put these organizations under continuous pressure. Administrators use several operational tools to effective
Datasets for 'Generation of functional hepatocyte 3D discoids in an acoustofluidic bioreactor'
Get PDFThis dataset supports the publication: 'Generation of functional hepatocyte 3D discoids in an acoustofluidic bioreactor' By: Khedr, Mogib; Messaoudi, Walid, Mohamed; Jonnalagadda, Umesh; Abdelmotelb, Ahmed; Glynne-Jones, Peter; Hill, Martyn; Khakoo, Salim I; Abu Hilal, Mohammad. In: Biomicrofluidics</span
Performance analysis of retrial access schemes for optical communication networks with slow and fast tuning
No full textThesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1988.Bibliography: leaves 61-64.by Walid M. Hamdy.M.S
Art and political dissent in postwar Lebanon: Walid Sadek's fi annani akbar min bikasu [bigger than picasso]
No full textTaking Walid Sadek's fi annani akbar min bikasu [bigger than picasso] as its starting point, this article examines relations of art and politics in post-civil war Lebanon. A tiny and inexpensive paperback related to Picasso unfolds into a work of art that raises questions about the place of art and political dissent. After situating bigger than picasso in the context of contemporary book art and artistic practices of the postwar generation in Lebanon, the article focuses on the juxtaposition of text and image. By placing narratives of art vandalism next to the image of a monument dedicated to the late Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad, bigger than picasso playfully and provocatively breaks with political taboos at a time when the silence about the Lebanese Civil War (1975-90) and about Lebanese-Syrian relations was met with increasing anxiety. At the same time, the work makes room for aesthetic inquiries, exploring new possibilities of art at the margins of cultural production. The article concludes that bigger than picasso brings to the fore the discrepancy between public monumentality and artistic practices, which in finding ways around political violence and censorship have recourse to ephemeral and private spheres, and holds unexpected meanings in ever-changing political circumstances. 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Experienced agents with attitude in a virtual marketplace.
No full textAgent technology evolved from a number of disciplines such as object technology, distributed computing and artificial intelligence. There is currently a growing need to develop intelligent agents that engage in buying and selling in virtual marketplaces owing to exponential growth of e-commerce. For e-commerce to become a reality, and before users can trust software agents to buy and sell items on their behalf, some "intelligence" that makes humans good buyers and sellers must be simulated. In this thesis report we suggest a prototype of a virtual marketplace where agents negotiate to buy and sell goods. The agents in this framework represent the three important attributes of mental state (attitude) of their clients. These agents learn limitedly from their previous experiences and adjust their attitude. Learning from experience is modeled using Case Based Reasoning (CBR) Techniques. Our proposed framework suggests that it is possible to build software agents, which model limited aspects of negotiation in buying and selling. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2001 .S28. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 40-03, page: 0728. Adviser: Walid S. Saba. Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2001
An implementation of a dynamic negotiation model for competitive and cooperative agents.
No full textAgent technology evolved from number of disciplines such as object technology, distributed computing and artificial intelligence. Agents are supposed to autonomously engage in several types of dialogues to attain their design objectives. With the emergence of highly dynamic and uncertain e-commerce, there is currently a growing interest to develop negotiating software agents that can engage in buying and selling in a virtual marketplace. In this thesis report we propose a framework for automated dynamic negotiation among competitive and cooperative software agents. These agents are facilitated with BDI model of agency capabilities to accomplish dynamic negotiation. They make use of Case Based Reasoning techniques to learn from their previous experiences over a period of time. This framework also uses Ontology to equip agents with domain specific knowledge for reasoning purposes during dynamic negotiation. Our proposed framework suggests that it is possible to build software agents, which model limited aspects of dynamic negotiation. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis2002 .C475. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 41-05, page: 1462. Adviser: Walid S. Saba. Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 2002
Information rich Virtual Environment (VE) design review
Get PDFIn the A/E/C industry, design review techniques are used to improve design quality, insure compliance with current codes and standards, improve design constructability, and meet project’s goals and owner’s objectives. Design review is a multi-tasking approach; information from various independent sources (e.g. building codes and standards, design specifications, design manuals, etc.) needs to be referenced concurrently while reviewing and coordi-nating plans of various design disciplines. Current common design review methods rely mainly on paper-based checklists and 2D plans to perform the review. Several disadvantages of these manual methods can be identified, including: 1) checklists are generic and reviewers need to identify the guidelines that apply to a given review; 2) checklists are also linear in nature which may force the review to follow a pre-defined top-to-bottom sequence; 3) current methods do not allow for a structured automated approach to capturing and sharing reviewers’ comments and feedback; 4) information may not be retrieved quickly and efficiently within the limited review time frame. This renders the design review process time- and resource-intensive which may force reviewers to sacrifice the thoroughness of their reviews. This paper describes an information-rich virtual environment (VE) framework for design review. The framework util-izes a real-time intelligent algorithm to access needed data and information to perform a design review while viewing the 3D model. The algorithm provides various search and retrieval modes to assist the user in filtering, querying, sort-ing and displaying data and information during the 3D model walkthrough. Reviewer’s comments and changes are cap-tured and shared by others. A proof of concept prototype is being implemented using the Torque 3D Game Engine
Diffusive author(s), cohesive author: Analysis of S/N (1994)
No full textThis study indicates the ways in which various aspects of the author(s) are brought forth in Dumb type’s performance art, the S/N production. Previous research has suggested a non-hierarchical organization of Dumb type and the absence of a “privileged author” in Dumb type’s collaborative work, S/N. However, the results that I have investigated from member’s interviews on the creative process of S/N along with my analysis of the recorded images of S/N, indicate a different aspect of the author(s). First, S/N was created through, so to speak, the collective ideas of the members of Dumb type. Further, S/N has at least nine quotations from previous performances, installations, and printed writings, besides the work-in-progress technique. Explicating one of the “author functions” as given by Michel Foucault, each text has plural subjects of the author. However, it has been revealed from members’ interviews that Teiji Furuhashi had a decision-making role in selecting the members’ ideas within the performance. Since then, S/N has had plural subjects of creation; however, Furuhashi is one of the subjects of creation along with the “privileged author.” S/N has plural authors (diffusive authors) yet at the same time, it has a “privileged author,” Teiji Furuhashi (cohesive author)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Diversity and enterotoxigenicity of Staphylococcus spp. associated with Domiati cheese.
No full textA total of 87 samples of fresh and stored Domiati cheese (an Egyptian soft cheese) were examined for the presence of
Staphylococcus spp. Fifteen Staphylococcus isolates identified as S. aureus (2 isolates), S. xylosus (4), S. caprae (4), and S.
chromogenes (5) were recovered from 15 cheese samples. The S. aureus isolates were resistant to penicillin G and ampicillin,
and one isolate was also resistant to tetracycline. S. aureus isolates harbored classical staphylococcal enterotoxin (SE) genes
(sea and seb) and recently characterized SE-like genes (selg, seli, selm, and selo). One S. aureus isolate contained a single
SE gene (sea), whereas another isolate contained five SE genes (seb, selg, seli, selm, and selo). These results suggest that
Domiati cheese is a source for various Staphylococcus species, including S. aureus strains that could be enterotoxigenic
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