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Equality and erasure: Responses to subject negation in the art of Jill Magid
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Springer International Publishing
, 2017 , Book chapter)
This chapter engages with contemporary surveillance as it is conceived of in art and literature, responding to the contemporary media culture of ubiquitous watching. Artistic discourse and its concern with this facet of ...
Trade Diversification and Intra-Regional Trade in North Africa
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Examination of the growth phases in developed and in developing countries and their involvement in international trade shows the importance of trade policies in these countries. In recent decades, many developing countries ...
RF energy harvesting communications: Recent advances and research issues
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Springer International Publishing
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Green radio communications has got a lot of attention in recent years due to its telling effects on telecom business and environment. On the other side, energy harvesting (EH) communication has emerged as a potential ...
Qatar's global activism: Pursuing ambition in the midst of domestic and regional transitions
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Over the past decade, Qatar's presence on the global and regional stages has increased immensely, driven, in large part, by a growing sense of ambition among the country's ruling elites. Indicators of ambition are most ...
Regulating land rights in late nineteenth-century salt: The limits of legal pluralism in Ottoman property law
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Indiana University Press
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This article examines the relationship between different district-level decision-making bodies in the late nineteenth-century Ottoman context. Using Sharia court records and property registers produced in the rural Syrian ...
EFL writing instruction in an Egyptian university classroom: An emic view
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
In Egypt, little research is done to explore how EFL writing is taught from the participants’ emic views. Based on empirical research, this chapter explores the focuses of EFL writing instruction at university and highlights ...
An overview of cloud systems and supply chains in Jordan
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
In line with the focus of this book on cloud systems and supply chain firms, it is appropriate to provide a background of cloud systems implementation, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Information Systems ...
Investigating the role of knowledge gaps in enhancing quality in cloud environments
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
In recent years we have all heard about the advantages and benefits of the so-called “cloud” for the use of corporate software (Gopalakrishnan, 2009; Neto et al., 2008; Takabi et al., 2011). It can be argued that the ...
A free-slack-based genetic algorithm for the robotic cell problem with controllable processing times
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Springer New York LLC
, 2016 , Book chapter)
We present a novel genetic algorithm for the Robotic Cell Problem with controllable processing times. This challenging problem arises in an automated production cell that consists of m consecutive machines as well as a ...
Predicting academic success in health professions training and education: Insights from a data mining analysis
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Dropping-out is a very common phenomenon among students enrolled in Health Professions degree courses. For this reason, it would be extremely useful to have a model with the main variables that can predict, with a certain ...