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The impact of cultural distance on local residents perception of tourism development: The case of Dubai in UAE
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Institute for Tourism
, 2016 , Article)
This study discusses the importance of understanding cultural differences between tourists and hosts for developing positive cross-cultural tourist interaction and its influence on the host's perception of sociocultural ...
Computational insights into the photocyclization of diclofenac in solution: Effects of halogen and hydrogen bonding
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Royal Society of Chemistry
, 2016 , Article)
The effects of noncovalent interactions, namely halogen and hydrogen bonding, on the photochemical conversion of the photosensitizing drug diclofenac (DCF) in solution were investigated computationally. Both explicit and ...
Saudi women and Islamic discourse, selected examples of Saudi feminisms
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Brill Academic Publishers
, 2016 , Article Review)
Saudi women entered the realm of writing and language only half a century ago through the genres of both creative and journalistic prose. In this paper, I shall take the example of four Saudi female writers who represent ...
Mass communication sciences in the maghreb: A hybrid identity for an evolving discipline [Komunikasi massa sains di maghribi: Satu identity hibrid dalam disiplin yang sering berubah]
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Press
, 2016 , Article)
Throughout the world, mass communication sciences had faced many difficulties to impose itself in the academic and administrative spheres as a new, entirely independent discipline. Even nowadays, certain fierce opponents ...
Egyptians in revolt: The political economy of labor and student mobilizations 1919-2011
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book)
Egyptians in Revolt investigates the political economy of the Egyptian labor and student movements. Using elements of social movement theory within a broad political economy framework, it assesses labor and student ...
Arab 'Parliamentarisation' in the Arab Spring context: The normative vs. the practical
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Deutsches Orient-Institut
, 2016 , Article Review)
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A Note on Meccan Women in the Fifteenth Century
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Brill Academic Publishers
, 2016 , Article)
The history of women in Arabia is a relatively new and unexplored area of research and the place of women in Mecca (Makkah), Islam's holiest city, is particularly shrouded in darkness. From the fifteenth century, however, ...
A new model for learning Arabic script
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
, 2016 , Article)
This paper intends to solve a long lasting pedagogical problem that is still confronting Arabic learners and teachers by introducing a new approach to learning the Arabic script. The new model minimizes the 110 graphemes ...
Philistine Doomsday and the Vasa Mortis of Solomon and Saturn II
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Springer Netherlands
, 2016 , Article)
This paper reviews and assesses past scholarship on the so-called vasa mortis riddle of the Old English poem Solomon and Saturn II (lines 75-103) before proposing its own solution. It examines the trajectory of the scholarly ...
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 ...