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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Algiers"”.
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A center of transportation for the city of Algiers
Thesis (B.Arch)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1941.
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Post occupancy evaluation of five story walk up dwellings : the case of four mass housing estates in Algiers.
… housing environment in four selected estates in Algiers. The research methodology is based on a combination of questionnaires, interviews, photography and records of physical traces. A sample of 128 housewives has been interviewed and different indicators have been used in order to assess their …
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"Assia Djebar and ""La Ville Blanche"": Writing in and on the *City"
I demonstrate how Algiers itself, by virtue of its historical double-ness, serves as cipher for the double subject. In addition, the geophysical configuration of Algiers, with its steep streets and stairways, and its ubiquitous view onto the Mediterranean, becomes complicit with the characters' …
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The effects of globalisation of financial services on banking industry and stock market: an Algerian case study
… financial system, and to develop the role of the Algiers Stock Exchange in the mobilisation of financial resources. The transition from a centrally planned to a market-oriented economy meant fewer regulatory barriers towards local and foreign banks. This study demonstrates that financial …
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Spaces of Resistance: Reflections on Algerian Domesticity
… legacy of French colonial housing projects in Algiers by confronting colonial practices that disregarded the cultural and social needs of Algerian families and challenging them by integrating indigenous architectural principles to enable a built environment that accommodates historical …
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School Choice: The Black Middle-class Dilemma
… of black middle-class families living in the Algiers community of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. The concept of community has been central to the success of blacks in America since Reconstruction. However, as the Civil Rights Movement helped eliminate some of the legal obstacles …
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Barbary Pirates: Thomas Jefferson, William Eaton, and the Evolution of U.S. Diplomacy in the Mediterranean
… sponsored by the rulers of Morocco, Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli. As the U.S. sought to find a solution to end piracy and the practice of paying tributes or ransom to free Americans held captive, Thomas Jefferson proposed several solutions as a diplomat, vice president, and as president when …
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The Prospects of Interfaith Dialogue in the Light and Teachings of the Second Vatican Council: Contextual Implications for Christians and Muslims in Nigeria.
… has been described by Archbishop Teissier of Algiers as the greatest Islamo-Christian nation in the world. By this he means that there is no othernation where so many Christians and Muslims live side-by-side. This reality makes Nigeria an important test case for developing patterns of …
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Between Fiction and Documentary: Dangerous Liaisons and the Self-Reflexive Film
… for instance, Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves, Nicholas Barker's Unmade Beds, and Stephen Earnhart's Mule Skinner Blues. Each film's analysis traces the presence and function of that mode which runs counter to the film's dominant mode of …
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U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran: structures, actors, and policy communities
… in Iran and abide by its obligations under the Algiers Accord. Public diplomacy recommendations proposed by the Punitive Nonengagement and the Hawkish Engagement communities correlate with policies adopted by the Bush administration, with those of the former doing so more readily. The Obama …
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Entertainment noise control in Algeria
… problems in Algeria. During my investigations in Algiers concerning this subject I have understood that all the entertainment premises I have visited in the centre of the capital and its suburbs have been working without applying any true ,clear regulations concerning noise in general . I have …
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Application de la méthode Six Sigma sur un Système de Management Intégré QSE Étude de cas : Chiali Tubes
Ce mémoire a pour finalité de présenter l’apport de l’application de la méthode Six Sigma sur un système de management intégré QSE. Ce travail de recherche suit une logique d’entonnoir en allant de la présentation du système QSE aux outils de la méthode DMAIC. L’étude pratique a pour objectif …
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La patria perdida o imaginada: translating teodoro torres in "el mexico de afuera"
… This novel is a kind of Mexican-American Horacio Algiers tale, detailing the success story of Luis Alfaro, who is eventually able to create a utopian Mexican-American hacienda, called Buenavista, outside of Kansas City, Missouri. </p> <p>Due to a number of important thematic inversions, La patria …
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Physical, cultural and cognitive interactions in the conception and production of the built environment
… environment through a chosen case study which is Algiers. The main methods used in this study are: Descriptive for the first part which is dealing with the review of the current literature on Ecology, Culture and Cognition; Analytic for the proposed model and the case study; the third method is …
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“Emancipation from that Degrading Yoke”: Thomas Jefferson, William Eaton and “Barbary Piracy” from 1784 to 1805
<p> <p>The following essay examines the image of "Barbary piracy" created by two prominent political figures, Thomas Jefferson and William Eaton, and by the American public from 1784 to 1805, and how those images shaped the policy of the American-Barbary War. Eaton‟s Orientalist approach to …