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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Amman"”.
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A Place in Amman
What is a Cultural Collage? It is what is happening in Jordan today; different people from different backgrounds come to one piece of land looking for any refuge and hope. I wanted to create a building for this phenomenon. This is a building where people could come to and meet at to drink coffee …
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The Amman financial market : institutional features and calandar [sic] effects
… understood and familiar. On the other hand, the Amman Financial Market operates under a different set of trading rules and regulations. These different rules and regulations may cause concern to the western investor over market transparency, liquidity, foreign investment restrictions, taxes, and …
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Thrifty-Retrofit Pathways for Low-Middle Income Apartments in Amman, Jordan
… in the economic hub, namely the capital Amman. This thesis aims to define thrifty-retrofit pathways for low- and middle-income apartments in Amman, Jordan to improve the thermal efficiency of the apartments and enhance the quality of life and well-being of their occupants to bridge the …
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Market Efficiency and Volatility Spillovers in the Amman Stock Exchange: A Sectoral Analysis
… examining the behaviour of equity returns in the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE). In particular, the 10 largest sectors in terms of market capitalisation and number of listed companies are considered. According to the weak-form of EMH, current share prices reflect all available historical information …
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Everyday Humanitarians: the act of refugee hosting in protracted urban displacement in Amman, Jordan
… Through an exploration of refugee hosting in Amman, Jordan, I challenge this depiction to argue that refugee hosting is a far-reaching and dynamic response to displacement and an overlooked component of humanitarian response. I contribute to understandings of how refugees respond to …
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The Many States of Excess: Everyday Statecraft and Imperial Entanglement of Iraqi Exiles in Amman
… Focusing on Iraqi “guests” who arrived in Amman following the invasion of 2003 and who come from different socioeconomic, political, and migration backgrounds, I examine how exiles wrestle with the legal and existential uncertainty of their exilic predicament as they await resettlement, …
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Constructing global Amman: petrodollars, identity, and the built environment in the early twenty-first century
… petrodollars from the Gulf states, to Amman in the early twenty-first century on the city’s urban built environment. The study is carried out through an in-depth analysis of three case studies of contemporary megaprojects in Amman: the Abdali New Downtown, Sanaya Amman, and Jordan Gate. …
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From Crises to Ordinary Precarity: Palestinian Youth as New Practitioners of Humanitarian Governance in Amman, Jordan
Displaced in both 1948 and 1967, Palestinian refugees in the Middle East now number over 5 million and have lived in exile for decades with no sign of a permanent solution. Despite the duration of their displacement, Palestinian refugees remain marginal to prevailing literature on long-term …
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Language Gain During Arabic Study Abroad: A Case Study of a Semester Abroad in Amman, Jordan
… analysis of the 2006 Arabic study abroad in Amman, Jordan. This analysis aims to help organizers and participants of similar future programs to maximize language gain. The students' pre- and post-program language competencies in reading, speaking, listening, and writing are measured and …
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Developing city-level sustainability indicators in the MENA region with the cases of Benghazi and Amman
… data in the two case studies of Benghazi and Amman. The data for this also includes focus-group discussions, semi-structured interviews, and questionnaires that reflect the approach required in order to develop a combined framework that assists the development of sustainability indicators. The …
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The Dynamic Linkages among Sector Indices: The case of the Amman Stock Exchange in the period of 2000-2020
… service, and general<br/>indices of the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) in Jordan from 2000 to 2020 using a vector<br/>autoregression (VAR) model and by using daily data. The main aim is to provide a<br/>comprehensive understanding of the interrelationships among these key sectors over the …
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Investigating the impact of various Corporate Governance Mechanisms on the Accounting Performance of NonFinancial Firms Listed on the Amman Stock Exchange
… Jordanian non-financial companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange during the period 2012 – 2018. Different hypotheses have been generated through agency theory to explore the relationship between the corporate governance mechanisms and the accounting performance of Jordanian nonfinancial …
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A Confronting of the Gaze: A Study of the Shadhiliyya Yashrutiyya Sufi Order, and its Communities in Amman, Jordan and Calgary, Canada
… belonging to this Sufi order, which include the Amman, Jordan community of the Shadhiliyya Yashrutiyya Sufi order, and its Calgary, Canada community, both of which formed in the mid-20th century. These case studies exemplify the significance of language in relation to one’s access to written …
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The corporate governance and its application`s compliance level implication on the financial performance of listed firms in the Amman Stock Exchange
… in the Jordanian stock market, specifically, the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) between 2010 and 2019. In terms of corporate governance, research findings show board activity and board size have no significant influence on firm financial performance (ROA and ROE), but it is positive. In contrast, CEO …
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Islam, Modernity, and the Liminal Space Between: A Vertical Case Study of the Institute of Traditional Islamic Art and Architecture, Amman, Jordan
… of Traditional Islamic Art and Architecture in Amman, Jordan. A vertical case study using grounded theory methodology, the research attempts to create a rich and holistic understanding of the Institute. Specific areas of study include the factors involved in the founding of the Institute within …
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Pre-Service Mathematics Teacher Education in Jordan : Description and Analysis of the Situation at the University of Jordan/Amman ; A Case Study
… “teaching practice” at the University of Jordan/ Amman, and (2) to include the main factors which influence the development of the professional teaching competence in their mode of action. This study has particularly the aim to investigate the difficulties which face the student teachers’ …
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Implementation of a structured PL/I subset compiler
… a Pascal compiler developed by N. Wirth and U. Amman of Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich, and was itself written in the Pascal language. PL/I programs using the compiler can now be compiled and executed (interpretively) on the UNIVAC 1106 computer at U.C.T. The compiler was designed …
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Language in Medical Worlds: Hearing Technology for Deaf Jordanian Children
… initiative and an audiology department in Amman, I argue that this imperative must be understood in relation to anxieties about the status of Arabic in Jordan and the historical value of orality in the Middle East. This case shows that more attention must be paid to the role of language …
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Technology, Time and Form
… introduce the people to the capital of Jordan, Amman . This study will offer a conceptual approach, concentrating on composition, visual concepts, and influences that have shaped it over the past year. My intention here is to present the visual aspect of exteriors and interiors. The design would …
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