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Showing 1 to 20 of 76 for “"Mansour"”.
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Joyce Mansour's <i>Ça</i> and <i>Histoires nocives</i>: translations and critical interpretations
… is the contemporary French writer and poet Joyce Mansour, who, by virtue of her extensive literary production has unquestionably become one of the most widely read creative figures within the Surrealist mode. The purpose of my dissertation is precisely that of assessing the importance of Joyce …
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(W)raps of consciousness: articulating women's rights through hip hop in the Middle East and North Africa region
… feminist studies (Sandoval, 1991; Spivak, 1985; Mansour, 2016) and hip hop feminist studies (Morgan, 1999; Pough, 2004; Brown, 2013; Durham, 2013) to examine the diverse lived experiences of girls and women in the Middle East and North Africa region through the work of seven female rappers: …
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Nappily Ever After: A Theoretical Analysis of Black Women's Hair in Film
… will examine the film Nappily Ever After (Al-Mansour, 2018). I will use the communication theory of identity (CTI) as a theoretical framework to analyze the film. My CTI analysis will depict how hair affects a Black female character's life in terms of her identity. My thesis will use the CTI …
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Secondary Traumatic Stress & Emergency Department Registered Nurses in Ontario: A Cross-Sectional Study
… exposure to traumatic events (Ratrout & Hamdan-Mansour, 2017). This study aimed to (a) determine the prevalence of STS amongst registered nurses (RNs) working in Ontario emergency departments; and (b) to determine factors influencing STS development. Results showed 91.6% of ED nurses in this …
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Joyce Mansour's poetics: A discourse of plurality by a second-generation surrealist poet
Interest in Joyce Mansour has centered mostly on the ambiguity and the lack of "subjective identity" in her poetic works. This dissertation proposes to investigate that notion and demonstrates that Mansour's discourse is that of a woman poet's assertive, complex, and universal voice in the realm of …
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Learning and testing junta distributions over hypercubes
… inspired by the Low-Degree Algorithm of Linial, Mansour, and Nisan (1993). We also consider the problem of testing whether an unknown distribution is a k-junta distribution. We introduce an algorithm for this task with sample complexity Õ(2n/²k⁴) and show that this bound is nearly optimal for …
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Radiolabeled Bombesin Analogs to Improve Prostate Cancer Diagnosis by PET Imaging
Le récepteur du peptide de libération de la gastrine (GRPR) est un récepteur couplé aux protéines G. Ce récepteur est fortement exprimé dans le cancer de la prostate, il est ainsi un biomarqueur potentiel pour ce cancer. La bombésine est un peptide de 14 acides aminés qui se lie avec une forte …
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NeuroYara: Learning to Rank for Yara Rules Generation through Deep Language Modeling & Discriminative N-gram Encoding
Signature-based malware detection methods are simple, explainable, and efficient. One of the most ubiquitous tools is Yara. It is a widely-used syntax for writing malware signatures. Compared to machine learning models, Yara rules have a lower false-positive rate and better maintainability of the …
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Child care in the retail industry in Victoria
The aim of this research is to investigate the child care experiences and attitudes of those who work within the retail industry in Victoria and it concentrates on the needs of parents with children aged under 13 years old. A number of issues are presented as part of the background information for …
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Program Transformations for Vulnerability Detection in Binary Executable Files
The major causes of threats in computer systems across the globe have been attributed to vulnerabilities in the underlying software on any hardware platform. Vulnerability analysis entails the process of determining whether a system contains a flaw which an attacker can exploit to compromise the …
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An empirical investigation to examine the usability issues of using adaptive, adaptable, and mixed-initiative approaches in in-teractive systems
The combination of graphical user interface (GUI) and usability evaluation presents an advantage to mastering every piece of software and ensuring perfect quality of work. The increasing demand for online learning is becoming more important, both individually and academically. This thesis …
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Design and development of a vulnerability detection framework using artificial intelligence for embedded systems
Embedded systems play a critical role in industrial control, IoT, autonomous systems, and critical infrastructure. However, their widespread adoption introduces security vulnerabilities across three layers: the application layer, the embedded OS layer, and the hardware layer. This thesis presents a …
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Sulfate soil stabilisation with silica fume-based binders
Sulfate soils are encountered in nearly every country in the world. These soils, where calcium-based stabilisers are added, can undergo heave-induced expansion as a result of the formation of ettringite. Therefore, this research examines the viability of using silica fume (a by-product of silicon …
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Managing the quality of services in Saudi universities: students, staff and employers perspectives
This study deals with quality of student services and proposes a framework for managing quality in student services in Saudi universities based on key quality service requirements identified by students, staff and employers. The proposed framework seeks to address differences in quality values …
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Destination branding analytical study applied to Sultanate of Oman as a tourism destination
The aim of this study is to develop a model for tourism destination branding using Oman as a case study by examining the Omani context and its characteristics from the perspective of both potential tourists (the demand side) and the Omani tourism providers (the supply side) while taking into …
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Assessment of the factors that influencing deposits mobilization in commercial bank Tanzania
The main objective of the study was to assess the factors that influence deposit mobilization on commercial banks in Tanzania. The study particularly assessed the importance, applicability and to identify the most effective and applied factors that influence deposit mobilization. The study used …
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Conflict management approaches in Palestinian Baptist intra-church conflict in Israel between 1990 and 2016, in dialogue with Miroslav Volf’s theology of reconciliation: an analysis and critical evaluation
In the early 1990s, the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, changed its global philosophy of ministry and withdrew from direct involvement in the Baptist churches it planted, including in Israel. Around the same time, local churches started to split. This research …
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The influence of Islamic values on retail brand equity and store loyalty: a Saudi Arabian perspective
This study investigates the factors influencing store loyalty in the Saudi Arabian retail industry. It argues that retail store loyalty is influenced not only by “classic” factors like location, retail brand equity, and retail customer service experience, but also by culturally specific factors – …
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Behaviour of human myoblasts in vitro: role of ageing and inflammatory cytokines
Ageing is associated with a loss of muscle mass, a processes known as “sarcopenia”. It has been postulated that one of the reasons underlying this muscle loss is a decreased ability to repair itself in response to damage. Repair of muscle is facilitated by a specific population of progenitor adult …
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