Book review: active citizenship: what could it achieve and how?

Omar El-Khairy reviews the latest title by Bernard Crick, concluding that tensions around active citizenship have never been hotter

EXPLORING KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS FOR TOURIST GUIDES: EVIDENCE FROM EGYPT

Tourist Guides, like all employees within the travel (Tourism) industry must be aware of the needs of travelers (Tourists) and adjust their service and products accordingly, to accomplish this goal TGs are expected to process knowledge of guiding. This paper measures the degree of the influence of the area of study and the level of knowledge on experienced TGs through a study conducted on 200 of 6846 the working population of TGs in 2005, licensed to work in the field by the Ministry of Tourism in Egypt. The study used a self-administered questionnaire that revealed important results showing defects in the areas of study and shortage in the knowledge background of the TGs to a certain extend. The conclusion of the study will propose a guiding scheme to develop a certain standard of education and knowledge needed by TGs in Egypt in their drive towards professional recognition, in order to be able to perform effectively in an increasingly competitive field.tour guides (TG), area of study, knowledge background, Egypt

Gas Lift Optimization for a Sudanese Field

Gas lift is mainly used to decrease bottom hole flowing pressure resulting from fluid hydrostatic pressure and rapid decrement in reservoir pressure. Available gas amount and compressors capacity are the main limitations to this method, thus optimization in each well is the key for the highest recovery. In this study the problem of allocating limited gas to wells network was addressed, the under-study field suffers from production deferment due to gas injection instability which is 40% of the total field production. A commercial multiphase simulator was used to model the field wells and coupled with the nonlinear weighted incremental gradient equations and simulated several scenarios for gas injection limitation for the total network. the multiphase flow correlations were considered, Begs and Brill was found to be the most accurate correlation for this field. The optimization resulted in several changes in the lift gas for each well; total injection rate incrimination was not affecting the overall oil production rate. Optimum gas injection rate is 7 MMscf\D which is 1 MMscf\D less than the current situation and the oil rate is 8% increased. Some wells cannot benefit from the optimization due to their high water cut and low reservoir pressure. Finally, the economic analysis showed that the 7 MMscf\D optimized injection rate is suitable for this field with 12% income in a daily rate

Low Complexity V-BLAST MIMO-OFDM Detector by Successive Iterations Reduction

V-BLAST detection method suffers large computational complexity due to its successive detection of symbols. In this paper, we propose a modified V-BLAST algorithm to decrease the computational complexity by reducing the number of detection iterations required in MIMO communication systems. We begin by showing the existence of a maximum number of iterations, beyond which, no significant improvement is obtained. We establish a criterion for the number of maximum effective iterations. We propose a modified algorithm that uses the measured SNR to dynamically set the number of iterations to achieve an acceptable bit-error rate. Then, we replace the feedback algorithm with an approximate linear function to reduce the complexity. Simulations show that significant reduction in computational complexity is achieved compared to the ordinary V-BLAST, while maintaining a good BER performance.Comment: 6 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. The final publication is available at www.aece.r

Pembelajaran Bahasa dengan Pendekatan Budaya

When the teacher teaches a second language or a foreign language, often times he forgot to convey the culture contained in the language, so the language is often learned the common errors in usage. The learning based culture based on the recognition of culture as a fundamental part of the learning process. Cultural content of Arabic language learning in particular can be integrated in the following stages: a) learning materials, b) the selection and organization of material, c) learning method with a cultural approach, d) evaluation

Pengembangan Bahan Ajar Bahasa Arab

Up to day, the materials of Arabic teaching that are developed and used widely in Indonesia in general are the teaching materials used in the madrassah in the Middle East. If the teaching material is the result of the development of amounts not so much. While the demands for innovation and the development of Arabic language teaching materials, today continues to roll, in line with the dynamics of the development of science and technology. Besides that , the demand for Arabic teaching materials that use Indonesian as the language develops in most introductory students, especially those with a general educational background. Thus, one needs to have a competence of teachers in performing their duties is developing instructional materials. Development of teaching materials a teacher is important for learning more effective, efficient, and does not deviate from the competency achieved. Arabic teaching materials can be developed through the following steps : a) analysis, b ) design, c ) the writing and preparation of the material, d ) evaluation, e ) revision

Profesionalitas Aparatur Sekretariat Daerah di Kabupaten Sumbawa Besar

The aim of this research is knowing the profesionality of aparature at local secretary of Sumbawaregion in doing their work depend on function and job description. Beside that, this research try toknow some obstacles and find the solution to increase aparature profesionality at Sekretariat DaerahKabupaten Sumbawa. This reseach's title is a Profesionality of aparature at local secretary ofSumbawa region. Research methods is used descriptive survey, documentation, Questioner, interview.The respondents of this research are civil servant at Sekretariat Daerah Kabupaten Sumbawa. Fromthis research knew that civil servant competency is good, Acuntability is good, Recruitment is fair,Education level is poor. The conclution is aparature's profesionality at local secretary of Sumbawaregion in fair level

USCID fourth international conference

Presented at the Role of irrigation and drainage in a sustainable future: USCID fourth international conference on irrigation and drainage on October 3-6, 2007 in Sacramento, California.Includes bibliographical references.The National Water Resources Plan of Egypt launched in 2005 estimates that the New Lands would reach 45% of the agricultural land by 2017. The Plan envisions an increase of Egypt's agricultural land, over the period of 2000 to 2017, from 8.5 million acres to 11.2 million acres which is about 7.24% of Egypt area. The existing Oases of Egypt's Western Desert, considered part of the New Lands, form a small portion of the agricultural area. These lands are developed either by private reclamation entities or the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation through a variety of cooperative efforts including land and water grants to settlers, commercial farms, and providing services to the oases. The Government of Egypt has followed an efficient and sustainable path rooted based on the integrated water management approach in allocating substantive investments towards the development of the oases as anchors of the Western Desert New Land. This study outlines a case study on the assessment of development and management aspects of water resources and land in closed basins. The case study focuses on the implementation of integrated water management approach in Siwa Oasis. This historic Oasis has been chosen as a model of water and land management in closed basin of Egypt's New Lands. In Siwa, integrated land and water management parallel with an enabling policy that fosters social and environmental sustainability have been practiced since the late nineties. This study has concluded positive consequences of applying integrated water management in various aspects of life in Siwa Oasis. Positive indicators show an increase in crop productivity, +40%; +25% growth of organized inhabitant settlement measured by family income and livelihood standards; and improving environmental quality by more than 50%

Profesionalitas Aparatur Sekretariat Daerah di Kabupaten Sumbawa Besar

The aim of this research is knowing the profesionality of aparature at local secretary of Sumbawa region in doing their work depend on function and job description. Beside that, this research try to know some obstacles and find the solution to increase aparature profesionality at Sekretariat Daerah Kabupaten Sumbawa. This reseachs title is a Profesionality of aparature at local secretary of Sumbawa region. Research methods is used descriptive survey, documentation, Questioner, interview. The respondents of this research are civil servant at Sekretariat Daerah Kabupaten Sumbawa. From this research knew that civil servant competency is good, Acuntability is good, Recruitment is fair, Education level is poor. The conclution is aparatures profesionality at local secretary of Sumbawa region in fair level. Keywords: Profesionality, Local secretary, Sumbawa Regio