The impact of political violence on domestic violence against women: Egypt as a case study from 2005-2015

The thesis discusses the impact of political violence represented by the 25th of January 2011 Uprising whether political, economic, institutional or legal violence, on domestic violence against women. The thesis also approaches social violence as it intersects with both political and domestic violence. So, the interaction between political and social violence, and domestic violence against women will be analyzed to find out how they interact and in what ways domestic violence against women is affected by both variables. Previous research work highlighted the relation between political and social violence or the relation between social and domestic violence with little attention to the impact of political violence on domestic violence against women; how political, social and domestic violence interact, and how social and domestic violence impede women’s political participation. The research methodology would be through interviewing and surveying female survivors from spousal violence whether divorced, separated or married and being exposed to marital violence within the thesis time frame from urban and rural communities. The thesis concludes that there is an impact of political violence on domestic violence against women. Additionally, it was inferred that political, social, and domestic violence limit women’s political participation in elections and demonstrations. Recommendations included reforming policies that protect women in family; enforcing gender equality at all fronts; raising men’s awareness of violence issues; providing better social, psychological and financial support for domestic violence female survivors

Non-Taylor series based positioning method for location based services

Location Based Services (LBS) has gained increasing popularity in major cities. Due to blocking from man-made structures, the existing Global Positioning System (GPS) could not satisfy LBS applications, especially in street canyon and indoor surroundings. This has lead to the development of Assisted GPS (A-GPS) which can provide better service availability and accuracy gain. In the conventional positioning method, Taylor series expansion is applied to solve non-linear distance equations. This method requires an initial estimation of A-GPS receiver’s position. This paper investigates the positioning method for LBS based on hybrid E-OTD/GNSS. The proposed positioning method is non-Taylor series based. Therefore, it involves less complicated mathematical expansion and substitution. A flexible LBS positioning tool is developed which can generate position information in convenient way. It supports both Taylor series and non-Taylor series based positioning methods. The obtained results showed that the proposed non-Taylor series based positioning method can achieve better positioning accuracy

Identification and characterization of high order incoherent space charge driven structure resonances in the CERN Proton Synchrotron

Space charge is typically one of the performance limitations for the operation of high intensity and high brightness beams in circular accelerators. In the Proton Synchrotron (PS) at CERN, losses are observed for vertical tunes above $Q_y=6.25$, especially for beams with large space charge tune shift. The work presented here shows that this behaviour is associated to structure resonances excited by space charge due to the highly symmetric accelerator lattice of the PS, typical for first generation alternating gradient synchrotrons. Experimental studies demonstrate the dependency of the losses on the beam brightness and the harmonic of the resonance, and simulation studies reveal the incoherent nature of the resonance. Furthermore, the calculation of the Resonance Driving Terms (RDT) generated by the space charge potential shows that the operational working point of the PS is surrounded by multiple space charge driven incoherent resonances. Finally, measurements and simulations on both lattice driven and space charge driven resonances illustrate the different behaviour of the beam loss depending on the source of the resonance excitation and on the beam brightness

Camera calibration for the NASA Virtual GloveBox project

In this thesis, we develop a new camera calibration algorithm for use in the NASA Virtual G1oveBox (VGX) Human Computer Interaction (HCI) System. The developed algorithm is based on the geometric properties of perspective projections and provides a closed form solution for all the camera parameters. The accuracy of the calibration is evaluated in the context of the NASA Virtual GloveBox and the results indicate that accuracy similar to other more complex and computationally expensive calibration methods can be achieved using our algorithm. Camera calibration is an initial step in many computer vision applications. Computer vision refers to the automatic extraction of information about a scene based on images of it. The task of camera calibration is to estimate the camera parameters which in turn allow us to infer metric information about a scene from images of it

Proposed Guidelines for Establishing Baseline for Networking Infrastructure in Campus Environment : A Case Study of Faculty Information Technology (FTM)

Baseline plays a deterministic role in providing network managers with state-of-the-art information on their networks' current performance for future capacity planning. The lack of a simplified model and/or framework for creating baseline hampers the process of capacity planning thus cause many problems for network managers. Using multi-purpose multi-design research approach, this thesis objectively proposes systematic guidelines to create baseline for further capacity planning facilitation. Proper care has been taken in assessing the baseline requirements to capture all necessary information on networking infrastructure needed to create baseline. The authenticity and validity of the proposed guidelines has been tested using a short evaluation by experts, moreover, baseline for FTM's networking infrastructure has been established by implementing our proposed guidelines. It is hoped that our proposed guidelines, by all means, provide invaluable contribution to help FTM to develop the future capacity plan and gives a direction towards future research in capacity planning

Merampok Hutan dan Uang Negara

Kajian Penerimaan Keuangan Negara dari Sektor Kehutanan dan Perkebunan: Studi Kasus di Kalimantan Barat dan Kalimantan Tengah

Enhanced teamwork communication model for electronic clinical pathways in healthcare

© 2018 Matar et al. Background: One of the main challenges to hospital patient flow and treatment includes the lack of a patient-centered approach, which in turn contributes to non-effective teamwork communication. Objectives: To introduce patient-centered approach by implementing electronic clinical pathways to support more effective teamwork communication. To study how to enhance teamwork communication in healthcare by implementing electronic clinical pathways. Methods: We propose a research model, integrating the Donbedian model and the socio-technical theory, to investigate the factors that influence teamwork communication in healthcare. This research applied a quantitative approach using a survey method that was designed along the same principles as in the related work. Preliminary data collection was conducted using the survey method for problem formulation. Results: Designed and developed a model for implementing electronic clinical pathways to enhance teamwork communication in healthcare. Conclusion: This study provides recommendations to hospitals to enhance teamwork communication in healthcare by implementing electronic clinical pathways

The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on the Construction of Entrepreneurial Self-identity of University Students in Egypt

Due to the rise in the number of entrepreneurship education programs that are believed to have an impact beyond creating entrepreneurial knowledge and the multiple attempts to understand the entrepreneurial identity and how it is constructed, the current research aims at investigating the relationship between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial self-identity construction for university level-students, hence utilized two measures, the first one asked students whether they define him or herself in an entrepreneurial role or not (Hoang and Gimeno, 2015) and the second one was concerned about the social identity and measured it using the “Identity-scale” developed by Sieger et al. (2016).A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to a sample of 550 students, whereas 280 received formal entrepreneurship education and 270 did not. Results showed that entrepreneurship education had a direct impact on the construction of entrepreneurial identities of university students. However, the impact was of a very low level not exceeding 3.1%, implying the existence of other non-entrepreneurship education-related factors that might contribute to entrepreneurial identity construction to a higher extent

The Role of Tranexamic Acid Use in Reducing Mortality in Acute Upper GI Bleeding:

Please view the PDF to see the formatted meeting abstract.

Early Feeding Versus Delayed Feeding after Therapeutic Endoscopic Intervention in Upper GI Bleeding:

Please view the PDF to see the formatted meeting abstract.