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  Wi-Fi-based hierarchical Wireless Networked Control Systems

  Esraa A. Makled, Hassan H. Halawa, Ramez M. Daoud, Hassanein H. Amer, and Tarek K. Refaat

  [abstract not available]

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  Dispersion analysis and engineering in TiN 2D plasmonic waveguides

  Hosam Mekawey, Yehea Ismail, and Mohamed A. Swillam

  [abstract not available]

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  Shelley, Hermeneutics and Poetics: Metaphor as Translation

  William Donald Melaney

  Percy Bysshe Shelley’s work in the field of poetics is a memorable rejoinder to Enlightenment historicism, just as it provides a theoretical basis for reading his own poetry in terms of a hermeneutical approach to knowledge. However, while rich in suggestions concerning how Shelley’s work might be read, the critical tradition in general has tended to neglect hermeneutics in favor of either formal or text-specific approaches. What this paper seeks to explore instead is the hermeneutical significance of Shelley’s conception of poetics. The hermeneutical approach will be used to explain how Shelley conceives of language as a process whereby meaning itself is derived from the metaphorical nature of verbal experience. Accordingly, this paper makes three related claims: first, Shelley’s reflections on the origins of language, as most strongly presented in Defense of Poetry, assigns metaphor a role that is inseparable from the problem of translation, broadly conceived; second, Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound demonstrates on a figurative level how the human imagination forms the bridge (or translates) between diverse mental faculties; finally, the ‘theory of metaphor’ that Shelley elaborates evokes a view of language that can be examined through a reader-response approach to the hermeneutical tradition. Th is final claim will allow us to demonstrate how a phenomenology of reading employs an intertextual approach to literature that is responsive to temporal claims.

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  Marketing financial services and products in different cultural environments

  Charilaos Mertzanis

  [no abstract provided]

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  Through-bolts to control ovalization of CHS T-joints under brace member compressive loads

  M. A. Mohamed, A. A. Shaat, and Ezzeldin A. Sayed-Ahmed

  [abstract not available]

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  Feasibility of cyclic and continuous steam injections into a Middle-Eastern heavy oil reservoir: A simulation approach

  Mohamed A. Mongy and Shedid A. Shedid

  [abstract not available]

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  Religion, Democracy and the Challenge of the Arab Spring

  Ian A. Morrison

  The focus of the chapter is an exposition and critique of early Western reactions to the Arab Spring. As evident in the coverage of the uprisings within the Anglo-American media, the anxiety often provoked by these uprisings and the subsequent attempts at democratization is a result of a perception that 'the democratic face of the revolutions may serve to his its "true" Islamist nature or... the masses, unable or unwilling to recognize the distinction between religious and political spheres, will hijack the fledgling democracies by electing Islamist governments' (Morrison 2014: 328). As such, the dilemma that is posed by the plurality of Western reactions is whether democratization, through permitting the election of groups with anti-democratic agendas, will lead to an opening for, or a closure of, democracy. The Arab Spring is an event for which a response is demanded from all of us who wish to be invested in questions of politics, democracy and religion. As such, we need to ask: how do we orient ourselves towards these events? How do we develop a politico-ethical response to the election (or potential election) or Islamist governments? Or, in basic terms, how do respond to the Arab Spring?

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  Low complexity timing synchronization and channel estimation for DVB-T2 over long echo channels

  Mohamed H. Omar, Ayman Elezabi, and A. F. Shalash

  [abstract not available]

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  Algorithm for swarming and following behaviors of multiple mobile robots

  Akimasa Otsuka, Fusaomi Nagata, Maki K. Habib, and Keigo Watanabe

  [abstract not available]

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  Embedded hypervisor xvisor: A comparative analysis

  Anup Patel, Mai Daftedar, Mohmad Shalan, and M. Watheq El-Kharashi

  [abstract not available]

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  Prediction of heat transfer distribution over the surface of nonfilm-cooled nozzle guide vane in a transonic annular cascade

  Kasem E. Ragab and Lamyaa El-Gabry

  [abstract not available]

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  Deep learning framework with confused sub-set resolution architecture for automatic arabic diacritization

  Mohsen A.A. Rashwan, Ahmad A. Al Sallab, Hazem M. Raafat, and Ahmed Rafea

  [abstract not available]

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  D7. Fabrication of crystalline silicon nanowires with different dimensions for solar cell applications

  Sara Abdel Razk, Nageh K. Allam, and Mohamed A. Swillam

  [abstract not available]

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  Dual output power management unit for a PV-battery hybrid energy system

  Ahmed A. Rezk, Amr Helmy, and Yehea Ismail

  [abstract not available]

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  VHDL implementation of a power management algorithm for PV-battery system

  Ahmed A. Rezk, Amr Helmy, and Yehea Ismail

  [abstract not available]

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  A Decade of Advances in the Paleopathology of the Ancient Egyptians

  Lisa Sabbahy Dr.

  Although the bioarchaeology (study of biological remains in an archaeological context) of Egypt has been documented in a desultory way for many decades, it is only recently that it has become an inherent part of excavations in Egypt. This volume consists of a series of essays that explore how ancient plant, animal, and human remains should be studied, and how, when they are integrated with texts, images, and artefacts, they can contribute to our understanding of the history, environment, and culture of ancient Egypt in a holistic manner.

  Topics covered in this volume relating to human remains include analyses of royal, elite and poor cemeteries of different eras, case studies on specific mummies, identification of different diseases in human remains, an overview of the state of palaeopathology in Egypt, how to analyse burials to establish season of death, the use of bodies to elucidate life stories, the potential of visceral remains in identifying individuals as well as diseases that they might have had, and a protocol for studying mummies. Faunal remains are represented by a study of a canine cemetery and a discussion of cat species that were mummified, and dendroarchaeology is represented by an overview of its potentials and pitfalls for dating Egyptian remains and revising its chronology.

  Leading international specialists from varied disciplines including physical anthropology, radiology, archaeozoology, Egyptology, and dendrochronology have contributed to this groundbreaking volume of essays that will no doubt provide much fodder for thought, and will be of interest to scholars and laypeople alike.

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  Optimization of cutting conditions in vibration assisted drilling of composites via a multi-objective EGO implementation

  Ahmed Sadek, Mohamed Aly, Karim Hamza, Mouhab Meshreki, and Ashraf O. Nassef

  [abstract not available]

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  High efficiency on-chip Dielectric Resonator Antennna using micromachining technology

  Mai O. Sallam, Mohamed Serry, Atif Shamim, Walter De Raedt, and Sherif Sedky

  [abstract not available]

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  Electrically small antennas with dimensions down to one-fifteenth and one-thirtieth of wavelength

  Mai O. Sallam, Guy A.E. Vandenbosch, Walter De Raedt, and Ezzeldin A. Soliman

  [abstract not available]

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  Integration of islamic law in the fabric of legal thought in Egypt

  Mohamed Ahmed Serag

  [no abstract provided]

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  A secure role-based service discovery technique for emergency intervention operations

  M. Adel Serhani, Ezedin Barka, and Yasser Gadallah

  [abstract not available]

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  Affordable Housing Policies in Egypt after the 2011 Revolution: More of the Same?

  David Sims

  Egypt is a country of its people. What has been the effect on its inhabitants of the 2011 revolution and subsequent developments? In 2013, a conference held under the auspices of Cairo Papers in Social Science examined this issue from the points of view of anthropologists, historians, political scientists, psychologists, and urban planners. The papers collected here reveal the strategies that various actors employed in this situation.

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  Mode selection, user pairing, subcarrier allocation and power control in full-duplex OFDMA HetNets

  Radwa Sultan, Lingyang Song, Karim G. Seddik, Yonghui Li, and Zhu Han

  [abstract not available]

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  A 24 Gbps SerDes transceiver for on-chip networks using a new half-data-rate self-timed 3-level signaling scheme

  Ramy N. Tadros, Abdelrahman H. Ahmed, Maged Ghoneima, and Yehea Ismail

  [abstract not available]

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  The Power of Data Visualization: A Prototype Energy Performance Map for a University Campus

  Khaled A. Tarabieh, Islam O. Elnabarawy, Islam A. Mashaly, and Yussra M. Rashed

  [abstract not available]