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  Low cost test for catastrophic faults in CMOS operational transcondutor

  Mahmoud M. Fouad, Hassanein H. Amer, Ahmed H. Madian, and M. B. Abdelhalim

  [abstract not available]

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  Fabrication of optical filters using multilayered porous silicon

  Noha Gaber, Diaa Khalil, and Amr Shaarawi

  [abstract not available]

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  Bey2ollak—Beat Traffic Together: A Case Study from Egypt

  Laura Guindy and Maha Mourad

  Traffic jams in Cairo can last for hours and even fire engines and ambulances often face difficulties reaching those in need on time. Six young Egyptian menhave decided to quit watching as the problem escalates and created a simple and easy traffic application to help people avoid congested streets by showing real time updates of the streets. The application turned out to do much more than let people update the status of different roads, it has evolved into a traffic community that responds to the needs of Egyptian street. From fuel crises to polling stations in the times of elections: Bey2ollak covered it all. The idea seems straightforward, but why was it such a big hit? Why did more than 6000 users download the application on the first day of its release alone? Why did the Daily News describe it as “more essential to traffic than traffic lights”? What are the reasons for its success? Did the environment and setting in Egypt facilitate the success or make it more difficult? And most importantly: Is it sustainable and could maintain its position in front of the new emerging competitors? This calls for a closer look and analysis of the environment, setting and framework under which Bey2ollak thrived and became the success it is today. In addition, the analysis will help in giving recommendations to the entrepreneurs regarding their expansion strategy.

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  Collaborative and distributed intelligent environment merging virtual and physical realities

  Maki K. Habib

  This paper introduces the development of a new collaborative and distributed intelligent environment that supports collaboration among geographically dispersed people including intelligent systems. The collaborative and distributed intelligent environment merges seamlessly mixed realities in terms of physical space, document, people, physical facilities and equipment, virtual environments, collaborative control, distributed teleopreration, decision making, etc. into one shared collaborative space. This approach aims to bridge the gap between reality and virtuality beyond time and physical constraints. Such capabilities have been achieved through the design and implementation of innovative, interactive, shared, 3D multi-user collaborative and distributed intelligent environment (CoDIE). CoDIE represents an integrated approach with embedded systems that offers the capability to administer distributed environment and resources with people accessing the environment remotely and others are collocated with the physical counterpart supported by ambient intelligence techniques. The developed environment can be used as a metaphor for wide range of application domains to integrate distributed resources, supports synchronous and asynchronous collaboration, distributed teleoperation, collaborative control, and to enable people to work beyond time and physical constraints. The talk presents the concept of CoDIE and describes its four-tire architecture and the key features and functionalities associated with its development and implementation. Finally, the paper highlights briefly the development of an educational and training robot center integrated with distributed physical and virtual facilities through the use of CoDIE. © 2011 IEEE.

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  Humanitarian demining mine detection and sensors

  Maki K. Habib

  The objectives of developing landmine detection technology are to achieve a high probability of detection rate while maintaining a low probability of false alarms. However, the probability of a false alarm rate is directly proportional to the time and cost of demining. The quality of mine detection affects the efficiency and safety of this process. Hence, there is a need for efficient, reliable and cost effective humanitarian mine detection technologies that speed up the detection process, increase productivity, maximize detection accuracy and reduce false alarm rate. Such technology should improve the ability to positively discriminate landmines from other buried objects and metallic debris while enhancing safety and protection for deminers. Methods of detecting individual mines vary from simple manual probing, the use of animals (dogs, pigs, rats, etc.), insects (Bees, etc.), biosensors, and genetically modified bacteria, to a variety of electronic technologies. Each mine detection technologies has its own strengths and weaknesses. This paper addresses the problem of landmines, their impact, difficulties, requirements, solutions and priorities as required for humanitarian demining. The paper introduces the available mine detection technologies along with a description of the ongoing research and development efforts in the field. The paper evaluates the available mine clearance technologies in terms of prospects, potential use to improve the speed and safety of humanitarian demining, discuss and identify any barriers to complete the development of new technologies. It also focuses on the features and requirements for having efficient sensors that can facilitate effective mine detection. © 2011 IEEE.

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  Robotics for rescue and risky intervention

  Maki K. Habib, Yvan Baudoin, and Fusaomi Nagata

  [abstract not available]

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  Testing of one stage pipelined analog to digital converter

  Sahar M. Hamed, Ahmed H. Khalil, Hassanein H. Amer, M. B. Abdelhalim, and Ahmed H. Madian

  [abstract not available]

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  Aerial Image retargeting (AIR): Achieving Litho-Friendly designs

  Ayman Yehia Hamouda, James Word, Mohab Anis, and Karim S. Karim

  [abstract not available]

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  Passive supervisor for railway fault-tolerant Ethernet networked control systems

  Mai Hassan, Ramez M. Daoud, and Hassanein H. Amer

  [abstract not available]

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  Optimization of cable tensioning in cable-stayed bridges

  M. M. Hassan, A. O. Nassef, and A. A. El Damatty

  [abstract not available]

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  Accounting and Auditing of Financial Derivatives: The Case of Maridive & Oil Services (MOS)

  Mohamed Hegazy and Karim Hegazy

  The Egyptian Capital Market Authority (CMA) examined the company’s financial statements for the year ended on December 31, 2008, while the auditors’ reports forced the company’s management, despite the objection of two of the company’s auditors, to restate its financial statements at December 31, 2008, and modify its profit appropriation statement after their publication to shareholders and the public. The research presents the problems related to the application of the International Accounting Standards no 32 and 38 “Financial assets and Derivatives,” their Egyptian equivalents, and the Egyptian Standards on auditing no 700 and 702. Further, the research identifies the differences associated with auditors issuing contradictory audit reports for a company’s single set of financial statements.

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  Participatory decision making and modern cooperatives in mali: Notes towards a prospective anthropology

  Nicholas S. Hopkins

  [no abstract provided]

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  A Hybrid Agribusiness Value Chain: The Case of a Horticulture Social Enterprise in Minya, Egypt

  Nagwan Ibrahim, Farage Lashin, and Ali H. Awni

  The Case is centered on Ahmed Dakrouri as a successful social entrepreneur. It describes his business model for forming a cooperative value chain between small farmers in Abou Korkas, Minya, in Upper Egypt. The model utilizes a hybrid approach that combines commercial entities for producing medicinal and aromatic plants for local and export markets, with Civil Service Organizations that deliver upgrading and other social services to small farmers. The case describes the background of the social entrepreneur, his approach for gaining the trust of the small farmers and the community, and the hybrid value chain model used.

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  Collecting and repatriating Egypt's past: Toward a new nationalism

  Salima Ikram

  Egypt has a rich and diverse cultural heritage that spans over 6,000 years. The most well known period is the Pharaonic era that lasted some 3,000 years, and that has mesmerized people thereafter. Indeed, when people think of Egypt, they rarely think of the modern state-they think of Egypt's Pharaonic past in terms of its mirabilia: pyramids and mummies that evoke the exotic and the esoteric. This perception has influenced current attitudes to the cultural remains from this era, objects and monuments that have come to be regarded as the patrimony not only of the modern-day Egyptians but also of the entire world. The same fascination is one reason why Egyptian artifacts are one of, if not the most, popular exhibits in any museum, regardless of whether the museum is in London, Paris, New York, or Berlin. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

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  Adaptation and Business Model Innovation in Times of Rapid Change: Baraka Group Case Study

  Ayman Ismail and Brendon Johnson

  This case study presents a picture of a company in Egypt who, through difficult economic times, focused on adapting to market conditions and achieving growth through creative strategies. The entrepreneur, working under flexible conditions of a family business, utilized opportunities to reassess markets, test, and redevelop products and services based on perceived needs and desires. As more competitors attempt to enter the market, Baraka Group’s success will be contingent on the ability to constantly and creatively tackle gaps in the market.

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  Honda Power Products: Ensuring the Future of a Leading Brand in a Turbulent Market

  Noha Ismail

  The International Commercial and Industrial Investment Company, S.A.E (ICII) is a trading company specialized in high-end power products and construction equipment. Honda power products accounts for almost 25% percent of the company’s sales. Since the introduction of Chinese products into the Egyptian market, Honda sales have been increasing, however at a decreasing rate. ICII is facing a number of challenges related to Honda’s decreasing market share. The main challenges are configuring a marketing strategy to ensure its viability in a turbulent market and selecting growth alternative that ensures its sustainability in light of the changing market conditions.

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  Vibration-based damage detection in plates using damage location vectors

  Mohammed O. Kayed, Mustafa H. Arafa, and Said M. Megahed

  [abstract not available]

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  Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-Colonial Egypt

  Hanan Kholoussy

  [no abstract provided]

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  Malraux’s Hope: Allegory and the Voices of Silence

  William Donald Melaney

  André Malraux’s novel, La Condition humaine [Man’s Fate], evokes broadly Hegelian expectations concerning the possibility of political action and the dialectical resolution of long-term conflicts. However, this same novel also frustrates these same expectations when it articulates matters of style, art and politics in a Chinese setting. The “world” of the novel is not defined in terms of a unified native tradition, but its international features are historically revealing and socially significant. Moreover, the cultural subtext that underlies the novel’s plot constitutes an index for determining the nature of socio-cultural praxis under difficult conditions. Hence, Malraux’s novel can be shown to interface with cultural history in three distinct ways. First, the major protagonists in the novel embody an ambiguous but important connection with progressive ideology. Second, the cultural differences that figure prominently in the novel provide a material dimension to the network of signs that governs the structure of the work itself. Third, the emergence of “discontinuous” history in the novel complements a sense of narrative fictionality that provides the reader with a socially mediated view of historical transformation.

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  Facing Organizational Change and Stress Management: The Case of First Commercial Bank

  Elham Metwally

  In today’s hyper-competitive environment, understanding factors that contribute to effective management of change and achieving strategic competitiveness are critical. Based on management theories and best practices, this case study provides a detailed exploration, description, and explanation of the implementation of two electronic banking delivery systems, namely ATMs and Internet Banking, in a leading bank in Egypt. The case identifies and describes the bank’s approach to managing change through Information Technology, with regards to leadership actions, overcoming resistance to change, personal and organizational attributes, strategies, structures, business processes, culture, as well as organizational commitment. The arrangement of the case followed a question-and-answer format rather than the traditional narrative. A series of questions and answers based on the semi-structured face-to-face interviews assessed the research topic. The researcher treated both products side-by-side throughout the case, as action planning was the same for each product. Outcomes revealed great commonalities, which meant tremendous overlap and repetition, had a separate case study been presented for each product.

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  Self-aligned double patterning (SADP) friendly detailed routing

  Minoo Mirsaeedi, J. Andres Torres, and Mohab Anis

  [abstract not available]

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  Self-aligned double patterning (SADP) layout decomposition

  Minoo Mirsaeedi, J. Andres Torres, and Mohab Anis

  [abstract not available]

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  Ariika Bean Bags: A successful Egyptian Entrepreneur Capable of Regional Expansion?

  Hend Mostafa and Rania S. Hussein

  Since its introduction in the Egyptian market in 2011, Ariika's sales have been growing. In three years the company was able to position itself in the Egyptian market and was perceived as an international company. Ariika was targeting consumers, corporate and re-sellers and was able to acquire high market share. The success of Ariika encouraged Hassan Arslan, founder and CEO of Ariika bean bags, to consider international expansion. Arslan was considering countries in the Middle East as a good starting point for international expansion as they have similar cultures and may also have similar demands. Ariika’s brand name which is derived from Arabic origins “Ariika” and that signifies comfort, is also well recognized and easily understood in the Middle East. Ariika had only one store in Egypt and a geographical expansion could surely benefit Ariika. Alternatively Arslan wanted to build on Ariika's success by developing Ariika Home that would sell hard furniture such as tables and chairs online. Having the three options in mind, Arslan was wondering which option should he start with? If he decided to go international which countries should he consider? Should he follow the same strategy developed for the Egyptian market? If he decided to expand geographically where should he open new stores? Or should he develop the new brand Ariika Home?

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  Automatic control of an orthogonal-type robot with a force sensor and a small force input device

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

  [abstract not available]

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  Structure-from-motion for earthwork planning

  Khaled Nassar, Ebrahim A. Aly, and Younghan Jung

  [abstract not available]