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The treatment of intertextuality in translation studies : a case study with the 2009 English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe (2017)
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Bichet, M. (2017). The treatment of intertextuality in translation studies : a case study with the 2009 English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe

The present paper explores the way intertextuality is dealt with in the latest English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe (1949). Intertextuality was described by Genette as a ‘piège à traducteurs’ (1982: 295-6), or as “a trap for t... Read More about The treatment of intertextuality in translation studies : a case study with the 2009 English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxième Sexe.

ICT developments and utilization in the Omani banking sector (2017)
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Alhousary, T., Underwood, J., & Xanthidis, D. (2017). ICT developments and utilization in the Omani banking sector. WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics, 14, 409-416

While adopting information and communication technologies (ICT) has become inevitable, the next-level challenge to organizations is how well they are utilizing this technology asset. Almost two decades earlier, which is not a noticeable span of time... Read More about ICT developments and utilization in the Omani banking sector.

Language, juridical epistemologies and power in the new UK university : can alternative providers escape? (2017)
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Hanson, S. (2017). Language, juridical epistemologies and power in the new UK university : can alternative providers escape?. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 15(3), 241-265

This paper describes how language, juridical epistemology and power is re-shaping mainstream UK universities, and how these changes create a default cultural floor that makes it difficult for alternative models to operate. It will make its argument v... Read More about Language, juridical epistemologies and power in the new UK university : can alternative providers escape?.

Derailment-based fault tree analysis on risk management of railway turnout systems (2017)
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of railway turnout systems. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 245(II), 042020. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/245/4/042020

Railway turnouts are fundamental mechanical infrastructures, which allow a rolling stock to divert one direction to another. As those are of a large number of engineering subsystems, e.g. track, signalling, earthworks, these particular sub-systems ar... Read More about Derailment-based fault tree analysis on risk management of railway turnout systems.

Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960 (2017)
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Barnett, N., & Smith, E. (2017). Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960. Labour History Review, 82(1), 51-76. https://doi.org/10.3828/lhr.2017.3

This article is concerned with different factions within the British peace movement during the 1950s and early 1960s, each of which gave the word ‘peace’ a different meaning. We argue that the movement was made up of several, often contradictory sect... Read More about Peace with a capital P : the spectre of communism and competing notions of ‘Peace’ in Britain, 1949–1960.

Consumer privacy protection in digital right management: A survey (2017)
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Mostafa, A., Gaber, T., Eltaweel, G., & Abraham, A. (2017). Consumer privacy protection in digital right management: A survey. International journal of computer information systems and industrial management applications, 9, 218-231

Digital Right Management (DRM) is a technology used to manage the usage of the digital contentsthat distributed through the Internet, and helps the content owners to prevent un-authorized use of theircopyrighted content. Ho... Read More about Consumer privacy protection in digital right management: A survey.

Linear discriminant analysis : a detailed tutorial (2017)
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Gaber, T., Tharwat, A., Ibrahim, A., & Hassanien, A. (2017). Linear discriminant analysis : a detailed tutorial. Ai communications : the European journal on artificial intelligence, 30(2), 169-190. https://doi.org/10.3233/AIC-170729

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a very common technique for dimensionality reduction problems as a preprocessing step for machine learning and pattern classification applications. At the same time, it is usually used as a black box, but (so... Read More about Linear discriminant analysis : a detailed tutorial.

Privacy-preserving Twitter-based solution for visually impaired people (2017)
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Ahmed, D., Gaber, T., & Wahed, M. (2017). Privacy-preserving Twitter-based solution for visually impaired people. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 8(7), https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2017.080770

Visually impaired people is a big community all over the world. They usually seek help to perform their daily activities such as reading the expired date of food cans or medicine, reading out PIN of a certain ATM Visa, identifying the color of clothe... Read More about Privacy-preserving Twitter-based solution for visually impaired people.

Trust-based security models in wireless sensor networks: a survey (2017)
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Abdelwahab, S., Gaber, T., & Wahed, M. (2017). Trust-based security models in wireless sensor networks: a survey. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies, 6(2/3), 245. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCISTUDIES.2017.089057

One of the major challenges facing wireless sensor networks today is the security. The deployment of sensor nodes is usually done in unattended or hostile environment. This makes the networks susceptible to various threats. It is known that sensor no... Read More about Trust-based security models in wireless sensor networks: a survey.

Pilot study comparing closed versus open tracheal suctioning in postoperative neonates and infants with complex congenital heart disease (2017)
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infants with complex congenital heart disease. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, 18(7), 647-654. https://doi.org/10.1097/PCC.0000000000001192

Objectives: To determine the hemodynamic effect of tracheal suction method in the first 36 hours after high-risk infant heart surgery on the PICU and to compare open and closed suctioning techniques. Design: Pilot randomized crossover study. Sett... Read More about Pilot study comparing closed versus open tracheal suctioning in postoperative neonates and infants with complex congenital heart disease.

Recycled aggregates from construction and demolition waste in the production of concrete blocks (2017)
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Ferriz-Papi, J., & Thomas, S. (2017). Recycled aggregates from construction and demolition waste in the production of concrete blocks. World academy of engineering and technology, 11(10), 1397-1402. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1132449

The construction industry generates large amounts of waste, usually mixed, which can be composed of different origin materials, most of them catalogued as non-hazardous. The European Union targets for this waste for 2020 have been already achieved by... Read More about Recycled aggregates from construction and demolition waste in the production of concrete blocks.

Procedure for impact testing of fused recycled glass (2017)
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Halley, D., Oseng-Rees, T., Pagano, L., & Ferriz-Papi, J. (2017). Procedure for impact testing of fused recycled glass. World academy of engineering and technology, 10(11), 701-706

Recycled glass material is made from 100% recycled bottle glass and consumes less energy than re-melt technology. It also uses no additives in the manufacturing process allowing the recycled glass material, in principal, to go back to the recycling s... Read More about Procedure for impact testing of fused recycled glass.

Tory ideology and social policy under Theresa May : current and future directions (2017)
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Williams, B. (2017). Tory ideology and social policy under Theresa May : current and future directions. Renewal, 25(3-4),

Theresa May has sought to construct a distinctive social policy offering during her time as Prime Minister, but remains stymied by a toxic combination of triangulation and austerity. Labour must demonstrate the vacuity and incoherence at the heart of... Read More about Tory ideology and social policy under Theresa May : current and future directions.

Terrorism, tourism and religious travellers (2017)
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Chowdhury, A., Razaq, R., Griffin, K., & Clarke, A. (2017). Terrorism, tourism and religious travellers. International journal of religious tourism and pilgrimage, 5(1), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.21427/D7VC7D

Curiously, while tourism is cited as the world’s largest industry (UNWTO, 2016), it is simultaneously a fragile industry that is highly vulnerable to the impact of the ongoing threat of terrorism. Internationally, terrorism influences the tourist min... Read More about Terrorism, tourism and religious travellers.

The Effectiveness of the Jones/Davis Type By-Catch Reduction Device (BRD) to reduce unintended catch of trawl fisheries (2017)
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Prasetyo, A., Purwoko, R., & Antoro, H. (2017). The Effectiveness of the Jones/Davis Type By-Catch Reduction Device (BRD) to reduce unintended catch of trawl fisheries. https://doi.org/10.13170/ajas.2.2.6860

Reduction by-catch of commercial fishing is become a major concern, especially prawn trawl fisheries. By-catch reduction device developed to address that issue. However, there were trade-off problems regarding the implementation the BRD in trawl fi... Read More about The Effectiveness of the Jones/Davis Type By-Catch Reduction Device (BRD) to reduce unintended catch of trawl fisheries.