Egyptian government’s diaspora engagement strategy: A qualitative study

Numerous country experiences highlight the positive effects of diaspora engagement on a country’s development. These country experiences can showcase whether successful diaspora engagement can be replicated in Egypt and can incentivize the Egyptian diaspora in brain gain in Egypt and thus benefit Egypt’s development agenda. Qualitative interviews as well as a questionnaire survey were used in order to provide insight to answer the key research question: What can the government do to successfully encourage human capital transfer of the Egyptian diaspora? The findings of the study suggest what needs to be part of a successful National Diaspora Engagement Strategy and highlight the importance of effective and efficient communication between the diaspora and the government. Realizing the potential positive impact the Egyptian diaspora community can have on Egypt’s development agenda; this research focuses on how to achieve this engagement successfully. This study looks into the current Egyptian policy towards the diaspora. It analyzes the different approaches to diaspora engagement. Each country has a different road map to diaspora engagement. In the case of Egypt, the study looks into the engagement of the diaspora in line with Egypt’s development agenda. As Egypt is currently setting its own road map towards diaspora engagement, it is important for Egypt to set what its priorities are and consequently choose how it would like to engage its diaspora

Premeal phosphorus supplementation for reducing energy intake and body weight -

Thesis. M.S. American University of Beirut. Department of Nutrition and Food Science, 2014. ST:6056Advisor : Dr. Omar Obeid, Professor, Nutrition and Food Science ; Members of Committee: Dr. Imad Toufeili, Professor, Nutrition and Food Science ; Dr. Maya Bassil, Assistant Professor, Department of Natural Science Lebanese American University.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 49-54)Background:The present study is based on accumulating evidence in animals supporting an inverse relationship between eating behavior and hepatic Adenosine TriPhosphate (ATP) levels, that are known to be dependent on Phosphorous availability. In line with that, an inverse relationship between plasma phosphorus and body weight has been reported. Furthermore, common foods typically associated with weight gain, such as refined cereals, sweeteners, and oils, are low in phosphorus. Objective: Preliminary data have previously demonstrated that pre-meal Phosphorus (P) intake reduces immediate subsequent food intake by 27- 33percent. This study aims to investigate the acute effect of increasing doses of phosphorus, on satiety, and subsequent food intake in overweight-obese subjects, and the chronic effect (3 months) of phosphorus supplementation on food intake, bodyweight, waist circumference, HbA1c, insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance of overweight and obese subjects.We hypothesize that P supplementation suppresses satiety and food intake and subsequently reduces body weight, waist circumfer4ence and HbA1c, which will improve insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance.Such effects would be expected to reduce morbidity and mortality. Design:The study is divided into two experiments in which the acute and chronic effects of phosphorus supplementation have been studied. The acute study is a randomized crossover study. Healthy overweight-obese women (n=12) with a BMI of 31.0±1.3kg-m2and a mean age of 29.75±2.36 yearswere recruited. Subjects consumed different phosphorus or placebo (potassium phosphate or cellulose) doses with 0mg, 125mg, 250mg, 375mg, or 500mg randomly on different test days for 5 weeks with a washout out period of 1 week between test days. Visual analog scales rated hunger and satiety for 0min, 15min, 30min, 45min, 60min, 75min, and food intake was measured at an ad libitum lunch of pizza and water 80 minutes after consuming the supplements. As for the chronic effect of phosphorus, it is a do

Preparing teachers for working with linguistically diverse students: comparing ITE in Aotearoa New Zealand and France

The exclusion or marginalisation of minority languages within schools effectively reinforces “the monolingual bias” inherent in monolingual education systems. In settings where majority languages with a colonial history are spoken, such as English and French, residual traces of cultural oppression and linguistic dominance remain. This is evident when newly-arrived migrant students are treated as linguistically deficient (Smythe, 2023), or when minority languages are rendered invisible within education systems (Major, 2018). Within such contexts therefore, the treatment of language diversity in education raises important questions about freedoms, rights and inclusion of minority language speakers. This issue is explored in a small-scale comparative study on how initial teacher education (ITE) programmes in Aotearoa New Zealand and France prepare teachers for working with linguistically diverse students. Within ITE programmes in both countries, training for working with minority language students remains largely segregated into specialised pathways. In consequence, the majority of mainstream classroom teachers are often under-prepared for teaching linguistically diverse students

Walking Age Does Not Explain Term Versus Preterm Difference in Bone Geometry

OBJECTIVE: To elucidate the relationship between bone geometry and onset of walking in former term and preterm children.STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 128 preschool children aged 3 to 5 years who underwent peripheral quantitative computerized tomography measures of bone size at the distal tibia. Linear models were developed, stratifying by sex, to determine whether bone differences between children born term and preterm were caused by differences in walking age.RESULTS: Children with a history of preterm birth walked later than children born at term (12.4 +/- 0.5 versus 10.9 +/- 0.2 months; P = .004); however, gestation-corrected walking age (11.4 +/- 0.5 for children born preterm) did not differ. In multiple regression analysis, boys born preterm had larger periosteal and endosteal circumferences and smaller cortical thickness and area than boys born term (least square means, 49.7 +/- 1.3 mm, 43.0 +/- 1.8 mm, 1.1 +/- 0.11 mm, and 49.3 +/- 3.2 mm2 versus 47.0 +/- 0.5 mm, 38.5 +/- 0.7 mm, 1.4 +/- 0.04 mm, and 56.9 +/- 1.2 mm2, respectively; all P \u3c .05). Preterm birth remained statistically significant after adding the age of walking to the models, but no longer significant when current activity levels were included.CONCLUSION: Greater periosteal and endosteal circumferences, with smaller cortical bone thickness and area, were found in former preterm boys, but not girls, and were explained by differences in current activity levels, not age of walking

Patriotism Among Muslim American Opinion Leaders

A significant degree of public opinion research has been conducted on Muslim Americans, but very little has focused on their perceptions. This study explores how opinion leaders address the question of patriotism, Americanness, hyphenated identities, and the implications of such a discourse. The study is confined to Wayne County, MI, because of the significant role Muslim Americans have played in labor struggles, local culture, civil rights, and their visibility. This study is significant because ongoing issues have triggered media attention on Muslim Americans and questioned their patriotism and Americanness, such as the Ground Zero Mosque debate, the anti-Sharia bill proposals, the Patriot Act, the NDAA, the NYPD\u27s spying on MSAs, and the increase of hate crimes occurring at varying places of worship. This study explores how messages of Americanness and patriotism are transmitted from opinion leaders to their followers among Muslim Americans. Through interviewing opinion leaders from a perspectival approach, archetypes (classifications) of what it means to be an American Muslim will be developed as well as conceptual patriotism continuum. Keywords: patriotism, patriot, Muslim, American, Muslim-American, americanness, identity, political identity, opinion leaders, Wayne County, hyphenated identity, double-consciousness, citizenship, loyalty, nation, nationalism

Étude numérique de l'essai au cône effilé instrumenté dans les argiles Champlain

RÉSUMÉ Une nouvelle sonde conique, tronquée et légèrement effilée, appelée cône effilé instrumenté (ISC) est étudiée dans la présente thèse. L’essai au cône effilé instrumenté (ISCT) consiste à pousser continuellement le cône effilé instrumenté (ISC) à une vitesse constante de 2 cm/s dans un trou pilote pré-foré. Plusieurs mesures comme la pression interstitielle, la contrainte latérale totale appliquée sur le fût du cône et la force motrice appliquée sur ce cône lors de son insertion peuvent être enregistrées. La résistance au cisaillement non drainé Su peut être déduite à partir d’une méthode de détermination appropriée. Des simulations axisymétriques ont été effectuées en utilisant la méthode des éléments finis afin de modéliser le processus de pénétration profond (PPP) du ISC. Deux prototypes du cône effilé instrumenté ont été étudiés dans cette thèse : le cône effilé numéro 1 (ISC-1) et le cône effilé numéro 2 (ISC-2). Le site étudié est celui de Mascouche qui est un dépôt argileux représentatif des argiles naturelles raides de la mer Champlain. Il a été présumé que l’essai ISCT a l’avantage de combiner l’essai pressiométrique (c.-à.-d., réalisé par un pressiomètre autoforeur et noté par la suite SBPM) à celui du piézocône puisque la pénétration continue de ce cône dans un sol cohérent produit une expansion quasi pressiométrique. La pertinence de cette hypothèse a été le sujet de cette étude. Dans des conditions axisymétriques, des études paramétriques ont été menées afin d’étudier l’influence de l’adhésion sur les résultats escomptés des essais réalisés avec le cône 1 (ISCT-1) et le cône 2 (ISCT-2). Le sol modélisé est supposé élastique-parfaitement plastique et dans des conditions non drainées. Dans un sol pesant et non pesant, les courbes des pressions de contact (CPRESS) versus les profondeurs de fonçage des cônes (1 et 2) sont prédites. Les diagrammes quasi pressiométriques (ln (pression radiale) versus la déformation volumétrique), ainsi que les courbes forces de fonçage versus la profondeur de fonçage du cône (D), pour différentes contraintes d’adhésion, ont été déterminées.----------ABSTRACT A new truncated and slightly tapered probe called instrumented scarp cone (ISC) is studied in this thesis. The instrumented sharp cone test is performed by pushing continually this probe at a constant rate of 2 cm/s in a pre-bored pilot hole. When the cone is inserted, several measures such as pore pressure, total lateral stress, and driving force can be registered. An appropriate method allows determination of undrained shear strength (Su). Axisymmetric simulations were performed using the finite element method in order to model the process of deep penetration (PPP) of the ISC. Two prototypes of the instrumented sharp cone have been studied in this thesis: the sharp cone number 1 (ISC-1) and the sharp cone number 2 (ISC-2). The studied site is that of Mascouche, which is a clay deposit representing the stiff natural clays of the Champlain Sea. It was assumed that the test has the advantage of combining the pressuremeter test (i.e., performed with a self-boring pressuremeter and noted later SBPM) to that of piezocone as the continued penetration of this cone in a cohesive soil almost produces a pressuremetric expansion. The relevance of this hypothesis has been the subject of this study. In axisymmetric conditions, parametric analyses were conducted in order to determine the influence of the adhesion on the expected results of the tests performed with the sharp cone number 1 (ISCT-1) and the sharp cone number 2 (ISCT-2). The undrained soil is assumed to behave as an elastic-perfectly plastic material. For a weighty and weightless soil, the contact pressures (CPRESS) versus depth of penetration (D) curves of the cones (1 and 2) are predicted. The quasi-pressurmetric curves (i.e. ln(radial pressure) versus volumetric strain) and the driving force versus D curves were determined for several values of adhesion

Politiques linguistiques, contraintes sociolinguistiques et usages des langues dans les écoles de l’UNRWA au Liban

En nous intéressant à l’usage des langues dans les écoles de l’UNRWA au Liban, nous développerons la notion de contexte selon une approche spatiale et socioculturelle. Nous nous proposons ici d’analyser, à la lumière de données sociopolitiques et sociolinguistiques, comment l’emploi du français comme médium d’enseignement dans ce contexte précis de la scolarisation des réfugiés palestiniens peut influer sur les réalisations linguistiques. Pour ce faire, nous nous appuierons sur des observations de classes, des textes officiels, des manuels et des témoignages d’apprenants et d’enseignants.Studying the use of languages in UNRWA’s schools in Lebanon, we are going to develop the notion of context according to a spatial and sociocultural approach. In the light of sociopolitical and sociolinguistic data, we are going to analyze how the teaching of curricular subjects through the medium of French in this context of the schooling of the Palestinian refugees can influence the linguistic realizations. In order to do so, we are going to base our work on class observations, official texts, textbooks and accounts given by pupils and teachers

Recherches d’épigraphie

Les quatre conférences données au mois de mai et au début du mois de juin 2009 ont étudié plusieurs documents inédits découverts au Liban, en Syrie et en Iraq et se trouvant actuellement dans des collections privées libanaises. Toutes les photographies de ces documents ont été présentées en powerpoint afin d’assurer une bonne participation du public. I. Inscriptions sur pointes de flèche et sur jarres phéniciennes La première conférence a été consacrée à l’étude de six pointes de flèches phén..