The clash of ignorance thesis presents a critique of the clash of civilizations theory. It challe... more The clash of ignorance thesis presents a critique of the clash of civilizations theory. It challenges the assumptions that civilizations are monolithic entities that do not interact and that the Self and the Other are always opposed to each other. Despite some significantly different values and clashes between Western and Muslim civilizations, they overlap with each other in many ways and have historically demonstrated the capacity for fruitful engagement. The clash of ignorance thesis makes a significant contribution to the understanding of intercultural and international communication as well as to the study of intergroup relations in various other areas of scholarship. It does this by bringing forward for examination the key impediments to mutually beneficial interaction between groups. The thesis directly addresses the particular problem of ignorance that other epistemological approaches have not raised in a substantial manner. Whereas the critique of Orientalism deals with the ...
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS), 2020
Due to their better DC bus utilization and easier digital realization, Space Vector Pulse Width M... more Due to their better DC bus utilization and easier digital realization, Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation (SVPWM) scheme is the most widely used PWM scheme. Also two level inverter is the traditional frequency converter because it has fewer components and is lower complex to control, but on the other hand it generates higher harmonic distortion. This paper presents the realization of novel SVPWM approaches applied to the three phase induction motor drives. Specifically various schemes are based on using more combinations of step operation in each cycle to approximate the reference vector, such as 24 and 48 step operations in each cycle. The basic principle of conventional SVPWM with different modulation index M is presented. The switching sequences of new approaches are described. The modulation signals waveforms, DC bus voltage utilization, De-rated motor torque, standard error of average torque, voltage and current harmonic of new approaches are analyzed by the MATLAB/SIMULINK so...
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 2018
This essay aims at shedding some light on Demotic accounts as a vital administrative tool in the ... more This essay aims at shedding some light on Demotic accounts as a vital administrative tool in the ancient Egyptian’s everyday life in the Late and Greco-Roman Periods as evidenced by the large number of published accounts. Account documents belong to Demotic documentary texts and they usually record lists of various amounts of specific items that have been paid or received by certain individuals in different transactions. Such documents began to be recorded in Demotic from the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty. Among the abundant vocabulary of accounts in Demotic, ip “account” and wn “list” seem to be the only two words which were used to refer to accounts as a type of text. A full-structured account, which is not the case in most of Demotic accounts, normally contains a maximum number of three elements, that is, the heading, the main body, and the closing formula. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5913/jarce.54.2018.a005
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association, 2018
The modality by which haemodialysis (HD) is delivered [arteriovenous fistula (AVF), arteriovenous... more The modality by which haemodialysis (HD) is delivered [arteriovenous fistula (AVF), arteriovenous graft (AVG) or central venous catheter (CVC)] varies widely and is influenced by clinical evidence, patient factors and the prevailing service configuration. The aim of this study was to determine the outcome and impact of access strategy on patient outcome by mapping out the HD journey in a cohort of incident patients. A 2-year cohort of consecutive incident HD patients from the point of referral for first dialysis access to completion of the first 365 days of HD was prospectively reviewed. Data were sought on access type; radiological, surgical and other access-related activity; bacteraemic events; admission rates and cumulative financial cost. A total of 144 patients started RRT for the first time with HD over the 2-year period. All were followed up to 1 year after starting HD, generating a total of 47 753 observed HD days. Activity prior to starting HD for the full cohort was found...
This paper uses the political economy of communication approach to understand and analyze the str... more This paper uses the political economy of communication approach to understand and analyze the structure, policy, operations, control, and efficiency of a unique and major Canadian multi-media conglomerate example - CanWest Global Communications Corp. - in the dawn of the twenty first century. It relates the analysis to a range of criteria such as: the historical background and nature of the company, types of corporate conglomeration, tiers of firms, levels of ownership, structures of corporate control, policies of debt and lay-offs, range and diversity of cultural production, corporate sales’ revenues and market share, relationship to government and financial contributions to political parties, and composition of the board of directors and the interlocking relationships between its members and other institutions. The paper highlights debates over the effects of concentration of media ownership to introduce a fair understanding and suggest reasonable actions
Revista iberoamericana de estudios de desarrollo = Iberoamerican journal of development studies, 2015
An action-research project was implemented in Venezuela from 2009-2013 to empower social activist... more An action-research project was implemented in Venezuela from 2009-2013 to empower social activists and patients in their fight against breast cancer (BC). The project was implemented in a context of high political and social polarization of the so-called «Bolivarian revolution». Based on an ecological perspective of health activism and communication, that encompasses the interpersonal, group and social levels, a series of activities were celebrated to develop the advocacy capabilities of citizens, especially women, expand the collaborative networks among different stakeholders, and promote a consensual view between social and institutional actors about a national response to fight BC. A horizontal and participatory communication allowed that the voice of usually marginalized actors was heard in the process of shaping health care policy.
Terrorism today is one of the most frequent global severe stress situations. The advanced and wid... more Terrorism today is one of the most frequent global severe stress situations. The advanced and widespread new media and information technologies as well as modern tactics of terrorism make the public of any nation in exposure, directly and indirectly, to uncertain potential acts of terrorism. The relationship between terrorists and media personnel has grown widely influential, and has been described recently by the term terroredia, in which the public is the main target of both terrorism and the media. Both responsibility and rationality are fundamental weights for the effectiveness of risk communication during times of terrorism. This paper critically analyzes how policymakers in several Western countries have communicated to the public, through the media, the risk of terrorist attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against their individuals and societies. The study uncovers that rationality and responsibility are lacking in Western media decision-making regardin...
Mission Invisible: Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era. Ross Perigoe and Mahmoud... more Mission Invisible: Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era. Ross Perigoe and Mahmoud Eid. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: University of British Columbia Press, 2014. 332 pp. $99.00 hbk. $37.95 pbk.When Ross Perigoe began his doctorate at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, he had already spent decades in broadcasting for Canadian public radio and teaching journalism at Concordia University in Montreal. He was interested in the representation of minorities in Canadian news media, and this was to be the broad subject of his PhD. The case study-a discourse analysis of post-9/11 coverage in the (Montreal) Gazette- came to him the evening before meeting his thesis committee on, naturally, September 12, 2001.I am unclear when Mahmoud Eid, an associate professor in communications at the University of Ottawa, joined the project: Perigoe's final thesis was accepted in 2005, and he returned to Concordia. He died in 2012, before converting the work into a published monograph, and my guess is that Eid took on the role of midwife, seeing the book through to completion. Eid has focused his scholarly career on representations of Muslims and terrorism, so he was qualified for the job, but it is difficult not to think of Mission Invisible as Perigoe's project.What worked as a thesis does not necessarily translate into a successful monograph. 9/11 was still fresh during his studies, and the methodology-a mixture of qualitative and quantitative analysis of news texts-was only starting to surface in scholarly works on Muslims and the media. By 2014, however, more is demanded of a study on these matters, and Mission Invisible does not deliver the goods.Perigoe and Eid argue that in the weeks immediately following 9/11, the journalists of the Gazette failed to do their job, producing and reproducing racist rhetoric that was socially harmful. They sort their sample of news texts into three periods: Stunned in Grief (11-12 September), Justification for War (13-19 September), and Readying for War (20-30 September). The sources who contribute to these texts are likewise sorted into four categories, including leaders, white victims, Muslims, and journalists. The authors then analyze the rhetoric these sources used in describing Muslims in the news.This is a slender sample from which to spin a conclusive work. Montreal is a major North American city, but it was peripheral to the events of 9/11. They were nonetheless heavily reported in those first weeks. But the significant question for a study such as this is how the representations developed and what they have meant over time. This book is remarkably ahistorical, as the authors do not examine rhetoric in previous or subsequent crises nor the character of representation in quotidian coverage. They restrict their sample to the pointiest peak of a spike in coverage, reported in one newspaper for a city (within a nation) that was a bystander to the event. …
Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology
Due to the rapidly changing norms and constant developments in technology, media and communicatio... more Due to the rapidly changing norms and constant developments in technology, media and communication educators and practitioners are expected to (re)evaluate the functioning of ethics and reasoning in this field. This chapter discusses the relationship between ethics, reasoning, and the media, and the integral role of ethical reasoning education for communication and media professionals. Ethical systems and theories are discussed to inform the debate on the importance of ethics and reasoning education. Globalization and the growing interconnectivity of global media systems are presented, providing insight on how different media systems function around the world. The large impact that the media have on society necessitates the possession of rational and ethical skills; thus, the connection between reasoning and ethics is explained.
The clash of ignorance thesis presents a critique of the clash of civilizations theory. It challe... more The clash of ignorance thesis presents a critique of the clash of civilizations theory. It challenges the assumptions that civilizations are monolithic entities that do not interact and that the Self and the Other are always opposed to each other. Despite some significantly different values and clashes between Western and Muslim civilizations, they overlap with each other in many ways and have historically demonstrated the capacity for fruitful engagement. The clash of ignorance thesis makes a significant contribution to the understanding of intercultural and international communication as well as to the study of intergroup relations in various other areas of scholarship. It does this by bringing forward for examination the key impediments to mutually beneficial interaction between groups. The thesis directly addresses the particular problem of ignorance that other epistemological approaches have not raised in a substantial manner. Whereas the critique of Orientalism deals with the ...
International Journal of Power Electronics and Drive Systems (IJPEDS), 2020
Due to their better DC bus utilization and easier digital realization, Space Vector Pulse Width M... more Due to their better DC bus utilization and easier digital realization, Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation (SVPWM) scheme is the most widely used PWM scheme. Also two level inverter is the traditional frequency converter because it has fewer components and is lower complex to control, but on the other hand it generates higher harmonic distortion. This paper presents the realization of novel SVPWM approaches applied to the three phase induction motor drives. Specifically various schemes are based on using more combinations of step operation in each cycle to approximate the reference vector, such as 24 and 48 step operations in each cycle. The basic principle of conventional SVPWM with different modulation index M is presented. The switching sequences of new approaches are described. The modulation signals waveforms, DC bus voltage utilization, De-rated motor torque, standard error of average torque, voltage and current harmonic of new approaches are analyzed by the MATLAB/SIMULINK so...
Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 2018
This essay aims at shedding some light on Demotic accounts as a vital administrative tool in the ... more This essay aims at shedding some light on Demotic accounts as a vital administrative tool in the ancient Egyptian’s everyday life in the Late and Greco-Roman Periods as evidenced by the large number of published accounts. Account documents belong to Demotic documentary texts and they usually record lists of various amounts of specific items that have been paid or received by certain individuals in different transactions. Such documents began to be recorded in Demotic from the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty. Among the abundant vocabulary of accounts in Demotic, ip “account” and wn “list” seem to be the only two words which were used to refer to accounts as a type of text. A full-structured account, which is not the case in most of Demotic accounts, normally contains a maximum number of three elements, that is, the heading, the main body, and the closing formula. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5913/jarce.54.2018.a005
Nephrology, dialysis, transplantation : official publication of the European Dialysis and Transplant Association - European Renal Association, 2018
The modality by which haemodialysis (HD) is delivered [arteriovenous fistula (AVF), arteriovenous... more The modality by which haemodialysis (HD) is delivered [arteriovenous fistula (AVF), arteriovenous graft (AVG) or central venous catheter (CVC)] varies widely and is influenced by clinical evidence, patient factors and the prevailing service configuration. The aim of this study was to determine the outcome and impact of access strategy on patient outcome by mapping out the HD journey in a cohort of incident patients. A 2-year cohort of consecutive incident HD patients from the point of referral for first dialysis access to completion of the first 365 days of HD was prospectively reviewed. Data were sought on access type; radiological, surgical and other access-related activity; bacteraemic events; admission rates and cumulative financial cost. A total of 144 patients started RRT for the first time with HD over the 2-year period. All were followed up to 1 year after starting HD, generating a total of 47 753 observed HD days. Activity prior to starting HD for the full cohort was found...
This paper uses the political economy of communication approach to understand and analyze the str... more This paper uses the political economy of communication approach to understand and analyze the structure, policy, operations, control, and efficiency of a unique and major Canadian multi-media conglomerate example - CanWest Global Communications Corp. - in the dawn of the twenty first century. It relates the analysis to a range of criteria such as: the historical background and nature of the company, types of corporate conglomeration, tiers of firms, levels of ownership, structures of corporate control, policies of debt and lay-offs, range and diversity of cultural production, corporate sales’ revenues and market share, relationship to government and financial contributions to political parties, and composition of the board of directors and the interlocking relationships between its members and other institutions. The paper highlights debates over the effects of concentration of media ownership to introduce a fair understanding and suggest reasonable actions
Revista iberoamericana de estudios de desarrollo = Iberoamerican journal of development studies, 2015
An action-research project was implemented in Venezuela from 2009-2013 to empower social activist... more An action-research project was implemented in Venezuela from 2009-2013 to empower social activists and patients in their fight against breast cancer (BC). The project was implemented in a context of high political and social polarization of the so-called «Bolivarian revolution». Based on an ecological perspective of health activism and communication, that encompasses the interpersonal, group and social levels, a series of activities were celebrated to develop the advocacy capabilities of citizens, especially women, expand the collaborative networks among different stakeholders, and promote a consensual view between social and institutional actors about a national response to fight BC. A horizontal and participatory communication allowed that the voice of usually marginalized actors was heard in the process of shaping health care policy.
Terrorism today is one of the most frequent global severe stress situations. The advanced and wid... more Terrorism today is one of the most frequent global severe stress situations. The advanced and widespread new media and information technologies as well as modern tactics of terrorism make the public of any nation in exposure, directly and indirectly, to uncertain potential acts of terrorism. The relationship between terrorists and media personnel has grown widely influential, and has been described recently by the term terroredia, in which the public is the main target of both terrorism and the media. Both responsibility and rationality are fundamental weights for the effectiveness of risk communication during times of terrorism. This paper critically analyzes how policymakers in several Western countries have communicated to the public, through the media, the risk of terrorist attacks by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against their individuals and societies. The study uncovers that rationality and responsibility are lacking in Western media decision-making regardin...
Mission Invisible: Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era. Ross Perigoe and Mahmoud... more Mission Invisible: Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era. Ross Perigoe and Mahmoud Eid. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: University of British Columbia Press, 2014. 332 pp. $99.00 hbk. $37.95 pbk.When Ross Perigoe began his doctorate at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, he had already spent decades in broadcasting for Canadian public radio and teaching journalism at Concordia University in Montreal. He was interested in the representation of minorities in Canadian news media, and this was to be the broad subject of his PhD. The case study-a discourse analysis of post-9/11 coverage in the (Montreal) Gazette- came to him the evening before meeting his thesis committee on, naturally, September 12, 2001.I am unclear when Mahmoud Eid, an associate professor in communications at the University of Ottawa, joined the project: Perigoe's final thesis was accepted in 2005, and he returned to Concordia. He died in 2012, before converting the work into a published monograph, and my guess is that Eid took on the role of midwife, seeing the book through to completion. Eid has focused his scholarly career on representations of Muslims and terrorism, so he was qualified for the job, but it is difficult not to think of Mission Invisible as Perigoe's project.What worked as a thesis does not necessarily translate into a successful monograph. 9/11 was still fresh during his studies, and the methodology-a mixture of qualitative and quantitative analysis of news texts-was only starting to surface in scholarly works on Muslims and the media. By 2014, however, more is demanded of a study on these matters, and Mission Invisible does not deliver the goods.Perigoe and Eid argue that in the weeks immediately following 9/11, the journalists of the Gazette failed to do their job, producing and reproducing racist rhetoric that was socially harmful. They sort their sample of news texts into three periods: Stunned in Grief (11-12 September), Justification for War (13-19 September), and Readying for War (20-30 September). The sources who contribute to these texts are likewise sorted into four categories, including leaders, white victims, Muslims, and journalists. The authors then analyze the rhetoric these sources used in describing Muslims in the news.This is a slender sample from which to spin a conclusive work. Montreal is a major North American city, but it was peripheral to the events of 9/11. They were nonetheless heavily reported in those first weeks. But the significant question for a study such as this is how the representations developed and what they have meant over time. This book is remarkably ahistorical, as the authors do not examine rhetoric in previous or subsequent crises nor the character of representation in quotidian coverage. They restrict their sample to the pointiest peak of a spike in coverage, reported in one newspaper for a city (within a nation) that was a bystander to the event. …
Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology
Due to the rapidly changing norms and constant developments in technology, media and communicatio... more Due to the rapidly changing norms and constant developments in technology, media and communication educators and practitioners are expected to (re)evaluate the functioning of ethics and reasoning in this field. This chapter discusses the relationship between ethics, reasoning, and the media, and the integral role of ethical reasoning education for communication and media professionals. Ethical systems and theories are discussed to inform the debate on the importance of ethics and reasoning education. Globalization and the growing interconnectivity of global media systems are presented, providing insight on how different media systems function around the world. The large impact that the media have on society necessitates the possession of rational and ethical skills; thus, the connection between reasoning and ethics is explained.
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