51 Chapter 1 emphasized the importance of knowledge acquisition as a cornerstone of human development. This chapter focuses on building human capabilities for knowledge acquisition in Arab countries through education. The assessment of the state of education using such indicators as enrolment and illiteracy rates and per capita expenditure reveals tangible achievements but also significant area...

Open Educational Resources (OER) are being produced globally by various educational institutions. Depending on an organisation’s mission, purposes and intent for providing vary, determining what features are made available. In establishing OER the focus has often been on this provider perspective, however how OER will be used also depends on user motivations. This paper presents findings from a...

The study reported in this article attempted to obtain normative acoustic data of voice for elderly male and female speakers and to explore the educational implications of the effects of aging on those selected acoustic parameters. Voice samples from 21 male and 23 female elderly speakers aged 70 to 80 years were obtained on measures of 15 selected Multi-Dimensional Voice Program acoustic param...

Education of design engineering has started to change in response to the advancement of computer technology. This paper proposes a new design engineering educational framework using an e-learning system called ShareFast, a Semantic Web-based software for document management system with workflow. The software offers a function to keep tracks of learner’s behavior so that the instructor can analy...

In many fields of science, the numerical output of research work require proper interpretation in relation to real world situations. Graphical visualization is often used to ensure better comprehension of data (research outputs) by researchers, learners and other stakeholders. However, in the modern era, large scale experimentation as well as computer-based simulations are generating massive am...

In a static frictionless transferable utilities bilateral matching market with systematic and idiosyncratic payo¤s, supermodularity of the match output function implies a strong form of positive assortative matching: The equilibrium matching distribution has all positive local log odd ratios or totally positive of order 2 (TP2). A particular form of a preference for own type implies supermodula...

This paper reports on a comparative evaluation of phrase-based statistical machine translation (PBSMT) and neural machine translation (NMT) for four language pairs, using the PET interface to compare educational domain output from both systems using a variety of metrics, including automatic evaluation as well as human rankings of adequacy and fluency, error-type markup, and post-editing (techni...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate risk factors for peritonitis associated with peritoneal dialysis in our centre. METHODS Forty patients on chronic peritoneal dialysis between 2006-2010 were enrolled in this study. Nutritional, sociodemographical, psychological, dialysis related (peritoneal modality, characteristics and adequacy) possible risk factors associated with the develo...