Research Title: Dividend Yields Predictability of Stock Returns: Case of Emerging Markets

Author: Izzeddien Naef Ananzeh, Published Year: 0

Faculty: Business

Abstract: We investigate the cross-sectional pattern of stock returns for eight emerging markets using Vector Autoregressive Approach (VAR) to test whether dividend yields can predict stock returns through impulse response characteristics. Our results confirm that dividend yield shocks play an important role in driving fluctuation in stock returns and this relation is positive. These results reflect the fact that stock returns react positively to dividend changes either immediately or after short period of time. In some stock markets there is an immediate upward reaction by investors to dividend news like the case of Jordan, Morocco, Korea, and Malaysia. In some other markets like Egypt, Saudi Arabia,Philippines, and Thailand investors delay their investment strategies in the period immediately after dividend changes, to study the signal of dividend announcements

Research Title: Beta Wins Again: Case of four Emerging Markets

Author: Izzeddien Naef Ananzeh, Published Year: 0

Faculty: Business

Abstract: We empirically investigate the cross-sectional behavior of stock returns in four emerging markets, namely, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Saudi Arabia. We use the “between estimator” panel data regression to test whether price-earning ratio, book-to-market ratio, market capitalization, and beta can predict stock market returns variations. Based on the results we still believe that Beta have a significant explanatory power in predicting stock market returns; the sign is positive. Other fundamentals fail the test.

Research Title: The irony in the poetry of Murid al-Barghothi

Author: Neda Mashal, Published Year: 0

Faculty: Arts

Abstract: This study deals with irony in the poetry of Murid al-Barghothy. It aims to pick up irony in most of artistic tools that he used highlighting thrir forms and the models that characterized him and the artistic effect that causes such tools in the view point of the critic and the reader. This study consists of an introduction and two chapters : The first chapter included the concept of irony theoretical, its functions and components and forms. The second chapter includes the models of irony in the poems of Muried al-Barghothy. The study followed comprised-model irony, situation irony, romance and sarcasm irony, title irony and verbal irony.

Research Title: The Translation of Some Metaphorical Expressions in Shakespeares Hamlet

Author: Noor Shunnaq, Published Year: 0

Faculty: Arts

Abstract: This study is primarily concerned with the translation of 15 metaphorical expressions in Shakespeare's Hamlet. To fulfill this purpose, six Arabic translations of the play were subjected to analysis. The researcher analyzed the six Arabic versions of the play translated by six Arab translators , namely, Kiuaan, Hameed, Shaheen, Mohammad, Jabra ,and Jamaal in terms of fullness, appropriateness, and metaphoricity. During the analysis, the study pointed out some problems encountered by the translators as they tried to convey the metaphorical expression in question into the target text. Also, it mentioned the strategies of translation opted by the six translators. The researcher adopted the belief of some linguists and translators, e.g. Newmark ( 1981 and 1988), that metaphor is translatable. This study divided the 15 metaphorical expressions into two categories based on their types into: Original metaphors and cultural metaphors. Translating the original metaphors posed three lexical problems which were wrong-choice of diction, mistranslation, and deletion while translating the cultural metaphors posed cultural problems resulted from the use of Greek characters or reference to a tale that the target audience may not be familiar with. The present study revealed that metaphor is translatable. The six translators, sometimes , retained the metaphor in the target text fully and appropriately while in other times they failed to do so. Also, most of these translators opted for the strategy of alienation to convey the Greek characters. The study also revealed that the most appropriate translation was the one that maintained the metaphor of the source text. In order to do that, the translator needed not to demetaphorize the metaphorical expression in question. Finally, the study recommended that more critical studies should be conducted by comparing and contrasting the translations of literary works, particularly concentrating on the metaphor translation . Also, it recommended further studies on the translation of metaphor to compare its translation in literary works with its translation in different fields.

Research Title: Synthesis and studying of antituberculosis properties 2-fluorineanilides 1-R-2-oxo-4-hydroxyquinolie-3-carboxylic acids

Author: Abdul Naseer Dokka, Published Year: 0

Faculty: Pharmacy

Abstract: Studied two appended receipt and the synthesis of 2-fluorineanilides1-R-2-oxo-4- hydroxyquinoline-3-carboxylic acids, whose structure is confirmed by spectroscopy NMR. Microbiology screening revealed that certain synthesized compounds have high antituberculosis activity.

Research Title: Synthesis antituberculosis activity of 3, 4-fluorineanilides 1-R-2-oxo-4- hydroxyquinolie-3-carboxylic acids

Author: Abdul Naseer Dokka, Published Year: 0

Faculty: Pharmacy

Abstract: To reveal the regularities of "structure – antituberculosis action" relationship the 3', 4'- fluorineanilides1-R-2-oxo-4-hydroxyquinoline-3-carboxylic acids has been carried out. The comparative analysis of biological properties of monofluoro substituted anilides of 3',4'-fluorineanilides1-R-2-oxo-4-hydroxyquinoline-3-carboxylic acids has been performed. At allowed to reveal the most active fragments to antituberculosis activity in their structure.

Research Title: 1-Ethyl- 4-hydroxy-2-oxo-1, 2-dihydroquinoline-3-carboxylic acid

Author: Abdul Naseer Dokka, Published Year: 0

Faculty: Pharmacy

Abstract: An X-ray diffraction study of the title compound, C12H11NO4, has shown that this compound exists in the crystal as the 2-oxo-4-hydroxy tautomer. The formation of two O-H O=C-type intermolecular hydrogen bonds leads to the elongation of both exocyclic and carboxylic C=O double bonds involved in the hydrogen bonding, causes shortening of the exocyclic C-O single bond, and also affects the C-C bond lengths in the dihydropyridine ring.

Research Title: 4-Hydroxy-2-quinolines. Synthesis, Structure and antitubercular activity of 4-hydroxy-1-isobutyl-2-oxo-1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8-hexahydroquinoline-3-carbocylic acid N-R-amides

Author: Abdul Naseer Dokka, Published Year: 0

Faculty: Pharmacy

Abstract: Anilides and hetarylamides-4-1-isobutyl-2-oxo-1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8-hexahydroquinoline-3-carbocylic acid derivatives have been designed and synthesized for possible anti-mycobacterial action. The preliminary results obtained showed promising antituberecular properties that were greatly affected by the nature of the substituent at the nitrogen atom of quinoline. The features of the spatial structure of the synthesized compounds, as well as their antimicrobial activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv still to be confirmed and analyzed.

Research Title: A novel compound JPM8: in vivo penile activity promotion in rats, effect on the relaxation and cGMP/cAMP accumulation in isolated rabbit corpora cavernosa

Author: Abeer Shnoudeh, Published Year: 2002

International Journal of Impotence Research, 14

Faculty: Pharmacy

Abstract: JPM8 is a novel sildenafil-like PDE5 inhibitor. Its efficacy was tested in vivo by the oral administration of drugs to a rat model and recording penile activity changes. Effect on the relaxation of the rabbit cavernosa was tested in vitro using an organ bath were drugs are added to the tissue media and relaxation was recorded using a transducer connected to a chart recorder. The accumulation of cGMP and cAMP was measured by incubation of cavernosa strips and then extracting the produced cGMP and cAMP in the incubation mixture, then quantitating it using ELISA. JPM8 showed increased and promoted sexual and penile activity in rats in a similar but slightly higher trend than the positive control sildenafil. JPM8 was more efficient in relaxing the rabbit corpora cavernosa than sildenafil. The cGMP and cAMP accumulation showed a similar trend for both drugs. We concluded that JPM8 was very effective in promoting sexual activity in rats, relaxing the corpora cavernosa and promoting cGMP accumulation in rabbits.

Keywords: Phosphodiesterase 5, JPM8, cAMP, cGMP

Research Title: An Approach of Web Services Quality Attributes Specification

Author: Ali Ahmad Alawneh, Published Year: 2010

Communications of IBIMA Journal, 2010

Faculty: Business

Abstract: eb Services are considered a new way of building software applications based on Services that are available through the Internet. However, Web Services still face many problems that are limiting their adoption. One of the causes of this problem is the lack of metadata about the quality attributes of Web Services, which make Service Requesters reluctant to integrate Web Service with their applications. This paper proposes a novel ontology that describes a model of the requester-oriented Web Services' quality attributes. The ontology is based on previous quality models which have been refined and modified specifically to address the quality issues as they relate to the requester of Web Services. Also an analysis will describe how some of the quality attributes in the previous model can be evaluated using different types of test cases.

Keywords: Service Oriented Architecture, Web Services, Quality Attributes, Testing