Research Title: A Hierarchical Neuro-Fuzzy MRAC of a Robot in Flexible Manufacturing Environment

Author: Mohammed Mahdi Ali, Published Year: 2004

The International Arab Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 1, No. 2,

Faculty: Engineering and Technology

Abstract: In one hand, the Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) architecture has been widely used in linear adaptive control field. The control objective is to adjust the control signal in a stable manner so that the plant’s output asymptotically tracks the reference model’s output. The performance will depend on the choice of a suitable reference model and the derivation of an appropriate learning scheme. While in the other hand, clusters analysis has been employed for many years in the field of pattern recognition and image processing. To be used in control the aim is being to find natural groupings among a set of collected data. The mean-tracking clustering algorithm is going to be used in order to extract the input-output pattern of rules from applying the suggested control scheme. These rules will be learnt later using the widely used Multi-layer perceptron neural network to gain all the benefits offered by those nets. A hierarchical neuro-fuzzy MRAC is suggested to control robots in a flexible manufacturing system. This proposed controller will be judged for different simulated cases of study to demonstrate its capability in dealing with such a system.

Keywords: : MRAC, mean-tracking clustering algorithm, MLP neural nets, computer control, real-time systems, robots, FMS

Research Title: Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi's Treatise on The Virtue of Andalusia and its Main Personalities: A Study in the Vision and Form

Author: Omar Faris Yousif AlKafaween, Published Year: 2021

مجلة جامعة الملك عبدالعزيز للآداب والعلوم الإنسانية, 29/7

Faculty: Arts

Abstract: : This study aimed to clarify the treatise of Ibn Hazm on the virtue of Andalusia and its main personalities, and addressed both thematically and formally, starting from its vision and formation. In doing so, the study traced the most prominent dimensions of vision in it, such as the subjective dimension, and the other / collective and the critical, and provided a thematic study, starting from the goal of the treatise and its motivations, and then examined the mechanisms of artistic formation that the author utilized to embody his ideas and visions, such as language, intertextuality and arguments, which contributed to the aesthetic and vitality of the text of the message, as a coherent creative work. The study adopted the thematic and analytical approach to reveal the dimensions and reservoirs of vision, integrated with the formalist approach that helped in revealing the artistic technical mechanisms. The study had several conclusions, the most important of which were: ibn Hazm's ability to respond to ibn Al-Rabib, who blamed the Andalusians for their failure to perpetuate the merits of their country and the virtues of their scientists, through arguments, evidence and facts, besides the allusion to a large number of works by Andalusian authors, as well as the fact that the treatise met the requirement of textuality and discourse as it had both vision and relevant corresponding form, which worked together to support the construction of the text.

Keywords: : Ibn Hazm, His Treatise on The Virtue of Andalusia, Vision, Composition.

Research Title: Metaphorical Language in Best-Selling Books: Byrne's The Secret, the Power book as a Case Study

Author: Hanan Ali Amaireh, Published Year: 2020

Faculty: Arts

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, an attempt is made to study the metaphorical language used in one of the best-selling books, The Secret, the Power by Rhonda Byrne (2010). A lot of literature has been made on analyzing metaphors in different genres, yet how metaphorical language is employed in best-selling books gained little attention from discourse analysts, so this study comes to fill this gap in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to focus on this crucial field of written discourse and best-selling books in particular. It will investigate the linguistic techniques which are employed in a way to persuade the audience to change their behaviour or ideas and adopt new ones, especially the use of metaphorical expressions and storytelling. Metaphors will be analyzed according to Lakoff & Johnson’s (1980) perspective of metaphorical expressions and the "Speech Act Theory" proposed by Austin (1962) and Searle (1969). The paper concludes that metaphorical language is an integral part and pervasive in Byrne's writing style. She uses metaphorical expressions to deliver her message indirectly to convince the audience to adopt her ideas to call them for action. The analysis shows that storytelling is also employed by the author as a rhetorical device to persuade the audience of her thoughts.

Keywords: best-selling books, conceptual metaphors, speech act theory, storytelling, The Secret, the Power

Research Title: Women for Women: Discourse Analysis of Female's Political Discourse supporting women's Issues: A Case Study of Queen Rania's English Speeches

Author: Hanan Ali Amaireh, Published Year: 2021

dirasat /: Human and Social Sciences,

Faculty: Arts

Abstract: Abstract The focus of this study is the area of discourse analysis. This study analyses the political discourse of Queen Rania of Jordan’s English speeches. The data of the study consist of the English speeches the Queen delivered from 2016 to 2018. This study examines whether her speeches draw on the characteristics of the 'Feminine Style' of women’s political discourse in qualitative and quantitative analysis. The paper concludes that women in the political arena prioritise women's issues and address them through using some rhetorical techniques such as storytelling in order to convince the audience to support them.

Keywords: Keywords: Discourse Analysis, Political Discourse Analysis, Queen Rania of Jordan, Metaphor, the Feminine Style, Quantitative Analysis.

Research Title: Evaluating Antibiotic Sensitivity Patterns of Pseudomonas in Relation to Specimen Type in Jordanian Hospitals

Author: Abdul Naseer Dokka, Published Year: 2019

Journal Of Pakistan Medical Association, 69

Faculty: Pharmacy

Abstract: Objective: To evaluate the sensitivity patterns of different antibiotics of pseudomonas in relation to specimen types. Methods: The quantitative retrospective study was conducted at Princess Iman Research and Laboratory Sciences Centre of Royal Medical Services, Amman, Jordan. The specimens of USS, urine, cerebral spinal fluid, and blood were collected from patients, who visited the hospital from January to September 2015. Drugs analysed included ampicillin, ceftazidime, ciprofloxacin, cefotaxime, cefoxitin, nitrofurantoin and gentamicin. Results: There were 358 samples collected. Ampicillin was found effective (p=0.002). There was a weaker correlation between amikacin and amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (r=-0.001). Similarly, nitrofurantoin was also effective (p=0.001), and the association between amikacin and ceftazidime was positive (r=0.998). Conclusions: The selected antibiotics were only examined, concerning the sensitivity patterns as data collected from the patients was insufficient for other drugs.

Keywords: Antibiotics, pseudomonas, Sensitivity Patterns, Specimen.

Research Title: Nanomedicines in Tuberculosis: Diagnosis, Therapy and Nondrug Delivery

Author: Abdul Naseer Dokka, Published Year: 2020

Faculty: Pharmacy

Abstract: Nanoparticle-based delivery systems represent a promising nano medications to deliver a therapeutic agent, selectively and effectively, to a specific tissue or organ in the body; thus treating chronic diseases such as tuberculosis. The delivery of first-line and second-line antituberculosis drugs, using synthetic or natural polymeric carriers, has been extensively reported as a potential intermittent chemotherapy. In addition to the prolonged drug release, this delivery system can enhance the therapeutic efficacy, reduce dosing frequency and side effects, and increase the possibility of selecting different routes of chemotherapy and targeting the site of infection. The choice of carrier, system stability, toxicity and production capacity are the main considerations during the development of such system. Regardless of the obstacles, the nano drug delivery have systems shown a promising effectiveness in treating TB.

Keywords: Nanomedicines Nanodrug delivery Chemotherapy Tuberculosis

Research Title: ANYONE CAN TALK TOOL

Author: Mohammad Taye, Published Year: 2016

Computer Applications: An International Journal (CAIJ), Vol.3, No.1

Faculty: Information Technology

Abstract: People who have problems with talking, in general, are facing difficulty in communication with others, these disabilities may cause embarrassment to them. Therefore, we have developed a new tool that could help speechless people to share their ideas and conversations with others. This tool will overcome these problems by turning sign language into spoken words, allowing easier communication with others. This project based on hardware device that convert Sign Language to voice. So, the person who cannot speck could be able to use it to transfer his sign to voice. The tool can be used by wearing the special hardware which consists of the smart gloves, a speaker and the interpreter box. Indeed, the sign language only used by speechless people so it’s not clear to anyone , so this tool convert the sign language to voice throw smart gloves that will understand the sign, and generate voice throw speaker .

Keywords: sign language, smart gloves, speaker, interpreter

Research Title: Social RE-PBL: An Approach for Teaching Requirements Engineering Using PBL, SNSs, and Cloud Storages and File-Sharing Services

Author: Lamis Al-Qoran, Published Year: 2021

International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 11

Faculty: Information Technology

Abstract: Requirements engineering process showed that it has the potential to affect software development process and consequently cause unexpected problems in the produced software. Reducing the likelihood of such issues requires proper preparation for software engineering students during their undergraduate studies to reduce the gap between theory and practice. Students must develop the soft skills that are needed to practice software engineering activities, especially requirements engineering. Accordingly, encouraging students to learn and practice requirements engineering concepts and activities are required. Students undertake the requirements engineering course in one semester, where the lecturer focuses on delivering the theoretical concepts to students which creates teacher-centred learning. It is difficult for students to develop the required critical thinking and communication skills that enable them to solve real-world problems in such a teacher-centred environment. This study uses Project-Based Learning (PBL), Social Networking Sites (SNSs) and cloud enhanced communication to design a non-traditional teaching approach to improve students’ learning and to achieve a learner-centred learning environment in a requirements engineering course. The developed approach was applied to a requirements engineering course at our university to investigate its effectiveness and its impact on students’ learning ability. The students in the investigational group learned with the new method; however, the students in the control group learned with the traditional learning method. The results of our experiment show that the proposed approach significantly improved the achievement, motivation and attitude of our students as well as their ability to approach and solve real-world problems.

Keywords: Project-based learning, RE education, social networks sites (SNSs) for education, teaching requirements engineering.

Research Title: Education for Sustainable Development: A Qualitative Analytical Study on the Impact of the Jordanian Universities’ Role in Supporting Innovation among University Students

Author: Amani Ghazi Jarrar, Published Year: 2021

International Journal of Higher Education, 10

Faculty: Arts

Abstract: This study aimed at exploring and theorizing the role of Jordanian Universities in supporting innovation among university students within the context of education for sustainable development from the point of view of Jordanian University students. For that, the researcher adopted the grounded theory methodology by Strauss and Corbin. The study was conducted at two Jordanian Universities: the University of Jordan and Philadelphia University in the academic year (2019-2020), and the study population consisted of students from the two universities. The researcher chose (300) students from both genders from different faculties and academic years. By applying the grounded theory, the study concluded that the key category that emerged after analyzing the student’s responses describing the impact of the Jordanian Universities’ role in supporting innovation among university students for educational sustainable development is the emphasis on the need for developing proper University innovation ecosystems in their educational systems. Also, the respondents- through online interviews - have emphasized this concept of proper University innovation ecosystems. The key category of this study found that positive and negative impacts could result from applying or neglecting to apply this concept, which generated behaviors toward the concept, which could be considered as the phenomena in the current research. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1309849.pdf

Keywords: Education; Sustainable Development; Jordanian Universities; Innovation.

Research Title: A Genetic Framework model for Self-Adaptive software

Author: Enas Tawfiq Al-Naffar, Published Year: 2017

JSE,

Faculty: Information Technology

Abstract: Self-adaptive software changes its behavior at runtime without affecting the ‎running system. It has recently been a rich research area. Lots of organizations have adopted it in ‎their environments to accommodate with changing requirements. Lots of bio-inspired research ‎works, which are better than the conventional ones, have been conducted in the area of self-‎adaptive software. All of them have focused on the external behavior of biological entities (like ‎birds, ants, immunity, etc.) without going in depth into their genetic material that causes this ‎behavior and constitutes the challenge the work presented in this paper dealt with. Materials and ‎Methods: This paper proposes a solution to the above current challenge by developing a ‎framework model for self-adaptive software; inspired by the adaptation (evolution) of biological ‎entities and taking into consideration the role of genetic material in the adaptation process. Its scope ‎is limited to changes that take place at runtime but that are known at design. Results: The obtained ‎framework model was evaluated through its reuse in software objects evolution. The practical and ‎theoretical obtained results were valuable in the object-oriented paradigm. The proposed framework ‎completes the others bio-inspired research current works by providing a natural implementing way. ‎The integration of the current bio-inspired approaches (which deal with natural entities behaviors ‎external modeling) with the proposed framework (which deals with genetics-inspired internal ‎modeling of these behaviors) will lead to homogenous and coherent bio-inspired approaches to ‎self-adaptive software. Conclusion: The proposed framework is limited to self-adaptations ‎predicted at the requirements and design steps in self-adaptive software engineering, which is ‎significant in practice. However, the unpredicted adaptation (to unpredicted errors, environment ‎requirements, etc.) will be a genetics-inspired approach real challenge. Separate evaluation of the ‎proposed framework performance is not determinant. However, the performance evaluation of the ‎actual bio-inspired hybrid approaches against the proposed integrated ones (which is impossible to ‎achieve actually) will be valuable. It might be expected that the integrated ones will be better (in the ‎whole self-adaptive software engineering processes) than the hybrid current ones. The homogeneity ‎of approaches has its important impact. ‎

Keywords: Self-adaptive software, Bio-inspired self-adaptive software, Genetics-inspired software modelling