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Data were collected from 2 random samples of Arab students in the US on att's to images Arab students had of the US & the USSR: sample (a) 1966--402; sample (b) 1968--428. 4 scales were used to measure "global alignment" & att's toward "democracy," "nat'lis m," & "socialism." The last 3 were Likert-type scales. Evidence shows that the majority of Arab students in 1966 viewed the USSR in a more favorable light than the US. In 1968, there was further erosion of the US image among Arab students. The US was viewed by an overwhelming majority as morally wrong more often than the USSR. The events of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War seem to have accentuated this negative image. The USSR, on the other hand, scored added gains since the June War. Although the majority of Arab students favored the USSR over the US, there were marked variations with regard to some background characteristics. In 1966 as well as in 1968, att's favoring the Us were most likely to exist among the Lebanese & Saudi Arabians, & were most frequent among the Sudanese, North Africans, Jordanians, & Egyptians. These findings are interpreted as follows: In noncrisis times (before 1967) the 2 issues of democracy & socialism loomed more important in the minds of Arab students. They had more relevance as to how society should be organized & run internally. After the 1967 War, Arab unity assumed primacy & immediacy. Conflict with an outgroup took precedence over internal conflict. These conclusions should be placed within the context of the SE structure of the Arab society & the pol'al events in recent decades. 5 Tables. M. Maxfield.

Underwater Wireless Sensor Network (UWSN) can enable many scientific, military, safety, commercial and environmental applications. Majority of the network models has been introduced for the deployment of sensor nodes through routing schemes and methodologies along with different algorithms but still the design of routing protocol for underwater environment is a challenging issue due to distinctive characteristics of underwater medium. The majority of the issues are also needed to fulfill the appropriate approach for the underwater medium like limited bandwidth, high bit error rates, propagation delay, and 3D deployment. This paper focuses the comparative analysis of the localization based routing protocols for UWSN. This comparative analysis plays a significant attention to construct a reliable routing protocol, which provides the effectual discovery of the route between the source node and the sink node. In addition this comparative analysis also focuses the data packets forwarding mechanism, the deployment of sensor nodes and location based routing for UWSN in different conditions.

An NH3 gas sensor was prepared from nanocomposite films of indium oxide-copper oxide mixtures with ratios of 0 , 10 , and 20 Vol % of copper oxide. The films were deposited on a glass substrate using chemical spray pyrolysis method (CSP) at 400oC. The structural properties were studied by using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and atomic force microscopy ( AFM). The structural results showed that the prepared thin films are polycrystalline, with nano grain size. By mixing copper oxide with indium oxide, the grain size of the prepared thin films was decreased and the surface roughness was increased. The UV-Visible spectrometer analysis showed that the prepared thin films have high transmittance. This transmittance was decreased by mixing copper oxide with indium oxide. The direct optical energy gap ranged 3.5 - 3 eV, which was decreased with increasing copper oxide concentration. The sensitivity of the prepared gas sensor was measured towards NH3 gas at a concentration of 71ppm with operating temperatures of 100, 150, 200, 250 and 30) oC, according to the change of sensor resistance. This sensitivity of the mixture oxides showed a value of about nine times greater than that of individual indium oxide thin films. The results of the optimum gas sensor properties demonstrated a sensitivity value of 75.06%, response time of 10s, and recovery time of 11 s, at a mixing ratio of 20% of copper oxide and an operating temperature of 200oC.

Design and building of Mega Housing Development Projects (MHDP) has become one of the targets of developed countries, due to their positive impact on continuous population growth, rapid urbanisation, economic situation and working force engagement. Developing countries are moving towards the establishment of MHDP, where Egypt 2030 plan aims at constructing MHDP with specific vision. Although MHDP are expected to offer HR opportunities, they will generate challenges. The purpose of this paper is to design a responsive framework to HR factors arising from the internal and external MHDP environments. The paper undergoes a review for HR challenges and opportunities in design and building of MHDP, which was followed by a qualitative analysis of case studies from countries near to Egypt. Finally, a survey questionnaire was implemented, targeting stakeholders involved in MHDP. Most external challenges facing developing countries included security for HR working in design and building, shortage in access to technology in supply from a country to organization, Governance instability systems and lack of coordination. The most challenging factors facing the developing countries include providing services for organizations during construction of new MHDP, planning more flexible funding strategies for more flexible economic construction environment, avoiding continuous change of governmental systems and biased decision making, improving educational knowledge for constructions' obstacles to improve innovation, and Engaging more employees into the construction of MHDP activities. The paper developed a responsive framework and a risk register which better suits MHDP in Egypt. Strategies for HR internal opportunities at the design stage included "exploit", "share", and "enhance". "Exploit" strategy aims to ensure that the opportunity is recognized and make the opportunity definitely happen. Regarding HR Challenges, responsive strategies include "Avoid", "Transfer", "Mitigate", or "Accept". The paper improves management practice ...

Body size is a profound ground of inequality in modern global society. Moreover, constructions of body size are racially polarized, with blacks being reputed for venerating large body. Proceeding with a triangulation of qualitative methods, this phenomenological study featured forty-two in-depth interviews, eight focus group discussions and eighteen key informant interviews among men and women of varying body sizes in two of the six states of southwestern Nigeria. Findings reflect dominantly neutral meaning of body size among the Yorùbá. This neutrality is dominantly reflected in the literal questioning of meaning that Yorùbá attach to body size, and who becomes a king in Yorùbá land but partially neutral in acceptability of prospective son or daughter in-law. Divinity, orí (fate), ìwà (good behavior) and ọmọlúàbí (good person) are among phenomena that counts in discerning people's worth. Meaning attached to body size is opposed to common-place attitude to body size, making this attitude to be profane while meaning is solemn. This meaning is tremendously in favour of optimum health, and attenuating inequality, for which even black societies are perpetrating in the globalized world. Traditional Yorùbá value of human person is irrespective of body size.

The present study aims at investigating biology teachers on pedagogical competence in secondary schools in Jember regency. Pedagogical competence as of the teachers' competence has been mandated by Government Regulation of Indonesia Number 19 Year 2005 Article 28 which states that teacher must possess academic qualification and competence as the learning agent, healthy both physically and mentally, and be able to achieve national education goal. This study is qualitative which employs questionnaire to collect the teachers' profiles as the data of the research. The questionnaire consists of 20 items which covers aspects of 1) Preparation (3 indicators items); 2) Instructional Planning (3 indicators of items); 3) Instructional Implementation (4 indicators items); 4) the Use of Instructional Media (3 indicator items); and 5) Conducting Instructional Evaluation (2 indicator items). The study reveals that the teachers' perception on pedagogical competence is fair (the average score is 3.86). Article visualizations: