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The development of applying database management applications is currently underway within Geographical Information Systems (GIS) applications in the Sultanate of Oman.The establishment of a national database management system in Oman is considered as the backbone that is required within the Geographic Information System project in Oman. The principal of the GIS project in Oman was built upon unifying the used software packages over the sultanate which is ARC/INFO as GIS Package and ORACLE as database management software. These packages are used within the different participating Ministries in the GIS project in Oman.The participating ministries will handle information that are shared between them. The shared information among the different ministries is the attributed data which is defined as descriptive information extracted from geographic features that usually existed on the topographic maps and the ministries maps (utility maps). The map features can be classified into different layers according to the principles of ARC/INFO GIS Package. Accordingly, the main objectives of this research paper is to explain the technique proposed for establishing a national database management system that can handle and manage the shared information amongst the participating ministries in the project. The proposed database design will be made using the ORACLE database management system. Moreover, the paper will handle a proposed idea for linking the geographic map layers with the corresponding attributed database in order to create Geographic Information System applications. As a Conclusion, it is Proposed that all the government GIS departments in the Sultanate will share the same information within a unique national database management which can be considered one of the major benefits in applying database management in the field of Geographic Information Systems.

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This book suggests a new theory on the origins and Urheimat of the Turks within the context of Central Eurasia and, more properly, the South Urals, by exploring the relations of the Turkic language with the Altaic, Uralic and Indo-European languages and by referring to historical, genetic and archaeological sources

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- What is This Book About? -- Contents -- About the Author -- Part I Empathy and the Finding of Empathic Spaces -- 1 Empathy and the Search for the Other -- Opening Spaces of Empathy -- The Need to Self-Imagine -- The Challenge of Empathy -- Bridging Our Gaps -- References -- 2 Landscaping 'Otherness and Challenging Frames of "Nothingness" in Contemporary Palestine' -- Symbolism of Space -- The People and the Olive: The Story of the Run Across Palestine -- Beginnings and Ends-Location and Symbolic Intent -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Distance as Othering: US Images of Conflict Inside and Outside the Homeland -- News Framing and Symbolic Codes -- Virginia Tech and Visual Motifs of Grieving -- Activating a Collectivism Frame for Others -- Poetry of Pain and Pathos -- Remembering Iraqis in American Photos -- Seeing the Anonymous Figure -- Challenging Dominant Media Frames: Considering Empathic Responses -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II The War in Iraq and the Empathic Spaces of Elsewhere -- 4 The Mahmudiyah Killings and the Framing of Abeer -- Obscuring Frames with Images of Chaos -- Mahmudiyah and the Opening and Closing of Frames -- The Framing Between a Past and Present -- Empathy and the Creating of 'Imagined' Frames -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Empathy Behind and Beyond the Cage -- Frantz Fanon and the Mental Effects of Torture -- Symbolic Codes and Spaces in Camp X-Ray -- From the Cage to Camp X-Ray -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Performance and Pathos: Symbolism of Suffering in the Mourning of Iraqi 'Mothers' -- Images of Subordinated Others -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Conclusion -- Looking Ahead -- References.

"Portrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women's rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era. Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. After four decades of gender and sectarian violence, she argues, the internationally funded media sector has the potential to bring about justice, national integration, and peace. Fieldwork from across Afghanistan allowed Osman to record the voices of many Afghan media producers and people. Afghans offer their own seldom-heard views on the country's cultural progress and belief systems, their understandings of themselves, and the role of international interventions. Osman analyzes the impact of transnational media and foreign funding while keeping the focus on local cultural contestations, productions, and social movements. As a result, she redirects the global dialogue about Afghanistan to Afghans and challenges top-down narratives of humanitarian development"--

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: The Early Years -- Chapter 1: Beginnings -- Chapter 2: Yet More Beginnings -- Chapter 3: Becoming Established -- Chapter 4: Handicrafts and More -- Part Two: Into the 1990s -- Chapter 5: A Hard Act to Follow -- Chapter 6: A New Way of Working Overseas -- Chapter 7: New Partnerships in the UK -- Chapter 8: Not Just Fair Trade -- Chapter 9: Hard Times and Big Changes -- Part Three: A New Millennium -- Chapter 10: New Leadership, New Approach -- Chapter 11: Growth and Influence -- Part Four: Part of a Global Movement -- Chapter 12: Early Years -- Chapter 13: Fairtrade Labelling -- Chapter 14: Working with EFTA -- Chapter 15: Membership of WFTO and Other Collaborations -- Part Five: Innovation - A History of Fair Trade "Firsts" -- Chapter 16: A Fair Brew -- Chapter 17: A Coffee Legacy That Never Seemed to be Forgotten -- Chapter 18: Sweet Justice: a Sugar Journey -- Chapter 19: Cocoa and Chocolate -- Chapter 20: Not Such a Dirty Oil -- Part Six: Traidcraft and Supermarkets -- Chapter 21: Engaging with the Big Players -- Chapter 22: A Natural Ally: The Co-op -- Part Seven: Christian Roots and Mission -- Chapter 23: A Christian Organization? -- Chapter 24: A Christian Response to Poverty -- Part Eight: Traidcraft's Most Recent History -- Chapter 25: Not Such a Flourishing Business -- Chapter 26: One Traidcraft? -- Chapter 27: Averting Disaster and a New Hope? -- Chapter 28: Reflections on a Forty-Year Journey -- Epilogue: A Personal Reflection by Richard Adams -- Appendix 1: Traidcraft's Objectives -- Appendix 2: Traidcraft website blog post, 2015 -- Appendix 3: WFTO: Ten Principles of Fair Trade -- Appendix 4: Timeline.