Teaching EFL Writing in the 21st Century Arab World addresses a range of issues related to researching and teaching EFL writing in different countries in the Arab World including Egypt, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen. Both theoretically and practically grounded, chapters within discuss the different contexts in which EFL writing is taught, from primary school to university. Th…
Introduction -- Soil research history -- Climate -- Geology and geomorphology -- Soil maps and major soil types -- Soil properties and its sustainability -- Soil classification -- Soil fertility and its security -- Land use and vegetation -- Soil pollution and its management -- Soils and humans -- Future soil issues.This book reviews the distribution of soils across Egypt, their history, genesi…
The World Water Issues -- Fifty years of water policies, 1960-2010 -- The National Water Balance -- The holistic water balance: Blue Water, Green Water and Virtual Water -- Managing water demand and unconventional resources -- Water Security in Tunisia: debated issues -- Conclusion -- References.This book shows how the change of water paradigm has become urgent, and provides evidence for new po…
to Stream Data Management -- Query Execution and Optimization -- Filtering, Punctuation, Windows and Synopses -- XML & Data Streams -- CAPE: A Constraint-Aware Adaptive Stream Processing Engine -- Efficient Support for Time Series Queries in Data Stream Management Systems -- Managing Distributed Geographical Data Streams with the GIDB Portal System -- Streaming Data Dissemination Using Peer-Pee…
Fundamentals of Product Customization -- Product Customization: Theoretical Basics -- Mass Customization and Complexity -- A Customers’ Needs Model for Mass Customization -- An IT Infrastructure for Effective and Efficient Product Customization -- Customer Oriented Interaction Systems -- A Multi-agent System for Coping with Variety Induced Complexity -- Implementation Scenarios of the Informa…
Paleoceanographic Evolution -- Paleoclimate Evolution -- Paleoenvironmental Evolution -- Spatio-temporal Patterns of Climate Change -- Sea Level Variability: Past, Present and Future -- Climate Change Impacts and Migration Schemes.Middle East and Mediterranean region locates at a crossroad of global climatic patterns. The region is under the influence of a convergence of different maritime cond…