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Adams, Daniel. "GULF." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2008. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3188.
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In Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, the narrator speaks of the healing power of the Gulf in a literal manner: the waters of the Gulf of Mexico heal the wounded hands of the fisherman. The seventeen stories in the following collection examine Hemingway's concept on other levels, focusing on the human ability--or lack thereof--to bridge psychological gulfs, and to find emotional healing. Three major currents run through the lives of the characters in Gulf: difficulties in relationships, struggles with identity, and a sense of being haunted by the unexplained. As the stories progress, the healing waters of the Gulf move the characters away from chaos and toward contentment. In early stories, characters are often appalled by the discovery of their true identities; the later stories feature heroes who've found happiness and peace. Scattered throughout the book are the haunted stories, those that question the boundaries between what is real and what is imagined, what is known and what can never be understood. Gulf is informed by the landscape of the south, yet some stories venture around the world, from the Gulf of Mexico to the heather-dotted hills of Scotland, exploring themes as dark and mysterious as the Gulf itself.M.F.A.
Department of English
Arts and Humanities
Creative Writing MFA
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Houssein, Abdi Yassin. "La côte continentale du Pertuis Breton, du début du XVIIIe siècle à la fin du Second Empire : évolution et aménagement du littoral depuis la Tranche-sur-Mer jusqu'au nord de La Rochelle." Electronic Thesis or Diss., La Rochelle, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023LAROS013.
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Entre le début du XVIIIe siècle et la fin du Second Empire, la côte continentale du Pertuis Breton connaît une évolution significative. Elle est constituée de trois paysages géomorphologiques singuliers, dynamiques et corrélés : un territoire marécageux, une zone dunaire et une côte à falaises. Ces milieux subissent des transformations naturelles lentes à l’origine de la constitution des flèches sableuses d’Arcay et de l’Aiguillon qui forment un grand cordon dunaire. Celui-ci est alimenté par un transport considérable des sables de l’ouest vers l’est par dérive littorale. Ces mouvements de sédiments sont soumis à l’influence d’agents hydrodynamiques. La remontée des eaux de l’océan entraîne le colmatage progressif du golfe des Pictons par des apports de sédiments d’origine fluvio-marine. Ce processus est à l’origine de la formation de l’anse de l’Aiguillon et du Marais poitevin. Ces milieux subissent également des transformations naturelles brutales dues à des phénomènes climatiques extrêmes. Cette étude met aussi en lumière la part de l’influence humaine dans l’évolution et la modification de leur trait de côte. Les aménagements sont particulièrement visibles dans le Marais poitevin. Entre le Moyen Âge et le XIXe siècle, ce territoire est l’enjeu d’une grande transformation qui modifie largement son écosystème. Cette zone humide est drainée par l’instauration de canaux, de digues et d’écluses. Grâce aux dessèchements réalisés par les sociétés des marais, l’agriculture et l’élevage connaissent un essor considérable et remplacent progressivement ces terres inondables réputées insalubres. Les marais connaissent alors un afflux de population. L'Etat est présent sur ce littoral par l’intermédiaire des Amirautés sous l’Ancien Régime ou de l’administration des Ponts et Chaussées au XIXe siècleBetween the beginning of the 18th century and the end of the Second Empire, the continental coast of the Pertuis Breton experienced a significant evolution. It is composed of three singular, dynamic and correlated geomorphological landscapes: a marshy area, a dune zone and a cliff coast. These environments underwent slow natural transformations which led to the creation of the sandy spits of Arcay and Aiguillon which form a large dune belt. The latter is fed by a considerable transport of sand from west to east by littoral drift. These sediment movements are subject to the influence of hydrodynamic agents. The rise in oceanic waters leads to the progressive clogging of the Gulf of the Pictons with sediment of fluvio marine origin. This process is at the origin of the formation of the Aiguillon Cove and the Poitevin Marsh. These environments also go through brutal natural transformations due to extreme climatic phenomena. This study also highlights the role of human influence in the evolution and modification of their coastline. Developments are particularly visible in the Marais Poitevin. Between the Middle Ages and the 19th century, this territory was the focus of a major transformation that greatly modified its ecosystem. This wetland was drained by the creation of canals, dykes and locks. Thanks to the draining carried out by the marsh companies, agriculture and livestock farming flourished and gradually replaced the flooded lands, which were considered unsanitary. The marshes then experienced an influx of people. The State is present on this coastline through the Admiralty under the Ancien Régime or the administration of the Ponts et Chaussées in the 19th century
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Redmond, Daniel F. "American Persian Gulf policy after the Gulf War." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/26349.
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American policy in the Persian Gulf since the end of the Gulf war has dangerously overemphasized military instruments to protect United States interests in the region. This military focus suggests that threats to American interests are external and visible. At the same time it neglects the challenges posed to U.S. interests by internal political upheaval in the pro-American regimes of the Gulf Cooperation Council and ignores the societal disruptions associated with modernizing societies. Despite their considerable oil wealth, these polities will be increasingly vulnerable to instability if the regimes in power continue their monopoly on political power. Moreover, the highly visible and active presence of American armed forces in the Gulf today intensifies the perception of the U.S. as an imperial super power and unknowingly threatens to undermine the stability of the GCC states by providing opposition groups with a powerful symbol with which to challenge the political status quo....Persian Gulf War, U.S. Persian Gulf Policy, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Political Development in Arabian Peninsula, Modernization in Arabian Peninsula
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Baniewicz, Christine. "The Gulf Between." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2019. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/2583.
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Great swaths of Southeastern Louisiana are drowning, land giving way to water at an alarming rate. Since the 1920s, Louisiana has lost more than 1,800 square miles of wetlands to open water, an area about the size of the state of Delaware. In the same amount of time it takes to watch an episode of Breaking Bad, our state loses the equivalent of a football field’s-worth of solid ground to the rising seas. My thesis is the first part of an accessible creative nonfiction book that tells the story of what’s happening in my home state. To what extent is it feasible to engineer ourselves out of harm’s way? What communities get relocated, and on whose terms? Most centrally, how will we address the troubling gulf between what we know to be true about our changing climate and what we are willing to do about it?
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Legrenzi, Matteo. "The gulf cooperation council : Diplomacy, security and economic coordination in the gulf." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.530048.
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Al, Ghorayed Basheer Muhammad A. "The Gulf Cooperation Council, 1981-91 : an organisation of Arab Gulf states." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393535.
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Scott, Matthew D. "Evolution of the Gulf, U.S.-Gulf Relations, and Prospects for the Future." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1440.
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The focus of this thesis is the establishment and evolution of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Furthermore, analyzing the U.S. relations with the GCC multilaterally and the Gulf States bilaterally. The final phase is to analyze the prospects of future relations between the U.S. and GCC collectively and individually.
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Greentree, James. "Understanding the Gulf crisis /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arg8156.pdf.
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Dalziel, Nigel Robert. "British maritime contacts with the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman 1850-1900." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.253724.
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Hoolihan, John P. "Biology of Arabian Gulf sailfish." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://www.library.unsw.edu.au/%7Ethesis/adt-NUN/public/adt-NUN20050607.184544/.
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Hoolihan, John Paul Jr School of Biological Earth & Environmental Sciences UNSW. "Biology of Arabian Gulf sailfish." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/20755.
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Biological and life history characteristics for a previously unstudied population of sailfish, Istiophorus platypterus, in the Arabian Gulf were investigated. Notable findings include temporal-spatial migration patterns for a genetically isolated population that is threatened by overexploitation. Conventional tagging resulted in 2053 releases and 114 recaptures (5.55%) inside the Gulf. Linear displacement ranged from 2.5 to 697 km, while days at liberty ranged from 17 to 818 days. Dead recoveries in Iranian gillnets account for 88.6% of recaptures. Modeling analyses produced a best estimate of annual survival probability (S) at 0.375 (slope = -0.101, SE = 0.324). Fifteen pop-up satellite archival tags were deployed on sailfish during 2001 - 2002 to track temporal and spatial movements. Extensive data from four tags showed 83.7% of time-at-depth was spent above 10 m with no significant difference (P < 0.05) in diel preference. Depth ranged from 0.0 m to 61.0 m, while temperature ranged from 19.7 ??C to 30.1 ??C. Small-scale movements of eight sailfish were measured using ultrasonic tracking for periods ranging from 3:33 to 53:06 hours. Track distances ranged from 5.5 to 78.5 km, while linear displacement ranged from 4.6 to 37.0 km. Average speed ranged from 0.29 to 0.75 m s-1. Vertical distributions showed 84.3% of time was spent above 10 m depth, even though water temperature showed negligible variation with depth. Mitochondrial DNA comparison of 147 sailfish produced 39 composite haplotypes using eight restriction enzymes. Significant differences occurred in the frequency between population groups inside and outside the Gulf (amova 34.8%, P < 0.01; FST = 0.356), along with evidence of restricted migration between them (average number of migrants, Nm = 0.903). Nine year classes (0-8) were determined from aging analysis of fin spines. Females (n = 50) ranged from 0 to 8 years, while males (n = 34) ranged from 0 to 6 years. Von Bertalanffy growth function indicated rapid growth during the first two years, after which males stabilized and females continued growing to a greater maximum mean length and weight. A comparison of allometric growth between sexes indicated no significant difference between length and other morphometric characters (P ranged 0.135 ??? 0.980).
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Alyafai, Yahya. "Gulf Cooperation Council monetary unification." Kansas State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/9191.
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Master of ArtsDepartment of Economics
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In this report, I investigate the possibility of a monetary unification among the Arab States. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states that include Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait and Oman are coming together on the basis of common ethnicity, religion, culture, traditions, and monetary issues. This research will discuss different factors upon which the monetary unification and the birth of a new currency depend. For comparison to the Euro, I closely examined different factors such as inflation rates, exchange rates, trade, etc. over the past decade. As stated, this examination was done to see how these factors compare with those of the Euro region to determine if a similar monetary unification among the GCC states is possible. The target date for launching the new GCC currency was January 1, 2010; however that date has long passed. Although the above mentioned factors are favorable to currency unification of the GCC states, ample time is necessary to achieve such a herculean feat. After all, the Europeans did not achieve the unification of the Euro in one night. One hurdle to unification is that the GCC states still need to control the inflation rates in their own economies. Other economic factors, such as trade, have been favorable for all the GCC states, and all the states have been doing well in terms of the U.S. dollar (USD). Although unification may not have met the January 1, 2010 goal, the GCC will still be observing the economic factors and considering other possible scenarios. All the GCC countries vow to achieve this unification.
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Canak, Robert. "Hybrid Gulf — Excavating Future Identities." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3464.
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This Project examines the coexistence of two cultures?–?in this case the host Gulf, and the imported Western?–?and addresses certain problems that still need attention. This Project celebrates the creation of the third, hybrid, culture as a result of their intermingling. In this Research, Postcolonial Theory? and Transitional Object Theory? are used as conceptual frameworks, and are combined with Archaeology and Design as a practice. On a personal level, the Project evolved out of my cross-cultural origin and experiences. On an academic level, the Project serves as an experiment, trying to fill the gaps in the Gulf region’s search for identity. This Project utilized Design in two phases, initially during the research, and then as tool?/ language to mediate the issues found within the cross-cultural context. The Project explores and questions the ways in which artifacts/objects alter our perception, experience and memory. On an interdisciplinary level, this Project claims that Design?–?as a discipline –?is integrated in the process of curating memories through the creation of physical objects. Since objects have always been used as tools to dictate the narratives of our social memory, questions of power and control are essential – the current status of this region is a third culture, a hybrid product of Culture ‘A’ and Culture ‘B’. This project is interested in mechanisms that can be used to preserve this interesting phenomena often stigmatized as negative.
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Keeble, Richard. "The Gulf War myth : a study of the press coverage of the 1991 Gulf conflict." Thesis, City University London, 1996. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/7932/.
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This thesis examines the UK and US press coverage of the 1991 Gulf conflict. It outlines the propaganda model of the press identified by Herman and Chomsky and, through a qualitative study of press content, examines the extent to which the predictions of the model are fulfilled in the coverage. The state systems involved are defined as new militarist and the special role played by the press in these systems is identified. In radically problematising the event, the study identifies the way in which broad historical factors (rather than any elite conspiracy) lay behind the press manufacture of the Gulf war spectacle. Interviews with journalists involved and references to many non-mainstream texts and perspectives (silenced or marginalised within the dominant ideological system) are incorporated. The thesis concludes that most of the expectations of the propaganda model were realised in the press coverage of the Gulf "war".
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Al-Sani, Rashed Mezed Ali. "The role of the Gulf Cooperation Council in the economic development of the Gulf States." Thesis, Durham University, 1992. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6119/.
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As a regional organisation, the Gulf Cooperation Council is a somewhat unique experiment in the contemporary Middle East and in the Arab world in particular. It is the first regional organisation in the modern Arab nation-state system, aside from the Arab League, formed in 1946, that has epoused a functional approach to cooperation, while at the same time preserving the political sovereignty and independence of the member states. Since its founding, the GCC has been the focus of debate regarding its nature and functions. Intentionally or not, it has become a major media event, a fact that has contributed to the credibility gap between rising expectations based on public pronouncements and real achievements. This thesis is an inquiry into the role of the Gulf Cooperation Council in the economic development of the participating countries. The study comprises seven chapters, detailing both the scope and purpose of the study, and the criteria employed in the research. The main chapters examine the relative contribution of physical and human resources involved in cooperation between the Gulf countries. In addition, the contribution of agriculture and fisheries, as well as industrial development, to the G.C.C. countries are expounded. The services in the G.C.C. countries are specified. External trade and migration in the G.C.C. countries is discussed in detail. The conclusion describes the role of the Gulf Cooperation Council in economic development and includes suggestions and recommendations for the future.
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Robinson, David Philip. "The ecology of whale sharks Rhincodon typus within the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/3139.
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Historically, whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, have been infrequently documented from the Arabian Gulf and the northern Gulf of Oman. This thesis documents the population and movement ecology of whale sharks within this region between 2011 and 2014. The Al Shaheen Area of Qatar and the Musandam region of Oman were the main hotspots for whale shark occurrence. The Al Shaheen oil field is located 90 km off the coast of Qatar in the Arabian Gulf. Platform workers reported 4351 individual whale sharks between 2011 and 2014 based on daily cumulative sightings. Peak numbers of whale sharks were observed between May and September from the west of Al Shaheen. Density estimates of up to 150 sharks within an area of 1 km2 were recorded. Most animals observed were actively feeding on surface zooplankton, consisting primarily of mackerel tuna Euthynnus affinis eggs. A total of 420 individual sharks were identified from their spot patterns from the entire region, with the majority (81%, n=341) encountered at Al Shaheen. Population size for the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman combined was estimated using the program SOCPROG at 2837 sharks ± 1243.91 S.E. (95% C.I. 1720-6295) with 120 sharks present on any given day. A mean residency period of 17 days within this area and 31 days outside the study area was estimated. A model representing a fully mixed population showed the best goodness of fit to investigate Lagged Identification Rate (LIR) of occurrence between two areas, inside and outside of the Arabian Gulf, suggesting a degree of interchange between the Arabian Gulf and Northern Gulf of Oman populations. Inter-annual re-sighting rates of sharks at Al Shaheen varied between 22 and 88%. The estimated total length (TL) for all sharks assessed in Al Shaheen was 6.9 m (± S.D. 1.24, N=296), with males (7.25 m ± 1.34, N=171) being larger than females (6.44 m ±1.09, N=78; t = 4.68, df = 247, P = 0.0001). This aggregation had a significant male bias (69% N=248), with the majority of males assessed as mature (63%, N=81). This is the first whale shark aggregation site dominated by mature animals. Length at which 50% of the animals were mature (TL50) was 7.29 m with all animals at 9 m being mature based on clasper morphology. Movements of individual sharks between the Qatari, Omani and UAE waters were confirmed by individual spot pattern recognition. Satellite tracking of whale sharks within the region showed that whale sharks prefer depths in excess of 40 m and rarely made dives deeper than 100 m. Temperature preferences were between 27 °C and 33 °C. Sharks were seen to aggregate in the summer and disperse widely throughout the region in the winter months outside of the tuna-spawning season. Genetic analysis of whale sharks from Al Shaheen determined that the whale sharks found in this area were genetically similar to the wider Western Indian Ocean populations. Stable isotope analysis showed distinct differentiation in feeding for sharks from Qatar, Tanzania and Mozambique. Anthropogenic threats from the region were found to include boat impacts, accidental and direct capture in nets and a target fishery using tail ropes. Species-specific protection should be considered within countries hosting regional whale shark hotspots and, in addition, whale sharks should be afforded protection within Al Shaheen.
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Al-Zamat, Khalid Hamed S. "The basis for cooperation in the Gulf Region : an assessment of the Gulf Cooperation Council." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1998. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1156/.
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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a regional alliance grouping the six oil- and gas-rich Arabian states of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain, was founded in 1981 with the purported aim of "effect[ing] coordination, integration and inter-connection between Member States in all fields in order to achieve unity between them" (GCC Charter: Article 4). Most political observers, nevertheless, insist that this alliance was born out of a common concern among these rich but sparsely populated and militarily vulnerable states for their security and political stability within a politically volatile region, and the need for a regional alliance with sufficient capability to safeguard their interests, sovereignty and political stability. This study was undertaken with a set of interacting aims in mind; besides the subsidiary aim of examining the structure and operation of the GCC from the perspective of competing theoretical approaches to federalism with a view to exploring their viability vis-à-vis the case of integration which the GCC represents, this study primarily aims at evaluating the GCC, as well as the political and social basis of cooperation, among its member states in the light of attitudes and perceptions within Gulf society. With regard to the former concern, the aim is to consider how useful theories of federalism are in understanding and interpreting the GCC. With regard to the latter concern, the study aims, to explore Gulf social perception of the factors underlying the emergence of the GCC, its institutions, objectives, policies and problems confronting it with a view to determining the extent and nature of both the attitudinal similarities, and discrepancies existing between different social Gulf groups as well as identifying the complex network of historical, socio-cultural and institutional affinities operating across state boundaries within the GCC. To explore perceptions of the policies and aspects of cooperation which the GCC considers central to its efforts to bring about greater unity among its member states, two surveys were undertaken among two contrasting groups: one based on a sample of top-ranking officials at the GCC Secretariat General and another based on the sample of students at Kuwait and Qatar universities.
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Ahmadi, Y. A. "An assessment of Gulf States' perceptions of US hegemony and security in the Persian/Arabian Gulf." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2014. http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/149/.
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This thesis assesses the Gulf states’ perceptions towards US hegemony security in the Persian/Arabian Gulf. A number of questions are asked regarding security and stability in the Gulf, the tools, means and objectives of the USA in the region, regional powers and their role in achieving stability in the Gulf. Special references is given to the perspectives of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, Iraq and Iran regarding regional security, stability, the role of US hegemony, and their roles in building a new security system in the region. Moreover questions addressed include the occupation of Iraq by the USA and how it has impacted the Gulf region and the capabilities of the Gulf states to build a regional security system independent of US protection. The aim of this study is to provide a conceptual foundation for a discussion about the future shape of security and stability arrangements in the Gulf. Secondly, this research aims to analyse the role of the USA in the regional security complex, its key interests in the region, and its means to achieving its objectives there. Finally, this thesis examines the perceptions of the GCC states, Iraq and Iran toward the role of the USA and its hegemony in the Gulf. Furthermore, this research project also aims to study the failure of the region's states to develop a regional security regime and their perceptions of this failure. The Persian/Arabian Gulf is a strategic economic, political and military region that has increased its vital significance to neighbouring regions and the world as a whole in the past two decades or more. In particular its important position as a source of gas and oil for the global energy market has caused this region to be of interest to state and non-state actors around the world, and arguably has made the region more unstable. The hypothesis tested in this work is, that consider the importance of the Gulf states perception of the security and stability and the US hegemony and its role, as the only possible way to stabilize the region. as well as considering the Gulf states perception of protect themselves and build their own regional security system. That the USA has succeeded to a great extent in controlling and exercising hegemony over the Persian/Arabian Gulf region in a way compatible with its interests and objectives, which are: primarily, guaranteeing the flow of oil and gas, protecting current regimes in the GCC and guaranteeing the security and supremacy of Israel. The originality of this thesis in part lies in focus on the Gulf states’ perceptions of US hegemony in the Gulf and its impact on security there., By employing a constructivist approach and combining it with a theory of Hegemonic Stability, an alternative understanding of the capabilities of the USA as hegemonic state in the Gulf is developed to examine its ability to control and gain support from states in the Gulf.
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Davis, Robert. "Canada and the Persian Gulf War." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ30939.pdf.
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Munson, Mark B. "Port security in the Persian Gulf." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Naval Postgraduate School, 2008. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA483475.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Seucirt Affairs (Middle East, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa))--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2008.Thesis Advisor(s): Moran, Daniel. "June 2008." Description based on title screen as viewed on August 26, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p.73-82). Also available in print.
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Vazquez-Meneses, Mario Ernesto. "Gravity tectonics, Western Gulf of Mexico." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.424310.
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Almoaily, Mohammad. "Language variation in Gulf Pidgin Arabic." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/1859.
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works such as Smart 1990, Hobrom 1996, Wiswal 2002, Gomaa 2007, Almoaily 2008, Naess 2008, Bakir 2010, and Alshammari 2010. Importantly, since GPA is spoken by a non-indigenous workforce over a wide geographical area in a multi-ethnic speech community, language variation seems inevitable. However, to date, there is no account of variation in GPA conditioned by substrate language or length of stay. Therefore, in this thesis I analyse the impact of the first language of the speakers and the number of years of residency in their location in the Gulf as potential factors conditioning language variation in GPA. The data-base for the study consists of interviews with sixteen informants from three linguistic backgrounds: Malayalam, Bengali, and Punjabi. Interviews were conducted in two cities in Saudi Arabia: Riyadh and Alkharj. Half of the data is produced by informants who have spent five or less years in the Gulf while the other half has spent ten or more years in the Gulf by the time they were interviewed. The analysis is based on ten morpho-syntactic phenomena: free or bound object or possessive pronoun, presence or absence of the Arabic definiteness marker, presence or absence of Arabic conjunction markers, presence or absence of the GPA copula, and presence or absence of agreement in the verb phrase and the noun phrase. Given the fact that most of the current theories on contact languages have been made on the basis of Indo-European language based pidgins and creoles, analysing the above features in an Arabic-based pidgin promises to be a great addition to the literature of pidgins and creoles. Results of this thesis show that both first language and number of years of stay in the Gulf seem to have little effect on my informants’ choices as regards the studied morpho-syntactic features. There is a significant adaptation to the system of Gulf Arabic (the lexifier language) only with respect to one feature: conjunction markers. This finding could be taken to support Universalist theories of the emergence of contact languages. However, some substratal effect can still be noticed in the data.
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Thackwray, Elizabeth C. "The Gulf Cooperation Council, 1981-1994." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc935605/.
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the foreign policy outcomes of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to understand the extent to which a Regional Intergovernmental Organization (RGO) consisting of developing nations is able to promote regional cooperation. Much of the literature on integration and the formation of Intergovernmental Organizations was developed with regard to western nations. These approaches are examined for their contributions to foreign policy behavior analysis and with respect to understanding why small and developing nations join such organizations. Final analysis of the outcomes using two scales to measure the organization's ability to promote regional cooperation reveal that the level of success was moderate and the level of political action undertaken by the GCC was generally moderate to low. Leadership is supportive of the organization but both external and internal factors contribute to the modest levels achieved so far. Issues of national sovereignty and a decade of regional conflicts affected the ability of the organization to achieve greater levels or regional cooperation.
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Azizi, Banafsheh. "Economic development in Arab Gulf States." Thesis, Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/24746.
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Weeks, L. R. "Pre-Islamic metallurgy of the Gulf." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2000. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27763.
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The thesis presents a study of early metal production, exchange and use in the Gulf region. The focus is exclusively on the use of copper and its alloys, from the Bronze Age to the late pre-Islamic period. Issues addressed include technological aspects of early alloy production, the trade in metallic resources in the Gulf region, and the socioeconomic importance of the early use of tin and tin-bronze in early Western Asia.
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Ambusaidi, Hilal Saud. "Structural analysis of the Gulf Cooperation Council and the European Union aspects of their relationship and their mutual environment /." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=59446.
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Alhawas, Mosad Abdulaziz. "Toward Net-Zero Residential Buildings in the Arabian Gulf Region (Lessons Learned from the Arabian Gulf Vernacular Architecture)." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/613498.
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The purpose of this research is to evaluate and assess the residential buildings energy consumption in the east cost of the Arabian Gulf region. After, conducting the energy performance assessment, the main goal is to reduce the energy consumption of those homes to reach the net-zero stage. Moreover, a net-zero strategies tree have been created. The tree has so many elements in order to help designing the Net-Zero prototype which going to reach the Net-Zero stage see fig.1: the strategies are :- renewable energy, passive technique and enhancing building quality. Furthermore, at the beginning of the research, a study was made for the Arabian Gulf vernacular architecture in order to help designing the net-zero prototype and learn some construction lessons from them since individuals were living in a net-zero homes at the time (no electricity).
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Wilcken, Patrick. "Anthropology, the intellectuals and the Gulf War." Cambridge : Prickly Pear, 1994. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/32394307.html.
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Shehata, Nermeen. "Corporate governance disclosure in the Gulf countries." Thesis, Aston University, 2013. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/28848/.
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Corporate governance disclosure is important for countries aiming to attract international investors and reduce companies’ cost of capital. The relationship between corporate governance disclosure (CGD) and its determinants is the main objective of the current research. Accordingly, the research aimed to: (i) assess CGD level in the Gulf countries; (ii) investigate the impact of ownership structure (proportion of institutional, governmental, managerial and family ownership) on CGD; (iii) explore the effect of board characteristics (proportion of independent board members, proportion of family members on board, CEO/chairman duality and board size) on CGD; (iv) examine the relationship between diversity (proportion of foreign and female members on a board and in the senior management team) and CGD; and (v) test the association between firm characteristics (company size, age, liquidity, profitability, leverage, industry and auditor types) and CGD. Gulf countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) were selected for the study since they share similar characteristics and represent a relatively homogeneous category in the Middle East and North African region. A CGD index of 232 items was developed and divided into six categories: ownership structure and investor rights; financial transparency and information disclosure; information on auditors; board and senior management structure and process; board committees; and finally corporate behaviour and responsibility. Annual reports available for listed non-financial companies of the Gulf countries were 270 for the year 2009. The maximum CGD level was 63%, whereas the minimum was 5%, with an average disclosure level of 32%. Several regression models were conducted to enhance the robustness of the results and conclusions of the study. The results indicated that five variables had a significant positive relationship with CGD: proportion of independent members on a board, proportion of foreign members on a board, proportion of foreign members in the senior management team, auditor type and profitability. The research contributes to the literature on corporate governance voluntary disclosure in developing countries. Practical contributions consist of several recommendations to policy makers, regulators, and professional institutions in the Gulf countries.
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Ali, Nadia Sayed. "Demography and development in three Gulf States." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.312855.
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Ahmad, K. A.-M. "Intonation of a Gulf Arabic dialect : Zubairi." Thesis, University of Reading, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.376823.
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Pinheiro, De Melo Martim Ferreira Pinto. "Bird speciation in the Gulf of Guinea." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/11261.
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The Gulf of Guinea island system, West Africa, constitutes a spectacular centre of bird endemism, with 33 species unique to the region. It comprises three oceanic islands (Annobón, São Tome, Principe), one land-bridge island (Bioko) and one ecological island (Mount Cameroon), all part of the Cameroon line of volcanoes. This thesis used genetic, morphological and behavioural data from finches, whiteeyes, thrushes and kingfishers to investigate: i) the importance of isolation for the speciation process; ii) the applicability of the current 'ecological model' of speciation, which was developed in parapatric and sympatric situations, to allopatric situations, and iii) the link between character divergence at the population level and the evolution of reproductive isolation. Molecular phylogenies revealed that previous systematic assessments based on phenotypic characters were often incorrect. High levels of phenotypic differentiation of island taxa are not related to time since origin and can evolve within very short periods. For example, Speirops (Zosteropidae) and Neospiza (Fringillidae) are well within the genera Zosterops and Serinus respectively. 'Aberrant' characters did not constitute evidence for shared ancestry, e.g. the "genus" Speirops proved not to be monophyletic. The two Gulf of Guinea endemic kingfishers Alcedo spp. are island populations of the mainland Malachite kingfisher A. cristata, rather than being distinct island species. In contrast, molecular evidence in combination with phenotypic data strongly supported the elevation of the thrush population from Principe Turdus olivaceofuscus xanthorhynchus to species status. Molecular data also revealed a possible case of cryptic speciation within the Principe white-eye Zosterops ficedulinus. The high number of endemic bird species in the Gulf of Guinea islands was the result of recent speciation events rather than the accumulation of relict species extinct on the mainland. Therefore, the Gulf of Guinea constitutes a very important centre of bird speciation in Africa. Because the oceanic islands are surrounded by one of the richest centres of biodiversity in the world they were colonised by several bird groups which, by occupying different niches, reduced the possibilities of radiations within the archipelago. Therefore, most species originated by diverging in isolation from their source populations (allospeciation). Data from the Principe seedeater Serinus rufobrunneus showed that selection rather than drift was the main driver of divergence in allopatry, thereby supporting the applicability of the ecological model of speciation to allopatric situations. At the same time, the most divergent species were those that speciated after establishing sympatry with related populations, providing strong evidence for the importance of secondary contacts in promoting phenotypic diversification and speciation. Molecular evidence suggested that the São Tome grosbeak Neospiza concolor may have speciated in full sympatry - which if confirmed would make it unique among birds. In S. rufobrunneus, mate recognition traits were the first to diverge and may therefore be implicated in the first stages of the speciation process. This was further supported by playback experiments showing that populations no longer recognise the songs of foreign populations, suggesting that reproductive isolation may evolve as a by-product of independent divergence of mate recognition systems in allopatry. Overall, this study supported the view of speciation as a selection-driven process more likely to be completed in sympatry after an initial period of isolation. This is likely to constitute the most general model of speciation.
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Gallegos, Frank. "After the Gulf War Balancing Spacepower's Development /." Maxwell AFB, Ala. : Air University Research Coordinator Office, 1998. http://www.au.af.mil/au/database/research/ay1995/saas/gallegf.htm.
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Lu, Phat Tien, Anthony Kamar, Jose Salcedo, Michaela Taborga, Tanya Alexander, and Todd Peterson. "BP/Gulf Type Oil Leak Flow Measurement." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/144562.
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Shoker, Talal H. "The internationalisation of the Arab Gulf banks." Thesis, Bangor University, 1989. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-internationalisation-of-the-arab-gulf-banks(8dc29d42-d311-4c41-9e84-1a913b420fd0).html.
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The main theme of the research is to analyse the major reasons behind the international expansion of a large number of Arab Gulf banks. An attempt is made to examine the role of oil revenues of the 1970s in the development and international expansion of Arab banks. The study also analyses the role played by the financial markets of the region (i.e. Kuwait and Bahrain) in encouraging the regional and international expansion of Arab banks. Because of the unique features of the Gulf region a historical approach has been adopted to support an understanding of the present bankign practices of the Arab banks. The study follows the development of Arab Gulf banks since their inception in the 1950s and 1960s, and includes a survey investigating the expansion of these banks into the major international financial centres of Western Europe, the United States and more recently Tokyo. A comparative analysis to the operational aspects of Arab and other international banks is also provided. The survey was carried out through personal interviews with the senior managements of several Arab banks in London, which allows a comparison to be made between the factors that led to the international expansion of Arab Gulf and western banks. The involvement of Arab banks in the syndicated lending and eurobond markets, is closely examined. The study demonstrates that Arab banks' success in the euromarkets was not necessarily based on oil revenues as often assumed, but rather the trade finance of these banks that fuelled their international expansion.
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Zanderholm, Malin. "Another Failed State in the Gulf of Aden : Applying scenario-planning methodology on piracy in the Gulf of Aden." Thesis, Försvarshögskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:fhs:diva-4769.
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The Gulf of Aden holds one of the strategic chokepoint along the important Eurasian maritime trade route. On both sides of the Gulf of Aden lie countries in need of political stability. In the south lies Somalia, one of the worlds longest failed states and hosts of pirates violently disrupting maritime trade in the region. On its northern shores lies Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the world and home to the terrorist movement Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. This thesis aims to look deeper into what effect on piracy another failed state in the region would have and to illustrate that the thesis describes a scenario where Yemen has followed Somalia’s footsteps and developed into a failed state. Applying Lindgren and Bandhold’s method of scenario planning and through a quantitative analysis, recent trends affecting piracy development were identified. Through a scenario cross four different scenarios were developed to illustrate the effects a failed state Yemen would have on piracy leading to which new challenges the EU might be faced with in the region. The overall conclusions are that a failed state Yemen would have a negative effect on the efforts in mitigating piracy and pirates, driven by opportunity and profit, would benefit from further instability in the region. The thesis supports previous research regarding the connection between maritime piracy in the Gulf of Aden and failed states and illustrate the multifaceted challenges the EU could face as a consequence of the new development of piracy.Erasmus
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Lai, Hsinyen. "Social drivers of international relations in the Gulf : Gramsci on the case of Bahrain and Gulf Alignment, 1971-1981." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/33223.
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This thesis revisits the relationship between ideology and foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly that between Arab nationalism and state regional policy in the Gulf. It seeks to answer the question: What explains a Gulf Arab state's policy toward regional alignment in the independence phase? In doing so, the thesis explores the specific case of Bahrain between 1971 and 1981, a period in which Bahrain attained its formal independence and then moved towards alignment in the form of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). To answer this question, the thesis advances existing explanations in the study of international relations in the Middle East (IRME), especially the constructivist approach to norms and identities in the relationship between Arab nationalism and foreign policy. Some constructivists claim that shifts in regional norms from 'Arabism' to sovereignty allow one to explain foreign policy in the Middle East after 1967. While such a claim is received uncritically by IRME, the regional policies of individual Gulf Arab states have mostly been examined in this vein and thereby assumed to share some commonalities driven by cultural, sectarian and institutional homogeneity among these states in the region. However, this thesis offers an alternative account of it. By integrating other histories of Arab nationalism with IRME and conceptualising nationalism as a modern ideology, this thesis argues that internal socio-political dynamics mediate the interplay of ideology and a state's regional policy. It further argues that the formation and evolution of Arab nationalism in international relations of the Gulf is best understood beyond norms and identities, and examined under a more historical and sociological scrutiny − taking both colonial history and the process of capitalist formation into consideration. This thesis draws on Antonio Gramsci's insights to build a theoretical framework for conducting a historical sociological investigation of the case of Bahrain. Through a reformulation of Gramsci in an alternative Gramscian approach to the Coxian one in the study of international relations (IR), this thesis reconstructs three interrelated concepts from Gramsci − development, ideology and struggle − to examine the social bases that conditioned the formation and evolution of Arab nationalism, and the political struggle that shaped a locus in which Arab nationalism influenced Bahrain's policy towards Gulf alignment in the 1970s. It argues that the political struggle included different, contradictory more often than not, social forces deriving from Bahraini late-coming capitalist formation under British colonialism. Then, the struggle continued to impact on the ideological development of Arab nationalism and its interplay with Bahrain's regional policy. The thesis further argues, in a Gramscian sense, that the struggle was a conflict between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic forces, which escalated along with the rise of the New Arab Left and the upheaval caused by Marxist-Leninist revolutions in Arabia from the late 1960s onwards. But, it was unresolved after an interrupted process of 'historical restoration' between 1971 and 1975. As a consequence, the Al Khalifa regime in Bahrain, as an incomplete hegemony, faced the dilemma of being open about its alignment with the US. Nonetheless, in the second half of the 1970s and the early 1980s, a series of extended regional issues arose, including the Arab cause, the Iranian revolution in 1979 and the Iran-Iraq war in 1980. The ways in which Al Khalifa responded to these issues reflected the dynamic ideological ties between Arab nationalism and Bahrain's regional policy and paved the road to Bahrain's participation in the GCC in 1981. Through an integration of the Bahraini case and the reformulated Gramscian framework proposed in this thesis, the thesis offers a more complex account than the existing literature of international relations in the Gulf and contributes to the historical sociology of IRME in general.
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Cesaro, Andrea Corrado <1989>. "TURKEY IN THE EYES OF THE ARABIAN GULF MONARCHIES: DISCUSSING THE IMAGE OF TURKEY THROUGH THREE GULF NEWS AGENCIES." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/5924.
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BRIEF INTRODUCTION ABOUT THE TOPIC
The year 1979 signed a breaking point in the balance between the Middle Eastern countries. Ending the so called “twin-pillar policies” implemented by the United States, the Islamic revolution in Iran divided the Muslim world along two paths: on one hand, the Sunni community governing around the Gulf area, above all Saudi Arabia; on the other hand, the rising Iranian Shia elite contrasted the previous Sunni hegemony.
Due to this break Iran and Saudi Arabia, which were previously main partners of the US and major regional powers of the Middle East, became rival on the base of this renewed scenario. While Iran has been targeted as “undesirable state” from the majority of the international community since the early 1980s (to confirm it, I mention the Iran-Iraq war where both US, USSR and other Arab nations supported Saddam Hussein during the eight-year conflict), Saudi Arabia, followed by the Arab Gulf monarchies, strength his role in the region remaining a solid stronghold for the US policies.
Meanwhile, Turkey was dealing with an unstable political framework, especially during the three decades post-WWII, characterized by several coup d’états (respectively in 1960 and 1980), a harmful relation between the army and the political class, preventing the consolidation of a proper democratic system, and between secularism and Islamic values. Nonetheless, throughout the 1980s under the Ozal government, Turkey went through a phase of structural reforms, which modernized the society and gave the ground for further economic changes in the upcoming decades.
Going back to the Turkish socio-political context, it has been characterized by a radical confrontation between a nationalist and secular view of the State proposed by the military and Kemalist establishment, that played a central role at least up to the 1990s, and the rising pressure coming from the Islamist section of the society, which attempted several times to express its values and stances inside the political arena. Among all, since the foundation of the Turkish republic in 1923 the Sunnis have been the main object of both secularists and Islamists: they were central in the construction of the Turkish national identity in the eyes of the Kemalist and as far as they are Muslim every Islamic party referred its political discourse to them.
As already mentioned, still in the 1980s, Turkey dealt with a phase of structural economic reforms which opened the way to the Turkish globalization. In accordance with Oktem (2011), the Ozal government implemented a series of free market policies revolutionizing not merely the production and consumption of all goods and services, but the popular culture, the lifestyle and the worldview as well. Despite the 1990s showed a new wave of instability and the third coup d’états in 1997, so called post-modern, the economic path started a decade earlier did not change, offering a fertile background to the upcoming reforms of the 2000s. Indeed, since the affirmation of the Justice and Development Party, AKP, in the political election happened on November 3rd, 2002, this new major Turkish party developed a mixed policy composed by neo-liberal aims and followed by a strong Islamic rhetoric, namely focused on the Sunni community.
Economically, the Arab Gulf monarchies carried out similar structural reforms. Supported by huge amount of revenues coming from the oil trades, they developed profitable financial, banking and infrastructure sectors, bringing as a consequence the will to spread their economic system around the Middle East throughout the so called Dubai consensus. Due to the similarities between these Middle Eastern actors, it might guessed and investigated if and to what extent the US partnership with both Arab monarchies and Turkey is one of the key reason of the implementation of such a political economy.
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Picard, Michelle Yvette. "Academic literacy right from the start?: a critical realist study of the way university literacy is constructed at a Gulf university." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004121.
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The aim of this research was to examine how university literacy is constructed at a university in the Arabian Gulf and to evaluate the appropriateness of this construction where students of a low level of English are exposed to academic English (Right from the Start). Unpacking this construction is a complex task and to gain even a limited insight into the numerous Discourses, epistemologies and pedagogies constituting the construction of university literacy at Gulf universities, a stratified approach that probes the layers of ‘reality’ is necessary. Therefore, a critical realist approach is engaged, along with a variety of methods to probe the layers of the phenomenon. In terms of thesis organization, the traditional empirical structure common to the Social Sciences and the argumentative structure common to the Humanities are integrated. While the information obtained by a variety of methods is analysed and conclusions are reached, this material is also used along with additional literature to support the central contention that university literacy and academic English are possible ‘right from the start’, if the students’ literacy is examined from a certain perspective and if there is an appropriate pedagogy which promotes the desired literacies. This combination of thesis structures would be deemed appropriate in the critical realist ontological framework since the rigour of the thesis lies both in its “reliability” resulting from the empirical data and its focus on the ‘real’; and its “reflexivity” and “persuasivness” arising from the transparently ‘critical’ argument of the thesis (Cadman 2002). In order to conduct the empirical research, the lenses suggested by each of the major views of literacy as outlined by Lea and Street (1998) - namely the “study skills” view, the narrow “academic socialization view” and the “academic literacies view” are utilized in succession. However, the central argument is revealed as the manifestations of each ‘view’ of literacy in the specific context are examined, the research outcomes obtained by utilizing each view in succession are outlined and both are critiqued from the perspective of the “academic literacies” view. Corpus research is undertaken from a “study skills” perspective and the effect of the vocabulary taught to the students on their use of vocabulary in their writing is examined. Also, using the “study skills” lens, the students’ “global language development” in terms of changes or fluctuations in “fluency, accuracy and complexity” (Wolfe-Quintero, Inagaki et al. 1998) over a period of at least three semesters is examined. Utilizing a narrow “academic socialization lens”, studies conducted at the University on learning strategies and motivation and the comments made by respondents in interviews and on an electronic discussion board are compared to comments made by teachers and lecturers. Major flaws in these views of academic literacy are acknowledged and the way each view manifests itself in the Discourse(s) prevalent at this particular university is demonstrated. Finally, Discourses evidenced in the student interviews in particular, are unpacked and then compared and contrasted with those in the lecturer interviews as well as the curriculum and other university documents. The limitations of the study are examined and suggestions for further research and ways to address ‘problems’ associated with university literacy are given.
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Gribbell, Mark. "The battles of Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf." Connect to resource, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/409.
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Thesis (Honors)--Ohio State University, 2005.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formattted into pages: contains 154 p.; also includes graphics. Includes bibliographical references (p. 62-64). Available online via Ohio State University's Knowledge Bank.
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Patania, Annalisa. "Megistobenthic faunal diversity of the Antalya Gulf: Crustacea." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/9403/.
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The spatio-temporal distribution of megistobenthic crustacean assemblages from the Antalya Gulf, located in the Levantine Sea is described. In order to provide a comprehensive overview of the spatio-temporal patterns of the crustacean community, 3 transect including depth of 10, 25, 75, 125 and 200 m, were studied between 2014 and 2015 to investigate their association with a set of environmental parameters in representative months of each season (spring, summer, autumn and winter). For its economic importance in Levantine waters, a focus analysis of deep-water rose shrimp Parapenaeus longirostris (Lucas, 1846) was done, to investigate the length frequency composition of the population of the Antalya Gulf. A total of 58 crustacean species were encountered in the study area, of these species identified, 18 species were recognized as alien species in the Mediterranean Sea. Throughout the year the most frequent species of the study were the hermit crab Pagurus prideaux (Leach, 1815) and Parapenaeus longirostris (Lucas, 1846) followed by the Indo-Pacific swimming crab Charybdis longicollis (Leene, 1938) and by the invasive shrimp Marsupenaeus japonicus (Spence Bate, 1888). Few species contributing to a high amount to the total biomass were found throughout the year. These species were Charybdis longicollis and Parapenaeus longirostris. Stations of the study area showed similar values of diversity indices of benthic crustacean community among the three transect. The highest values of faunistic indices were detected in autumn and winter (October and February), and also varied along the depth gradient, with the highest values found between 25 and 75 meters. The multivariate analyses conducted on the abundance data point out major differences between depths and between seasons. Therefore, according to cluster analysis and ordination over abundance and biomass, three main crustacean assemblages were detected: the first corresponding to shallow bottoms (10, 25 meters), the second corresponding to intermediate waters (75 meters) and the last to deeper waters (125, 200 meters). Depth was the main factor governing the distribution of megistobenthic crustacean in the area. Besides the depth, the structure of the sediment is the most important factor in determining the crustacean assemblage. Therefore, all factors governing the crustacean distribution were found to be related to the bottom depth. The population of Parapenaeus longirostris in the Antalya Gulf showed significant differences in depth. It was found that females dominated the population of the study area (65.11%), and were significantly larger than males for each cohort identified. The size-weight relationships revealed a slight negative allometry in growth, a bit more pronounced in females than in males.
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Sutherland, Fiona Helen. "Continental rifting across the Southern Gulf of California." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3220419.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 7, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-173).
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Al-Rodhan, Khalid. "China's strategic posture in the Gulf, 1980-2010." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/252264.
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Curtis, Shaun Richard Stuart. "Globalisation, countertrade and privatisation in the Arabian Gulf." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ58637.pdf.
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Ningelgen, Oliver Peter. "GoC : Gulf of Carpentaria electrical conductivity anomaly experiment /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbn7149g.pdf.
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Alkhunaizi, Kusay Abdulmohsin A. "International portfolio diversification in the gulf cooperation countries." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.487701.
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While the debate on gains from International Portfolio Diversification (IPD) points to the attractiveness of emerging intemational financial markets to industrial markets investors primarily due to low correlations, no evidence exists on gains from IPD in the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) financial markets. This PhD dissertation aims at understandmg the behaviour, dynamics, and the potential for gains from IPD in the GCC financial markets from a USA investor's perspective over low and high oil prices periods.
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Soares, de Oliveira Ricardo Miguel Santos. "Petroleum and politics in the Gulf of Guinea." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613687.
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Al-Ajmi, Hamza Jassim Hamza. "The international history of the Gulf, 1958-1979." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1988. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5066/.
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This dissertation examines the international history of the Gulf region during the period from 1958 to 1979. It begins with the fall of the Iraqi monarchy and ends with the fall of the Shah of Iran. Particular attention is paid throughout to the establishment of the new Gulf states and their emergence into `modernity'. In Chapter I we deal with the historical background of the Gulf states, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Besides the historical background we also deal with recent social, economic and political developments within all of these states. Special attention has been paid to the culture, religion and society of our subjects since these factors play a major role in the domestic and external decision-making. Faysal of Saudi Arabia, for example, formed his policies according to his strong Islamic beliefs. In Chapter II we deal with the conflicts and disputes among our subjects. Disputes over whole territory, as in the case of the Iraqi claim over Kuwait and the Iranian claim over Bahrain or disputes over islands which one state believes to be part of its national territory but which claim is disputed - the Iranian claim to the two Tunbs and Abu Musa or the Bahraini claim to Zubara, for example, or disputed claims by several parties - in the case of the Buraimi Oasis between Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi and Oman. These claims became important as a result of the oil discoveries in our region and the establishment of new states deepened some of these conflicts. There have also been important strategic considerations at stake - for example, with regard to the Iraqi claims to the two Kuwaiti islands of Warba and Bubiyan. In Chapter III we look at the involvement of the superpowers in the region. Particular attention is given to the relationships between the United States and Iran and between the United States and Saudi Arabia on the one hand and that between the Soviet Union and Iraq on the other. Attention has inevitably focussed upon military rivalry and the development of armed forces. In the subsequent chapters the emphasis changes. We deal with the region as a whole and look at events as they involve all the countries concerned. These chapters cover the entire period from 1958 to 1979 on a daily basis by watching its politically dynamic developments, starting with the fall of the Iraqi monarchy and the emergence of the revolutionary regime in its place and ending with the downfall of the Shah of Iran in 1979. That has entailed consideration of the fate of the Iraqi revolution and the emergence and fragile independence of Kuwait. Another significant landmark is the British announcement in 1968 of their determination to bring their long-established role in the region to an end three years later. That in turn leads to a consideration of the politics of the establishment of the United Arab Emirates and also of the international aspects of the Omani question. The final chapters consider the `Algiers Accord' between Iran and Iraq and the dispute over the Shatt al-Arab waterway. Considerable note is taken of the Kurdish revolt in its various phases. The thesis comes to an end by describing the downfall of the Shah and the international evaluation of its significance.
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Spitz, Greta J. "Mission resource allocation in the Gulf of Guinea." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/3659.
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Approved for public release; distribution is unlimitedNaval Forces Europe-Sixth Fleet (CNE-C6F) is responsible for the Gulf of Guinea (GOG) in Central-West Africa. CNE-C6Fâ s goal is to provide persistent presence, pursuant the Global Fleet Station (GFS) concept, supporting U.S. Navy strategic priorities of Maritime Security and Theater Security Cooperation (TSC). Increased presence and developmental activities will assist host nations in developing their own maritime security. Limitations on USN capacity and logistics support present a challenge to scheduling, sustaining, and allocating mission resources in the GOG. This work presents an optimization model to aid in the mission planning and scheduling process. Specifically, we use notional data from the GFS prototype developed by CNE-C6F GOG Regional Planning Team which uses an LSD as the platform to accomplish almost 100 missions over six months. The problem is constrained by a budget, re-supply needs, and transit times between countries, among other logistical requirements. Our results show substantial improvements over current manual planning methods. For example, we demonstrate that 85% of the missions scheduled to be accomplished over the course of six months can be accomplished in three. Significant savings are realized by using a High Speed Vessel or by relaxing the request to achieve the maximum TSC value by 10%
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Al, Makhawi Rashid A. "The Gulf Cooperation Council : a study in integration." Thesis, University of Salford, 1990. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/14699/.
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The Gulf Cooperation Council was established in May 1981 by the heads of state of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. At the time, Western observers declared security to be the prime consideration of its founders, yet security is not mentioned in the Council's foundation charter. This emphasizes the intention to promote "close coordination in all spheres, especially the economic and social" between the member states; throughout the charter the terms "coordination", "integration", " cooperation", "closer relations" and "ties" repeatedly recur. In consequence, as the Council began to make its existence felt in the international community, its activity raised the question as to whether this demonstrated the development of integration as understood in the West notwithstanding references in the preamble to the charter to concepts of Islamic and Arab unity which predate Western theories of integration. Accordingly, this study looks at the Gulf Cooperation Council in the light of theories of integration initially elaborated in the light of Western experience in order to establish whether the Council in fact constitutes a fresh attempt to promote Arab unity. It concludes that analysis of its achievements establishes the Council as a cautious and pragmatic instrument to the achievement of Arab unity while at the same time reflecting favourably on Western theories of integration based on the concept of the security community.