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Title :
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Much More than a Building
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Author:
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Ismail Serageldin |
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Date:
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07-07-2008 |
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Description:
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The book reviews the BA's past accomplishments and assesses the path we have hewn to.
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Title :
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Hassan Fathy
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Author:
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Ismail Serageldin |
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Date:
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07-07-2008 |
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The book tackles Hassan Fathy the man, his legacy, and works.
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Title :
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Annual Report 2006-2007
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Author:
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Bibliotheca Alexandrina |
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Date:
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05-11-2007 |
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Description:
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The annual report covers all the events, activities, financial statements, and organizational structure of the BA during the reported period.
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Title :
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التقرير السنوي (2006-2007)
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Author:
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مكتبة الإسكندرية |
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Date:
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05-11-2007 |
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Description:
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يغطي التقرير السنوي كافة أنشطة المكتبة وفعالياتها وتقاريرها المالية وهيكلها التنظيمي خلال الفترة المذكورة.
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Title :
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BioVisionAlexandria2006: Conference booklet
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Author:
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Introduced by:Ismail Serageldin |
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Date:
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01-01-2007 |
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Description:
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The contents of this publication comprise all information related to the BioVisionAlexandria2006 conference starting with the conference’s program and ending with the list of partners, sponsors, supporters and exhibitors. In addition, the booklet includes profiles and short biographies of all attending speakers with a brief description of their presented abstracts.
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Title :
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Colors of BioVisionAlexandria 2006
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Author:
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CSSP |
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Date:
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01-01-2007 |
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Description:
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This publication aims to present an overview of the BioVisionAlexandria 2006 conference and gives a brief portrayal of the next BioVisionAlexandria 2008 conference.
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Title :
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Changing Lives
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Author:
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CSSP |
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Date:
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01-01-2007 |
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One of the aims of BioVisionAlexandria 2006 was to highlight both the challenges and the successes in delivering better healthcare and nutrition to those most in need – aiming at changing lives. This publication reveals the efforts applied in the four day conference and shows – in a way – what a better world can look like.
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Title :
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SCIENCE: The Culture of Living Change
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Author:
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Ismail Serageldin |
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Date:
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01-01-2007 |
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Description:
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The age of science. There are more scientists alive and practicing today than in all the previous periods of history combined. Science permeates the cultural outlook of our societies and the worldview of more people than ever before. Science has contributed to enormous achievements in human welfare. Thanks to numerous scientific advances, we are now moving to the third global revolution, a new world that has never been more promising, or more perilous.
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Title :
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Freedom of Expression
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Author:
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Ismail Serageldin |
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Date:
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01-01-2007 |
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Description:
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The domain of free speech had to be extended. Today, after the turbulent twentieth century, with its genocides and its wars, with its hatreds and its violence, we pause at some points. Does it make sense to protect those who use the banner of free speech to encourage hatred and incite violence against minorities? Does a Hutu radio station broadcasting the locations of Tutsis to be killed in Rwanda deserve to be protected as free speech? What about those who would use taxpayer money to subsidize works of art that are fundamentally offensive to the majority of the taxpayers concerned? The complexity of modern life within the inter-connected world in which we live has raised many complicated issues, and developed lights and shadows on almost any issue.
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Title :
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Inventing our Future Essays on Freedom, Democracy and Reform in the Arab World
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Author:
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Ismail Serageldin |
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Date:
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01-01-2007 |
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Description:
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The idea of publishing this series started a few years ago. It was in response to the pressing demands of many to have written copies of speeches that I have had the honor to\r\ndeliver on various occasions, or to seek reprints of chapters that I had devoted to particular topics in publications that may not be available to that particular audience.\r\nThe speeches covered many topics, and therefore I felt it appropriate to group them by topic. Each of these booklets deserved its own introduction, explaining the circumstances\r\nof the speeches and articles provided there and why they were grouped in this particular fashion, to bring a semblance of coherence to words, which at their inception, were not\r\nintended to be read as a single continuous text. I believe that they are readable both individually and as a collection with little difficulty. However, as we progressed in the publication of these booklets, another issue came to the fore. Some of the essays or speeches fit naturally i
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Title :
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BORN DIGITAL THE NEW BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA
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Author:
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Ismail Serageldin |
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Date:
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01-10-2006 |
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Description:
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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina intends to become an active member among the leading digital institutions in the world. Towards that goal, the BA has embarked on a whole array of ambitious projects, in partnership with world class institutions. These range from hosting a mirror site for a significant part of the Internet Archive, participating in the Million Book Project, organizing the digital archive of the Gamal Abdel Nasser collection, presenting the first ever complete digital version of the Description de l’Egypte, to participating in advanced research such as the Arabic component of the UN-sponsored Universal Digital Language computerized multi-language translation program and offering the most advanced 3D virtual imaging techniques in an virtual immersive environment for Science and Technology (S&T) applications. Thus, despite being barely four years in existence, the BA has already a substantial record of achievements.
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Title :
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WOMEN IN SCIENCE TIME TO RECOGNIZE THE OBVIOUS
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Author:
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Ismail Serageldin |
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Date:
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01-10-2006 |
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Description:
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It is important that scientists everywhere address the issues confronted by women in the practice of science.\r\nMy remarks are structured around three main themes:\r\n• First, why we should be concerned about the status of women in the sciences\r\n• Second, what can we learn from the history of struggle of women in the sciences\r\n• Third, what we should be doing today to remedy the situation
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Title :
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OUR COMMON CHRISTIAN-ISLAMIC HERITAGE
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Author:
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Leila Ibrahim Takla |
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Date:
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01-10-2006 |
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Description:
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Dear Reader,
The purpose of this booklet is to launch the concept of “The Christian–Islamic Heritage” which I believe in, advocate and promote.
It was presented for the first time at the meeting organized by Harvard University and the Suzanne Mubarak Women’s Peace Movement, on Peace and Human Rights. The enthusiasm and interest with which it was received, did not escape the keen mind and observing eyes of Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the new Library of Alexandria. Hence, he suggested its publication.
The paper highlights the fact that respecting the right of freedom to religious belief and respect of all religions, enhances peace and refutes the prevailing misconception that religion is a reason for a clash, especially between Christianity and Islam. It is an invitation to discover the forgotten or ignored Christian–Islamic Heritage.
I hope it can contribute, even a little, to easing tension and confrontation.
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Title :
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From Matter to Life: Chemistry?!
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Author:
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Jean–Marie Lehn |
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Date:
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01-01-2006 |
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Description:
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Chemistry is the science of matter and of its transformations, and life is its highest expression. It provides structures endowed with properties and develops processes for the synthesis of structures. It plays a primordial role in our understanding of material phenomena, in our capability to act upon them, to modify them, to control them and to invent new expressions of them. A lecture about chemistry.
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Title :
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Vegetal and mineral memory the future of books
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Author:
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Umberto Eco |
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Date:
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01-01-2006 |
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Description:
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WE HAVE THREE TYPES OF MEMORY.
The first one is organic, which is the memory made of flesh and blood and the one administrated by our brain. The second is mineral, and in this sense, mankind has known two kinds of mineral memory: millennia ago, this was the memory represented by clay tablets and obelisks, pretty well-known in this country, on which people carved their texts.
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Title :
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مرصد الإصلاح العربي: الإشكاليات والمؤشرات: دراسة استطلاعية
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Author:
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إعداد وتحرير السيد يسين و محسن يوسف |
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Date:
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01-01-2006 |
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Description:
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تطرح هذه الدراسة التي أعدها فريق بحث مرصد الإصلاح العربي بعنوان "مرصد الإصلاح العربي: الإشكاليات والمؤشرات: دراسة استطلاعية" سؤالاً نظريًّا وهو: هل يمكن صياغة مؤشرات عربية عامة سياسية واقتصادية واجتماعية وثقافية بالرغم من وجود خصوصيات عربية واضحة؟ وكيف يمكن الجمع بين صيغة المؤشرات العربية العامة وهي ضرورية لأغراض المقارنة والمؤشرات العربية الخاصة بكل قطر والتي تقيس التقدم النسبي مع الوضع في الاعتبار تفاوت درجات النضج السياسي والاجتماعي بين مجتمع عربي وآخر؟ تناقش الدراسة هذه التساؤلات من خلال ستة فصول تتناول وظائف المرصد ومؤشرات الإصلاح السياسي والاقتصادي والاجتماعي والثقافي، ومؤشرات تقدم المجتمع المدني في الوطن العربي وكذا نظرة عامة على تجربة المراصد المتنوعة في العالم.
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Title :
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Reflections on our digital future
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Author:
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Ismail Serageldin |
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Date:
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01-01-2006 |
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Description:
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The book contains 6 chapters; The Digital Libraries of Tomorrow, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) to peer-reviewed journals. The second chapter is devoted to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA Entitled Born Digital: The Rebirth of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, it was the maiden speech delivered at the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Meeting of October 2005 in Washington, DC. by Ismail Serageldin (Director of the BA). The third chapter is an address entitled From Barrier to Bridge: The Promise of Machine-Based Translation. The fourth chapter is more recent. It is based on the discussions on ICT within the Kyoto Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum Conference in September 2005. The fifth chapter entitled Prometheus and the Internet: A Science Supercourse for the 21st Century, is co-authored with Professor Ron Laporte of Pittsburgh University, The sixth and final chapter, entitled from Knowledge to Wisdom.
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Title :
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Inventing our Future: Essays on Freedom, Governance and Reform in the Arab World
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Author:
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Ismail Serageldin |
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Date:
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01-01-2005 |
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Description:
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The writer has chosen to include the following four documents: \r\nThe Tides of Change: Reflections on reform in the Arab and Muslim Worlds (March 2005). The First Freedom: (September2004) Governance, Competitiveness and the Arab Future (January 2005). The Alexandria Declaration (March2004). Each of these is a very different type of document, and was written for a very different audience. Each is a stand-alone document that can be read on its own.
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Title :
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Science, The Culture of Living Change
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Author:
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Ismail Serageldin |
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Date:
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01-01-2005 |
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Description:
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The material in this book is part of the writers ongoing quest for the improvement of science and education in the Muslim and Arab worlds generally and in Egypt particularly. In the face of mounting currents of obscurantism, fanaticism and irrationality, it is essential that rationality, skepticism and the joy of learning are promoted. Advancing the values of science is critical if science itself is to flourish.
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Title :
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Colors of BioVision 2004
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Author:
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Mohamed El-Faham |
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Date:
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01-01-2005 |
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Description:
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This publication aims to provide the reader with an overview of the first BioVisionAlexandria that took place in 2004. It also contains a short description of the forthcoming BioVisionAlexandria2006 conference’s main topics.
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Title :
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Discovery to Delivery
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Author:
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Ismail Serageldin / Gabrielle J. Persley |
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Date:
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01-01-2005 |
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The overall theme of this publication is similar to its name: “Discovery to Delivery.” It reflects the exciting new discoveries in genomics and other aspects of gene technology that are finding applications in human health care, food and agriculture, and conserving biodiversity and the environment.
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إصلاح التعليم في مصر
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Author:
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إعداد وتحرير حامد عمار و محسن يوسف |
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30-08-2004 |
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Description:
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ينقسم هذا الكتاب إلى عدة فصول تناقش إصلاح التعليم على حسب النمط الزمني لمنظومة التعليم، حيث يتناول مرحلة التعليم ما قبل المدرسي ثم التعليم قبل الجامعي، ثم التعليم الجامعي، وقضايا البحث العلمي التي تعكس المراحل الزمنية المختلفة لمراحل التعليم، ومن خلال ذلك برز الواقع الموجود في نظام التعليم المصري الذي لا يمكن التعرض لإصلاح التعليم دون تحليله وتشخيصه واقتراح الحلول له. ويتعرض هذا الواقع لبرامج التدريب والتأهيل المهني والتعليم المستمر وتعليم الكبار ومحو الأمية، وأخيراً هوية التعليم في مصر ومدى استجابته لمقومات الشخصية المصرية.
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Title :
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The World’s Libraries at Our Fingertips Through the Net
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Author:
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Vinton G. Cerf |
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Date:
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30-05-2004 |
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In the last decade, the internet has profoundly transformed the world. At times humorous, at times visionary, but always profound, Vinton Cerf in this lecture imagines the ways our lives may continue to be affected by the Internet, and hints at the role the Bibliotheca Alexandrina might play in this ongoing adventure.
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