The role of online and social media in combating sexual harassment in Egypt by Saleh, Mariam

“…Findings of the study show that online and social media could be used through functional participatory communication campaigns, following a social change and social mobilization approach to: (1) encourage sexual harassment survivors to respond to harassment through changing beliefs, increasing self-efficacy, and changing behavior through social prompting; (2) encourage bystander intervention through changing beliefs, increasing bystander-efficacy, and changing behavior through social prompting; (3) change the society's attitudes and beliefs as related to assignment of responsibility and attribution of sexual harassment and increase the society's collective-efficacy to fight acceptability of harassment; (4) advocate for organizational change to have sexual harassment-free workplaces/educational institutions through targeting the organization and its surrounding environment; and (5) advocate for more stringent sexual harassment law/law enforcement.…”
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Trading the Days vs. Days of Trading: An Empirical Literature Survey on Calendar Anomalies Across Markets by Kiryakos, Mariam Ashraf

“…This thesis provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical review of over five decades of research on two of the most examined calendar anomalies: the day-of-the-week and weekend effect. …”
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Knowing the ropes: autonomy in the everyday life of Egyptian married women by Bashier, Neveen

“…Having been founded on the premise that women's situation in Egypt is greatly influenced by how they conceptualize their autonomy and their role in the family, this thesis deconstructs the notion of married women's autonomy to reconstruct it into five frames that illustrate women's different behaviors in the family. …”
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Development and validation of an implicit test of the HEXACO honesty-humility scale by Van Rensburg, Yolandi-Eloise Jansen

“…Honesty-humility, a personality trait in the self-report HEXACO personality inventory outperforms all the traits (also those in the traditional five-factor model) in predicting integrity-related behavior. …”
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The re-introduction of captive bred cheetah into a wild environment, Makulu Makete Wildlife Reserve, Limpopo province, South Africa

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Opportunities for short-sea shipping in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region: evidence based on discrete choice modelling by Konstantinus, Abisai

“…These results were subsequently employed to inform the shipper and carrier behavior studies. The third step entails the assessment of shipper behavior, where trip specific mode choice decisions are studied along five intra-urban origin-destination (O-D) paired routes (which would form the study corridors). …”
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Unveiling the Public Sector Hold: Egyptian Women and Work-Life Balance by Gadelhak, Safa

“…To better understand this behavior, twenty semi-structured interviews and two focus group discussions were conducted with a total of thirty women from both public and private sectors. …”
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Consuming, producing, defining halal : halal authorities and Muslim consumers in South Africa by Tayob, Shaheed

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Searching for patterns in Conway's Game of Life by Bontes, Johan

“…Conway’s Game of Life (Life) is a simple cellular automaton, discovered by John Conway in 1970, that exhibits complex emergent behavior. Life-enthusiasts have been looking for building blocks with specific properties (patterns) to answer unsolved problems in Life for the past five decades. …”
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Education and activity-based intervention in Grade 4 learners at primary schools in the Western Cape Province, South Africa by Jacobs, Kenneth L.

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Group treatment for the parents of children with learning-disabilities : as a means of changing the attitudes of parents towards such children, and the effect of such a change on t... by Vosters, Carly J A

“…Each subscale contains five items each of which is rated on a five point scale of frequency of occurrence. …”
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Cosmic acceleration and the coincidence problem by Kubwimana, Jean Claude

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Design of Novel Formwork System and Development of Numerical Model for Comparison between Formwork Systems by El Sayed, Ahmed Yehia Abdel Aziz

“…Further, a numerical model was developed to allow for designing and carrying out quantity take off to calculate cost and weight of five types of formwork systems: traditional system, MULTIFLEX, frames, FAST and EAST systems. …”
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Influencer Wisdom As A Conceptual Model To Understand Influencer Strategies, Tactics, And Success by Asaad, Mariam Ashraf

“…Drawing from wisdom theory, consumer behavior research, and social cognitive theory, this research extends the concept of wisdom to digital influence contexts through qualitative investigation of successful influencer practices. …”
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Pro-social content in popular animated cartoons viewed by Egyptian children by Nada, Lina

“…The findings showed that children are exposed to around 10 acts of prosocial behavior every hour they watch television. More than half of the prosocial behavior was classified as physical behaviors. …”
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