This thesis is a discussion of problems arising from the "Histories" and the "Life of Augustus Caesar" by Nicolaus. A discussion of the date and structure of the "Histories" is followed by an examination of the sources Nicolaus used and the way he used them. Analysis of the Ctes…
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The 25th of May 1963 marked the establishment of the Organisation of African Unity. This dissertation is an assessment of the conflict management role of the O.A.U. Chapter One proves the background to this study. It traces the history of Pan-Africanism between 1958-1963 and set…
Oil-rich developing economies have in their oil a valuable asset which could enable them to achieve a transformation to economic maturity largely unhindered by the constraints of foreign exchange and/or domestic savings. Yet the existence of such an asset creates tendencies that…
The phrase "the understanding of the Old Testament in Hebrews" may be construed in two ways, depending on whether attention is focussed on understanding by the author of Heb. or by ourselves. Both these aspects of the question are the concern of the present study. The exegesis o…
The modes of behaviour of a representative two-bar assembly with unequal areas and lengths under the simultaneous action of sustained mechani- al load and cyclic thermal gradient are investigated analytically. Three types of material behaviour are used: perfect plasticity, linea…
This thesis basically proffers a critical reexamination of the debate on the New International Information Order. It mainly accosts two problematic issues viz; the faulty conceptual framework adopted by a majority of the Third World member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement U…
The starting point of this study is the assumption that the development priority of an oil-endowed developing economy is the transformation of its mineral wealth, in the resource- era, into a solid foundation for self-perpetuating economic development in the post-resource era. T…
It is known from the geology that the pillow lava sequence overlying the Troodos igneous complex of Cyprus ought to contain many concealed sulphide orebodies. It has been shown in the past that the only geophysical technique capable of locating such deposits is the induced polar…
This is an investigation to explore an area which has not received much attention in The Sudan. The main investigation was concerned with group differences in Three personality variables; self-esteem, neuroticism and extraversion. The aim was to test the applicability of Reckles…
The main objective of this thesis is to estimate and evaluate the impact of the Egyptian petroleum sector on the Egyptian economy during the period 1962-1982 within both micro and macro-economic approaches. On the basis of the empirical findings of the study, the oil sector come…
The purpose of the present study is to assess the study of the synoptic problem in this century. The questions raised are: does the two-document hypothesis, more correctly, each of the theses of Markan priority and Q, merely stand on the sands, as its opponents claim; and does a…
The Karakoram mountains are situated at the western end of the trans- Himalayan Mountain belt. They are one of the most dynamically-active tectonic and geomorphic areas in the world. The valleys are among the deepest and hold some of the greatest thicknesses of Quaternary and re…
This thesis is concerned with the waging of revolution through people's war. In the first chapter the concept of revolution, in both contemporary and historical usage, is considered, as are the major social science theories of revolution.' It was found that the social science th…
This thesis examines the British daily and Sunday press construction of news about Iran and Islam in the first decade of the revolution. More interestingly, it attempts an analysis of the press coverage of Iran using a framework of combined approaches for the study of foreign ne…
This thesis is concerned with the characteristics and development of scree slopes; theoretically from a range of climatic environments, and practically from the Western Desert in Egypt. The account is in two parts, each comprising three Chapters. The first part is an integrated …
This thesis has two major objectives. First, some of the key environmental problems, such as waste disposal, pollution and sand encroachment in Kuwait are analysed in the context of the decision making process of the country. On the end once presented it is suggested that decisi…