Degemination in Emirati Pidgin Arabic: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
Published in: Languages
Jan 05, 2022
This study examines the production of geminates in Emirati Pidgin Arabic (EPA) spoken by blue-collar workers in the United Arab Emirates. A simple naming test was designed to test the production of geminates to determine whether the EPA speakers would produce a geminated or degeminated phoneme. Following that, a semi-structured interview was conducted with a subset of the study cohort to obtain the participants’ own explanation of where they degeminated the consonants. Our findings suggest that...
Do Different Types of Intelligence and Its Implicit Theories Vary Based on Gender and Grade Level?
Published in: Frontiers in Psychology
Jan 01, 2022
The current study investigated correlations among gifted students’ academic performance; emotional, social, analytical, creative, and practical intelligence; and their implicit theories of intelligence. Furthermore, it studied the effect of gender and grade on these variables. The participants included 174 gifted fifth (41.4%) and sixth (58.6%) grade students, comprising 53.4% male and 46.6% female. The following analytical, creative, and practical intelligence tests were administered: Aurora B...
AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF THE CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR FOUNDERS OF JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES
Dec 29, 2021
Due to the importance of commercial enterprises to economic development, the UAE legislature has sought to carefully regulate them, including providing guarantees to prevent manipulation by founders during the incorporation period. This article focuses on the criminal liability of founders of joint-stock companies in Emirati law and clarifies the actions that result in criminal liability for founders of joint-stock companies. The article approaches the topic by first defining a founder and the ...
Arabic Text Classification: A Review Study on Feature Selection Methods
Published in: 22nd International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT)
Dec 21, 2021
Musab Hijazi
Akarm Zeki
Amelia Ismail
Pareidolia in Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder
Published in: Frontiers in Psychiatry
Dec 10, 2021
While there are many studies on pareidolia in healthy individuals and patients with schizophrenia, to our knowledge, there are no prior studies on pareidolia in patients with bipolar disorder. Accordingly, in this study, we, for the first time, measured pareidolia in patients with bipolar disorder (N = 50), and compared that to patients with schizophrenia (N = 50) and healthy controls (N = 50). We have used (a) the scene test, which consists of 10 blurred images of natural scenes that was previ...