Thesis (Th. D.)--Concordia Seminary, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 216-230).

Diss.--Philosophische Fakultät--Halle-Wittenberg--Martin-Luther-Universität, 1991.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--George Washington University, 1992. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Inaug.-Diss.--Leipzig. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 2001. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 404-428).

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This thesis examines the political career of Abdallah bin al-Husayn from 1908 until the creation of the Emirate of Transjordan in 1921. The central aim here is to explain how Abdallah was transformed from a Hijazi notable to a major force in the post-war politics of the Fertile Crescent and the founder of the Emirate of Transjordan. Abdallah's political career until 1921 is studied in the context of his family's evolving political ambitions and Anglo-Hashimite and Hashimite-Arab nationalist relations. Abdallah's early political career illuminates the changing character of Arab political leadership in the Arab East between 1914 and 1921. This thesis examines the shaping of Abdallah's political ambitions, the strategies Abdallah, his family and partisans adopted to realize those ambitions and the obstacles Abdallah faced in trying to establish his authority and the legitimacy of his rule, first, in Iraq and, later, in Transjordan. Examining these issues in the context of Anglo-Hashimite and Hashimite-Arab nationalist relations makes it possible to assess Abdallah's contribution to the emergence of new forms of Arab political leadership in the post-war Fertile Crescent, particularly in Transjordan and Iraq, and to the development of Arab nationalism. Chapters one to four analyze the shaping of Abdallah's political ambitions in the wider context of evolving Hashimite ambitions during World Var I. Chapters five to eight treat two closely related subjects: Abdallah's failure to realize his ambition to rule post-war Iraq and his role in the creation of the Emirate of Transjordan.

Managing the symptoms of cancer effectively is one of the most important challenges facing health care providers. Many symptoms are reported by cancer patients, including, pain, depression, distress and change in life style. Pain continues to be the most frequently reported symptom, however, cancer pain is treated inadequately and cancer patients continue to suffer pain. The use of pain assessment tools is essential to effectively manage cancer pain. Despite that, research findings indicate that pain assessment tools are routinely not used in practice. In addition, there is a paucity of data about cancer pain management in Jordan, and no published information is available about adult cancer pain assessment and barriers to optimal pain management in the country. A single-site case study with mixed methods was used to implement and evaluate a pain monitoring programme (PMP). The PMP was comprised of a pain assessment tool and included pain education of 6 hours for nurses, the goal of which was to improve cancer pain management. This case study was conducted in a referral hospital in the northern part of Jordan. Overall, 130 patients and their medical records, 6 physicians, 12 nurses, 50 family caregivers, two nurse administrators, and two Islamic scholars participated in this study. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected, using observation, semi-structured interviews, medical chart audit and questionnaires that included a demographic data sheet (DDS), brief pain inventory (BPI), and barriers questionnaire (BQ). The study utilized the Promoting Action on Research Implementation in Health Services (PARIHS) and aspects of change theory model as a framework to guide the study. Quantitative data were analysed using both inferential and descriptive statistics using SPSS release 17. Qualitative data were translated from Arabic to English and thematically analysed. It was found that pain was prevalent among Jordanian cancer patients who were frequently under-medicated. Barriers to cancer pain management were identified and they were related to patients, healthcare providers and the setting (such as lack of knowledge, and belief in God's Will). Moreover, introducing the PMP into practice might improve the adequacy of cancer pain treatment. The results of this case study showed that the implementation process is multi-layered and complex. Using the Champions, nursing administration support, and recognition of the need for change, and education were seen as determinants of successful implementation process within the Arab-Islamic culture. The PARIHS model was found to be helpful in guiding the process of knowledge translation and was suitable to the Arab culture. The study results highlight that each implementation process should be designed based upon the needs, culture, and norms of its context. In addition, it confirmed the need for assessing pain in order to have better pain management. Overall, it is suggested that having PMP in force in each healthcare setting may serve the ultimate goal of optimal cancer pain management.

Les grilles de calcul et les grille de PC sur Internet offrent des alternatives intéressantes pour le calcul scientifique à grande échelle, qui demande des ressources de calcul importantes. Toutefois, l’adaptation des applications pour ces systèmes est difficile à cause des facteurs nombreux tels que l'interface complexe de programmation. L'objectif de cette thèse est de trouver une solution pour faciliter le calcul scientifique à grande échelle. Pour ce faire, j’ai travaillé sur l’algorithme de Gauss Jordan et une nouvelle version d’un schéma de parallélisme. Ce schéma peut exploiter le maximum de parallélisme entre des opérations. Comme un exemple excellent, l'algorithme de Gauss Jordan est également utilisé pour évaluer des environnements expérimentaux et des outils différents. Les expérimentations avec YML, OmniRPC et XtremWeb sur les grilles et les grilles de PC montrent que YML peut être une bonne solution pour que les utilisateurs fassent du calcul scientifique à grande échelle, à cause des bonnes caractéristiques comme « l’interface d'abstraction de haut niveau», « les composants réutilisables » et «le surcoût acceptable». Pour obtenir les meilleures performances de cette plate-forme, les questions concernées, telles que la granularité des tâches, la persistance des données et le mécanisme d’ordonnancement, sont également abordés dans cette thèse. Selon les analyses faites ci-dessus et les caractéristiques communes des nuages informatiques ciblés, YML-PC, une architecture de référence basée sur les workflows pour les constructions de nuages informatiques privés scientifique est proposée. YML-PC hérite les bonnes caractéristiques présentées ci-dessus et des autres technologies clefs telles que « la persistance des données », « La prévision du temps disponible »  et « l'évaluation sur des nœuds de calcul hétérogènes » pour YML-PC, qui sont également abordées dans cette thèse. Les évaluations sur l'algorithme de Gauss Jordan sont réalisées sur les grilles, les grilles de PC et les nuages informatiques privés qui sont implantés sur la plate-forme Grid5000, la plateforme de calcul de Polytech Lille en France et la plateforme de calcul de Hohai, en Chine. / Grid computing and Desktop Grid computing provide interesting alternatives for large scale scientific computing which needs very large scale computing resources. However gridification is hard to develop because of series of factors such as complex programming interface. The aim of this dissertation is to find a solution to make large scientific computing in an easy way. To do that, research on Gauss Jordan algorithm is made and a new parallel programming version is presented. The parallel version can achieve maximum degree parallelism between operations. Also the Gauss Jordan algorithm as an excellent example is used to evaluate different experimental environments and tools. Experiments with YML, OmniRPC and XtremWeb on Grid and Desktop Grid environments testify YML can be a good solution for end users to make large scale scientific computing for its series of good features such as higher level interface, component reuse and acceptable overhead. To get better performance of platform, related issues such as task granularity, data persistence and schedule mechanism are also discussed in this dissertation. According to analysis made above and the common features of Clouds possessed, YML-PC a reference architecture based on workflow for building scientific Private Clouds is proposed. YML-PC inherits those good features presented above and some other key technologies such as “data persistence”, “available time prediction” and “evaluation on heterogeneous computing nodes” for YML-PC are also discussed in this dissertation. Evaluations are made based on Gauss Jordan algorithm on Grids, Desktop Grids and Private Clouds which build on Grid5000, Polytech Lille platform, France and Hohai platform, China.