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This work discusses problems related to the need to domesticate encountered during the translation of the prologue, introduction, and part of Chapter I of a book titled The Different Drums by American psychiatrist and spiritual writer M. Scott Peck. The translated text belongs to the 'spiritual growth and personal development' literature which has flourished in the West over the last 40 years and is beginning to make its presence felt in Arabic. This thesis concentrates on the domestication techniques followed in the translation process. It will also examine how domestication can play a vital role in preserving the intentionality of the source text. It aims at providing practical evidences from the field that domestication is inevitable in given translation situations. In the meantime, this option doesn't contradict with the tendency to maintain a sense of foreignness in the translated text.

This work introduces two novel approaches for feature extraction applied to video-based Arabic sign language recognition, namely, motion representation through motion estimation and motion representation through motion residuals. In the former, motion estimation is used to compute the motion vectors of a video-based deaf sign or gesture. In the preprocessing stage for feature extraction, the horizontal and vertical components of such vectors are rearranged into intensity images and transformed into the frequency domain. In the second approach, motion is represented through motion residuals. The residuals are then thresholded and transformed into the frequency domain. Since in both approaches the temporal dimension of the video-based gesture needs to be preserved, hidden Markov models are used for classification tasks. Additionally, this paper proposes to project the motion information in the time domain through either telescopic motion vector composition or polar accumulated differences of motion residuals. The feature vectors are then extracted from the projected motion information. After that, model parameters can be evaluated by using simple classifiers such as Fisher's linear discriminant. The paper reports on the classification accuracy of the proposed solutions. Comparisons with existing work reveal that up to 39% of the misclassifications have been corrected.

The aim of this paper is to provide education practitioners with a template to facilitate the introduction of brand construction to first year undergraduate industrial design students through the visual and physical embodiment of a product. The ongoing pedagogic development has been refined over the last fifteen years alongside research into the professional practice of Industrial Design (ID). The objectives of this paper are to: provide signposting to the underpinning theories of the template; describe the template; show an example of student work that demonstrate the outcomes of template application; and, highlight where students have used the template within a brand related design competition to produce a successful design outcome.