Proceedings of the Eighth Saudi Students Conference in the UK

Included in this proceedings is a selection of peer-reviewed scholarly papers by Saudi postgraduate researchers who presented their work at a student conference held in London at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre from January 31 to February 1, 2015. The volume covers topics from fields in the humanities, social sciences and natural and applied sciences. Appealing to both specialists and non-specialists, the topics addressed by the students reflect advances in knowledge, research trends, and scholarly debates across the academic spectrum.

This cross-disciplinary conference was organised by the Scientific Society for Saudi Students in the UK with support from the Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau in London, Imperial College London and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

KAUST is committed to the development of a knowledge-based economy in Saudi Arabia. Under the leadership of founding Vice President, Dr Najah Ashry, KAUST's Saudi Initiatives organization invests in the Nation's brightest young minds to ensure a strong and prosperous future. Through a variety of targeted programs and special projects, such as this year's Conference, Saudi Initiatives identifies, nurtures, and supports talented young Saudis for KAUST and for Saudi Arabia.

Contents:

• Public Relations and Culture in Saudi Arabia (Yazeed Almahraj)
• An Investigation of Information Ethics in Embracing e-Government in Saudi Arabia (Saad Alammar, Paul Wilson and Manal Alfiz)
• The Encounter of World Views in Research Methodology: Investing Cultural and Intellectual Backgrounds in Developing Innovative Research Methodologies (Fatemah Albuloshi)
• Saudi Women's Perceptions and Legal Awareness of their Human Rights (Mariam Azzahrani)
• Aeroplane Seating Assignment (Khalied AlBarrak)
• Assessing the Scalability Issues on Multi-Core NUMA Machines (Malak Aljabri, Phil Trinder and Hans-Wolfgang Loidl)
• Discovering Malicious Behaviour Symptoms in Cloud Systems (Sultan Alshamrani)
• Alleviating Non-Uniform Illumination of a High-Concentration-Ratio Fresnel Lens (A Aldossary, S Mahmoud and R Al-Dadah)
• 3D Culture-Enhanced Embryonic Stem Cells Expansion and Pluripotency via Dynamic Microenvironment (Sarah Alsobaie, Tamador Alsobaie, Athanasios Mantalaris and Tony Cass)
• Identifying the Scope of Physiotherapy in Relation to the Post-Stroke Shoulder (Salem Alatawi, Christopher Burton, Jo Rycroft-Malone, Claire Hawkes and Maureen Bartley)
• The Anatomical Variations of the Azygos Venous System (Naief Dahran)
• Cooperative Investment in a Multi-Period Portfolio Optimisation (Anwar Hassan Almualim)
• Understanding Driving Anger in Saudi Arabia: A Cognitive Approach (Naif Algaber, Professor Alan Tapp and Professor Adam Joinson)
• Indicators of Effective Implementation of Distance Learning: the Six Dimensions (Badr Alsoliman)
• Documentation of the Nasif Historical House, in Historical Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning and Image Survey Methods (Ahmad Baik)
• Subtitling Racist Discourse from English to Arabic: Concealing Racism? (Abrar Mujaddadiah al-Nahee)
• and other papers

Readership: Postgraduate and early career researchers in Saudi Arabia, and readers interested in the research findings in the context of Saudi Arabia.
Key Features:

• First-ever proceedings of select papers from a unique conference devoted to top research in the arts and sciences by Saudi students studying in the UK