Differential water quality in confined and free-flowing water bodies, Lebanon by Korfali, Samira Ibrahim

“…This emphasises the importance of assessing surface water quality as a projected means to increase water availability. This study involves two different water bodies, the freely flowing Nahr-Ibrahin River and the Qaraaoun Reservoir, an impoundment of the Litani River. …”
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Testing and Evaluation of a Smart Irrigation System towards Smart landscaping in UAE by ALSULAIMANI, FATMA

“…The outcomes of the use of SMS have shown a better results in water conservation and a decrease in water flow in the month of September by 21% and 26% in October. …”
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A framework for implementing Green Supply Chain Management: The Case of Petco Gulf by HASSAN, HUDA YOUSIF ALI AHMED

“…From this research, it was found that as Petco gulf is present in the U.A.E. it can take advantage of this and by applying the GSCM strategies against each of its components this will help the company by, increased overall gross profit with the decrease in cost since going green in its supply chain means reducing the overheads. …”
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An empirical investigation of the relation between emotional intelligence and job satisfaction in the Lebanese service industry by Dagher, Grace K.

“…The American Society for Training and Development estimates that four out of five companies are trying to improve productivity, customer service and manager performance by increasing their employees’ EI (Zeidner et al., 2004; CartWright and Pappas, 2008). …”
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Formation of Bromate in Pet Bottle Water by Sharif, Haifa

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Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Instructional Delivery Modalities, and the Role of School Leaders: a Study among Selected Private Schools in Abu Dhabi. by YAHYA, AHMAD

“…For example, the interviews recommended that school leaders are invited to build an active channel of communication with their teachers, share the decision-making process with them, decrease the workload, raise the teachers’ autonomy, and establish a remuneration system.…”
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The downside of cardiac devices insertion by Nature Research (16552612)

Shear performance of FRP Reinforced Deep Beams Made of Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC) by Salman, Omar

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Changes and trends of pre-hospital emergency disease spectrum in Beijing in the past decade (from 2003 to 2012) by Tianbing Wang (514759)

“…In the past decade, the number of pre-hospital emergency call demands soared from 150,656 to 309,297 (204.6%, 2012/ 2003, p<0.001). 2. The top five call demands based on the rank of proportion were trauma related demands(25.4%, including falls（5.0%）, traffic/ transportation incidents(7.2%) and traumatic injuries(13.1%)), sick person(17.7%), heart problems(11.4%), unconscious/fainting（10.0%） and breathing problems（8.1%）Also, they were the top five fastest growing call demands.…”

Is embolization of segment 4 portal veins before extended right hepatectomy justified? by Kishi, Yoji

“…The procedure is increasingly used at major hepatobiliary centers and has contributed to expanded use of major hepatectomy in patients with initially insufficient liver remnant volume or function.2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 For patients with advanced cholangiocarcinoma in whom extended right hepatectomy is required, Nagino et al7 first introduced the concept of percutaneous transhepatic PVE with extension to the segment 4 (S4) portal veins (RPVE+4). …”
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Adopting Geophysical Testing Techniques in Geotechnical Investigation and Shallow Foundation Design by Amer, Mohammad

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Dietary Calcium Intake of 1200 mg/d May Have Negative Correlation on Percent Body Fat by Dimassi, Hani I.

“…The high-calcium group (intake ≥1200 mg/d) had a significantly higher mean caloric intake (P ≤ .01) and significantly lower percent body fat (P ≤ .05) than the low-calcium group (intake <1200 mg/d). …”
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Electrochemical response in ionic polymer transducers by Akle, Barbar J.

“…By applying a low voltage (up to 2 V), a relatively large bending deformation (>5% strain) can be obtained. …”
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Effect of nickel loading on hydrogen production and chemical oxygen demand (COD) destruction from glucose oxidation and gasification in supercritical water by Youssef, Emhemmed A.

“…Results also showed that the presence of Ni increased the total gas yield increased in the 7.5–18 wt Ni/Al2O3 catalyst. …”
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Cobalt iron oxide-infused silicone nanocomposites: Magnetoactive materials for remote actuation and sensing by Ans Al Rashid (14777050)

“…Finally, an improvement in the magnetic properties of MAPCs was observed with increasing CIO concentrations, where increased saturation magnetization from 0.087 to 1.057 EMU/g and remanence from 0.054 to 0.625 EMU/g were recorded with an increase in CIO content from 0.25 to 3% in the silicone matrix. …”

Modeling the influence of daily temperature and precipitation extreme indices on vegetation dynamics in Katsina State using statistical downscaling model (SDM) by Mohammad, Hadi Ahmad

“…All the scenarios present increasing minimum and maximum temperatures and decreasing precipitation, except for RCP8.5, which predicted a more adverse trend. …”
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Driving simulation sickness and the sense of presence: Correlation and contributing factors by Mustafa Almallah (17280568)

“…Importantly, designing buildings that replicate a real-world environment could increase SP and decrease SS. Moreover, designing high quality and resolution scenarios could also increase SP, thus decreasing the severity of SS symptoms. …”

An investigation into links between UAE STI Policy and the Federal Universities STEM Majors’ Enrolments, Graduates and Research Development: an evidence-based exploration of the im... by Khreibi, Rima Abou

“…In terms of United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), there has been a decrease in STEM programs enrolment, while STEM graduates in UAEU has stayed steady at 1/3 STEM majors compared to 2/3 non-STEM programs. …”
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The role of methanolic extract of Quercus infectoria bark in lipemia, glycemia, gastric ulcer and bacterial growth by Khouzami, L.

“…After one month of chronic extract (0.5% w/v) intake via drinking water, there was a significant increase in serum HDL-cholesterol level. …”
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Nanospace-engineered carbons for reversible storage of natural gas and hydrogen by Romanos, J.

“…Excess adsorption dominated by KOH:C ratio. 2.Volumetric storage capacity decreases with increasing activation temperature. 3. 2.5K activated at 700 oC has record volumetric storage capacity of 132 g CH4/liter carbon at 35 bar and 22 oC (200 V/V, 110% of DOE target of 118 g/liter). …”
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