A Comparative study of Technical Efficiency in GCC Islamic Financial Institutions during the Global financial Crisis using Malmquist-Type Data Envelopment analysis by Al Hammadi, Khalid Faisal

“…However, Individual IFIs result showed that some bank has experienced increase or decrease of efficiency after the crisis. …”
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Analyzing the effectiveness of various coatings to mitigate photovoltaic modules soiling in desert climate by Alaa Elsafi (22282354)

“…The results indicate a decrease in light transmittance and an increase in surface coverage area over time due to dust accumulation. …”

Association Between Serum Bicarbonate Levels and Prediabetes and Subclinical Inflammation in Young Healthy Adults: A Cross-sectional Study by Abeer A Omar (21623774)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">A total of 825 participants with mean age 29.2 years (5.9) of which 365 (44.2%) were males. …”

Using primary healthcare facilities and patients’ expectations about triage system: Patients’ perspective from multisite Jordanian hospitals by Mohammad Minwer Alnaeem (19143733)

“…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr"> Using primary healthcare facilities can decrease the tension and workload in emergency departments (EDs). …”

Flexural Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Beams Strengthened with Externally Bonded Hybrid Systems by Mohammed, Abubakr Ahmed Abdelall

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A study of the Impact of cultural diversity on the Technological Innovation process in the Nuclear Energy Corporations by AL JABERI, MOHAMED EIDHA

“…In addition, there are some recommendations and action plan for some of the tips that can help in making the best use of cultural diversity in the nuclear industry to foster technological innovation, such as Providing executive level support and accountability, creating an systematic use of scientific and technical knowledge approaches to increase the denoting and the real capability to do actions, and creating a system for handling the unfairness between the selected employees.…”
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Exercise-induced a-ketoglutarate enhances spatial learning by modulating hippocampal levels of BDNF in a sex-specific manner by Al Ahmad, Perla

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Developments in Coarse-Grain Modeling of Transient Heat-Flow in Buildings by Abi-Shdid, C.

“…The note concludes with some suggestions for continuing research.…”
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Crisis Communication Management Model in the Public Sector of Dubai by Ali, Budoor Hussain

“…The unexpected events occur every day, and with the increase of the negative outcomes of these incidents on people and organizations, they would become crises that require effective management. …”
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ACHIEVING NETWORK SECURITY WITH FIREWALLS by Al-Kaltham, Ibrahim A. R.

“…With the rapid increase in the number of LAN connections to the world's largest computer network (the Internet), new security techniques should be used to protect local networks against intrusion from the Internet. …”
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Burst Round Robin as a Proportional-Share Scheduling Algorithm by Helmy, Tarek

“…This will reduce the number of processes in the ready queue by knocking out short jobs relatively faster in a hope to increase the throughput and reduce the average waiting time.…”
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A Study on Restrictions on Financing Entrepreneurs’ Startup Companies & Reasons Behind Limiting UAE National Entrepreneurs To A Certain Type Of Business by El Ghattis, Fadi

“…SMEs and startup companies have started to increase in business across the UAE in different fields. …”
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The Use of Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Construction: An exploration of current challenges for collaborative construction by SABRI, MAEN

“…The Construction market represents more than 10% of the global economy, and the demand for infrastructure project is increasing due to population increase. Particularly, in the UAE, the construction market is considered one of the best markets compared to other Middle Eastern countries due to the availability of international companies involved in the construction activity. …”
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The Colonial impacts on French trade patterns by El Kallab, Tania

“…Controlling for the main gravity model factors, our results suggest that higher French settlement increase the French imports and exports of all goods except the imports of agricultural raw materials which increase with less settlement meaning that “Extractivist” policies do not need to settle. …”
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On Single Source Reachability Improvement by Alkak, Hashem

“…We also study the partial variant of the problem, which requires that at least some percentage of the vertices be within a distance of d from the source vertex. …”
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Can "Whatsapp" be the new luxury "app"? (c2018) by Mehdi, Nour I.

“…This movement came complementary to the increase in the number of active WhatsApp users especially in the MENA region. …”
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Leftover spaces for the mitigation of urban overheating in municipal Beirut by Kaloustian, Noushig

“…The best air temperature reductions correspond to the use of cool material in areas that are far from buildings where there are no shadow effects. In some cases, the introduction of trees leads to an increase of the air temperature near the ground because they became an obstacle of the natural ventilation. …”
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Attitudes of Qatari Nationals Toward Expatriates by Buthaina Al-Khelaifi (23072881)

“…However, unlike the previous study, some citizens also indicated a need to increase certain groups of expatriates to support economic growth. …”

An overview of the EU Member States support schemes for the promotion of renewable energy sources by Poullikkas, Andreas

“…Moreover, the different support schemes such as, investment support, feed-in tariffs (FiTs), tradable green certificates, and fiscal and financial measures which the Member States have adopted for the promotion of RES technologies are discussed in detail. Some Member States are implementing a single support scheme for the promotion of RES for power generation (RES-E), e.g., seven Member States use FiTs, or implement a hybrid support scheme by combining all or some of the four categories of the RES-E supporting schemes. …”
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An Analysis of Thermal Comfort at the School Outdoor Spaces: A Case Study of the American School of Creative Science, Dubai, UAE by ABU-QULBAIN, LANA

“…The enhanced outcome was evaluated against the initial one, using PET (physiological equivalent temperature), revealing that shade separately had the highest impact on its corresponding location with a decrease of up to 16% in PET, but no decrease to the overall PET of the microclimate. …”
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