Exploring Sustainable Strategies for Shelter Design at Refugee Camps: The Case of Domiz 1 Refugee Camp in Iraq by AL AMEEN, FARAH

“…As a result, the proposed strategy provides an opportunity for personalization and deepens the refugees’ sense of belonging and dignity. Furthermore, a 42% decrease in cooling loads, and 31% decrease in heating loads was achieved by using the proposed wall panel, the sunspace during winter, and the roof canopy during winter, in comparison to the baseline case, the UNHCR tent.…”
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Refugees under international law. (c2004) by Abichedid, Darina Saliba

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The role of market-based transformative service initiatives in service inclusion of refugees by Eslami, Hossein

“…Purpose This paper aims to empirically investigate the role of market-based transformative service initiatives (TSIs) during the refugee crisis and shed light on how such TSIs increase inclusion of refugees in service systems by using market forces while creating broader benefits for service organizations themselves. …”
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Integration of Wind Catchers in Modern Residential Buildings in the UAE as a Means of Providing Thermal Comfort by Riza, Raashid

“…This research is an evaluation of the effectiveness of wind catchers as means of providing thermal comfort for modern residential buildings in the hot arid climates in the UAE. …”
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Both decreasing interstructural space size and increasing total cover increase shrimp abundance on artificial structures deployed in a UAE seagrass bed by Bartholomew, Aaron

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Influence of temperature on tire-pavement noise in hot climates: Qatar case by Okan, Sirin

“…There is an apparent trend of decreasing temperature coefficient with increasing mean texture depth of dense graded asphalt pavements. …”
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The effect of soft background music, Mozart music, on the three levels of students' engagement. (c2016) by Al Bizri, Dima Bashir

“…Engagement, in its three levels, cognitive, behavioral, and affective, is vital in the learning process. …”
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Job Satisfaction and Intention to Leave the Current Job among Expatriate Teachers in Three Private Schools of Dubai by Khan, Humera

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Association Between Three-Months Vitamin D Supplementation and Depressive Symptomatology incidence among Saudi Arabian Adults by Khaddaj, Rashel

“…PHQ-9 scores decreased from 12.53 ±5.33 to 4.92 ±2.44 in vitamin D group (p <0.001), and from 12.46 ±4.66 to 8.96±3.75in the control group (p<0.001), indicating enhancement in depressive symptomatology. …”
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Infliximab versus ciclosporin in steroid resistant acute severe ulcerative colitis: a model-based cost-utility analysis of data from CONSTRUCT pragmatic trial by Mohammed Fasihul Alam (6832217)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">The decision tree mirrored trial-based results. Beyond 2-year trial follow-up, Markov model predicted a decrease in colectomy rate, but it remained slightly higher for ciclosporin. …”

COPE for adolescent Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a brief cognitive–behavioral skill-building intervention to improve quality of life and promote positive mental health by Doumit, Rita

“…Lebanon has the highest per-capita concentration of refugees worldwide. There is an urgent need to offer psychosocial interventions to vulnerable groups such as Syrian refugee adolescents. …”
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A pathway to 25% reduction in greenhouse gas emission by 2030 using GIS-Based multi-criteria decision making for renewables, date palm (phoenix dactylifera), and carbon credits: a... by Hazrat Bilal (7367477)

“…It explores Qatar’s potential for renewable energy generation (solar and wind), carbon offset through planting trees, and the purchase of carbon offset credits. …”

Morphological changes in amblyopic eyes in choriocapillaris and Sattler’s layer in comparison to healthy eyes, and in retinal nerve fiber layer in comparison to fellow eyes through... by Masri, Oussama Samer

“…Purpose Establishing the reliability of a new method to check the mean retinal and choroidal reflectivity and using it to find retinal and choroid changes in amblyopia. …”
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Sex differences on quality of life and mental health outcomes when using a brief cognitive-behavioral skill building intervention with adolescent Syrian refugees: a secondary analy... by Kazandjian, Chant

“…A one group pretest–posttest design was used to deliver the intervention to 31 adolescent refugees (13–17 years; 15 male, and 16 female). At baseline, there were no significant differences between males and females on mean scores of depression, anxiety, or QOL. …”
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Influence of temperature on tire-pavement noise in hot climates: Qatar case by Okan Sirin (14603304)

“…There is an apparent trend of decreasing temperature coefficient with increasing mean texture depth of dense graded asphalt pavements. …”

Effective non-intrusive load monitoring of buildings based on a novel multi-descriptor fusion with dimensionality reduction by Yassine Himeur (14158821)

“…The latter can not only reduce feature dimensionality, but it can also effectively decrease the intra-class distances and increase the extra-class distances of appliance features; and (iii) a powerful decision bagging tree classifier is implemented to accurately classify electrical devices using the reduced features. …”

Novel Wire Gripper for Robotics Picking of Small Green Parts From Powder Bed of Binder Jet Metal Additive Manufacturing by Abdulhamid Mathkur (22467373)

Machine Learning-Based Management of Electric Vehicles Charging: Towards Highly-Dispersed Fast Chargers by Mostafa Shibl (18810412)

“…<p dir="ltr">Coordinated charging of electric vehicles (EVs) improves the overall efficiency of the power grid as it avoids distribution system overloads, increases power quality, and decreases voltage fluctuations. Moreover, the coordinated charging supports flattening the load profile. …”

Sequential therapy in patients receiving Fluoroquinolones at the American University of Beirut Medical Center. (c2001) by Homsi, Maria

“…While the mean time to switch was similar in the three groups, ciprofloxacin patients had a slightly longer duration of treatment at home. …”
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Effect of acute and chronic grapefruit, orange and pineaple juice consumption upon blood lipoprotein synthesis and metabolism in the rat. (c2004) by Abou-Khalil, Jamil

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