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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
Published 2022“…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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Hydrogen Supplement Co-combustion with Diesel in 2 Compression Ignition Engine
Published 2015“…The results show that thermal efficiency of the compression ignition engine increases as hydrogen content increases in the air-intake manifold for the same diesel mass flow rate. …”
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Techno-Economic and Environmental Evaluation of Introducing Renewable Energy Systems in a Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant
Published 2016“…It is quite conspicuous that the population tends to increase in the coming decades which would evidently increase the global demand for fresh water. …”
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The Foreign Direct Investment and Trade Connection Between China and the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Published 2025“…The findings show that cumulative FDI Granger-causes an increase in trade volume. Specifically, each one-million-dollar increase in FDI is associated with an $88,269 rise in Chinese exports to the GCC countries and a $64,760 increase in imports from the GCC. …”
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Stemming cardiovascular diseases in Qatar
Published 2015“…This is projected to increase to more than 23 million by 2030, with the largest increase to occur throughout the Middle East, due in part to the adoption of the sedentary Western lifestyle.…”
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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
Published 2014“…The UAE government’s rules and regulations, such as tax-free income, has promoted more business growth and succeeded in attracting more investment to the country. …”
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A robust experimental-based artificial neural network approach for photovoltaic maximum power point identification considering electrical, thermal and meteorological impact
Published 2020“…The results showed a decrease in the MSE of V<sub>mp</sub> by 74.3% (from 1.6 V to 0.411 V), and in the MSE of I<sub>mp</sub> by 95% (from 4.4e−6 A to 2.16e−7 A), respectively. …”
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Valorization of Gas-To-Liquid Sludge as a Sustainable Soil Organic Amendment for Cotton Cultivation
Published 2023“…The produced fiber quality was adequate for an upland cotton variety and appeared more dependent on the prevailing climate conditions than soil treatments. …”
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Rebound effects undermine carbon footprint reduction potential of autonomous electric vehicles
Published 2023“…However, they are likely to increase road transport activity and life cycle greenhouse emissions, due to several rebound effects. …”
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An Analysis of Student’s Engagement During Distance Learning in Abu Dhabi Schools
Published 2021“…As resources and contemporary technology become more freely accessible, distance learning courses are growing more popular. …”
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The globalization of social sciences? Evidence from a quantitative analysis of 30 years of production, collaboration and citations in the social sciences (1980-2009)
Published 2014“…The authors' quantitative approach shows that the growing production in the social sciences but also the rise of international collaborations between regions have not led to a more homogeneous circulation of the knowledge produced by different regions, or to a substantial increase in the visibility of the contributions produced by peripheral regions. …”
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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...
Published 2020“…HCT STEM majors’ graduates showed no significant differences from AY 2010 to the AY 2017; the latter shows that although STEM enrolments have increased in HCT, graduates of STEM are consistent and unchanged, meaning that somewhere during their tertiary education, students are not continuing their studies in STEM majors. …”
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Urban Geometry: The Effect of Height Diversity and Buildings Configuration on Thermal Performance and Cooling Load at Urban Scale. A Case Study in Dubai / UAE
Published 2018“…The research found that a significant variation in building height reduces the cooling load more than a gradual height variation, and consequently offers more energy saving. …”
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Study of Life Cycle Cost Analysis and Value Engineering and their use in UAE
Published 2021“…And then the same calculation was done for 60 years of life span for the same project. in the end, a comparison between both cases is made to find out which case will be more financially beneficial. Results show that investing more money in the initial phase, mainly the construction phase, to improve the materials and construction quality would increase the service life by up to 20 years. which will result in more profit to the owners/stakeholders taking into consideration safety requirements.…”
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Evaluating System Performance in Gigabit Networks
Published 2003“…These key components include network adaptor, operating system, protocol stack, memory, and processing power. More importantly the high bandwidth increase can negatively impact the OS performance due to the interrupt overhead caused by the incoming gigabit traffic. …”
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