Characterization of heavy vehicle headways in oversaturated interrupted conditions: Towards development of passenger car equivalency factors by Ghanim, Mohammad Shareef

“…The simulation results suggest that PCE increases nonlinearly with increase in congestion level and with percentage of trucks; PCE's increase becomes less marked once sever congestion (stop-and-go with increasing queue lengths) conditions set in.…”
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Home Automation Awareness in United Arab Emirates by AL SUWAIDI, MUNIRA ABDULLA

“…Mega IT companies are investing into researches to combine IoT, Artificial Intelligence, and automation to increase the efficiency and productivity of things around us hoping to make people’s life more convenient. …”
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Multilayer Reversible Data Hiding Based on the Difference Expansion Method Using Multilevel Thresholding of Host Images Based on the Slime Mould Algorithm by Abu Zitar, Raed

“…Moreover, the image pixels in different and more similar areas of the image are located next to one another in a group and classified using the specified thresholds. …”
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A Multidecadal Assessment of Drought Intensification in the Middle East and North Africa: The Role of Global Warming and Rainfall Deficit by Ahmed El Kenawy (7510103)

“…The SPEI, which incorporates the effects of evapotranspiration, demonstrated a more pronounced increase in drought frequency and severity than the SPI, reflecting the growing impact of rising temperatures in the most recent decades. …”

Determinants of deposits in Lebanese commercial banks-evidence from non-resident depositors by El Khoury, Rim

“…The findings suggest that banks should improve the convenience of access to funds of depositors and adopt more international standards to have better ratings in order to attract more deposits.…”
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Dietary Curcumin Nanoparticles Improve Growth Performance, Oxidative Status and Immune Response of European Seabass (<i>Dicentrarchus Labrax</i>) by Albandari Bin-Ammar (16381128)

“…Growth performance (final body weight (FBW), daily weight gain (DWG), weight gain (WG), relative growth rate (RGR), and protein efficiency ratio (PER)) and feed uptake (feed conversion rate (FCR)) were improved significantly in CURNPs (100 and 150 mg/ kg)-supplemented groups. …”

Phenotypic and Proteomic characterization of Clinical Candida albicans isolates resistant to Fluconazole by Geukgeuzian, Giovanni

“…Our results showed that resistant isolates had increase ergosterol content, and a slight increase in chitin deposition leading to resistance, but were on average attenuated in virulence compared with sensitive isolates. …”
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Between a rock and a hard place by Itani, Omar S.

“…Service businesses are increasingly facing more demanding customers as a result of a shift in power from the service providers' side to the customers' side. …”
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Students’ perceptions of Kahoot!: An exploratory mixed-method study in EFL undergraduate classrooms in the UAE by Alawadhi, Azza

“…This research further highlights the need to integrate more game-based learning strategies not only to increase students’ motivation but to also support a learner-centered environment.…”
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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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Impacts of twenty years of experimental warming on soil carbon, nitrogen, moisture and soil mites across alpine/subarctic tundra communities by Juha M. Alatalo (2931234)

“…Here we report the impact of 20 years of experimental warming on soil properties and soil mites in three contrasting plant communities in alpine/subarctic Sweden. …”

Hydrogen Supplement Co-combustion with Diesel in 2 Compression Ignition Engine by Hamdan, Mohammad O.

“…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 by Reaz, Fathima

“…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 by Jalal Qanas (17908157)

“…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. …”

Stemming cardiovascular diseases in Qatar by Nature Research (16552612)

“…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.…”

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

“…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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Trends and levels of the global, regional, and national burden of appendicitis between 1990 and 2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Letourneau, Ian D

“…FindingsIn 2021, the global age-standardised mortality rate of appendicitis was 0·358 (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 0·311–0·414) per 100 000. Mortality rates ranged from 1·01 (0·895–1·13) per 100 000 in central Latin America to 0·054 (0·0464–0·0617) per 100 000 in high-income Asia Pacific. …”
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A robust experimental-based artificial neural network approach for photovoltaic maximum power point identification considering electrical, thermal and meteorological impact by Samer Gowid (15955152)

“…The results showed a decrease in the MSE of V_mp by 74.3% (from 1.6 V to 0.411 V), and in the MSE of I_mp by 95% (from 4.4e−6 A to 2.16e−7 A), respectively. …”

The impact of the activities of the Beirut port Free Zone on balance of trade, marine traffic and unemployment in Lebanon (1975-1984). (c1987) by Assaad, Jean Georges

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Valorization of Gas-To-Liquid Sludge as a Sustainable Soil Organic Amendment for Cotton Cultivation by Oumaima Mabrouk (17679435)

“…The produced fiber quality was adequate for an upland cotton variety and appeared more dependent on the prevailing climate conditions than soil treatments. …”