A Comparative study of DAB and Arbitration as methods of resolving Construction Disputes حسب AL KHAWAJA, DANA JAMAL

"…It is concluded that while the cost of international arbitration may be 15% of a project’s value and may take years to resolve, DAB takes less time. Although time limits increase efficiency relative to arbitration, the ICC rules set time limits for the tribunal’s formation and for submission of rejoinders, but not for the issuance of an award. …"
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Model Based Control of Amine Sweetening Unit حسب Al Hammadi, Jasim

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The Colonial impacts on French trade patterns حسب 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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Effect of Crude Oil Products on the Geotechnical Properties of Sandy Soil حسب Shaheen, Ehab Taher

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Ionic electroactive hybrid transducers حسب Akle, Barbar J.

"…Furthermore, the direct assembly process is less costly to implement than traditional impregnation-reduction methods due to less dependence on reducing agents, it requires less time, and is easier to implement than other processes. …"
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Recent advances in the treatment and outcome of locally advanced rectal cancer حسب Abdalla, Eddie

"…No significant differences were seen in patients (age, gender, race) or tumor characteristics (mean distance from the anal verge, annularity, fixation). …"
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Renal Function Decline in Recipients and Donors of Kidney Grafts حسب Bahous, Sola Aoun

"…Results: Decline in renal function was estimated at 1-year post-transplantation and annually thereafter (median follow-up 8 years, range 3.6-18.3), as the mean of the annualized decrease in the glomerular filtration rate. …"
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Empiric antibiotic therapy of community-acquired Pneumonia at the American University of Beirut Medical Center. (c2001) حسب Cherfan, Antoine

"…Special attention should be given to decrease hospitalization rate, to preserve fluoroquinolones, and to improve microbiological studies outcome.…"
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A Parallel Algorithm for Inverse Halftoning and its Hardware حسب Siddiqi, Umair F.

"…Lookup Table (LUT) method for inverse halftoning is computation less, fast and also yields goods results. This paper proposes a parallel algorithm for inverse halftoning by parallelizing the LUT method of inverse halftoning. …"
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Emotional Reactions to Unequal Payment: The Impact of Meritocratic Ideology and Salary Negotiability حسب Maitner, Angela

"…However, learning that a system is non-negotiable violates expectations associated with meritocratic beliefs, and may therefore increase negative emotion. In two experiments investigating participants’ emotional reactions to payment systems, the more participants endorsed meritocratic ideologies, the less anger they felt when unequal treatment appeared negotiable. …"
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Effect of Acute and Chronic Moderate Red or White Wine Consumption on Fasted and Postprandial Lipemia in the Rat حسب Daher, Costantine F.

"…In the chronic study, a wine–fat load resulted in increased high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol concentration and less pronounced postprandial hypertriglyceridemia and hyperchylomicronemia. …"
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Brain and plasma riluzole pharmacokinetics حسب Milane, Aline

"…The combination was then tested in humans in phase II and phase III studies with less beneficial effects and a faster decline of the disease in the group treated with minocycline. …"
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Cooling Energy and Climate Change Nexus in Arid Climate and the Role of Energy Transition حسب Ammar M. Khourchid (19420621)

"…The study found that the cooling demand could increase by 13–53% and 19–67% in 2071 and 2100, respectively, with buildings having higher thermal insulation and lower window-to-wall ratio being less affected by climate change. …"

Mitigating undercooling and overheating risk in existing desert schools under current and future climate using validated building simulation model حسب Mutasim Baba, Fuad

"…Passive winter measures, including high insulation and airtightness level, and using double glass windows, reduce undercooling to less than 40 h but increase overheating to 180 h. …"
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Follow‐Up and Comparative Assessment of SARS‐CoV‐2 IgA, IgG, Neutralizing, and Total Antibody Responses After BNT162b2 or mRNA‐1273 Heterologous Booster Vaccination حسب Salma Younes (6424865)

"…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">Homologous primary vaccination with ChAdOx1 not only showed less potent NTAb, TAb, anti‐S‐RBD IgG, and anti‐S1 IgA immune responses compared to primary BNT162b2 or mRNA‐1273 vaccination regimens (<i>p</i> < 0.05) but also showed ~3‐fold less anti‐S1 IgA response compared to infection‐induced immunity (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …"

Particle size and pH effects on remediation of chromite ore processing residue using calcium polysulfide (CaS5) حسب Moon, Deok Hyun

"…Ettringite formation, due to pH increase over time in the samples, where the initial pH was adjusted to 9, was verified by XRPD and SEM-EDX analyses, indicating that a pH less than 9 should be maintained to avoid ettringite formation.…"
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Assessing the Built Environment’s Reflectivity, Flexibility, Resourcefulness, and Rapidity Resilience Qualities against Climate Change Impacts from the Perspective of Different Sta... حسب Mohammed M. Al-Humaiqani (18325554)

"…<p dir="ltr">The frequency and severity of climate change are projected to increase, leading to more disasters, increased built environment system (BES) vulnerability, and decreased coping capacity. …"

Optimal scheduling algorithm for residential building distributed energy source systems using Levy flight and chaos-assisted artificial rabbits optimizer حسب M. Premkumar (12757280)

"…The execution time of the proposed LFCARO is less than 1 sec. for 10 numerical problems and less than 1.5 sec. for the resource scheduling of residential distribution systems. …"

Addressing Challenges of Distance Learning in the Pandemic with Edge Intelligence Enabled Multicast and Caching Solution حسب Kashif Bilal (16896357)

"…However, the existing 5G architecture does not support service-less multi-cast. In this article, we advance the case of Virtual Network Function (VNF) based service-less architecture for video multicast. …"

Sustainable urban development strategies to enhance outdoor thermal comfort and promote walkability in the United Arab Emirates حسب ALTENEIJI, AHMED SALIM AHMED SAIF

"…Moreover, individuals can walk less than 10 min in summertime before the feel very uncomfortable. while this duration significantly increases if the street is shaded. …"
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