Fixed Shading Scenarios to Optimize Lighting Performance and Energy Efficiency in Office Buildings Case Study of Dubai Design District حسب Hamad, Khadije

"…The annual energy consumption of the optimal scenario is reduced from 1670 MWh to 1532MWh in the Egg-crate scenario three, which is a high reduction of 138MWh per year. Moreover, daylighting analysis shows decreased average illuminance levels from 407.8 to 154.97 Lux, equivalent to a 60% reduction in December and June. …"
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Board independance and the efficiency of internal capital markets حسب Dah, Mustafa A.

"…The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and exchange listing requirements led to an increase in the percentage of independent members on company boards. …"
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Non-state actors in world politics, the political performance of the PLO. (c2014) حسب Lakki, Hiba Omar

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The causal relationship between energy consumption and economic growth in Lebanon حسب Dagher, Leila

"…Also, to shield the country from external supply shocks, given its substantial dependence on energy imports, policymakers should emphasize the development of domestic energy resources. …"
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Sustainability of Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Concrete حسب Al Araj, Rashad R.

"…This work has shown that the addition of CNTs to the concrete mix in percentages as low as 0.25% weight of cement could increase the flexural strength and toughness of concrete by more than 45% and 25%, respectively, and enhance other durability-related properties, given that an effective dispersion of CNTs in the cementitious mix is achieved. …"
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Exploring the role of co-production in enhancing happiness and well-being in the UAE حسب ALYAMMAHI, ABDULLA JUMAH

"…The global challenges led governments all over the world to believe in the role of co-production in providing effective public services for citizens to increase their happiness and well-being. However, the literature of co-production as a factor for happiness and well-being has not been given much attention and remains limited or confined to certain factors such as wealth, health, and employment. …"
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Leadership and Employer Branding Impact on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Public Sector of the United Arab Emirates حسب Al-Khatib, Hadil Taisier

"…The current study aims to shed some light on how the effective provision of CSR using the right set of leadership skills and the synergy with Employer Branding could play a potential Human Resources (HR) tool to increase the favourable image of the organisations towards current and potential employees, and further develop the active CSR engagement of leaders towards the society and community as a whole. …"
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Virtual topologies for massively parallel computations. (c2015) حسب Jahed, Karim A.

"…This communication overhead will only increase as we scale-up the computation, up to the point where adding new cores negatively affects the computational time. …"
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Parallel Algorithms for Distinguishing Nondeterministic Finite State Machines حسب Ali, Mustafa

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Evaluating System Performance in Gigabit Networks حسب Salah, Khaled

"…With the current wide deployment of Gigabit Ethernet technology in the backbone and workgroup switches, the network performance bottleneck has shifted for the first time in nearly a decade from the network to the end hosts and servers. …"
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Selective changes in cytosolic β-adrenergic cAMP signals and L-type Calcium Channel regulation by Phosphodiesterases during cardiac hypertrophy حسب Abi-Gerges, Aniella

"…In SHAM and CH LVMs, a short isoprenaline stimulation (Iso, 100 nM, 15 s) elicited a similar transient increase in cAMP with a half decay time (t1/2off) of ~50 s. …"
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Effect of nickel loading on hydrogen production and chemical oxygen demand (COD) destruction from glucose oxidation and gasification in supercritical water حسب Youssef, Emhemmed A.

"…The introduction of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) prior to the feed injection inhibited the catalyst activity and did not increase the hydrogen yield whereas the introduction of H2O2 after 15 min of reaction time increased the hydrogen yield from 0.62 mol/mol to 1.5 mol/mol. …"
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Dietary Curcumin Nanoparticles Improve Growth Performance, Oxidative Status and Immune Response of European Seabass (<i>Dicentrarchus Labrax</i>) حسب 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. …"

Univariate modeling and forecasting of energy consumption حسب Saab, Samer

"…In Lebanon, electric power is becoming the main energy form relied upon in all economic sectors of the country. Also, the time series of electrical energy consumption in Lebanon is unique due to intermittent power outages and increasing demand. …"
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Whom should we sense in “social sensing” - analyzing which users work best for social media now-casting حسب Jisun An (10230800)

"…<p>Given the ever increasing amount of publicly available social media data, there is growing interest in using online data to study and quantify phenomena in the offline “real” world. …"

Developing Nationals in UAE Government Organizations حسب Alyammahi, Jemeiah Rashed Mohammed

"…It considers the alternative ways of helping and engaging talented people to stay for long time in their jobs (retention) and motivating them through different practices such as promotion and employee development.…"
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Greywater reuse in the water-scarce Gulf Region حسب Canal Forgues, Eric

"…The current article discusses these issues and, given the public reluctance in the UAE to accept interior greywater reuse, it focuses on the applicability of constructed wetlands in the Gulf region and their potential to enhance irrigation streams and landscape appeal.…"
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Associating learning technology to sustain the environment through green mobile applications حسب Haraty, Ramzi A.

"…With “quality education” a major issue for the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, it is a must that we loop together the “quality education” with education per se. It is imperative that we engage the youth in attaining this objective, for it is not enough that we empower them with the tools, we must encourage them to look at the current issues outside the box, through a worldwide view, where the focus nowadays is on the environment, be it in reducing fuel usage, decreasing air and water pollution, and recycling, in brief, being environment friendly. …"
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EDF-based connection setup management in WDM optical networks. (c2009) حسب Bardan, Raghed A. El

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Optoelectronic properties of highly porous silver oxide thin film حسب Ahmad Al-Sarraj (17151007)

"…The NW’s morphological, electrical, and optical properties were investigated under different plasma etching periods and the number of deposition cycles. The increase of plasma etching and oxidation time increases the surface roughness of the Ag NWs until it fused to form a porous thin film of silver oxide. …"