Should the Outsiders be Left Out? Director Stock Options, Expectations and Earnings Management by Boumosleh, Anwar

“…A comparison of director and CEO stock options reveals that CEO options only increase the likelihood of lowering overly optimistic expectations; we find no evidence consistent with CEO options increasing the likelihood of walking up pessimistic expectations. …”
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Modeling electricity consumption patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic across six socioeconomic sectors in the State of Qatar by Ammar Abulibdeh (15785928)

“…Other sectors witnessed an increase in electricity consumption during the summer months, which was mainly due to travel restrictions imposed by many countries around the world. …”

Thermodynamic Analysis of an Integrated Hydrogen Production System Based on Solar and Nuclear Energy Sources in the UAE by Babu, Binish Sam

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High-level synthesis from purely behavioral descriptions by Youssef, H.

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Strength and Ductility of Axially Loaded RC Short Columns Confined with CFRP and GFRP Wraps by Al-Karaghool, Haider Osamah

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Phase transitions of nanoemulsions using ultrasound: Experimental observations by Singh, Ram

“…Additionally, as the size of the emulsion droplet increased, the intensity required for bubble formation decreased. As expected, perfluorohexane emulsions require greater intensity to form cavitating bubbles than perfluoropentane emulsions.…”
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An Efficient Network-on-Chip Architecture Based on the Fat-Tree (FT) Topology by Bouhraoua, A.

“…The adopted topology increases performance without a substantial increase in the routing cost. …”
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Software-Defined-Networking-Based One-versus-Rest Strategy for Detecting and Mitigating Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks in Smart Home Internet of Things Devices by Neder Karmous (19743430)

“…IoT interconnection technology improves and facilitates people’s lives but, at the same time, poses a real threat to their security. …”

Addressing Challenges of Distance Learning in the Pandemic with Edge Intelligence Enabled Multicast and Caching Solution by 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. …”

The downside of cardiac devices insertion by Nature Research (16552612)

“…<p>In the past decade, there has been a significant worldwide increase in the implantation of cardiac devices such as permanent pacemakers, cardiac defibrillators, and biventricular pacemakers, and this trend is likely to continue because of increasing life expectancy. …”

Postprandial lipaemia 10 and 34 hours after playing football: Does playing frequency affect the response? by Darren J. Paul (6905450)

“…Performing three consecutive days of football exercise may offer no greater protective effect for postprandial TG before a period of reduced activity, compared to a single session.…”

Exploiting the Spatio-Temporal Patterns in IoT Data to Establish a Dynamic Ensemble of Distributed Learners by Mehdi Mohammadi (5024105)

“…This increase is 82% less than the 11.3 increase seen in the baseline model. …”

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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Testing and Evaluation of a Smart Irrigation System towards Smart landscaping in UAE by ALSULAIMANI, FATMA

“…It is clear that the population is growing drastically causing an increase in urban development and landscape expansion which as a result increase the demand for water. …”
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The Employment of Generic and Issue-Specific Frames by Farhat, Sally

“…The acknowledgment frame was less likely to be used in news reports that employed the human-interest frame, and more likely in news reports that used the economic consequences frame. …”
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An empirical study on measuring operating efficiency and revenue of real estate assets in the UAE using data envelopment analysis by Alafifi, Abdulrahman

“…The results showed that on average buildings are 75% relatively less efficient in maintenance, in term of revenue generation, than the benchmark set. …”
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Optimal scheduling algorithm for residential building distributed energy source systems using Levy flight and chaos-assisted artificial rabbits optimizer by D., Sathish Kumar

“…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. …”
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Economic Statistical Design Of (X)Over-Bar Control Charts For Systems With Gamma(Lambda, 2) In-Control Times by Al-Oraini, H.A.

“…The study shows that the statistical performance of control charts can be improved significantly, with only a slight increase in the cost, by adding constraints to the optimization problem. …”
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Economic Statistical Design Of (X)Over-Bar Control Charts For Systems With Gamma (Lambda,2) In-Control Times by Al-Oraini, H.A.

“…The study shows that the statistical performance of control charts can be improved significantly, with only a slight increase in the cost, by adding constraints to the optimization problem. …”
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A Comparative study of DAB and Arbitration as methods of resolving Construction Disputes by 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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