Optimum sizing of steam turbines for concentrated solar power plants by Poullikkas, Andreas

“…Finally, although the cost of electricity of a CSP plant with capacities greater than 1MWe is significantly reduced to less than 1US$/kWh, currently such technology can only become economically viable through supporting schemes.…”
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Interactions between riluzole and ABCG2/BCRP transporter by Milane, Aline

“…After repeated doses of riluzole, BCRP activity was increased in CF1 mdr1a (−/−) mice, riluzole uptake was decrease and both BCRP expression and activity were increased in BeWo cells. …”
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Arginine Deprivation in AML Cells Induces Ferroptosis, a Type of Autophagy-Mediated Cell Death by Tohme, Sara

“…Scavenging ROS using NAC significantly decreases cell death but has minimal effect on autophagy activation, suggesting that the accumulation of ROS is downstream of autophagy activation but upstream of cell death. …”
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Kefir exhibits anti‑proliferative and pro‑apoptotic effects on colon adenocarcinoma cells with no significant effects on cell migration and invasion by Khoury, Nathalie

“…Kefir's anti‑cancer potential was tested on CRC cell lines, Caco‑2 and HT‑29, through cytotoxicity, proliferation, and apoptotic assays. …”
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Exploring The Effect of [HuArgI (Co)-PEG5000]-Induced Autophagy on The Migration, Adhesion, And Invasion of U87 Glioblastoma cells by Haidar, Sara

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Coalition game theoretic P2P trading in a distribution network integrity-ensured local energy market by M., Imran Azim

“…The simulation results confirm that participants, both sellers and purchasers, can decrease their energy costs substantially, and the LEM operator can also secure its margin while the distribution network voltages and line congestion are within the prescribed ranges.…”
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Barriers to the Implementation of a Unique Identifier and a Track and Trace System in the Lebanese Pharmaceutical Sector by Rached, Stephanie

“…Through a three-steps operational research, data was collected from local manufacturers through structured or semi-structured interviews, data was also collected form a purposive sample of pharmacies through focus groups and interviews, and finally key informants and policy makers were interviewed for a presentation of results and providing recommendations. …”
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‘Writing’ small states: contextualizing the construct in the Arab Gulf by Larbi Sadiki (14153025)

“…The problematic comes to the fore in a context of these two countries’ increasing regional and international visibility, as well as what seems to be renewed scholarly interest in small states, more generally. …”

Citizenship and National Identity in International Schools in the UAE: A Case Study of Three American Schools in Dubai by Alaryani, Aysha Salmeen

“…The methodology is an interpretive qualitative study using semi-structured interviews, and document analysis. …”
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Investigating High School Boys’ Academic Underachievement in Second Language Classrooms by Samra, Nora

“…This qualitative research adopts two main tools, which are observations and semi-structured interviews with teachers, leaders, and students. …”
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A control algorithm to increase the efficient operation of wind energy conversion systems under extreme wind conditions by Nyam Jargalsaikhan (17380429)

“…<p dir="ltr">This paper aims to increase the power production of gearless permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) based wind energy conversion systems (WECS) in strong (greater than 25 m/s) wind speed regions. In general, most wind turbines cut off when wind speed is over the cut-out rate; as a result, the power generation of the wind farm decreases. …”

A Case Study Exploring ESL Instructors’ Perspectives of Blended Learning in UAE Higher Education by Alawadhi, Azza

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Prevalence and Phylogenetic Analysis of Parvovirus (B19V) among Blood Donors with Different Nationalities Residing in Qatar by Doua Abdelrahman (17280667)

The effect of soft background music, Mozart music, on the three levels of students' engagement. (c2016) by Al Bizri, Dima Bashir

“…The following five instruments were used: SESQ-ENG, TERF-N, semi-structured interviews with the teachers, focus group interviews with the students, and observations. …”
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Magnetorheological Elastomer based torsional vibration isolator for application in a prototype drilling shaft by Thaer M. I. Syam (21250799)

“…Unwanted vibration in machines can cause severe damage and machine breakdown. In this work, a semi-active vibration isolator using MRE is proposed for a potential application in a drilling system to isolate the torsional vibration. …”

Effect of UV Ageing on the fatigue life of bulk polyethylene by Hamza Lamnii (18806002)

“…This study focuses on investigating the effect of UV irradiation on the fatigue properties of bulk semi-crystalline polymer; the low density Polyethylene (LDPE). …”

A Novel Downlink IM-NOMA Scheme by Abdullateef Almohamad (16870074)

“…Hence, the linear relation between the number of served users and the required (orthogonal or semi-orthogonal) resources in the orthogonal multiple access (OMA) schemes is no longer sufficient. …”

Drivers and challenges for implementing ISO 14001 environmental management systems in an emerging Gulf Arab country by Waxin, Marie-France

“…We adopt an explorative, qualitative methodology, using semi-structured interviews with environmental managers in 11 organizations (6 private and 5 public) from different industrial sectors. …”
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An Investigative study to Explore Teachers` Attitude Towards the Inclusion of Learners on the Autism Spectrum Disorder and Learners with Meares Irlen Syndrome in Private Schools in... by ABDULHAMEED, TAGHREED NAEED

“…The first one was an online survey that was designed for the purpose of this research, reflective responses written by teachers of students with Autism and MIS to explore their views of their teaching experience, and the third tool was a group of semi-structured interviews with staff members in special education department to explore the support these departments offer to the teachers of ASD and MIS students to achieve a successful inclusion. …”
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Effectiveness of Scrum Methodology in the management of software development projects by JANAHI, ABDULRAHIM YAQOOB

“…The research was conducted using semi-structured interviews with ten managers from ten different software organizations and an online survey with sixty (60) participants. …”
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