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Mitigating soil water deficit using organic waste compost and commercial water retainer: a comparative study under semiarid conditions
Published 2023“…<p dir="ltr">Semiarid regions have particularly been confronted with climate change effects reflected by the consistent decrease of rainfall and increase of evapotranspiration. …”
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What drives cryptocurrency pump and dump schemes: Coin versus market factors?
Published 2024“…These include lower market capitalization, lower trading volume, greater social media popularity, increased developer activity, and fewer exchanges trading them. …”
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Gaining or Losing Team Ball Possession: The Dynamics of Momentum Perception and Strategic Choice in Football Coaches
Published 2019“…Nonetheless, both variables displayed asymmetrical effects, in the sense that: (1) the strength of positive PM appeared to be easier to decrease than to increase; and (2) the greater the positive PM (or the negative PM), the lesser (or the greater) the coaches’ tendency to make a change in the organization of their teams. …”
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The Impact of a Teacher Induction Programme on the Retention of Teachers: A Study in a Private School in Abu Dhabi
Published 2021“…The key findings identified further areas that need to be modified in the programme, including subject-specific training, a greater emphasis on the mentor system and greater levels of support from the leadership team. …”
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Alternative energy science and policy
Published 2011“…It is concluded that in situations where the cost and pollution functions of a fuel are unknown, subsidies, mandates and caps on the fuel might result in increased or decreased greenhouse gas emissions; on the other hand, a tax or cap on carbon dioxide results in the largest decrease possible of greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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Thermodynamic analysis of gravity assisted solar-powered reverse osmosis unit for greenhouses situated in a depleted zone
Published 2021“…A solar-powered Rankine cycle is used to meet the energy demands of the RO and absorption cooling units. …”
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Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Instructional Delivery Modalities, and the Role of School Leaders: a Study among Selected Private Schools in Abu Dhabi.
Published 2022“…It explores the best practices that school leaders can apply to meet the teachers’ job satisfaction. For example, the interviews recommended that school leaders are invited to build an active channel of communication with their teachers, share the decision-making process with them, decrease the workload, raise the teachers’ autonomy, and establish a remuneration system.…”
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Location matters: spatial dynamics of tumor-infiltrating T cell subsets is prognostic in colon cancer
Published 2024“…Spatial distribution analysis elucidated that proliferative T cells, characterized by Ki67 expression, and Granzyme B-expressing T cells were predominantly located within the tumor epithelium. We demonstrated an increase in immune cell density and a decrease in the distance of CD3<sup>+</sup>CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells to the nearest tumor cell, in the immune active, ICR High, immune subtypes. …”
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Should the Outsiders be Left Out? Director Stock Options, Expectations and Earnings Management
Published 2012“…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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Finite Element Analysis of Machining Lightweight Syntactic Foams
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Testing and Evaluation of a Smart Irrigation System Towards Smart Landscaping in UAE
Published 2019“…In the GCC region, water is becoming a threat to the impact of climate change and the lack of water resources. The main source of water is mostly desalination plants. …”
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Utilizing Blockchain Technology in the UAE’s Construction Industry: Contract Administration and Management of Disputes and Claims
Published 2023“…However, due to the large number of participants in single construction projects, the centralisation of authority, poor contract administration, lack of database and system interoperability, the construction industry has been unable to digitise, leading to delays and cost overruns, and disputes. …”
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Causes of Delay in Construction Projects in Oil and Gas Construction Industry
Published 2017“…With regard to design, the contractor’s need to decrease construction costs through a cheaper design was found to be a factor in design changes. …”
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What drives cryptocurrency pump and dump schemes: Coin versus market factors?
Published 2024“…These include lower market capitalization, lower trading volume, greater social media popularity, increased developer activity, and fewer exchanges trading them. …”
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Grid electricity demand reduction through applying passive and active strategies for a house in Baghdad, Iraq
Published 2013“…The research found that the use of Solar DHW is not worth comparing with the lack of PV energy production that is caused especially in hot climates. …”
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Teaching behaviour change skills to undergraduate medical students
Published 2013“…However, disparities and lack of focus in existing social and behavioural science curricula may mitigate against the prioritization of this skill being established.…”
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Solar water heating in Lebanon
Published 2006“…The domestic sector, which is a main energy-consuming sector, stands to benefit the most from the implementation of such systems. Despite the lack of encouraging legislation, the solar thermal market has been continuously growing over the past decade. …”
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Exploring the potential of applying Sustainable Retrofitting Policies & Regulations for existing low-rise small-scale Residential Buildings (Villas) in Dubai, UAE
Published 2020“…Green retrofit for existing buildings has now become as one of the effective options to decrease energy consumption worldwide. It is crucial to develop sustainable retrofitting policies and regulations for the existing old villas since there is lack of regulations to retrofit old existing low scale residential buildings like villas in Dubai. …”
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Effect of climate change on the annual energy consumption of a single family house in British Columbia
Published 2018“…This paper investigates the effect of climate change on the energy consumption of a single-family house with different energy efficiency levels, i.e. bylaw to meet current National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings (NECB), and passive house (PH) to meet the PH requirements under four climate zones in British Columbia, Canada. …”
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