The effect of building height diversity on outdoor microclimate conditions in hot climate. A case study of Dubai-UAE by Shareef, Sundus

“…Previous studies focused on traditional methods of increasing the shading effect, e.g. buildings' height/canyon width (H/W) ratio. …”
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The impact of switching from fluorescent lights to full-spectrum fluorescent and LED lighting in schools: An experiment in Victoria Int’l School in Sharjah by SEJARI, NOURHAN JAMAL

“…The issue of color rendering and temperature is becoming increasingly important as high efficiency lamps and government regulations are enforced. …”
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Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agricultural Fields through Bioresource Management by Rimsha Khan (17542128)

“…However, the BD plots had the least emissions of CO₂ followed by BC plots, and the emissions increased with an increase in atmospheric/soil temperature. …”

Anomalous Pressure Dependence of the Charge Density Wave and Fermi Surface Reconstruction in BaFe₂Al₉ by Mahmoud Abdel-Hafiez (1655398)

“…Fermi liquid (FL) fits to the low-temperature resistivity reveal an increase in residual resistivity and a nonmonotonic evolution of the FL coefficient, indicating a pressure-induced Fermi surface (FS) reconstruction. …”

Transport, magnetic and structural properties of(Tl0.5Pb0.5)Sr2-xCexCa2Cu3Oy compounds by Hamdan, N.M.

“…As cerium content was increased, the transition temperature increased up to about 6 K when x=0.1. …”
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Reusing Minarets as a Passive Cooling (Wind Catcher/Solar Chimney): A Case Study in the Emirate of Sharjah by ABDALLA, TALIB ABDALLA ALI

“…The study revealed the possibility, benefit, and feasibility of the idea of repurposing the minaret in reducing overall energy consumption and the impact of thermal comfort elements such as air temperature, relative humidity, wind movement, mean radiant temperature and CFD in the process of repurposing the minaret.…”
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Comparative Analysis of Thermal Conditions and Comfort Between Modern and Traditional Districts in Hot-Arid Climate: Case Study in Ajman-UAE by Salameh, Muna

“…Moreover, this study made an evaluation and comparison of the outdoor air temperature and thermal comfort between the traditional and modern urban districts to highlight the passive design solutions that increase the thermal effectiveness in the traditional urban fabrics, as some of these passive design solutions can be used to modify the thermal conditions in the modern ones. …”
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Urban Geometry: The Effect of Height Diversity and Buildings Configuration on Thermal Performance and Cooling Load at Urban Scale. A Case Study in Dubai / UAE by SHAREEF, SUNDUS LUAY

“…The reduction of 1.9 ͦ C in outdoor air temperature, and 4.9 % in cooling load is achieved by increasing the H/W ratio of the main canyons from 0.96 to 1.2. …”
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Thermal Properties of TiO2NP/CNT/LDPE Hybrid Nanocomposite Films by Moustafa Zagho (18059980)

“…The melting temperature (Tm) was not changed after introducing the CNTs and CNT/TONP hybrid fillers. …”

Measured enthalpies of adsorption of boron-doped activated carbons by Beckner, M.

“…Initial room temperature experiments show a 20% increase in the hydrogen excess adsorption per surface area compared to the undoped material. …”
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Fabrication of Ag₂O/WO₃ based sensors for detection of hydrogen sulfide by Ahmad Al-Sarraj (17151007)

“…The results can be attributed to the decrease in the energy bandgap due to increasing the Ag content and the strong interaction between the Ag and WO₃ and silver to silver oxide transformation at low annealing temperatures. …”

Solar power forecasting beneath diverse weather conditions using GD and LM-artificial neural networks by Sharma, Neetan

“…Because key factors such as sudden movement of the clouds, instantaneous deviation of temperature in ambiance, the increased proportion of relative humidity and uncertainty in the wind velocities, haziness, and rains cause the undesired up and down ramping rates, thereby affecting the solar power generation to a greater extent. …”
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Nanospace-engineered carbons for reversible storage of natural gas and hydrogen by Romanos, J.

“…Early results on optimization of gravim. excess adsorption for undoped carbons, with KOH activation: 1.Excess adsorption and gravimetric storage capacity both increase with increasing KOH:C ratio and activation temperature. …”
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Reactive Extrusion of Polyethylene Terephthalate Waste and Investigation of Its Thermal and Mechanical Properties after Treatment by Mahmoud A. Mohsin (19691662)

“…Nanoindentation results revealed that both the mechanical characteristics, elastic modulus and hardness, decrease with increasing EG concentration. On the other hand, the melt flow index of treated PET exhibited an increase with increasing EG concentration in the PET matrix.…”

Model Based Control of Amine Sweetening Unit by Al Hammadi, Jasim

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Lateral extension induces columnar mesomorphism in crucifix shaped quinoxalinophenanthrophenazines by Wex, Brigitte

“…Only derivatives with 4-tert-butyl-phenyl groups display columnar liquid crystal phases over wide ranges of temperature while all other TQPPs are not liquid crystalline except for the compound with tert-butyl groups and phytanyloxy side-chains that shows a Colr mesophase over a temperature range of 26 °C. …”
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Dielectric Properties of Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) Prepared at Different Molarities of NaOH by Assi, B.

“…The grain size, measured from TEM images, decreased with the increase of the molarity of NaOH. Plots of the real part of the dielectric constant ε′, the imaginary part of the dielectric constant ε'', loss tangent tan δ and ac conductivity σac as functions of frequency and temperature, respectively, were obtained. …”
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A novel stochastic dynamic modeling for photovoltaic systems considering dust and cleaning by Cheema, Armaghan

“…This error can be reduced by increasing the number of states, which affects the computational time. …”
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Optimizing recycled PET 3D printing using Taguchi method for improved mechanical properties and dimensional precision by Hiba Mohammad Hafiz (17545746)

“…<p dir="ltr">Rapid plastic consumption has increased global plastic waste, with polyethylene terephthalate (PET) widely used in packaging. …”

Liquid Fuel Production from Pyrolysis of Waste Tires: Process Simulation, Exergetic Analysis, and Life Cycle Assessment by Altayeb, Ryan K.

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