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The Building Blocks of Business Contracts’ Recitals: A Corpus-Induced Approach to Assessing Homogeneity
(2022-12)By following a bottom-up approach based on principles of induction, the current study aims to provide the most typical lexical units of the provisional element of recitals in business contracts. In doing so, a novel ... -
Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Systems
(2015-02-01)Would transparent photovoltaic cells contribute in producing at least part of the energy consumed when applied on high rise towers. -
Bullwhip Effect Reduction and Improved Business Performance through Guanxi: An Empirical Study
(Elsevier, 2014-12)Many operations managers have realized the potential of guanxi to facilitate business transactions. Likewise, operations management researchers have looked at the negative impact caused by the bullwhip effect on excess ... -
Business in War Zones: How Companies Promote Peace in Iraq
(Springer, 2017-08)The private sector is vital to building and sustaining peace. These efforts are often recognized as “Business for Peace” or “Peace through Commerce.” Academic research on Business for Peace is almost twenty years old and ... -
Business Network Information Ecological Chain: A New Tool for Building Ecological Business Environment in IoT Era
(Emerald, 2016-03)The purpose of this paper is to present a new tool, business network information ecological chain (BNIEC) aiming to solve the current information problems in business network, make more profits to business websites and to ... -
Business Process Re-engineering Strategies for United Arab Emirates’ Public Organizations
(2022-04)Organizations in general, and public in specific, are striving to achieve excellence in their performance and gain a competitive edge through process improvement. However, the need for process restructuring is inevitable ... -
Can High-Order Convergence of European Option Prices be Achieved with Common CRR-Type Binomial Trees?
(Springer, 2015)Considering European call options, we prove that CRR-type binomial trees systematically underprice the value of these options, when the spot price is not near the money. However, we show that, with a volatility premium to ... -
Can the Full Spectrum Fitting Technique correctly detect Age Spreads in Young Star Clusters?
(IOP Science, 2019)Integrated spectra of star clusters have proven to be accurate tools for obtaining age, metallicity and reddening of extragalactic clusters for which resolved data is not available. In this work we investigate the possibility ... -
Capacity choice and water management in hydroelectricity systems
(2011-03)This paper proposes a simple two-period model that captures the seasonal pattern of water inflows and electricity demand observed in many countries where hydropower is a major source of electricity supply. The model ... -
Capacity of Fox's H-function Fading Channel with Adaptive Transmission
(Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2016)Novel closed-form exact expressions for the capacity of the recently-introduced Fox's H-function fading channel are derived. The expressions are obtained assuming different types of adaptive transmission strategies, namely, ... -
Carbohydrate-Functionalized Liposomes In Cancer Therapy
(Bentham Science, 2020)Existing cancer treatments are often accompanied by adverse side effects that can greatly reduce the quality of life of cancer patients; this sets the platform for the development and application of nanocarrier-based ... -
Carbon Capture and Sequestration
(2015-02-01)Global warming is continuous problem facing our world today. Carbon sequestration could be the solution to resolving this problem. -
Carbon dioxide adsorption in microwave-synthesized metal organic framework CPM-5: Equilibrium and kinetics study
(Elsevier, 2013-07)The adsorption equilibrium and diffusion of CO2 in CPM-5 (crystalline porous materials) were experimentally studied using a volumetric approach at three different temperatures 273, 298, and 318 K and gas pressures up to ... -
Carbon dioxide capturing technologies: a review focusing on metal organic framework materials (MOFs)
(2014-04)In this study, a relevant literature has been reviewed focusing on the carbon dioxide capture technologies in general, such as amine-based absorption as conventional carbon dioxide capturing technology, aqueous ammonia-based ... -
Career-ready education: beyond the skills gap, tools and tactics for an evolving economy
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Cargo Delivery Box System for modeling the Last mile of Business to Consumer Logistics
(2019-02)The current business trends suggest that the e-commerce business in the UAE is increasing rapidly, which means that the supply chain facilities must be improved to sustain efficiency and profitability. The last mile is ... -
A case study of a college-wide first-year undergraduate engineering course
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)Introductory engineering courses are either programme specific or expose students to engineering as a broad discipline by including materials from various engineering programmes. A common introductory engineering course ... -
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