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Beyond the Ordinary: FYE Initiatives at the AUS Library
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Bibles and Bathrooms: Intersex Variation Awareness Among College-Aged American Christians
(Sage, 2022)The extant literature concerning the existence and experience of the LGBTQIA+ community in the United States sometimes overshadows that of people with intersex variations (Jones, 2018). While many people with intersex ... -
Big Data Energy Management, Analytics and Visualization for Residential Areas
(IEEE, 2020)With the rapid development of IoT based home appliances, it has become a possibility that home owners share with Utilities in the management of home appliances energy consumption. Thus, the proposed work empowers home ... -
Big Data in the MENA Region: The Next Path Towards Socio-economic and Cultural Development
(American Anthropological Association, 2017)As elsewhere, big data is perceived as central to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) nations’ socio-economic and cultural development. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, by virtue of its advanced information ... -
BIM as a Pedagogical Tool for Teaching HVAC Systems to Architecture Students
(ASCE, 2019)Understanding the basics of Environmental Control Systems including HVAC systems is required in architectural curricula. One of the challenges of learning this subject is the nonfamiliarity of the students with the components ... -
BIM for Energy Modelling of Green Buildings
(2018-11)Energy conservation has become a priority for many governments and sustainable building standards such as LEEDS and Estidama. This is largely due to the high energy demand of buildings and the rising concerns over the ... -
Bingham Fluid Flow in the Entrance Region of a Pipe
(2019-05)The isothermal laminar flow of a Bingham fluid in the entrance region of a circular pipe has been studied previously by many authors using different approaches. As current research stands, the momentum integral approach ... -
Biodegradable Magnesium Alloys for Biomedical Implants: Properties, Challenges, and Surface Modifications with a Focus on Orthopedic Fixation Repair
(MDPI, 2023-12-19)Biomedical devices made from high-modulus and hardness materials play a critical role in enhancing the quality of life for people with bone-related ailments. While these materials have been successfully used in orthopedic ... -
A biofilter design tool for hydrogen sulfide removal calculations
(2012-08)Biofilters have been used for decades in the management of nuisance odors that are emitted from the collection and treatment systems of municipal sewage works. Typically hydrogen sulfide (H2S) has been identified as the ... -
Bioluminescence Imaging Applications in Cancer: A Comprehensive Review
(IEEE, 2020)Bioluminescence imaging (BLI), an optical preclinical imaging modality, is an invaluable imaging modality due to its low-cost, high throughput, fast acquisition times, and functional imaging capabilities. BLI is being ... -
Biomarker Discovery Utilizing Big Data: The Case of Diabetes in United Arab Emirates
(2022-05)Diabetes Mellitus (DM) received substantial attention for exploring its mechanism as expected to be the seventh primary reason for death worldwide by 2030. The hallmark of DM leads to damaging effects on many organ systems, ... -
Biomedical Applications of Metal−Organic Frameworks for Disease Diagnosis and Drug Delivery: A Review
(MDPI, 2021)Metal−organic frameworks (MOFs) are a novel class of porous hybrid organic−inorganic materials that have attracted increasing attention over the past decade. MOFs can be used in chemical engineering, materials science, and ... -
Biometric Identification Based on Eye Movement and Iris Features Using Task-Driven and Task-Independent Stimuli
(2013-06)This work investigates the feasibility of using the dynamic features of the eyes for biometric identification. Identifying individuals using eye movements is typically limited by a low accuracy, thus preventing this technique ... -
Biophysical model of coral population connectivity in the Arabian/Persian Gulf
(Elsevier, 2020)The coral reef ecosystems of the Arabian/Persian Gulf (the Gulf ) are facing profound pressure from climate change (extreme temperatures) and anthropogenic (land-use and population-related) stressors. Increasing degradation ... -
Block copolymer micelles as long-circulating drug delivery vehicles
(Elsevier, 2022)Medical applications of nanotechnology have attracted growing interest in recent years, particularly in the field of drug delivery, because of nanotechnology’s ability to overcome the limitations of existing treatment ... -
Bond Stress-Slip Models and Behavior of Aluminum Alloys-Concrete Interface
(2017-01)In the last few decades, different techniques have been used for strengthening reinforced concrete (RC) structures to increase their strength and stiffness. One of these techniques involves the use of steel and fiber ... -
Bootstrap-based Aggregations and their Stability in Feature Selection
(2022-06)With the rapid development of technology and the Internet, datasets have grown increasingly larger in size and dimensionality. As a result, feature selection has become a critical reprocessing tool in machine learning ... -
Both decreasing interstructural space size and increasing total cover increase shrimp abundance on artificial structures deployed in a UAE seagrass bed
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-01)We tested whether total cover and interstructural space size affect the abundances of mobile fauna colonizing small artificial structures deployed in a seagrass bed near Dubai, UAE, during May and September 2011. There ...