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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 ... -
Brain Connectivity Analysis Under Semantic Vigilance and Enhanced Mental States
(MDPI, 2019)In this paper, we present a method to quantify the coupling between brain regions under vigilance and enhanced mental states by utilizing partial directed coherence (PDC) and graph theory analysis (GTA). The vigilance state ... -
Brain Source Localization in the Presence of Leadfield Perturbations
(2015-05)Brain source localization enables us to localize different areas of the brain that are activated during any mental activity. This thesis makes use of Electroencephalography (EEG) recordings which is an important noninvasive ... -
Breast Density Estimation in Mammograms Using Unsupervised Image Segmentation
(2023-11)Breast cancer, the most prevalent cancer in women as of 2020, poses significant health risks. Early detection is crucial for effective management, and mammography serves as a key screening method. Mammograms, produced ... -
Bridge Deck Inspection Utilizing Infrared Thermal Imaging Technique
(2014-01)Infrared Thermography (IRT) is a promising Non-destructive Evaluation (NDE) technique that has been widely used in bridge deck inspection. It is a quick and easy alternative to provide preliminary information of possible ... -
Bridge Structural Health Monitoring Using Mobile Sensor Networks
(2022-12)Vehicles moving along a bridge will dynamically interact with the bridge's vibrations. An acceleration sensor on the vehicle can record these vibrations’ signals resulting from different sources of interaction, namely, the ... -
Buckling of Inhomogeneous and Functionally Graded Columns
(2014-07)Buckling is an instability encountered in a wide variety of problems, both in engineering and biology. Almost all engineering structures are designed with adequate safety factors to prevent failure due to buckling, yielding, ... -
Buckling of Pretwisted Steel Columns
(2015-01)Buckling is a mode of failure that is mainly observed in compression members due to structural instability. Inducing a natural pretwist along the length of a column section makes the column have a different resistance at ... -
Build it Green
(2014-01-19)In our research we have identified three main problems in conventional buildings which could be addressed by green buildings. The three problems are: CO2 Emissions, Temperature Increase and Pure Water Shortage. These factors ... -
Building A Passive Thermal Management System Using Phase Change Material Embedded In Porous Media
(2021-12)This work aims to investigate the heat transfer effectiveness of different phase change materials (PCMs) when infused in plate-based heatsinks with a fixed volume fraction of thermal conductivity enhancer (TCE). Moreover, ... -
Building Artificial Mountains to Increase Precipitation in the UAE
(2016-11)In the recent years temperature has been rising noticeably in the UAE. The raise of temperature has been causing a raise of humidity level. Artificial mountains can be built to decrease the humidity level and promote ... -
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 ...