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Freshwater budget in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf and exchanges at the Strait of Hormuz
(PLOS, 2020-05-29)Excess evaporation within the Persian (also referred as the Arabian) Gulf induces an inverse-estuary circulation. Surface waters are imported, via the Strait of Hormuz, while saltier waters are exported in the deeper layers. ... -
From Russia with Love, Part 1
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From Russia with Love, Part 2
(National Association of Teachers of Singing, 2014) -
From Russia with Love, Part 3
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Fuel recovery from waste oily sludge using solvent extraction
(2010-09)Solvent extraction was used to recover oil from waste sludge generated from the storage of crude petroleum. Different solvent-to-sludge mass ratios were used for two solvents, methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) and LPG condensate ... -
Fueling on the Go
(2014-07-22)Congested petrol stations all around Dubai with infinite queues. Fuel and time wasted while waiting in the infinite queues. In addition, high cost of new petrol stations. -
Functional Connectivity Analysis under Vigilance Decrement and Enhanced Mental States
(2020-06)This thesis proposes electroencephalogram (EEG) functional connectivity and graph theory analysis (GTA) to quantify brain activity under alertness, vigilance decrement, and enhanced mental states in four frequency bands. ... -
Functional fatigue of Ni50.3Ti25Hf24.7 - Heterogeneities and evolution of local transformation strains
(Elsevier, 2017)Shape memory alloys achieve their unique and desirable property of large recoverable strains through phase transformation. The attained magnitudes of transformation strains is strongly affected by the level of deformation ... -
Functionalized Metal Organic Frameworks For Chemotherapy Drug Delivery
(2020-11)Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide, and can be treated by various methods or sometimes a combination of different treatments. Chemotherapy is one of the conventional methods of treatment. Although it is effective ... -
Further investigation of the mechanism of Doxorubicin release from P105 micelles using kinetic models
(Elsevier, 2006)The kinetics of the release of Doxorubicin from Pluronic P105 micelles during ultrasonication and its subsequent re-encapsulation upon cessation of insonation were investigated. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the ... -
The Future of Enrollment: Where Colleges Will Find Their Next Students
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The Future of the Humanities in Today's Financial Markets
(2014-06)In this essay David Lea approaches the decline in the study and teaching of the humanities within the university context from a financial perspective. As humanities departments are either closed down or have their curriculum ... -
Fuzzy Logic Based Patients' Monitoring System
(2013-01)The ever increasing health care costs are becoming a major concern to both, individuals and authorities. This has tempted researchers to seek alternative models to the traditional and costly hospital-based monitoring and ... -
Gas Phase Deposition of Trichloro(1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorooctyl)silane on Silicon Dioxide, by XPS
(American Vacuum Society, 2012)Monolayers of trichloro(lH,1H,2H,2H-perfluorooctyl)silane, Cl3SiCH2CH2(CF2)5CF3, were deposited via chemical vapor deposition onto the native oxide layer on silicon after plasma-cleaning. The samples have high hydrophobicity, ... -
GCC Domestic Wastewater Treatment and Microbial Fuel Cells
(2014-07-22)Water resources are scarce across the gulf region, however water consumption is very high compared to other countries across the world. Also, waste-water production rate is increasing with the increasing water consumption ... -
Gender and Hedging: Translatability of Difference in Agatha Christie's Third Girl
(2015-02)As a linguistic tool, hedging has been examined by logicians and scholars to explore the vagueness and imprecision it creates in discourse. Generally, men are said to be more accurate, precise, assertive and confident in ... -
A General Framework for Sustainability Assessment of Manufacturing Processes
(2018-11)The manufacturing sector has a major impact on the three sustainability dimensions represented by social, economic, and environmental aspects. Most of the work on sustainability assessment in the field of manufacturing is ... -
Genre Within Genre: A Discourse Perspective On The Translation Of Existentialist Literature
(2014-04)"There are important rhetorical and stylistic effects produced by describing a situation as not X rather than simply positively describing the same situation" (Sweetser, 2006, p. 313). This thesis is aimed at investigating ...