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Impacts of COVID-19 on the Use of Digital Technology in Construction Projects in the UAE
(MDPI, 2022)The construction industry has been incorporating digital technology over the last two decades, albeit gradually, as “technology-push” continues to overcome customary and traditional passivity typical in the sector. The ... -
Impacts of Feeder Reconfiguration on Renewable Resources Allocation in Balanced and Unbalanced Distribution Systems
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)In this article, network reconfiguration and distributed generation allocation in distribution networks are dealt with simultaneously while imposing an objective of minimizing energy loss. The proposed method, which is ... -
The Impacts of the Informal Sector on the Economics of the Municipal Waste Management System in Lagos State: An Overview of its Income Generation Potentials for the Vulnerable Urban Poor in Developing Countries
(International Knowledge Press, 2017-04-07)The dustbin economy is prevalent in most major cities of the developing countries especially in Lagos State Nigeria, where the urban poor partake in informal economic activities of waste materials to earn a living. This ... -
Implementation of a Smart Storage System for Fruit Quality Preservation
(2021-02)Food packaging has evolved throughout the decades from being a simple container to hold food, to being an active agent in the role of preserving the product’s shelf life. However, according to the Food and Agriculture ... -
Implementation of the Hyperloop in the U.A.E. Eilin
(2016-11)The rapid increase in the UAE population has increased the need of transportation which results in Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions . Therefore, this may lead to devastating results if there was no transportation system that ... -
Implemting the maglev train among the UAE, KSA and Qatar
(2014-01-19)Implementing a maglev train among the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia involves tackling engineering problems of various disciplines. Since our team consists of members with chemical, mechanical ... -
Implications of Cost Behavior for Analysts' Earnings Forecasts
(American University of Sharjah, 2014-03-27)Recent work in management accounting offers several novel insights into firms' cost behavior. This study explores whether financial analysts appropriately incorporate information on two types of cost behavior in predicting ... -
Implicit Vocabulary Acquisition in Project-Based Learning with iPad Technology
(2015-06)This study aims to investigate the pedagogical impact of extensive reading and listening in project-based learning on the implicit acquisition of vocabulary. The study involved twenty-seven female ESL student participants ... -
The Importance of Acetonitrile in the Pharmaceutical Industry and Opportunities for its Recovery from Waste
(2012-02)Acetonitrile is regarded as a key solvent in the pharmaceutical industry. However, the volatility in acetonitrile supply in recent years, coupled with its relatively poor environmental profile, has presented significant ... -
The Importance of Protecting Cultural Capital in Community Development
(2022-07)Community development, which aims to increase the agency and solidarity of community members in order to improve the well-being of communities as a whole as a well as the individual members of those communities. Community ... -
Important Factors to Consider for Bilingual Education in the UAE
(2008-06)Despite the great number of schools which claim to foster bilingualism in the UAE, the voices of many educators and parents in the media reflect the difficulties that these schools face in trying to provide balanced bilingual ... -
Improved Sewage Treatment
(2014-07-22)The increasing population of recent decades and the development of industry has generated significant waste materials. Sewage is mainly a liquid waste containing some solids, produced by humans: feces, urine, laundry waste ... -
Improvement of Dialysis Dosing Using Big Data Analytics
(2021-04)Data is transforming the healthcare sector and making it more dependent on data science. Data science is becoming a critical tool that allows looking at the data generated from various sources, such as patient health ... -
Improvement of greenhouse by reducing gas emissions using replacement policy
(2013-01)This study aims to build a vehicle replacement model for air quality improvement by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. The model based on linear programming with the objective to reduce the total cost considering ... -
Improvements on Kidney Dialysis Treatment
(2014-01-19)The percentage of people suffering from kidney related diseases is alarmingly increasing. The current treatment for such diseases is the kidney dialysis that is proven to be an impractical solution for the problem. Thus, ... -
Improving INS/GPS Integration for Mobile Robotics Applications
(2008-04)As unmanned systems become more and more important, reliability and integrity issues become definite, specially when being implemented with low-cost (or sometimes are referred to as commercial-of-the shelf or COTS) sensors ... -
Improving the Efficacy of Anticancer Drugs via Encapsulation and Acoustic Release
(Bentham Science Publishers, 2018)Conventional chemotherapeutics lack the specificity and controllability, thus may poison healthy cells while attempting to kill cancerous ones. Newly developed nano-drug delivery systems have shown promise in delivering ...