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Ideal Safe Building
(2015-02-01)Natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, and excessive winds are increasing worldwide. Areas on the north coast of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) such as Ras alKhaimah and Fujairah, in addition to some parts ... -
Identifying Employee Turnover Risks Using Modified Quality Function Deployment
(2014-06)Employee turnover is costly in terms of direct costs and indirect costs faced by organizations. Thus, researchers have investigated turnover for more than two decades. Different methods have been proposed to identify ... -
The Ideological Stamp: Translation of Political Discourse in News Media
(2011-06)The aim of this thesis is to examine the way the ideological stamp manipulates the translation of political discourse in news media and how it affects accuracy in the translation process. In the ideal world, news media, ... -
Ideology in the Language of the Press from the Perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis in English/Arabic Translation
(2009-11)Due to the excessive weight placed on language as a formal system, traditional linguistics has not proved to be of much help to translation practice or translation theory. Much more productive are models of language that ... -
Ideology in the Translation of Legal Treaties
(2012-04)The British Colonial Era produced a number of international treaties, such as the 1820 General Treaty of Peace with the Arab Tribes. The treaty produced in English was translated into Arabic three times. This study analyzes ... -
Ideology in Translating Children's Literature into Arabic
(2006)Children's Literature is perhaps the most controversial genre of writing, not simply because of its content but also because of its origin and purpose. Long ago literature consisted of legends, fables, and myths. None were ... -
Ideology in Translating Religion Related Discourse
(2006-07)In this thesis, the importance of equivalence in the translation of religious discourse is discussed and the role of ideology in translation is analyzed. It is assumed that equivalence, defined as the relation that holds ... -
The impact of bank competition and concentration on industrial growth
(Elsevier, 2014-07)This paper studies whether bank competition affects growth of non-banking industries. We find that non-cooperative bank competition and stability promote industrial growth robustly. Bank concentration may also affect growth ... -
The Impact of CALL on the Learning and Teaching of ESL Writing: A Study of Students' and Teachers' Attitudes
(2011-01)Computers and computer technologies are gradually becoming ubiquitous tools in some English second language writing classrooms. The aim of this study was to examine the perceptions and attitudes of secondary- and ... -
The Impact of CLIL on Arabic, English and Content Learning of Arab High School Students in the UAE
(2016-05)The present study investigated the impact of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach, as applied in a private school in the UAE, on students' L2 learning, L1 knowledge and content learning. It also ... -
Impact of Energy Storage Systems on the Management of Fault Current at LV Network with High Penetration of Distributed Generation
(International Journal of Smart Grid and Clean Energy, 2017-07)Penetration level of renewable energy such as solar and wind power into the grid is sharply increasing worldwide. This paper investigates the impact of the increasing level of distributed generation (DG) on the distribution ... -
Impact of English on Young Arabs' Use of Arabic in the UAE
(2009-12)English language education has become a vital part of many educational systems in the world. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the official language is Arabic, but with the diversity of the population, English is used as ... -
Impact of Exclusive Bus Lanes on Traffic Performance in Urban Areas
(2015-06)In recent years, increased traffic congestion and shortage of available funds to build new roads have created a challenging situation. One of the possible solutions to this challenge is to manage the transportation ... -
The impact of expatriate's home country culture on their time to proficiency : empirical evidence from the Indian context
(Tennessee State University College of Business, 2016)The time required by expatriates to become proficient in their new positions is important to both employers and employees. The existing literature on expatriate success is largely blind to what may be significant factors ... -
The Impact of Innovation on The Competitiveness of Building Construction Projects
(2019-07)The construction industry contributes immensely to the socioeconomic development of nations by building extensive infrastructure and production facilities. Additionally, this industry, being the largest employer worldwide, ... -
Impact of Lateral Force-Resisting System and Design/Construction Practices on Seismic Performance and Cost of Tall Buildings in Dubai, UAE
(Springer, 2013-09)The local design and construction practices in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), together with Dubai's unique rate of development, warrant special attention to the selection of Lateral Force-Resisting Systems (LFRS). This ... -
Impact of Using Indirect Left-turns on Signalized Intersections
(2015-06)Most developing areas are suffering from traffic congestion problems. The majority of traffic delays in urban areas occur at traffic signals. Over the past few decades, several transportation agencies have been applying ... -
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 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 ...
