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Religiosity, neglected risk and asset returns: theory and evidence from Islamic finance industry
(American University of Sharjah, 2018-11)
This paper studies the sociological influence of religion on the risk and return in the financial markets with particular context of Islamic finance, a rapidly emerging and expanding financial industry. The paper builds a ...
Expatriate time to proficiency: individual antecedents and the moderating effect of home country
(Emerald Insight, 2019-09-09)
The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct impact of individual variables (cultural openness, social orientation, willingness to communicate, confidence in own technical abilities, active stress resistance, prior ...
The effect of pegylation and targeting moieties on the ultrasound-mediated drug release from liposomes
(ACS Publications, 2019)
The use of targeted liposomes encapsulating chemotherapy drugs enhances the specific targeting of cancer cells, thus, reducing the side effects of these agents and providing a more patient-friendly treatment. Targeted ...
Closed-form Exact and Asymptotic Expressions for the Symbol Error Rate and Channel Capacity of the H-function Fading Channel
(IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, 2016-04)
In this paper, we derive closed-form exact and asymptotic expressions for the symbol error rate (SER) as well as channel capacity when communicating over the Fox's H-function fading channel. The SER expressions are obtained ...
A New Data-Based Dust Estimation Unit for PV Panels
(MDPI, 2020)
Solar photovoltaic (PV) is playing a major role in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) smart grid infrastructure. However, one of the challenges facing PV-based energy systems is the dust accumulation on solar panels. Dust ...
Corrosion Behavior of Common Metals in Eutectic Ionic Liquids
(International Journal of ELECTROCHEMICAL SCIENCE, 2019)
The corrosion behavior of six choline chloride-based eutectic solvents namely, ChCl-Ur, ChCl-EG, ChCl-Gl, ChCl-MA, ChCl-Ph and ChCl-TG towards copper, mild steel and stainless steel 316 have been investigated. The effect ...
Sustainable Management of Organic Wastes in Sharjah, UAE through Co-Composting
(MDPI, 2020)
Daily human activities and vast green areas produce substantial amounts of organic wastes that end up in landfills with minimal treatment. In addition to the problems associated with landfills, disposal through this method ...
Chip Level Implementation of a Digital Radar System
(2015-05)
In this work, an S-Band radar system based on stretch processing technique is developed at chip level. The novelty in this work lies in providing an integrated, compact and miniaturized radar system chipset. The radar has ...
Folic Acid Quenches Doxorubicin Fluorescence Letter to the Editor
(American Scientific Publishers, 2012)
Hybrid Power System Design for Autonomous Ground Robots
(2018-11)
The interest in mobile robots has increased rapidly due to the complicated tasks a mobile robot can accomplish. An efficient robot power supply system can increase the robot range of travel. Different power management ...