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Remote Hazard Detection System in Oil & Gas Industry
(2014-01-19)
Safety in the oil and gas industry is a crucial part of the working environment. The incidents and accidents over the years in both onshore and offshore oil fields shows it is very important to develop a monitoring system ...
Advanced Engineering Building at AUS
(2014-07-22)
The AUS engineering buildings lack the needed interactive technology systems. These buildings consume huge amounts of non-renewable energy. Classes can hardly accommodate the present number of students. The number of ...
Waste Water Treatment in the UAE
(2014-07-22)
The UAE has scarce water resources and depends heavily on groundwater and desalinated water as its main resources for domestic, commercial and industrial use.
The systems that retrieve water from these resources are ...
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 ...
Embedded Intelligence in Urban Transportation Networks
(2014-01-05)
Since the cities of today must constantly evolve to meet the lifestyles of the people that inhabit it, the objective of this report is to examine possible ways of evolving the cities of today while reducing energy usage ...
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.
The Effects of Analyst Forecast Properties on the Cost of Debt: International Evidence
(American University of Sharjah, 2014-01-02)
This study investigates whether financial analysts play a governance role in international debt markets by examining the link between analyst forecast characteristics and the cost of debt financing. Using a sample of 2,686 ...
The RMB Debate: Empirical Analysis on the Effects of Exchange Rate Shocks in China and Japan
(American University of Sharjah, 2014-02-16)
For a better understanding of the ongoing debates on the RMB, this paper investigates the effects of exchange rate shocks on output and the current account for China and Japan. We use structural vector auto-regression ...
Military Spending and Economic Growth: Evidence from Jordan
(American University of Sharjah, 2014-05-08)
The purpose of this research is to investigate the causal relation between military spending and economic growth in one of the MENA countries, Jordan using annual data over the period 1988-2007. The methodology used in ...
The Road of the Future
(2014-01-19)
Roads are an integral part of a nation’s infrastructure. They have become permanent additions to our geography. With the technological advancements that are heralding the new age, the implementation of smart roads will ...