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The Roots of Misalignment: Insights on Strategy Implementation from a System Dynamics Perspective
(2019)
This essay advances the study of strategic alignment by explaining how and why misalignment occurs. We begin by summarizing why IT and business strategies evolve in unintended ways, a phenomenon known as strategic drift. ...
Labour localisation and human resource management practices in the Gulf countries
(Edwar Elgar, 2016)
The chapter is organized as follows: first, we examine the literature on core issues pertinent to this theme, such as demographic and labor-market characteristics in the GCC, the objectives of these localisation programs, ...
Modeling of Friction Stirring
(2018-11)
The last two decades have witnessed significant advances in friction stir welding (FSW). This solid-state welding process was originally used for joining Aluminum alloys before being extended to other metallic and non-metallic ...
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 ...
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 ...
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)