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    • Performance of Micelle-Clay Filters for Removing Pollutants and Bacteria from Tertiary Treated Wastewater 

      Khamis, Mustafa; Karaman, Rafik; Qurie, Mohannad; Nusseibeh, Sameh; Abbadi, Jehad; Manassra, Adnan; Nir, Shlomo (2012-02)
      Filters filled with a micelle-clay complex mixed with sand were employed to investigate their purification capability of tertiary treated wastewater with loose UF-membranes. The UF membrane was hollow fiber with a molecular ...

    • Performance of Olive Waste Ash Concrete Exposed to Thermal Cycling 

      Al-Akhras, Nabil; Attom, Mousa; Al-Akhras, Khaled (2010-05)
      This paper explores the influence of olive waste ash (OWA) on the performance of concrete to thermal cycling. The performance of concrete to thermal cycling was evaluated by measuring the compressive strength, electrical ...

    • Performance of Structures Exposed to Extreme High Temperature - An Overview 

      Yehia, Sherif; Kashwani, Ghanim (2013-09)
      Strength, durability and stability are the main criteria for material selection and design in the construction industry. Consequently, development and enhancement of construction materials is always an active and attractive ...

    • Personnel contributions to UN and non-UN peacekeeping missions A public goods approach 

      Gaibulloev, Khusrav; George, Justin; Sandler, Todd; Shimizu, Hirofumi (2015)
      Based on spatial panel regressions for 1990-2012, this article draws publicness differences between peacekeeping personnel contributions to UN and non-UN peacekeeping operations. The analysis shows that UN missions are ...

    • Pharmaceutical wastewater treatment using graphene oxide derivatives 

      Zaka, Awais (2019-12)
      The rising problem of pharmaceutical contamination in different water bodies calls for a swift action in the treatment and removal of these emerging pollutants from water using advanced methods. Adsorption is employed as ...

    • Phosphorus and Algae Removal via Adsorption 

      Ghadban, Ahmad A. (2012-01)
      Algal bloom, commonly known as Red Tide in coastal areas, has become one of the major problems facing desalination plants due to the high biomass concentration of microalgae associated with it. It causes operational problems ...

    • Phosphorus Recovery from the Wastewater Stream - Necessity and Possibilities 

      Krüger, Oliver; Fattah, Kazi Parvez; Adam, Christian (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      The annual demand of phosphorus (P) for fertilizer use is more than 550,000 t in Germany. Several of the input streams like mineral fertilizer produced from phosphate rock or sewage sludge are problematic due to contamination ...

    • Photocatalytic UV degradation of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofuran in the presence of silver zeolite 

      Samara, Fatin; Al Shamsi, Maitha; Kanaan, Faisal; Kanan, Sofian (Springer, 2017-02-24)
      Silver clusters were introduced into the framework of zeolite Y. Low-temperature solid-state luminescence indicates the formation of silver–silver excimers and exciplexes that were found to be activated at 250 and 300 nm, ...

    • Photovoltaic Nano-Crystal Energy Generation 

      Tounsy, Adham; Al-Khaldi, Mohammed; Peera, Meloni (2014-01-19)
      Since larger, more ecofriendly energy accumulation is needed to sustain the world’s current energy outflow, the objective of this report is to examine the efficiency and ecological healthiness of photovoltaic nanotechnology ...

    • Phytoextraction of Cr(VI) from soil using Portulaca oleracea 

      Alyazouri, Ayman; Jewsbury, Roger; Tayim, Hassan; Humphreys, Paul; Al-Sayah, Mohammad (Taylor & Francis, 2014-01)
      Cr(VI) represents an environmental challenge in both soil and water as it is soluble and bioavailable over a wide range of pH. In previous investigations, Portulaca oleracea (a plant local to the United Arab Emirates (UAE)) ...

    • Piezoelectric Systems for Sheikh Zayed Road 

      Majbour, Maher; Hag Ali, Ibrahim; Sulthana, Reshma; Erar, Yaser (2014-07-22)
      UAE was ranked as 37 worldwide according to the amount of electricity consumption with an annual consumption of 70.58 billion KWh .The total cost of producing that amount of electricity has been estimated to be 11.33 billion ...

    • PIRATA: A Sustained Observing System for Tropical Atlantic Climate Research and Forecasting 

      Bourlès, Bernard; Araujo, Moacyr; McPhaden, Michael J.; Brandt, Peter; Foltz, Gregory R.; Lumpkin, Rick; Giordani, Hervé; Hernandez, Fabrice; Lefèvre, Nathalie; Nobre, Paulo; Campos, Edmo; Saravanan, Ramalingam; Trotte‐Duhà, Janice; Dengler, Marcus; Hahn, Johannes; Hummels, Rebecca; Lübbecke, Joke F.; Rouault, Mathieu; Cotrim, Leticia; Sutton, Adrienne; Jochum, Markus; Perez, Renellys C. (American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2019)
      Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA) is a multinational program initiated in 1997 in the tropical Atlantic to improve our understanding and ability to predict ocean‐atmosphere variability. ...

    • Planning and Operation of Smart EV Parking Lots 

      Abdelwahab, Osama Magdy (2019-05)
      Aiming to reduce Green House Gas (GHG) emissions and to increase resources security, renewable resources and electric vehicles (EVs) are gaining a lot of global interest. Promoting the use of EVs for consumers requires ...

    • Political connections and the cost of equity capital 

      Boubakri, Narjess; Guedhami, Omrane; Mishra, Dev; Saffar, Walid (Elsevier, 2012-01)
      Motivated by recent research on the costs and benefits of political connection, we examine the cost of equity capital of politically connected firms. Using propensity score matching models, we find that politically connected ...

    • The political determinants of the cost of equity: Evidence from Privatization 

      Bennasr, Hamdi; Boubakri, N; Cosset, JC. (Wiley, 2012-01)
      In this paper, we investigate the political determinants of the cost of equity using a unique data set of 236 firms privatized between 1987 and 2006 in 38 countries. We find robust evidence that the cost of equity is ...

    • Potential for improving vehicle fuel efficiency and reducing the environmental pollution via fuel ionization 

      Al Ali, Yousif; Hrairi, Meftah; Al-Kattan, Ibrahim (2012-07)
      In order to reduce the level of atmospheric pollution caused by vehicle engine emissions, application of a novel technique based on fuel magnetization has been tested in this study aiming at improving fuel efficiency and ...

    • Power with Every Step 

      AlAssaf, Hadi; Farhan, Khalil; AlKhatib, Yazan (2014-07-22)
      Satisfying the needs for clean energy by utilizing human footsteps.

    • Predicting gasoline prices using Michigan survey data 

      Baghestani, Hamid (2015-07)
      This study investigates the predictive power of Michigan Surveys of Consumers (MSC) data for gasoline prices. Specifically, we utilize the MSC data on both expected inflation and consumer sentiment to construct a vector ...

    • Prediction of Backwater Level of Bridge Constriction using ANN 

      Atabay, Serter; Abdalla, Jamal; Erduran, Kutsi; Mortula, Maruf; Seckin, Galip (2012-12)
      Bridge constriction in channels usually causes afflux which results in increase in backwater level well above the normal level and may possibly result in overflow on the flood plain surrounding the channel during flooding ...

    • Prediction of minimum factor of safety against slope failure in clayey soils using artificial neural network 

      Abdalla, Jamal; Attom, Mousa; Hawileh, Rami (2015)
      This paper presents prediction of minimum factor of safety (FS) against slope failure in clayey soils using artificial neural network (ANN). Two multilayer perceptron ANN models were used to predict the minimum factor of ...