Browsing Faculty Work (AUS Sustainability) by Title
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International Diversification and Corporate Social Responsibility
(American University of Sharjah, 2013-11-07)Using a large sample of 3,040 U.S. firms and 16,606 firm-year observations over the 1991-2010 period, we find strong evidence that firm internationalization is positively related to the firm's corporate social responsibility ... -
Investigating the use of green design parameters in UAE construction projects
(2015)Construction practices tend to have an adverse impact on the environment through their contribution to CO2 emission, increased waste and energy consumption. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has launched many initiatives to ... -
Investigation of a fecal contamination of groundwater and surface water at Al Wasit Nature Reserve, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
(EM International, 2016)Domestic waste contamination has adverse health effects and detrimental ecological impact. This paper presents the results of an investigation of domestic waste contamination; specifically fecal contamination of ground and ... -
Investigation of an integrated hydrogen production system based on nuclear and renewable energy sources: a new approach for sustainable hydrogen production via copper-chlorine thermochemical cycles
(2011-10)Hydrogen production via thermochemical water decomposition is a potential process for direct utilization of nuclear thermal energy to increase efficiency and thereby facilitate energy savings. Thermochemical water splitting ... -
Investigation of an integrated hydrogen production system based on nuclear and renewable energy sources: Comparative evaluation of hydrogen production options with a regenerative fuel cell system
(2015-08)Hydrogen has risen as a sustainable and efficient energy carrier option in reducing environmental pollution, and is seen as a potential solution for the current energy crisis. Hydrogen production via water decomposition ... -
Investigation of Energy Storage Batteries in Stability Enforcement of Low Inertia Active Distribution Network
(Springer Link, 2019)The inherent intermittency of renewable power generation poses one of the great challenges to the future smart grid.With incentives and subsidies, the penetration level of small-scale renewable energy into power grids is ... -
Investigation of infiltration rates under different experimental conditions
(Inderscience, 2016)This paper presents the results of laboratory experimental studies on soil infiltration rates (IR) using constant-head (CH) and falling-head (FH) methodologies. The study also determined the initial moisture content of the ... -
Investigation on Concrete Compressive Strength Mixed with Sand Contaminated by Crude Oil
(Elsevier, 2013-10)The leak of oil products due to the huge demand would result in contaminating the sand that might be used in the concrete industry. This paper experimentally investigates the effect of contaminated sand with kerosene and ... -
IoT Based Smart City Bus Stops
(MDPI, 2019)The advent of smart sensors, single system-on-chip computing devices, Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud computing is facilitating the design and development of smart devices and services. These include smart meters, smart ... -
Irony and Humor as Feminist Narrative Strategies: Arabian Gulf Women's Literature in Perspective
(2016)This article examines how, in her first novel entitled al-Shams madhbuha wa-l-layl mahbus (1997, The Sun is Slaughtered and the Night is Confined), the contemporary Kuwaiti woman writer, Fawziyya Shuwaysh al-Salim (b. ... -
Is obesity associated with global warming?
(2014-12)Obesity is a national epidemic that imposes direct medical and indirect economic costs on society. Recent scholarly inquiries contend that obesity also contributes to global warming. The paper investigates the relationship ... -
Japanese Millennials and Intersex Awareness
(Springer, 2017)This paper investigates the awareness, attitudes, and opinions of Japanese millennials about intersex people. This research attempts to fill a gap in extant literature concerning the intersex in Asia via an exploratory ... -
Key issues and challenges in e-government development: An integrative case study of the number one eCity in the Arab World
(Emerald, 2012-11)The purpose of this paper is to identify and study the key issues and challenges facing e-government development from an integrative perspective, and to provide strategies and policy recommendations to address them in a ... -
Kinetic and thermodynamic study of phosphate removal from water by adsorption onto (Arundo donax) reeds
(SAGE Publications, 2018-02-01)The adsorption of phosphate ion onto natural reed (Arundo donax) was studied in this work. The effect of phosphate initial concentration, adsorbent dose, pH, temperature, and salt addition on adsorption uptake was investigated. ... -
Kinetics and Modeling of H2S Removal in a Novel Biofilter
(2011-04)Biofiltration has become a widely accepted technology for the removal of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) which is one of the major odor causing gases present in the air streams of municipal wastewater treatment facilities. In ... -
L'adaptabilité du cadre expatrié : Revue critique de littérature, proposition et test d'une échelle de mesure améliorée
(Administrative Science Association of Canada (ASAC), 2004)L'adaptabilité des expatriés a une incidence déterminante sur le succès de leur mission. Pourtant, en raison des difficultés liées à sa mesure, cet antécédent ne reçoit pas toujours l’attention qui lui est due. L’objectif ... -
La compensation totale à l’international
(Éditions de Liaisons, 2008)La structure du chapitre. Ce chapitre se divise en trois parties bien distinctes, traitant de trois aspects majeurs de la compensation à l’international. Dans la première, nous traiterons d’abord des éléments de compensation ... -
La gestion stratégique des affectations internationales
(Éditions de Liaisons, 2008)La structure du chapitre. Dans les parties suivantes, nous examinerons d’abord les différentes approches de gestion du personnel international, les fonctions des affectations internationales, puis les différentes catégories ... -
La socialisation organisationnelle en contexte
(De Boeck, 2005)Les recherches de référence sur la socialisation organisationnelle ont été présentées dans le chapitre VII. Les ouvertures offertes par une approche cognitive et identitaire ainsi que par la perspective interactionniste ... -
Laboratory simulation of irrigation-induced settlement of collapsible desert soils under constant surcharge
(Springer, 2017-12)The heterogeneous nature of soil as a load bearing material, coupled with varying environmental conditions, pose challenges to geotechnical engineers in their quest to characterize and understand ground behavior for safe ...