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Investors' Payout-form Preference and Taxes
(American University of Sharjah, 2013-06-05)We find the form of U.S. corporate cash payout to shareholders often relevant to share price and in different directions at different times. Regularly cash-dividend paying firms have a significant share price premium ... -
Ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents for the recovery of phenolic compounds: effect of ionic liquids structure and process parameters
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021)Water pollution is a severe and challenging issue threatening the sustainable development of human civilization. Besides other pollutants, waste fluid streams contain phenolic compounds. These have an adverse effect on the ... -
An IoT Architecture for Ubiquitous Context-Aware Assessments
(2017-05)Ubiquitous learning environments aim to move students out of classrooms and into the real world where learners can engage in experiential and tangible learning. Ubiquitous assessment systems are one class of learning ... -
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 ... -
IoT-solar energy powered smart farm irrigation system
(KeAi, 2019)As the Internet of things (IoT) technology is evolving, distributed solar energy resources can be operated, monitored, and controlled remotely. The design of an IoT based solar energy system for smart irrigation is essential ... -
IPTV in the Arab World 2014
(Arab Advisors Group, 2014-01)As broadband Internet is expanding in the Arab world, IPTV is penetrating the market. This report provides an overview of the service providers that commercially launched IPTV and those deploying fiber optics as well as ... -
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 ... -
Isolating Physical Replacement of Identical IoT Devices Using Machine and Deep Learning Approaches
(2021-04)Many Internet of Things (IoT) applications deploy identical end devices like sensor nodes or surveillance cameras in an organization. The purpose of this thesis was to determine if a malicious physical substitution of one ... -
Isoniazid Conjugated Magnetic Nanoparticles Loaded with Amphotericin B as a Potent Antiamoebic Agent against Acanthamoeba castellanii
(MDPI, 2020)The pathogenic free-living amoeba, Acanthamoeba castellanii, is responsible for a rare but deadly central nervous system infection, granulomatous amoebic encephalitis and a blinding eye disease called Acanthamoeba keratitis. ... -
Issues and challenges surrounding library management
(2013-11-07)This keynote address deals with the changing role of the academic library and how library administrators and suppliers are responding. John McDonald was appointed Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer for ... -
Iterative Methods for the Numerical Solutions of Boundary Value Problems
(2014-06)The aim of this thesis is twofold. First of all, in Chapters 1 and 2, we review the well-known Adomian Decomposition Method (ADM) and Variational Iteration Method (VIM) for obtaining exact and numerical solutions for ... -
Iterative Methods for the Solution of a Steady State Biofilter Model
(2017-11)Biofilter modeling helps in understanding the biofiltration process and designing of full-scale biofilters. The biofilter models with complex kinetics do not have analytical solutions and numerical algorithms are typically ... -
It’s Not You, It’s Us: Relationship-Based Factors That Predict Infidelity
(Oxford University Press, 2022-07-12)Infidelity is often defined as perceived as a violation of relationship exclusivity rules, and many view infidelities as immoral. Thus, one can imagine the importance of understanding why up to a fifth of research samples ... -
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 ... -
The Jazeera Al Hamra Digital Heritage Project: A Model for Digitally Preserving the Heritage of the Arabian Peninsula
(Common Ground Publishing, 2015)The digital environment offers an opportunity to establish a museum model that supports contemporary museum thought in regard to collective memory strategies, inclusivity, and equity of tangible and intangible cultural ... -
Jerry Seinfeld: I'm Telling You For The Last Time, Translation and Commentary
(2015-01)Translation of humor is a field that may not have a fair share of research, especially in the English to Arabic field where the cultural aspect may differ more vividly compared to translating into other languages. This ... -
Joint Adaptive Modulation and Channel Coding for Wireless Multimedia Communications
(2011-06)Wireless communication has witnessed a signi cant growth due to recent ad- vances in technology. As a result, there has been a strong demand for various multi- media services and applications over wireless channels. ... -
Joint Planning of Smart EV Charging Stations and DGs in Eco-Friendly Remote Hybrid Microgrids
(IEEE, 2019)This paper proposes an efficient planning algorithm for allocating smart electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in remote communities. The planning problem jointly allocates and sizes a set of distributed generators (DGs) ...