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    • Risk analysis factors of the emission in transportation a case study- Dubai Taxi 

      Al Ali, Yousif; Hrairi, Meftah; Al-Kattan, Ibrahim (2010-03)
      Increasing number of traditional vehicles threaten the economical development, pollutes our air and creating environmental hazards. Urban areas in UAE are currently facing growing traffic congestion by rising air pollution ...

    • Risk Assessment in Construction Projects: Integrating Five Dimensions of Risk 

      Nunez, Antuanet Yahaira Saldana (2023-12)
      Managing risks is an essential yet complex task for project managers. The ranking of risks is important because it would be impossible to deal with every potential risk at every stage of the project. Having assigned risk ...

    • Risk Identification and Assessment Through Construction Project Lifecycle in UAE 

      Juem, Fayiz (2022-04)
      Risk management in construction projects has been recognized as a critical management process for achieving project goals and completing the project successfully. Most previous research has concentrated on specific aspects ...

    • Risk in Forecasting Correct Directional Changes in Financial Times Series 

      Shaban, Mohamed Ismail (2012-05)
      Forecasting future moves of financial time series is an important task. Decision makers use different forecasting approaches. Regardless of the approach used, decision makers need to confident that the forecasting approach ...

    • The RMB Debate: Empirical Analysis on the Effects of Exchange Rate Shocks in China and Japan 

      Kim, Soyoung; Kim, Yoonbai (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 ...

    • The Road of the Future 

      Alneaimi, Ebrahim; Basiouny, Mohammed; Hameed, Sabil (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 ...

    • A Roadmap for Policy-Relevant Sea-Level Rise Research in the United Arab Emirates 

      Melville-Rea, Hannah; Eayrs, Clare; Anwahi, Nasser; Burt, John; Holland, Denise; Samara, Fatin; Paparella, Francesco; Al Murshidi, Ahmed Hassan; Al-Shehhi, Maryam Rashed; Holland, David M. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2021)
      The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has a long-term policy horizon, the financial capital, and a vision for a sustainable knowledge-based economy. These characteristics uniquely situate it as a potential leader for sea-level ...

    • A Robotic System for Automatic Identification and Collection of Recyclable Plastic Bottles 

      Din, Uzma Ahmed (2020-05)
      Plastics have become a cornerstone of modern life, but they are also hazardous for the environment. Manually collecting and sorting such recyclable plastic waste from a mix of other refuse is tedious work, and has accompanying ...

    • Robust Control of Elastic Drive Systems Using The Immersion and Invariance Methodology 

      Khan, Irfan Ullah (2013-10)
      This thesis is divided into three main parts. The first part presents a new robust control methodology to suppress the torsional vibrations in flexible drive systems. The position control of a nonlinear Two-Mass-Model ...

    • A robust method to retrieve option implied risk neutral densities for defaultable assets 

      Leduc, Guillaume; Orosi, Gergely (Inderscience Publishers, 2016)
      Risk neutral densities recovered from option prices can be used to infer market participants' expectations of future stock returns and are a vital tool for pricing illiquid exotic options. Although there is a broad literature ...

    • Robust Polynomial Classifier Using L1-norm minimization 

      Assaleh, Khaled; Shanableh, Tamer (Springer, 2010)
      In this paper we present a robust polynomial classifier based on L1-norm minimization. We do so by reformulating the classifier training process as a linear programming problem. Due to the inherent insensitivity of the ...

    • Role of Active Morphing in the Aerodynamic Performance of Flapping Wings in Formation Flight 

      Billingsley, Ethan; Ghommem, Mehdi; Vasconcellos, Rui; Abdelkefi, Abdessattar (MDPI, 2021)
      Migratory birds have the ability to save energy during flight by arranging themselves in a V-formation. This arrangement enables an increase in the overall efficiency of the group because the wake vortices shed by each of ...

    • The Role of AEBP1 in Sex-Specific Diet-Induced Obesity 

      Zhang, Lei; Reidy, Shannon P.; Nicholson, Tara E.; Lee, Hyun-Jeong; Majdalawieh, Amin; Webber, Chris; Stewart, Bruce R.; Dolphin, Peter; Ro, Hyo-Sung (Springer Nature, 2005)
      Obesity is an important risk factor for heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers, but the molecular basis for obesity is poorly understood. The transcriptional repressor AEBP₁, which functions as a negative regulator ...

    • The role of cavitation in acoustically activated drug delivery 

      Husseini, Ghaleb; Diaz de la Rosa, Mario A.; Richardson, Eric S.; Christensen, Douglas A.; Pitt, William G. (Elsevier Science Direct, 2005)
      Pluronic P105 micelles are potential candidates as chemotherapy drug delivery vehicles using ultrasonic stimulation as a release trigger. Acoustic power has been previously shown to release two anthracycline agents from ...

    • The role of collaborative knowledge building in the co-creation of artifacts: influencing factors and propositions 

      Mariano, Stefania; Awazu, Yukika (Emerald, 2017)
      Purpose – This article assesses the role of collaborative knowledge building in the co-creation of artifacts in the knowledge management field. Design/methodology/approach – Fifty-eight articles published in six knowledge ...

    • The Role of Culture in Teaching English as an International Language in the Arabian Gulf: A Case Study 

      Dahan, Laila (2005-12)
      English as an International Language (EIL) has become the lingua franca of the world today. An important factor of this widespread use of English is the fact that most people speaking the language today are not native ...

    • Role of frequency and mechanical index in ultrasonic-enhanced chemotherapy in rats 

      Staples, Bryant J.; Roeder, Beverly L.; Husseini, Ghaleb; Badamjav, Odgerel; Schaalje, G. Bruce; Pitt, William G. (Springer, 2009)
      Purpose The therapeutic effect of ultrasound and micellar-encapsulated doxorubicin was studied in vivo using a tumor-bearing rat model with emphasis on how tumor growth rate is affected by ultrasonic parameters such as ...

    • Role of Information and Communication Technologies in the Smart Grid 

      Al-Omar, Ban Abdul Elah; Al-Ali, Abdulrahman; Ahmed, Rana; Landolsi, Taha (2012-05)
      In the smart grid operation and management, reliable and real-time information and communication networks play a very critical role. By integrating the appropriate information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure, ...

    • Role of Internet of Things in the Smart Grid Technology 

      Al-Ali, Abdulrahman (2015-05)
      Internet of Things (I.o.T) is a recently emerged as enabling technology for the smart gird, smart health, smart transportation and smart environment .The smart grid applications such smart home automations, Intelligent ...

    • Role of Internet of Things in the Smart Grid Technology 

      Al-Ali, Abdulrahman; Aburukba, Raafat (2015)
      The Internet of Things (IoT) has recently emerged as enabling technology for the smart gird, smart health, smart transportation, and smart environment as well as for smart cities. The major smart grid devices are smart ...