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    • HEVC Video Encryption with High Capacity Message Embedding by Altering Picture Reference Indices and Motion Vectors 

      Shanableh, Tamer (IEEE, 2022)
      A high capacity message embedding in encrypted HEVC video is proposed in this paper. The challenges addressed in this paper include keeping the encrypted video compliant with standardized decoders, correctly decrypting the ...
    • High Order Methods for Solving Cardiac Models 

      Alqasemi, Maryam (2020-05)
      Modeling of the heart became of great interest for both mathematicians and bioengineers over the past 25 years for the increasing impact of cardiovascular system problems in our every day lives. The bidomain model and its ...
    • Highly variable upper and abyssal overturning cells in the South Atlantic 

      Kersale, Marion; Meinen, Christopher S.; Perez, Renellys C.; Le Henaff, Matthieu; Valla, Daniel; Lamont, Tarron; Sato, Olga; Dong, Shenfu; Terre, Thierry; van Caspel, Mathias; Chidichimo, Maria Paz; van den Berg, Marcel; Speich, Sabrina; Piola, Alberto; Campos, Edmo; Ansorge, Isabelle; Volkov, Denis; Lumpkin, Rick; Garzoli, Silvia (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020-08-05)
      The Meridional Overturning Circulation (MOC) is a primary mechanism driving oceanic heat redistribution on Earth, thereby affecting Earth's climate and weather. However, the full-depth structure and variability of the MOC ...
    • Historical Context of Primary Education (Guatemala) 

      Ashdown, Brien (Bloomsbury, 2022-05-24)
    • Historical Context of Secondary Education (Guatemala) 

      Ashdown, Brien (Bloomsbury, 2022-05-24)
    • Holistic Design: Optimizing Mechatronic Systems Using Multi Objective Optimization 

      Aly, Islam Adel Helmy (2015-05)
      This thesis aims to present an integrated approach to mechatronic systems design using heuristic optimization techniques. This integrated approach will consider the kinematics of the system, the dynamics, and the control ...
    • A Holistic Intersection Rating System (HIRS) 

      Saba, Wesam Emad (2018-11)
      Signalized urban intersections are key components of urban transportation networks. They are traditionally viewed and designed as primarily motorized traffic facilities thus their physical and operational designs are aimed ...
    • A Holistic Intersection Rating System (HIRS)—A Novel Methodology to Measure the Holistic Operational Performance of Signalized Urban Intersections 

      Saba, Wesam Emad; Beheiry, Salwa; Abu-Lebdeh, Ghassan; Al-Tekreeti, Mustafa Sahban (MDPI, 2021)
      Signalized urban intersections are key components of urban transportation networks. They are traditionally viewed and designed as primarily motorized traffic facilities, and thus their physical and operational designs have ...
    • Honesty, ability, norm, and socioeconomic status: experimental evidence from Bangladesh 

      Mahmud, Minhaj; Tasneem, Dina (American University of Sharjah, 2019)
      In a real effort task experiment, we study the (dis)honesty of undergraduate students in Bangladesh. Consistent with earlier studies, when they self-report their performance, a significant fraction of students cheats to ...
    • How price inelastic is demand for gasoline in fuel-subsidizing economies? 

      Arzaghi, Mohammad; Squalli, Jay (2015-07)
      In recent years, governments that have historically subsidized domestic fuel consumption face an ever-growing challenge in maintaining fuel subsidies and have embarked on subsidy reform. This paper estimates the price and ...
    • How to Avoid Structural, Corrosion, and Deterioration Disasters in Water Dams 

      Al Addam, Mohamad; Sebaie, Yahya; Soutari, Mohamad; Al Chammah, Mohamad (2014-01-19)
      Water dams are systems with large destructive forces that can lead to a substantial amount of destruction. The poster describes the situation of the problem. In addition, it summarizes the major problems that cause dam ...
    • HRM Reform in the Public Sector: Is it Enough? 

      Waxin, Marie-France; Bateman, Rob (Edward Elgar, 2009)
      Our objective here is to describe and discuss changes in HRM practice as they have emerged in public organizations undertaking new management reforms. In the first section, we present a conceptual framework that will allow ...
    • Human and Robot Interaction in High Rise Construction 

      Cheema, Armaghan; Younis, Bassim; Jabbour, Raed (2016-11)
      All accidents that happened during roof, ladder, and scaffolding works accounted for 55% of all the construction industry accidents. Human behavior is a contributing factor in approximately 80% of the accidents in construction ...
    • Human Errors in Structural Design and Construction in the United Arab Emirates 

      Al Amouri, Ali Yousef Ali (2012-06)
      The construction sector in the United Arab Emirates has witnessed an unparalleled growth in the past decade. In spite of recent challenges due to global recession, this sector remains strong in the Gulf region. Experience ...
    • Human Resource Management in the United Arab Emirates 

      Waxin, Marie-France; Bateman, Rob (Edward Elgar, 2016)
      This chapter reviews the current state of the research literature on HRM in the UAE, in part because more work has been published on "HRM in the UAE" than on any other country in the GCC country or even the Middle East ...
    • Hybrid Car Efficiency Improvement 

      Abdulla, Aamna; Al Nachas, Hessa; Dhanhani, Khaled; Atassi, Jamal (2014-01-19)
      Our project is about increasing the efficiency of hybrid cars. Hybrid cars operate using two systems, the Internal Combustion System (ICS) and the Electric System (ES) and since they depend more on the ICS, more polluting ...
    • Hybrid DCT/Pixel Domain Architecture for Heterogeneous Video Transcoding 

      Shanableh, Tamer; Ghanbari, Mohammed (Elsevier, 2003)
      In this paper the pixel domain heterogeneous video transcoder proposed by the authors is implemented in the DCT domain. Consequently, the motion compensation and its inverse and the image down-sampling functions of the ...
    • Hybrid Electric Vehicles 

      Hassan, Maryam; Al Hebsi, Mohamed Rashid; Al Jaberi, Hamad Abdulla; Ansar, Omar Mohamed (2014-01-19)
      The problems related to the generation of electricity to fuel vehicles are three-fold. Firstly, conventional vehicles are major contributors to pollution due to the combustion of petroleum which is leading to the depletion ...
    • Hybrid Energy Management System For Electric Vehicles 

      Sharf, Hazem Magdi (2021-12)
      Boosting the performance of the energy storage system (ESS) of electric vehicles (EV) is of great significance to achieve their pervasion and encourage their mass adoption, which will, in turn, curtail the emission of ...