Browsing AUS Sustainability by Title

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    • Smart Grid Application for AUS 

      Al-Falasi, Salama; Alkadi, Ruba; Alsuwaidi, Afra (2014-07-22)
      Traditional existing electric grid technologies are no longer supporting the demands of the constantly growing population efficiently which results in power outages. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, ...

    • Smart Grid Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities and Solutions 

      Aloul, Fadi; Al-Ali, Abdulrahman; Al-Dalky, Rami Yousef; Al-Mardini, Mamoun; El-Hajj, Wassim (2012)
      The traditional electrical power grid is currently evolving into the smart grid. Smart grid integrates the traditional electrical power grid with information and communication technologies (ICT). Such integration empowers ...

    • Smart Home Area Networks Protocols within the Smart Grid Context 

      Hafeez, Ayesha; Kandil, Nourhan; Al-Omar, Ban Abdul Elah; Landolsi, Taha; Al-Ali, Abdulrahman (2014-09)
      The Internet of things (IoT) applications are becoming one of the emerging smart grid enabling technologies. Smart home appliances are one the beneficiary of such applications. Machine-to-Machine and Man-to-Machine are the ...

    • A Smart Home Energy Management System Using IoT and Big Data Analytics Approach 

      Al-Ali, Abdul-Rahman; Zualkernan, Imran; Rashid, Mohammed; Gupta, Ragini; Alikarar, Mazin Abdelbadea Nasralla (IEEE, 2017-11)
      Increasing cost and demand of energy has led many organizations to find smart ways for monitoring, controlling and saving energy. A smart Energy Management System (EMS) can contribute towards cutting the costs while still ...

    • Smart Solar Roads 

      Joudeh, Jiana; Alsalam, Ala; Ata-all, Koroles; Hanna, Maria (2014-07-22)
      The UAE is ranked as the seventh biggest per person consumer of energy .The UAE plans to produce 50 Mega Watt of electricity from sustainable sources. Smart solar roads are made of solar panels and a rechargeable battery ...

    • Social Cohesion and Optimal Redistribution in Economies with Long-Run Growth 

      Bandyopadhyay, Debasis; Tang, Xueli (American University of Sharjah, 2018)
      We suggest that as social cohesion improves, the macroeconomic gains from progressive redistribution decline. Social interactions facilitate diffusion of nonrival knowledge. The consequent bridging of the knowledge gaps ...

    • A Social Constructionist Perspective on the Diffusion of Innovative Fiscal Responsibility Legislation 

      Wallis, Joe; Goldfinch, Shaun (2013-01)
      Compared to competitive, coercive and learning models, social constructionist theory is particularly well-suited to explaining the diffusion of policy norms across cross-country networks. This paper augments this approach ...

    • Socio-business responsibility in the Gulf Arab states: The case of the Pearl Initiative 

      Kemp, Linzi; Dunlop, Imelda (Emerald, 2014-12)
      Mr Badr Jafar, co-founder of the Pearl Initiative (PI), is the chief protagonist in this case study set in the Gulf Arab states. He launched this company at the United Nations in September 2010, and the launch was timely, ...

    • Soil Characterization Utilizing GPR Technique 

      Al Kej, Fateh Tamam (2017-11)
      Engineering properties of soil, such as shear strength parameters, water content, degree of saturation, and permeability are essential for safe and economic design of any structure involving soil structure ...

    • Soil remediation from waste lubricating oil 

      Al Zubaidi, Isam; Al-Tamimi, Adil (Elsevier, 2018-02)
      Soil remediation was investigated from waste oil contamination. Contamination of different soil particle diameters was prepared with different dosage of waste oil contamination. Solvent extraction technique was employed ...

    • Solar Powered Building with Dynamic Shading System 

      Talih, Raafat; Kandil, Nourhan; Mahgoub, Thuraya; Antoon, Fadi; Al Maazmi, Mohamed (2014-01-19)
      The design and architecture of the International Royal Hotel (IRH) complies with the code of green building as the hotel does not depend solely on non-renewable energy sources. Moreover, the IRH's design is the most efficient ...

    • Solar Updraft Tower In Al-Ain 

      Agha, Deema; Idrees, Raja; Abdul-Jabbar, Mahmud; Ebraheem, Ali Y. (2015-02-01)
      In recent years, the UAE has taken significant steps to protect the environment, such as building shams solar tower in Abu-Dhabi. The main source of air pollution in the UAE is the oil and gas industry, followed by the ...

    • Solar-Powered Smart Community 

      Abboud, Eyas; AlMualla, Ahmed; Bin Rasheed, Ahmed; Amin, Mohamad (2015-02-01)
      Population growth in Dubai has increased power requirements, causing a depletion in natural resources. Our solution is to build a Smart Community in Dubai that will overcome these issues. The model consists of Thermal Solar ...

    • Space size relative to prey width and total cover in an area both influence the habitat choices of freshwater angelfish Pterophyllum scalare in mesocosms 

      Bartholomew, Aaron (2012)
      Prey survivorship can vary with average space size/prey width (Sp/Py) and total cover within an area (Ct/At). Hypotheses predict that prey survivorship is maximized at intermediate Sp/Py values and that prey survivorship ...

    • Spreading of oil on water in the surface-tension regime 

      Chebbi, Rachid (Springer, 2014-12)
      The third stage of oil spreading on water, in which surface-tension force promotes spreading against the resisting viscous effect, is investigated using a similarity solution in combination with an integral boundary-layer ...

    • Stability and removal of dexamethasone sodium phosphate from wastewater using modified clays. 

      Khamis, Mustafa; Nir, Shlomo; scrano, laura; Bufo, Sabino A.; Karaman, Rafik; Sulaiman, Saleh; Lelario, Filomena (2014-08)
      Stability and removal of dexamethasone sodium phosphate (DSP) from wastewater produced at Al-Quds University Campus were investigated. Kinetic studies in both pure water and wastewater coming from secondary treatment ...

    • Stability and Removal of Naproxen and Its Metabolite by Advanced Membrane Wastewater Treatment Plant and Micelle-Clay Complex 

      Qurie, Mohannad; Khamis, Mustafa; Malek, Fida; Nir, Shlomo; Bufo, Sabino A.; scrano, laura; Karaman, Rafik; Abbadi, Jehad (2014-05)
      Naproxen, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, commonly used for fever, inflammation and for different health problems, as found for many pharmaceuticals has been recently detected in sewage effluents, surface, and ...

    • Stage-discharge relationship in two-stage channels 

      Hashemi, Mahsa (2019-07)
      Predicting the stage-discharge relationship in a flood event is an important concern. Once the flow exceeds the bank level in a two-stage channel, there is a momentum transfer that occurs at the interface between the main ...

    • Statistical analysis of air-gap membrane desalination experimental data: Hypothesis testing 

      Alcheikh Hamdona, Azza; Hilal, Nidal; Darwish, Naif (Elsevier, 2015-04)
      Membrane distillation (MD) is a process in which the driving force for mass transfer is temperature gradient rather than conventional ones based on density, static pressure, chemical nature, affinity, and freezing point ...

    • Storage Solutions for Power Quality Problems in Cyprus Electricity Distribution Network 

      Poullikkas, Andreas; Papadouris, Savvas; Kourtis, George; Hadjipaschalis, Ioannis (2014-01)
      In this work, a prediction of the effects of introducing energy storage systems on the network stability of the distribution network of Cyprus and a comparison in terms of cost with a traditional solution is carried out. ...