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The decommissioning phase in the life cycle of petroleum installations is an important part of ZADCO’ asset management strategy. The company is known for its integration of the value assurance process, or “value assurance review” (VAR), in administering asset management activities geared towards development. This is critically important because the company, just like any other oil and gas company, invests a lot on development. Therefore, identification of the root causes of failure is advised...

Social media has become ubiquitous and main requirement for individuals lives, its used for socialization sharing information and recently for marketing and advertising. The content of the posts has a significant impact on attracting users and total user’s engagement. Companies have adopted social media as an essential tool for realizing potential customer needs and to ensure optimal customer satisfaction. Analyzing the content, type and the best time of posting can effectively impact and ben...

The report aimed at providing the insight towards the various factors in the construction industry which add up to the cost of the project. The report identifies the relation of the project cost with several factors which are considered to be dependable or independent. The research work recognizes the importance of every single dependent, and independent factor and the analysis based on data interpretation helped to locate the various areas which influence the overall project cost in the cons...

Culture plays a significantly important role in project management. In the past researches, the performance of organizations was explored but there is little emphasis on delivering innovation and impact of heterogeneous cultural intelligence. The aim of this research is to explore the perception of project management heterogeneity, innovation, and cultural intelligence, the connection between project heterogeneity and the process of project managers’ decisions making considering the related o...

Today modern education demands educators and educational organizations to innovate new methods to increase school effectivity. Theoretical findings shows teachers perform extrarole activities known as Organizational Citizenship behavior (OCB) with no pay or recognition. School managers found OCB as a new method to increase school effectivity with high dependency on OCB teachers. This study aims to understand OCB and its effects on teachers in a Sharjah private school in the UAE. The stu...

The present study investigated the impact of the socio-political conditions and challenges of the current educational system in Palestine based on Freire’s critical pedagogy theory. A sequential explanatory mixed-methods design was used to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. Data was primarily collected using questionnaires administered to 1,705 students, 623 teachers, and 611 guardians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to collect data from...

The global concentration on green efficient schools is growing as schools represent a considerable sector in the built environment, which consumes a lot of energy to provide a standard level of thermal comfort for students. In the UAE, both private and public-school buildings are assumed to be a high energy consumption sector, in addition to universities, banks and shopping malls. Moreover, the energy consumption in schools seems to be encouraged rather than controlled, thus there is the pote...

This study aims to identify the average time spent by the secondary school principals in Damascus Governorate from the official working time on all tasks required by virtue of their position for each level of school management: administrative, technical and social. Moreover, to detect the impact of independent variables of the principal, school, and educational zone. The study sample consisted randomly of (70) principals, representing 75% of the total study society. A tool developed bas...

Blockchain technology will be the base of current and future business in all fields, as it allows information to be transferred and updated by network participants in a trustworthy, secure and efficient way. This feature and other main success factors of blockchain encourage researchers to concentrate on the chances to benefit from blockchain in the efforts to decrease the effects of cyber threats on the business and improve the cyber defense. Also, to shift from reactive to proactive risk re...

Background: Mathematics, science, engineering, and technology are subjects believed to reflect people’s cultural achievements that power the economy and development, and at the same time constitute essential aspects of the lives. Educators admit that it is vitally important that integrated STEM education in K-12 schools aligns with 21st century skills, creates new jobs, increases competition in the global economy, and educates the next generation of STEM professional. The implementation of ST...

The study presents the influence of defensive investment strategies on shareholder earnings and focuses on the use of anti-takeover approaches and their effect on the stocks of involved companies. The purposive sampling method is adopted, and the paper evaluates the case of the Microsoft’s attempted acquisition of Yahoo! of 2008, the acquisition of Akbastau and Zarechnoye Uranium Mines by Uranium Inc. of 2010, and the takeover of Andean by Goldcorp of 2010. The findings prove that the use of ...

Problem-based learning is useful learner-centered instructional approach in which learners collaborate within small groups to solve an authentic ill-structured problem that has no right or wrong answers. However, designing and facilitating problem-based learning can be challenging for instructors as well as instructional designers, especially for learning dental education. Recently many medical and dental schools globally have included PBL in their curricula. Therefore, recently no one has qu...