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The interior and exterior materials of the building have major effects on the environment. Interior designers can absolutely make our environment green and sustainable by responsibly selecting and approving the interior materials which will be used during the construction like the floor and wall materials, fabrics, furnishings, and lighting systems. Utilization of green sustainable principles in the design works will greatly minimize the release of carbon footprints. This research study aim...

The social science and practices of human resource management have developed along with the changes across industries, countries, technology and other sources of knowledge. One of the relatively recent and promising innovations in human resources is talent management. Over the last few years talent management practices have made their way in to the local and international organizations in UAE, providing them with tools and techniques to attract, develop and retain their talented employees. In...

One of the major challenges facing the urban planning sector is the rapid pace of growth of the world‘s urban populations. In particular, the urban, economic and institutional conditions of Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), are unique. However, Abu Dhabi is a significant case study of conflict between political, economic, and urban design in terms of large- scale project planning that makes this city suffer from the negative impact of urbanism. This is known as th...

In recent years, mega-events have been popular catalysts for urban sustainability; they have magnificent impacts on the host city from (environmental, physical, social and economic) aspects; in 2020 Dubai will be hosting Expo which is considered the third largest global event in terms of economic and cultural impact during its six month run, this study mainly discussed how can EXPO sustain the success of EXPO after the end of the event, many scholars generally addressed the preparation for th...

This research analyses the existing legal structures and policies for maternity leave and the rights of pregnant women. Comparing the UAE labour sector and country legislation departments in relation to the international policies and laws, this dissertation aims to achieve four main objectives. The first objective is to explore the ways in which the relationship between working mothers and their employers impacts on prenatal mental health conditions. The second objective is to evaluate the im...

Children with autism are individuals who are facing difficulties in the social and communication skills. There are many researches that explored the use of information technology in the interventions of autistic students. One of the recent technologies that was shown to be effective is mobile apps. This case study investigates the use of a mobile app (called Picaa) that provides five main activities (association, puzzle, exploration, memory and sorting). All these activities can be personaliz...

Twitter micro-blogging website is a hot and emerging area of research recently, users on Twitter post millions of tweets every day from all over the world, it is very difficult and challenging task to keep track of messages and filter them based on topical interest. This study uses text mining and clustering techniques to partition Dubai tweets into clusters of a same topical interest. Tweets corpus of Dubai were collected, they were presented through the bag of words model using TF-IDF weigh...

The aim of the research was to determine the relationship between efficacy and differentiation of instruction for gifted students in a mainstream classroom in UAE. Teacher self-efficacy explains the willingness of teachers to adapt instructions for gifted students in regular classrooms. Survey data from 341 teachers from primary, middle, secondary and vocational schools were analyzed by the use of multiple regression. The Efficacy Scale was used to measure efficacy among teachers. Teacher’s y...

It is quite conspicuous that the population tends to increase in the coming decades which would evidently increase the global demand for fresh water. In Middle Eastern regions, the source of fresh water is usually a desalination plant which provides water for agricultural and drinking purposes. This research project concentrates on a Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination plant located in UAE. RO plants come under the membrane technology and have high electricity consumption (which leads to high a...

As the United Arab Emirates (UAE) undertakes this tremendous journey of adopting inclusive ideologies from the west, this study aims to ascertain if the Islamic teachings coincide with inclusive practices and if they will enhance the situation of learners with disabilities in Dubai, UAE. This qualitative study analyzes the juxtaposition of secular and Islamic ideologies in the framework of this Islamic State. In analyzing the interpretations of Islamic views on disabilities, references to rel...

Since the change order is part of the construction project, the relationship between change order (variation order) and project team behavior and performance were analyzed and studied before, during and after an event in this research. In addition, In order to understand the concept of change order, this research was identified the factors that generate the change order on the construction project. It is very important to understand the relationship between change and behavior in order to inc...

This study presents a performance analysis of solar gain and day lighting effect using different choices of materials of double-skin facade under desert climatic conditions. In addition, it evaluates the possible positive effects that the use of double skin facades can have on the indoor environment in commercial buildings such as offices. During the working process different literature sources and research about double skin facades and indoor environment conditions are gathered and analyzed....

This research is based on the research that was conducted via use of questionnaires which were distributed to a total of hundred participants. The main goal of this research was to establish whether this firm’s project is aligned with the organization strategy. The results and recommendations from this research were based on how well project management tools and methods were used to develop the organization in terms of productivity and quality of services and products. It also viewed the role...

Purpose The purpose of the study was to investigate the effectiveness of strategies adopted by government and private regulatory authorities to help ensure the smooth and successful execution of IT projects in the healthcare sector. Methodology The research is conducted on exploratory research design and realism research philosophy. The research strategy which is used in gathering data related to the strategies adopted by the UAE government and regulatory authorities to help ensure smoot...

The present report executed provides in-depth analysis and evaluation of critical success factors of Virtual Distributed Projects. For this, the entire research process has been properly aligned by presenting work of academic scholars and authors. Through this, the emphasis is made on understanding the concept of project, project management, distributed projects and virtual teams. Further, the research work is further done by exploring the critical success factors which contribute in the acco...

This Dissertation investigates the design of a multivariable control system for a wind tunnel to obtain the optimum control strategy in order to minimize energy dissipation, noise and cost which improve the quality and integrity of the wind tunnel test measurements. First the research is focused on identifying how a wind tunnel work with brief information about its components and types. Then the least effort control technique will be applied and discussed. Also study includes a controller de...

Government in the United Arab Emirates stimulates the public sectors to provide intelligent and innovative services to the public users. However, as the concept of innovation in public services is considered a new topic for the U.A.E government, most of the departments need to be aware of the critical success criteria and factors for innovation projects. This research asserts the great importance of implementing innovation in projects in general and in the public sector specifically. It ex...

In projects, culture plays a dominant role and it implies to project management too. While past research has explored how organizational performance is affected by its culture, however, lower focus was made on the importance of projects and how heterogeneity in projects affects project performance and organizational performance. In this research, the importance of project heterogeneity will be evaluated in light of the high cultural diversity found in UAE.The research employed the qualitative...

Project organization structure is considered the most important tool that used by senior management of construction organizations for communication, staff evaluation, decision making and achieving the project objective. Moreover, introducing change in project organization structure during the project life cycle for any reasons whether in response to internal or external influences is perceived as one of the critical processes that influence on the project performance. Meantime, involveme...