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This explanatory study is aimed at exploring the impact of attendance on PSAT achievement. The existing literature suggests that high level of attendance is correlated with high academic performance (Moonie et al., 2008; Wigley 2009; Oghuvbu, 2010) and there is no gender difference in school attainments (Lindberg et al., 2010). However, these studies were conducted predominantly in western societies such as the USA and the UK. While there are some research findings linking attendance to acade...

Governments are always looking for an improved vision which enhances construction of citizens’ quality of life. This vision can be achieved through governmental data monetisation to determine citizens’ challenges and demands. The monetisation procedure will lead to reduction of the city’s expenses, inspire innovation, and encourage economic growth. However, currently, there is a lack of a practical governmental data strategy or related processes and platforms. Furthermore, data providers have...

Projects and programmes for maintenance and rehabilitation works are crucial for pavement assets in order to achieve the required levels of safety and operability. It is well documented in the literature that pavement network infrastructures age with time, are underfunded and, more importantly, are designed based on historical conditions. The HDM-4 model, which is extensively used in pavement management systems, does not utilise future climate predictions. Climate change is likely to threaten...

We are recently witnessing the fast-evolving digital government that leverages the power of digital data in transforming government services into optimized digital services. Earlier, eGovernment was concerned only with availing government services through online channels. With this fast move, governments are spending huge amounts on the digitization efforts, however, many governments are still struggling with relatively low public adoption percentages. Public adoption of digital government s...

Digital forensics deals with the use of tools and techniques to preserve, identify, extract, document, and interpret any data stored or transmitted using a digital system. It is usually used to help support or refute a theory, for the occurrence of an offense or crime, or it might indicate intent or alibi. There are many challenges when it comes to the forensics discipline of digital evidence, and the sheer amount of data found on modern digital devices is one of them. In today’s society, it...

Developing the curriculum to support the students' abilities and talents especially in the field of problem-solving and critical thinking is one of the most important objectives that the UAE seeks to achieve. The purpose of this study is to explore the effect of teaching robotics for elementary students to understand the basic concepts of programming. In addition, the study aimed to investigate the challenges of teaching robotics for elementary students as well as the effect of educational ro...

This study, an investigation of the impact of using Marzano’s instructional strategies to teach reading comprehension in a second language (L2), focuses on secondary students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Learning English as the official L2 has developed to be a necessity for students in the UAE, where many are alarmingly classified as underperforming. Based on the unsatisfying academic performance in literacy skills in international exams, it is anticipated that critical achievement gap...

As the internet is becoming an increasingly inescapable part of our lives, which is being facilitated through a number of disruptive technologies, it has become mandatory for the government sector to operate in such a technologically advanced environment. The implementation of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) helps governments become more effective, accessible and accountable. It is expected that the use of ICT by a government in its processes and services can help in streamlin...

The use of Wi-Fi and public hotspots has increased during the past years. A statistical study done by Cisco declared that there were roughly 279 million hotspots in 2018, which further demonstrates the importance of a review of the risks associated with these networks. This research paper investigates some of the risks associated with the usage of public hotspots from different aspects and discusses some of the ways to mitigate these risks. Discussions and findings in this paper not only em...

The purpose of our research is to study the impact of supermarket size and spatial dimensions on crowding. To improve supermarkets layout from the social aspect, to increase the human comfort and reduce crowding. Despite the supermarket is a major part of our life, but there is one undesirable situation that a lot of people suffer from it, which is crowding. It is the situation where the shoppers feel that the supermarket is overloaded with people at certain times. We solved this problem by p...

Urban green space is closely related to the quality of life of residents. Researchers and academic scholars from various institutes have also pointed out the important role that urban green space can play in the interaction between human and the environment. Most of the methods for urban green space planning take into consideration neither take in the number of users, nor the area and service capacity of green spaces. To address such problems an optimized 2SFCA method to study public facility...

A substantial amount of advice is available on how top management should lead, but less is known about how leaders conceptualise their leadership of change. This study concentrates specifically on conceptual skills involved in leading change in public sector organisations. Leaders’ capacity to think about abstract and complex ideas has long been acknowledged as essential to leadership tasks such as planning and analysis; however, because conceptualisation is often ambiguous and difficult to u...

Structural engineers are often posed with a question for an economical design of a structural building which would decide the overall economic and the time concern in a construction. If the design is at optimum by choosing a suitable code the involvement of the materials would be less which will help to decrease the pollution caused in the environment as well. In short where structural steel works are being used with other structural materials the importance of various connection plays to be ...

Due to the absence of some project management characteristics that influence competitive advantage in companies, focusing on some of these characteristics has become a fundamental dialogue for enhancing achievement and competitiveness within companies. This research provides analysis of three project management characteristics in order to identify their relationship with the company’s competitive advantage as well as to investigate their effect and importance to project managers. The thre...

Many governmental and private institutions have much data, which are not used properly. Therefore, they are stored for a long period and this leads to using all the servers found there. Modern technology can find links between such data and the way of getting benefit of it. Actually, this helps to get a quick and proper decision. This data is not only for storing but it is also for helping in taking the quick and proper decision based on numbers and statistics. Due to the care of our rulers...

This thesis examines the influence of supportive learning environment on the association between the six knowledge processes and continuous innovation in the UAE financial sector. A conceptual model of the connections between knowledge management processes, supportive learning environment and continuous innovation was presented. The posited hypotheses were then tested statistically, using a survey dataset of 114 assistant mangers and above from the UAE financial sector. Several statistica...

With the growth of social media, there is a need to analyse the user-generated content; especially the text reviews. Online text reviews have a lot of potential and opportunities for both users and business owners. Many researches target analysing text reviews extracting useful info especially Named Entity Recognition. In this research, I focus on extracting food and dish names as a named entity. With the lack of labelled data, I try to overcome the cold start and avoid manual labelling by b...

This report analyzes the main shafts of the helicopter transmission box. The corresponding behavior of the shafts, gears, and blades are monitored and studied. Three different methods were used to analyze the set of systems describing the behavior of the shafts. The first method is the lumped model analysis, which considers each element of the shaft to be discrete. The second method is the finite element method, which separates the shaft itself into smaller elements. The last method is the hy...