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Teachers’ Perceptions about Dyslexia and Intervention with Students at Risk of Dyslexia in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Schools See

Research proved that raising the phonological and phonemic awreness among students may help students at risk not to be future dyslexic.Moreover, teachers awareness play a vital role in identifying students with dyslexia and help them to apply the suitable intervention for students with dyslexia. Therefore, the objective of this study was two-fold as follows: to investigate: a) teachers in UAE awareness about dyslexia and the appropriate use of intervening measures to serve students with d...

Home Automation Awareness in United Arab Emirates See

More than ever, we use internet excessively almost everyone access the world wide web daily, from kids to elderlies, even from people with different academic backgrounds we use it to connect, socialize and even perform tasks. By 2020, numbers indicates that 21 billion devices are going to be connected to the internet. In fact every “Thing” can be connected to internet from smartphones, tablets, watches, cars, appliances and even homes, better known as “Internet of Things”. Mega IT companies a...

Examining the Implementation of Gifted and Talented Pilot Program in ADEK’s Public Schools See

Gifted and talented education newly exists within ADEK’s public schools; hence, this study was the first to examine the implementation of the pilot program at three public schools in Cycle 1, Cycle 2 and Cycle 3. The main research questions of the study were to examine the effectiveness of the implementation and the accuracy of outcomes of the program, over several stakeholders, and to check their compliance with NAGC standards. A sequential explanatory mixed methods design was adopted. The m...

Impact of Educational’ Interventions that Lead to the Compliance with Hand Hygiene Guidelines for Healthcare Professionals within a Hospital Care Setting in Abu Dhabi. thus, Reducing the Nosocomial’ Infections See

Healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) can be prevented by applying better policies, and interventions. Complete adherence to these infection control procedures is essential for the successful implementation of educational interventions (McCay, 2015). The purpose of the current study was to determine the features of structured educational interventions that impact the compliance of hand hygiene by healthcare professionals within a hospital setting. Current research work also focused hand wa...

The Impact of Diabetes Educational Interventions on Nurses’ Knowledge of In-Patient Diabetes Management in Hospitals in Abu Dhabi & Dubai See

ABSTRACT Diabetes rate is increasing worldwide which is associated with health and economic issues. The current study has addressed ways to design and implement educational intervention in general hospitals in UAE. Potential challenges and project feasibility criteria have also been determined for better project initiation and further implementation (Bindon, 2017). Danat-al-Emirate and al-Jalila children hospitals have been considered for this paper and Quasi-experimental design research app...

Appreciative Leadership and Teacher’s Subjective Well being: An Appreciative Tool for an Appreciative Outcome See

Educational scholars and reformers have reached a consensus on the importance of teacher’s well-being in education. Teacher’s and student’s well-being can be considered two sides of the same coin. It is considered by a lot of researchers as an essential ingredient for building human capacity in a first-rate educational system. Therefore, the need to promote teacher’s well-being is essential within the education industry. However, teacher’s well-being is a broad concept governed by multiple va...

The Energy Performance of the Double Skin Façade in a Conventional Residential Building in Irbid, Jordan See

This paper aims at investigating the thermal performance of double skin façade (DSF) for a residential building known as “Amara” in Irbid, Jordan. This city, is the second largest city located in the northern part of Jordan, usually experiences a hot dry summer with high solar radiations and a cold-wet winter. Being the DSF the globe’s active trends that is applicable in both new and refurbishment of old buildings as a passive solution, this paper addresses aspects of applying the DSF on an i...

TERMINATION OF CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS AND THE RELATED APPLICATION OF LIQUIDATED DAMAGES See

This dissertation discusses the concept of the termination of construction contract, and the consequences of the termination, particularly, the application of the penalty clause and/or the liquidated damages clause. Pacta Sunt Servanda. There is no doubt that the fundamental elements of the contract are that it is binding on the parties thereto. Although there may be some types of contracts that are not binding due to its nature, at least the construction contracts fall under the binding con...

Decennial Liability under UAE Law (Articles 880-883 of Law No. 5 of 1985) See

Decennial Liability is an exceptional liability in UAE, under Articles 880 to 883 of Law No. 5 of 1985. According to this provision of the Law, the Architect / Engineer (A/E) and the Contractor are jointly and severally liable to the Employer, for partial, or total collapse, or defects threatening the stability, or safety of the structure. Since decennial liability is a matter of public policy, it cannot be exempted or contracted out. Due to the paucity of literature and lack of publishe...

Influence of organisational delay risk factors on project critical success factors in construction projects in the UAE See

Construction sector has witnessed a boost in number of projects in the past decade in the UAE. With the advancement in technology and experts, large number of complex projects are taking shape but has many organisational related risks. Project delays are the most common challenges faced by several construction organisations which leads to major effect on overall project time, cost and quality. The goal of this research paper is to identify the influence of the organisational delay factors cau...

Design Liabilities: In Design Build Procurement in the UAE See

This dissertation explores contract design liabilities for Contractors and Engineers under Design Build procurement in the UAE. Firstly, a comparative study of the implied design liabilities provided by UAE Civil Law and DIFC Law is included. As DIFC Law incorporates English Law, a second comparison is made between UAE Civil Law and DIFC Law with English Law used as gap-filling law. This comparison utilizes the implied terms provided under English Law, specific to Design Build contract disput...

Critical Success Factors for Public Private Partnership in the UAE See

Countries such as UAE are increasingly pursuing PPP with the goal of improving service delivery to the public as the economy becomes increasingly diversified. As such, the current paper key seeks to investigate the extent and the key success factors of PPP in UAE. For key aims of this research as it sought to investigate the research questions and deliver on the research objectives: i. To explore the concept of public-private partnerships in UAE. ii. To investigate the key factors that lea...

Mining Student Information System Records to Predict Students’ Academic Performance See

An increasing interest has arisen during the past decade to identify the most important factors influencing students’ performance in higher education, especially by using predictive data mining techniques. This field of research is usually identified as educational data mining. Educational Data Mining (EDM) is the field of study that is concerned about mining useful patterns and predicting student’s academic performance in the field of education. Researchers in this field tend to study differ...

Developing a Framework for improving Business Continuity Management success (BCM) in UAE Construction Industry See

Purpose of the study The main purpose of carrying out this study was to explore the concept of Business Continuity Management (BCM). Research even determines ways for Business Continuity Management (BCM). The study identifies alternative for BCM in UAE Construction industry. At the end, research recommends Frame work for the effective implementation of BCM in UAE that can be used by UAE’s construction industry to ensure BCM. Research methodology The researcher has emphasized on implementi...

The impact of sovereign rating changes on equity markets: The Case of GCC countries See

This study investigates how GCC stock markets react to a change in the domestic currency sovereign credit ratings. This paper makes use of an event study with an underlying market model. The sovereign ratings and stock market prices were retrieved from the Thomson Reuters DataStream database. In total, 83 rating events were tested, 39 of which are upgrades, 44 as downgrades. The period tested spans from 2002 to 2017. The results coincide with previous literature; concluding that GCC markets ...

The Impact of the BIM Organizational Risks on the BIM Enhanced Project Delivery and Organization Improvement See

This dissertation paper targets the topic of the Building Information Modelling (BIM) due to its importance in enhancing the delivery of construction projects as well as the challenges that face its implementation and jeopardize its advantages, it attempts to provide a brief background about BIM and its main differences with the traditional CAD method, then it discusses the topic of risk in general and moves on to explain the main types of BIM challenges that were suggested in the literature....

OPTIMIZING THE FAÇADE SKIN OF AN EXISTING OFFICE BUILDING WITH BIOMEMITIC DESIGN SOLUTIONS See

As a city, Dubai has a vision for sustainable development, with goals that are outlined till the year 2050. In this city, buildings consume 80% of the energy generated locally. In line with this initiative, local government authorities have launched multiple campaigns in educating the public about saving or reducing energy consumption as end users. The Dubai municipality has updated their building permit guideline as well. They now include a green building rating system, forcing, new build...

An Exploration of the Causes of Cost Overruns in Public Sector Infrastructure Projects in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): A Stakeholder Perspective See

In this research paper, the light is shaded on cost overrun as one of the hot topics that is becoming commonly a phenomenal issue in the projects worldwide. In spite of the considerable developed knowledge in project management, cost overrun is inherently forming a part for the most of the infrastructure projects. Today, the degree of project’s success is measured by being within the golden triangle of cost, scope and time. Therefore, this proposed dissertation is investigating the factors th...

A Study on Applying Data Mining in Airline Industry for Demand Forecasting by predicting Item Criticality See

Organizations inventory forecasting plays an important role for supply chain management. It is very important for an organization to be able to identify the inventory demand required in future and this can be achieved by using the data stored in the company’s data warehouse and with the help of data mining, future inventory demand can be predicted using specific data mining techniques. Several forecasting techniques have been developed for different businesses and each has its own advantages ...