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Bank-Specific and Macroeconomic Determinants of Islamic Banks Profitability: The Case of GCC Countries See

Generally, profitability for a business firm is the primary factor to survive. It helps the organization to grow, compete and remain attractive to investors as well as analysts. The purpose of the present study is to research in the bank-specific as well as macroeconomic determinants of Islamic banks in a region that’s consider to play an important role in Islamic finance development, namely the GCC region. The study used 28 Islamic banks operating in the GCC stock exchanges as a sam...

Apportioning subcontractors’ liability for project delays; a consensus approach See

Most construction contracts make use of the “Liquidated Damages” clause for dealing with damages due to delay. As it is difficult and sometimes impractical to evaluate the exact losses accrued due to the late handover of the project, the employer and main contractor pre agree an estimated sum which will be due to the employer for each day of the delay. Although, this satisfactorily addresses the liability issues between the owner and main contractor, a large portion of the works are indeed ex...

Investigating the Messages and Values in the Images of the UAE Ministry of Education Arabic Language and Moral Education Textbooks for G 1 to G4: The Interplay among Intended, Implemented and Hidden Curriculum See

ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE ACTION OF PRECAST HOLLOW CORE SLABS AND CAST IN PLACE MESH REINFORCED CONCRETE TOPPING See

Considering composite action of hollow core slab with cast in place mesh reinforced concrete topping helps to provide longer hollow core slabs and reduces the overall weight of the structure. Research has shown that composite action normally can be attained through studs or other connecting elements from the bottom element but for hollow core slabs the roughness of the top surface is enough to attain the composite action. This study aims to analyze the composite action of hollow core sla...

Effective Provisions of Educational Services for Native Arabic Learners with dyslexia at a Private School in Northern Emirates in the UAE A case-study See

Developing an Agile Management Framework For Project Risk Management See

Risk management becomes one of the most crucial processes in project and operation management nowadays. However, the accelerating rate of changes in project and business environment raises questions about the capability of traditional risk management processes to provide efficient performance. This paper aims to study the feasibility of using Scrum management methodology to run risk management and to evaluate the effect of utilizing agile management tools and techniques on the performance of ...

Research Study Exploring the Primary Teachers’ Knowledge About ADHD and their Attitude Towards the Inclusion of ADHD learners in the Mainstream Classrooms in an American Private School in Sharjah See

The chief intent of this study was to explore the issues around including the attitudes and knowledge of teachers towards children with ADHD and their inclusion into mainstream classrooms in the UAE. It also sought to assess the impact of the attitudes held by teachers as well as their awareness on ADHD children’s academic achievement. Furthermore, this study includes an overview of the main characteristics of children with ADHD in the impact the disorder has on their academic, social and ...

Parents’ Perspectives towards Transition of Children with SEND from Early Intervention to other Educational Settings See

The purpose of the study was to investigate parents’ perspectives and roles in the transition process from ECI to other educational contexts, and to understand how educational policies empower parents and support their children with SEND during the transition. Therefore, the study followed a sequential exploratory mixed-methods design to collect both qualitative and quantitative data. Data was primarily collected using semi-structured interviews with eleven parents of children with different...

A Digital DNA Sequencing Engine for Ransomware Analysis using a Machine Learning Network See

The research work proposes a novel detection mechanism for ransomware using machine learning approach using Digital DNA sequencing. The proposed work contains three significant phases: Preprocessing and Feature Selection, DNA Sequence Generation and Ransomware Detection. In the first phase, data preprocessing and feature selection technique is applied to the collected dataset. The preprocessing of data includes remove missing value records and remove columns that have a negligible impact. T...

Occupational Commitment of Women in STEM Fields: The Impact of Coping Self-Efficacy and Mentoring See

Continued under-representation of women employed in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields drastically reduces the available talent pool of technical skills. There have been many initiatives to enrol more females in STEM related courses and careers, however, the leaky pipeline continues to create problems for technical labour markets. Females constitute 42% of students pursuing STEM subjects pre-university in the USA, once at university only 33% of STEM undergraduates ...

The Extent to Which Schools with Mechanistic Structures and their Job Characteristics are Likely to Generate Teachers’ Organisational Commitment: Study Conducted in a Private School in Abu Dhabi See

Organisational structures are basic requirements of all social grouping including organisations such as schools and educational institutions. The decided structure determines the structural components of the organisation such as Centralisation, Specialisation, and Formalisation which in turn directly contribute to the creation of specific balance of job characteristics. Considering these job characteristics, labour motivation and satisfaction begin to develop at varying degrees in the short t...

The Influence of Distributed Leadership on Effective School Governance and Improved School Performance See

The Distributed Leadership Theory states that the success of an organization cannot depend on one person alone. It gives staff at various levels the power and autonomy to create change, aiming to utilize the skills, ideas and initiatives of the entire organization. The purpose of this research is to identify the impact of distributed leadership on school governance, leading to an improvement in the overall school performance. This study was conducted in two private schools in Al Ain. The exis...

Investigating the Impact of School Curricula on Student’s Readiness for Higher Education: A Study among School Leaving Students in a Private School in Sharjah See

Schools should be a transitional and preparatory stage for college; thus, its curriculum must be one that paves the way for a student to be fully prepared for college requirements in any major chosen. Today’s competitive and ever-changing socio-economic environment calls for adopting future-oriented learning and teaching techniques that can better prepare students for college and the workplace. However, curriculum content in schools is geared towards tests, not real-world applicability, or in...

Editorials: Sharing best practice in education – sharing the evidence from practitioners See

The Creative Use of Cohesive Devices: Exploring New Roles See

The role of cohesive devices in different types of discourses has been broadly acknowledged to be maintaining texture, or holding the different parts of the text together. This role was emphasised in a plethora of studies in discourse analysis, and cohesive devices have been considered to be the glue-like linguistic tools through which textuality is achieved and without which a certain piece of discourse would look like fragmented, disconnected sentences. Important as it is, the ‘gluing’ role...

Distributed leadership in higher education: an analysis of heads of departments’ leadership practice in the UAE See

The purpose of this research is to explore the extent to which leadership styles or approaches adapted by heads of department in selected independent degree awarding institution in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates use the distributed leadership style. This study used a qualitative research approach to achieve the research aim. Evidence from the data shows that there is always no single best approach to leadership and in all places. Leaders’ approaches are driven by the context i...

The challenges of conducting qualitative research: Student perspectives from the United Arab Emirates See

Research activity and output is increasingly seen as a mark of excellence. Emerging education sectors often struggle to compete on this stage due to lack of experience or awareness of the process. Student research is an oft under-explored area of this debate and one that requires further attention an analysis. This paper uses a mixed methods approach and an ethnographic case study of two private universities in Dubai, in order to explore the experiences and challenges university students f...

The impact of formative walk-throughs in advancing formative assessment and improving student performance See

What students do in a classroom, their knowledge of why they are doing it and how to do it have a great impact on their performance. Understanding formative assessment and its appropriate application in class will lead to a whole school culture change focused on learning. This study explains the impact of formative walk-throughs in advancing formative assessment and improving students’ performance. This explanatory case study seeks to establish the causal relationship between formative walk-t...

The Impact of Supporting Parents of Children with Disabilities in the UAE See

This paper intends to measure the impact of a training programme on parents/caregivers of children with disabilities. This training programme was designed by academics at the British University in Dubai with support from the Al Jalila Foundation (AJF), a charitable organization located in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This research measures how this programme helps those parents and caregivers to cope with the challenging behaviours of their children with different types of disabilit...