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Cloud computing is turning into a main innovation in a wide range of associations and is progressively imperative to various areas. One of the divisions which have confidence in coordinating and securing their surroundings, also, the financially savvy answers for boost the benefit and dealing with the expense against the arrival of any ventures are the banks. Then again, understanding on which components influence or control or impede the appropriation of distributed computing in local banks ...

This thesis has been written to discuss psychosocially s supportive design within work places. It is no secret that built environments had affected our lives massively, work places in particular since we are spending almost 8 hours of our days at working environments. Therefore, the starting point of the research will display buildings’ roles in our lives and their influences on human lives. Similarly, the research will retail work places history, offices developments through years and their ...

This study attempts to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the field of Islamic education. The twofold purpose of this study is to develop a theory of Islamic education as a means of strengthening the theoretical connection between curriculum for primary and secondary levels and the philosophy of Islamic education as well as to contribute to a meaningful convergence amongst existing Islamic education frameworks. Swanson and Chermack’s (2013) General Method to theory-building was c...

ICT innovations played a vital role in driving last century developments characterised as the digital revolution introducing unprecedented opportunities across different life sectors. This digital revolution is expected to further evolve to encompass the fourth industrial revolution that was characterized by a fusion of technology. Internationally there is consensus on the need for a paradigm shift in education reforms to meet these future developments where it is fundamentally believed that ...

Many researchers argue that grit a non-cognitive skill is important for students to perform better academically and to improve their skills. It is also believed that once students have grit, they will be able to overcome their setbacks and cope up with failure, because they believe that they can improve their abilities and succeed. However, being a new scientific study there has been a few studies in this field. The purpose of this thesis is to draw the attention to the importance of grit as...

The purpose of this explanatory mixed-methods study is to examine Emirati Grade 12 students’ perspectives on the challenges they face when writing in English. The researcher explores the issue of writing from students’ perspectives because their voices on the challenges they encounter in writing English have been overlooked while so much attention is often focused on teachers’ views and techniques. The theoretical framework draws on Spolsky’s (1989) and Grabe’s (2001) list of learning conditi...

Lack of teaching experience can affect the new teachers seriously and reduce their productivity. The purpose of this research is discovering the relationship between teaching practice and the student-teachers professional growth from the staff and students perspectives. The main research question is ‘What is the impact of ongoing teaching practice on student-teachers professional development? The secondary questions are, what is the best practice in practice teaching suggested by student-teac...

Anxiety of succeeding a business is uncertainty to any stakeholder. Therefore appropriate strategical planning based on financial assessment is essential, strictly speaking for long-term planning. Accordingly, life cycle cost analysis is a proper financial technique to evaluate all pertinent costs to a project during its lifetime. Whereas value engineering allows project managers to look over new designs to select the best design that fulfils performance over function. The aim of this researc...

Provisional sums are included within construction contracts to allow the employer, at its discretion, to select and nominate its choice of subcontractor to the contractor. Thereafter, the contractor remains generally liable for the performance of the nominated subcontractor. Provisional sums and nomination has caused significant legal issues under English common law, leading to its demise, whilst in the UAE employers continue to utilize the method extensively. A comparison of the legal trea...

This research present a study of the control of multivariable systems which are subjected to variable input and external load change. The topic of research is to design a controller to control the air gap of the suspension system of a Maglev Train. The design is conducted by implementing a recent research methodology called Least Effort Technique. This methodology were introduced by R. Whalley and M. Ebrahimi in 2006. The significant advantageous of Least effort technique is to reduce the ene...

The purpose of this study is to investigate and provide insights about the extent to which pre-training and post-training factors play a role in influencing the IT training transfer to the workplace. The study looks at the subject in the context of corporate-sponsored IT training and education initiatives. In order to provide a framework and clarity in the case, this study examined the "as-is" state of IT training transfer to the workplace for participants of IT training who work for a multin...

The Dissertation aims to investigate the current structure of government construction contracts in the UAE, specifically relevant to alternative dispute resolution mechanisms adopted within these contracts. Also to investigate the current applicable laws and the restrictions imposed by those laws on government contracts, along with possible required modifications to those laws in order to allow for internationally recognized Alternative Dispute Resolutions to be adopted and function within...

Scholars and education reformers alike have reignited the importance of teaching science using the inquiry-based learning approach. However, the lack of knowledge and skills about this approach in addition to teachers’ practices of traditional approaches are reasons for not applying the IBL in practice during science lessons in UAE. Therefore the need for an inquiry-focused professional development program is crucial to prepare science teachers and to enrich their knowledge about IBL. Moreove...

Semantic mapping is the study of lexical items by creating a relationship between the target words and some inter-related words using visuals in the form of maps or graphs, while wordlists are the study of lexical items in lists and sentences by explaining the meaning of the new words in the target language, English. The aim of this research is to investigate the effectiveness of semantic mapping and wordlists on students’ development and retention of L2 vocabulary. The researcher at the outs...

Developing an application through which the user can learn and have fun at the same time is being challenging for developers. For young learners these applications, or learning games sound interesting and very attractive to use. Yet, the concept of interactivity is essential in those applications to increase the learning potential. Interactivity ensures a bi-directional communication channel between learner and the game system. To find how such learning games affect the learner’s performance,...

This thesis focuses on comparing between two famous Arabic parsers Stanford Parser and Bikel parser using Arabic Treebank (ATB) for model training and testing and for this purpose we created a software that enables us to convert the ATB format to grammar format, convert the Arabic Morphological tags to Penn tags, and evaluate the parsers output by calculating the Precision, Recall, F-Score, and Tag Accuracy. We also modify Bikel Parser to use the Penn tags in training to improve the Precisio...

This study investigates gas turbine engine regulation for heavy duty vehicles using least effort and H infinity control strategies to evaluate the system response, performance and consumption of power. This research study shows how the least effort control gives good transient response, with characteristics of output decoupling and disturbance rejection using a simple feedback strategy. It is shown that the least effort controller gives minimum control energy consumption which causes least he...

The main purpose of this thesis is to investigate cultural factors and learning that have contributed to the leadership development of Emirati women. Available international educational leadership literature does not adequately address religious and cultural values, particularly those in Islamic and Arab contexts. The methodology adopted is qualitative aimed at an exploration of meaning, important in understanding the factors that contributed to leadership development of my participants. Thre...

The aim of this research is to investigate the roles and competencies of project managers in managing change in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The study focuses on people management. While some of the previous research argues that project managers are not effective managers of change, other studies, emphasize that they, in fact, are key players in managing change. These differing views are the main motivators for this research which aims to fill the gaps, clarify the issue and focus on its r...