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Future proofing Karachi for Urban Heat Island
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-07)"Future proofing cities is one of the most researched and pressing topic of this century due to climate change. This research is focused on Urban Heat Island, one of the many issues faced by the mega city of Karachi, due ... -
Fuzzy Techniques in Visual Performance and Illumination Applications
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2020-08)The lighting design calculation has many variables that do not realistically have crisp values and therefore can be considered fuzzy. By fuzzy we mean that a particular variable does not have an exact value. The vagueness ... -
The Generated Business Value from IT: the Case of Fostering Organizational Innovation
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-12)The difficult situations that emerged during the economic downturn over the recent years put an increasing pressure on executives to create more value from IT, as a significant amount of money is being allocated to IT. ... -
Government Data Governance and Management Frameworks Positive Collaborations, to Enhance Data Sharing and Efficiency of Government Services in Smart Cities
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-11)The conception of the word smart in smart cities; is often perceived, as cities that are aiming to improve its functions across various sectors, through the adoption of (smart) digital technologies. These cities value up ... -
Greening Existing Buildings in the United Arab Emirates
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-09)It is expected that in the next few decades, CO2 production in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will increase up to 138.4 million metric tonnes annually as a result of increasing the consumption of building resources, like ... -
Grid electricity demand reduction through applying passive and active strategies for a house in Baghdad, Iraq
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-07)Over the last decade, electricity conservation has been at the core of global attention as every aspect of modern life depends on electrical energy. More so, all new and improved technologies are accompanied by the rapid ... -
The Grid Iron Patterns & Detached Villas as the Main Drivers of Sharjah City’s Urban Sprawl
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2021-02)The city of Sharjah is among the Gulf cities that have increased in size at an unprecedented rate by all standards, and within a period of time not exceeding four decades, after it remained confined within its old wall ... -
Health and Comfort Implications of Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Conditions in Dubai Elementary Schools
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2011-07)Many studies indicate that poor indoor air quality and thermal discomfort can negatively impact the health, performance, and comfort of the occupants. Poor quality of indoor air can cause short-term or long-term health ... -
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Multivariable Control System with Least Energy Dissipation
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2019-03)The highest energy consumption in building sector is caused by building's services such as lighting units and thermal comfort systems. Heated Ventilated Air Conditioning (HVAC) system consumes approximately 50% of the total ... -
The Hidden Correlation between Intelligence and Autism
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2020-01)In 2018, Centers for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) [26] determined that approximately 1 in 54 children in US is diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Within this group of autistic children, 44% had IQ ... -
Historical trends of energy consumption of local housing units in UAE and future outlook in light of new green buildings regulations
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2011-05)WWF (2010) ranked United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the country with the world's largest Ecological Footprint per capita in 2007, by means of that if the earth's population consumed and emitted carbons as much as UAE residents ... -
Holistic Transitional Approach of Humanitarian Shelters Through The Implementation of Adaptable Design Strategies.
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-06)The issue of forcibly displaced portions of a population has become an emerging global trend that is driven by significantly increased numbers of displaced people. This is caused by increases in natural disasters due ... -
Home Automation Awareness in United Arab Emirates
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-07)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 ... -
Horizontal Shear Strength at the Interface of the Concrete Beams Cast in Two Time Stages
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2020-12)Composite concrete is a method of construction that uses both precast and cast in situ concrete to produce a structural element. In framing big slabs areas, the use of precast slabs and beams is being an economical way of ... -
How can Electronic Medical Record Help improve Health Services in Emirate of Abu Dhabi?
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-05)Health Information System is the current most widely discussed topic in Abu Dhabi hospitals; as the implementation of such a system is still being rolled out to all hospitals and primary health care centers; also, let us ... -
How Global Coordination Can Be Achieved from Local Coordination in Social Networks
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-01)Coordination in natural and arti cial intelligent systems has attracted the attention of many scientists recently. However, little research has been conducted to understand the relationship between local coordination and ... -
How Green Building Passive Design Techniques Can Enhance the Lighting and Thermal Indoor Environment in Museums
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2012-11)There is a need for global environmental sustainable development involving upgrading the built environment with green initiatives to conserve energy. museums has relatively extra electricity usages as it needs provide ... -
How one-to one E-learning enhances and affects high school students’ learning performance in the UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-06)The one-to-one E-learning solution has become a significant tool of 21st century teaching art within UAE. It also has become the language that UAE youth speak. Therefore, this paper discusses how this new injected solution ... -
Human Centric lighting in school classrooms
(The British University in Dubai (BUID), 2020-08)Human centric lighting ( HCL ) is the sum of visual and non-visual effects of light on humans. Not only do we need light to see objects, but recently it was found that light affects much more than that. It was shown that ... -
Human Computation for Ontology Refinement
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2008-06)Ontology plays an important role in enabling the Semantic Web. Ontologies are used to represent a shared and common understanding of a domain of interest. The main bottleneck is knowledge acquisition in a dynamic environment ...