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The impact of blended learning on learners’ academic performance and emotional well-being
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2023-02)This research seeks to investigate the learners’, teachers’, and school management's perceptions of blended learning. The study has adopted the mixed method approach to explore the effectiveness of blended learning ... -
Investigation into the extent to which mainstream schools in Dubai show readiness to integrate ‘Twice Exceptional’ children concept into practice.
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2023-03)This research on twice-exceptional students in Dubai schools reveal several key insights into the challenges and opportunities of integrating 2e students into educational settings in mainstream schools in Dubai. The research ... -
An Investigation into the Impact of School Leadership Practices and School Policies on Abu Dhabi (UAE) Governmental School Inspection Outcomes
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2023-05)This thesis focuses on how schools implement three of six standards in the UAE inspection framework which are: Standard 3, teaching and assessment based on teaching for effective learning; Standard 5, how protection, care, ... -
Structural design and cost comparison between a concrete structure and steel a structure of a tall residential building in Dubai subjected to seismic and wind loads.
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-10)There are many materials and structural systems of buildings over the world such as Steel structures, Concrete, Wood, Stone and Brick/Masonry. Apparently, each one of them is having its properties and limitation of ... -
A Multiagent Approach for Diagnostic Expert Systems via the Internet
(Elsevier, 2004)In recent years there has been considerable interest in the possibility of building complex problem solving systems as groups of co-operating experts. This has led us to develop a multiagent expert systems capable to run ... -
An Investigation of Foreign Language Teaching Anxiety among EFL and EMI Arab Teachers in UAE.
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2023-01)Teachers' fear, apprehension, unease, or worry might be related to foreign language teaching or teaching other subjects using foreign languages. This is referred to as "foreign language teaching anxiety". The present ... -
Understanding the impact of using Chatbot for shipment delivery toward environmental sustainability using the SEM-ANN approach
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2023-03)This research paper examines chatbot technology acceptance in customer service and shipment delivery, adoption studies, and sustainability. However, little research concerns the effect of the use of chatbots for shipment ... -
BIM for Economic Green Retrofitting based on LEED- EBOM
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2020-09)The current situation of global warming requires many actions to reduce the GHG emissions and resources depletion so the governments around the world defined several visions and plans to be achieved within long term and ... -
Machine Translation of English Noun Phrases into Arabic
(2004)The present work reports our attempt in automating the translation of English noun phrase (NP) into Arabic. Translating NP is a very important task toward sentence translation since NPs form the majority of textual content ... -
An expert system for the best weight distribution on ferryboats
(2004)There are some problems that need expertise in order to get a satisfactory solution. Ferryboat carries goods, fresh water, diesel oil, luggage and storing rooms up to its permissible draft in order to maintain safety ... -
A Framework for Information Extraction, Storage and Retrieval
(2004)This paper presents a set of tools that were developed in order to facilitate and speed up the process of building information extraction and retrieval systems for documents that exhibit a set of predefined characteristics. ... -
Towards Resolving Ambiguity in Understanding Arabic Sentence
(2004)Ambiguity is a major reason why computers do not yet understand natural language. We have made great deal strides towards developing tools for morphological and syntactic analyzers for Arabic in recent years. The absence ... -
An Interactive System for Association Rule Discovery for Life Assurance
(2004)This paper uses prior domain knowledge to guide the mining of association rules in life assurance business environment. This approach is used in order to overcome the drawbacks of data mining using rule induction such as ... -
The Impact of Dynamic Managerial Capabilities on Response Strategies to Disruptive Innovation: The Mediating Role of Unlearning and Moderating Role of Managerial Discretion
(The British University in Dubai, 2023-05)This thesis utilizes the upper echelon theory, and dynamic capability view of the firm, to address the impact of dynamic managerial capabilities (i.e., managerial human capital, managerial social capital, and managerial ... -
Explaining the success of UAE companies globally: the benefits of possessing a ‘can-do’ culture
(Inderscience, 2021)In numerous markets, companies from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are among the global market leaders, and are therefore arguably ‘punching well above their weight’. This research aims to uncover some of the key factors ... -
Institution strategy in transnational higher education: late entrants in mature markets – the case of international branch campuses in the United Arab Emirates
(Taylor and Francis, 2021)Market entry timing strategies have been analysed by numerous scholars, but not in the context of higher education. Although there is to some degree consensus on first mover advantages, the research on late entry has been ... -
Doctoral publishing as professional development for an academic career in higher education
(Elsevier, 2021)The aim of this research is to discover the views, practices and advice of experienced doctoral educators on how doctoral students in the fields of business and management may be encouraged and supported to write for ... -
Institutional influences on firm strategy in authoritarian emerging economies: mass media companies in the UAE
(Emerald, 2021)Purpose This is one of the first studies to investigate the influences of institutions in an authoritarian regime on the strategies of firms that operate in a potentially sensitive industry. The purpose of this paper is ... -
Two decades of international branch campus development, 2000-2020: A review
(Emerald, 2021)Purpose – The research aims to assess the achievements and challenges of international branch campuses (IBCs) to date, and to consider how IBC development may progress in the future. Design/methodology/approach – The ... -
Student experience at international branch campuses
(2020)Many higher education institutions now have offshore campuses in foreign countries. To attract students in the host country, these international branch campuses typically rely on the parent institution and home country ...