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Mohamed Sherif, Ibrahim Abotaleb and Fahad K. Alqahtani
The Integrated Project Delivery method (IPD) is a contractual framework that features enhanced collaboration, risk and reward sharing under a single contract among the major project parties. This delivery method is gaining popularity in the US and other ...
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Sara Karami, Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis, Saviz Sehat Kashani, Mehdi Rahnama and Alireza Rashki
This study investigates four types of synoptic dust events in the Middle East region, including cyclonic, pre-frontal, post-frontal and Shamal dust storms. For each of these types, three intense and pervasive dust events are analyzed from a synoptic mete...
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Yousra Javed, Elham Al Qahtani and Mohamed Shehab
Privacy compliance of the Middle East?s financial sector has been relatively unexplored. This paper evaluates the privacy compliance and readability of privacy statements for top banks and mobile money services in the Middle East. Our analysis shows that...
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Lenka Starková
The variability of currently available remote sensing datasets raises the question of which specific processing methods should be used for feature detection and feature extraction in both large and small-scale overhead images. In some cases, particular a...
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Houshmand Masoumi
A very large part of the literature on urban commute travels is related to high-income countries. The determinants of urban commute trip distances are not clear in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA); thus, this study attempts to shed light on this t...
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Katiana Constantinidou, George Zittis and Panos Hadjinicolaou
The Eastern Mediterranean (EM) and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are projected to be exposed to extreme climatic conditions in the 21st century, which will likely induce adverse impacts in various sectors. Relevant climate change impact assessm...
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Carleen Maitland
Pág. 18 pgs.
Collective behaviors such as sharing a mobile phone or receiving assistance with a social media account play a significant role in information and communication technology (ICT) access and use, particularly in low-resource environments. Yet to date, few ...
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Mario COCCIA
Pág. 84 - 104
JEL. I30, I24, N35, Q56, Z12.
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Petr Procházka, Vladimír Hönig, Mansoor Maitah, Ivana Pljucarská and Jakub Kleindienst
The primary goal of this article is to evaluate water scarcity in selected countries of the Middle-East and assess the impact on agricultural production. To begin with, the Weighted Anomaly Standardized Precipitation (WASP) Index from 1979 to 2017 was sp...
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Maysoun Hameed, Ali Ahmadalipour and Hamid Moradkhani
Drought is an extreme climate phenomenon that happens slowly and periodically threatens the environmental and socio-economic sectors. Iraq is one of the countries in the Middle East that has been dealing with serious drought-related issues in the 21st ce...
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Maysoun Hameed, Ali Ahmadalipour and Hamid Moradkhani
Drought is an extreme climate phenomenon that happens slowly and periodically threatens the environmental and socio-economic sectors. Iraq is one of the countries in the Middle East that has been dealing with serious drought-related issues in the 21st ce...
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Louise Rayne, Jennie Bradbury, David Mattingly, Graham Philip, Robert Bewley and Andrew Wilson
The EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa) project is a collaboration between the Universities of Leicester, Oxford and Durham; it is funded by the Arcadia Fund and the Cultural Protection Fund. This paper explores the develo...
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KyungWoo Kim, Simon A. Andrew and Kyujin Jung
Following the 2015 Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in South Korea, this research aims to examine the structural effect of public health network explaining collaboration effectiveness, which is defined as joint efforts to improve quality ...
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Alijla A, Aghdam M
Pág. 1 - 13
Democratization is one of the main political challenges in the Middle East. The resistance to democracy and the prevail of non-democratic regimes, remain a fertile land for academics and professionals to examine it as it continues to be an unsolved puzzl...
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Iman Rousta, Mehdi Doostkamian, Allah Morad Taherian, Esmaeil Haghighi, Hamid Reza Ghafarian Malamiri and Haraldur Ólafsson
In this study, Geopotential Height (between 500 and 1000 hPa) and precipitation data were obtained from the NCEP/NCAR and IRIMO (Iran Meteorological Organization) for 60 years (1950?2010), respectively. Descriptive features of Atmospheric Thickness (here...
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Fabio Zagonari
This paper applies ex ante econometric, cost?benefit, and financial methodologies to increase participation in an irrigation project and predict its financial feasibility and social sustainability in Shahrazoor, Kurdistan, Iraq. I investigated the socio-...
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Ihsan Isik, Ihsan Kulali, Busra Agcayazi-Yilmaz
Pág. 1 - 29
This paper analyzes the total factor productivity developments in the Middle East banking, by drawing on the experience of Jordanian banks at the start of the new millennium. In order to control for the effects of different specifications of banking tech...
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Yahya Abdullahi, Mohamed Rashid Embi
Pág. 31 - 49
This research investigated the history of Islamic abstract vegetal ornaments and sketched their evolution to understand their creation process and innovations. We studied these ornaments regionally to identify regional variations and classified them base...
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Deborah L. Wheeler
Pág. pp. 89?104
Information technology is said to provide paths to empowerment, yet hard data about how this occurs are scant, especially concerning women's IT practices in the Middle East and North Africa. This article uses 25 interviews with female Internet café users...
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Deborah L. Wheeler
Pág. pp. 89?104
Information technology is said to provide paths to empowerment, yet hard data about how this occurs are scant, especially concerning women's IT practices in the Middle East and North Africa. This article uses 25 interviews with female Internet café users...
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