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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Gulf Region"”.
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Development of Sustainable Concretes for the Gulf Region
Massive construction activities in the state of Qatar have stressed the market of building materials and raised legitimate concerns about the associated impact of construction practices on the environment. As concrete is the most commonly Used building material, reducing the eCO2 of concrete and …
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Tracking Potential Sources of Peak Ozone Concentrations in the Arabian Gulf Region
… balloons with ozonesondes in the Middle East region. The data from the initial 20 launches consistently show changes in meteorological parameters at about 5 kilometers above the surface, including temperature inversions, corresponding change in potential temperatures, a dramatic drop in …
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Developing an IT Bidding Maturity Model (ITBMM) for IT firms operating in the Gulf Region
… has been firms operating within the Gulf Region. Key research emphasis has been to address prevailing knowledge gap in understanding key factors that influence IT bidding capability of firms operating within Gulf region. The developed maturity framework is based on the selected areas …
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The basis for cooperation in the Gulf Region: an assessment of the Gulf Cooperation Council
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a regional alliance grouping the six oil- and gas-rich Arabian states of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain, was founded in 1981 with the purported aim of "effect[ing] coordination, integration and inter-connection between …
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The Lure of the West : analyzing the domination of Western firms in the Gulf Region
For the past three decades, architecture in the gulf region has undergone a wide ranging-amount of transformations. The discovery of oil during the mid 20th century transformed countries with in the region from small, significantly poor cities that depended merely on pearling and trade as a source …
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Investigating the Effect of Construction Companies’ Marketing Mix on the Experience of Customers in the Gulf Region
… experience in the construction industry of the Gulf region. Against this backdrop, the current study intends to identify key attributes of individual marketing mix elements that affect the customer experience in the Gulf region’s construction companies, an area which has not been examined …
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Multinational corporations in the Arab world with particular reference to the contribution of industrial joint ventures to development in the Gulf region
… corporations, has nevertheless left the Arab region less industrialised and more technologically and institutionally backward than many other parts of the world. The Arab Nation as a whole, in all its diversity of countries and regions, has failed to economically or industrially advance at the …
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The Influence of National Culture on Knowledge Transfer within the Middle East Management Training Sector
The Gulf region has enjoyed near instant wealth thanks to natural resources but remains reliant on foreign workers to impart the knowledge required to generate endogenous talent. Despite efforts by the United Arab Emirate (UAE) government to absorb this knowledge and develop Emirate talent, the …
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"Excellent Propaganda" Zbigniew Brzezinski's Narrative for the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
… geopolitical vision and objectivesforthePersian Gulf region, including how he used the Afghan war to pursue those objectives, and how important his willful misunderstanding of Soviet intentions in Afghanistan was to the legacy of America’s involvement in that nation’s affairs.</p>
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A Case Study on Leadership in a Transnational Landscape of Practice
… was located in one country in the Arabian Gulf Region in the Middle East. This study was situated in a unique setting as it involved a group of North American-based faculty and academic support staff members piloting an experiential teaching and learning experience within a transnational …
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The education and training of accounting technicians in the Sultanate of Oman : The accounting diploma program at Sultan Qaboos University
… commercial exploitation of oil in the Arabian Gulf region has brought profound and far-reaching change to the peoples of the area. What has happened has been nothing short of a transformation from desert sheikdoms into modem nation states;The Sultanate of Oman is one of those states. Although …
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Exploring Architectural Implications on Social Sustainability: The case of extended family dwellings in contemporary Bahraini households
… prosperity of the era of oil exportation in the region, by moving from the traditional courtyard house to the single family house. But subsequently, the global economic downturn in 2008 forced a gradual end to oil dependency, causing a detrimental impact on living standards, particularly housing, …
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Dinoflagellate paleoecology and biostratigraphy of the Middle Eocene Tallahatta and Lisbon Formations from the Baldwin County, Alabama, Core
… time scale with the sequence stratigraphy of the Gulf region. A total of 101 taxa were identified, including 55 genera, 91 species, and 10 subspecies. Statistical analyses were run on the data collected to identify paleoecologic patterns and to relate these patterns, if possible, to sedimentary …
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Modelling the Economic and Political Factors of Optimum Currency Area Theory for the Adoption of the Single Currency Project in Gulf Cooperation Council
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is an organisation that has for a long time had a regional policy to create an economic as well as a political bloc. The theory of optimum currency areas provides the economic foundation for this research. Previous studies focused largely on the eight …
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A COMPARISON BETWEEN SAUDI AND AMERICAN SCHOOL PRINCIPAL PREPARATION PROGRAMS
… participation and study replication using Gulf Region, Middle East, European, or Asian countries as comparable.
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Near Real-time Seasonal Drought Forecasting and Retrospective Drought Analysis using Simulated Multi- layer Soil Moisture from Hydrological Models at Sub- Watershed Scales
… for 50 watersheds in the South-Atlantic Gulf region of the Southeastern US and a high-resolution daily soil moisture dataset is obtained at Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC-12) resolution for a period of January 1982 through December 2013. A near real-time hydrologic simulation framework by …
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An assessment of Gulf States’ perceptions of US hegemony and security in the Persian/Arabian Gulf
This thesis assesses the Gulf states’ perceptions towards US hegemony security in the Persian/Arabian Gulf. A number of questions are asked regarding security and stability in the Gulf, the tools, means and objectives of the USA in the region, regional powers and their role in achieving stability …
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Exploring Intergenerational Value Changes across Three Generations of Emirati Women Using Focused Ethnography
… and female leadership development in the Gulf region.</p>
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United States policy towards Iraq, 1988-1990
… war changed the strategic environment in the Gulf region. It posed a challenge for United States policy towards Iraq. Emerging as a strong regional power from the war, Iraq was determined to play a leading role in regional affairs. The United States realized that normal relations with Iraq …
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Public Policy Development and Implementation in the United Arab Emirates. A study of organizational learning during policy development and implementation in the Abu Dhabi Police and the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Interior
… and indeed any public sector organization in the Gulf Region. Inside action research was chosen to emphasize the author's dual role as both a researcher and a participant. As an advisor to both the Ministry of the Interior (MOI) of the UAE and the Abu Dhabi Police (ADP), the author helped both …
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