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Simone Perna, Zainab Ali AL-Qallaf and Qaisar Mahmood
Modern urban societies generate tremendous amounts of hazardous wastes, including toxic organics and metals. Toxic metals harm plants and pose a risk to human health; examples of them are copper (Cu), zinc (Zn), palladium (Pb), and cadmium (Cd). Wetland ...
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Hani El-Chaarani, Rebecca Abraham and Georges Azzi
Banks are financial intermediaries who transform deposits into loans. Banks in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region use large deposits from oil companies and big businesses to finance trade, and fund government and private sector infrastructure...
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Humood Abdulla Naser
Costal reclamation has been carried out extensively along the coastlines of the Arabian Gulf during the last decades. As a small archipelago country, coastal reclamation continues to be a major option for securing land to meet the needs of the expanding ...
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Prakash Pinto, Shakila Bolar, Iqbal Thonse Hawaldar, Aleyamma George and Abdelrhman Meero
One of the prominent types of calendar anomalies includes holiday effects, where stocks show abnormally higher mean returns on the days prior to holidays in comparison to other trading days. The current study investigates the existence of holiday effects...
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Talal A. N. M. S. Alotaibi and Lucía Morales
Global stock markets experienced a dual shock in 2020 due to the impact of the global health crisis, parallel to a simultaneous shock derived from the Saudi Arabia and Russia oil price war. The dual shock fueled oil market volatility with lasting effects...
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Noora Albuainain, Ghaleb Sweis, Wassim AlBalkhy, Rateb Sweis and Zoubeir Lafhaj
Satisfaction is a very important factor in improving productivity and performance in the work environment. This study aims to investigate the levels of occupants? satisfaction with the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in the governmental buildings in t...
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Jamel Eddine Mkadmi
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This paper examines the comparative efficiency of Islamic banks and conventional commercial banks in Bahrain during the period 2005?2011 with respect to profitability. Eight financial ratios are used in measuring this performance. Applying Student?s t-te...
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Muataz Dhaif and André Stephan
In hot and humid climatic conditions, cooling tends to dominate building thermal energy use. Cooling loads can be reduced through the adoption of efficient building envelope materials, such as Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs). This study quantifies the...
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Rashad Sawires, José A. Peláez and Mohamed Hamdache
A probabilistic seismic hazard assessment in terms of peak ground acceleration (PGA) and spectral acceleration (SA) values, for both 10% and 5% probability of exceedance in 50 years, has been performed for the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Bahrain. To...
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Fatima Zahra Bendriouch,Harit Satt,Mohamed M?hamdi
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The purpose of this study is to examine the existing relationship between Islamic banks? performance and economic growth in GCC countries. In this quest, this paper attempts to examine whether Islamic banks contribute to the economic growth. We develop a...
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