United Arab Emirates

Short of the war, the destruction, and the massive loss of life, Ukraine is in many ways similar to the Gulf crisis in which the UAE, together with Saudi Arabia, led a 3.5-year-long economic and diplomatic boycott of Qatar that, like the Russian invasion, was designed to hollow out the sovereignty of a neighbouring state.

There is a conspicuous lack of research on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices undertaken in the United Arab Emirates, more so in the banking sector. This paper attempts to fill the gap by examining the government policies drawn up to support enterprises in their CSR efforts. The paper aims to examine the nature and practices of CSR undertaken by the banking sectors in the UAE. UAE's desire to go beyond being a tourist destination to an international business hub and financial market has resulted in their desire to set up CSR activities. In the UAE the banking sectors are the first to have adopted social responsibility and worked to advance it. Banks like Mashreq, ADCB, and Emirates NBD have actively involved themselves in CSR projects. For this study, ten UAE banks (Islamic and Non-Islamic banks) have been chosen based on purposive sampling to ensure the selected banks are currently or in the recent past involved themselves in CSR projects.

Dear Colleagues,‎

We are proud to bring to you the latest edition of the FORTNIGHTLY, a review of Middle East ‎business, developments and news, for the period ending 2 October 2019.‎

Some highlights of this issue include the following:‎

‎2.3  Cox Automotive Begins Israel Auto-Tech Operations

‎3.3  Dubai's Retail Sector Undergoing a Major Transformation Due to e-Commerce

‎8.3  Strauss Group Reduces Sugar in Its Milk Chocolate by 30% with No Artificial Substitutes

‎9.8  US Defense Innovation Unit Selects D-Fend Solutions' Counter Drone System

‎10.1  Israel Ranked 38th in the World for Economic Freedom

‎11.4  EGYPT:  Israel to Start Exporting Natural Gas to Egypt as Last Obstacle Is Removed

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Dissertation Submitted to Jawaharlal Nehru University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for Award of the degree of MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY.

The root causes of the GCC's employment problems are interlocked – a system of national education that has largely not been competitive or well aligned with the needs of modern industry, a culture of citizens conditioned to a protective government, a public sector that is overstaffed and inefficient, and counterproductive policies in areas such as immigration and social welfare. It is also reflected in the highly distorted labour market in the region, founded on a socio-ethnic duality. In some respects the labour market is rigid, with pronounced differences in the wages for non-nationals and nationals. In other aspects it is flexible as current laws make it very easy to import or deport foreigners based on hiring/firing. This is also why“unemployment” is a national issue, for if and when a foreigner‟s work visa is terminated, he or she is obliged to return to the home country.
In the final analysis  –
• At the GCC level, the dissertation research disproves the hypothesis that growing numbers of GCC nationals have entered the private sector due to workforce nationalisation programmes, replacing foreign labour.
• The second hypothesis has been validated in that the growing mismatch between available local labour and the labour market requirements has undermined the success of Emiratisation.
• Finally, the failure of Emiratisation has been concluded while validating the hypothesis that Indian labour migration to the UAE has been vigorous despite Emiratisation.

At the dawn of the 1950s, when the Arabian Gulf stood at the precipice of a period of great social, economic, and political upheaval, two small sheikhdoms embarked upon an enterprise that would have a profound impact on the development of the future United Arab Emirates (UAE). Kuwait was larger and wealthier than its southern neighbor Sharjah. Additionally, though both had signed protection treaties with the British, Kuwait enjoyed far greater autonomy, enabling it to attain independence a decade before the other small Gulf monarchies. Crucially, Kuwait also had a head start in the development of modern education. Sharjah, the first among the Trucial States to seek to modernize its schools, thus turned to Kuwait for assistance. Kuwaiti educational aid began on a small scale, gradually growing until it extended to all but one of the Trucial States and had broadened in scope to include medical and development assistance. This aid was based on a vision of inter-Arab cooperation shared between Kuwaiti authorities and Sharjah's ruler Sheikh Saqr bin Sultan Al Qasimi. Some scholars characterize Kuwait's educational assistance program as subservient to Britain and opposed to the regional policies of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. However, an in-depth examination of Kuwait's educational role in Sharjah demonstrates the Pan-Arabist and anti-colonial nature of the program. Well before Kuwait's educational aid began, Sharjah was an established cultural center of the Trucial States. This had much to do with its success as a pearling and trading port. In the early twentieth century, Sharjah claimed one of the largest pearling fleets in the region and had sizeable communities of Indian and Iranian

This project focuses on the luxury goods market of United Arab Emirates and its growth factors. A growing economy, high consumption rates, a large, urban population, reduced financial risk, excellent infrastructure, and emerging stylish youth market is driving the luxury goods sector in the region. The Arab Spring has forced many tourists to change their travel plans and the UAE’s political stability coupled with its highly developed retail and hospitality sectors have made it a very attractive destination.
One of the prime factors for the UAE’s emergence as a retail hub is its ‘open for business’ culture, which encourages businesses to set up shop and reap the rewards of a growing economy, High consumption rates, a large, urban population, and reduced political and financial risk are the economical factors that have contributed towards the growth of the luxury goods market of united Arab emirates.
The U.A.E has a strong Tourism industry and excellent infrastructure which has served has strong factors for the growth of the luxury goods market of United Arab Emirates.
There is a huge growth potential for luxury goods in the Middle Eastern region. The most dynamic segments are hard luxury items like real jewellery, watches, handbags and sunglasses.
In the UAE both Men and Women are indulging in luxury purchases. According to Euromonitor Research, The total UAE luxury market was expected to grow more than nine per cent year-on-year in 2012 to total Dhs7.1 billion. Consumers across the globe are increasingly eager to spend money on high quality things which last longer, while UAE residents continue to indulge in luxury gadgets, spirits and jewellery items. Because of high rents in the high-end malls in UAE, retailers are looking forward to set up future ventures in second- and third-tier malls.

The desire to achieve the best outcomes in the provision of healthcare has driven health system reforms in many countries across the globe, including the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. As a young state (the United Arab Emirates was founded as an independent state in 1971) with a diverse (with 78% expatriates) and young population (40.23% of the national Emirati population is under 15 years of age), the government of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi has embarked on a journey to reform their healthcare system. This reform focuses on the redesign, financing, regulation and provision of healthcare with the aim of delivering accessible, affordable and high quality health care. We will describe and review the health system reform in Abu Dhabi to date: its background, history and characteristics. The review looks at whether the main components of the reform (mandatory health insurance; enhanced competition and a centralized regulatory system) have had the desired effects in terms of improving quality, enhancing access and ensuring affordability. Looking towards the future for the health system in Abu Dhabi we conclude that it is too early to tell whether the reform programme is having the desired effects in terms of achieving its goals of quality, access and affordability.

There have been numerous studies of the prevalence of postpartum psychiatric illness and its putative risk factors in Western Europe and North America, but very few studies have been undertaken in developing countries, including the Arab world. A total of 95 women admitted to the New Dubai Hospital in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for childbirth were studied. All subjects were assessed in the postpartum period using clinical and sociocultural instruments, namely the Self-Reporting Questionnaire (SRQ) on day 2 and the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) on day 7 after delivery. The prevalence of psychiatric morbidity was 24% according to the SRQ and 18% according to the EPDS. A number of psychosocial factors emerged as putative risk factors for postpartum psychiatric disturbance, including depressive illness. It is concluded that the prevalence of postpartum psychiatric morbidity and its risk factors in this Arab culture are similar to the results obtained in numerous previous studies conducted in industrialized countries. These findings have implications for the early detection and care of women at risk for postpartum psychiatric illness.

A retrospective epidemiological analysis was performed of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections in the Al Ain Medical District, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) during the period 1995-2000. The mean incidence for the study period was 7.1%, more than 3 times that reported for the period 1983-1992 (2.1%). For the years 1997 through 2000, the highest incidences (-5-7% of tested) were from health care facilities that cater exclusively for citizens and long-term residents of the U.A.E. Corresponding rates for the immigrant visa applicants (non-citizens) were lower and showed a dramatic decrease from -18% in 1995 to -2% in 2000. Most importantly, the number of multidrug-resistant cases showed an increase from 1.4% during the period August 1997-December 1998 to 8.5% during the period January 1999-July 2000. Analysis of 7 different isolates by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) showed RFLP patterns that did not match >4000 individual patterns from 32 countries, suggesting the possible presence of M. tuberculosis strains unique to the U.A.E. Our data demonstrate local transmission of M. tuberculosis in the Al Ain Medical Region of the U.A.E.

This paper outlines the development of family medicine in seven Middle Eastern countries. Some of the first family medicine activity occurred in Turkey in 1961, in Bahrain in 1978, in Lebanon in 1979, in Jordan in 1981, and in Kuwait in 1983. Family medicine programs have also been established in Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Libya, and Iraq. In most programs, family medicine training occurs largely in hospitals, even though few Middle Eastern family physicians practice in hospitals after completion of residency training. Thus, there is a need for better outpatient training, but resistance from those responsible for traditional medical education makes it difficult to change the current model of family medicine education. There is also need for better opportunities for professional development after graduation and for establishing research activity in family medicine.

Scattered populations of Avicennia marina can be found in the Arabian Gulf, occupying one of the driest mangrove habitats in the world, in which salt concentrations may reach levels that are beyond the physiological limit for other species. These ecosystems are poorly known, in particular, what levels of productivity can be attained and whether there are any indications of genetic adaptation to these exceptionally severe conditions. We have estimated standing biomass as varying between 70 and 110 t ha À1 for the tallest stands and between 14 and 65 t ha À1 for shortest stands. Our estimates for litterfall are 7.4±8.5 t ha À1 yr À1 in the tallest stands and 5.1±6.9 t ha À1 yr À1 in the shortest stands. These values of biomass are intermediate between levels reported for the same species in New Zealand and in Australia and the estimate of litterfall is comparable with that obtained from stands in Australia. Thus, despite the harsh ecological conditions, A. marina forms highly productive stands. We have analyzed leaf cuticular hydrocarbon composition, by gas chromatography, as a marker of population differentiation. The dominant alkanes were C 33 and C 31 , which are unusually long as compared with the other widespread species Avicennia. germinans. Since longer carbon chain lengths appear to offer an adaptation to minimize cuticular water loss, it would appear that A. marina has evolved under more arid conditions than A. germinans. Our sampled population from the Inner Gulf differed in quantitative cuticular wax composition from the Outer Gulf population, suggesting a possible genetic differentiation between the two populations. Our data indicate the need for more detailed analyses of the possible role of genetic adaptation in the productivity of mangrove ecosystems at the margins of their ecological range.

Dear Colleagues,‎

We are proud to bring to you the latest edition of the FORTNIGHTLY, a review of Middle East ‎business, developments and news, for the period ending 5 February 2020.‎

Some highlights of this issue include the following:‎

‎2.7  Comtech to Acquire Gilat Satellite Networks for $532.5 Million in a Strategic Transaction

‎3.4  The UAE’s First WeWork Officially Opens

‎5.3  GCC Medical Costs Set to Outpace Inflation by Over 300%‎

‎5.9  Positive Macro-Economic Indicators gave Egypt’s Economy a Boost in 2019‎

‎8.1  ELSE Nutrition Receives Notice of Allowance from U.S. Patent Office

‎11.7  GREECE:  Fitch Upgrades Greece to 'BB'; Outlook Positive‎

In addition, if you would like to bring to our attention any relevant Middle Eastern regional ‎development of interest, please notify me at: [email protected].‎

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the causal relationships in the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) Education Performance Excellence Criteria. Design/methodology/approach - Using a sample of 220 respondents from 15 United Arab Emirates (UAE) universities and colleges, results of regression analysis and confirmatory structural equation modeling show that all of the hypothesized causal relationships

Fifteen species of introduced ants, including eight cosmopolitan or tramp species, are recorded for the first time in the United Arab Emirates. They are Cardiocondyla emeryi, Camponotus compressus, Iridomyrmex anceps, Linepithema humile, Monomorium destructor, Monomorium indicum, Pachycondyla sennaarensis, Paratrechina flavipes, Paratrechina jaegerskioeldi, Paratrechina longicornis, Pheidole teneriffana, Solenopsis geminata, Tapinoma melanocephalum, Tapinoma simrothi and Tetramorium bicarinatum. A synopsis of their distribution, biology and pest status is given. Introduced species contribute an unusually high proportion of local ants and the ecological implications of their presence are discussed, including displacement of native fauna and impact upon human health. These ants abound in man-made, mesic environments and do not reach the characteristic sandy deserts of the region. Most invasive species are probably benign, but P.sennaarensis, M.destructor and S.geminata pose potential problems as public health and nuisance pests. The highly competitive S. geminata and L. humile may also threaten the local entomofauna and biodiversity.

In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), overall diabetes prevalence in adult population is around 20%. Along with, or instead of oral hypoglycemic drugs and insulin, some patients use bitter gourd (Momrodica charantia) because of its hypoglycemic properties. The aim of this study was to assess the essential (Ca, Mg, V, Cr, Mn, Co, Cu, Zn, and Mo) and toxic (As, Cd, Hg, and Pb) trace elements of bitter gourd using inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Mean concentrations of each essential element were compared with literature data. Toxic As and Cd could not be detected, while Hg and Pb concentrations in our samples were much lower compared to values reported previously from contaminated areas. Results obtained in our study after ICP-MS/MW analysis, indicate that bitter gourd can be a good source of essential elements.

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The ever increasing use and reliance upon computers in both the public and private sector has led to enormous numbers of computers being disposed of at the end of their useful life within an organisation. As the cost of computers has dropped, their use in the home has also continued to increase. In most organisations, computers have a relatively short life and are replaced on a regular basis with the result that, if not properly cleansed of data, they are released into the public domain containing data that can be relatively up to date. This problem is exacerbated by the increasing popularity and use of smart phones, which also contain significant storage capacity. From the results of the research it remains clear that the majority of organisations and private individuals that are using these computers still remain ignorant or misinformed of the potential volume and type of information that is stored on the hard disks contained within these systems. The evidence of the research is that neither organisations nor individuals have considered, or are aware of, the potential impact of the information that is contained in the disks from these systems becoming available to an unintended third party. This is the fifth study in an ongoing research programme being conducted into the levels and types of information that remain on computer hard disks that have been offered for sale on the second hand market. This ongoing research series has been undertaken to gain an understanding of the level and types of information that remains on these disks, to determine the damage that could potentially be caused if the information was misused, and to determine whether there are any developing trends. The disks used have been purchased in a number of countries. The rationale for this was to determine whether there are any national or regional differences in the way that computer disks are disposed of and to compare the results for any regional or temporal trends. The disks were obtained from a wide range of sources in each of the regions in order to minimise the effect of any action by an individual source.

Abstract: Cyberspace has become the new frontier for countries to demonstrate power. Nations that have developed defense tools or those that can successfully launch attacks against adversaries will become the next global superpowers [1], [2]. While cyber threats and attacks by government agencies are well documented, most widespread attacks are done by individuals or hacking groups for personal gains [3], [4]. The UAE has become a major target for cyber conflicts due to increased economic activity, tourism, technology and rise of the oil and gas industry. Furthermore, the wide spread of internet in the region to the tune of 88 % has exposed it to attackers [3]. Recent attacks against Saudi Arabia’s ARAMCO and Qatar RasGas and the Stuxnet attack on the Iranian nuclear plants are often cited as examples [3], [5]. Previous reports show that the UAE Government is set to double expenditure on homeland security [6]. Therefore, we need to assess whether available cyber-security defenses ar...

Pardis Mahdavi’s Crossing the Gulf is based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Arabian Gulf that investigated immobilities and mobilities as well as familial love in the lives of migrant workers. Although her data concentrate mainly on Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), her arguments are relevant to other countries in the area with a signifi- cant presence of domestic workers. The book offers a deeply original reading of migration and intimacy.

The concern about the corporate social responsibility activities which the organizations provide to their society and stakeholders increased as one reason for living in the era of globalization (Chapple & Moon, 2005). The study attempts to provide empirical evidence on the influence of the 2008 financial crisis on the disclosure about CSR among local banks in the United Arab Emirates. It also attempts to investigate the extent of CSR disclosure on these banks. For that reason, the study examined the annual reports of the local banks which work in the UAE in three different years. These years are 2007, 2009 and 2011. Additionally, this paper investigated the factors which influence the extent of CSR disclosure, namely; the number of the board of directors, the size of the bank, leverage ratio and profit of the bank (profitability ratio). Moreover, the study formulated four null hypothesis based on two theories namely stakeholder theory and legitimacy theory. The findings reveal that,...

In The courage to teach: Exploring the inner landscape of a teacher's life, Palmer laments, 'Mesmerized by technology……we dismissed the inner world' (2017). Yet technology (Tech rhtorik) as its etymology shows and Ong reminds us, encourages vibrant forms of expression, not least in a 21 st Century Emirati context (1982). The combination of a digitized voice to communicate an ancient poetic form with a modern twist is present in the Emirates in the form of the transmission of al Nabati. This is one medium that has straddled the centuries through its oral tradition. Pre-Islamic in composition, it has survived, indeed benefited from tribal sparring, as a vibrant art form today. This debating tradition, despite migratory diffusion, language contacts and generational leveling has circumvented what Steiner in 'Human Literacy' called for-a reconstitution of the 'great discourse with the living dead which we call reading' (1967). Using partially literate sources to stay alive in hearts and minds, the technical, ideological and political difficulties identified by Steiner are diminished. Complemented by modern digitization, the live voice in 21 st century communication, therefore, assists continuity with traditional educational methods and enhances their efficacy.Situating the curriculum in socio-cultural practices reduces barriers, increases participation and makes students and staff happier. It also brings in variety, movement and an extra-curricular dimension to study and to the workplace. Emiratis are today effective bilingual communicators, and the community co-translation of this oral medium bridges many cultures and may yet see its wider adoption in the West. In the UAE, despite some local language loss, partly due to the assimilation of Emirati dialects and the adoption of English, this genre has experienced renewed interest through televised, public and private gatherings. Consequently, both traditional and innovative forms of vernacular al Nabati survive, through networks that produce inter-cultural dialogue in World Englishes and Arabics. As a result, internal landscapes are not 'dismissed', but rather global education gives all a voice and shows how popular a cultural 'not merely a linguistic artefact' such poetry is (Sowayan, 2009).

This report summarises the status of coral reefs in the ROPME Sea Area which includes Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE); there are no coral reefs in Iraq. The region can be split into three parts according to the local marine climate, which strongly influences the nature of the coral communities: the Persian/Arabian Gulf

In this study, we compare three desalination based alternatives for water supply in off-grid areas, and assess their environmental footprint. The three options are: (a) a solar still, (b) a photo-voltaic (PV) powered reverse osmosis (RO) unit, and (c) water delivery by truck from a central RO plant. By use of life-cycle analysis (LCA), a comprehensive environmental modeling of the three systems is carried out. The basic systems, components and processes are modeled, and then varied, in order to offer a deeper insight into the robustness of the model.Our findings indicate that energy generation and materials usage are critical parameters when the considered alternative options are compared. Of the three options, PV-RO is found to have the least environmental impact. The usefulness of this study is that it provides policy-makers insights into renewable energy desalination for clean water production and, thus, it promotes the deployment of low-carbon desalination technologies.► Three desalination-based alternatives were assessed for environmental footprint. ► The life-cycle analysis (LCA) approach was used. ► A comprehensive environmental modeling of the three systems is carried out. ► Main finding: PV-RO has the least environmental impact.

Major transitions in subsistence, settlement organization, and funerary architecture accompanied the rise and fall of extensive trade complexes between southeastern Arabia and major centers in Mesopotamia, Dilmun, Elam, Central Asia, and the Indus Valley throughout the third and second millennia BC. I address the nature of these transformations, particularly the movements of people accompanying traded goods across this landscape, by analyzing human and faunal skeletal material using stable strontium, oxygen, and carbon isotopes. Stable isotope analysis is a biogeochemical technique utilized to assess patterns of residential mobility and paleodiet in archaeological populations. Individuals interred in monumental communal tombs from the Umm anNar (25002000 BC) and subsequent Wadi Suq (20001300 BC) periods from across the Oman Peninsula were selected, and the enamel of their respective tomb members analyzed to detect (a) how the involvement of this region in burgeoning pan Gulf exchange networks may have influenced mobility, and (b) how its inhabitants reacted during the succeeding economic collapse of the early second millennium BC. Due to the commingled and fragmentary nature of these remains, the majority of enamel samples came from a single tooth type for each tomb (e.g., LM 1 ) to prevent v Dedicated to my wonderful parents, Larry and Susan, and to my sisters and best friends, Lindsay and Lauren vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This dissertation could not have been completed without the support and assistance of many individuals.

This country report on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is part of a regional project focusing on Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates. The aim of this research study was to build the capacity of business women's associations and research centers to better serve their members. In addition, this project intended to expand knowledge about women's entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region by conducting a survey of female-owned businesses in the five countries.

With the aim to enhance sustainability in general including walkability, the recent urban forms of the designs of the Emirati neighborhoods have been denser and more compact, if compared with the older design models. While there are various guidelines and regulations related to the microscale walkability measures for the urban design of neighborhoods in the Emirates but unfortunately the macroscale walkability measures have not received similar attention. So, to investigate how would these denser and more compact recent neighborhoods designs better perform regarding walkability macroscale measures, the research utilized the urban modelling interface (UMI) walkability simulation tool to calculate the UMI Walkscores of these designs because it considers almost all macroscale factors including both urban morphology and urban planning measures and it also allows for the customization of the types, required catchment distances, and weights of the significance of locally provided amenities. The UMI Walkscores were calculated for the six recent denser and more compact neighborhoods designs and were compared with the UMI Walkscore for a conventionally designed model of urban sprawling neighborhoods. Unexpectedly, it has been found out that urban compactness per se is not a sufficient design measure for enhancing walkability in local neighborhood designs, where much higher compactness and density have achieved disappointing UMI Walkscores. So, it seems that for the recent neighborhoods' designs, little attention was paid to the impact of the street network connectivity measures of Intersection Density, Block Length and the link-to-nodes ratio, on UMI Walkscores, if compared with the main attention paid to increasing FAR through decreasing plot sizes. Meanwhile, the explicit macroscale urban planning measures including the land-use factors of the types, numbers, and the location of amenities, as well as the implicit factors of their destination and global weights seem to be more influential in enhancing the UMI Walkscores but have been less considered when planning these neighborhoods. So, besides considering well-known macroscale urban morphology aspects of street network connectivity and locational distribution of provided amenities, boosting walkability macroscale measures on the design level requires adopting a set of adequately customized measures including the appropriate values of their global and distribution weights. These walkability design weights should be also resilient and continuously reviewed to satisfy the changing needs of the local communities. Based on its findings, the research proposed a five-actions plan to help boost walkability macroscale measures in the design of local urban communities in the UAE.

This paper examines the anti-money laundering systems of Australia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA), the extent to which they have implemented the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) recommendations, and how compliance with these recommendations is affected by local cultural and economic factors. The paper makes use of FATF evaluation reports to compare the countries' compliance; it examines some of the underlying cultural considerations and culturespecific ethical issues that affect the extent of compliance, and how cultural and ethical considerations may affect good governance. The findings indicate that the UK and the USA are the most advanced with regards to their compliance with the FATF recommendations and Australia and the UAE less so. The UAE is in particular found to be least compliant. We relate this finding to previous work on how a country's legal and financial systems develop in line with its religion, culture and socio-economic situation, and examine how such local factors have affected the UAE's financial and anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) systems. This research will be of interest to policy-makers and government agencies involved in addressing money laundering and its successful detection and prosecution.

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Dubai tries to outdo the biggest and the best in the world. It is an amazing display of urban eye candy. But there is a dark side as well.

As a student of architecture, I took a break from my studies in India to work in a furniture factory in Sharjah 1976-1978. I returned to Dubai as an architect in 1988 and again in 2008 , being commissioned to write on Dubai for this edition on Future Cities.

(The essay was written in July 2008 and submitted for publication early Augus. Only in 2009 did the international press catch on, after Dubai’s boom was over. Burj Dubai opened in 2010, renamed Burj Khalifa after its lender who had bailed out Dubai).

In this study the attitudes, self-efficacy, and learning experiences of the UAE freshmen chemistry toward chemistry were investigated. The study focused exclusively on investigating the relationship between attitude, self-efficacy, and learning experiences and their relationship to other variables such as gender, nationally, GPA, secondary school achievement, and matriculation. In this study a total of 429 students from different colleges participated

The aim of this study is to define the epidemiology of the colorectal cancer in the United Arab Emirates and compare it with the other Gulf States and developed countries. This study is a retrospective descriptive study that includes 114 patients who underwent surgeries for colorectal carcinoma at Al-Ain and Tawam Hospitals in the United Arab Emirates during the period 1985 through to 1998. These patients were under medical follow up for a mean period of 24 months (range 6-120 months) Both univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to assess predictors of recurrence and survival. The survival curves were computed by using Kaplan-Meier method. Mean annual incidence was 12 patients/year. There were 77 males (67.5%) and 37 females (32.5%). The mean age at the time of diagnosis was 46.6 11.8 years with the median age of 47 years. The mean overall survival time was 63.7 7.7 months. The survival time was shorter for younger patients, those with palliative resection, lymph node me...

Sharia principles imply a mode of organising society and its various
facets, as well as serving as a guide for the conduct of individuals within
the institutional and social context. Accountability to be one of the pillars of environmental ethics within Islam. Another of the most important Islamic concepts is the solidarity of Islamic generations. Thus, the broader environmental dimension related to building is a social concern.
Building standards need to take into account this concern for preserving
sustainability for future societies. Sharia compliant projects should be
permissible business. Prophet Muhammad’s (P.B.U.H.) Hadith hallmarks
the significance of adhering to Islamic legislation and highlights Halal
and permissible business. Therein permissible/Halal business derives its elaboration from Islamic legislation. Sharia principles are often
articulated in broad terms. This has created a license to use discretion on how to apply these principles. Owing to the fact there are different
schools of Islamic jurisprudence, interpretation of dicta are not always
co-terminus. This paper looks into the various components particular to
the discussion on Sharia compliant logistics. In order to discuss the
hypothetical facets involved in the depiction of Sharia compliant logistics for construction, the discussion is broken down to address the values associated with Sharia compliant business and therefore the implications of Sharia compliant construction logistics leads on from there.

This study has been designed to address the issue of the forecasting of the healthcare needs of the United Arab Emirate (UAE) from 1974 to 2011. This includes predicting the health system's need for hospitals and hospital beds, as well as the public health manpower (example, physicians, nurses) requirements. The analysis was based on historical data: the number of hospitals, number of nurses, number of hospital beds, which have been posited as the measures of life expectancy in the Emirate. The study found that, although significant changes designed to enhance public health outcomes in the UAE have been made, beds to population ratio was the most significant factor in enhancing healthcare and the public health.

The United Arab Emirates revealed details of both its National Space Policy during the 56th Session of the Legal and Subcommittee meeting in Vienna March 27-April 7, 2017. The presentation, which was given by Naser Alrashedi of the Space Policy and Regulations Directory of the UAE Space Agency, is the first substantive look the UAE has proffered to the public of its space policy. The following summation is aggregated from the presentation made on April 6, 2017 and is intended to supplement the previous analysis of the UAE National Space Policy published the 3rd Quarter 2016 (Issue IV) of The Precis on September 2, 2016.

While the healthcare setting is commonly associated with some level of anxiety, this can extend to toxic harmful anxiety that has the potential to have a negative long-term effect on a child's anxiety and coping mechanisms, if not addressed adequately by healthcare professionals. For healthcare professionals to intervene in a timely basis and address anxiety in children in hospital, it is important that they have valid and reliable tools that enable them to measure anxiety in the first place. The purpose of this study is to present the findings of the reliability tests of the Short-STAI to measure anxiety levels in children, comparing the results with the measurements derived from the other two reliable methods utilized in the same study which are the vital signs and the MYPAS (the Modified Yale Perioperative Anxiety Survey). The validity testing was carried out in an RCT that used the S-STAI, in which 88 surveys were completed by parents of children who had a tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. All of the children were between 4 and 7 years of age. The relationships between variables were investigated and 25 showed a positive correlation between all items. Cronbach's α for the entire scale was 0.79. This study has identified that the S-STAI is a reliable tool for parent report of a child's anxiety in the peri-operative period.

This report summarises the status of coral reefs in the ROPME Sea Area which includes Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates (UAE); there are no coral reefs in Iraq. The region can be split into three parts according to the local marine climate, which strongly influences the nature of the coral communities: the Persian/Arabian Gulf

Blood chemistry values were obtained from 62 clinically normal, free-living green sea turtles,Chelonia mydas, in order to establish normal blood chemistry values for this species in the Arabian Gulf. Sampled individuals were classed by sex and size for analysis.

This work is written by Matthew Gray.
Rentier state theory (RST), which seeks to explain the impacts of external payments—or rents—on state-society relations and governance, has been in wide usage for over two decades, and is still routinely cited by scholars writing on the Gulf or other parts of the world. Its tenets are widely—if by no means unanimously— accepted, and retain a strong validity at the broader level. However, RST has not adapted enough to explain the dramatic changes in the political economies of the Gulf in the past two decades or so, including the responses of Dubai, Bahrain, and more recently Qatar and Abu Dhabi, to globalization, new technologies, freer trade and investments, social changes, and development imperatives. It is argued here that a new phase of RST—“late rentierism”—should be applied to the wealthy Arab Gulf states. The case for late rentierism is made with an emphasis on the shortcomings or oversimplifications of other rentier approaches. This study also describes and explains late rentierism through a discussion and elucidation of its major features and characteristics, including how these vary, or not, from those of other rentier explanations.

Aeolian dunes cover most of the United Arab Emirates and a large part of the eastern Arabian Peninsula. Although these sands, as well as older aeolianites, are largely composed of quartz, there is a high percentage of detrital carbonate in them south of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf for more than 40 km; this percentage decreases inland. These carbonate grains consist mainly of marine bioclastic fragments and calcareous ooids, and were derived from the #oor of the Persian Gulf, which was exposed during low sea level of the last glacial period. The postglacial rise in sea level rapidly re#ooded the #oor of the Persian Gulf, cutting o! the source for these aeolian sediments. Between 12 and 6 ka, the sea transgressed more than 1000 km, inundating the extended route of the Tigris}Euphrates River and forcing people living on the exposed #oor of the Gulf to abandon their settlements. Because of the varying rate of eustatic sea level rise, these waters at times #ooded across the #at #oor of the Persian Gulf at more than a kilometer per year. We proposed that the stories of a great #ood, recorded in the Bible as Noah's Flood and in Babylonian history on clay tablets (excavated in the Tigris}Euphrates delta) as the Epic of Gilgamesh, are a record of this rapid postglacial #ooding of the #oor of the Persian Gulf.

The Arabian Peninsula is separated from Africa by the Red Sea and from Iran by the Persian Gulf and the Oman Sea, and is bounded on the south by the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Geologically, it consists of crystalline Precambrian basement overlain by low-dipping Phanerozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks, and originated 25-30 million years ago as a consequence of rifting along the line of the eventual Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. At the present time, the northern part of the Arabian plate moves northwest, with respect to the Eurasian plate, at a rate of 20±3 mm/yr. The United Arab Emirates is a part of Arabian Peninsula and lies at its northeastern part. Fujairah and the area under study is located in Northeastern Emirates. Based on geological data, mountains in the west of Fujairah consist of ophiolites. These ophiolites continue towards the south and southeast along the seashore with Quaternary deposits in the east.