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Optimizing postdisaster reconstruction planning for damaged transportation networks
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2009 , Article)
The limited availability of reconstruction resources is one of the main challenges that often confront postdisaster recovery of damaged transportation networks. This requires an effective and efficient deployment and ...
The Gulf: A young sea in decline
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2009 , Article)
This review examines the substantial changes that have taken place in marine habitats and resources of the Gulf over the past decade. The habitats are especially interesting because of the naturally high levels of temperature ...
Density manifolds, geometric measures and high-energy physics in transfinite dimensions
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2009 , Article)
We discuss certain manifolds with density. Furthermore, we outline natural connections leading to E-infinity theory and high-energy physics from a geometric measure and transfinite dimensional theoretical viewpoints.
FINANCIAL AID AT PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: ITS IMPACT ON PERSISTENCE AND STUDENT SATISFACTION, THE CASE OF LEBANON
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Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research
, 2009 , Article)
Many private universities around the world sustain their growth and
retain students through a system of ‘cost-sharing’ where fees and tuition are
channelled back to students in form of financial aid. Not all students are ...
An adaptive allocation sampling design for which the conventional stratified estimator is an appropriate estimator
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2009 , Article)
Adaptive allocations in stratified sampling design are suitable for studying Biological and Environmental populations. Biologists tend to use the conventional stratified estimator for an adaptive allocation sampling design ...
Wireless transmission using cooperation on demand
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2009 , Article)
Mobile users with single antennas can still take advantage of spatial diversity through repetition based cooperative transmission. In this paper, we consider a scheme in which the cooperation is triggered only if the ...
An efficient dynamical systems method for solving singularly perturbed integral equations with noise
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Elsevier
, 2009 , Article)
In this paper we apply the dynamical systems method (DSM) proposed by A. G. Ramm, and the variational regularization method (VRM), to obtain numerical solution to some singularly perturbed ill-posed problems contaminated ...
A simulated annealing technique for multi-objective simulation optimization
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Elsevier
, 2009 , Article)
In this paper, we present a simulated annealing algorithm for solving multi-objective simulation optimization problems. The algorithm is based on the idea of simulated annealing with constant temperature, and uses a rule ...
Voluntary disclosure in the annual reports of an emerging country: The case of Qatar
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2009 , Article)
This study sets out to examine empirically the determinants of voluntary disclosure in the annual reports of 25 listed firms of Doha Securities Market (DSM) in Qatar forming approximately 86% of the total firms incorporated ...
Characteristics of agent-based hierarchical diff-EDF schedulability over heterogeneous real-time Packet networks
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EuroJournals Publishing, Inc.
, 2009 , Article)
Packet networks are currently enabling the integration of heterogeneous traffic with a wide range of characteristics that extend from video traffic with stringent QoS requirements to best-effort traffic requiring no ...