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Dubai Before Dubai: The Pietiläs and the City Coastline
New Instrumentalities, 2018 This paper will attempt to highlight the land reclamation as an instrument of urban planning. To achieve this goal, Dubai will be considered as a case study and, specially, Reima and Raili Pietilä’s proposal for the Deira Sea Corniche Competition as a visionary proposal which anticipated the creation of artificial islands in the city.
Aglieri Rinella, Tiziano +1 more
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Developing a quality assurance model for small military institutions [PDF]
, 2008 Bahrain Defence Force (BDF) has a limited manpower, land to manoeuvre and resources. This reason has led the researcher to investigate the effective dimensions of discovering a model for quality assurance in higher education within a military context in ...
Bahzad, Y, Irani, Z
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Though prior studies have explored the effects of firms' social media marketing activities on customer engagement, the dynamics characterizing this association in bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (BoP) markets remain tenuous, exposing a critical gap. Addressing this gap, we develop and test a model assessing (a) the effects of firms' sustainable social ...
Md. Al Amin +4 more
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022 Background In 2013, Dubai implemented the Insurance System of Advancing Health in Dubai (ISAHD) law which required mandatory health insurance for all residents of Dubai effective in 2016. This study compares the effect of the ISAHD on the utilization and
Shreena Malaviya +3 more
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Cosmopolitanism and transnational elite entrepreneurial practices: manifesting the cosmopolitan disposition in a cosmopolitan city [PDF]
, 2016 Purpose The paper aims to focus on the role that cosmopolitanism and, in particular, “the cosmopolitan disposition” (Woodward et al., 2008) plays in the process of entrepreneurial business by transnational business elites in Dubai. Design/methodology/
Jose M. Alcaraz +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The shift towards sustainable food production is essential to address the urgent dual challenges of climate change and population growth, with agricultural cooperatives playing a vital role in this transformation. However, many cooperatives struggle to deliver the expected value to their members.
Ismail Badraoui +4 more
wiley +1 more source
Artistic Features of the Middle East Modern Tall Architecture. United Arab Emirates. Dubai
Academia: Архитектура и строительство, 2018 In article are considered some actual social aspects of artistic development of tall buildings architecture of Dubai (UAE); also showed the main problems and perspective directions/trends of their movement.
Andrei V. Korotich,
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Adoption of wireless internet parks: An empirical study in Qatar [PDF]
, 2008 This paper examines the adoption of free wireless internet parks (iPark) by Qatari citizens as means of accessing electronic services from public parks. The Qatar government has launched the iPark concept with a view of providing free internet access for
Weerakkody, V
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Considering the growing attention to sustainability and the increasing regulatory pressure in the European landscape, this study evaluates whether greenhouse gas emissions affect firms' cost of debt. A panel regression was conducted from 2021 to 2024 on two samples of European firms.
Daniela Cicchini +3 more
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Journal of High Institute of Public Health, 2008 The prevalence of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in UAE was dramatically increased in the last few years, which has major public health implications.
Wasfy A +5 more
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