Due to the rapid growth and development which occurred during the last century the United Arab Emirates witnessed dramatic changes after oil discovery and the economic boom. This affected the building and construction sector that formed the urban fabric of the country. The four …
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This study aims to investigate the determinants of efficiency, profitability and stability in the banking sector across the world over the period 2005-2012. In this study, efficiency is measured using data envelopment analysis (DEA), which is divided into technical efficiency (T…
Due to the availability of technology, there has been a shift from traditional assessment methods to e-assessment methods designed to support learning. With this development there is a need to address the suitability and effectiveness of the e-assessment interface. One developme…
This thesis presents the outcome of investigations undertaken in the field of terrestrial spectral solar irradiance characterisation and its impact on photovoltaics. Spectral irradiance has not previously been widely researched in the context of photovoltaic applications. Long-t…
The recent shift in industry from project to programme management has no doubt brought efficiency and improvements, but the construction industry is scarcely aware or reluctant to embrace the new culture. The lack of clarity in programme management has called for a need to conte…
Project performance relies upon effective project management. Indeed, project management has been recognized as an important means for making changes in the organisation. Efficiency in project management, obviously, enhances the probability of project success, which consequently…
In the face of high population growth and declining natural resource base, tackling rural poverty necessitates an increase in overall factor productivity or a rise in the market rate of return of assets possessed by the poor. Towards achieving these objectives, the role of spati…
A reversible solid oxide fuel cell (RSOFC) system could buffer intermittent electrical generation, e.g. wind, wave power by storing electrical energy as hydrogen and heat. RSOFC were fabricated by thermoplastic extrusion of (La₀.₈Sr₀.₂)₀.₉₅MnO[subscript(3−δ)] (LSM) ceramic suppo…
The need for a more sustainable approach to water consumption has increasingly gained attention in the last decade. The domestic sector accounts for over half of abstracted water in the UK and, as such, has become a major target for water efficiency interventions. Current resear…
Much of the theoretical literature on corruption and economic growth suggests that corruption harms growth, yet the empirical literature is ambiguous. One highly cited paper, Mauro (1995), estimates that corruption has a moderately harmful effect on growth, yet once more recentl…
Agriculture dominates the Ethiopian economy, accounting for about 50 percent of its GDP and 82 percent of its employment. However, the sector has always performed poorly; about one-half of the rural residents in Ethiopia live below the national poverty line, and the rural popula…
State Owned Enterprise (SOE) privatization has become a major issue in both developed and developing countries of the world. During the 1980s, state owned enterprises were under scrutiny because of the accumulating evidence that such enterprises were performing poorly and creati…
In Bangladesh, where health care is constitutionally considered as a 'basic right' of the people and public hospitals provide most of the inpatient care, little attention has been paid to the burgeoning private inpatient medical care sector and its performance. As the number of …
The purpose of this dissertation is to estimate technical efficiencies and its determinants among Indonesian manufacturing firms, banks, as well as provincial economies over the period 1993 to 2000. Stochastic frontier analysis is used to achieve these aims. The technical effici…
The study of corporate governance structure in banking sector is an important component within the enhancement of banks' efficiency and performance. This current study investigated relationships between the efficiency of corporate governance structure and bank performance. The s…
DEA has been widely used in branch performance work to evaluate intermediation, profitability and production efficiency. However, traditional modeling approaches fail to assess growth potential and customer retention; two very significant components of a bank's economic health a…
The principle objectives of this thesis are divided into two main parts. The first key objective is to develop new process integration (PI) techniques to individually improve the efficiency of water and steam systems, the performance of equipment, and the heat exchanger (HEX) ne…
The civil engineering and architectural communities are highly focused, these days, on designing buildings that maximize utilization of energy available from natural resources. This dissertation presents a quantitative study of the effect of high-rise office building morphology …
The high switching frequency associated with pulse width modulation (PWM) that is commonly utilized in controlling the motion of high performance motor drive systems leads to motor iron losses. In addition to fundamental component, line voltages generated by voltage source inver…