The increase in demand for renewable energy sources has been exponential in recent years and is mainly driven by factors that include the growth of greenhouse emissions and the decline in fossil fuel reservoirs. Photovoltaic (PV) energy, one of the more prominent renewable energ…
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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 …
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…
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…
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…
Saudi stock market (SSM) has witnessed various market regulations and transformations taking place over the past decade. However, the impact of these reforms on market efficiency has not been addressed in the literature. Furthermore, idiosyncratic features of the market can play…
A high level of competition in the food industry, specifically in the Middle East and the UK has forced companies to improve their processes by reducing lead time, waste, and costs and increasing production efficiency. The main challenge to the achievement of the process improve…
With the rapid development of battery technologies, battery energy storage systems (BESSs) have been allocated as great candidates for various types of ancillary service application in the power systems. On the other hand, many power systems around the world have opened their an…
James Clerk Maxwell's theories of electromagnetism are uniquely Victorian products. Maxwell and his physics have traditionally been viewed as aloof and disinterested, dating to the mid-to-late-19th century, but not party to the cultural, industrial, political, economic, and envi…
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…
The study emphasizes the applicability of micro economic models in assessing the producer's efficiency and optimization behavior. The choice of the subject, i.e., petroleum refining, poses complications due to its multiple output nature and the inherently complex oil market. We …
This dissertation investigates the effects of alternative methodological approaches on estimates of farm efficiency. A meta-analysis is performed to examine the effects of factors such as functional form, sample size, type of product, number of variables in the model, and estima…
In the first essay, productive efficiency and some of the main factors affecting it in 11 countries in the Middle East and North Africa region were evaluated over the period 1980–99 using Färe's non-parametric approach. The results indicate that Oil producing countries are more …
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 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 …
In recent times, there has been an increased interest in wind energy due to concerns about the pollution caused by burning fossil fuels and their rising prices. Most wind turbines in use today are conventional wind mills with three airfoil shaped blades arraigned around a horizo…
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…
This thesis research focuses on developing a hybrid form of solar cell based on zinc(hydr)oxide and its composites with graphite oxide, TiO 2 , quantum dot, electrolyte and this work expands upon the Gratzel solar cell with a dye in TiO2 . Due to various structural and optical c…
This thesis consists of three papers. The first one investigates and compares both current and proposed Indonesian income tax structures from the efficiency point of view, whereas in the former, earned income is taxed with different rates and interest income is taxed uniformly, …