Today, the population of Egypt is about 55 million living around the Nile delta and valley. This area is about 6% of the total area of Egypt which is 100,139,004 hectare. With its limited resources, the government has started a project for reclaiming the desert and giving it to …
This thesis provides a new methodology for analyzing the fundamental interrelationship between the sustainable management of a country's water resources and the formulation of effective strategies for socio-economic development. The scarcity or overabundance of water is currentl…
This dissertation describes a project-level pavement type selection procedure developed for use in roadway agencies and details the overall decision framework required for making dependable pavement type selection decisions. The developed pavement type selection procedure will e…
Variation reduction activities in auto body manufacturing have indicated that many of the root causes relates to a lack of organizational learning and interaction between suppliers and the design personal. Various researches have shown that “experience” need to be quantified and…
The research in this thesis aimed to develop an algorithm to support midwives’ diagnosis of active labour in primiparous women and to compare the effectiveness of the algorithm with standard care in terms of maternal and neonatal outcomes. Four linked studies are presented follo…
Restructuring has brought tremendous changes to the electricity industry throughout the world. In many electricity markets in operation today, an independent system operator (ISO) plays a very important role of ensuring the economics and security of power system operation. Decis…