Research Projects Effective 2020

Title	Proposal Type	College	PI Name
Impact of Business and Political Ties on Innovation Performance through Internationalization, and Moderating Impact of Strategic Orientation within  SMEs in UAE	UPAR	College of Business and Economics	Mumin Dayan
Assessing the effects of tourism networks on socioeconomic outcomes	UPAR	College of Business and Economics	Usman Khalid
Enacted Abusive Supervision and Supervisory Outcomes	UPAR	College of Business and Economics	Abdul Karim Khan
Why Sovereign Bond spreads remain volatile in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries?	UPAR	College of Business and Economics	Aktham AlMaghaireh
Industry uncertainty, competition, cash holding and corporate investment	UPAR	College of Business and Economics	Hussein Abdoh
Mobile health adoption for prediabetes/diabetes management among the aging population	Start-up	College of Business and Economics	Ning Shen
COVID-19 Risk Perception and Its Impact on Tourist Behavior: An Investigation of Future Implications on Hotel Business Services and Offerings	Start-up	College of Business and Economics	Thouraya Labben
Influence of Positive Leadership and Leaders Sense of Humor on Employee Well-being in the Emirati Public Sector	Start-up	College of Education	Ibrahim Duyar
Cognitive determinants of English word learning in Arabic primary school children: the importance of short-term memory for serial order	Start-up	College of Education	Qiuzhi Xie
Enhancing Teaching-Learning Elementary Mathematics Through Development and Use of Photobooks from Social, Cultural, and Historical Contexts	Start-up	College of Education	Shashidhar Belbase
The MBC Project: Assessing Children 'at risk'	Start-up	College of Education	Maria Efstratopoulou
Camel milk oligosaccharides: An in-depth study into quantification, characterization and bio-active properties	UPAR	College of Food and Agriculture	Priti Mudgil
Evaluating Factors Associated with Perceived Downtown Health: A tale of two cities in the United Arab Emirates.	Start-up	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Ahmed Mohamed Ghareib Almurshidi
SUBTLEX-AR: A Large Database for Modern Standard Arabic	UPAR	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Sami Boudelaa
Urban Floods in the United Arab Emirates: The Interlinkage of Storms, the Land-Surface, and the Built-up Environment	UPAR	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Tareefa AlSumaiti
Super and Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Soil Salinity in the Emirate of  Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	Strategic-ECEER	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Abdelgadir Abuelgasim
طباعة المصحف في دولة الإمارات العربية - الرصد التأريخي والرؤية الشرعية	Start-up	College of Law	AbdelJalil Damrah
Why Doctors Make Errors: Studies on some biases	Start-up	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Mohi Eldin Magzoub
A Collaborative Canada International Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Avatar Therapy to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in PSYCHOSIS with treatment refractory hallucinations	Start-up	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Emmanuel Stip
In vitro study of the efficacy of combined anti-virulence and anti-microbial agents against planktonic cells and biofilms of antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacteria	Start-up	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Farah Al - Marzooq
Assessing the prevalence and potential impact of multi-drug-resistant Enterobacteriaceae carried by camels in the UAE	Start-up	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Mushtaq Khan
Investigating the Functional Role of Genetic Variants on ch7p14.1 in Association with Substance Use Disorder : Post Genome Wide Association Study	Start-up	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Hiba AlBlooshi
Effect of allyl sulfides on the inflammatory process of the acetic acid-induced colitis in rat.	UPAR	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Ernest Adeghate ( Salim Bastaki )
Deciphering the independent role of PD-L1 in tumor growth and metastasis using CRISPR-Cas9 knockout and PD-L1 inhibitor Atezolizumab: Impact of combination therapy with Origanum Majorana Essential Oil	UPAR	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Samir Attoub
Effect of Electric Fields on DNA Mutations	Start-up	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Alya Arabi
Functional connectivity in basal ganglia pathology and Parkinson s disease	Start-up	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	David Williams
The role of metformin in targeting Type 17 cells: in vitro study of the ex vivo cultured gut-derived immune cell subpopulations of juvenile spondyloarthritis	Start-up	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Miroslav Harjaček
Investigating the Cross Talk Between Cardiovascular Disease High Risk Ceramides and Redox Signalling in the Endothelium	Start-up	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Nadia Akawi
Whole Genome Sequencing for Unsolved suspected Cases of Inborn Errors of Metabolism	Strategic-ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Hiba AlBlooshi
Investigating the role of 1,8-cineole in colon inflammation: An experimental study to evaluate the molecular regulation of PPAR-? mediated anti-inflammatory action and colon epithelial tight junction integrity	Strategic-ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Sandeep Subramanya
Exploring the underlying mechanisms and therapeutic prospects for the cardiovascular pathophysiologic effects of water-pipe tobacco smoke inhalation	Strategic-ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Abderrahim Nemmar
Wearable Cuffless System for Monitoring Blood Pressure Using an Integrated Optical Sensor	Start-up	College of Engineering	Mohamed Abdelaal
Effect of UAE Terrains on The Performance and Wake of a Wind Turbine	Start-up	College of Engineering	Mahmoud Elgendi
On the Fate of fluorinated-based products: A DFT Investigation	UPAR	College of Engineering	Mohammednoor Al Tarawneh
Basalt Fiber-Reinforced Recycled Aggregate Concrete for Sustainable Steel-Free Structures	UPAR	College of Engineering	Tamer El Maaddawy
Development and Characterization of Cement-Free Geopolymer Concrete Made with Recycled Aggregates and Non-Metallic Fibers	UPAR	College of Engineering	Hilal El-Hassan
Enabling Time-Sensitive Services for Smart City Applications	UPAR	College of Engineering	Atef Abdrabou
ConstructBIM: Leveraging immersive BIM workflows to delivery value for construction	UPAR	College of Engineering	Muhammad Shafiq
The effect of building and material service life on the life cycle embodied energy of residential buildings in UAE	Start-up	College of Engineering	Abdul Rauf
Novel Guidance, Navigation and Control Solutions for Autonomous Assembly of Multiple Satellite in Close Proximity Operations	Start-up	College of Engineering	Mohamed Okasha
Backscattering efficiency reduction using a layer composed of a Lorentz-nonreciprocal medium	Start-up	College of Engineering	Hamad Alkhoori
Control of Grid-Side Converter Under Varying Sea Environment and Grid Conditions for Heaving Wave Energy Converters Simulation and Experimental Studies	Strategic-ECEER	College of Engineering	Addy Wahyudie
Design and Fabrication of Hybrid Nanomaterials-Based gas sensor for Medical Diagnostics	Strategic-ZCHS	College of Science	Saleh Mahmood
Design and fabrication of SnSe-based materials with high thermoelectric performances	Strategic-ECEER	College of Science	Noureddine Amrane
Functional Graphene-based Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for Zinc-air Batteries	Start-up	College of Science	Fathy Hassan
Re-investigation of the Lower Paleogene Rus Formation paleoenvironment, SE United Arab Emirates: new lithofacies and biofacies data	UPAR	College of Science	Osman Abdelghany
Harmonic Analysis Associated with Generalized Fourier Transforms	UPAR	College of Science	Salem Ben Said
Exploring the Inflationary Dynamics in Affine Garvity	UPAR	College of Science	Salah Nasri
Qualitative and Quantitative Features of Delay Differential Equations  of Biological Systems  With Memory and Infectious Diseases	UPAR	College of Science	Fathalla Rihan
Elucidating the interactions of hemorphins and their targets	UPAR	College of Science	Ranjit Vijayan
Automata Theory and Novel Cryptographic Primitives	UPAR	College of Science	Adama Diene
Reprogramming adaptive Immunity to modulate chronic allergic contact dermatitis disease	UPAR	College of Science	Khalid Muhammad
Expanding and diversifying the CRISPR-Cas Toolbox for genome editing	UPAR	College of Science	Mohammed Kalim Akhtar
Optimal Discrete Functions for Information Security	UPAR	College of Science	Kanat Abdukhalikov
Multi-Gas Smart Sensors for environmental monitoring using 2D materials	UPAR	College of Science	Adel Najar
Study of microplastics in wastewater in the United Arab Emirates	UPAR	College of Science	Ruwaya Al Kendi
Role Of Platinum Nanoparticles In Reduction Of Oxidative Stress On Cerebral Cavernous Malformations (CCMs)	Start-up	College of Science	Badria Al Murshidi
Non-invasive Ambient Radio Frequency Sensing for Continuous Monitoring of Breathing Abnormalities	Strategic-ZCHS	College of Information Technology	Najah Abu Ali
Embedded Real-Time Wide Area Vehicle Detection and Tracking System for Traffic Safety & Monitoring Using Deep Learning	Strategic-RTTSC	College of Information Technology	Munkhjargal Gochoo
Advancing Space Science Knowledge Amongst Emirati Youth	Strategic-NSS	College of Information Technology	Sofia Ouhbi
A Big Data Cyber Terrorist Communities and Threats Detection and Mining Framework based on Possibilistic and Danger Theories	UPAR	College of Information Technology	Zouheir Trabelsi