Research Projects Effective 2017

Proposal Title	Proposal Type	College	Researcher Name
Which Way It Goes? Price Strategy of the UAE Publicly listed Companies	UPAR	College of Business and Economics	Peter B. Oyelere
A stochastic multi-period facility location model for electric vehicle charging infrastructure planning	UPAR	College of Business and Economics	Mouna Boujelben
Adoption and Acceptance of Smart Teaching by Higher Education Instructors	UPAR	College of Business and Economics	Hassan Selim
Do Islamic Banks have a lower Cost of Equity Capital than Conventional Banks?	UPAR	College of Business and Economics	Jocelyn Grira
The Development of an Adaptive Behavior Scale (ABS) for the United Arab Emirates	UPAR	College of Education	Ousha Almuhairy
Isolation and characterization of potential anticancer and antioxidant constituents from Moringa peregrine, an endangered native plant of the UAE - In vitro and in silico approach.	UPAR	College of Food and Agriculture	Abdul Jaleel Cheruth
Technical, Economics, and Information Efficiency for Precision Agriculture (PA) Under United Arab Emirates Conditions	UPAR	College of Food and Agriculture	Eihab Fathelrahman
Novel camel milk protein hydrolysates: Characterization, functionality and health related bioactivities	UPAR	College of Food and Agriculture	Sajid Maqsood
Emirati family cohesion in the rapidly changing and increasingly multicultural UAE	UPAR	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Sarah Rasmi
Sympathy for Suhail. An Experimental Study on Empathy and Embodied Cognition to Design the First UAE Social Robot	UPAR	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Massimiliano Cappuccio
An Intervention Study Aimed at Increasing the Use of Booster Seats in Al Ain, UAE	UPAR	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Taghreed Mahmoud Abu Sarhan
Internet of Things Network Management for Smart Healthcare System	UPAR	College of Information Technology	Farag Sallabi
Enabling Logic Circuits for Zero-Power Internet-of-Everything	UPAR	College of Information Technology	Azam Beg
Secure Communication Architecture for Thwarting Possible UTM Attacks	UPAR	College of Information Technology	Zouheir Trabelsi
SUHAIL Super Haptic Interactive Limbs Robot	UPAR	College of Information Technology	Jose Lopez Berengueres
Microsatellite Instability and Lynch Syndrome in Patients with Endometrial Cancer in the UAE	UPAR	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Saeeda Almarzooqi
Prevalence and Risk Factors for Helminths and Intestinal Protozoa in the United Arab Emirates: A Population-Based Household Survey in Al Ain Eastern Region of the Abu Dhabi Emirate	UPAR	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Zakeya Nasser Salem Hamad ALRasbi
Cholinergic modulation of the immune system in the intestinal mucosa	UPAR	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Maria J. Fernandez Cabezudo
Development and Characterization of Fiber-Reinforced Structural Concrete Made with Carbonated Recycled Aggregates	UPAR	College of Engineering	Hilal El-Hassan
Stabilization of saline Sabkha soils in Emirate of Abu Dhabi using steel making by-products	UPAR	College of Engineering	Ashraf Hefny
Technology-Enhanced Learning in Civil Engineering Education: Implementation and Implications	UPAR	College of Engineering	Tamer El Maaddawy
Analytical Study of Fractional Sturm-Liouville Eigenvalue Problems	UPAR	College of Science	Mohammed Al-Refai
Heat transfer characteristics of fluid flow over an oscillating permeable infinite long cylinder	UPAR	College of Science	Qasem Al-Mdallal
Investigation of negative magnetization in Mn0.5Zn0.5GdxFe(2-x)O4 ferrite nanoparticles	UPAR	College of Science	Ihab Obaidat
Reusable visible fluorescence detections of cadmium ions in water utilizing molecular containers and nanomaterials	UPAR	College of Science	Nail Saleh
Extreme pulses of past climate; lessons for prediction of future climate change	UPAR	College of Science	Ala Aldahan
Breeding biology, foraging ecology and conservation of seabirds in UAE	UPAR	College of Science	Sabir Bin Muzaffar
Fixed Point Theorems and Applications to Fractional Differential and Integral Equations	UPAR	College of Science	Ahmed Saleh Al-Rawashdeh
Geochemical investigation of the meta-sediments of the Masafi-Asima-Dibba area, U.A.E.: provenance, paleogeography and economic potential	UPAR	College of Science	Thomas James Fowler
Geomechanical Characterization of Carbonate and Evaporite Rocks in Al Ain, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates	UPAR	College of Science	Hasan Arman
Whole genome sequencing of novel pollutant degrading bacterial strains from UAE petroleum sludge	UPAR	College of Science	Syed Salman Ashraf
Identification and Characterization of the Black Scorch Disease on Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera) in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi	UPAR	College of Science	Synan Abu Qamar
Representations of infinite-dimensional groups, braid groups and quantum groups	UPAR	College of Science	Viktor Bodi
Monitoring of Emiratis Youth: Socio-Economic Characteristics and Values	CPPL	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Tatiana Karabchuk
Energy-Aware Resource Allocation Model for Efficient Energy, High Performance Computing, and Quality of Services in Smart Cities Cloud Computing Infrastructure	ECEER	College of Information Technology	Leila Ismail
Studying the effect of Urban Morphology on Energy Efficiency in Recent Public Housing Neighbourhoods in UAE	ECEER	College of Engineering	Khaled Galal Ahmed
Elucidation of the regulatory roles of Photosystem II extrinsic proteins in PSII damage repair and abiotic stress tolerance.	KCGEB	College of Science	Mayank Anand Gururani
A Low-cost, Non-invasive Plant Water Estimation Based on Electromagnetic Anomalous Phase Dispersion	NWC	College of Engineering	Rashad Ramzan
Risk-based decision support for safe drinking water supply	NWC	College of Engineering	Mohamed Abdelmoghny Hamouda
Fate of chiral pharmacologically active compounds in domestic wastewater in the UAE	NWC	College of Science	Mohammed Meetani
Impact of coastal (long shore) currents on erosion/deposition and consequent water/sediments quality variations along the coastal area of Abu Dhabi City	NWC	College of Science	Waleed Hamza
TOWARDS INFRASTRUCTURE-LESS TRUST MANAGEMENT FOR VEHICULAR AREA NETWORKS	RTTSRC	College of Information Technology	Hesham El-Sayed
Routing Unmanned Transporting Vehicle With Big Transportation Data	RTTSRC	College of Information Technology	Heng Yu
Innovative System for Priority of Transit Systems in Urban Networks	RTTSRC	College of Engineering	Yasser Hawas
Bioaccessibility, pharmacokinetics and antioxidant properties of polyphenols from date seeds in human	ZCHS	College of Food and Agriculture	Carine PLATAT
AL-AIN HEALTH AND AGEING STUDY	ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Karim Abdel Aziz
The role of the unmyelinated primary afferents of L4 nerve in the initiation and development of neuropathic pain following L5 nerve injury	ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Safa Shehab
CRISPR/Cas9-gene-editing-mediated manipulation of trafficking defective cardiovascular pathogenic mutants in TGF-β signalling components	ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Bassam R. Ali
Uncovering the genetic basis of inherited congenital disorders using next-generation sequencing (NGS)	ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Lihadh Al-Gazali
Cannabinoid CB2 Receptors as a Pharmacological Target in Parkinson's disease: Evaluation of Therapeutic Potential of Novel Phytochemicals	ZCHS	College of Medicine and Health Sciences	Shreesh Kumar Ojha