Harith Swadi is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University (PO Box 17666, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates; Fax: (9713) 672 995; e-mail: [email protected]) and a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist currently practising in the Middle East. Formerly, he was Senior Lecturer at the St Thomas’ Hospital Campus of the...

Mesitiinae include 203 species classified in 22 genera and four tribes. In this work we proposed a new genus. Moczariella centenaria Barbosa & Azevedo gen. et sp. nov. are described from United Arab Emirates. The main diagnostic characteristics is body wholly unfoveolate, clypeus without lateral lobes, post-occipital depression present, propodeum with discal carinae incomplete, and without post...

This article presents the approach followed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) national ID scheme to register its population for the new smart ID card it launched in 2005. It presents how the organisation reengineered its operations to achieve its strategic objectives. It also presents some of the experienced challenges, and how they were dealt with. Some key management consideration areas were ...

The United Arab Emirates is a peninsular country located on the south-west side of the Arabian (Persian) Gulf and on the north-west banks of the Gulf of Oman (Figure 1). With an area of 83 600 square kilometres (Al Abed et al. 1996: 269), the United Arab Emirates consists of seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Umm al-Qawain, Ras alKhaimah and Fujairah. It was known prior to confed...

Gregory B. Fisher is a lecturer at the Australian National University. He has worked at universities in Australia, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates, and has also held positions in training research and HRM in both the public and private sectors. Currently he is completing a PhD focusing on intercultural effectiveness issues. His research interests include international management, diversi...

This paper uses both world-wide and country-level analysis to describe the relationship between air transportation and economic activity. In particular, we describe how economic, infrastructural, institutional and geographic factors affect the mapping of cargo and passenger flows to the enabled flows of labor, knowledge, investment, remittances, tourism and goods. We also identify the role of g...

Introduction / objectives Globally, the management of medical waste poses an increasing concern to health authorities and the public. This is particularly notable in developing countries such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where efforts are underway to control the problem. Objectives: to investigate the health problems facing medical waste handlers while collecting medical waste in Abu-Dhab...

Ammar Hussein Mutlag 1,2,*, Azah Mohamed 1 and Hussain Shareef 3 1 Department of Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia; [email protected] 2 College of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Techniques, Middle Technical University, 10022 Baghdad, Iraq 3 Department of Electrical En...

1Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST ), 119, Munjiro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-732, South Korea 2Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, P.O. Box 573, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 3Convergence S/W Lab, DMC R&D Center, Samsung Electronics, Dong Suwon P.O. Box 105, Maetan-3dong, Suwon, 442-600, Korea 4Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul Nati...