The conference Web site is: http://www.it-innovations.ae. Five papers were selected from the conference and the authors were invited to extend their papers and submit to IJIIT for publication consideration. These papers went through another round of accelerated review and revision and four papers were finally accepted. IIT'05 was organized by the College of Information Technology, of the UAE Un...

In July 2006, an Australian tourist returning from Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), developed acute scrub typhus. Her signs and symptoms included fever, myalgia, headache, rash, and eschar. Orientia tsutsugamushi serology demonstrated a 4-fold rise in antibody titers in paired serum collections (1:512 to 1:8,192), with the sera reacting strongest against the Gilliam strain antigen. An ...

This paper aims to present the result of commonly used extreme wave analysis distribution methods applied a long-term hindcast at point in Arabian Gulf near coastline Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The data were hindcasted for total period 40 years, starting from 1 January 1979 31 December 2018. support design, repair, and maintenance coastal structures Dubai coast. A 2.5 m threshold is selected ...

We consider a three period economy where traders trade assets before and after the arrival of a signal (or data). We say that a trader has rationalizable beliefs if i) she is an SEU maximizer and if ii) her likelihood ratio of the data relative to various states of the world is equal to the objective likelihood ratio of the data (a restriction on her beliefs). A candidate equilibrium is an outc...

Tragically, genital tract infections are still a major public health problem in many regions. This study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of cervical infection with Herpes simplex virus (HSV), Chlamydia trachomatis (CT), and Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) among married women referring to Iranian Hospital, Dubai, UAE. In a retrospective cross-sectional survey, 201 female patients aged 16-8...

As the need for instructing a globalized workforce increases, instructional designers must embrace the constraints and the opportunities these projects provide in order to move the field of cross-cultural instructional design (ID) forward. Cross-cultural projects offer multiple avenues for growth in ID practice, overcoming cultural barriers, and a venue to apply and test contemporary models, me...

PURPOSE The United Arab Emirates (UAE) ranks 18th on the 2007 Forbes list of fattest countries with 68.3% of its citizens with an unhealthy weight and it is well known that weight gain and obesity are important determinants in the progression of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). The purpose of this study is to estimate the prevalence of symptoms and risk of OSAS in the primary health car...