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View All ResearchCHAPTER 7: Nanomaterials for Heavy Metal Removal
Wastewater containing heavy metal ions is considered as a serious environmental problem for human society. Advances in nanoscale science and engineering provide new opportunities to develop more cost-effective and environmentally acceptable water treatment technologies. Nanomaterials have a number of physicochemical properties that make them particularly attractive as nanoadsorbents for decontamination [...]
CHAPTER 6: Adsorption and Desorption on Nanostructured Materials
Release of toxic pollutants from industries, whether in the form of liquids or gases, has adversely affected the quality of the environment. To remediate the environment from such pollutants, a large number of conventional methods and advanced technologies have been developed and adopted. Amongst these innumerable methods, adsorption has emerged [...]
Linkage between company scores and stock returns
Previous studies on company scores conducted at firm-level, generally concluded that there exists a positive relation between company scores and stock returns. Motivated by these studies, this study examines the relationship between company scores (Corporate Governance Score, Economic Score, Environmental Score, and Social Score) and stock returns, both at portfolio-level [...]
Variables affecting customer behaviour and its effect on commitment towards shopping hubs of Gurgoan city
The last decade was a major year for all the retail sectors as the transformation which happened in the various urban centers lead to the birth of organized retail formats with the emergence of mega shopping malls. These changes has given the people of Gurgaon a one stop destination to [...]
Enhancing the properties of marl soils for effective construction in Saudi Arabian region
Marl, containing primarily carbonate (CaCO3) and clays of different percentages with occasional traces of organic matter, silt or sand is usually used as bases and sub-bases for roads and highways. Marl is usually used as sub-grade layers or as a backfill in base and sub-base layers for highway pavements. This [...]
An integrated approach for soil classification: The Kingdom of Bahrain study case
Soil classification is a complicated and difficult process; the level of complexity depends on the extent of the information needed. The objective of this paper is to produce a digital soil map for the Kingdom of Bahrain. The Kingdom does not have such a map at the present time. Borehole [...]
Cloud platform Bahrain parks: Real-time participatory tool for planning, designing, and managing public parks
The paper introduces an innovative, open source cloud platform for the efficient, knowledge-based, sustainable and inclusive development of urban parks – Bahrain Parks, developed at the University of Bahrain. We describe the local context at the genesis of the initiative, its components, and the rationale for the creation of a [...]
Corporate social responsibility of public banking sector for sustainable development: A Comparative study between Malaysia and Egypt
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become a significant field of studies to stress the importance of the new role of organizations towards the society for sustainable development. Nowadays, an enormous number of authors have been participating in this field to highlight the responsibility of organizations towards the community, society and [...]
The relationships between contextual variables and perceived importance and benefits of Environmental management accounting (EMA) techniques
Environmental management accounting (EMA) has emerged over last decades because of increasing awareness of the impacts of companies on their environment. There was a limited attention directed to the importance attached to EMA’s techniques and the importance of benefits derived from EMA’s techniques. Drawing off the contingency theory literature, the [...]
The relationship between corporate forward-looking disclosure and stock return volatility
The study assesses corporate forward-looking disclosure by measuring four attributes, namely disclosure quantity, disclosure coverage, disclosure concentration and disclosure quality, through a sample of 34 listed firms in the Bahrain Bourse from 2014 to 2017. The study also investigates the relationship between these attributes and stock return volatility. Regression analysis [...]