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View All ResearchInvestigating the relationships between the built environment, the climate, walkability and physical activity in the Arabic peninsula: The case of Bahrain
Built environments have a profound effect on public health as they provide the background on which individuals make decisions to address their mobility, resulting in the adoption of varying degrees of physical activity. This is a logical adjunct to the natural environment which may or may not be conducive to [...]
Sensitive and selective detection of multiple metal ions using amino acids modified glassy carbon electrodes
We report for the first time the electrochemical detection of Zn2+, Cd2+, Cu2+ and Hg2+ at the surface of modified glassy carbon electrodes with different amino acids. The designed sensors showed superior heavy metal ion (HMs) detection limits, which are at lower levels than the thresholds suggested by the World [...]
Sensitive and selective detection of multiple metal ions using amino acids modified glassy carbon electrodes
We report for the first time the electrochemical detection of Zn2+, Cd2+, Cu2+ and Hg2+ at the surface of modified glassy carbon electrodes with different amino acids. The designed sensors showed superior heavy metal ion (HMs) detection limits, which are at lower levels than the thresholds suggested by the World [...]
Hyperspectral image analysis for oil spill detection: A comparative study
In the last years, oil spill detection by hyperspectral imaging has been transferred from experimental to operational. In this paper, researchers attempted to use and compare four classification approaches for the identification of oil spills. The hyperspectral image classification approaches ‘namely’ are support vector machine (SVM), parallelepiped, minimum distance (MD) [...]
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 [...]
Mapping Bahrain’s subsurface municipal solid waste
The objective of this paper is to map possible subsurface dumpsites of solid waste in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Due to limited land availability, random garbage dumping for waste disposal and reclamation has occurred in the past and continues to occur in the Kingdom. Consequently, the process causes economic stress, [...]
Who is the bigger culprit? Studying impacts of traffic and land use on noise levels in CBD area of Karachi, Pakistan
The trend of urbanization has attracted increased attention towards urban areas around the world. Central business districts (CBDs) serve as the core of commercial activities of urban areas and are often associated with high-density population. Noise pollution in urban areas, especially CBDs, is considered as an important issue for planners [...]
Toward sustainable development: Lessons from vernacular settlements of Sri Lanka
From modern urban perspectives, indigenous housing practices are regarded as undeveloped, backward, and require improvements. They may be valid for measuring on the basis of standards alien to the communities. However, these perceptions have obfuscated the appreciation and potential adoption of holistic, culturally relevant, and traditionally tested approaches to planning [...]
Characterizing temporal variability of PM 2.5 /PM 10 ratio and its relationship with meteorological parameters in Bahrain
The Kingdom of Bahrain is ranked in the top 10 most urban ambient air polluted countries in the world due to high particulate matter (PM) concentrations. The main objective of this article is to analyze comprehensively long-term temporal (annual, seasonal, and monthly) trends of PM 2.5 /PM 10 ratios using [...]
Modeling water stress as an indicator of red palm weevil infestation using field sampling, worldview-3 reflectance, and laboratory analysis
This study focuses for the first time on the water content modeling as an indicator for red palm weevil (RPW) stress-attacks using field sampling, Worldview-3 (WV-3) reflectance measurements, water content estimation at the laboratory (WC-Lab), several water stress indices (WSI) and statistical analysis. Based on field identification and sampling, 100 [...]