Disaster response under One Health in the aftermath of Nepal earthquake, 2015

Authors: Asokan G.V., Vanitha A.
Until now, an estimate quotes that 1100 healthcare facilities were damaged and over 100,000 livestock lost in the two earthquakes that occurred in April and May of 2015 in Nepal. Threats of infectious diseases, mostly zoonoses, could affect Nepal’s economy, trade, and tourism, and reaching the targets of the United [...]

An integrated approach for soil classification: The Kingdom of Bahrain study case

Authors: Al-Joburi K.
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 [...]

Contribution of citizen science to improve knowledge on marine biodiversity in the Gulf Region

Authors: Castilla A.M., Riera R., Ali Humaid M., Garland T., Jr, Alkuwari A., Muzaffar S., Naser H.A., Al-Mohannadi S., Al-Ajmi D., Chikhi A., Wessels J., Al-Thani M.A.F., Takacs Z., Valdeón A.
Monitoring marine biodiversity is costly and practical solutions have to be implemented to identify species and their preferred habitats, particularly in this era of rapid global change. Citizen science has proven to be effective and with high potential for monitoring efforts, and has been extensively applied to biodiversity. We have [...]

Variability of marine macrofouling assemblages in a marina and a mariculture centre in Bahrain, Arabian Gulf

Authors: Naser H.A.
Marine biofouling has significant environmental and industrial impacts. Biofouling is considered a specific problem for a wide range of coastal and marine industries, including aquaculture, shipping activities and ports. Colonization and growth of biofouling depend on the complex interactions of biological, physical and chemical factors. Anthropogenic disturbances from coastal modification [...]

Water Collection from Air Humidity in Bahrain

Authors: Dahman N.A., Al Juboori K.J., Bukamal E.A., Ali F.M., Alsharooqi K.K., Al-Banna S.A.
The Kingdom of Bahrain falls geographically in one of the driest regions in the world. Conventional fresh surface water bodies, such as rivers and lakes, are nonexistent and for water consumption, Bahrain prominently relies on the desalination of sea water. This paper presents an ongoing project that is being pursued [...]

A Geospatial Database for Wind and Solar Energy Applications: The Kingdom of Bahrain Study Case

Authors: Al-Joburi K., Dahman N.
This research is aimed at designing, implementing, and testing a geospatial database for wind and solar energy applications in the Kingdom of Bahrain. All decision making needed to determine economic feasibility and establish site location for wind turbines or solar panels depends primarily on geospatial feature theme information and non-spatial [...]

Sensitive and selective detection of multiple metal ions using amino acids modified glassy carbon electrodes

Authors: Nisar A., Shah A., Zahid A., Iftikhar F.J., Hassan A., Shah A.H., She Z., Akhter M.S., Piro B., Kraatz H.-B.
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

Authors: Nisar A., Shah A., Zahid A., Iftikhar F.J., Hassan A., Shah A.H., She Z., Akhter M.S., Piro B., Kraatz H.-B.
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

Authors: El-Rahman S.A., Zolait A.H.S.
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

Authors: El-Shishini H.M., Upadhyaya M.
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 [...]