Research List

This paper examines the determinants of recovery rates of corporate defaulted bonds in the emerging markets. We use data on defaulted bonds from Moody’s ultimate recovery database over the period 2005–2015 to experiment the impact of the borrower characteristics added to the macroeconomic and the bond market conditions on recovery [...]

Many universities are striving to have an environmental impact on the society as they are considered as small communities aiming to be eco-friendly and having low CO2 emission. This concept has been emerging after the worldwide concern on the ozone depletion issue and global warming. As a result, many titles [...]

The continuous increase in the demand for plastics is causing severe problems of managing increased waste plastic generation. The hydrocracking of plastic materials is considered an important method of converting these wastes into liquid fuels of high quality. Many attempts have been made in the search for a suitable catalyst [...]

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 [...]

The objective of this study is to identify the most important air pollutants based on their individual contribution to Air Quality Index (AQI) and to determine the major air pollution sources in Bahrain. Data sets from seventeen air quality monitoring sites were evaluated using XLSTAT 2014 and Statistical Package for [...]

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, [...]

Pakistan has a road network of approximately 250,000 km, which carries a significant proportion of passenger as well as freight traffic. Almost the whole length of this network is made up of flexible pavement, which uses asphalt concrete as the surface course. Asphalt pavements are subjected to many types of [...]

The objective of this paper is to analyze temporal and seasonal trends of air pollution in Bahrain between 2006 and 2012 by utilizing datasets from five air quality monitoring stations. The non-parametric and robust Theil-Sen approach is employed to study quantitatively temporal variations of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), nitrogen [...]

The paper introduces an 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, the rationale for the creation of a comprehensive, live, [...]

Replacing the normal electricity and water meters with smart ones is one of the major transformations toward smart cities in the Kingdom of Bahrain. This transformation eliminates the need for manual reading and the estimated monthly billing values. The current approach of the system infrastructure is having the smart meters [...]