Attenuation of land multiple energy case studies from the Saudi Arabian Peninsula

1991 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Kelamis ◽  
E. F. Chiburis
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Saudi Arabian

Does smarter mean better?

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (9) ◽  
pp. 20-21
Keyword(s):  
Technology Adoption ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Reading Time ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Smart Technology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings Saudi Arabian SMEs are not seeing the performance benefits to digital transformation and smart technology adoption. This will have to change if its economy is to truly diversify away from oil. Originality The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

Importing Exceptional Buildings: Transforming Urban Arabian Peninsula Into Skyscraper Cities

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 101-110
Author(s):  
Kheir Al-Kodmany ◽  
Mir M. Ali
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
City Identity ◽  
Design And Construction

Globalization has supported the exportation of exotic design and construction of many buildings including skyscrapers. In the past two decades skyscrapers have proliferated across cities all over the world, particularly those in the Arabian Peninsula. Because of their massive bulk and soaring height, these skyscrapers have dramatically altered the urban landscape and city identity. This paper examines the role of skyscrapers in supporting place identity in the Arabian Peninsula. Through case studies, the paper describes and evaluates skyscraper projects. While the “imported” iconic skyscrapers with their flamboyant forms have been transformative in re-imaging cities and their skylines, many of these have been transplanted to these cities with little consideration for local heritage and culture.

Professional Dissonance

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 232-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Harkness ◽  
Peggy Levitt
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Occupational Group ◽  
Creative Class ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
Small Country ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
Professional Dissonance

This article examines the working lives of creative-class professionals in the Global South using two case studies: university educators and museum professionals employed in Qatar. A small country on the Arabian Peninsula, Qatar is an ideal site for the study of professionals in a developing yet authoritarian nation. We argue that the cultural attributes of the professorial and curatorial communities, including creativity, autonomy, and intellectual freedom, are in conflict with the authoritarian political context, giving rise to professional dissonance. Professional dissonance occurs when the norms, values, and ideas embraced by a particular occupational group conflict with the norms, values, and ideas in the settings in which they work. To cope, university educators and museum professionals turn to five strategies—resistance, subversion, submission, conversion, and exit—although variations in the content and institutional structures of their work lead each group to deploy them in somewhat different ways. These strategies may be replicated in other contexts of high professional dissonance, caused by authoritarianism or otherwise.

scholarly journals The subfamily Thorictinae (Coleoptera, Dermestidae) from Saudi Arabia

ZooKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1029 ◽  
pp. 155-174
Author(s):  
Jiří Háva ◽  
Mahmoud S. Abdel-Dayem ◽  
Hathal M. Aldhafer
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Related Species ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Saudi Arabian ◽  
Beetle Species

In this study, the Saudi Arabian Thorictinae beetle species, Thorictus riyadhensis Háva & Abdel-Dayem, sp. nov., T. shadensis Háva & Abdel-Dayem, sp. nov., T. sharafi Háva & Abdel-Dayem, sp. nov., T. hanifahensis Háva & Abdel-Dayem, sp. nov. are described, illustrated, and compared with related species. Three other species: T. castaneus Germar, 1834; T. foreli Wasmann, 1894; and T. peyerimhoffi Chobaut, 1904 are excluded from the fauna of Saudi Arabia. A list of Thorictinae species from the Arabian Peninsula is provided.

scholarly journals The Political Power of Proxies: Why Nonstate Actors Use Local Surrogates

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 119-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Assaf Moghadam ◽  
Michel Wyss
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Political Power ◽  
High Capacity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Nonstate Actors ◽  
Political Value ◽  
The Relationship

Studies of conflicts involving the use of surrogates focus largely on states, viewing the relationship between sponsors and proxies primarily as one in which states utilize nonstate actors as proxies. They have devoted far less attention to sponsor-proxy arrangements in which nonstate actors play super-ordinate roles as sponsors in their own right. Why and how do nonstate actors sponsor proxies? Unlike state sponsors, which value proxies primarily for their military utility, nonstate sponsors select and utilize proxies mainly for their perceived political value. Simply put, states tend to sponsor military surrogates, whereas nonstate actors sponsor political ancillaries. Both endogenous actor-based traits and exogenous structural constraints account for these different approaches. An analysis of three case studies of nonstate sponsors that differ in terms of ideology and capacity—al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the People's Protection Units in Syria, and Hezbollah in Lebanon—confirms this argument, but also suggests that the ability and desire to control proxies varies with the sponsor's capacity. High-capacity nonstate sponsors such as Hezbollah behave similarly to state sponsors, but remain exceptional. Most nonstate sponsors are less dominant, rendering the relationships to their proxies more transactional and pragmatic, and ultimately less enduring than those of state sponsors and their clients.

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