Comparison Study between IFRS and AAOIFI Accounting Standards: A Case Study of Islamic Banks In The United Arab Emirates
Published in: Communications on Stochastic Analysis Journal
Mar 31, 2019
On the appreciation of English punny jokes by Arabic-speaking EFL learners
Published in: The Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics
Mar 31, 2019
This study measures the extent Arabic-speaking EFL learners appreciate English punny jokes. It also aims at identifying the challenges they face with certain types of these jokes and providing explanations for these challanges. For the purpose of the study, a test of 16 punny jokes on four types of punny jokes, namely, look-alike, sound-alike, close-sounding, and texting was developed and distributed to 60 Arabic-speaking EFL learners. Generally, the results show that Arabic-speaking EFL learne...
A Novel Coplanar-Strip-Based Excitation Technique for Design of Broadband Circularly Polarization Antennas With Wide 3 dB Axial Ratio Beamwidth
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Mar 29, 2019
The rationality of irrational decisions: A new perspective of behavioral economics
Published in: Int. J. Economics and Business Research
Mar 22, 2019
Mahmoud Askari
Ghaleb El Refae
This paper is an attempt to contribute to the field of behavioral economics by proposing a new perspective of utility and rational decision making. We use the method of Thought Experiment, as well as, hypothetical examples of decision making to explain the rationality of decisions that might be seen by economics as irrational. We hypothesize that all decisions are rational at the individual level, and that all decisions are justified by decision makers and maximize the decision maker’s percei...
A Novel Reduced Sensing Time Routing Protocol in Cognitive Radio Networks
Published in: International Conference on Wireless Communications, Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET)
Mar 21, 2019
Ramzi Saifan
Tahani Qaisi
Andraws Swidan
Sharhabeel Hassan Alnabelsi
Khalid Darabkh
Ala' F. Khalifeh