Professional Documents
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Civil Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Petroleum Engineering
Water Resources
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Cellular and Molecular Biology 1. Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (Helicobacter pylori, Streptococcal infections, and Tuberculosis) 2. Molecular Genetics of Plant Immunity. 3. Neuroscience, embryology 4. Cancer Research. 5. Nanoparticles applications in preventive medicine. 6. MRI-based diagnostics Ecology and Environmental Biology 1. Climate Change and Desert ecosystems. 2. Terrestrial plant ecology. 3. GIS/GPS and desert ecosystems. 4. Wildlife Disease Ecology 5. Tick ecology and tick-borne diseases 6. Conservation biology: especially seabirds. 7. Microbial Source Tracking and Water Quality. 8. Behavioral Ecology. 9. Behavioral Markers of Water Pollutants. 10. Aquatic Ecology research. 11. Marine Biology and coastal management. 12. Marine Ecosystem interactions. 13. Soil and Agriculture Microbiology Organic Chemistry 1. Organic Synthesis 2. Green Chemistry 3. Natural Products Chemistry 4. Bioactive Compounds 5. Polymer Chemistry 6. Catalysis Analytical Chemistry 1. Bioanalytical Chemistry 2. Chemical Sensors 3. Environmental Chemistry 4. Biological Mass spectrometry 1. Applied Geophysics (Development of interpretation techniques and modeling) Engineering and Environmental Geophysics Seismology 2. Stratigraphical, Micropaleontological Studies and Sequence Stratigraphy 3. Geochemistry and Petrology of the Ophiolites Rocks. 4. Environmental and Engineering Geology, Site Investigation, Soil and Rock Mechanics. 5. Groundwater quality using isotopic and chemical approaches.
UAEU Ph.D. Research Areas
Chemistry
Geology
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6. Groundwater - Surface Water Interactions. 7. Petroleum Geochemistry 8. Fluid Inclusions and Ore Deposits Mathematical Sciences Pure Mathematics 1. Eigenvalue Problems 2. Combinatorial Number Theory: Additive Number Theory, Integer Partitions, Relation Algebras, Convolution Algebras. 3. Algebra: Torsion Units of Integral Group Rings ZG of Finite Groups. 4. Geometric function theory; particularly quasiconformal groups. 5. Knot Theory, Low dimensional topology, spatial graphs. Applied Algebra and Cryptography. 6. Functional analysis, operator algebras and C*-algebras, unitary groups of C*-algebras, K-Theory, Banach Spaces. 7. Complex Analysis in one variable. Applied Mathematics 1. Wavelets theory 2. Passive Scalar Transport 3. Dynamical systems: 4. Numerical Analysis 5. Numerical Analysis & Numerical Mathematical Biology 6. Numerical Analysis: Bifurcation theory 7. Computational fluid mechanics, environmental mathematics, numerical solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations. 8. Mathematical Modeling 9. Stochastic calculus 1. Experimental Condensed Matter Physics. 2. Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics. 3. Medical Physics. 4. Mathematical and Computational Physics. 5. Atomic Physics. 6. High Energy and Elementary Particle Physics. 7. Nanostructures and Nano-devices. 8. Nuclear and Plasma Physics. 9. Laser Physics. 10. Astrophysics.
Physics
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VLSI/IC design Nanoelectronics (beyond CMOS) Testing and fault tolerance Circuit and system reliability Computer aided design / electronic design automation Wireless sensor networks and communications Neural networks High performance computing Parallel computing Computer architectures Embedded systems Reconfigurable computing Bioinformatics Parallel and distributed computing Computer aided learning Arabic computing Robotics Artificial intelligence Intelligent systems applications in smart cities, smart energy systems, etc. Social nets and Web 2.0 Quality of service management in serviceoriented architectures (SOA) Mobile service provisioning and context management Web services Cloud/internet computing Systems performance evaluation Electronic/mobile government Electronic/mobile commerce Learning technology Telemedicine Social networks Portal technology Ubiquitous computing Internet of things Web services Databases Strategic information systems Data mining Business intelligence Enterprise resource planning Enterprise architectures Organizational information systems Service oriented systems Semantic web Health information systems
UAEU Ph.D. Research Areas
Enterprise Systems
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Software Engineering
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Network Engineering
Information Security
Software measurement System evolution Software testing Software quality evaluation Performance engineering Project management Rapid development of domain-specific software tools Software architecture development and evaluation Search-based software engineering Software product lines Software ecosystems Adaptive and multi-device user interfaces Enterprise applications Embedded systems Formal methods Information transformation Hybrid systems modeling Computational linguistics Design analysis Cooperative distributed systems Information integration for decentralized applications Intelligence in decentralized applications Agent-oriented modeling for decentralized applications Mobile and pervasive computing Autonomic computing and communication Network management Wireless sensor networks Mobile ad hoc networks Vehicular ad hoc networks Routing protocols Quality of service Video and voice over IP networks Real-time and multimedia systems Network modeling Performance analysis Radio frequency networks Optical networks Middleware Radio resource management Multi-hop wireless networks Network security and dependability Intrusion detection, diagnosis, and mitigation Firewalls Virtual private networks (VPNs) Computer networks and protocols Broadband wireless networks Authentication and access control Secure network protocols Security in emerging technologies
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Experimental Pathology
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Physiology
Genetics and Development Research Priority Group (Interdepartmental Program in Human Genetics)
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Neurodegeneration Neurotransmitters and Receptors Neurodegenerative Diseases Diabetes Cancer Effect of Herbs on Gastric Ulcer Gastric Acid Inhibitors and Antiulcer Drugs Effect of drugs on inflammation in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Identification of Ion Channels and Neuronal Networks Identification of Ion Channels and Neuronal Networks Modulation of Neuronal Excitability by Neuropharmacologically Active Agents. Pulmoneary Physiology Cardiovascular Physiology Smooth Muscle Physiology Neurophysiology Occupational Health and Occupational Medicine Epidemiology and Control of Diabetes, Obesity, Cardiovascular Disease or Cancer or Injury or Infectious Diseases Social and Family Factors that Influence Health Behaviour and Chronic, Lifestyle-related Diseases Health of Migrant Workers Refugee Physical and Mental Health Health Systems Research including Cost of Health Care Epidemic Disease and Air Travel Disease Modelling, Including HIV Transmission and Control Statistical Analysis of Epidemiological Data for Understanding Aetiology Intentional Injuries (Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, Bullying) Epidemiology and Social Impact of HIV/AIDS Road Traffic Crashes (Epidemiology, Social and Economical Impact) Infectious Disease (Epidemiology and Prevention) Human Molecular Genetics Pharmacogenetics Population Genetics Biochemical Genetics Genetics of Complex Diseases
6. Cellular Genetics
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Cancer Biology
Neuroscience
1. Novel Therapeutics 2. Pathways of Growth, Survival, Invasion and Metastases 3. Cancer Stem Cells 4. Cancer Cachexia 1. Neurodegenerative Diseases include Alzheimers Disease and Parkinsons Disease. 2. Neurogenetics include Genetic Basis of Developmental Brain Disorders and Age Associate neurodegenerative Diseases. 3. Developmental Brain Disorders includes Mental Retardation, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism and Neuro-psychiatry. 4. Gene-environment Interactions include Characterization of the Role of Intentional and Unintentional Exposure to Environmental Pollutants that are Relevant to the UAE Population (e.g. smoking, pesticides, insecticides, water and food pollutants etc.) in the Pathogeneis of Neurological Disorders. Moreover, the Interaction Among Genetic, Environmental Factors and Life Style on Human Susceptibility to Neurological Disorders. 5. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation includes Studies of Mechanisms of Brain Plasticity in Normal Subjects and Movement Disorders Across the Lifespan. The use of TMS in Noninvasive Modulation of Brain Plasticity and its Potential Applications in Therapy and Neurorehabilitation. 6. Effect of Spoken Language on Arousal, Neurophysiologic, Neuroendocrine Parameters. 7. Spoken Language Effect on Altering Self Perception, Problem Solving, and Decision Making Capacity.
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