Public Authority for Applied Education and Training

A human-centred artificial intelligence and learning analytics framework for equitable personalised higher education enrolment

Artificial intelligence (AI) and learning analytics are increasingly deployed within higher education to support admissions decision-making, student success initiatives, and personalised learning. However, most AI-enabled admissions systems remain narrowly focused on efficiency,...

Thermal comfort indices improve characterization of weather-driven electricity demand and associated CO₂ emissions in Kuwait

Electricity demand in hot arid regions is strongly influenced by thermal conditions, but it remains unclear whether integrated thermal comfort indices explain demand more consistently than basic meteorological variables. This study evaluated weather metrics associated with daily...

Performance Evaluation of a Low-Cost Compact Dosimeter/Spectrometer for Radiation Dose Rate and Radioactivity Measurements

A pocket-sized dosimeter/spectrometer with 1-cm 3 cerium-doped gadolinium aluminum gallium garnet, GAGG(Ce), scintillation crystal was evaluated for its application in radioactivity measurements. The device was used (1) for the measurement of in situ ambient gamma dose rates, (2)...

Long-memory functional time series modeling for electricity spot price forecasting using fractionally integrated functional autoregression

Electricity spot prices are found to be highly long-range dependent, with hyperbolically decaying instead of geometrically decaying autocorrelation functions that challenge traditional functional time series models of forecasting. In existing hybrid forecasting frameworks, the st...

Microstructure and microhardness of molybdenum processed by monotonic and cyclic high-pressure torsion

Abstract High-pressure torsion (HPT) was employed to investigate the effects of monotonic and cyclic shear deformation on the microstructural evolution and hardness of commercial purity molybdenum processed at room temperature (RT). Disks were subjected to monotonic HPT (m-HPT) a...