Azm Shaher Al-Homoud

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To Geotechnical Engineers: What was your most challenging real world construction related problem In the past decade and how did you solve it?

It is always useful to learn from others experiences they encountered in solving challenging Real world problems, and to learn from their past successes and failures. Experience is the best...

01 January 1970 9,416 7 View

Can wearing simple face masks by all people in public and at work help flatten the Coronavirus infection curve?

Coronavirus pandemic COVID-19 face masks public health infection flattening the curve In epidemiology, the idea of slowing a virus' spread so that fewer people need to seek treatment at any...

01 January 1970 6,229 32 View

A Question to full professors working in academia: As a percentage of total working time, what is your actual time commitment to research work?

Recent Surveys in universities world wide where professors are required to teach, conduct research, and provide services to the university and link with the industry, indicated that professors...

01 January 1970 2,874 9 View

In your view what are the major engineering challenges in the next decade?

An very nteresting article to read on important challenges facing engineers in the next decade. https://www.euroscientist.com/what-are-the-biggest-engineering-challenges/ I would appreciate...

01 January 1970 5,983 1 View

What is your opinion on the recommendation to “Stop funneling future scientists into narrow specialties that value technique over thought”

This recommendation was made recently by Professor Jerry Ravetz. The following link give a summary of his study can. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03527-y

01 January 1970 2,066 1 View

DO you think that Chinese outperformance of Americans in science will continue in the following years?

A prove to the above statement is documented in the article given at the following link https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/05/data-show-why-china-science-research-is-booming/ do...

01 January 1970 9,472 3 View

Can you find a solution for the equation a3 + b3+ c3= 33

33, is a number surrounded by a special mystique. For many years, 33 has fascinated the mathematical community by starring in one of the apparently simpler cases of a diophantine equation, but...

01 January 1970 9,437 3 View

Do you have publications of experimental or field research on engineering properties of Rock in your country or any part of planet earth?

Physical and Engineering Properties of Rocks

01 January 1970 1,424 3 View

Do you have publications of experimental or field research and studies on problematic soil such as swelling soil, collapsible soil and sabkha soil?

problematic soil

01 January 1970 8,371 15 View

Do you have publications on Geo-Environmental Engineering and related specialties?

Geo-Environmental Engineering is concerned with engineering solutions relating to environmental impacts of contaminants within soils, and includes such aspects as understanding the migration,...

01 January 1970 2,810 5 View

Do you have publications and research Reports in the field of seismic hazard zonation on any part of the world. If yes, kindly share it. ,

Seismic hazard zonation.

01 January 1970 990 9 View

Scientists and senior researchers: What advice you would like to share with Young researchers in your field of expertise?

Cumulative life long learnt lessons by scientists, senior researchers and professionals are always useful for the young researchers. It is ethical and professional responsibility to share...

01 January 1970 924 4 View

Could the Deadly Coronavirus Actually Be a Man-Made Killer Disease? What is your opinion?

Could the Deadly Coronavirus Actually Be a Man-Made Killer Disease? BE CAREFUL WHERE YOU GET YOUR NEWS ABOUT CORONAVIRUS....

01 January 1970 4,761 17 View

Geotechnical Eng.: Do you have publications of research involving assessment of accuracy of prediction models by comparison to measured field data?

Geotechnical Engineering Researchers: Do you have publications of research involving assessment of accuracy of prediction models by comparison to measured field data ?

01 January 1970 9,985 12 View

Do you know that COVID-19 Vaccine Shipped, and Drug Trials Start?

A biotech company based in Cambridge, Mass., has shipped the first batches of its COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine was created just 42 days after the genetic sequence of the COVID_19 virus, called...

01 January 1970 8,278 1 View

How can a country reverse the brain drain? Kindly share your own experience?

In my view, for any country to overcome economical problem, and excel in all aspects of life, brain drain should be reversed. As an example of positive impact of reversing brain drain is that...

01 January 1970 6,737 5 View

Give us an example on how your research work results helped significantly the surrounding community or changed positively the world around you?

Research can have many different kinds of effects and impact depending on the discipline and the research organisation. Society’s expectations of the impact of science are also different for...

01 January 1970 901 4 View

Can Artificial intelligence help us understand how the coronavirus spreads and guide us into how to contain its devastating effects?

Can Artificial intelligence help understand how the corona virus spreads, and therefore guide us into how to contain its devastating effects?

01 January 1970 5,521 17 View

What is your feed back on the publication entitled: “ Elite Capture of Foreign Aid : Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts”?

The study is published by: Andersen, Jorgen Juel; Johannesen, Niels; Rijkers, Bob. 2020. Elite Capture of Foreign Aid : Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts (English). Policy Research working...

01 January 1970 7,825 3 View

What are the best lessons you have learned during your work in the industry which could be useful in the business world?

Life is a continuous learning experience. Throughout our lives we keep rising and falling, picking up important lessons along the way. Some of these lessons come from work experience In the...

01 January 1970 3,090 3 View

What do you think will be the Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on the future of workplace?

AI is the intelligence exhibited by computers and software representing the third era of automation. AI is currently used in robotics, machine learning, analytics, decision-support, and virtual...

01 January 1970 8,233 7 View

Do you expect your research results to lead to an innovation or product with high commercial value?

An inventor is a person who has made an active and decisive contribution to an essential, innovative and non-obvious element of the invention that led to its development. If the technology you’ve...

01 January 1970 9,350 13 View

Any thoughts on how to strengthen national systems of innovation?

National innovation systems play an important role in countries’ efforts to catch up with technological advances. As the global marketplace becomes increasingly liberalized and competitive,...

01 January 1970 5,645 6 View

As a scientist, can you kindly share your contributions in bridging the gap between nations in knowledge generation and technological activity?

The technology gap is the divergence between nations and communities in their abilities to access, diffuse and use scientific and technical knowledge. It is one of the main causes of the rapidly...

01 January 1970 5,236 4 View

Can you give an example of a pioneering large scale Renewable Clean Energy Project In your part of the world?

A pioneering project in Dubai, UAE: Upon completion, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park will be the largest single-site solar park in the...

01 January 1970 3,310 18 View

What are the models adopted by different countries to support their public health interventions?Do you have field based feed back on such models?

covid-19 models Public health intervention Herd immunity social distancing feedback

01 January 1970 9,212 3 View

Does Coronavirus Pandemic force governments and companies to lift public health data privacy protections and AI ethics guidelines?

Coronavirus Pandemic governemnts companies public health privacy Protection AI ethics

01 January 1970 4,878 1 View

In your view, what are the most important factors required for a highly effective research work team?

This discussion focuses on the factors needed for an effective research work team in the academic setting. I suggest addressing following themes: leadership, team members capabilities and...

01 January 1970 9,463 15 View

Why does the coronavirus spread relatively easily between people?

Understanding mechanisms of transmission of the virus is vital for its containment and prevention.

01 January 1970 1,681 14 View

Why Some COVID-19 Cases Are Worse than Others? (Note: please no cut and paste answers, I am seeking your thoughts, no link to internet sites please)

Why Some COVID-19 Cases Are Worse than Others

01 January 1970 3,507 13 View

What is the impact of the Coronavirus crisis on the global clean energy sector for 2020 and following years?

Coronavirus crisis global Clean energy sector impact

01 January 1970 1,644 3 View

Could China's New Coronavirus Become a Global Epidemic?

01 January 1970 9,176 6 View

What is the title of your favorite non academic book you read in 2019? What is the category/subject of the book?

Nelson Mandela said it best: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” Kindly, let us know What is your favorite non academic book you read in 2019? A Book...

01 January 1970 8,430 8 View

As we are turning the page of year 2019, what was your most significant achievement or proudest professional accomplishment in the year 2019?

As we are turning the page of year 2019, what was your most significant achievement or proudest accomplishment at work, whether in academic life (teaching/studying or research work at a university...

01 January 1970 3,542 15 View

Have you been involved in Forensic Geotechnical Engineering Studies with investigations of failures connected with geotechnical or geological origin?

Geotechnical Engineering is a branch of Civil Engineering that deals with the behavior of earthen materials and how they interact with man-made elements such as foundations, and infrastructure....

01 January 1970 8,365 16 View

Are we witnessing the formation of new countries alignments or new world powers while countries are struggling combating the Coronavirus pandemic?

Coronavirus pandemic formation of new alignments new world powers struggling against pandemic super power countries

01 January 1970 8,149 3 View

If you are leading a team at work in academia or elsewhere, Which leadership style best describes you?

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example. Following are different styles of leadership Leadership and how to get the most out of them: Autocratic leadership...

01 January 1970 4,694 7 View

Why the USA has the potential to be next epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic?

USA Coronavirus Pandemic epicenter

01 January 1970 2,915 9 View

Lessons learned from recent south eastern Turkish earthquakes 2023

i am going to share here my thoughts on lessons learned from south eastern Turkish earthquakes 2023. I would appreciate input as specialists familiar with the incident

01 January 1970 6,202 0 View

What are the best coronavirus treatments so far?

The new coronavirus that has sickened more than 70,000 people in central China is spreading, setting off outbreaks in South Korea, Iran, and Italy, and now threatens to move around the globe as a...

01 January 1970 6,865 23 View

2019 has been a great year for science. Can you recall IMPORTANT Scientific Discoveries That Defined the year 2019?

2019 was a big year for science. We saw the first ever image of a black hole, witnessed advances in the treatment of ebola, HIV and cystic fibrosis and added links to our family tree. The first...

01 January 1970 4,185 5 View

What is the world wide most read scientific research article in your area of specialty?

Most read of 2019: Chinese scientists say they’ve created several monkeys with extra copies of a human gene suspected of playing a role in shaping human intelligence.

01 January 1970 926 2 View