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Cognitive Reappraisal And Expressive Suppression: An Examination Of Their Associations With Seeking Social Support, Well-Being And Academic Performance, Khalid Abdulazem Mohamed Ahmed

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This thesis examined individual differences regarding two prominent emotion regulation processes - cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression - and their associations with social functioning, psychological well-being, and academic performance. Six hypotheses were proposed. It was hypothesized that frequent use of cognitive reappraisal is positively correlated with seeking social support, psychological well-being, and academic performance, while the chronic use of expressive suppression is negatively associated with the three factors. Additionally, the differences between high reappraisers and low reappraisers, and between high suppressors and low suppressors, were investigated to confirm the results following the correlational analyses. An online survey was conducted …

أثر ممارسات إدارة الموارد البشرية في رضا العاملين في الجامعات الحكومية: دراسة حالة جامعة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, عفاف حميد محمد الوحشي

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هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى التعرف عل ى أثر ممارسات إدارة الموارد البشرية )تخطيط القوى العاملة، الاختيار والتعيين، التدريب والتطوير، التعويضات والحوافز، وتقييم الأدا ء( في رضا العاملين ف ي الجامعات الحكومية في إمارة أبوظب ي. وقد تكونت عينة الدراسة من 146 موظفا من جامعة الإمارات، ولتحقيق أهداف الدراسة قامت الباحثة بالاعتماد على الاستبانة المحكمة لجمع وبرنامج Excel البيانات، وقد تم تحليل البيانات واختبار الفرضيات اعتمادا على كل من برنامج للحزم الاجتماعية. وتظهر صعوبة الدراسة في تحديد رضا العاملين وأبعاد قياس رضاهم SPSS من عدة ممارسات وتحديد هذه الممارسات من عدة جوانب مختلفة وعليه سيتم إلقاء الضوء على الأبعاد المتعلقة بهذه …

Effectiveness Of The Smart Government In Abu Dhabi Municipality: A Study Of The Customers’ Opinion, Hajar Saeed Alafreet Alkuwaiti

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Smart government has become a new way of delivering services to the public that not only is efficient and quicker, but is also useful and convenient for the customers availing those services. By adopting advanced technologies government nowadays are transforming public services and offering enhanced experience to the customers. However, since these services are based on new technologies, people are often apprehensive of using them because of privacy security and other concerns and that creates challenges for smart government implementation. The current research that aims to understand if Abu Dhabi Municipality’s smart government initiatives are meeting customer service expectations and …

الدّفع بعدم الدّستوريّة في دولة الامارات العربية المتحدة (دراسة مقارنة), حمد عبدالله علي عبدالله السّاعدي

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إنه مما لا شك فيه أن الدفع الفرعى بعدم الدستورية باعتبارة صورة من صور الرقابة القضائية على دستورية القوانين واللوائح يعتبر أهم الطرق لتحريك تلك الرقابة، ويعد ضمانة هامة للأفراد ويكفل لهم أهم حقوقهم الدستورية مما يترتب عليه تحقيق قواعد العدالة والانصاف للمتقاضين.

ومن خلال دراسة هذا الجانب القانونى الذى يعد أهم النظم القانونية وأفضلها وأكثرها فى مجال الرقابة على دستورية القوانين، حيث تم الاهتمام والتركيز فى هذه الدراسة على الرقابة القضائية عن طريق الدفع الفرعى من الأفراد كوسيلة لتحريك الرقابة الدستورية من خلال بيان الاطار العام لموضوع الدفع الفرعى بعدم دستورية القوانين بتحديد مفهومه وطبيعته القانونية، مع توضيح نشأة …

حق الدفاع كأحد ضمانات التحقيق في مجال الوظيفة العامة على ضوء التشريع الاتحادي وبعض التشريعات المحلية بدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة, شمه محمد مرزوق المزروعي

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يعد النظام التأديبي جزء لا يتجزأ من النظام القانوني للوظيفة العامة وبهذا يتطور تطورا طرديا مع الوظيفة نفسها، وتغيرت الأوضاع والنظرة للوظيفة العامة حيث وجدت حاجة ملحة لبيان حقوق وواجبات الموظف العام، وأهمها أن يسلك الموظف في تصرفاته مسلك ا لا يخل باحترام الوظيفة وكرامتها والابتعاد عن أي عمل مخالف لواجباته الوظيفية، حتى لا يكون محل للتحقيق والتأديب، فجهة العمل حريصة على دوام سير المرفق العام بانتظام واطراد ومن أجل ذلك تملك محاسبة الموظف المخل بواجباته وتوقيع الجزاء التأديبي عليه.

وترى الباحثة بأن التشريع الاتحادي والتشريعات المحلية بدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة قد قررت ضمانات تأديبية للموظف عند إحالة للتحقيق والتأديب …

Prevalence, Antibiotic-Resistance And Growth Profile Of Vibrio Spp., Isolated From Imported Shellfish In The Local Markets, Hind Obaid Al Rumaithi

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Seafood-related human illness caused by Vibrio species is a major problem. Seafood is prone to contamination by pathogenic Vibrio bacteria especially, Vibrio mimicus, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, and Vibrio vulnificus. The study on the prevalence of this microorganism in seafood of the United Arab Emirates is vital due to the cultural background of the Emiratis as a coastal heritage. A study was conducted to assess the prevalence of Vibrio spp. in imported shellfish from local markets and to identify the Vibrio spp. examine the antimicrobial resistance and profile growth conditions of the isolated Vibrio. In the present study, …

فاعلية الألعاب اللغوية في تنمية المفردات لدى طلبة الصف الرابع, Wafa Yousuf Al Momani

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The Effectiveness of Linguistic Games in Vocabulary Development among Fourth Grade Students

The study aimed to identify the vocabulary included in the Arabic language course for the fourth-grade students in the UAE, and to measure the effectiveness of language games in the development of vocabulary in the fourth-grade students. The study was based on the quasi-experimental method, and the sample of the study consisted of (31) students of fourth grade in Al Ain city in the United Arab Emirates. This sample was divided into two groups: an experimental group (n=16 students), 9 males and 7 females, which were taught a …

المسؤولیة المدنیة لجھة توثیق التوقیع الإلكتروني في القانون الاماراتي, فاطمة سعید سالم الكعبي

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تتناول ھذه الدراسة موضوع المسؤولیة المدنیة لجھة توثیق التوقیع الالكتروني في ظل قانون المعاملات الالكترونیة وخدمات الثقة رقم (46) لسنة ۲۰۲۱. وقد قسمت الرسالة إلى فصلین: تناول الفصل الأول المسؤولیة العقدیة لجھة توثیق التوقیع الإلكتروني، واشتمل الفصل الأول على مبحثین، تناول المبحث الأول أركان المسؤولیة العقدیة لجھة توثیق التوقیع الإلكتروني، أما المبحث الثاني تطرق لآثار المسؤولیة العقدیة لجھة توثیق التوقیع الإلكتروني، بینما عالج الفصل الثاني المسؤولیة عن الفعل الضار لجھة توثیق التوقیع الإلكتروني. كما ناقش في المبحث الأول أركان المسؤولیة عن الفعل الضار، أما المبحث الثاني تناول آثار المسؤولیة عن الفعل الضار، ومنھا أطراف الدعوى، وإثبات المسؤولیة، والتعویض، ومن أھم …

Faculty Perceptions Of The Implementation Of The United Arab Emirate’S Qualifications Framework (Qf Emirates) In Federal Higher Education Institutions, Ahmed Obaid Elhakim

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The adoption of qualifications frameworks has been witnessing a growing interest across the globe in the past few decades. Despite widespread awareness and support, there are not enough studies exploring how qualifications frameworks resonate with different stakeholders. The main objective of this study is to examine faculty perceptions of the implementation of the United Arab Emirate’s Qualifications Framework (QF Emirates). In particular, the study explores faculty perceptions of: (a) the QF Emirates general purpose and structure; (b) the impact of implementing the QF Emirates on academic practices; and (c) some key factors that could facilitate effective implementation of the QF …

الخطأ المرفقي الموجب للمسؤولية الإدارية على ضوء أحكام القضائين الفرنسي والإماراتي, عائشة خلف محمد النقبي

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تهدف هذه الرسالة إلى بيان فكرة الخطأ المرفقي كأساس للمسؤولية الإدارية وكيفية تقدير القضاء لهذا الخطأ، نظراً إلى أن هذه المسؤولية ستقع على عاتق المرفق العام فهو الذي يتحملها ويدفع التعويض المترتب عليها، المحكوم به من طرف القضاء صاحب الاختصاص. ولا يمكن مساءلة الإدارة - سواء في المسؤولية القائمة على أساس الخطأ أو بدون خطأ - إلا إذا ترتب على ذلك الخطأ أو النشاط ضرر معين، فإذا انتفى الضرر انتفى معه حق المطالبة بالتعويض، وإذا تحقق الضرر فإن المسؤولية لا تتحقق إلا بوجود علاقة سببية بين الفعل الضار الصادر من الإدارة وبين الضرر الذي لحق المضرور.

وقد تعددت وتنوعت صور …

Smart Reversible Lanes In Dubai, Amna Nabeel Hamad Al Shamsi

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There is no doubt that transportation is one of the most important elements in any city and its development. However, traffic congestion is hurdle to any transportation system and especially in top cities like Dubai. Traffic congestions have many reasons like traveling from suburban to the city center for work and study, and relaying mostly on private vehicles. The impacts of traffic congestions reach beyond the increase in travel time, it also increase gas consumption, and affect people’s health negatively. One of the most practical ways to ease traffic congestion is using Reversible lanes (RL) which are lanes that can …

Dynamic Speed And Separation Monitoring With On-Robot Ranging Sensor Arrays For Human And Industrial Robot Collaboration, Shitij P. Kumar

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This research presents a flexible and dynamic implementation of Speed and Separation Monitoring (SSM) safety measure that optimizes the productivity of a task while ensuring human safety during Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC).

Unlike the standard static/fixed demarcated 2D safety zones based on 2D scanning LiDARs, this research presents a dynamic sensor setup that changes the safety zones based on the robot pose and motion.

The focus of this research is the implementation of a dynamic SSM safety configuration using Time-of-Flight (ToF) laser-ranging sensor arrays placed around the centers of the links of a robot arm. It investigates the viability of on-robot …

مفھوم النزاع المسلح غیر الدولي وأثره على تطبیق القانون الدولي الإنساني, عمر عبد الحلیم بكور

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عرفت البشریة النزاعات المسلحة غیر الدولیة منذ عصور قدیمة، ومع ذلك فقد ظلت بعیدة عن أي تنظیم قانوني لھا بما في ذلك القانون الدولي للحرب، حتى تنبھ المجتمع الدولي إلى خطورة ھذه الفئة من النزاعات، وما تتسم بھ من طابع مأساوي نتیجة انتشار العنف والأسلحة فیھا والانتھاكات الخطیرة للمبادئ الأساسیة للقانون الدولي الإنساني؛ ومن ثم فقد حصلت الكثیر من التطورات على صعید ھذا الأخیر طوال النصف الثاني من القرن العشرین، تجسدت باتفاقیات جنیف الأربع لعام 1949 وكذلك بروتوكولاتھا الأول والثاني لعام 1977 ، فضلا عن مجموعة الأدوات القانونیة الأخرى والمبادئ العرفیة، وبالرغم من ذلك مازال ھناك جدل محتدمٌ في الأوساط …

Modulation Of Anti-Microbical Defenses In The Gasrointestinal Tract By Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors, Alreem Abdulaziz Al-Dhalali Al-Mansori

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Inflammation is a crucial defence mechanism that protects the body from the effect of invading pathogens. However, the inflammatory response needs to be controlled in order to avoid systemic manifestations with serious consequences to the host. Accumulating evidence indicates that the inflammatory response is tightly regulated through immunological and neural pathways. Previously, it has been demonstrated that cholinergic stimulation by paraoxon, a specific and irreversible inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), improved survival in mice following oral infection with virulent Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium). However, paraoxon is an organophosphorus compound unsuited for human use. In this study, the …

Advancing Multi-Modal Deep Learning: Towards Language-Grounded Visual Understanding, Kushal Kafle

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Using deep learning, computer vision now rivals people at object recognition and detection, opening doors to tackle new challenges in image understanding. Among these challenges, understanding and reasoning about language grounded visual content is of fundamental importance to advancing artificial intelligence. Recently, multiple datasets and algorithms have been created as proxy tasks towards this goal, with visual question answering (VQA) being the most widely studied. In VQA, an algorithm needs to produce an answer to a natural language question about an image. However, our survey of datasets and algorithms for VQA uncovered several sources of dataset bias and sub-optimal evaluation …

Improving Template-Based Nanomanufacturing Of Carbon Nanotube Arrays Via Polishing Wet Etching Method, Kosar Samadi

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Multifunctional carbon nanotubes (CNTs) enable novel ways of interacting with complex biological fluid environments, such as single living cells and tissues. It has been shown that vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays can be utilized to deliver genes into cells with high efficiency. These arrays were produced through template-based nanomanufacturing, where chemical vapor deposition forms carbon nanotubes inside the pores and oxygen plasma and reactive ion etching (RIE) expose the tubes by selective etching. The same devices could be produced faster and cheaper by replacing oxygen plasma and RIE with mechanical polishing and wet etching. However, the biomedical utilization of CNT-based …

Conversion Of Ready-Mix Concrete Energy To Solar Pv, Zulfa A. Rasheed

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The purpose of this project is to study a case of a ready-mix concrete company to evaluate the feasibility of converting the electrical consumption to solar PV. The documentation of this project goes along with the proceeding of the work. Some data in the first and second chapters will be validated and corrected in the validation section. This work aims to encourage the adoption of solar technology in heavy industry. The work looked at various options to convert the energy consumption to solar PV. Taking into consideration the managerial and technical sides.

Design Approval Smart Application For Dubai Electricity Installations (Dasa-Dubai), Maryam Ahmad Mohammed Al Ali

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Design Approval smart application for assure the healthy and safety installations for buildings and properties in Dubai using programming and automations. It will enable the engineers in the concerned departments to have effective use of time and effort through having automatic first line defends reviewing the submissions of the electrical engineers contractors/ consultants who will be referred to as customers through the project description. The application will be a data base that carries the original standards and regulations that related to the installations of the electricity wiring in the government of Dubai. That kind of information’s are already distributed as …

Young Patient Education On Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, Margaret Jane Atieno Mcfarland

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Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a genetic disorder that primarily causes the degeneration of major muscle groups. It’s caused by the absence of an essential sarcolemma protein called Dystrophin due to mutations in its gene that is in the X-chromosome. DMD affects 1 out of 4,000 boys worldwide with most being diagnosed between ages 3-5 and if left untreated, most patients would succumb to the disorder by their late teens or early twenties. While there currently isn’t a cure for DMD, there are different treatments available that are effective in prolonging patients’ lives.

Because DMD is such a deadly disorder, …

Pleasure From Erotic Nipple Stimulation, Pre-Pregnancy, As A Predictor Of Successful Initiation Of Breastfeeding, Jessica Jolie Badonsky

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The erotic association with breasts and nipples can be a barrier to breastfeeding due to fear and misunderstanding by breast feeders and health professionals alike (Polomeno, 1999). Little is known about erotic pleasure from nipple stimulation and its correlation to initiate breastfeeding. This study was to determine if erotic pleasure from nipple stimulation prior to pregnancy is a predictor of successful initiation of breastfeeding.

Bayesian Active Learning For Personalization And Uncertainty Quantification In Cardiac Electrophysiological Model, Jwala Dhamala

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Cardiacvascular disease is the top death causing disease worldwide. In recent years, high-fidelity personalized models of the heart have shown an increasing capability to supplement clinical cardiology for improved patient-specific diagnosis, prediction, and treatment planning. In addition, they have shown promise to improve scientific understanding of a variety of disease mechanisms.

However, model personalization by estimating the patient-specific tissue properties that are in the form of parameters of a physiological model is challenging. This is because tissue properties, in general, cannot be directly measured and they need to be estimated from measurements that are indirectly related to them through a …

Cross-Modal Data Retrieval And Generation Using Deep Neural Networks, Premkumar Udaiyar

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The exponential growth of deep learning has helped solve problems across different fields of study. Convolutional neural networks have become a go-to tool for extracting features from images. Similarly, variations of recurrent neural networks such as Long-Short Term Memory and Gated Recurrent Unit architectures do a good job extracting useful information from temporal data such as text and time series data. Although, these networks are good at extracting features for a particular modality, learning features across multiple modalities is still a challenging task. In this work, we develop a generative common vector space model in which similar concepts from different …

Optimization And Characterization Of Low-Cost Substrates For Iii-V Photovoltaics, Elisabeth L. Mcclure

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The highest achieved photovoltaic power conversion efficiency (approximately 47% under concentration) is available from III-V multijunction solar cells made from subcells of descending bandgap that optimize light collection from the solar spectrum. Unfortunately, both III-V multijunction and single-junction solar cells are expensive, limiting their use to niche concentration or space power applications and precluding their competitiveness in the terrestrial flat-plate market. The majority of the III-V solar cell cost is attributed to the thick, monocrystalline substrates that are used as a platform for epitaxial growth, and to the throughput, precursors, and utilization of those precursors associated with traditional growth reactors. …

Characterization Of Friction Based On Specific Film Thickness And Wettability, Avdhesh Bansal

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Friction and wear in tribological systems lead to monetary loss and environmental damage. A better understanding of factors that affect tribological behavior of a system will reduce losses and damages in a tribological system. Wetting and surface properties are important in solid-fluid interactions and hence should be considered in lubricant-surface tribological systems. Their effects on tribological behavior are not properly understood. This study analyzed the effect of wettability on tribological systems and checked whether inclusion of wettability in the analysis of friction can lead to a more unified approach.

Wettability informs how a liquid will behave on a solid surface. …

Hearsay, Lei Xue

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The inspiration for my artworks comes from my life experience and cultural background. There is an idiom in China, “daotingtushuo,” which explains that “most people’s impressions of a certain person/thing are easily affected by irresponsible rumors.” In general, people are more likely to add their personal and emotional perspectives to a certain person/thing when describing it to others. After observation and research, the rumor propagation process needs a medium—the emotions of a human being. To materialize this concept of the emotions, I related color psychology to my work. Based on psychological research, I introduced five different colors to represent human …

Group B Streptococcus: Molecular Epidemiology, Pathogenic Profiling And Control Strategies, Katherine Mary Hayes

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Group B Streptococcus (GBS) are frequent colonisers of the gastrointestinal tract of healthy adults with worldwide rates of 18% colonisation; however, they are also opportunistic pathogens capable of causing invasive disease, particularly in neonates and adults with underlying conditions. Indeed, GBS is the leading cause of invasive neonatal disease worldwide with a global incidence of 0.49 per 1000 live births and GBS disease in adults is increasing globally, with estimated rates of 10.9 cases per 100,000 people. While GBS remain largely susceptible to penicillin, there have been reports of reduced beta-lactam susceptibility in certain countries and resistance to other antibiotic …

Hybrid Frequency Modulated Silicon Photonic Crystal Laser, Andrei Bakoz

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Silicon photonics takes advantage of the mature complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) infrastructure and processes, and is actively pursued for the implementation of complex optical components and photonic integrated circuits (PICs) at low cost and high volumes. Despite a constant refinement of silicon photonics technology to meet the evolving requirements for applications, the poor light emission ability of silicon remains a constraint. As a result, the most essential building block of an optical system, an efficient light emitter, remains absent in PICs based on silicon. This thesis is focused on study of the potential of an external cavity (EC) hybrid III-V …

Smart Inverters For Distributed Pv Network Management, Colin Charles Levis

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Securing a sustainable decarbonised economy involves moving towards a decentralised power system with increasing penetration levels of distributed photovoltaics (PVs) within the low voltage distribution network (LVDN). Increasing penetration levels of PV systems pose challenges for maintaining grid voltage and frequency stability. Thus requires studies and simulations to estimate the needs and technical requirements to overcome the challenges and maximise the opportunities. These simulations require time-domain system models with a high dynamic resolution such as electromagnetic transient (EMT) simulations with small-time steps that capture the required performance with large numbers of network elements. However, the small-time step implies a high …

Investigating The Synergistic Bioactive Effects Of Fruit, Vegetable And Protein Combinations In A Market-Ready Food Product For Young Adults, Jessica Eivers

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Diets high in fruits and vegetables (FV), are widely recommended for their health-promoting properties. A low intake of FV among young adults, is associated with the risk of developing chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), hypertension, osteoporosis, obesity, type 2 diabetes, dental caries, hypercholesterolemia and certain cancers in later life. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), despite an increasing awareness of the health benefits of FV, consumption by young adult’s remains below the recommended intake of 400g per day. This project aims to develop innovative, FV products for young adults with demonstrated bioactivity and high nutrient density. Initially, …

A V-Linc Analysis Of Agrifood And Tourism Specialisations In West Cork: Analysis, Impressions And Policies For Future Growth, Brigid Mary Walsh

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In recent years industry clusters have become recognised as a common feature of economies across the globe (Pouder and St. John, 1996; Porter, 1998a, 1998b; DTI, 2004; Sölvell, 2008; Ketels and Memedovic, 2008). Advantages associated with clusters include regional economic growth, new firm formation, employment growth, increased innovation and increased prosperity. The advantages associated with clusters are so great that cluster initiatives have become a widely accepted policy tool for regional economic development. As a small open economy, reliant on exports for economic growth, clusters appear to represent an opportunity for Irish industry to increase competitiveness. Theory argues that clusters …