KU-Rise: Automatic Window-Cleaning System:
This offers an efficient and fast way to clean windows on high-rise buildings. The pneumatic system is able to clean on vertical surfaces using a slider mechanism and a rotating brush, along with a spray unit. A water tank in the middle of the system supplies the water to wash the windows. The vertical movement of the system is controlled by a lifting mechanism placed on top of the building. Its cleaning capacity is five square metres a minute. The machine was built in eight months by Mohammed Abu Abdo, Mohammed Shehada and Ruba Saleh, students in mechanical engineering.
Smart Wi-Fi Mobile Data-Acquisition System Architecture for Biomedical Applications:
Many hospital patients must be connected to an electrocardiograph (ECG) machine and monitored by doctors. Conventional wires connect ECG sensors to patients. This system uses Wi-Fi to create a portable data-acquisition system capable of using other devices, such as laptops, smartphones and tablets. The mobile Wi-Fi-based system can capture an analog or digital signal at a sufficient speed to make it available through a Wi-Fi module. It was built in six months by Lama Mahmoud, Amina Belkadi, Tasneem Assaf and Tamador Alboshra, students in communication and electronic engineering.
Solar Thermal Desalination Unit:
Seawater is preheated through a vacuumed condenser. It then flows inside a tank to be indirectly heated by a heat-transfer fluid. That circulates inside a flat plate solar collector facing south to absorb solar energy. After the temperature rises, it goes through an expansion valve and flashes in a vacuumed chamber to form brine and vapour. The vapour moves to the condenser and forms freshwater by losing latent heat. The machine was built in four months by Abdullah Alhammadi, Mohammed Humood and Ammar Alsheghri, students in mechanical engineering. * Caline Malek
COMPANY PROFILE
Name: Kumulus Water
Started: 2021
Founders: Iheb Triki and Mohamed Ali Abid
Based: Tunisia
Sector: Water technology
Number of staff: 22
Investment raised: $4 million
Thor: Ragnarok
Dir: Taika Waititi
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Jeff Goldblum, Mark Ruffalo, Tessa Thompson
Four stars
FIGHT INFO
Men’s 60kg Round 1:
Ahmad Shuja Jamal (AFG) beat Krisada Takhiankliang (THA) - points
Hyan Aljmyah (SYR) beat Akram Alyminee (YEM) - retired Round 1
Ibrahim Bilal (UAE) beat Bhanu Pratap Pandit (IND) - TKO Round 1
Men’s 71kg Round 1:
Seyed Kaveh Soleyman (IRI) beat Abedel Rahman (JOR) - RSC round 3.
Amine Al Moatassime (UAE) walk over Ritiz Puri (NEP)
Joker: Folie a Deux
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson
Director: Todd Phillips
Rating: 2/5
How tumultuous protests grew
- A fuel tax protest by French drivers appealed to wider anti-government sentiment
- Unlike previous French demonstrations there was no trade union or organised movement involved
- Demonstrators responded to online petitions and flooded squares to block traffic
- At its height there were almost 300,000 on the streets in support
- Named after the high visibility jackets that drivers must keep in cars
- Clashes soon turned violent as thousands fought with police at cordons
- An estimated two dozen people lost eyes and many others were admitted to hospital
Our legal advisor
Ahmad El Sayed is Senior Associate at Charles Russell Speechlys, a law firm headquartered in London with offices in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Hong Kong.
Experience: Commercial litigator who has assisted clients with overseas judgments before UAE courts. His specialties are cases related to banking, real estate, shareholder disputes, company liquidations and criminal matters as well as employment related litigation.
Education: Sagesse University, Beirut, Lebanon, in 2005.
Anti-semitic attacks
The annual report by the Community Security Trust, which advises the Jewish community on security , warned on Thursday that anti-Semitic incidents in Britain had reached a record high.
It found there had been 2,255 anti-Semitic incidents reported in 2021, a rise of 34 per cent from the previous year.
The report detailed the convictions of a number of people for anti-Semitic crimes, including one man who was jailed for setting up a neo-Nazi group which had encouraged “the eradication of Jewish people” and another who had posted anti-Semitic homemade videos on social media.
'Panga'
Directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari
Starring Kangana Ranaut, Richa Chadha, Jassie Gill, Yagya Bhasin, Neena Gupta
Rating: 3.5/5
