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Correction to: Training During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices of 12,526 Athletes from 142 Countries and Six Continents (Sports Medicine, (2022), 52, 4, (933-948), 10.1007/s40279-021-01573-z)
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2022 , Other)The affiliation of the author Lone Bogwasi, which previously read as: Lone Bogwasi Department of Orthopedics, Nyangabgwe Hospital, Francistown, Botswana Botswana Football Association Medical Committee, Gaborone, Botswana. ... -
CORRUPTION AND MICROCREDIT INTEREST RATES: DOES REGULATION HELP?
( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2016 , Article)Misunderstandings about the structure of microcredit interest rates continue to generate rich criticism of the industry's high interest rates. Research has focused attention on the cost structure of interest rates and, ... -
COVID-19 Lockdown: A Global Study Investigating the Effect of Athletes' Sport Classification and Sex on Training Practices
( Human Kinetics Publishers Inc. , 2022 , Article)Purpose: To investigate differences in athletes' knowledge, beliefs, and training practices during COVID-19 lockdowns with reference to sport classification and sex. This work extends an initial descriptive evaluation ... -
COVID-19 Lockdowns: A Worldwide Survey of Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Quality in 3911 Athletes from 49 Countries, with Data-Driven Recommendations
( Springer Nature , 2021 , Article)Objective: In a convenience sample of athletes, we conducted a survey of COVID-19-mediated lockdown (termed ‘lockdown’ from this point forward) effects on: (i) circadian rhythms; (ii) sleep; (iii) eating; and (iv) training ... -
COVID-19 Pandemic and Physical Exercise: Lessons Learnt for Confined Communities
( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2021 , Article)The novel pandemic called "Coronavirus Disease 2019" (COVID-19), as a global public health emergency and global threat, has affected many countries in unpredictable ways and impacted on physical activity (PA) behaviors to ... -
Covid-19 pandemic and quality of life among Romanian athletes
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2021 , Article)The aim of this study was to analyze athletes’ quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study involved 249 athletes between 15 and 35 of age, M = 21.22, SD = 5.12. The sample was composed of eight Olympic Games ... -
Criminal thinking in a Middle Eastern prison sample of thieves, drug dealers, and murderers
( Wiley , 2015 , Article)The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) has been applied extensively to the study of criminal behaviour and cognition. This study aimed to explore the psychometric characteristics (factorial structure, ... -
A critical review of research on STEM education in Qatar
( Common Ground Research Networks , 2021 , Article Review)In the light of the mounting national promotion, encouragement, and support of the skillsets that are critical to the knowledge economy in Qatar, the present article offers a critical review of the current body of literature ... -
Critical Thinking and Qatar’s Education For a New Era: Negotiating Possibilities
( University of South Carolina Greensboro , 2012 , Article)In this essay, the authors use Foucauldian concepts to examine the State of Qatar’s unprecedented educational reform, Education For a New Era. One of the key components of this comprehensive reform centers on the development ... -
A cross-cultural comparison of health behaviors between Saudi and British adolescents living in urban areas: Gender by country analyses
( MDPI , 2013 , Article)This study investigated the cross-cultural differences and similarity in health behaviors between Saudi and British adolescents. A school-based cross-sectional study was conducted at four cities in Saudi Arabia (Riyadh and ... -
Cross-national differences in special education coverage: An empirical analysis
( Council for Exceptional Children , 2014 , Article)This study investigated the role of educational and socioeconomic factors in explaining differences in national special education coverage. Data were derived from several international and governmental sources, targeting ... -
Cross-race correlations in the abilities to match unfamiliar faces
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)The other-race effect in face identification has been documented widely in memory tasks, but it persists also in identity-matching tasks, in which memory contributions are minimized. Whereas this points to a perceptual ... -
Culture as a driver for the design of social robots for Autism spectrum disorder interventions in the Middle East
( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we discuss the prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the Gulf region. We examine the importance of providing state-of-the-art ASD interventions, and highlight social robots as therapeutic tools ... -
D oes the moon cycle affect the physical endurance, balance, reaction-time, mood state and well-being in trained athletes?
( Edizioni Minerva Medica , 2020 , Article)BACKGROUND: Fascination with the moon has spanned millennia. It has recently been asserted that the moon cycle affects endurance performance in untrained individuals. The present study aimed at investigating the effects ... -
Definitions of educational leadership 'Arab educators' perspectives
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)This study aims to provide a general overview of how educational leadership is defined by Arab educators and education specialists in the Arab region, concentrating on the State of Qatar. The study builds on insights from ... -
Determinants of poor academic performance among undergraduate students-A systematic literature review
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)There are several reasons for student academic underperformance, such as academic, personal, and social factors students face when transitioning from high school to higher educational institutions. In this review paper, a ... -
Determinants of Student Absenteeism/Presenteeism in Qatar: A Path Analysis
( SCHOLINK INC , 2020 , Article)The current study sought to investigate the perceptions of school teachers regarding student absenteeism and presenteeism in the State of Qatar. Drawing on the existing relevant literature in the field and based on a survey ... -
Difference Asymmetry between Preferred Dominant and Non-Dominant Legs in Muscular Power and Balance among Sub-Elite Soccer Players in Qatar
( MDPI , 2023 , Article)The objective of this study was to determine and compare leg asymmetry between preferred dominant and non-dominant legs in muscular power and balance among sub-elite soccer (football) players in Qatar. Thirty-two professional ... -
Do Diacritical Marks Play a Role at the Early Stages of Word Recognition in Arabic?
( Frontiers Media , 2016 , Article)A crucial question in the domain of visual word recognition is whether letter similarity plays a role in the early stages of visual word processing. Here we focused on Arabic because in this language there are various ... -
Do EFL Teachers Reduce the Reading Gap in Qatar? A Study of Strategy Instruction in Government Schools
( Society for Research and Knowledge Management , 2021 , Article)Teachers' instructional practices are crucial to students' achievement in reading comprehension. Students' low English reading competence in Qatar's government schools raises concerns about not only reading comprehension ...
