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Shedding Light on the Roots of Dissatisfaction with Health Care Services in the State of Qatar An Exploratory Study
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The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University
, 2016 , Poster)
Dissatisfaction with health care performance is an important source of information about health system quality as perceived by the public.
It has long term negative impacts on:
*Relationship between health care users ...
Reasons for Participation in Household Surveys in the Arab Gulf Countries, Qatar
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Participation in public opinion surveys in the State of Qatar is voluntary, and respondents are not offered incentives for participating. Nevertheless, rates of participation in face-to-face surveys conducted by the Social ...
Business legacy planning for mega events: The case of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This study aimed to explore the processes of business networking which lays the foundation for business legacy outcomes initiated by the award of a mega event in a region. Building on the work of Spilling (1996) on mega ...
A Hard Test of Individual Heterogeneity in Response Scale Usage: Evidence From Qatar
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Oxford University Press
, 2016 , Article Review)
A common approach to correcting for interpersonal differences in response category
thresholds in surveys is the use of anchoring vignettes. Here we present results from
the first applications of anchoring vignettes in ...
ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT STAKEHOLDER PERSPECTIVES ON BOOMTOWN DYNAMICS IN THE EAGLE FORD SHALE, TEXAS
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Wiley
, 2016 , Article)
Unconventional oil and gas production in the United States reversed a decades-
old trend of rising oil imports, provided an argument for lifting the U.S. crude oil
export ban and motivated the development of domestic ...
The Patriarchal Bargain in a Context of Rapid Changes to Normative Gender Roles: Young Arab Women’s Role Conflict in Qatar
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Springer Verlag
, 2016 , Article)
Social norms in patriarchal countries in the Middle East are changing at differing rates. In Qatar, expectations about education have shifted, and women’s participation in higher education is normative. However, women’s ...
The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier
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Taylor & Francis
, 2016 , Article)
The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier. Regional Studies. This paper examines Kuala Lumpur’s emergence as a prominent global Islamic financial centre. Its distance from the West and the Middle East offers ...
Expatriate labour markets in rapidly globalising cities: reproducing the migrant division of labour in Abu Dhabi and Dubai
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
, 2016 , Article)
This paper studies the processes through which skilled international
workers are differentially attracted to and incorporated in the rapidly
globalising cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, thereby reproducing the
migrant ...
Why Do People Participate in Surveys in Qatar?
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Asian Online Journal Publishing Group
, 2016 , Article & Poster)
In this paper, we assesses respondent participation in academic public opinion surveys in the State of Qatar. Rates of participation in SESRI’s face-to-face surveys remain at levels that far exceed those observed in Western ...
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities from a Qatari Human Rights Perspective
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
For a long time disability was considered a question of social development, outside the responsibilities of official human rights institutions. Over the last three decades this approach has evolved, and disability is now ...