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Assessing the burden of intestinal parasites affecting newly arrived immigrants in Qatar
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BioMed Central
, 2016 , Article)
In the last decades, the enormous influx of immigrants to industrialized countries has led to outbreaks of parasitic diseases, with enteric infections being amongst the most frequently encountered. In its strategy to control ...
High Excitation Intensity Opens a New Trapping Channel in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Nanoparticles
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American Chemical Society
, 2016 , Article)
We investigated the excited-state dynamics of CH3NH3PbBr3 perovskite nanoparticles (NPs) and bulk crystals under various excitation intensity regimes using transient absorption spectroscopy. We confirmed the sub-band gap ...
Vaccine-Induced Antibodies that Neutralize Group 1 and Group 2 Influenza A Viruses
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
Antibodies capable of neutralizing divergent influenza A viruses could form the basis of a universal vaccine. Here, from subjects enrolled in an H5N1 DNA/MIV-prime-boost influenza vaccine trial, we sorted hemagglutinin ...
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 ...
Climate Change and Temperature Warming in Qatar
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The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University
, 2016 , Report)
In October 2015 the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) at Qatar University Surveyed representative samples of Qatari national (769) and white-color residents (762) to understand batter their views about ...
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 ...
Renegotiating the Ruling Bargain: Selling Fiscal Reform in the GCC
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Middle East Institution
, 2016 , Article)
Built upon depletable reservoirs of oil and natural gas, the petro-states of the Arab Gulf
have, since their beginning, always had one eye fixated on the end: the exhaustion of their
life-giving natural resources, and ...
Factors Shaping Qatari Students’ Interest in STEM, Business or Public Sector Careers
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Sage Publishing
, 2016 , Article)
In this article we examine interest in a STEM career in Qatar not in isolation, but as one of numerous career choice options. In particular, we contrast interest in a STEM career with the culturally-relevant alternative ...
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Impact on Qatar: Transitioning towards Full Implementation
(2016 , Poster)
Disability: interaction between long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments and various barriers hindering full and effective participation in society (UNCRPD)
Aim of CRPD:
Promote, protect and ...
Public–Private Partnership in Tunisia: Enfidha Airport Assessment of an Infrastructure Achievement
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Taylor & Francis
, 2016 , Article)
One of the largest recent private-sector investments and the first airport private-sector concession
in the Maghreb is Enfidha Airport, a key factor in the success of the Tunisian Government’s public–
private partnership ...