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Bridging a gulf between environmental attitudes and behavior: Assessment of motivating factors for the youth in Qatar
( HBKU Press , 2016 , Conference Paper)To this day, there is a dearth of published research on environmental awareness, attitudes and behaviour in the Arabian Gulf, and there is no systematic data regarding the value people place on the environment. Understanding ... -
Bridging conventional medicine and traditional, complementary, and alternative approaches: Fostering collaborative attempts for a holistic healthcare system
( Elsevier , 2023 , Other)Dear Editor, We read the paper entitled “The future of integrative health: vision, values, and principles for positive, sustainable systemic change” by Kemper, which was published last month.1 The points discussed therein ... -
Bridging Disciplines and History: A Case Study of Interdisciplinary Problem-Solving in Moroccan Cybersecurity Engineering Education
( Qatar University Young Scientists Center - Qatar University , 2024 , Conference Paper)This article outlines a case study conducted within the Moroccan cybersecurity engineering program at ENSA engineering school, aiming to demonstrate the integration of interdisciplinary problem-solving, principles of social ... -
Bridging the Ages: Muslim Innovations and the Resurrection of Europe
( Qatar University Young Scientists Center - Qatar University , 2024 , Conference Paper)This paper challenges the conventional Western narrative of Europe as the sole civilizing force, proposing an alternative perspective that credits Muslim innovations with the modernization and civilization of Europe. The ... -
Bridging the Energy-Water Gap in Qatar
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2012 , Conference Paper)Industrial development and demographic growth come at a cost to the climate, not least on its impact on the water resources. The high demand on water usage and the associated production of wastewater requires stringent ... -
Bridging the gap: Using design based activities to develop problem-solving skills in Qatari high school students
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2015 , Conference Paper)A substantial number of secondary school students are accepted into engineering schools without adequate exposure to key engineering based skills, such as analytical thinking, problem solving, critical thinking and design. ... -
Bridging theory and practice: Mixed methods approach to instruction of law and ethics within the pharmaceutical sciences
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)Background: Professional responsibilities are guided by laws and ethics that must be introduced and mastered within pharmaceutical sciences training. Instructional design to teaching typically introduces concepts in a ... -
Bridging vs Non-Bridging with Warfarin Peri-Procedural Management: Cost and Cost-Effectiveness Analyses
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)The warfarin peri-procedural management in Qatar is predominantly based on bridging (63%), compared to non-bridging. This study sought to perform a first-time cost analysis of current warfarin peri-procedural management ... -
A brief history and challenges of clozapine utilization in the Arab world
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Clozapine synthesis dates back to 1958, when a Swiss pharmaceutical company produced it based on the chemical structure of the tricyclic antidepressant imipramine (Crilly, 2007; Idänpään-Heikkilä et al., 1975). Clinical ... -
Brief interventions to prevent excessive alcohol use in adolescents at low-risk presenting to Emergency Departments: Three-arm, randomised trial of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)Alcohol consumption and related harm increase rapidly from the age of 12 years. We evaluated whether alcohol screening and brief intervention is effective and cost-effective in delaying hazardous or harmful drinking amongst ... -
A brief overview of RF sputtering deposition of boron carbon nitride (BCN) thin films
( Springer , 2018 , Article)A great part of interest has been paid for fabricating new materials with novel mechanical, optical, and electrical properties. Boron carbon nitride (BCN) ternary system was applied for variable bandgap semiconductors and ... -
Brief psychotic disorder associated with quarantine and mild COVID-19
( BMJ Publishing Group , 2020 , Article)A 30-year-old man with no significant previous or family psychiatric history became severely anxious about his health after a positive COVID-19 test. Physical symptoms of COVID-19 were mild, with no evidence of hypoxia or ... -
Brief Report: Polymorphisms in TNF-α/TNFR1 Pathway Genes Are Associated With CD4+ T-Cell Recovery in HIV-1–Infected Individuals on Antiretroviral Therapy
( NLM (Medline) , 2021 , Article)Background: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is an important hallmark of HIV-1 treatment, enabling viral load suppression to undetectable levels and CD4+ T-cell recovery. However, some individuals do not recover the CD4+ ... -
A Brief Survey and Implementation on Refinement for Intent-Driven Networking
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Intent-driven networking (IDN) is emerging because the traditional network is complicated and error-prone when configured. As the key step of IDN, intent refinement is an alternative approach to convert intents from ... -
Bright breathers in nonlinear left-handed metamaterial lattices
( Institute of Physics Publishing , 2018 , Article)In the present work, we examine a prototypical model for the formation of bright breathers in nonlinear left-handed metamaterial lattices. Utilizing the paradigm of nonlinear transmission lines, we build a relevant lattice ... -
Brine management strategies, technologies, and recovery using adsorption processes
( Elsevier B.V. , 2021 , Article)The world is experiencing serious shortages, unequal distributions, and contamination of the available freshwater resources. Many factors like geography, climate change, increasing populations, economic and technological ... -
Brine reject dilution with treated wastewater for indirect desalination
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)The forward osmosis (FO) process was suggested as a pretreatment to a multi-stage flashing (MSF) plant to reduce the environmental impact of brine discharge and the chemicals used. Yet, there is no study investigating the ... -
Bring the vessel to court: The unique feature of the action in rem in the admiralty law proceedings
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)Admiralty law, one of the oldest fields of law, has developed distinctive and unique features that distinguish it from other fields. One of these characteristics originates from the commencement of litigation, where a claim ... -
Bringing Coordination Languages Back to the Future Using Blockchain Smart Contracts
( Association for Computing Machinery , 2021 , Conference Paper)This paper presents a blockchain extension of the run-time Sensing as a Service SOA (3SOA) approach presented in [5]. 3SOA defines a practical approach for implementing service-oriented Internet of Things (IoT) using ... -
Bringing Deep Learning at the Edge of Information-Centric Internet of Things
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Article)Various Internet solutions take their power processing and analysis from cloud computing services. Internet of Things (IoT) applications started discovering the benefits of computing, processing, and analysis on the device ...
