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Measures, performance assessment, and enhancement of TFDs
( Elsevier Inc. , 2016 , Book chapter)This chapter describes a number of time-frequency (t,f) performance quality measures specifically developed as criteria for performance enhancement for a given application. The adopted performance measures are defined using ... -
Measuring and optimising performance of an offline text writer identification system in terms of dimensionality reduction techniques
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)Usually, most of the data generated in real-world such as images, speech signals, or fMRI scans has a high dimensionality. Therefore, dimensionality reduction techniques can be used to reduce the number of variables in ... -
Measuring Citizens Satisfaction of E-Government and Transparency in the State of Qatar
(2020 , Article)E-Government has become a global phenomenon. Governments, both in developed and developing world, are making significant investments in order to gain more efficient, open and interactive government. In this study, the ... -
Measuring construction materials price fluctuation risk
( Canadian Society for Civil Engineering , 2013 , Conference Paper)Construction projects costs are believed to be highly susceptible to a combination of internal and external factors. One of these factors is the prices of construction materials and the risk of their fluctuation. This paper ... -
Measuring Egyptian Women’s Vulnerability to Sexual Harassment Threat: Reliability and Validity Evidence
( faculty of social work, Helwan University , 2021 , Article)This study developed an instrument to assess Arab women’s perception of the threat of sexual harassment (SH). In order to capture the cultural and interpersonal aspects related to Arab women’s views of such a phenomenon, ... -
MEASURING GEOMETRICAL TORTUOSITY OF POROUS MEDIA FROM 3D COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IMAGES
(2017 , Master Thesis)Tortuosity is an important parameter that has a significant impact on many environmental processes and applications. Flow in porous media, diffusion of gases in complex pore structures, and transmembrane flux in water ... -
Measuring influenza hemagglutinin (HA) stem-specific antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) in human sera using novel stabilized stem nanoparticle probes
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Background: Generating vaccine that confers a complete protection is a major goal in designing a universal influenza vaccine. Currently, there is a considerable interest in the broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAb) targeting ... -
Measuring influenza hemagglutinin (HA) stem-specific antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) in human sera using novel stabilized stem nanoparticle probes
( Elsevier , 2019 , Article)BackgroundGenerating vaccine that confers a complete protection is a major goal in designing a universal influenza vaccine. Currently, there is a considerable interest in the broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAb) targeting ... -
Measuring internet addiction in arab based knowledge societies: A case study of Saudi Arabia
( Little Lion Scientific , 2018 , Article)As the technology is getting entwined with the lives of people, the adverse impacts are also mushrooming. Since decades, researchers have been trying to identify the reasons for such negative impacts with the help of various ... -
Measuring internet addiction in Europe-based knowledge societies: A case study of France
( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2019 , Article)The technological evolution has put a new challenge, internet addiction along with the internet technology before the world. The study intended to collect the data pertaining to internet usage among the residents of France ... -
Measuring luxury brand consumption and female consumers' religiosity in the UAE
( World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd , 2014 , Article)Luxury brand consumption by female consumers in the rich Arab Gulf states has never been systematically studied, and thus most of our knowledge in this area remains shaped by preconceived notions that are not likely to ... -
Measuring medical students' professional competencies in a problem-based curriculum: A reliability study
( BioMed Central Ltd. , 2019 , Article)Identification and assessment of professional competencies for medical students is challenging. We have recently developed an instrument for assessing the essential professional competencies for medical students in ... -
Measuring Parental Involvement in Dual-Earner Qatari Families
( Springer , 2021 , Article)Parental involvement in dual-earner families is a subject that has been widely studied in the literature in Western contexts. Less attention, however, has been allocated to the challenges that dual-earner families encounter ... -
Measuring Qatar's compliance with international standards on money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2016 , Article)Purpose: Under scrutiny in light of the growing threat of international terrorism, Qatar faces pressure and accusations that it is not doing enough to counter terror financing and clamp down money laundering. The issue is ... -
Measuring skewness: We do not assume much
( Sharif University of Technology , 2021 , Article)Since skewness plays a vital role in different engineering phenomena, its accurate measurement gains significance. Several measures have been taken to quantify the extent of skewness in distributions over the years, but ... -
Measuring sustainability, resilience and livability performance of European smart cities: A novel fuzzy expert-based multi-criteria decision support model
( Elsevier Ltd , 2023 , Article)Cities of the 21st century are buffeted with challenges, leaving potentially serious consequences on the future of urban living. Smartening development in cities has reinvented hopes of melting down predicaments in the ... -
Measuring the effectiveness of selected corporate governance practices and their implications for audit quality: Evidence from Qatar
( Inderscience Publishers , 2020 , Article)Recent global financial scandals have led to a number of investigations into the effectiveness of corporate governance. Although evidence exists from developed economies, very scanty studies have been conducted in emerging ... -
Measuring the fall of antihydrogen: The AEGIS experiment at CERN
( Elsevier B.V. , 2011 , Conference Paper)Considerable efforts have been made and are still being made to verify the validity of the principle of the equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass, one of the cornerstones of the classical theory of general relativity. ... -
Measuring the quality of earnings
( Emerald , 2005 , Article)Purpose - Although the academic research on the quality of earnings has been improved by presenting different approaches of measurement, there is no agreed-upon generally accepted approach to measure the earning quality. ... -
Measuring time-varying information flow in scalp EEG signals: Orthogonalized partial directed coherence
( IEEE , 2014 , Article)This study aimed to develop a time-frequency method for measuring directional interactions over time and frequency from scalp-recorded electroencephalographic (EEG) signals in a way that is less affected by volume conduction ...