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Towards an Environmental Economics of Islam
( Zayed University , 2015 , Article)In Islam, ecology and economics are two systems that are part of the divine cosmic order. The role of humans is purely to discover, and use, these systems for the betterment of life in all its forms. This article examines ... -
Towards an Improved Energy Efficient and End-to-End Secure Protocol for IoT Healthcare Applications
( Hindawi , 2020 , Article)In this paper, we proposed LCX-MAC (local coordination X-MAC) as an extension of X-MAC. X-MAC is an asynchronous duty cycle medium access control (MAC) protocol. X-MAC used one important technique of short preamble which ... -
Towards an Inpainting Framework for Visual Cultural Heritage
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)Cultural heritage takes an important part in defining the identity and the history of a civilization or a nation. Valuing and preserving this heritage is thus a top priority for governments and heritage institutions. Through ... -
Towards an integrated urban design: investigation of tod in the cultural core of doha MSHEIREB SOUQ WAQIF NATIONAL MUSEUM
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)Sustainable urban design of cities in the 21st century is challenged by serious problems centered around the over-dependency on the car as a the main transportation system. The car has generated problems of urban inefficiency, ... -
Towards an integrative view of AIS: Using integrated business processes approach to framework the paradigm shift of AIS
( Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. , 2019 , Article)The establishment of the inter-organisational paradigm across business has led to a new wave of process and information systems to stimulate the emerging trends. Analysis of the related literature often results in a large ... -
Towards an ontology-driven game-based educational platform with automatic student monitoring
( IEEE , 2015 , Conference Paper)This paper presents a new educational platform for young children. It is based mainly on serious games and semantic web. The platform is used to assess and monitor the children' progress and performance in meeting preset ... -
TOWARDS AN UNDERSTANDING OF SPATIALITY OF INDETERMINATE SPACES: DOHA MIGRANT LABOURERS AS SPATIAL ACTOR
(2015 , Master Thesis)This study investigated publicly accessible spaces where the city’s normal forces of control have not shaped their perception, usage and occupancy. The so-called indeterminate spaces were examined in traditional Doha ... -
Towards automated hazard analysis for CPS security with application to CSTR system
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Hazard analysis to identify risks due to cyber attacks is crucial to ensure cyber-physical systems' safety and correct their behavior. This study proposes a framework to analyze cyber-physical systems (CPS) risks using ... -
Towards bandwidth guaranteed energy efficient data center networking
( Springer , 2015 , Article)The data center network connecting the servers in a data center plays a crucial role in orchestrating the infrastructure to deliver peak performance to users. In order to meet high performance and reliability requirements, ... -
Towards Better Surveillance for Coral Ecosystems in Qatar: Stakeholder Engagement in EBM Approach.
(2020 , Article)More recently, Qatar has undergone a remarkable social and economic transformation in less than a generation. Although Qataris have a historic connection to the sea, dating back to the pearl diving days in the 19th century, ... -
Towards commercialization of self-healing technology in epoxy coatings
( National Assoc. of Corrosion Engineers International , 2015 , Conference Paper)This work is focused on developing viable self-healing coatings especially considering the viability of the coating in a commercial context. With this in mind, finding low cost healing agents, with satisfactory healing and ... -
Towards Contactless Remote Health Monitoring using Ambient RF Sensing
( IEEE , 2023 , Conference Paper)In this paper, a passive (bi-static) radar-based health monitoring system called, HBR-Radio, is introduced. HBR-Radio utilizes ambient radio frequency disturbance sensing to achieve remote health monitoring. HBR-Radio is ... -
Towards cost-effective maintenance of power transformer by accurately predicting its insulation condition
(2012 , Conference Paper)Insulation resistance (IR) or Megger test has been commonly performed in both preventive and corrective maintenance activities to verify power transformers' insulation condition. Other insulation diagnosis tests such as ... -
Towards Developing a Hybrid Nonlinear Vibration Energy Harvester for Remote Sensing Applications: A Design and Optimization Study
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)A novel design of a hybrid piezoelectric-electromagnetic harvester for vortex-induced vibration applications inside a pipe-flow is proposed. The piezoelectric energy harvester is modeled with a macro-fiber composite with ... -
Towards distributed based energy transaction in a clean smart island
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Over the last few decades, the use of renewable and clean energy sources has been the core of attention of the researchers. Besides, utilization of the energy hubs as a great innovation for future multi-carrier energy ... -
Towards electric digital twin grid: Technology and framework review
( Elsevier B.V. , 2023 , Article Review)The major hindrances in the energy system are ecological consciousness, lack of clean and sustainable energy management, insufficient energy distribution-transmission-optimization, expensive power transfer costs, and ... -
Towards energy efficient and quality of service aware cell zooming in 5G wireless networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)This paper presents an energy efficient and quality of service aware dynamic cell zooming algorithm for dense heterogeneous networks. The exponential growth of mobile data traffic would lead to dense deployment of small ... -
Towards energy efficient relay placement and load balancing in future wireless networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)This paper presents an energy efficient relay deployment algorithm that determines the optimal location and number of relays for future wireless networks, including Long Term Evolution (LTE)-Advanced heterogeneous networks. ... -
Towards energy-aware 5G heterogeneous networks
( Springer International Publishing , 2016 , Book chapter)Over the past decade, the telecommunication industry has witnessed excessive growth in the number of mobile users. Market forecasts envision that there will be nearly 8.6 billion mobile devices worldwide by 2017. This ... -
Towards Energy-Efficient Framework for IoT Big Data Healthcare Solutions
( Hindawi , 2020 , Article)The aim of the Internet of things (IoT) is to bring every object (wearable sensors, healthcare sensors, cameras, home appliances, smart phones, etc.) online. These different objects generate huge data which consequently ...