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Engineering students' readiness to transition to emergency online learning in response to COVID-19: Case of Qatar
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Modestum LTD
, 2020 , Article)
This study examined engineering students' initial readiness to transition to emergency online learning in response to COVID-19 in Qatar. A theoretical framework is proposed for understanding the factors influencing students' ...
The impact of a teacher preparation programs on professional teaching competencies – Female novice teachers’ perspectives
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Society for Research and Knowledge Management
, 2020 , Article)
This study explored early career teachers’ perspectives on their competencies in professional teaching in Qatar. Using a mixed-method research design, this study drew on empirical data from ninetlyfive survey respondents ...
Lascada: A novel scalable topology for data center network
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IEEE
, 2020 , Article)
The growth of cloud-based services is mainly supported by the core networking infrastructures of large-scale data centers, while the scalability of these services is influenced by the performance and dependability ...
Exact approaches for routing capacitated electric vehicles
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
We investigate a variant of the standard Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP), where each vehicle is powered exclusively by electricity stored in its rechargeable battery. Consequently, each vehicle should visit not ...
A simulation-optimization approach for the stochastic discrete cost multicommodity flow problem
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2020 , Article)
This article addresses a variant of the Discrete Cost Multicommodity Flow (DCMF) problem with random demands, where a penalty is incurred for each unrouted demand. The problem requires finding a network topology that ...
Energy depletion and opportunistic microbial colonisation in white syndrome lesions from corals across the Indo-Pacific
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Nature Research
, 2020 , Article)
Corals are dependent upon lipids as energy reserves to mount a metabolic response to biotic and abiotic challenges. This study profiled lipids, fatty acids, and microbial communities of healthy and white syndrome (WS) ...
Localized outbreaks of coral disease on Arabian reefs are linked to extreme temperatures and environmental stressors
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Springer
, 2020 , Article)
The Arabian Peninsula borders the hottest reefs in the world, and corals living in these extreme environments can provide insight into the effects of warming on coral health and disease. Here, we examined coral reef health ...
Optimization of design and operation of solar assisted district cooling systems
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
The demand for air conditioning and cooling services is rapidly increasing worldwide. As cooling demand has high coincidence to occur in countries with high solar irradiation, the combination of solar thermal energy and ...
Case-control design identifies ecological drivers of endemic coral diseases
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Nature Research
, 2020 , Article)
Endemic disease transmission is an important ecological process that is challenging to study because of low occurrence rates. Here, we investigate the ecological drivers of two coral diseases growth anomalies and tissue ...
A machine learning framework for enhancing digital experiences in cultural heritage
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2020 , Article)
Purpose: Digital tools have been used to document cultural heritage with high-quality imaging and metadata. However, some of the historical assets are totally or partially unlabeled and some are physically damaged, which ...