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Investigation of housing preferences in view of the housing market dynamics in doha metropolitan
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Springer
, 2019 , Book chapter)
Since the 2000s, Doha has gone through enormous economic growth and urbanization processes. The massive migration inflows have suggested particular housing preferences that are driven by the demographic and lifestyle ...
Five-Phase Induction Motor Drive System
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
, 2012 , Book chapter)
Small States and the New Security Environment : Qatar’s Military Power and Diplomacy: The Emerging Roles of Small States in International Relations.
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Springer, Cham
, 2020 , Book chapter)
Qatar has sought political and military shelter for strategic protection and for enhancing the country’s regional and international profile. Qatar’s experience highlights that a small state does not ensure its security ...
Impact of piracy on Somalia: Society, economy, and state building
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Somali pirates have hijacked more than 270 ships and attacked over 1,100 vessels from 1995 to 2014 (IMB, 2014). Reports by the International Maritime Bureau estimate that more than 3,700 crew members have been held hostage ...
Superhydrophobic surfaces for oil-water separation
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Elsevier
, 2019 , Book chapter)
Oil spill in the environment is one of the serious issues faced around the world. Efficient oil removal and collection from water is a challenging task. Numerous costly and time-consuming physical, chemical, and biological ...
Design and Performance Evaluation of a Committee Machine for Gas Identification
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Springer
, 2018 , Book chapter)
Selecting the best classifier plays a significant role in the current electronic nose systems that can be deployed for gas applications. For this purpose, this paper presents an empirical study on the performance of three ...
Can biodegradable plastics solve plastic solid waste accumulation ?
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Book chapter)
Polymers are fast becoming a serious environmental hazard, and are normally disposed of through landfilling, recycling, and incineration. Landfill sites are becoming increasingly scarce, and incineration contributes to air ...
Designing Decision Support Systems for Humanitarian Organisations
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
, 2015 , Book chapter)
The first step to ensure the success of applications in a specific field consists in producing a complete and representative model of the studied system. This alignment with reality is not easy to achieve though. This is ...
Active Power Filter
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
, 2014 , Book chapter)
The proliferation of power electronics-based devices and equipment has significantly affected the power quality of the grid, which changes its sinusoidal nature through adding harmonic distortion. Power electronics ...
Regulating land rights in late nineteenth-century salt: The limits of legal pluralism in Ottoman property law
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Indiana University Press
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This article examines the relationship between different district-level decision-making bodies in the late nineteenth-century Ottoman context. Using Sharia court records and property registers produced in the rural Syrian ...