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Satire and Religious Tolerance: How Acceptance/Rejection of Satire is Determined by the Capacity of Religious and Political Forces to Agree on a Modern Civic Contract
( Brill Academic Publishers , 2016 , Article Review)The January 2015 assassination at the Charlie Hebdo offices and the dozen ensuing terrorist attacks in France over the last eighteen months are the manifestation of a structural opposition between a civic identity whose ... -
Investigation of Weather Impacts on Pedestrian Volumes
( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Conference Paper)This study investigates the impacts of temporal and weather characteristics on pedestrian volumes in a hot climate condition. A major neighborhood located in an urban area in Doha, Qatar was chosen as a case study site. ... -
The effect of intermediate ozonation process on improving biogas production from co-digestion of agricultural waste and manure
( TechConnect , 2016 , Conference Paper)Anaerobic co-digestion of agricultural solid waste, wastewater, and manure was evaluated in batch reactor. The performance of anaerobic digestion (AD) was monitored by assessing the methane production potential, maximum ... -
Organizing ERP research: a knowledge-centric approach
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2016 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into enterprise resource planning (ERP) research by framing ERP intellectual contributions using a knowledge-centric taxonomy that was originally proposed as an organizing ... -
The attributes of future 2030 engineers in Qatar for innovation and knowledge based economy
( American Society for Engineering Education , 2016 , Conference Paper)Recent studies emphasize the needs of a wider set of skills engineers require than ever thought. These studies continue to emphasize that technical content knowledge and competencies are essential for any engineer; however, ... -
A Concubine in Early-Modern Egypt: The Example of Nafisa Khatun al-Muradiyya
( Brill Academic Publishers , 2016 , Article)This article portrays the life of Al-Sit Nafisa Khatun al-Muradiyya, originally taken captive in Georgia and sold into slavery in Cairo, who rises from life as a concubine to become the wife of the Mamluk leader Murad Bey ... -
A new model for learning Arabic script
( Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti , 2016 , Article)This paper intends to solve a long lasting pedagogical problem that is still confronting Arabic learners and teachers by introducing a new approach to learning the Arabic script. The new model minimizes the 110 graphemes ... -
Molecular Property Clustering Techniques
( Elsevier B.V. , 2016 , Book chapter)In this work, systematic property clustering methods for molecular design are described. Group contribution first-order estimation methods are coupled with property clustering methods to define the targets of the property ... -
A Note on Meccan Women in the Fifteenth Century
( Brill Academic Publishers , 2016 , Article)The history of women in Arabia is a relatively new and unexplored area of research and the place of women in Mecca (Makkah), Islam's holiest city, is particularly shrouded in darkness. From the fifteenth century, however, ... -
An educational ontology-based M-learning system
( International Association of Online Engineering , 2016 , Article)Smart devices applications can assist young children in improving their learning capabilities and comprehension skills. However most of learning applications are built without taking into consideration the effective needs ... -
Arab 'Parliamentarisation' in the Arab Spring context: The normative vs. the practical
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E-voting adoption in a developing country
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2016 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present factors that affect e-voting adoption in the Middle East and, in particular, Jordan. Changing the election voting method for the people in Jordan from traditional voting to ... -
A twelve-pulse line commutated converter drive system with vsi for starting up and active power filtering
( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2016 , Conference Paper)Variable frequency drives (VFDs) are an integral component of the industry these days. VFDs provide a wide range of control over equipment such as, electrical motors and generators, and can be integrated in several ... -
Qatar's global activism: Pursuing ambition in the midst of domestic and regional transitions
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)Over the past decade, Qatar's presence on the global and regional stages has increased immensely, driven, in large part, by a growing sense of ambition among the country's ruling elites. Indicators of ambition are most ... -
RF energy harvesting communications: Recent advances and research issues
( Springer International Publishing , 2016 , Book chapter)Green radio communications has got a lot of attention in recent years due to its telling effects on telecom business and environment. On the other side, energy harvesting (EH) communication has emerged as a potential ... -
Regulating land rights in late nineteenth-century salt: The limits of legal pluralism in Ottoman property law
( 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 ... -
EFL writing instruction in an Egyptian university classroom: An emic view
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)In Egypt, little research is done to explore how EFL writing is taught from the participants’ emic views. Based on empirical research, this chapter explores the focuses of EFL writing instruction at university and highlights ... -
A Matlab/Simulink model for capacitor voltages balancing in modular multilevel converters
( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2016 , Conference Paper)The modular multilevel converter (MMC) is a potential candidate for high power applications due to its modularity, availability, and enhanced power quality features. Nevertheless, the voltage balancing of the floating ... -
Metal/Metal-Oxide Nanoclusters for Gas Sensor Applications
( Hindawi Publishing Corporation , 2016 , Article Review)The development of gas sensors that are based on metal/metal-oxide nanoclusters has attracted intensive research interest in the last years. Nanoclusters are suitable candidates for gas sensor applications because of their ... -
Isolation, screening and activity of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria from harsh soils
( Avestia Publishing , 2016 , Conference Paper)The study of microbial communities in relation to their ecology, interaction, and genetics must be covered in Qatar with special soil, weather and water. Microorganisms of an environment never having been exposed to such ...
