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Crossing the Rubicon: Tevere Cavo, an Urban Project for Rome
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2021 , Conference Paper)We believe that the new frontiers of Information Technology have to deal with the central role of Infrastructures in the existing city. Indeed, this new generation of infrastructures will allow the 'redirection' of the ... -
Crosslingual automatic diacritization for Egyptian Colloquial Dialect
( IEEE Computer Society , 2016 , Conference Paper)In this paper, the problem of missing diacritic marks in most of dialectal Arabic written resources is addressed. Our aim is to implement a scalable and extensible platform for automatically retrieving the diacritic marks ... -
Crosslinked chitosan–montmorillonite composite and its magnetized counterpart for the removal of basic fuchsin from wastewater: Parametric optimization using Box-Behnken design
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)Treating wastewater polluted with organic dyestuffs is still a challenge. In that vein, facile synthesis of a structurally simple composite of chitosan with montmorillonite (CS-MMT) using glutaraldehyde as a crosslinker ... -
Crosstalk between aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) and BCL-2 pathways suggests the use of AhR antagonist to maintain normal differentiation state of mammary epithelial cells during BCL-2 inhibition therapy
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)IntroductionActivating the aryl hydrocarbon receptor upon exposure to environmental pollutants promotes development of breast cancer stem cell (CSCs). BCL-2 family proteins protect cancer cells from the apoptotic effects ... -
Crosstalk between HER2 and PD-1/PD-L1 in Breast Cancer: From Clinical Applications to Mathematical Models.
( Springer , 2020 , Article)Breast cancer is one of the major causes of mortality in women worldwide. The most aggressive breast cancer subtypes are human epidermal growth factor receptor-positive (HER2) and triple-negative breast cancers. Therapies ... -
Crosstalk between Microglia and Neurons in Neurotrauma: An Overview of the Underlying Mechanisms.
( Bentham Science Publishers , 2022 , Article Review)Microglia are the resident immune cells of the brain and play a crucial role in housekeeping and maintaining homeostasis of the brain microenvironment. Upon injury or disease, microglial cells become activated, at least ... -
Crosstalk Between Oxidative Stress and Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) Stress in Endothelial Dysfunction and Aberrant Angiogenesis Associated With Diabetes: A Focus on the Protective Roles of Heme Oxygenase (HO)-1
( Frontiers Media , 2019 , Article Review)Type-2 diabetes prevalence is continuing to rise worldwide due to physical inactivity and obesity epidemic. Diabetes and fluctuations of blood sugar are related to multiple micro- and macrovascular complications, that are ... -
Crosstalk between Sodium–Glucose Cotransporter Inhibitors and Sodium–Hydrogen Exchanger 1 and 3 in Cardiometabolic Diseases
( MDPI , 2021 , Article)Abnormality in glucose homeostasis due to hyperglycemia or insulin resistance is the hallmark of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). These metabolic abnormalities in T2DM lead to cellular dysfunction and the development of ... -
Crowd counting Using DRL-based segmentation and RL-based density estimation
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)People counting is one of the computer vision tasks that can be useful for crowd management. In addition, estimating the crowdedness of a surveilled scene for crowd behavior analysis is one of the prominent challenges in ... -
Crowd Counting: A Survey of Machine Learning Approaches
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)Crowd counting is applied in many areas including efficient resources allocation and effective management of emergency situations. In this paper, we survey and compare various crowd counting methods. Additionally, we ... -
Crowd density estimation for crowd management at event entrance
( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Poster)Crowd management is an essential tasks to ensure the safety and smoothness of any events. Using the novel technologies including surveillance cameras, communication technics between security agents, the control of the crowd ... -
Crowd Density Estimation using Imperfect Labels
( IEEE , 2023 , Conference Paper)Density estimation is one of the most widely used method for crowd counting in which a deep learning model learns from head annotated crowd images to estimate crowd density in unseen images. Typically, the learning performance ... -
Crowd Dynamics, Management and Control at Tourist Attractions during Special Events: A Case Study at Souq Waqif Using Pedestride® Crowd Simulation Tool
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2020 , Conference Paper)"Large crowds can be expected at famous tourist attractions, e.g., Souq Waqif, during special events such as the FIFA World Cup 2022. A comprehensive understanding of crowd dynamics is extremely important in order to ... -
Crowd Evacuation through Crossing Configurations: Effect of Crossing Angles and Walking Speeds on Speed Variation and Evacuation Time
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2022 , Article)The design of safe and efficient pedestrian facilities necessitates the knowledge of complex human movements, such as intersecting pedestrian streams, under different conditions. This study aims to experimentally investigate ... -
Crowd Logistics Delivery Determinants: A Stated-Preference Survey
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2020 , Conference Paper)"the environment. Consumers’ attitudes toward CL are understudied, especially in Qatar, where CL is currently unavailable. The purpose of this paper is to investigate consumers’ reactions to the theoretical attributes ... -
Crowd management
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Other)The articles in this special section focus on crowd management in areas that are increasingly experiencing growths in populations. In its 2018 Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects, the United Nations projects that ... -
Crowd vs. Expert: What can relevance judgment rationales teach us about assessor disagreement?
( ACM , 2018 , Conference Paper)© 2018 ACM. While crowdsourcing offers a low-cost, scalable way to collect relevance judgments, lack of transparency with remote crowd work has limited understanding about the quality of collected judgments. In prior work, ... -
CrowdDelegate: An MCS-based approach for improving retail labor cost-efficiency
( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2019 , Conference Paper)Following the revolutionary changes the Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced to sensor networks, the Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) paradigm aims to utilize people and their smartphones as an extended instrument to sense. ... -
Crowdfunding Conundrum: Western Ideas and their Chinese Copycats
( UC Berkeley Haas School of Business , 2021 , Other)In the third quarter of 2021, global crowdfunding investment reached $160 billion. Crowdfunding is a relatively recently emerged phenomenon to raise funding from individuals for nascent business ideas. It is considered as ... -
Crowdsensing based prompt emergency discovery: A sequential detection approach
( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2019 , Conference Paper)The growth in the number of smart devices has mobilized the rise of CrowdSensing (CS) as an enabler of smart cities, where state-of-the-art technologies are utilized to improve citizens' quality of life. CS is a novel ...