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Frustration through futility: Least developed countries and the WTO’s settlement of disputes
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Article)The lack of participation and engagement by Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in the WTO in general and in their use of the Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (DSU) in particular has ... -
FSC-Set: Counting, Localization of Football Supporters Crowd in the Stadiums
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Article)Counting the number of people in a crowd has gained attention in the last decade. Due to its benefit to many applications such as crowd behavior analysis, crowd management, and video surveillance systems, etc. Counting ... -
FTIR Spectroscopy to Reveal Lipid and Protein Changes Induced on Sperm by Capacitation: Bases for an Improvement of Sample Selection in ART.
(2020 , Article)Although being a crucial step for Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART) success, to date sperm selection is based only on morphology, motility and concentration characteristics. Considering the many possible alterations, ... -
Fuel consumption at signalized intersections: Investigating the impact of different signal indication settings
( Elsevier Ltd , 2023 , Article)The fuel consumption of vehicles depends on various factors including vehicle design, driving style, traffic management, and road design. Many manufacturers have been developing efficient and smart vehicles, which contributes ... -
Fuelwood and fodder consumption patterns among agroforestry-practicing smallholder farmers of the lower Himalayas, India
( Springer , 2021 , Article)Trees are important as a source of fuelwood and fodder for rural populations in the Himalayas. This paper analysed the fuelwood and fodder consumption patterns of rural households in 16 villages in Alaknanda Valley, ... -
Full Scale Performance of Primary Settling Tanks
( Qatar University , 1989 , Article)The characteristics and the flowrate of municipal wastewater from the city of Doha, located in the Arabian Gulf have been studied to examine their effect on the performance of the primary settling tanks at the local sewage ... -
Full-Duplex Amplify-and-Forward Relaying under I/Q Imbalance
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)A major performance limiter in amplify-and-forward (AF) full-duplex (FD) relaying is the high level of residual self-interference (SI) due to the imperfect estimation of the effective self-interfering channel. One primary ... -
Full-Duplex Jamming and Interception Analysis of UAV-Based Intrusion Links
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)This letter addresses the evaluation of the performance of a full-duplex (FD) jammer and intercepting node, where the FD node attempts to disrupt the communication link of an intruding unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The ... -
Full-Duplex Quadrature Spatial Modulation for Multi-Antenna Systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Devices with full-duplex (FD) radios are able to transmit and receive at the same time without requiring orthogonal resources, thereby creating strong self-interference (SI) that results from their own transmissions. Spatial ... -
Full-duplex relay selection in cognitive underlay networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Article)We analyze the outage and throughput performance of full-duplex relay selection (FDRS) in underlay cognitive networks. Contrary to half-duplex relaying, full-duplex relaying (FDR) enables simultaneous listening/forwarding ... -
Full-house nephropathy associated with high expression of SPATA5L1 due to a genetic pathogenic variant
( Oxford University Press , 2022 , Article)DEAR EDITOR, Non-lupus full-house nephropathy is a diagnostic challenge of yet unknown aetiology that does not satisfy criteria for SLE classification . Spermatogenesis-associated protein 5-like protein 1 (SPATA5L1) is ... -
Full-Scale Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant Simulator
( Qatar University Press , 2020 , Poster)Reverse Osmosis (RO) is an efficient and clean membrane-based technology for water desalination. This work presents a full-scale Seawater Reverse Osmosis (SWRO) desalination plant simulator using MATLAB/Simulink that has ... -
Full-Scale Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant Simulator
( Elsevier B.V. , 2020 , Conference Paper)Reverse Osmosis (RO) is an evolving membrane-based technology for water desalination that started to gain increased popularity in the light of the increased global water demand due its high efficiency and low carbon ... -
Full-Scale Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant Simulator
( Elsevier , 2020 , Conference Paper)Reverse Osmosis (RO) is an evolving membrane-based technology for water desalination that started to gain increased popularity in the light of the increased global water demand due its high efficiency and low carbon ... -
Fully automated 2D and 3D convolutional neural networks pipeline for video segmentation and myocardial infarction detection in echocardiography
( Springer , 2022 , Article)Myocardial infarction (MI) is a life-threatening disorder that occurs due to a prolonged limitation of blood supply to the heart muscles, and which requires an immediate diagnosis to prevent death. To detect MI, cardiologists ... -
Fully Softened and Residual Shear Strengths of Midra Shale
( Qatar Univesrity Press , 2020 , Conference Paper)This paper presents a comparison of the fully softened shear strengths measured using the triaxial and torsional ring shear devices for a shale that possesses noticeably high plasticity and induration. The residual shear ... -
Fully softened shear strength for soil slope stability analyses
( American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) , 2017 , Article)The fully softened shear strengths of soils, mudstones, and shales of different plasticities and gradations were measured at low (10 and 25 kPa), intermediate (50 and 100 kPa), and high (200, 300, and 400 kPa) effective ... -
Fumed SiO2 nanoparticle reinforced biopolymer blend nanocomposites with high dielectric constant and low dielectric loss for flexible organic electronics
( John Wiley and Sons Inc. , 2017 , Article)In the present study, fumed silica (SiO2) nanoparticle reinforced poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) blend nanocomposite films were prepared via a simple solution‐blending technique. Fourier transform ... -
Fun to learn: Project-based learning in robotics for computer engineers
( Association for Computing Machinery , 2011 , Article)This article shares my experiences with the project-based methodology of teaching the same material that a standard text in robotics would teach and will comparatively elaborate the improvement observed in the group of ... -
Functional adaptations of fig trees (ficus carica, l.) In agroecosystems of the western mediterranean desert of Egypt.
( Qatar University , 1991 , Article)The ecophysiological characteristics of fig (Fi'cus carica, L.) trees, growing with maximum activity during the hot and dry summer, were studied in relation to growth, carbon partitioning, nutrient balance and water use. ...