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Level of Total Quality Management Adoption in Qatari Educational Institutions: Private and Semi-Government Sector
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2013 , Article)
The authors evaluated the level of Total Quality Management (TQM) adoption in Qatari educational institutions within private and semigovernment institutions. To accomplish these objectives, a literature review was done of ...
Does Government Ownership and Disclosure Affect Performance and Stability of the GCC Banking Sector?
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Cambridge Research Science Institute
, 2013 , Article)
This paper studies empirically the effect of government ownership and the level of disclosure on the performance and the stability of banks, controlling for regulations, concentration, bank and country specific characteristics. ...
Consumer online shopping attitude-intention and their determinants in Qatar
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Inderscience
, 2013 , Article)
The study examines consumer online shopping attitude and intention and their antecedents in Qatar, one of the strongest economies in the world. Commonly used determinants of consumer online shopping attitude and intention ...
A novel FPGA educational paradigm using the next generation programming languages case of an embedded FPGA system course
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IEEE Explore
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Embedded systems play vital role in modern applications [1]. They can be found in autos, washing machines, electrical appliances and even in toys. FPGAs are the most recent computing technology that is used in embedded ...
Ethics in engineering education: A literature review
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IEEE Explore
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Engineering Ethics is an important topic to be developed in engineering education curriculum. Despite its importance, ethics is not much investigated in engineering education as compared to other disciplines, in particular ...
The effects of gas tungsten arch welding on the corrosion and mechanical properties of AA 6061 T6
(2013 , Article)
Corrosion of welded and un-welded Aluminum Alloy 6061 T6 was investigated by immersing specimens in 3.5% (wt) NaCl solution. Potentiodynamic and open circuit potential measurements were conducted. The mechanical properties ...
Phytoplankton along the coastal shelf of an oligotrophic hypersaline environment in a semi-enclosed marginal sea: Qatar (Arabian Gulf)
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Elsevier
, 2013 , Article)
Phytoplankton biomass (chlorophyll a concentration), primary production, abundance, species diversity and species groupings were measured in the coastal waters surrounding Qatar (Arabian Gulf) at 13 stations in February ...
An Ontology-Based Context-Aware Mobile System for On-the-Move Tourists
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Springer Verlag
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Ontology-based model in context-aware systems offers more expressiveness, semantically sharing and interoperability. It supports reasoning tasks in a better way than other approaches. However, the main concern with ontology ...
Ontology-based model in tourism context-aware systems
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Different approaches have been used to model contextual information in context-aware systems. Comparing to other models, ontology-based modeling offers more expressiveness, semantically sharing and interoperability. It ...
Greedy algorithms and metaheuristics for a multiple runway combined arrival-departure aircraft sequencing problem
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Elsevier
, 2013 , Article)
This paper examines the Aircraft Sequencing Problem (ASP) over multiple runways, under mixed mode operations with the objective of minimizing the total weighted tardiness of aircraft landings and departures simultaneously. ...