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Social Justice and the Engineering Profession: Challenging Engineering Education to Move Beyond the Technical
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Springer International Publishing
, 2015 , Book chapter)
This study investigates faculty and students’ perception of the significance of social justice in the engineering education program in an Arab Gulf nation. In light of the expanding ethical education of engineers stated ...
Optimization models for a single-plant District Cooling System
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
A District Cooling System (DCS) is an interconnected system encompassing a centralized chiller plant, a Thermal Energy Storage (TES) unit, a piping network, and clusters of consumers' buildings. The main function of a DCS ...
Pharmacists' attitudes towards pharmacy practice research: A review
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Springer International Publishing
, 2015 , Book chapter)
Despite an increase in pharmacy practice research, literature addressing the attitudes and involvement of pharmacists is limited. Our own observations as pharmacy practitioners and educators lead us to believe that, so ...
Identity issues: expatriate professors teaching and researching in Qatar
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Springer Netherlands
, 2015 , Article)
Today, academics are more transient, working outside their home countries,
than at any other time in the history of academics especially in the Arab World were there
is great demand for faculty members educated in Western’ ...
Melt Processing and Properties of Polyamide 6/Graphene Nanoplatelet Composites
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ICCCM
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, the processing and characterization of Polyamide 6 (PA6) / graphite nanoplatelets
(GNPs) composites is reported. PA6/GNPs composites were prepared by melt-mixing using an
industrial, co-rotating, intermeshing, ...
Microstructure and properties of Ni-Co-TiO2 composite coatings fabricated by electroplating
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World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
Ni-Co coatings are widely used due to their unique mechanical properties, high anticorrosion properties, good thermal stability and special magnetic properties. Ni-Co-xTiO2 (x = 0-20 g/L in the electrolyte) composite ...
A model for planning locations of temporary distribution facilities for emergency response
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
We propose a network flow model for dynamic selection of temporary distribution facilities and allocation of resources for emergency response planning. The model analyzes the transfer of excess resources between temporary ...
Buffer-aided relaying improves both throughput and end-to-end delay
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Springer International Publishing
, 2015 , Article)
Buffer-aided relaying has recently attracted a lot of attention due to the improvement in the system throughput. However, a side effect usually deemed is that buffering at relay nodes results in the increase of packet ...
A Grey-based approach for ERP vendor selection in small and medium enterprises in Qatar
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2015 , Article)
This paper aims to develop a multi-criteria decision model for the purpose of ERP vendor selection. To tackle the multi-criteria nature and the presence of both qualitative and quantitative factors, Grey-based model was ...
Cooperative joint power splitting and allocation approach for simultaneous energy delivery and data transfer
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, we propose to minimize the total energy consumption cost of a simultaneous data transmission and power delivery from different sources. The receiver is designed to simultaneously process information and ...