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The Qur’ān before the book - History and concepts of Qur’ānic variants (qirā’āt)
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Qatar University Press
, 2021 , Article)
Purpose: This paper addresses methodological issues related to the concept of ‘Qur’ānic variants and readings’ (qirā’a pl. qirā’āt and ḥarf pl. aḥruf, respectively). I investigate the way they have been depicted in early ...
There Is Selective Increase in Pro-thrombotic Circulating Extracellular Vesicles in Acute Ischemic Stroke and Transient Ischemic Attack: A Study of Patients From the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
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Frontiers Media
, 2019 , Article)
Stroke attacks were found to be present at a younger age in patients from Southeast Asia (SE) and the Middle East (ME) resident in the state of Qatar. Extracellular vesicles (EVs), which are small membrane vesicles with ...
Laplace approximation, penalized quasi-likelihood, and adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature for generalized linear mixed models: Towards meta-analysis of binary outcome with sparse data
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BMC
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020 The Author(s). Background: In meta-analyses of a binary outcome, double zero events in some studies cause a critical methodology problem. The generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) has been proposed as a valid ...
Many meta-analyses of rare events in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were underpowered
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Background and ObjectiveMeta-analysis is a statistical method with the ability to increase the power for statistical inference, while it may still face the problem of being underpowered. In this study, we investigated the ...
Arcsine-based transformations for meta-analysis of proportions: Pros, cons, and alternatives
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Wiley Open Access
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020 The Authors. Health Science Reports published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. Meta-analyses have been increasingly used to synthesize proportions (eg, disease prevalence) from multiple studies in recent years. Arcsine-based ...
Design and realization of an open-source and modular smart meter
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
This paper presents the design of a modular and open-source smart meter for educational and research purposes. The smart meter monitors the energy consumption, uploads the data to a cloud server, and can be used to control ...
Principal selection for Qatar's government schools: Policy makers', principals' and teachers' perspectives
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
Research indicates that principals are critical in school reform since the implementation of policies and practices is to a large extent determined by the role that principals play in educational change. This study examines ...
Preface
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Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
[No abstract available]
Digitizing vanishing architectural heritage; The design and development of Qatar historic buildings information modeling [Q-HBIM] platform
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MDPI AG
, 2019 , Article)
The documentation of vanishing architectural heritage includes intensive information and data gathering, filtering, classification and digitization. Enabling such an endeavor necessitates the act of documentation, which ...
Comparative Genomic and Transcriptomic Analyses of Mycobacterium kansasii Subtypes Provide New Insights Into Their Pathogenicity and Taxonomy
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Frontiers Media
, 2020 , Article)
Mycobacterium kansasii is an important opportunistic pathogen of humans and has a
close phylogenetic relationship with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Seven subtypes (I–VII)
have been identified using molecular biology ...