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Engineering economics: Literature review and recommendations for practitioners
(2013 , Conference Paper)
The paper provides a review of the curriculum and pedagogy of engineering economics course, which is normally taken by engineering students of different disciplines. Literature reviews of studies and courses syllabuses on ...
ICDAR 2013 competition on gender prediction from handwriting
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IEEE
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
The prediction of gender from handwriting is a very interesting research field. However, no standard benchmark is available for researchers in this field. The aim of this competition is to gather researchers and compare ...
Off-line writer identification using multi-scale local binary patterns and SR-KDA
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IEEE
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Writer identification is becoming an increasingly important research topic especially in forensic and biometric applications. This paper presents a novel method for performing offline write identification by using multi-scale ...
Automatic handedness detection from off-line handwriting
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IEEE
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
In forensics, the handedness detection or the classification of writers into left or right-handed helps investigators focusing more on a certain category of suspects. However, only a few studies have been carried out in ...
ICDAR 2013 competition on handwriting stroke recovery from offline data
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IEEE
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Stroke recovery from offline handwriting is a very interesting research field. However, no standard benchmark is available for researchers in this field. The aim of this competition is to gather researchers and compare ...
Systolic architecture for hardware implementation of two-dimensional non-separable filter-bank
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IEEE
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, we present an efficient poly-phase decomposition scheme for implementation of 2-D non-separable filter bank. Poly-phase decomposition scheme offers multiplexing of filter bank computations or/and reduce the ...
The evolution of scholarly digital library needs in an international environment: Social reference management systems and Qatar
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Springer Verlag
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Qatar has become an active research producer of data, publications, and other scholarly works. We studied the evolving scholarly activities and needs of researchers in this relatively new research environment, and compared ...
Towards u-health: An indoor 6LoWPAN based platform for real-time healthcare monitoring
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IEEE
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Ubiquitous healthcare is the key to handle the challenges of the growing population around the world. A variety of u-healthcare systems have been developed using various short-range technologies and proprietary protocols ...
A comparative analysis of BLE and 6LoWPAN for U-HealthCare applications
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IEEE
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
For decades, there exist a variety of low-power wireless technologies deployed for healthcare applications such as Zigbee/IEEE802.15.4, Bluetooth, ANT, NFC, IrDA. However, the recently announced Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) ...
Integrating ethics into the chemical engineering curriculum: The Qatar University experience
(2013 , Conference Paper)
Qatar is growing at an unprecedented rate due to the utilization of its vast gas reserves. The country's wealth stems from oil, gas and petrochemical industries. Engineers are in high demand in all specializations and Qatar ...