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Secure cloud services: Matrix multiplication revisited
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IEEE
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
This paper revisits the issue of secure outsourcing of services. It proposes a data scrambling approach of transforming private data into public without public key encryption in the cloud computing context. The approach ...
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 ...
Pricing of innate and discretionary accruals in Australian debt
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2013 , Article)
This paper addresses the conflicting evidence on the role of accruals in debt pricing. We show that the two subcomponents of accruals quality, innate and discretionary accruals, both impact the debt pricing. Higher innate ...
Control of parabolic PDEs with time-varying spatial domain: Czochralski crystal growth process
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2013 , Article)
This paper considers the optimal control problem for a class of convection-diffusion-reaction systems modelled by partial differential equations (PDEs) defined on time-varying spatial domains. The class of PDEs is characterised ...
Breast cancer health promotion in Qatar: A survey of community pharmacists' interests and needs
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Springer Nature
, 2013 , Article)
Objectives Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in Qatar. Despite the sustained efforts to increase breast cancer public awareness via campaigns and public screening programmes, breast cancer screening rate ...
Distributed binary consensus algorithm and wireless sensor network
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IEEE
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
We consider the design and implementation of the binary consensus algorithm in wireless sensor networks (WSN) under real life environment. This algorithm is applied for the evaluation of a consensus of a measured values ...
Pottery from Halat Aobeer and Hazem Al-Jasrah, Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2013 , Article)
In this paper the results of investigations on six archaeological ceramic sherds of the most common Islamic earthenware from the site of Halat Aobeer and Hazam Al-Jasrah are presented. The data was obtained by using a ...
General learning approach for event extraction: Case of management change event
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2013 , Article)
Starting from an ontology of a targeted financial domain corresponding to transaction, performance and management change news, relevant segments of text containing at least a domain keyword are extracted. The linguistic ...
Team Satisfaction and Student Group Performance: A Cross-Cultural Study
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2013 , Article)
The authors examined the relationship between team satisfaction and students' performance in group projects in two universities, one from the United States and one from Qatar. The results showed that there is a significant ...
Social access control language (SocACL)
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Association for Computing Machinery
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Online Social Networks hold vast amounts of readily accessible personal information leaving them particularly vulnerable to privacy breach attacks [6]. With the impact these breaches varying from simply embarrassing the ...