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Resource provisioning for cloud-assisted body area network in a smart home environment
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
In recent years, cloud-assisted body area network (CABAN) technologies have made their entrance in the Smart healthcare field, such as Smart home environment, and play a significant role for healthcare data storage, ...
Association of lipid profile and waist circumference as cardiovascular risk factors for overweight and obesity among school children in Qatar
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Dove Medical Press
, 2012 , Article)
Background: Childhood obesity is a national as well as worldwide problem. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association of overweight and obesity among Qatari children with lipid profile and waist circumference as ...
E-voting adoption in a developing country
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2016 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present factors that affect e-voting adoption in the Middle East and, in particular, Jordan. Changing the election voting method for the people in Jordan from traditional voting to ...
Making the case for a digital lawyering framework in legal education
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2017 , Article)
In 2015, in a practice report on lawyering in a digital age published in the International Journal of
Clinical Legal Education, the author and colleague Michael Sales made a modest proposal that
could make law graduates ...
Heuristic and Exact Algorithms for the Two-Machine Just in Time Job Shop Scheduling Problem
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Hindawi Limited
, 2016 , Article)
The problem addressed in this paper is the two-machine job shop scheduling problem when the objective is to minimize the total earliness and tardiness from a common due date (CDD) for a set of jobs when their weights equal ...
Class-time utilization in business schools in Tunisia
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
Tunisian Universities, like many other universities in the developing countries, do not adopt any textbooks and rather rely on classrooms as the main learning resource for the students. This study is concerned with observing ...
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park: an assessment of the 2012 London Games Legacies
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Springer
, 2017 , Article)
The London 2012 Olympics were the first Games with a legacy plan already in execution well before the beginning of the event. This study aims at evaluating the legacies of this Olympic edition, with particular regard to ...
Harmonization of National Legislation Through Model Laws: From the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law to the League of Arab States and the Gulf Cooperation Council
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United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
, 2017 , Article)
In its productive efforts to remove barriers in international trade and reconcile
differences in legal systems, the United Nations Commission on International
Trade Law [UNCITRAL] adopts model laws that provide guidance ...
Is It Time We Changed How We Measure Length of Stay for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty?
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Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
, 2017 , Article)
Patient length of stay (LOS) for lower limb arthroplasty is a frequently quoted outcome measure. However, the use of mean values in days is prone to being skewed by outliers. Between January 2013 and December 2015, patient ...
Relay-Assisted Primary and Secondary Transmissions in Cognitive Radio Networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
We assume a set of cognitive relay nodes that assists both primary and secondary transmissions in a time-slotted cognitive radio networks. To regulate the channel access of the various nodes in the network, we propose an ...