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Gallbladder cancer: 7-Year experience from Qatar
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
Thirty-five patients presented with GC during the study period, 10 females (28.6%) and 25 males (71.4%). Fourteen patients (40%) were diagnosed incidentally after laparoscopic cholecystectomy, 16 (48.6%) were diagnosed ...
Achieving Green Building in Qatar through Legal and Fiscal Tools
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Canadian Center of Science and Education (CCSE)
, 2019 , Article)
This article considers how the advancement of green building can provide multiple dividends in Qatar by enabling reduced resource consumption and producing less waste. LEED® certified “green” buildings consume between 10% ...
Parental Influence on Student Educational Expectations: Results from the 2012 Qatar Education Study
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Sciedu Press
, 2019 , Article)
This study investigated factors that are likely to influence students’ educational expectations in the State of Qatar,
concentrating on selected parental factors. Drawing on recent work in the field, the study examined ...
Statistical analysis for the impact of smoking on the behavior and health of Qatari adolescents
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De Gruyter
, 2018 , Article)
The links between the use of tobacco and health risks are well known. Most of the younger smokers reside in Asia which includes Qatar, the focus country of this study. Cigarette smoking among children is rising at an ...
Evaluating community pharmacy practice in Qatar using simulated patient method: Acute gastroenteritis management
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Grupo de Investigacion en Atencion Farmaceutica
, 2016 , Article)
Objective: To evaluate Qatari pharmacists' prescribing, labeling, dispensing and counseling practices in response to acute community-acquired gastroenteritis. Methods: The simulated patient method was used in this study. ...
A Gap Analysis of Business students; Skills in the 21st Century: A Case Study of Qatar
(2018 , Article)
The main purpose of this study is to explore any existing gap between business students’ skills/competences provided by college of businesses and the needs of the current job market. The study examines twenty important ...
Domains of privacy and hospitality in Arab Gulf homes
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Emerald Publishing
, 2011 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report findings of an ethnographic study of homes in the Arab Gulf country of Qatar. The authors' analysis and contribution focuses on resolving the tension between privacy and ...
Modest seductiveness: Reconciling modesty and vanity by reverse assimilation and double resistance
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2012 , Article)
We study conflicting notions of modesty and vanity in the Arab Gulf region by focusing on contemporary female adornment practices and the tensions underlying them. The standard of modest traditional dress that women are ...
Exploring the concepts of fidelity and adaptation in the implementation of project based learning in the elementary classroom: Case studies from Qatar
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Society for Research and Knowledge Management
, 2019 , Article)
This study explored teachers' first-year experiences with Project Based Learning in the context of a system-wide initiative involving its implementation in Qatari elementary government schools. Participants were 11 English ...
Significant association of close homologue of L1 gene polymorphism rs2272522 with schizophrenia in Qatar
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Wiley Online Library
, 2012 , Article)
Introduction: Previous reports have found that polymorphisms in the close homologue of L1 (CHL1) gene located on chromosome 3p26 are associated with schizophrenia among different ethnic populations. The aim of this study ...