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Arbitrating natural resource disputes: Current and future trends
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
Owing to the precipitous slump in world commodity prices, particularly fossil fuel, investors and other
stakeholders have been trying to re-arrange, re-organize and re-position their investments and
interests. The question ...
The New Qatar Arbitration Law No. (2) of the year 2017 (Pros and Cons)
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
The Qatari economy is considered as one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing economies in
the world. Consequently, the State of Qatar has become one of the main countries attracting
foreign investors. This is indeed ...
Ethanol dehydrogenation mechanism on cuni catalysts for hydrogen production
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TechConnect
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Ethanol dehydrogenation mechanism was investigated over catalysts containing Cu and Ni metals prepared by solution combustion synthesis. In situ DRIFTS studies were conducted on individual metals (Cu and Ni) as well as on ...
Throughput, latency and cost comparisons of microcontroller-based implementations of wireless sensor network (WSN) in high jump sports
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American Institute of Physics Inc.
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
In high jump sports, approach take-off speed and force during the take-off are two (2) main important parts to gain maximum jump. To measure both parameters, wireless sensor network (WSN) that contains microcontroller and ...
Liposome Delivery Systems for Inhalation: A Critical Review Highlighting Formulation Issues and Anticancer Applications
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S. Karger AG
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
This is a critical review on research conducted in the field of pulmonary delivery of liposomes. Issues relating to the mechanism of nebulisation and liposome composition were appraised and correlated with literature reports ...
Antimicrobial Modification of LDPE Using Non-thermal Plasma
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Low-density polyethylene (LDPE) represents polymer having good chemical and physical characteristics for which it is widely used in many applications, such as biomedical and food packaging industry. This polymer excels by ...
Solar Energy For More Eco-friendly Mosque In Qatar
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2014 , Conference Paper)
There is mounting evidence that the global warming and, consequently, the climate changes are anthropogenic and attributed to fossil fuel consumption. Therefore, it is mandatory to find alternative solutions that can replace ...
Cold Plasma as Effective Tool for Aluminum Surface Cleaning
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Aluminum (Al) is heavily used to manufacture structural parts in the aeronautic, railway, automotive or naval industries because of its lightness and its corrosion resistance [1]. One of the most popular uses of Al is in ...
Neighbourhood Sustainable assessment tools analytical overview
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
Worldwide recession, rapid increase in energy cost, inefficient use of nonrenewable resources, global climatic changes and pollution are all indicators of a deteriorating built environment. Improving the living conditions ...
QU-IR at SemEval 2016 Task 3: Learning to rank on Arabic community question answering forums with word embedding
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Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Resorting to community question answering (CQA) websites for finding answers has gained momentum in the past decade with the explosive rate at which social media has been proliferating. With many questions left unanswered ...