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Yemen, the wound that still bleeds in the Middle East
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
In 2011 Yemen began a process of profound political-social changes. At that time, various actors of the multiform civil society mobilized, achieving the removal of their president, who for more than thirty years had governed ...
Review of existing transportation sustainability initiatives and their applicability to Qatar
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
Sustainable development is Qatar's main national goal. The fact that Qatar has secured the World Cup bid for 2022 will make it the first Arab country to host the world cup. This honor and Qatar's plan to advance its ...
Qatar Biobank Cohort Study: Study Design and First Results.
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
, 2019 , Article)
The authors describe the design, implementation and results of Qatar Biobank (QBB) for the first 10,000 participants. QBB is a prospective population-based cohort study in Qatar, established in 2012. QBB's primary goal was ...
China in the Middle East: Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Transformation, and Regional, Development
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
This paper unpacks the complicated manners in which Chinese investment has taken shape in the Middle East, especially the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Rather than focusing on highly emotive (but ...
Medication errors in hospitals in the Middle East: a systematic review of prevalence, nature, severity and contributory factors
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Springer
, 2019 , Article)
© 2019, The Author(s). Purpose: The aim was to critically appraise, synthesise and present the evidence of medication errors amongst hospitalised patients in Middle Eastern countries, specifically prevalence, nature, ...
The relationship between evidence characteristics and audit efficiency and effectiveness: Evidence from Middle Eastern countries
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Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
This paper investigates the relationship between three evidence characteristics (namely, sufficiency, reliability, relevance) and audit quality. We employ a multi-method approach that is broken down into two tools; ...
Urban transformations: From restricted random aggregation to designed cultural intent in Middle Eastern Cities
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Beijing JiaoTong University
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
It is difficult to describe Middle Eastern settlements due to several geographical, physical, functional, cultural, and temporal factors. Despite this, it seems apparent that spatio-formal processes characterise their ...
The First International Zebrafish Conference/Workshop in Qatar.
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Mary Ann Liebert
, 2019 , Article)
A zebrafish conference/workshop was held in Qatar between April 13 and 17, 2019. The aim of the event was to promote zebrafish research in Qatar and in Middle East/Asia by bringing together local zebrafish researchers with ...
The psychometric properties of an Arabic version of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5) across three Arabic-speaking Middle Eastern countries
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
The nature and extent of the influence of culture on psychopathology have long been studied, with a central emphasis on whether abnormal behavior is etic (universalized) or emic (cultural based). This study aimed to examine ...
Mobile Disruptions in the Middle East: Lessons from Qatar and the Arabian Gulf Region in Mobile Media Content Innovation
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Routledge
, 2018 , Book)
Mobile Disruptions in the Middle East identifies trends in mobile media use in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates and, more broadly, explores their impact on the nature of digital journalism. Mobility has long been an ...