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Identifying the key performance challenges to achieve improved export performance for Qatari SMEs
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Elsevier
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Small and medium enterprises in Qatar, similar to their counterparts in other emerging countries, face many challenges by entering international markets. This study aims to identify and analyze the key performance challenges ...
Antecedents and Academic Performance Outcome of Blackboard Usage: Student Insight
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iated Digital Library
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Information systems have been widely adopted, used and increasingly used in educational institutions during the last two decades. However, learning management system (LMS) has emerged and become an important education tool ...
Urban Traffic Monitoring and Modeling System: An IoT Solution for Enhancing Road Safety
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Qatar expects more than a million visitors during the 2022 World Cup, which will pose significant challenges. The high number of people will likely cause a rise in road traffic congestion, vehicle crashes, injuries and ...
Understanding the Scales Formation Inhibition Mechanism on C-Steel in a Sour Media
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The Electrochemical Society
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Corrosion control in sour environments is a severe challenge for the oil and gas industries with respect to sour media. One of the approaches to mitigate such a problem is to use corrosion inhibitors (CI). The selection ...
Robotic Trains as an Educational and Therapeutic Tool for Autism Spectrum Disorder Intervention
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springer link
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Social robots are emerging to become useful assistive tools for use in the therapy and education of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The nature of ASD causes its symptoms and manifestations to vary widely, ...
Active control of noise in ventilation ducts
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Canadian Acoustical Association
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Ventilation ducts are often lined with passive absorption material for both thermal insulation and noise and vibration reduction. However, the noise reduction performance is not significant at low frequencies. Active Noise ...
CheckThat! at CLEF 2019: Automatic identification and verification of claims
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Springer Verlag
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
We introduce the second edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2019 Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF). CheckThat! proposes two complementary tasks. Task 1: predict which claims in a political debate should be ...
Overview of the CLEF-2019 CheckThat! Lab: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims
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Springer Verlag
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
We present an overview of the second edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2019. The lab featured two tasks in two different languages: English and Arabic. Task 1 (English) challenged the participating systems to predict ...
Thermocatalytic splitting of CO2 into fuels using sol-gel derived ni-mg-ferrite
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American Institute of Chemical Engineers
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
In this work, we reports combination of metal cation (Ni+2 and Mg+2) as an active dopant into ferrite for two step thermochemical cycle for CO2 splitting into CO. All NMF materials were synthesized via sol gel method and ...
Smart biofaçades; An innovative living construction technology
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Coventry University
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Creating comfortable urban built environments is a challenging endeavour in Qatar, due to the rapid development and the prevailing extremely hot climatic conditions. High-rise buildings glazed envelopes and concrete masses ...