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Towards an Inpainting Framework for Visual Cultural Heritage
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Cultural heritage takes an important part in defining the identity and the history of a civilization or a nation. Valuing and preserving this heritage is thus a top priority for governments and heritage institutions. Through ...
A Clustering Routing based on Dijkstra Algorithm for WSNs
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have witnessed a growing interest in the last two decades owing to its various advantages. Thus, in a big WSN, using one hop transmission, as in LEACH algorithm, causes loss of a lot of ...
Bond and shear-strengthening performance of FRCM composites
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ISEC Press
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
This paper is aimed at studying the bond and shear-strengthening performance of fabric reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) systems. Three FRCM systems were compared, namely, polyparaphenylene benzobisoxazole (PBO)-FRCM, ...
Secure Performance of AF and DF Relaying in Cooperative Noma Systems
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, we study the secrecy outage probability (SOP)and the strictly positive secrecy capacity (SPSC)of cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)system with a single antenna over Rayleigh fading channel in ...
Using Financial Options for Pricing of IaaS Cloud Resources
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
IaaS cloud resources are offered by cloud providers using various pricing schemes such as reservation, scheduled, on-demand and spot pricing. Such pricing models suffer from either wasteful payment in case of underutilization ...
Education and Empowerment of Women in the GCC States
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
According to the popular view, 21st century is regarded as an era of women. The rising tide of educating and empowering women has considerably influenced the lives of women in every walk of life throughout the world. ...
To Which Extent is the Educational Sector in the Gulf Countries Contributing to Social Change?
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
The overall theme of this conference is social change. This paper focus on one, however important, factor behind social change in the Gulf countries, namely that of education. Each of the Gulf countries have embarked on a ...
The Dominant Discourse Representing Iranian National Identity in Social Media: A Case Study of Twitter
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Identity is defined through the comparison of oneself to the other and it is rooted in human beings' need to be different and distinguished from others. From a post-structualist viewpoint, identity is plural, dynamic and ...
Aspirations for Pursuing the Prominent Leadership Roles in the Academia: Perspectives of Kuwaiti Women
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Since 1938, oil was discovered in Kuwait that made a progressive source of socio- economic growth. In addition to that, Kuwait took initiatives to start adult education programs for women who followed by parallel programs ...
Subjective Evaluation of Market-Driven Cloud Services
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
We investigate the use of subjective metrics in social media to evaluate cloud service performance in the market. We first examine the subjective factors that drive cloud consumers to/from purchasing cloud services. These ...