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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 ...
Social-Sensor Cloud Service Selection
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
We propose a new framework for social-sensor cloud services selection based on spatio-textual correlation between user's query and service. The proposed research defines a formal social-sensor cloud service model that ...
Where rhetoric meets reality: an ethnographic analysis of the sports education sector in Qatar
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
This paper explores the growing provision of sports education in the state of Qatar. Since 2010, there has been a rapid increase in new courses in sports administration as part of wider, government-backed initiatives to ...
Exploitation of additional degrees of freedom of multiphase drives in low-frequency operation of modular multilevel converters
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
MMC encounters serious limitations in the zero and low-frequency operation of variable-speed motor drives. In MMC, the voltage ripples of SubModule (SM) capacitor is inversely proportional to the phase current frequency. ...
A hexagonal hysteresis space vector current controller for single Z-source network multilevel inverter with capacitor balancing
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
Z-source neutral-point clamped multilevel inverter (Z-NP-MLI) used in solar grid connected applications due to their better performance related to conventional inverters. Normally, current controller based Pulse Width ...