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    • Workplace learning using mobile technology: A case study in the oil and gas industry 

      Ally, Mohamed; Samaka, Mohammed; Impagliazzo, John; Mohamed, Abdulahi; Robinson, Martha ( Springer Verlag , 2014 , Article)
      This article presents an innovative project using mobile technology to train workers in the oil and gas industry to develop their communication skills while functioning on the job. The training was delivered on mobile ...

    • Workshop on proposal writing on research for health care professionals: A brief report 

      Shrestha, S.; Danekhu, K.; Sharma, N.; Khanal, P.; Ansari, S. R.; ... more authors ( Dove Medical Press Ltd. , 2019 , Article)
      A one-day workshop on proposal writing for research for health care professionals was organized by Hospital Research Board (HRB), Nepal Cancer Hospital and Research Center Pvt. Ltd, Harisiddhi, Lalitpur, Nepal on 2nd March ...

    • WORKSITE HEALTH PROMOTION SCORE: TO ASSESS A HEALTH PROMOTIONAL WORKER SETTING 

      Gamage, Anuji; Seneviratne, Rohini; Hanna, Fahad ( Wolters Kluwer Health , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Objective: Workplace play a central role in the lives of employees and their potential as health-promotional-setting is enormous as it could aim at keeping employees healthy which is considered a key long-term human asset ...

    • The World (of Warcraft) through the eyes of an expert 

      Marzouki, Yousri; Dusaucy, Valériane; Chanceaux, Myriam; Mathôt, Sebastiaan ( PeerJ , 2017 , Article)
      Negative correlations between pupil size and the tendency to look at salient locations were found in recent studies (e.g., Mathôt et al., 2015). It is hypothesized that this negative correlation might be explained by the ...

    • World Cup In Qatar As A Sport Diplomacy Instrument 

      Ozel, Meltem ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2022 , Conference Paper)
      Qatar has flourishing national image, particularly after its 37atalyst role in the Arab Spring and its conspicuous achievements in the field of infrastructure, media, technology, energy, diplomacy and public diplomacy. ...

    • World Marrow Donor Association guidelines for the reporting of novel HLA alleles 

      Hofmann, Jan A.; Bochtler, Werner; Robinson, James; Sauter, Jürgen; Askar, Medhat; ... more authors ( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2023 , Article)
      The guidelines for the implementation and reporting of HLA nomenclature for the World Marrow Donor Association have served as a reliable standard for communication of HLA data in the hematopoietic cell transplantation ...

    • Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants 

      Bin, Zhou; Bentham, James; Di Cesare, Mariachiara; Bixby, Honor; Danaei, Goodarz; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2017 , Article)
      BackgroundRaised blood pressure is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases and chronic kidney disease. We estimated worldwide trends in mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure, and the prevalence of, ...

    • Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants 

      Bin, Zhou; Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M; Danaei, Goodarz; Riley, Leanne M; Paciorek, Christopher J; ... more authors (2021 , Article)
      Background Hypertension can be detected at the primary health-care level and low-cost treatments can effectively control hypertension. We aimed to measure the prevalence of hypertension and progress in its detection, ...

    • Worsening baroreflex sensitivity on progression to type 2 diabetes: Localized vs. systemic inflammation and role of antidiabetic therapy 

      Bakkar, Nour-Mounira Z.; Mougharbil, Nahed; Mroueh, Ali; Kaplan, Abdullah; Eid, Ali H.; ... more authors ( American Physiological Society , 2020 , Article)
      Cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) is an early cardiovascular manifestation of type 2 diabetes (T2D) that constitutes an independent risk factor for cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. Nevertheless, its underlying ...

    • Writer identification approach based on bag of words with OBI features 

      Durou A.; Aref I.; Al-Maadeed S.; Bouridane A.; Benkhelifa E. ( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)
      Handwriter identification aims to simplify the task of forensic experts by providing them with semi-automated tools in order to enable them to narrow down the search to determine the final identification of an unknown ...

    • Writer identification of arabic handwriting documents using grapheme features 

      Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Al-Kurbi A.-A.; Al-Muslih A.; Al-Qahtani R.; Al Kubisi H. ( IEEE , 2008 , Conference Paper)
      [No abstract available]

    • Writer identification on historical documents using oriented basic image features 

      Abdeljalil G.; Djeddi C.; Siddiqi I.; Al-Maadeed S. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      This study addresses the problem of identifying the authorship of historical manuscripts, a challenging task that offers interesting applications for document examiners and paleographers. We exploit handwriting texture as ...

    • Writer identification using edge-based directional probability distribution features for Arabic words 

      Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Mohammed E.; Al Kassis D.; Al-Muslih F. ( IEEE , 2008 , Conference Paper)
      A system for writer identification based on Arabic handwritten words was built. First a database of words was gathered and used as a test base. Then, features vectors were extracted from writers' word images. Prior to ...

    • Writing democracy: An end of author ‘turn’?: From ‘fake news’ to ‘fake democratization' 

      Sadiki, Larbi ( Intellect Publishers , 2018 , Article)
      This article problematizes questions of ontology and epistemology in the context of the study of norm-making primarily within academia (with special reference to democratization) and secondarily within media. It showcases ...

    • ‘Writing’ small states: contextualizing the construct in the Arab Gulf 

      Sadiki, Larbi; Saleh, Layla ( Springer Nature , 2021 , Article)
      How do IR scholars ‘write’ the Arab Gulf? In attempting to address this question, the focus is twofold: first, the ‘small state’ as a construct and second, its application to the study of Gulf small states. The article ...

    • WSNet - Convolutional Neural Networkbased Word Spotting for Arabic and English Handwritten Documents 

      Mohammed, Hanadi Hassen; Subramanian, Nandhini; Al-Maadeed, Somaya; Bouridane, Ahmed ( UIKTEN - Association for Information Communication Technology Education and Science , 2022 , Article)
      This paper proposes a new convolutional neural network architecture to tackle the problem of word spotting in handwritten documents. A Deep learning approach using a novel Convolutional Neural Network is developed for the ...

    • X-ray diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopic analyses for intercalative nanohybrids with low crystallinity 

      Park, Dae-Hwan; Yang, Jae-Hun; Vinu, Ajayan; Elzatahry, Ahmed; Choy, Jin-Ho ( Elsevier , 2016 , Article Review)
      Intercalation reactions can be achieved through ion-exchange, pillaring, and exfoliation-reassembling reactions to explore new intercalation compounds with desired electronic, electrochemical, and optical functions. Such ...

    • Xerostomia, salivary flow, and oral health status among saudi diabetic patients: A comparative cross-sectional study 

      Al-Maweri, Sadeq A.; Altayyar, Manar Omar; Alqahtani, Khalil Wassam; Bamasud, Maryam Saleh; Alghamdi, Ohud Yanalah; ... more authors ( Dove Medical Press , 2021 , Article)
      Purpose: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is associated with numerous oral complications, including frequent oral infections, periodontal diseases, hyposalivation, and xerostomia. The present study aimed to investigate salivary flow ...

    • XRD/HSA, noncovalent interactions and influence of solvent polarity on spectral properties of dithiocarbazate schiff base and its cis-Cu(II) complex: Experimental and theoretical studies 

      Boshaala, Ahmed; Salih, Kifah S.M.; Bader, Nabil; Almughery, Abdulla Ali; Zarrouk, Abdelkader; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)
      A N,S-bidentate ligand (LH) was synthesized via the condensation of S-benzyldithiocarbazate with acetophenone. The produced Schiff base ligand was reacted with a copper(II) salt to yield a neutral cis-Cu(II) complex. The ...

    • XTSeH: A Trusted Platform Module Sharing Scheme towards Smart IoT-eHealth Devices 

      Lu, Di; Han, Ruidong; Shen, Yulong; Dong, Xuewen; Ma, Jianfeng; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      IoT based eHealth system brings a revolution to healthcare industry, with which the old healthcare systems can be updated into smarter and more personalized ones. The practitioners can continue monitoring the physical ...