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    • Women's spaces in the vernacular Qatari courtyard house: how privacy and gendered spatial segregation shape architectural identity 

      AL-Mohannadi, Asmaa; Furlan, Raffaello; Grosvald, Michael ( Emerald , 2022 , Article)
      Purpose: This research study aims to explore sociocultural factors such as privacy and gender segregation as they relate to the spatial perception of women's spaces within the vernacular Qatari household, and the activities, ...

    • Women-Focused Cardiac Rehabilitation Delivery Around the World and Program Enablers to Support Broader Implementation 

      Gabriela Lima de Melo, Ghisi; Supervia, Marta; Turk-Adawi, Karam; Beleigoli, Alline; Contractor, Aashish; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)
      BackgroundWomen are less likely than men to use cardiac rehabilitation (CR); thus, women-focused (W-F) CR was developed. Implementation of W-F CR globally was investigated, as well as barriers and enablers to its delivery. ...

    • Women-Only Cardiac Rehabilitation Delivery Around the World 

      Turk-Adawi, Karam; Supervia, Marta; Lopez-Jimenez, Francisco; Adawi, Anfal; Sadeghi, Masoumeh; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2020 , Article  &   Conference Proceedings)
      Background: Women utilize cardiac rehabilitation (CR) significantly less than men. Gender-tailored CR improves adherence and mental health outcomes when compared to traditional programs. This study ascertained the ...

    • Work in progress: Use of mobile technology to deliver training in blended learning and independent study formats 

      Samaka, Mohammed; Ally, Mohamed ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      As citizens of countries and employees become comfortable using mobile technology, there is an opportunity for the workplace to deliver training using mobile technology. Using mobile learning allows employees to learn just ...

    • The work of transnational forensic medicine experts in colonised zones:the Palestinian case 

      Daher-Nashif, Suhad ( Manchester University Press , 2019 , Article)
      This article aims to shed light on the post-mortem practices for Palestinian dead bodies when there is suspicion of human rights violations by Israeli military forces. By focusing on the case of Omran Abu Hamdieh from ...

    • Workers remittances and economic development: Which role for education? 

      Maïga, Eugenie W. H.; Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina; Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami ( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)
      In the past decades, international remittance inflows have significantly increased in developing nations. Their importance is being acknowledged due to their scale and growth, which makes them stand out on an aggregate and ...

    • Workers’ Remittances and Economic Growth in MENA Countries: The Role of Financial Development 

      Maïga, Eugenie W. H.; Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina; Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami ( Springer , 2020 , Book chapter)
      In this article, we examine the role of financial development as a channel through which migrants’ remittances could affect economic growth in selected countries of the MENA region.

    • 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 ...