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Gamification of e-Government services: A discussion of potential transformation
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Association for Information Systems
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Gamification has shown to be a valuable approach that enhances participants' engagement. In education, enhanced student engagement has proven to increase their learning effectiveness. In business, gamification permits ...
Visualizing electricity consumption in Qatar
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Springer Verlag
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Data related to electricity consumption is a global problem, particularly here in Qatar. Thus, a customized tool to analyze this data is made. The aim of this research is to present a new software, which would help the ...
Women and engineering in Qatar
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American Society for Engineering Education
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
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What questions do journalists ask on Twitter?
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AI Access Foundation
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Social media platforms are a major source of information for both the general public and for journalists. Journalists use Twitter and other social media services to gather story ideas, to find eyewitnesses, and for a wide ...
Sustainable solar fuel production by a mixed metal oxide based thermochemical H2O/CO2 splitting cycle
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AIChE
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
This paper reports the synthesis of Ba-ferrite via sol-gel method for the production of solar fuel such as H2 or syngas via thermochemical H2O and/or CO2 splitting cycle. Sol-gel synthesis of Ba-ferrite nanoparticles ...
Joint K-Means quantization for Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Recently, Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) Search has become a very popular approach for similarity search on large-scale datasets. In this paper, we propose a novel vector quantization method for ANN, which introduces ...
Salient object segmentation based on linearly combined affinity graphs
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, we propose a graph affinity learning method for a recently proposed graph-based salient object detection method, namely Extended Quantum Cuts (EQCut). We exploit the fact that the output of EQCut is ...
Intelligent integrated instrumentation platform for monitoring long-Term bedridden patients
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Stroke patients, as well as all those patients who are bed-bound for a long period of time, are highly susceptible to preventable secondary complications such as pressure ulcers or commonly known as bedsores. Such secondary ...
Analysis of an application delivery platform for software defined infrastructures
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Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Application service providers (ASPs) obtaining resources from multiple clouds have to contend with different management and control platforms employed by the cloud service providers (CSPs) and network service providers ...
Common mode voltage reduction in open-end multi-phase load system fed through matrix converter
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
In this paper reduction of common mode voltage (CMV) for five phases open end load system is discussed. Open end load is fed through three-to-five phases dual matrix converters (DMC). Space vector pulse width modulation ...