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Flywheel Energy Storage Systems
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
, 2015 , Book chapter)
Flywheels are one of the oldest and most popular energy storage media owing to the simplicity of storing kinetic energy in a rotating mass. Flywheel energy storage systems (FESSs) can be used in different applications, for ...
Designing Decision Support Systems for Humanitarian Organisations
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
, 2015 , Book chapter)
The first step to ensure the success of applications in a specific field consists in producing a complete and representative model of the studied system. This alignment with reality is not easy to achieve though. This is ...
Adaptive Sampling
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
, 2015 , Book chapter)
Animal populations are often highly grouped. For example, fish can form large, widely scattered schools with few fish in between. Even rare species of animals may form small groups that are hard to find. Applying standard ...
Adhesion Improvement Between Polyethylene and Aluminum Using Eco-Friendly Plasma Treatment
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
, 2015 , Book chapter)
Ionic Liquids in Bulk and at an Interface
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc
, 2015 , Book chapter)
In the present chapter, we describe different types of investigation carried out by research groups based at CQE/IST/UTL and ITQB/UNL and their ramifications in terms of surface science. Most of the work is focused on the ...
Social Justice and the Engineering Profession: Challenging Engineering Education to Move Beyond the Technical
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Springer International Publishing
, 2015 , Book chapter)
This study investigates faculty and students’ perception of the significance of social justice in the engineering education program in an Arab Gulf nation. In light of the expanding ethical education of engineers stated ...
Qatar's educational reform: Critical issues facing principals
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IGI Global
, 2015 , Book chapter)
Launched in 2004, Qatar's massive educational reform, Education for a New Era, has introduced numerous changes to the K-12 educational system forcing school leaders to face challenges and issues in their role of leading ...
تفسير المدينة المنورة
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مركَزُ تعظيمِ القرآن الكريم (المدينة المنورة)
, 2015 , Book chapter)
لماّ كان الأمر كذلك فإنّ التدبّر الصحيح النافع لا يحصل ويتحقق إلا بمعرفة معاني الآيات وتفسيرها وما تدعو إليه وتهدف ، ومن هذا المنطلق الهام عزم القائمون بمركز تعظيم القرآن الكريم على تأليف تفسير للقرآن الكريم يحقق المراد ...
Expert Systems
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
, 2015 , Book chapter)
Expert systems mimic the problem-solving activity of human experts in specialized domains by capturing and representing expert knowledge. Expert systems include a knowledge base, an inference engine that derives conclusions ...
Pharmaceutical pricing policies in Qatar
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Springer International Publishing
, 2015 , Book chapter)
Qatar is the world’s highest per capita income non-OECD country. The country has established the National Health Strategy 2011–2016 (NHS), which is aligned with the Qatar National Vision 2030 that will advance Qatar’s ...