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Effect of professional development on teaching behaviors and efficacy in Qatari educational reforms
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
Qatar is undergoing major educational reform that is shifting its educational policy toward an instructional orientation grounded in constructivism and student-centered instruction. Differences in cultural conceptions of ...
Capital structure, tax effect, financial crisis and default risk: Evidence from emerging market
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2017 , Article)
The central objective of this study is to investigate the effect of capital structure on corporate failure in the emerging market, in particular Jordan, using a panel data analysis sample representative of 180 Jordanian ...
Dietary patterns and the risk of coronary heart disease among Jordanians: A caseecontrol study
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Elsevier
, 2017 , Article)
Background and Aims
Dietary pattern and lifestyle have been reported to be significant risk factors in the development of coronary heart diseases (CHD). The contribution degree of these dietary risk factors in CHD ...
A distortion-free contrast enhancement technique based on a perceptual fusion scheme
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
Contrast enhancement, in a broad sense, is a process whereby some characteristics of an image signal are highlighted. Techniques for image contrast enhancement improve the visibility of image details but may generate some ...
Fault detection and isolation of two-dimensional (2D) systems
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
In this work, we develop a novel fault detection and isolation (FDI) scheme for discrete-time two-dimensional (2D) systems that are represented by the Fornasini?Marchesini model II (FMII). This is accomplished by generalizing ...
Cross-Network Performance Analysis of Network Coding Aided Cooperative Outband D2D Communications
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
In long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) networks, the mobile devices can concurrently participate in cooperative outband device-to-device (D2D) data exchange by virtue of user- or network-related parameters (e.g., interest ...
Event-Triggered Multiobjective Control and Fault Diagnosis: A Unified Framework
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2017 , Article)
In the area of robust control, fault diagnosis, and fault tolerant control of linear systems, many fundamental problems can be recast as H-\infty, l-1 and generalized H-2 control frameworks leading to the so-called mixed ...
Braking effect of climate and topography on global change-induced upslope forest expansion
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Springer New York LLC
, 2017 , Article)
Forests are expected to expand into alpine areas due to global climate change. It has recently been shown that temperature alone cannot realistically explain this process and that upslope tree advance in a warmer scenario ...
Are Investors Concerned with Stock Market Upgrades? Evidence from Multivariate Framework Analysis
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
This study aims to examine the return and volatility responses to the announcement of stock market upgrades. It measures the direct effects of the recent Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) upgrade of the Qatar, ...
On the Achievable Rates of OFDM with Common Phase Error Compensation in Phase Noise Channels
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
This paper considers the problem of analytically assessing the maximum achievable rates (capacity) of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmissions when the receiver, for complexity reasons, only accounts ...