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Integrating public health into climate change law and policies in the MENA region: Current issues and future directions
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Taylor and Francis
, 2021 , Book chapter)
Climate change is a major public health concern in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. MENA is recognized as an active region in oil and gas production; this directly leads to increasing levels of ground ozone ...
Physical activity as a counteracting measure to mitigate the harmful effects of COVID-19 lockdowns: Special focus on healthy children, adolescents, adults, elderly, athletes, and people with Down syndrome
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Book chapter)
The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) that originated in China in December 2019 has become a global public health emergency and has had a major impact on physical activity behaviors globally. ...
Metal Organic Frameworks, Their Properties and Future Promises in the Medical Field
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
, 2021 , Book chapter)
Nanotechnology is defined as the manipulation of matter at the atomic and molecular level, with nanomedicine being a subdivision of nanotechnology, where nanoparticles are used in medicine often as a drug delivery vehicle ...
Sport at Home, Sport in the World: Evaluating Qatar’s Sports Strategy from Above and Below
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Springer
, 2021 , Book chapter)
This piece is an overview of actors and policies concerning sport in the nation of Qatar. In recent years, sports have been given high priority in government attempts to raise exposure of the nation internationally. Many ...
Remembering 'The Blockade on Qatar': National Memory and the Assemblage of the Event
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Springer
, 2021 , Book chapter)
Amidst the reinvigoration of the discourse on national identity in Qatar since mid-1990s, the governments of neighboring countries, such as Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, announced the cessation of ...
The Gulf Blockade: A Fifth Qatari Economic Stage is Imminent
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Springer
, 2021 , Book chapter)
Certain challenges may unexpectedly play a significant role in saving countries from economic catastrophes, rather than aggravating them. This chapter briefly explores some of the crucial economic challenges that have ...
Iran's Pragmatic Foreign Policy in Response to Regional Crises: The Case of the Blockade Against Qatar
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Springer
, 2021 , Book chapter)
Iran has time and again adapted its foreign policy in response to regional crises and sought to take advantage of disorder to advance its national interests. Looking at Iran's response to Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait ...
Food Security in the GCC Countries: Towards a More Diversified and Sustainable Economic Development
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Springer Nature
, 2020 , Book chapter)
This chapter examines the challenges and opportunities for food security in GCC countries and shed lights on the strategies undertaken by these countries to enhance their domestic food security. These include the measures ...
Lignin and lignocellulosic materials: A glance on the current opportunities for energy and sustainability
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Springer International Publishing
, 2021 , Book chapter)
Fossil fuels are running out fast. The energy demand is one of the largest challenges humankind has ever faced. Applications targeting renewable resources that are nonpetroleum based are booming. The scientific community ...
Application of integral equations to simulating local fields in carbon nanotube reinforced composites
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Book chapter)
We consider the steady heat conduction problem within a thermal isotropic and homogeneous square ring composite reinforced by nonoverlapping and randomly distributed carbon nanotubes (CNTs). We treat the CNTs as rigid line ...