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Affordable housing for middle income expats in Qatar: Strategies for implementing livability and built form
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Archnet-IJAR
, 2016 , Article)
Qatar is making large investments for the development of the urban fabric and public transport systems of Doha (i.e. the Msheireb downtown Doha, the Doha metro, and the Lusail light rail transit). It has also already been ...
Knowledge and Perceptions of Pharmacy Students in Qatar on Anti-Doping in Sports and on Sports Pharmacy in Undergraduate Curricula
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American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy
, 2015 , Article)
Objective. To assess pharmacy students’ knowledge and perceptions of doping and anti-doping in sports and to explore the curricular needs for undergraduate pharmacy in the field of sports pharmacy.
Methods. A cross-sectional, ...
Built Form and Culture: Italian Transnational Houses in Australia
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OMICS International
, 2016 , Article)
Accordingly to Wagner, “Dwellings stand as the concrete expressions of a complex interaction among cultural
skills and norms, climatic conditions and the potentialities of natural materials”. This study, beginning with ...
Design of immersive virtual reality system to improve communication skills in individuals with autism
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Kassel University Press GmbH
, 2017 , Article)
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) regularly experience situations in which they need to give answers but do not know how to respond; for example, questions related to everyday life activities that are asked ...
Modern and Vernacular Settlements in Doha: An Urban Planning Strategy to Pursue Modernity and Consolidate Cultural identity
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OMICS International
, 2016 , Article)
Scholars and researchers, who investigate the extent to which spatial form and livability are mutually interconnected, stress that the built environment provides the space for the enhancement of social interactions, which ...
An Autonomous Packet Transmission Strategy for Opportunistic Wireless Sensor Networks
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
, 2012 , Article)
We consider a wireless sensor network that comprises a single hop between the sensor nodes and the central controller node with multiple antennas. In this system model, we concentrate on the single-beam opportunistic ...
Collembola at three alpine subarctic sites resistant to twenty years of experimental warming
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Nature Publishing Group
, 2015 , Article)
This study examined the effects of micro-scale, site and 19 and 21 years of experimental warming on Collembola in three contrasting alpine subarctic plant communities (poor heath, rich meadow, wet meadow). Unexpectedly, ...
Determining the role of missense mutations in the POU domain of HNF1A that reduce the DNA-binding affinity: A computational approach
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Plos One
, 2017 , Article)
Maturity-onset diabetes of the young type 3 (MODY3) is a non-ketotic form of diabetes associated with poor insulin secretion. Over the past years, several studies have reported the association of missense mutations in the ...
State-of-the-art review on sustainable design and construction of quieter pavements-Part 1: Traffic noise measurement and abatement techniques
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
, 2016 , Article)
Noise pollution due to highway traffic has drawn the attention of transportation agencies worldwide. Noise pollution is an irritant to residents, especially in urban areas near roads with high traffic volume. In addition ...
Italo-Australian Transnational Houses: Culture and Built Heritage as a Tool for Cultural Continuity
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Scientific & Academic Publishing
, 2015 , Article)
(The Problem) The classical theorist Vitruvius celebrates architecture as an expression of societies’ cultural factors where culture has a determinant role in shaping built forms. Despite this notion of architecture has ...