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Effects of Combined Calcium Hypochlorite and Chlorine Dioxide on Drinking Water Quality in Qatar and Disinfection by Products Formation
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Chlorite, chlorate, bromate and trihalomethane's (THMs) are included in WHO guidelines for drinking water quality. This study examined dosing different chlorine concentrations as calcium hypochlorite (Ca(ClO)2) to water ...
Allelopathic effects of the invasive Prosopis juliflora (sw.) Dc. On seed germination of selected Qatari native plant species
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
P. juliflora is highly recognized for its invasive character and its detrimental effects on different plant species due to the presence of allelochemicals across the world. The purpose of this study is to assess the ...
Global change: The Arabian Gulf ecosystem- An introduction
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
The Arabian Gulf is a main source of wealth and food for the people of the Gulf countries. For hundreds of years, the Gulf used to be the main source for some of the finest pearls in the world. It harbors highly diverse ...
Qatar 2022 World Cup and its legacies: How to promote sustainable and livable open spaces in the city of Doha through mega sports events?
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
With the aim of diversifying its economy and develop itself as a tourist destination, in recent years, Qatar has hosted many international sports events and will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Doha, Qatar's capital city, ...
System approach for building energy conservation
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Elsevier
, 2014 , Conference Paper)
Energy use in residential and commercial buildings and towers represents more than 30% of energy consumption. The increase in number of buildings and towers in most of the major cities worldwide led to several initiatives ...
High performance ordered nanoporous membranes from block copolymers
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Elsevier
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
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Methodical evaluation of Arabic word embeddings
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Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
Many unsupervised learning techniques have been proposed to obtain meaningful representations of words from text. In this study, we evaluate these various techniques when used to generate Arabic word embeddings. We first ...
Comparative Evaluation of Sentiment Analysis Methods Across Arabic Dialects
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Elsevier
, 2017 , Conference Paper)
Sentiment analysis in Arabic is challenging due to the complex morphology of the language. The task becomes more challenging when considering Twitter data that contain significant amounts of noise such as the use of Arabizi, ...
A lightweight and privacy-preserving authentication protocol for mobile edge computing
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
With the advent of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), vehicular networks and cyber-physical systems, the need for real-time data processing and analysis has emerged as an essential pre-requite for customers' satisfaction. In ...
Life cycle environmental impact comparison of bioelectrochemical systems for wastewater treatment
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
Bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) are developed to transform the energy harvested from the biomass into electricity. Different types of BESs including microbial fuel cell (MFC), microbial electrolysis cell (MEC), and ...