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A Framework to Manage through Control and Automation a semester long student Project assignment in e-Learning Environment
(2013 , Conference Paper)
Managing semester-long project assignments is not always an easy task since teachers need to keep
track of many elements of the project that will reflect in a proper assessment of the students’ work.
Integrating an LMS ...
Photodynamic therapy for hair removal
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2013 , Article)
Background: Unwanted hair is one of the most common medical problems affecting women of reproductive age inducing a lot of psychological stress and threatening their femininity and self-esteem. Old methods of removing ...
Neoliberalism and Qatari preschools: A comparative study of England and Qatar
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
Qatar is in the midst of a massive systematic reform designed to convert its schools and Ministry of
Education into a world-class competitive educational system according to Education for a New Era.
Influenced by ...
Bayesian Hierarchical Clustering for Studying Cancer Gene Expression Data with Unknown Statistics
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Public Library of Science
, 2013 , Article)
Clustering analysis is an important tool in studying gene expression data. The Bayesian hierarchical clustering (BHC) algorithm can automatically infer the number of clusters and uses Bayesian model selection to improve ...
Scale development on consumer behavior toward counterfeit drugs in a developing country: A quantitative study exploiting the tools of an evolving paradigm
(2013 , Article)
Background: Although desperate need and drug counterfeiting are linked in developing countries, little research has been carried out to address this link, and there is a lack of proper tools and methodology. This study ...
Understanding challenges to food security in dry Arab micro-states: Evidence from Qatari micro-data
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Walter de Gruyter
, 2013 , Article)
Using Qatar as a case study, we exploit a novel microdata set for 102 raw agricultural imported commodities on a shipment-by-shipment basis over the period January 1, 2005 to June 30, 2010. The data comprise over half a ...
Potential of geothermal energy for electricity generation in Qatar
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Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
There is general acceptance that climate change, which is the most important challenge facing humanity, is anthropogenic and attributed to fossil fuel consumption. Therefore, improving the performance of our existing energy ...
Incorporating haptic and olfactory into surgical simulation
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Recently, surgical simulation is a widely used method to train surgeons on specific surgeries due to the fact that it helps reducing surgical errors. Available surgical simulations lack realism since they only incorporate ...
Erratum: ITRAQ-based Quantitative Protein Expression Profiling and MRM Verification of Markers in Type 2 Diabetes (Journal of Proteome Research (2012) 11 (5527-5537) DOI: 10.1021/pr300798z)
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
, 2013 , Article)
a Serum samples obtained from individual subjects were analyzed to determine the levels of glucose, Vitamin D among others (as described in methods). The value spreads within the group for each parameter are indicated as ...
Recycling low grade waste heat to electricity
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Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Most mining and metallurgical industries produce relatively large quantities of low grade waste heat which they vent, for the most part, to the environment. To date, little is being done to recover some of this heat and ...