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Corruption, lending and bank performance
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American University of Sharjah
, 2019 , Conference Paper)
This paper uses a sample of 7235 banks from 160 countries between 2000 and 2016 to investigate the link between corruption, lending and bank performance. It considers both country- and bank-level corruption. The study finds ...
Coral reef monitoring, reef assessment technologies, and ecosystem-based management
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Frontiers Media S.A.
, 2019 , Article)
Coral reefs are exceptionally biodiverse and human dependence on their ecosystem services is high. Reefs experience significant direct and indirect anthropogenic pressures, and provide a sensitive indicator of coastal ocean ...
Spammer Detection and Fake User Identification on Social Networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
Social networking sites engage millions of users around the world. The users' interactions with these social sites, such as Twitter and Facebook have a tremendous impact and occasionally undesirable repercussions for daily ...
Water demand in Qatar: Future trends and conservation scenarios
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European Water Resources Association (EWRA)
, 2019 , Article)
We model water consumption in the market segment
that compose the Qatari water market. We link water
consumption to population growth. Building on the estimated model, we develop long-range ...
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 ...
Trust management techniques for the internet of things: A survey
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
A vision of the future Internet is introduced in such a fashion that various computing devices are connected together to form a network called Internet of Things (IoT). This network will generate massive data that may be ...
Digitizing vanishing architectural heritage; The design and development of Qatar historic buildings information modeling [Q-HBIM] platform
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MDPI AG
, 2019 , Article)
The documentation of vanishing architectural heritage includes intensive information and data gathering, filtering, classification and digitization. Enabling such an endeavor necessitates the act of documentation, which ...
Epigenetic mechanisms, trauma, and psychopathology: Targeting chromatin remodeling complexes
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De Gruyter
, 2019 , Article)
Environmental pressure affects the genotype throughout different epigenetic processes. There is currently ample evidence on the role of epigenetics in developing various mental disorders. A burden of environmental pressure, ...
A novel method to identify initial values of chaotic maps in cybersecurity
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MDPI AG
, 2019 , Article)
Chaos theory has applications in several disciplines and is focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. Chaotic dynamics are the impromptu behavior displayed by some ...
استعمال الوسائل الحديثة في التّعليم الشّرعي: عوائق وتحدّيات
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الراية الدولية الإلكترونية
, 2019 , Article)
هدفت هذه الورقة إلى دراسة قضايا هامّة متعلّقة باستعمال الوسائل الحديثة في التعليم الشرعي. فتطرقت إلى فوائدها وسلبياتها، وعلَّلت ظاهرة تراجع التعليم الشرعي رغم تقدم وسائله وتطورها، وأوضحت العوائق والتحديات التي تحول دون ...