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Early years education in Qatar: The good practice guide in theory and practice
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Consortia Academia Publishing
, 2016 , Article)
Qatar’s massive education reform, Education for a New Era has dramatically shaped the
educational landscape by implementing professional and curriculum standards and introducing
best pedagogical practices at all levels. ...
Medication management during electroconvulsant therapy
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Dove Press
, 2016 , Article)
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has demonstrated to be highly effective and safe, even life saving for many psychiatric disorders such as major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Most patients who require ECT ...
Cardiac autonomic regulation as a predictor for childhood obesity intervention success.
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Nature Publishing Group
, 2017 , Article)
Childhood obesity is a major public health concern; behavioural interventions induce weight reduction in some, but success is variable. Heart rate variability (HRV) has been associated with impulse control and extent of ...
Qatar’s Educational Reform: The Experiences and Perceptions of Principals, Teachers and Parents
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Macrothink Institute
, 2013 , Article)
This study describes the implications of the massive Qatari educational reform, Education
For a New Era (EFNE), from the perspectives of teachers, principals, and parents provides
insight into these stakeholders perceptions ...
Estimating the carbon dynamics of South Korean forests from 1954 to 2012
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Copernicus GmbH
, 2014 , Article)
Forests play an important role in the global carbon (C) cycle, and the South Korean forests also contribute to this global C cycle. While the South Korean forest ecosystem was almost completely destroyed by exploitation ...
How Critical Thinking is Taught in Qatari Independent Schools’ Social Studies Classrooms: Teachers’ Perspectives
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Macrothink Institute
, 2012 , Article)
Qatar is in the midst of a massive systemic education reform Education For a New Era. A key aspect of the reform is the expectation of teachers to develop students’ critical thinking skills. In this paper, an open-ended ...
Earth-abundant oxygen evolution catalysts coupled onto ZnO nanowire arrays for efficient photoelectrochemical water cleavage
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Wiley-VCH Verlag
, 2014 , Article)
ZnO has long been considered as a model UV-driven photoanode for photoelectrochemical water splitting, but its performance has been limited by fast charge-carrier recombination, extremely poor stability in aqueous solution, ...
A Habermasian Analysis of Qatar's National Teacher Professional Standards
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Macrothink Institute
, 2014 , Article)
The belief that implementing professional standards will improve teaching and learning has
led many countries to embrace standards based educational reforms. Qatar is one of those
nations implementing, Education for a ...
A microbial fuel cell configured for the remediation of recalcitrant pollutants in soil environment
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Royal Society of Chemistry
, 2019 , Article)
A pristine soil environment supports a healthy soil biodiversity, which is often polluted with recalcitrant compounds. The bioelectrochemical remediation of the contaminated soils using bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) ...
Carbon nanotube effect on the ductility, flexural strength, and permeability of concrete
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Hindawi Limited
, 2019 , Article)
Recently, remarkable types of carbon nanofilaments called carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have raised the interest of many concrete and cementitious composite researchers due to their significant mechanical, electrical, thermal, ...