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Comfort temperature and occupant adaptive behavior in offices in Qatar during summer
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Qatar tops the world in per capita CO2 emissions and per capita total primary energy supply. Adaptive comfort standards and thermal comfort field survey data are not available for Qatar. We conducted a thermal comfort ...
Asymmetric import cost pass-through in GCC countries: Evidence from nonlinear panel analysis
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2018 , Article)
This paper investigates the asymmetric impacts of import costs on inflation in GCC countries. We utilize data from GCC countries and their trading partners over the period of 1990:Q1-2014:Q4 to construct a new import cost ...
Sukuk, banking system, and financial markets: Rivals or complements?
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2017 , Article)
Using the system GMM estimation technique, we study the effects of the financial development on Sukuk markets using a panel dataset of 11 countries from 1995 to 2015. First, we find that Sukuk and bank financing are ...
Corrosion of inhibitor treated mild steel immersed in distilled water and a simulated salt solution
(2013 , Article)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the performances of three inhibitors in controlling corrosion of local mild steel products in distilled water and a simulated salt solution. Corrosion inhibition of mild steel ...
Second law analysis of a gravity-driven liquid film flowing along an inclined plate subjected to constant wall temperature
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2014 , Article)
The second law analysis of a gravity-driven liquid having temperature-dependent viscosity and flowing along an inclined heated plate was studied. The computational fluid dynamics (CFD) package FLUENT was used to obtain the ...
التعويض عن وفاة العمل بسبب العمل فى قضاء محكمة التمييز القطرية
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, 2016 , Article)
نص المشرع القطري فى قانون العمل رقم 14 لسنة 2004 فى الفصل الحادي عشر والمخصص لإصابات العمل والتعويض عنها فى المادة 110 على أنه: " لورثة العامل الذي يتوفى بسبب العمل، وللعامل الذي يُصاب بإصابة عمل نتج عنها عجز كلي دائم أو ...
Effectiveness of Different Topical Treatments in the Healing of Pressure Injuries: A Network Meta-analysis.
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Elsevier
, 2018 , Article)
Pressure injuries (PIs) are one of the most common types of complex wounds and impose a huge economic burden on the healthcare system and the patients. A plethora of topical treatments is widely available for PI treatment, ...
Further evidence on the rationality of interest rate expectations: A comprehensive study of developed and emerging economies
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This study performs unbiasedness and efficiency tests of three-month and twelve-month ahead interest rate forecasts of one short-term and one long-term security of 10 developed and 20 emerging economies by exploiting a new ...
An adaptive relationship of thermal comfort for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Countries: The case of offices in Qatar
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
Escalating building energy expenditure encourages rethinking on thermal comfort delivery in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in warm desert climate. The GCC states do not have an adaptive comfort standard, or ...
Robust multisensor time–frequency signal processing: A tutorial review with illustrations of performance enhancement in selected application areas
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
This paper presents high-resolution multisensor time–frequency distributions (MTFDs) and their applications to the analysis of multichannel non-stationary signals. The approach combines high-resolution time–frequency ...