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An Investigation into the Lifestyle, Health Habits and Risk Factors of Young Adults
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MDPI AG
, 2015 , Article)
This project examined the lifestyle, health habits and risk factors of young adults at Qatar University. It explored the clustering and differences in dietary habits, body mass index (BMI) and physical activity (PA) amongst ...
Social Justice and the Engineering Profession: Challenging Engineering Education to Move Beyond the Technical
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Springer International Publishing
, 2015 , Book chapter)
This study investigates faculty and students’ perception of the significance of social justice in the engineering education program in an Arab Gulf nation. In light of the expanding ethical education of engineers stated ...
Qatar's educational reform: Critical issues facing principals
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IGI Global
, 2015 , Book chapter)
Launched in 2004, Qatar's massive educational reform, Education for a New Era, has introduced numerous changes to the K-12 educational system forcing school leaders to face challenges and issues in their role of leading ...
Wear resistance investigation of titanium nitride-based coatings
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Elsevier Ltd.
, 2015 , Article)
The wear of components while they are in service is a predominant factor controlling the life of machine components. Metal parts are often damaged because of wear-driven failures causing the loss of dimensions and ...
A comparison of physiological and transcriptome responses to water deprivation and salt loading in the rat supraoptic nucleus
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American Physiological Society
, 2015 , Article)
Salt loading (SL) and water deprivation (WD) are experimental challenges that are often used to study the osmotic circuitry of the brain. Central to this circuit is the supraoptic nucleus (SON) of the hypothalamus, which ...
Bioavailability and hypolipidemic effects of peanut skin polyphenols
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Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
Peanut skin is a rich source of polyphenols, such as proanthocyanidins. Peanut skin proanthocyanidins mainly
consist of a subgroup called procyanidins. Peanut-based procyanidins contain oligomers of both type A and type ...
Allergenicity of roasted peanuts treated with a non-human digestive protease
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Elsevier Ltd.
, 2015 , Article)
Peanut allergy is a severe and lifelong type of food allergy triggered by allergenic proteins and peptides in peanuts. This study investigated the effects of ultrasound-assisted alcalase treatment on the concentrations of ...
Radioactivity levels in the marine environment along the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
A study on 137Cs, 40K, 226Ra, 228Ra, and 238U was carried out along the EEZ of Qatar. Results serve as the
first ever baseline data. The level of 137Cs (mean value 1.6 ± 0.4 Bq m 3) in water filters was found to be in
the ...
Hypoxia in the central Arabian Gulf Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Qatar during summer season
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
Abstract One of the most fascinating and unexpected discoveries during the Qatar University Marine Expeditions to the marine Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Qatar in 2000–2001, was the detection of a hypoxic water layer ...
رفع الغمام عن تحول الإمام أبي الحسن الأشعري : مع نشر رسالته استحسان الخوض في علم الكلام
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دار البصائر
, 2015 , Book)
تدور هذه الفكرة البحثية حول شخصية ثرية مازال تأثيرها ممتدا إلى يوم الناس هذا على الرغم من مفارقتها لشخص أبي الحسن الأشعري في القرن الرابع الهجري(ت324)، والحق أن الأشعري في حياته كان شخصية وسطية في منهجه وطريقة دفاعه عن ...