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Beyond the walls of the school: Risk factors and children and youth in the Gulf
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Article)UNESCO has reported that progress on the Education For All movement has been slow in the Arab world, including the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council. The low levels of achievement on national and international ... -
Categorization does not promote symmetry in Guinea baboons (Papio papio)
( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Article)Humans have the capacity to use stimuli interchangeably by forming equivalence classes, and this ability seems to be supported by our language system. According to Sidman and Tailby (Conditional discrimination vs. matching ... -
Changes in the own group bias across immediate and delayed recognition tasks
( Academy of Science of South Africa , 2023 , Article)Face recognition is biased in favour of in-group identity, particularly strongly for race or ethnicity but to some extent also for sex and age. This 'own group bias' (OGB) can have profound implications in practical settings, ... -
Childhood Labor in India: issues and complexities
( Symposium Journals, Ltd , 2008 , Article & Presentation)It is estimated that more than 12 million children in India under the age of 14 engage in paid labor at least part time, due mostly to economic reasons. Dominant discourses about childhood however conceptualize childhood ... -
Cognitive emotion regulation strategies, anxiety, and depression in mothers of children with or without neurodevelopmental disorders
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Background: A large number of studies have examined psychological distress and emotion regulation (ER) in parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). However, no study has previously examined "purely" cognitive ... -
Collaboration with Families of Children with Disabilities in Qatar: A Parent's Perspective
( OMICS , 2017 , Article)The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives of parents of children with disabilities in regard of the components of true collaboration practices in different educational institutions. As well as to solicit ... -
College Students' Mindfulness, Resilience, Flourishing, and Academic Success: An Exploratory Study from Egypt
( Oxbridge Publishing House , 2023 , Article)Limited research has been conducted on the influence of mindfulness, resilience, and well-being on academic achievement within the context of Arabic culture, particularly in higher education. The main objectives of this ... -
Comparative analysis of computer-vision and BLE technology based indoor navigation systems for people with visual impairments
( BioMed Central Ltd. , 2019 , Article)Background: Considerable number of indoor navigation systems has been proposed to augment people with visual impairments (VI) about their surroundings. These systems leverage several technologies, such as computer-vision, ... -
Comparing metabolic profiles between female endurance athletes and non-athletes reveals differences in androgen and corticosteroid levels
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Endurance training is associated with physiological changes in elite athletes, but little is known about female-specific effects of endurance training. Despite the significant rise in female sports participation, findings ... -
Conditions for student-centered teaching and learning in Qatari elementary math and science classrooms: Relationship between classroom processes and achievement of curriculum standards
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2013 , Article)Qatar K-12 school reform emphasizes student-centered classrooms where students actively engage in enquiry and use their critical thinking and problem solving skills. Classrooms characterized by these elements should ... -
Conditions for Student-Centered Teaching and Learning: Relationship Between Classroom Processes and School Achievement of Curriculum Standards
(2011 , Conference Paper)Qatari educational curriculum standards emphasize student-centered classrooms where students actively engage in inquiry and problem solving. Classrooms characterized by these elements should emerge as more successful on ... -
Criminal thinking in a Middle Eastern prison sample of thieves, drug dealers, and murderers
( Wiley , 2015 , Article)The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) has been applied extensively to the study of criminal behaviour and cognition. This study aimed to explore the psychometric characteristics (factorial structure, ... -
Cross-national differences in special education coverage: An empirical analysis
( Council for Exceptional Children , 2014 , Article)This study investigated the role of educational and socioeconomic factors in explaining differences in national special education coverage. Data were derived from several international and governmental sources, targeting ... -
Cross-race correlations in the abilities to match unfamiliar faces
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)The other-race effect in face identification has been documented widely in memory tasks, but it persists also in identity-matching tasks, in which memory contributions are minimized. Whereas this points to a perceptual ... -
Culture as a driver for the design of social robots for Autism spectrum disorder interventions in the Middle East
( Springer Verlag , 2016 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we discuss the prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the Gulf region. We examine the importance of providing state-of-the-art ASD interventions, and highlight social robots as therapeutic tools ... -
Culture shapes face perception: Comparisons of egypt and the UK
( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2017 , Book chapter)The psychological literature reports a variety of cross-cultural differences in cognition, but most of these are based on comparisons of Western and Asian observers. Here, we discuss quantitative and qualitative cross-cultural ... -
Depression Following Major Life Transitions in Women: A Review and Theory
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2020 , Article Review)Depression can occur due to common major life transitions, such as giving birth, menopause, retirement, empty-nest transition, and midlife crisis. Although some of these transitions are perceived as positive (e.g., giving ... -
Developing a Test of Early Arabic Literacy Skills
( Routledge , 2021 , Article)In recent years, stronger literacy development has emerged as a critically important issue in Arabic speaking nations. Results of international assessments indicate that most of the participating Arab countries are near ... -
Developmental improvement and age-related decline in unfamiliar face matching
( Pion Limited , 2015 , Article)Age-related changes have been documented widely in studies of face recognition and eyewitness identification. However, it is not clear whether these changes arise from general developmental differences in memory or occur ... -
Do Diacritical Marks Play a Role at the Early Stages of Word Recognition in Arabic?
( Frontiers Media , 2016 , Article)A crucial question in the domain of visual word recognition is whether letter similarity plays a role in the early stages of visual word processing. Here we focused on Arabic because in this language there are various ...