Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Human Factors in Driving Accidents: A Cognitive Investigation in the Gulf Context
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Human factors were reported by researchers to be the reason behind the majority of car accidents; examples of these factors were: inattention, stress, distraction, decision making, drugs and alcohol abuses. Most of such ... -
قيم المواطنة في زمن الازمات: الحصار على قطر نموذجا
( عمادة البحث العلمي والدراسات العليا بالجامعة الإسلامية بغزة - فلسطين , 2021 , Article)دراسة قِيم المواطنةِ في زمن الأزمات كان طموحاً دفعت إليه مجموعةٌ من الملاحظات والأحداث، التي فرضت نفسها بقوةٍ. وللقيام بهذه الدراسة تم تحديد الهدف الرئيسي في التعرف على حضور قِيم المواطنة لدى المواطن القطري زمن الحصار ومدى ... -
Organizational Trust and its Impact on the Organizational Commitment of Human Resources
( Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE) , 2022 , Article)The present study aims to identify the nature of the impact of organizational trust with its dimensions (trust in colleagues, trust in supervisors, trust in Administration) on the organizational commitment of human resources. ... -
Social Support Effectiveness of the Mental Health of Immigrants Living in Belgium
( OXFORD ACADEMIC , 2022 , Article)The increase in immigration has required social workers to focus more on this field and understand the social support systems of immigrants and the effects of their relationships with these systems to improve their ... -
Social work practices and enabling the integration of students from war and conflict zones
( Springer , 2021 , Article)Until recently, few studies have examined international students’ social issues and well-being from war and conflict zones. A significant proportion of international students in Turkey have arrived from countries actively ... -
Testing a Model of the Threat of Street Sexual Harassment in Egypt: Implications for Social Work Education
( Macrothink Institute , 2021 , Article)This study tested a model of Egyptian women’s well-being and perception of the threat of sexual harassment. The model was drawn from multiple theoretical frameworks, including the vulnerability perspective, objectification ... -
Measuring Egyptian Women’s Vulnerability to Sexual Harassment Threat: Reliability and Validity Evidence
( faculty of social work, Helwan University , 2021 , Article)This study developed an instrument to assess Arab women’s perception of the threat of sexual harassment (SH). In order to capture the cultural and interpersonal aspects related to Arab women’s views of such a phenomenon, ... -
An integrative psychological model for radicalism : Evidence from structural equation modeling
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)The present study aimed at testing an integrative model that comprises cognitive, psychopathological and psychosocial factors that potentially relate to radicalism as an antecedent condition to radical and terrorist ... -
Over-time and over-level replacement policies with random working cycles
( Springer New York LLC , 2016 , Article)When a unit is running successive works with cycle times, it would be uneconomical or impractical to do maintenances during any working cycle. This paper firstly reviews two replacement models proposed in literatures as ... -
Social workers in a Qatari health setting: responding positively to ethical problems
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)Social workers in health settings often face challenging ethical problems in their daily practice. These challenges may be internal in nature and in particular related to their personal and cultural beliefs. The aim of ... -
Development of executive functioning in school-age Tunisian children
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)Research regarding executive functioning (EF) in children rarely focuses on populations in African or Middle-Eastern Arabic-speaking countries. The current study used a cross-sectional design to examine the developmental ... -
The effects of citizenship status on service utilization and general satisfaction with healthcare: a cross-cultural study
(2017 , Article)Objective: To explore the role of citizenship status as a predictor of general satisfaction with healthcare services in Qatar, including potential interaction with utilization and health insurance coverage type.Design: A ... -
On national flags and language tags: Effects of flag-language congruency in bilingual word recognition
( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)French-English bilinguals performed a generalized lexical decision experiment with mixed lists of French and English words and pseudo-words. In Experiment 1, each word/pseudo-word was superimposed on the picture of the ... -
False Memory in Adults With ADHD: A Comparison Between Subtypes and Normal Controls
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2017 , Article)Objectives: To examine the performance on the Deese-Roediger-McDermott task of adults divided into ADHD subtypes and compares their performance to that of healthy controls to examine whether adults with ADHD are more ... -
Qatar as full island overnight: Psychological and social consequences of blockade as reflected in the social media
( University of Akron , 2017 , Article)The GCC crisis in which Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Bahrain have closed land, sea and air borders going into and from Qatar imposed a host of psychosocial stressors on both Qatari and non-Qatari citizens. This ongoing crisis ... -
The Development of the Dementia Screening Battery-100: Instrument Presentation, Reliability, and Construct Validity
( S. Karger AG , 2017 , Article)Background/Aim: The screening of dementia in non-Westerners has so far relied on translations and adaptations of reputed instruments. Other efforts focused on developing culturally appropriate tests or tests in touch with ... -
Tweet sentiment analysis with pronoun choice reveals online community dynamics in response to crisis events
( Springer Verlag , 2017 , Conference Paper)We describe the emergence of an online community from naturally occurring social media data. Our method uses patterns of word choice in an online social platform to characterize how a community forms in response to adverse ... -
A disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer's disease: Focus on the trans-sulfuration pathway
( De Gruyter , 2019 , Article)High homocysteine levels in Alzheimer's disease (AD) result from low activity of the trans-sulfuration pathway. Glutathione levels are also low in AD. L-cysteine is required for the synthesis of glutathione. The synthesis ... -
Perceptions of Women's Roles between Traditionalism and Modernity in Qatar
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2019 , Article)Women's participation in public life in the Arabian Peninsula is affected by tradition and limits their opportunities for socio-economic development. This study focuses on the social structures that impose gender inequality. ... -
The interactive effect of valence and context on reversal learning in individuals with Parkinson's disease
( Elsevier Ireland Ltd , 2019 , Article)Cognitive deficits in Parkinson’s disease (PD) have increasingly been recognized over the last decade and reversal learning in particular has received a great deal of attention. In a classical reversal-learning paradigm, ...
