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Assessment of climate change pattern in the Pauri Garhwal of the Western Himalayan Region: based on climate parameters and perceptions of forest-dependent communities
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Springer
, 2020 , Article)
© 2020, Springer Nature Switzerland AG. This study assessed the climate change in Pauri district, Uttarakhand, India, a region highly vulnerable to climate change with potentially high loss of livelihoods and lives. The ...
Education and Empowerment of Women in the GCC States
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
According to the popular view, 21st century is regarded as an era of women. The rising tide of educating and empowering women has considerably influenced the lives of women in every walk of life throughout the world. ...
To Which Extent is the Educational Sector in the Gulf Countries Contributing to Social Change?
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
The overall theme of this conference is social change. This paper focus on one, however important, factor behind social change in the Gulf countries, namely that of education. Each of the Gulf countries have embarked on a ...
The Dominant Discourse Representing Iranian National Identity in Social Media: A Case Study of Twitter
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Identity is defined through the comparison of oneself to the other and it is rooted in human beings' need to be different and distinguished from others. From a post-structualist viewpoint, identity is plural, dynamic and ...
Aspirations for Pursuing the Prominent Leadership Roles in the Academia: Perspectives of Kuwaiti Women
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Since 1938, oil was discovered in Kuwait that made a progressive source of socio- economic growth. In addition to that, Kuwait took initiatives to start adult education programs for women who followed by parallel programs ...
Where rhetoric meets reality: an ethnographic analysis of the sports education sector in Qatar
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
This paper explores the growing provision of sports education in the state of Qatar. Since 2010, there has been a rapid increase in new courses in sports administration as part of wider, government-backed initiatives to ...
Metabolomics and doping analysis: promises and pitfalls.
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Future Science
, 2020 , Article)
This brief commentary presents an overview of the potential utility of metabolomics-based approaches in doping
analysis, with particular emphasis on areas where the current analytical procedures would most benefit from ...
Migrant Workers Impact on Social life of the Gulf Countries During COVID 19
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
Six GCC countries are the home of the global migrant workers. As at present estimated that about 56 million population of collectively of GCC among 30 million populations are not nationals.Huge migrants population and ...
COVID-19 and Migrant Workers in the Gulf
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
As the global COVID-19 crisis unfolds, the Gulf countries faces an unprecedent challenge of containing the spread of the virus among the non-national residents. Since migrants in Gulf countries live primarily in labour ...
Analyzing the Role of Government in the Management and Planning of Tourism Crisis; A Case Study of the COVID-19 Crisis
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Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University
, 2020 , Conference Paper)
The tourism planning and management is a collective action in which different actors of governmental and non-governmental organizations and institutions are involved. It is necessary to manage this phenomenon both during ...