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    • The prevalence of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) use in non-clinical populations: a systematic review protocol 

      Khaled, Salma M.; Hughes, Elizabeth; Bressington, Dan; Zolezzi, Monica; Radwan, Ahmed; ... more authors ( BioMed Central , 2016 , Article)
      Background Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) are new narcotic or psychotropic drugs that are not controlled by the United Nations drug convention that may pose a serious public health threat due to their wide availability ...
    • "Protecting" or "policing": Academic researchers' view of IRBs in an arab context 

      Makhoul, Jihad; El-Alti, Leila; Qutteina, Yara; Nasrallah, Catherine; Sakr, Carol; ... more authors ( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2014 , Article)
      A recent surge of research universities and human subjects research funding in the Arab world raises concerns about applied research ethics and oversight. In-depth interviews conducted with 52 researchers in Lebanon and ...
    • Proxy reporting in education surveys: factors influencing accurate reporting in the 2012 Qatar Education Study 

      Wittrock, Jill; Kimmel, Linda; Hunscher, Brian; Le, Kien Trung ( Taylor & Francis (Routledge) , 2017 , Article)
      Proxy reporting is a common practice during survey data collection to increase response rates while reducing fieldwork costs, and agreement between proxies and self-reports is critical to make reliable and valid inferences. ...
    • Psychotic-like experiences among university female students in Qatar: A qualitative-phenomenological study 

      Yehya, Arij; Khaled, Salma M.; Sommer, Iris E. C.; Woodruff, Peter; Daher-Nashif, Suhad ( Frontiers Media , 2022 , Article)
      Background and aims: Psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) are hallucinatory or delusional experiences that fall below the threshold of a diagnosable psychotic disorder. Although PLEs are common across the spectrum of psychiatric ...
    • Public Acceptance of Taxation in Qatar 

      Ewers, Michael, [ إيورز، مايكل ]; Eskander, Glnar , [ إسكندر، وجلنار ]; Shockley, Bethany,, [ شوكلي ، وبثناي ] ( Qatar University , 2016 , Report)
      Most Gulf countries have acknowledged that the traditional rentier system requires basic economic reform, and VAT could prove a more stable source of government revenue for oil producing countries. Results from two separate ...
    • Public awareness and perceptions of taxation in a changing Gulf economy 

      Ewers, Michael; Ashi, Sundos; Shockley, Bethany ( SESRI , 2017 , Report)
      For the VAT scheme to succeed in Qatar, public awareness is necessary. Consumers need to understand how and why the VAT will affect their budgets. Perhaps more importantly, businesses need to understand how to modify ...
    • Public Spending Priorities in Qatar 

      Ashi, Sundos; Gengler, Justin; Ewers, Michael ( SESRI , 2017 , Report)
      Together with previous survey findings, SESRI’s study of fiscal priorities among Qataris demonstrates the importance to citizens of healthcare and education, and to a lesser extent other sectors such as social security ...
    • Public–Private Partnership in Tunisia: Enfidha Airport Assessment of an Infrastructure Achievement 

      Benmansour, Nada Abdelkader ( Taylor & Francis , 2016 , Article)
      One of the largest recent private-sector investments and the first airport private-sector concession in the Maghreb is Enfidha Airport, a key factor in the success of the Tunisian Government’s public– private partnership ...
    • Qatar Against The Blockade 

      Al-Sayed, Hassan Abdulrahim; Al-Ansar, Majed Mohammad; Al-Khater, Lolwa Rashed; Al-Abul Qader, Khaled Shams; Al-Kubaisi, Fatima Ali; ; السيد, حسن عبدالرحيم; الأنصاري, ماجد محمد; العبدالقادر, خالد شمس; الكبيسي, فاطمة علي; الراكب, نوف عبدالهادي; ... more authors ( Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) , 2017 , Article)
      INTRODUCTION: The unjust and surprising Qatar blockade may be considered the most important event in the country's contemporary history, given its essential political, economic and social impacts on Qatar’s present and ...
    • Qatar before the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 

      Qutteina, Yara; Aviles, Maria del Carmen Barranco; Al-Ali, Khalid; de Asis, rafael; del Pozo, Pablo Rodriguez ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Background: The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the CRPD) is the first human rights treaty of the 21st century and the first binding instrument specifically focused on protecting persons with ...
    • Qatar Education Study 2012- Students’ Motivation and Parental 

      Alemadi, Darwish; Al-Emadi, Ahmed; Diop, Abdoulaye; Trung Le, Kien; Kimmel, Linda; ... more authors ( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University. , 2012 , Other)
      This report examines the views of children, parents, teachers, and administrators toward K-12 education in Qatar. It is based on results from the Qatar Education Study (QES), which is a series of surveys conducted by the ...
    • Qatar Education Study 2015: Students' Motivation and Parental Participation Report 

      Al-Emadi, Darwish; Sellami, Abdel Latif; Al-Emadi, Ahmed ( SESRI - Qatar University , 2016 , Report)
      The prosperity of a nation is due in part to the investments it makes in education, the value of which cannot be overstated. Indeed, education is the catalyst for improved socio-economic opportunities for a country such ...
    • QATAR EDUCATION STUDY : Facilities Report 2012 

      Al-Emadi, Darwish; Al-Emadi, Ahmed; Diop, Abdoulaye; Trung Le, Kien; Kimmel, Linda; ... more authors ( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University. , 2015 , Other)
      This report examines the views of students, teachers and administrators toward K-12 education in Qatar. It is based on results from the Qatar Education Study (QES), which is a series of surveys conducted by the Social ...
    • Qatar World Cup 2022: Awareness of the event and its impact on destination and country character perceptions in the US tourism market 

      Kaplanidou, Kyriaki; Al-Emadi, Ahmed; Triantafyllidis, Stavros; Sagas, Michael; Diop, Abdoulaye ( Cognizant Communication Corporation , 2016 , Article)
      This study examined how awareness levels of hosting the 2022 World Cup in Qatar changed perceptions of Qatar's destination image, country character, and neighboring destinations' images. Data were collected through Amazon ...
    • QATAR'S LABOUR LAW CHANGES AND WORKERS WELFARE: ATTITUDES & PERCETIONS FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE 

      Diop, Abdoulaye; Kien, Le Trung; AL Khelaifi, Buthaina; Al Qassass, Haneen; Bader, Lina; ... more authors ( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)
      From September 22 2020 to January 19 2021, the Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) at Qatar University surveyed 2,760 individuals, including Qatari nationals, higher-income and lower-income expatriates ...
    • QATARI FEMALE MANAGERS IN A WORLD OF PATRIARCHY 

      Lari, Noora Ahmed ( GIAP Journals , 2019 , Article)
      Purpose: The State of Qatar has widely sought to include women in public life and has implemented several policies in order to improve gender equality in the workforce and fair distribution of development benefits. This ...
    • Qatar’s first elections since 2017 reveal unexpected impact of GCC crisis 

      Gengler, Justin; Al Ansari, Majed ( Al-Monitor , 2019 , Article)
      Turnout in the Qatari municipal election has declined, suggesting a Qatari citizenry that is slightly less engaged in the formal political process in the wake of the GCC crisis.
    • Randomization in small sample surveys with the Halton sequence 

      Le K.T.; McRoy M.; Diop A. ( European Survey Research Association , 2018 , Article)
      Randomization has been widely used in surveys for various purposes such as within household respondent selection, rotation of questions and answer choices, and split sample (or ballot) technique for survey experiments. The ...
    • Reasons for Participation in Household Surveys in the Arab Gulf Countries, Qatar 

      Elawad, Elmogiera; Agied, Mohamed Bala ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Participation in public opinion surveys in the State of Qatar is voluntary, and respondents are not offered incentives for participating. Nevertheless, rates of participation in face-to-face surveys conducted by the Social ...
    • Reasons for unit non-response in household Surveys in the Arab Gulf Countries 

      Elawad, Elmogiera; Agied, Mohamed; Ibrahim, Saleh; Alkahlout, Ayman ( The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University , 2013 , Poster)
      For in-person household surveys, it is fundamental to consider societal customs when choosing appropriate times and interviewer gender. However, even after all these procedures were taken into consideration with an eye to ...