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    • Transit‐Oriented Development in Doha: The Case of the Al Sadd Neighborhood and Hamad Hospital Metro Station 

      Nafi, Sara; Furlan, Raffaello; Grosvald, Michael; Al-Matwi, Rashid; Marthya, Khalida Lifam ( MDPI , 2021 , Article)
      Over the last two decades, transit‐oriented development (TOD) has been widely implemented as an integrated strategy to enhance urban livability. Doha, the capital of the State of Qatar, has faced urban challenges such ...

    • Translating the style of Aganaktismenoi(Indignants) on Facebook 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( De Gruyter , 2015 , Article)
      The paper discusses translation challenges associated with the linguistic and multisemiotic stylistic ways (Kress 2010; Coupland 2007) Aganaktismenoi, the Greek indignants’ movement, employ to produce a digital sense of ...

    • Translation and the narratives of legitimacy: A semiotic analysis of the UN Special Envoy for Yemen’s legitimacy-constructing strategies and their Arabic translations 

      Al-Sharafi, Abdul Gabbar; Al-Shehari, Khaled ( John Benjamins Publishing , 2020 , Article)
      How legitimacy narratives in conflict zones are constructed and mediated through translation remains largely under-researched. This article investigates the strategies that the United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, Martin ...

    • Traveling within pharaonic Egypt for discovering the past 

      El-Menshawy, Sherine ( Scientific Culture , 2017 , Article)
      The aim of this paper is to assess to what degree were archaeological visits in ancient Egypt is regarded as visits of historical or touristical purpose. Research questions include: Who traveled, where and why? The ...

    • Treading with caution: China's multidimensional interventions in the Gulf Region 

      Mansour I. ( Cambridge University Press , 2019 , Article)
      This article demonstrates the growing adaptability of Chinese foreign policy to Gulf states’ expectations around issues that implicate them directly or are relevant (such as relations with the US, and the wars in Yemen and ...

    • Treatment as prevention for hepatitis C virus in the Middle East and North Africa: a modeling study 

      Ayoub, Houssein H.; Mahmud, Sarwat; Chemaitelly, Hiam; Abu-Raddad, Laith J. ( Frontiers Media SA , 2023 , Article)
      Background: Direct-acting antivirals opened an opportunity for eliminating hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), the region most affected by HCV infection. Impact of HCV treatment ...

    • Treatment of Sand Using Microbial-Induced Carbonate Precipitation (MICP) for Wind Erosion Application 

      Gu J.; Suleiman M.T.; Bastola H.; Brown D.G.; Zouari N. ( American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Microbial-induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) has been used to improve soil properties for different geotechnical applications. This research focuses on evaluating the use of MICP for the wind erosion application. The ...

    • Treatment of Soil-Washing Effluents Polluted with Herbicide Oxyfluorfen by Combined Biosorption-Electrolysis 

      Chair, Khaoula; Bedoui, Ahmed; Bensalah, Nasr; Saez, Cristina; Fernandez-Morales, Francisco J.; ... more authors ( American Chemical Society , 2017 , Article)
      The treatment of soil-washing effluents polluted with herbicide oxyfluorfen is studied using a combined process consisting of biosorption and electrolysis. Results show that oxyfluorfen is very efficiently removed from ...

    • Treatment of synthetic urine by electrochemical oxidation using conductive-diamond anodes 

      Dbira, Sondos; Bensalah, Nasr; Bedoui, Ahmed; Cañizares, Pablo; Rodrigo, Manuel A. ( Springer , 2015 , Article)
      In this work, the electrochemical oxidation of synthetic urine by anodic oxidation using boron-doped diamond as anode and stainless steel as cathode was investigated. Results show that complete depletion of chemical oxygen ...

    • Triterpenoids from Salvia aegyptiaca 

      Bruno, Maurizio; Ciriminna, Rosaria; Al-Easa, Hala S.; Rizk, Abdel-Fattah M. (1993 , Article)
      Newly isolated secondary metabolites from Salvia aegyptiaca growing in Qatar

    • Trust in development: some implications of knowing in indigenous knowledge 

      Sillitoe, P. ( Blackwell Publishing Ltd. , 2010 , Article)
      The indigenous knowledge (IK) initiative in development has met with limited success. The cultural relativity of knowledge � i.e. what qualifies as justified belief � may partly explain why. Drawing on New Guinea Highlands' ...

    • Tujjar in the Gulf: Changes in Political Influence 

      Menon, Lakshmi Venugopal ( Springer , 2023 , Book chapter)
      Since the oil boom in the 1970s, the Gulf region has witnessed tremendous growth. Today, the GCC countries have an impressive collective 85% urbanization. This paper argues that merchant-ruler relations and the transnational ...

    • Tunable Hydroxyapatite/Magnetite Nanohybrids with Preserved Magnetic Properties 

      Al Jahoushi, Khaula A.; Ayesh, Ahmad I.; El-Maghraby, Hesham F.; Alnoush, Wajdi; Higgins, Drew; ... more authors ( Wiley , 2022 , Article)
      Magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) have been extensively investigated in a wide range of biomedical applications. Controlled coating of the MNPs is commonly utilized to protect and maintain their magnetic properties and to ...

    • Tunable metal contacts at layered black-arsenic/metal interface forming during metal deposition for device fabrication 

      Kundu, Subhajit; Golani, Prafful; Yun, Hwanhui; Guo, Silu; Youssef, Khaled M.; ... more authors ( Nature Research , 2022 , Article)
      Understanding the kinetics of interfacial reaction in the deposition of metal contacts on 2D materials is important for determining the level of contact tenability and the nature of the contact itself. Here, we find that ...

    • Tundra Trait Team: A database of plant traits spanning the tundra biome 

      Bjorkman A.D.; Myers-Smith I.H.; Elmendorf S.C.; Normand S.; Thomas H.J.D.; ... more authors ( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2018 , Article)
      Motivation: The Tundra Trait Team (TTT) database includes field-based measurements of key traits related to plant form and function at multiple sites across the tundra biome. This dataset can be used to address theoretical ...

    • Tuning the activity of Cu-containing rare earth oxide catalysts for CO oxidation reaction: Cooling while heating paradigm in microwave-assisted synthesis 

      AlKetbi M.; Polychronopoulou K.; Zedan A.F.; Sebastian V.; Baker M.A.; ... more authors ( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)
      (Ce-La-xCu)O2 catalysts with low (3 at.%) and high (10 at.%) Cu content were prepared by conventional microwave (MW) and enhanced microwave methods where air cooling (AC), while heating, was applied. The catalysts were ...

    • Tuning the electrical properties of polyaniline by copolymerization with o-bromoaniline 

      Waware, Umesh S.; Hamouda, A. M. S.; Hameed, A. Shahul; Summers, Gabriel J. ( World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd , 2017 , Article)
      Polyaniline, poly(o-bromoaniline) and poly(aniline-co-o-bromoaniline)s have been prepared by chemical oxidative polymerization methods. A series of poly(aniline-co-o-bromoaniline) derivatives has been prepared by the ...

    • Tunisia: The Transformative Media Landscape after the Revolution 

      Miladi, Noureddine ( Open Book Publishers , 2021 , Book chapter)
      The media landscape in Tunisia has witnessed significant transformations since the revolution of 14 January 2011. After decades of being direct controlled and tightly monitored by the dictatorial regimes of Bourguiba and ...

    • The Tunisian experience post-2011: The crisis of democratization 

      Sadiki, Larbi; Saleh, Layla ( Taylor and Francis , 2023 , Book chapter)
      Offering a critical counter-narrative that upends the received wisdom about Tunisia’s fledgling democracy, the analysis here challenges existing literature on Tunisia’s democratization since the 2011 revolution, eschewing ...

    • Tunisia’s peripheral cities: Marginalization and protest politics in a democratizing country 

      Sadiki, Larbi ( Middle East Institute , 2021 , Article)
      This article investigates Tunisia's southern "periphery within the periphery," drawing on original interviews to examine marginalization and center-periphery relations in the country since the 2011 revolution. Comparisons ...