Browsing College of Arts & Sciences by Type "Book chapter"
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28 Sport communication and the politics of identity in the MENA region
( De Gruyter Mouton , 2021 , Book chapter)This chapter examines the sporting context in the MENA region, and the role of media coverage in mobilizing narratives around sport performance, in the construction of collective imagination framed around national unity, ... -
Adaptive Sampling
( John Wiley & Sons, Ltd , 2015 , Book chapter)Animal populations are often highly grouped. For example, fish can form large, widely scattered schools with few fish in between. Even rare species of animals may form small groups that are hard to find. Applying standard ... -
Adolescence surveillance system for obesity prevention (ASSO) in EUROPE: A pioneering project to prevent obesity using e-technology
( IGI Global , 2018 , Book chapter)Adolescents' obesity is a major concern in our modern life that could lead to significant increase in the rate of obese future generations and consequently in the health budget. The ASSO (Adolescence Surveillance System ... -
Algeria
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AlJazeera: Non-Violence and Peace Journalism
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2019 , Book chapter)Since its establishment in 1996, Al Jazeera has branded itself as an alternative source of news in a world dominated until then by Western media. Al-Jazeera’s role as an alternative voice has been particularly highlighted ... -
Application of integral equations to simulating local fields in carbon nanotube reinforced composites
( Elsevier , 2020 , Book chapter)We consider the steady heat conduction problem within a thermal isotropic and homogeneous square ring composite reinforced by nonoverlapping and randomly distributed carbon nanotubes (CNTs). We treat the CNTs as rigid line ... -
The Arab spring is not lost: Moral protest as the embodiment of a new politics
( Taylor & Francis , 2019 , Book chapter)This chapter explores the “Arab Spring” popular Uprisings sweeping the MENA region since late 2010 to posit moral protest as a dynamic of new politics “from below.” It begins with a conceptualization of bottom-up “protest ... -
Arabic political discourse
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2018 , Book chapter)Political discourse analysis (PDA) is a discipline mainly concerned with the study of political communication in society whether via texts, speeches, images, references, symbols, or other signs. This chapter focuses on ... -
Assessing and Reporting Potential Environmental Risks Associated with Reefing Oil Platform During Decommissioning in Qatar
( Springer , 2023 , Book chapter)Decommissioning obsolete oil platforms in the upcoming decades in Qatar, through a complete removal, will imply a major loss of the fouling biodiversity and associated ecosystem functions and services. The rig-to-reef ... -
Assessing the Impact of Major Political and Institutional Factors on New Businesses: The Case of Qatar
( Springer , 2022 , Book chapter)This chapter provides an assessment of the impact of the major political and institutional factors on establishing new businesses in the State of Qatar in the long run using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model. ... -
Autoimmune Diseases of the GI Tract Part I: Etiology and Pathophysiology
( IntechOpen , 2022 , Book chapter)Autoimmune diseases have emerged as a pandemic in our modern societies, especially after World War II. There are currently more than 80 autoimmune diseases that compromise the lives of millions of patients around the world. ... -
Autoimmune Diseases of the GI Tract Part II: Emergence of Diagnostic Tools and Treatments
( IntechOpen , 2022 , Book chapter)Autoimmune diseases (AD) have emerged as a pandemic in our modern societies, especially after the World War II. In part I, we have reviewed five main diseases and shed light on different aspects from introducing the concept ... -
Biodiversity and possible utilization of halophytes in Qatar
( Springer International Publishing , 2021 , Book chapter)Climate change, nature destruction, food security, and accessibility to fresh water are all the most concerning world issues facing humanities. There are many solutions to minimize the adverse effects of such environmental ... -
Biophysical model of coral population connectivity in the Arabian/Persian Gulf
( Academic Press , 2020 , Book chapter)The coral reef ecosystems of the Arabian/Persian Gulf (the Gulf) are facing profound pressure from climate change (extreme temperatures) and anthropogenic (land-use and population-related) stressors. Increasing degradation ... -
Building an Integrated Missile Defense Architecture for Gulf States: Perceptions, Capabilities and Challenges
( Gerlach Press , 2016 , Book chapter)Ballistic missile defense (BMD) plays an important role in the defense planning of all GCC members, involving huge investments with strong reliance on US assistance. This is a major concern in relations with regional ... -
CHAPTER 7: Hybrid Graphitic Carbon Nitride (gCN)-based Devices for Energy Storage and Production
( Royal Society of Chemistry , 2021 , Book chapter)The increasing demand for energy and the reducing supply of conventional energy storage devices have inspired interest to design environmentally-friendly, abundant, and cheap materials for energy storage applications. ... -
Characteristics of preferred gait patterns: considerations for exercise prescription - Chapter 7
( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2016 , Book chapter)Gait patterns have been widely studied in different fields of science for their particular characteristics. A dynamic approach of human locomotion considers walking and running as two stable behaviours adopted spontaneously ... -
Charactertistics of preferred gait patterns: Considerations for exercise prescription
( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2016 , Book chapter)Gait patterns have been widely studied in different fields of science for their particular characteristics. A dynamic approach of human locomotion considers walking and running as two stable behaviours adopted spontaneously ... -
Competing Radicalisms: A Comparison of Saudi and Iranian Foreign Policies After 2015
( Springer , 2021 , Book chapter)On 5 June 2017, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt initiated a blockade on the state of Qatar. While many justifications were offered for the blockade, the blockading countries, led by Saudi Arabia, ... -
Confidence intervals for quantiles using record values from the generalized exponential distribution
( Nova Science Publishers, Inc. , 2012 , Book chapter)Likelihood-based and bootstrap confidence intervals for the quantiles of the generalized exponential distribution based on record values are developed. Intervals for the difference of quantiles based on two independent ...
