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Promoting sustainable businesses for strong local communities: Qatar's wild herbal plants industry
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
Herbal medicine can improve economic diversification and sustainable livelihoods of local communities. In fact, the demand for herbal medicine is increasing globally while policymakers also value non-economic benefits, ...
Reflexive politics and Arab 'risk society'? COVID-19 and issues of public health
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GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies
, 2020 , Article)
Zeroing in on the notion of "risk society," this article attempts to unpack the challenges posed by COVID-19 on the Arab world. It highlights problems of inequality within and between Arab states with respect to public ...
Molecular Insights Into SARS COV-2 Interaction With Cardiovascular Disease: Role of RAAS and MAPK Signaling
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Frontiers Media S.A.
, 2020 , Article)
In December 2019, reports of viral pneumonia came out of Wuhan city in Hubei province in China. In early 2020, the causative agent was identified as a novel coronavirus (CoV) sharing some sequence similarity with SARS-CoV ...
SARS-CoV-2 infection hospitalization, severity, criticality, and fatality rates in Qatar
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Nature Research
, 2021 , Article)
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic resulted in considerable morbidity and mortality as well as severe economic and societal disruptions. Despite scientific progress, true infection severity, factoring both diagnosed and undiagnosed ...
Multicultural Validation of the Zuckerman–Kuhlman–Aluja Personality Questionnaire Shortened Form (ZKA-PQ/SF) Across 18 Countries
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SAGE Publications Inc.
, 2020 , Article)
The aim of this study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Zuckerman–Kuhlman–Aluja Personality Questionnaire shortened form (ZKA-PQ/SF) in 18 cultures and 13 languages of different African, American, Asian, and ...
Crystal structure, spectral, thermal and experimental/computational investigation of Anthracen-benzo[d]thiazol-2-amine new Schiff base derivative
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2021 , Article)
The N-S-N-tridentate ((E)-N-(anthracen-9-ylmethylene)benzo[d]thiazol-2-amine product was made available by dehydration of 2-Aminobenzothiazole with 9-anthraldehyde under non-classical microwave condition, five-minute ...
SEIRD model for Qatar COVID-19 outbreak: A case study
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Intercollegiate Biomathematics Alliance
, 2021 , Article)
The COVID-19 outbreak of 2020 has required many governments to develop mathematical-statistical models of the outbreak for policy and planning purposes. This work provides a tutorial on building a compartmental model using ...
Computation of conformal invariants
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Elsevier
, 2020 , Article)
We study numerical computation of conformal invariants of domains in the complex plane. In particular, we provide an algorithm for computing the conformal capacity of a condenser. The algorithm applies to a wide variety ...
Application of integral equations to simulating local fields in carbon nanotube reinforced composites
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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 ...
Boundary optimal control design for a system of parabolic-hyperbolic PDEs coupled with an ODE
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2020 , Article)
This paper deals with the design of a boundary optimal controller for a general model of parabolic-hyperbolic PDEs coupled with an ODE. The augmented infinite-dimensional state-space representation has been used in order ...