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Gender and age differences in life satisfaction within a sex-segregated society: Sampling youth in Qatar
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Routledge
, 2016 , Article)
Recent decades have witnessed a surge of interest in the measures of subjective well-being, including mental and physical health, happiness and life satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to determine if there are ...
Do Diacritical Marks Play a Role at the Early Stages of Word Recognition in Arabic?
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Frontiers Media
, 2016 , Article)
A crucial question in the domain of visual word recognition is whether letter similarity plays a role in the early stages of visual word processing. Here we focused on Arabic because in this language there are various ...
Nutritional and health status among nursing home residents in Lebanon: Comparison across gender in a national cross sectional study
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BioMed Central Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
Background: This study described the differences between elderly men and women living in Lebanese long-term care nursing homes on socio-economic, health and nutritional status. Methods. This study used a cross-sectional ...
Self-reported psychopathy in the Middle East: a cross-national comparison across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United States
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BioMed Central
, 2015 , Article)
Background
The construct of psychopathy is sparsely researched in the non-Western world, particularly in the Middle East. As such, the extent to which the psychopathy construct can be generalized to other cultures, including ...
An Exploratory Study of Teachers' Perceptions of Prosocial Behaviors in Preschool Children
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Children's social development is generally facilitated in the context of the unique, socialization experiences that they encounter at school and at. Such experiences are likely to manifest themselves in prosocial behaviors ...
Teaching writing in Qatari early years education: the perceptions of early childhood teachers
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
The present study aimed at 1) exploring early childhood teachers' perceptions about teaching writing in Qatari early years settings, and 2) identifying the impact of several social-demographics variables on these views. ...
A qualitative study of student attitudes, perceptions, beliefs, outlook and context in Qatar: Persistence in higher education
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Article)
This study attempts to address the challenges of students in higher education in Qatar. The study draws on student perceptions, beliefs, outlook, and context; we approach the study through grounded means by posing leading ...
Face And Object Perceptual Deficits In Schizophrenia
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2014 , Conference Paper)
Clinical studies in the face perception literature report that schizophrenics have a deficit in face identification. However, it is not clear whether this deficit is a part of a general cognitive impairment or is specific ...
Analytical view of statistics and probability curriculum standards in Qatar
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
Ten years ago, Qatar initiated an education reform based on curriculum standards that draw on international expectations of what students should know, understand, and be able to do at each stage of their schooling. The ...
What Is Published About Special Education In Arab Countries? A Preliminary Analysis
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2014 , Conference Paper)
The use of research-based educational practices when serving students with disabilities is an essential component of special education policy as, if such a research foundation is missing, policies are compromised. Because ...