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Recent Submissions
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Influence of Sinusoidal Drive Speed Modulation on Rotor with Continuous Stator Contact
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Torsional vibrations experienced by drill strings can be detrimental to drilling operations. With a goal of understanding torsional vibrations experienced by drill strings and determining means to attenuate undesired ... -
Towards a National Electronic Health Record in Qatar: Building on International Experiences
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Background: During the past decade, the IT industry has introduced several new concepts within the health domain including e-health, electronic health record, digital hospital, and many more. Although each of these terms ... -
Bio-Facades; An Innovative Design Solution Towards Sustainable Architecture in Hot Arid Zones
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)The Arabian Gulf is a semi-enclosed sea with very high evaporation and low discharge rates resulting in extreme saline and thermal conditions. Additionally the system is characterized by a weak hydrodynamic flushing resulting ... -
Robust Controller and Fault Diagnoser Design for Linear Systems with Event-based Communication
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)In order to improve the effectiveness and safety of control systems, the problem of integrated fault diagnosis and control (IFDC) design has attracted significant attention in the recent years, both in the research and in ... -
Effects of Drill Mud and Drive Torque Sinusoidal Excitation on Drillstrings Lateral and Torsional StickSlip Vibrations
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)Oil and gas drilling companies spend around 20$ billion annually from which 15% is attributed to material and productive time losses. The most prevalent drilling problems are caused by the Bottom-Hole-Assembly failure which ... -
Implementing and Analyzing a Recursive Technique for Building Path Oblivious RAM
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)It has been demonstrated that encrypting confidential data before storing it is not sufficient because data access patterns can leak significant information about the data itself (Goldreich & Ostrovsky, 1996). Oblivious ... -
Q-Learning Based Closed-Loop Control of Anesthesia Administration by Accounting for Hemodynamic Parameter Variations
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Critically ill patients in the intensive care units (ICUs) are often in acutely disturbed state of mind characterized by restlessness, illusions, and nervousness. Such patients, for instance, those who are mechanically ... -
Secure Communications Using Directional Modulation
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Limitations on the wireless communication resources (i.e., time and frequency) introduces the need for another domain that can help communication systems to match the increasing demand on high data transfer rates and quality ... -
Calibration & Temperature Controlled Setup for Air Quality Sensors
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Indoor air pollution is a major issue affecting public health. Due to hot climate, humidity and lack of natural green spaces, life is mostly confined indoors in many countries of the MENA region. Vulnerable population, ... -
Occupant's thermal comfort in Qatari offices - Need for the new adaptive standard
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Qatar's per capita energy consumption is one of the highest in the world, consuming 30.184 TWh as of 2012. Buildings contribute significantly (80%) to this, with air-conditioning taking a lion's share. Qatar does not have ... -
The significance of industry experience in civil engineering education
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2013 , Conference Paper)Students pursuing their civil engineering degree usually learn the theory part in class but may struggle relating theory to practice if the instructor have no industry experience. Engineering graduates can benefit more ... -
Effective Realtime Tweet Summarization
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)Twitter has been developed as an immense information creation and sharing network through which users post information. Information could vary from the world»s breaking news to other topics such as sports, science, religion, ... -
The common ground for sustainable urbanism in the case of Doha
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Doha, like most of the Gulf States' cities, has evolved dramatically to the global city model due to the oil economy, thereby experiencing a massive urban evolution and creating mega urban development projects that are ... -
Developing, implementing and improving learning outcomes assessment in Qatar's public higher education
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Article)This study reports on the development and implementation of the Student Learning Outcomes Assessment process and the system implemented at Qatar University. This system consists of two phases, initiation and enhancement, ... -
A fuzzy logic based irrigation management system in arid regions applied to the state of qatar
( WITPress , 2012 , Article)In arid and hyper arid regions like Qatar, the time and duration of irrigation is key to achieving sustainable irrigations. This paper proposes a practical solution based on artificial intelligence where all design and ... -
A fuzzy logic based irrigation system enhanced with wireless data logging applied to the state of Qatar
( Elsevier B.V. , 2013 , Article)In arid regions, developing environment and crop-specific irrigation scheduling that reduces water lost via evapotranspiration is a key to a sustainable and better managed irrigation. This paper presents a practical solution ... -
Hybrid thin-films of graphene materials and metallic nanowires for next generation transparent electrodes
( Optics InfoBase , 2013 , Conference Paper)We report advances in the fabrication and characterization of transparent conductive electrodes based on thin-films of metallic nanowires (copper and silver) encapsulated with graphene, graphene oxide, and reduced graphene ... -
Towards u-health: An indoor 6LoWPAN based platform for real-time healthcare monitoring
( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)Ubiquitous healthcare is the key to handle the challenges of the growing population around the world. A variety of u-healthcare systems have been developed using various short-range technologies and proprietary protocols ... -
A comparative analysis of BLE and 6LoWPAN for U-HealthCare applications
( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)For decades, there exist a variety of low-power wireless technologies deployed for healthcare applications such as Zigbee/IEEE802.15.4, Bluetooth, ANT, NFC, IrDA. However, the recently announced Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) ... -
Design of Qatar University's first solar car for Shell Eco-marathon competition
( IEEE , 2012 , Conference Paper)Research and development in the area of renewable energy is growing fast, supported by the increasing awareness about sustainability, environment and limitation of conventional sources of energy. Interestingly, oil and gas ...
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