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Burden of diabetes mellitus attributable to demographic levels in Qatar: An emerging public health problem
( Elsevier Ltd , 2014 , Article)Diabetes is one of the main contributors to ill health and premature mortality worldwide and its prevalence has been rising during the last decades. Aim The aim of the present study was to quantify the burden of disease ... -
Business Process Re-Engineering: A Literature Review-Based Analysis of Implementation Measures
( MDPI , 2022 , Article)Business process re-engineering (BPR) is an approach to improving organizational performance. It evolved mostly within the private sector to maintain a successful business model despite increasing global competition. BPR ... -
Business process reengineering in UAE public sector: A town planning case study
( Emerald Group Publishing Limited , 2007 , Article)Purpose - To reengineer the applications' processes of the land department of Al-Ain Municipality and to develop an electronic version of the reengineered processes. Design/methodology/approach - The research approach used ... -
C-SAR: Class-Specific and Adaptive Recognition for Arabic Handwritten Cheques
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2022 , Book chapter)We propose C-SAR, a Class-specific and Adaptive Recognition algorithm for Arabic handwritten Cheques. Existing methods suffer from low accuracy due to the complex structure of Arabic script and high-dimensional datasets. ... -
CAE Adaptive Compression, Transmission Energy and Cost Optimization for m-Health Systems
( IEEE Computer Society , 2021 , Conference Paper)The rapid increase in the number of patients requiring constant monitoring inspires researchers to investigate the area of mobile health (m-Health) systems for intelligent and sustainable remote healthcare applications. ... -
Calcite Scale Inhibition Using Environmental-Friendly Amino Acid Inhibitors: DFT Investigation
( American Chemical Society , 2021 , Article)Scale prevention is a long-term challenge. It is essential for ensuring the optimum utilization of oil and gas wells and minimizing economic losses due to disruptions in the hydrocarbon flow. Among the commonly precipitated ... -
Calcium carbonate particles loaded with triethanolamine and polyethylenimine for enhanced corrosion protection of epoxy coated steel
( Elsevier Ltd , 2020 , Article)Calcium carbonate particles were synthesized and loaded with a mixture of two corrosion inhibitors, triethanolamine (TEA) and polyethylenimine (PEI). These particles can serve as pH-sensitive additives in epoxy coatings ... -
Calcium deficiency in hydroxyapatite and its drug delivery applications
( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2018 , Article)In this work, calcium deficient hydroxyapatites (HAPs) [Ca 10 ? x (PO 4 ) 6 (OH) 2 ] [where x = 0 ? 0.3] were synthesised by precipitation method and calcined samples were characterised by Fourier transformation infrared ... -
Calculating the response of waveguides to base excitation using the wave and finite element method
( SAGE , 2021 , Article)The prediction of the response of waveguides to time-harmonic base excitations has many applications in mechanical, aerospace and civil engineering. The response to base excitations can be obtained analytically for simple ... -
Calculation of derating factors based on steady-state unbalanced multiphase induction machine model under open phase(s) and optimal winding currents
( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)Multiphase machines have become a promising candidate in high-power applications as they offer many advantages over their three-phase counterparts. The main salient feature is the high fault tolerance capability. During ... -
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, ... -
Calibration of time features and frequency features in the time-frequency domain for improved detection and classification of seizure in newborn EEG signals
( IEEE Computer Society , 2012 , Conference Paper)This paper presents new time-frequency features for seizure detection in newborn EEG signals. These features are obtained by calibrating relevant time features and frequency features in the joint time-frequency domain. The ... -
Caloric expenditure estimation for health games
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2013 , Conference Paper)With the decline in physical activities among young people, it is essential to monitor their physical activity and ensure their calorie expenditure is within the range necessary to lead a healthy life style. For many ... -
CamNav: a computer-vision indoor navigation system
( Springer , 2021 , Article)We present CamNav, a vision-based navigation system that provides users with indoor navigation services. CamNav captures images in real time while the user is walking to recognize their current location. It does not require ... -
Can AI Help in Screening Viral and COVID-19 Pneumonia?
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Article)Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a pandemic disease, which has already caused thousands of causalities and infected several millions of people worldwide. Any technological tool enabling rapid screening of the COVID-19 ... -
Can automated driving prevent crashes with distracted Pedestrians? An exploration of motion planning at unsignalized Mid-block crosswalks
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)Pedestrian distraction may provoke severe difficulties in automated vehicle (AV) control, which may significantly affect the safety performance of AVs, especially at unsignalized mid-block crosswalks (UMCs). However, there ... -
Can genetic algorithms with the symmetric heuristic find the Ramsey number R(5,5)
( IEEE , 2010 , Conference Paper)Ramsey Theory studies the existence of highly regular patterns within a large system and proves that the complete disorder doesn't exist. The role of Ramsey numbers is to quantify some of the general existential theorems ... -
Can immersive type of Virtual Reality bring EMG pattern changes post facial palsy?
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)The loss of facial expression via facial paralysis is a devastating condition, both functionally and aesthetically. However, given the life-long plasticity of the brain one could assume that recovery could be facilitated ... -
Cancer immunotherapy with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs): potential, mechanisms of resistance, and strategies for reinvigorating T cell responsiveness when resistance is acquired
( BioMed Central Ltd , 2023 , Article Review)Cancer is still the leading cause of death globally. The approval of the therapeutic use of monoclonal antibodies against immune checkpoint molecules, notably those that target the proteins PD-1 and PD-L1, has changed the ... -
Candidate MDS array codes for tolerating three disk failures in RAID-7 architectures
( Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2017 , Conference Paper)Current storage systems use RAID-5 and RAID-6 architectures to provide protection against one and two disk failures, respectively. However, as the size of storage system grows rapidly three concurrent disk failures are ...