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The Role of Public Art and Culture in New Urban Environments: The Case of ‘Katara Cultural Village
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Scientific & Academic Publishing
, 2017 , Article)
In recent years, public art has been featured as a trend in urban environments in GCC. During its period of
development, the State of Qatar worked on large megaprojects designed to attract global investments and tourists. ...
A novel approach for handedness detection from off-line handwriting using fuzzy conceptual reduction
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Springer International Publishing
, 2016 , Article)
A challenging area of pattern recognition is the recognition of handwritten texts in different languages and the reduction of a volume of data to the greatest extent while preserving associations (or dependencies) between ...
The Practice Of City Planning And Design In The Gulf Region: The Case Of Abu Dhabi, Doha And Manama
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ArchNet
, 2018 , Article)
This research study explores the Arabian Gulf region’s practice of city planning and design in response to the active forces of globalization. The focused scope of analysis is justified by the commonalities that unite the ...
Livability and Social Capital in West Bay, The New Business Precinct of Doha
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OMICS International
, 2015 , Article)
Scholars argue that there is a mutual relationship between built environment, social interactions (and/or socialcapital) and livability: the form of the built environment contributes to the construction of social capital ...
Editorial: Modern and Vernacular Settlements in Doha: An Urban Planning Strategy to Pursue Modernity and Consolidate Cultural Identity
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OMICS International
, 2016 , Article)
Scholars and researchers, who investigate the extent to which spatial form and livability are mutually
interconnected, stress that the built environment provides the space for the enhancement of social interactions,
which ...
Built Form and Culture: Italian Transnational Houses in Australia
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OMICS International
, 2016 , Article)
Accordingly to Wagner, “Dwellings stand as the concrete expressions of a complex interaction among cultural
skills and norms, climatic conditions and the potentialities of natural materials”. This study, beginning with ...
Affordable housing for middle income expats in Qatar: Strategies for implementing livability and built form
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Archnet-IJAR
, 2016 , Article)
Qatar is making large investments for the development of the urban fabric and public transport systems of Doha (i.e. the Msheireb downtown Doha, the Doha metro, and the Lusail light rail transit). It has also already been ...
Adsorption kinetic, equilibrium and thermodynamic studies of eosin-B onto anion exchange membrane
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Desalination Publications
, 2019 , Article)
In this research, batch adsorption of anionic dye Eosin-B (EB) onto anion exchange membrane (AEM)
(BI) from aqueous solution has been investigated at room temperature. The effect of some operating
conditions such as ...
Exploring socio-spatial aspects of traditional souqs: The case of Souq Mutrah, Oman
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Archnet-IJAR
, 2014 , Article)
Traditional souqs in the Arabian Peninsula continue to be major focal points of trade, commerce, exchange, entertainment and social interaction. Souq Mutrah, in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman is one of these important regional ...
A sensitivity analysis approach to identify key environmental performance factors
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
, 2014 , Article)
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is widely used in design phase to reduce the product's environmental impacts through the whole product life cycle (PLC) during the last two decades. The traditional LCA is restricted to assessing ...