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An overview of water desalination systems integrated with renewable energy sources
( Elsevier B.V. , 2022 , Article Review)Nowadays, the growing world population, climate change, pollution, rising consumer demand, and resource exploitation have contributed to a freshwater shortage. Hence, water desalination is heavily used for freshwater ... -
An overview on the progress in produced water desalination by membrane-based technology
( Elsevier Ltd , 2023 , Other)The scarcity of clean water sources has become a global concern in the present-day society. This has driven to the extraction of fresh water from produced water (PW), from the oil and gas fields, specifically in countries ... -
The Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law. Edited by CINNAMON P CARLARNE, KEVIN R GRAY and RICHARD TARASOFSKY
( Oxford University Press , 2017 , Article)The urgency of climate change necessitates considering what types of governance options are available when the existing approaches are failing.1 The United Nations Framework Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) Secretariat’s ... -
Oxidative Stress-Induced Endothelial Dysfunction in Cardiovascular Diseases
( IMR Press , 2022 , Article Review)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major cause of mortality worldwide. A better understanding of the mechanisms underlying CVD is key for better management or prevention. Oxidative stress has been strongly implicated in the ... -
Oxide Activated Carbon for Seawater Desalination Using Solar Energy
( Qatar University Young Scientists Center - Qatar University , 2024 , Conference Paper)Desalination of seawater is the efficient process and a viable solution for water shortage problem. One of the latest possible solution with less energy consumption is the use of activated carbon for the desalination ... -
Oxide Activated Carbon for Seawater Desalination Using Solar Energy
( Qatar University Young Scientists Center - Qatar University , 2024 , Conference Paper)Desalination of seawater is the efficient process and a viable solution for water shortage problem. One of the latest possible solution with less energy consumption is the use of activated carbon for the desalination ... -
Oxygen passivation as effective technique for tailoring the nature of band gap of silicon nanowires
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE) , 2015 , Conference Paper)Silicon nanowires have been subjected to several experiential and theoretical studies, including chemical tuning with different substituents aiming to tailor the band gap as well as increasing optical absorption efficiency ... -
P = NP
( Qatar University Young Scientists Center - Qatar University , 2024 , Conference Paper)Thank you everyone for giving us this opportunity to express ourselves in front of this high quality university. We are going to talk about a topic in the field of mathematics and computer science concerning a big problem ... -
PAH concentrations and exposure assessment from house dust retained in air-conditioning filters collected from Greater Doha, Qatar
( Springer Netherlands , 2019 , Article)Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) bound in dust retained in air-conditioning unit filters from 13 households in Greater Doha, Qatar, were quantified using GC–MS spectrometry. The median concentrations of ∑16PAH and ... -
Paillier's encryption: Implementation and cloud applications
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)Paillier's additive homomorphic encryption is increasingly used in recent research in the field of cloud secure outsourcing and privacy-preserving computation in addition to other cryptographic tools such as garbled circuits. ... -
Paleoproductivity shifts since the last 130 ka off Lakshadweep, Southeastern Arabian Sea
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)Marine sediment deposited on the ocean floor and near coastal areas, the western coastal regions of India provide records of monsoonal shifts and productivity. To understand the paleoproductivity in the northern Indian ... -
Pandemic COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2: genetic structure, vaccination, and therapeutic approaches
( Springer , 2021 , Article Review)We give a summary of SARS-genetic CoV-2’s structure and evolution, as well as current attempts to develop efficient vaccine and treatment methods for SARS-CoV-2 infection, in this article. Most therapeutic strategies are ... -
Pandemic threatens to drive wedge into US-Gulf relations
( Gulf Studies Center , 2020 , Article)It is early days, but first indications are that the global pandemic is entrenching long-drawn Middle Eastern geopolitical, political, ethnic, and sectarian battle lines rather than serving as a vehicle to build bridges ... -
A paper-based colourimetric sensor for sodium sulfite detection in beverages
( Springer Nature , 2023 , Article)Sulfite is a common food additive that prevents oxidation from damaging food nutrients, and it has long been used in the food industry as a bleaching agent. It can harm the human body if taken wrongly or excessively. In ... -
Parallelizing exact motif finding algorithms on multi-core
( Springer Science+Business Media , 2014 , Article)The motif finding problem is one of the important and challenging problems in bioinformatics. A variety of sequential algorithms have been proposed to find exact motifs, but the running time is still not suitable due to ... -
Parental Influence on Student Educational Expectations: Results from the 2012 Qatar Education Study
( Sciedu Press , 2019 , Article)This study investigated factors that are likely to influence students’ educational expectations in the State of Qatar, concentrating on selected parental factors. Drawing on recent work in the field, the study examined ... -
Parental Involvement in Education: Findings and implications from Qatar Education Survey 2018
( Social & Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI) , 2020 , Report)The Qatar National Development Strategy (2011-2016 & 2018-2022) stresses the importance of parental participation in the education of children. In line with the recommendations outlined in the NDS, the current policy brief ... -
Parenting Young Arab Children: Psychometric Properties of an Adapted Arabic Brief Version of the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire
( Springer , 2016 , Article)Research has shown a connection between negative parenting practices and child conduct problems. One of the most commonly used measures to assess parenting practices is the Alabama parenting questionnaire (APQ). The current ... -
Parent’s Perceptions of Online Learning during COVID-19 Pandemic: The Road Ahead
( Online Learning Consortium (OLC) , 2024 , Article)This study explored parents’ perceptions pertaining to online learning in the state of Qatar during COVID-19 pandemic. Six hundred and eighty-eight parents were surveyed, and data was analyzed statistically using SPSS 28.0. ... -
Participation modes and diplomacy of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries towards the global sustainability agenda
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)After decades of reluctance, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are now more engaged within the global sustainability agenda. Though they historically sought to coordinate strategies, differences in environmental ...