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Boost inverter-based HVDC transmission system with inherent blocking capability of AC side contribution during DC side faults
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2014 , Article)
Semiconductor advancements in the past three decades have positioned the voltage source converter-based HVDC (VSC-HVDC) solution as a practical and popular alternative to its line-commutated converter high voltage DC ...
PREDICTING NEXT TRADING DAY CLOSING PRICE OF QATAR EXCHANGE INDEX USING TECHNICAL INDICATORS AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
Accurate prediction of stock market price is of great importance to many stakeholders. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have shown robust capability in predicting stock price return, future stock price and the direction ...
ASSESSMENT AND ASSURANCE OF SERVICE QUALITY IN PEDIATRIC HEALTHCARE IN QATAR
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Qatar University
, 2014 , Article)
The purpose of this study was quality assessment and quality assurance in pediatric
services of public and private hospitals in Qatar. The purpose of quality assessment
was to identify gaps in the delivered services; ...
A new forecasting scheme for evaluating long-term prediction performances in supply chain management
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
, 2014 , Article)
Supply chain management (SCM) practitioners in inventory sites are often required to predict the future sales of products in order to meet customer demands and reduce inventory costs simultaneously. Although a variety of ...
Accounting for Interaction and Individual Specific Effects in an Analysis of International Air Traveler Preferences
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Qatar University
, 2014 , Article)
selection decision based on contingency theory. Previous work has focused on main
effects without eploring the significance of interaction or individual heterogeneity
effects. Contingency theory suggests contextual and ...
Challenges of Palestinian Security Sector Reform: Blame Israeli Occupation or Internal Political Fragmentation?
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International Publishing House for China's Culture
, 2014 , Article)
The debate on Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Palestine has emerged within the context of the peace process between Israel and Palestinians, in particular following the Oslo agreement in 1993. There are different perceptions ...
Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens
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John Benjamins Publishing
, 2014 , Book)
This ethnographic study deals with the ways people in Athens, Greece, use style to construct their social class identities. Including a rich dataset comprising ethnographic interviews with actual people who live in the ...
Perceptual Dialectology of the Arab World: A Principal Analysis
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Georgetown University Press
, 2014 , Article)
This study discusses perceptions of variation across dialects of Arabic in the Arab world as revealed through a perceptual dialectology map task. On a map of the Arab world, female undergraduate students at Qatar University ...
A new forecasting scheme for evaluating long-term prediction performances in supply chain management
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
Supply chain management (SCM) practitioners in inventory sites are often required to predict the future sales of products in order to meet customer demands and reduce inventory costs simultaneously. Although a variety of ...
Channel modelling and performance analysis of V2I communication systems in blind bend scattering environments
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EMW Publishing
, 2014 , Article)
In this paper, we derive a new geometrical blind bend scattering model for vehicle-to- infrastructure (V2I) communications. The proposed model takes into account single-bounce and double- bounce scattering stemming from ...