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Qatar as full island overnight: Psychological and social consequences of blockade as reflected in the social media
( University of Akron , 2017 , Article)The GCC crisis in which Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Bahrain have closed land, sea and air borders going into and from Qatar imposed a host of psychosocial stressors on both Qatari and non-Qatari citizens. This ongoing crisis ... -
Ramadan Fasting and Patients with Cancer: State-of-the-Art and Future Prospects
( Frontiers Media , 2016 , Article)Ramadan fasting represents one of the five pillars of the Islam creed. Even though some subjects (among which patients) are exempted from observing this religious duty, they may be eager to share this particular moment of ... -
The Role of Attention in Word Recognition: Results from OB1-Reader
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2020 , Article)When reading, orthographic information is extracted not only from the word the reader is looking at, but also from adjacent words in the parafovea. Here we examined, using the recently introduced OB1-reader computational ... -
The Scientific Contributions of Arab Scientists to the International Research: a Study of the Indicators for Select Arab Countries
( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2009 , Article)Using SCOPUS database, the research productivity of Arab researchers in five countries has been investigated. The analysis included subject, geographical and time range indicators. The relationship between the most published ... -
Smartphone-based Vehicle Telematics for Naturalistic Driving Studies
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)Motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) are the eighth leading cause of death worldwide. Globally, there are 1.35 million deaths with 50 million injuries annually. It is important to understand and record how people drive and ... -
Smell your memories: Positive effect of odor exposure on recent and remote autobiographical memories in Alzheimer's disease
( Routledge , 2019 , Article)Introduction: There is a burgeoning interest in the effects of odor exposure on autobiographical memory in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). We pursued this line of research by assessing the effect of odor exposure on the retrieval ... -
Social inequality and homeownership from a comparative perspective: Is there a return of the welfare state?
(2020 , Article)Esping-Andersen’s typology of welfare state regimes has been one of the most influential contributions to comparative studies. The general picture of this typology has four variants: social democratic, conservative, southern ... -
Social Support Effectiveness of the Mental Health of Immigrants Living in Belgium
( OXFORD ACADEMIC , 2022 , Article)The increase in immigration has required social workers to focus more on this field and understand the social support systems of immigrants and the effects of their relationships with these systems to improve their ... -
Social work practices and enabling the integration of students from war and conflict zones
( Springer , 2021 , Article)Until recently, few studies have examined international students’ social issues and well-being from war and conflict zones. A significant proportion of international students in Turkey have arrived from countries actively ... -
Social workers in a Qatari health setting: responding positively to ethical problems
( Routledge , 2016 , Article)Social workers in health settings often face challenging ethical problems in their daily practice. These challenges may be internal in nature and in particular related to their personal and cultural beliefs. The aim of ... -
Socio-Economic Development, Globalization and the Need for Heritage Policy in Qatar: Case Study
( Scientific Research Publishing Inc , 2021 , Article)Qatar, has a rich history and seen many changes in a small amount of time, investigating its heritage. Although a young state established in 1868 Qatar’s key sectors is trying to create their own policy strategies. Major ... -
Solving a Bus Routing Problem Arising in Doha
( IEEE Computer Society , 2022 , Conference Paper)The generic variant of the school bus routing problem requires finding a set of routes that cover a predefined set of student pickup locations in order to minimize travel time while satisfying various constraints. In this ... -
Teaching Bioethics to a Large Number of Biology and Pharma Students: Lessons Learned
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)To be made aware of bioethical issues related to their disciplines, undergraduate students in biology and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Basel are required to enroll in the bioethics course called �Introduction ... -
Tell about yourself to improve your autobiographical memory: A study of Korsakoff's syndrome
( Elsevier Ireland Ltd , 2018 , Article)Korsakoff's syndrome (KS) has been associated with a difficulty to retrieve specific autobiographical memories. We investigated whether this difficulty can be alleviated after the retrieval of statements describing ... -
Testing a Model of the Threat of Street Sexual Harassment in Egypt: Implications for Social Work Education
( Macrothink Institute , 2021 , Article)This study tested a model of Egyptian women’s well-being and perception of the threat of sexual harassment. The model was drawn from multiple theoretical frameworks, including the vulnerability perspective, objectification ... -
The Development of the Dementia Screening Battery-100: Instrument Presentation, Reliability, and Construct Validity
( S. Karger AG , 2017 , Article)Background/Aim: The screening of dementia in non-Westerners has so far relied on translations and adaptations of reputed instruments. Other efforts focused on developing culturally appropriate tests or tests in touch with ... -
The effects of citizenship status on service utilization and general satisfaction with healthcare: a cross-cultural study
(2017 , Article)Objective: To explore the role of citizenship status as a predictor of general satisfaction with healthcare services in Qatar, including potential interaction with utilization and health insurance coverage type.Design: A ... -
The interactive effect of valence and context on reversal learning in individuals with Parkinson's disease
( Elsevier Ireland Ltd , 2019 , Article)Cognitive deficits in Parkinson’s disease (PD) have increasingly been recognized over the last decade and reversal learning in particular has received a great deal of attention. In a classical reversal-learning paradigm, ... -
The many facets of dopamine: Toward an integrative theory of the role of dopamine in managing the body's energy resources
( Elsevier Inc. , 2018 , Article Review)In neuroscience literature, dopamine is often considered as a pleasure chemical of the brain. Dopaminergic neurons respond to rewarding stimuli which include primary rewards like opioids or food, or more abstract forms of ... -
The Perception of Spontaneous and Volitional Laughter Across 21 Societies
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2018 , Article)Laughter is a nonverbal vocalization occurring in every known culture, ubiquitous across all forms of human social interaction. Here, we examined whether listeners around the world, irrespective of their own native language ...