• Autonomous Drones: A Game Changer in Lightweight Delivery Services 

      Hossain, Mokter ( UC Berkeley Haas School of Business , 2022 , Other)
      Imagine, you placed an order online and received it in minutes. This is the future of drone delivery services. Customers can track the drone during its delivery trip via apps like Uber car. Some cities and even rural areas ...
    • BNT162b2 antigen dose and SARS-CoV-2 omicron infection in adolescents 

      Chemaitelly, Hiam; Ayoub, Houssein H.; Coyle, Peter; Tang, Patrick; Yassine, Hadi M.; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2023 , Other)
      COVID-19 vaccine antigen dose might affect protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection,1, 2 but direct evidence to quantify this effect is absent. We conducted a matched, retrospective, cohort study using a regression ...
    • Contemporary issues in Qatar’s food security 

      Miniaoui, Hela; Irungu, Patrick; Kaitibie, Simeon ( Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore , 2018 , Other)
      Qatar is one of the richest countries in the world. However, its domestic food production is so low that over 90 percent of its food supply has to be imported. This article provides some stylised facts on Qatar’s food ...
    • Crowdfunding Conundrum: Western Ideas and their Chinese Copycats 

      Hossain, Mokter ( UC Berkeley Haas School of Business , 2021 , Other)
      In the third quarter of 2021, global crowdfunding investment reached $160 billion. Crowdfunding is a relatively recently emerged phenomenon to raise funding from individuals for nascent business ideas. It is considered as ...
    • Efforts at Enhancing Bifunctional Electrocatalysis and Related Events for Rechargeable Zinc-Air Batteries 

      Ipadeola, Adewale K.; Haruna, Aderemi B.; Gaolatlhe, Lesego; Lebechi, Augustus K.; Meng, Jiashen; ... more authors ( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2021 , Other)
      Invited for this month's cover picture is the group of Prof. Dr. Kenneth I. Ozoemena at the University of the Witwatersrand and collaborators from Qatar University and Peking University. The Front Cover illustrates the ...
    • Ensemble deep learning: A review 

      Ganaie, M. A.; Hu, Minghui; Malik, A. K.; Tanveer, M.; Suganthan, P. N. ( Elsevier Ltd , 2022 , Other)
      Ensemble learning combines several individual models to obtain better generalization performance. Currently, deep learning architectures are showing better performance compared to the shallow or traditional models. Deep ...
    • From ‘publish or perish’ to ‘publish for purpose’ 

      Elbanna, Said; Child, John ( Wiley , 2023 , Other)
      Pressures to publish prolifically have led to an abundance of research on trivial matters rather than on issues of significance. This trend is particularly pronounced in developing countries, where limited access to paid ...
    • Frugal Innovation to Tackle Covid-19 

      Hossain, Mokter ( UC Berkeley Haas School of Business , 2022 , Other)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant disruption in our lives, work, and business. It hit most of us as customers stopped buying, buying less, or less supply. People started coming up with innovative solutions ...
    • How Chinese Companies are Dominating Electric Vehicle Market Worldwide 

      Hossain, Mokter ( UC Berkeley Haas School of Business , 2024 , Other)
      An EV car is a vehicle powered by an electric motor, using energy stored in rechargeable batteries. It offers a cleaner alternative to gasoline or diesel engines, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dependency on fossil ...
    • Human Capital Transformation in Commercial Bank Qatar (CBQ) 

      Althawadi, Othman; Elbanna, Said; Fatima, Tahniyath ( The Case Centre , 2023 , Other)
      Like many other Gulf countries, Qatar, a peninsula situated in the hub of Middle East, implemented a country-wide nationalization policy to secure employment opportunities for its under-represented locals in a country that ...
    • Nationalization of Workforce in the GCC Banking Sector: The Case of Alpha Bank in Qatar 

      Dalloul, Abdalrahman; Amanulla, Rashad; Elbanna, Said ( The Case Centre , 2021 , Other)
      The Human Resource Department at Alpha Bank has been implementing the concept of Qatarization ever since its inception to align itself with the Qatar Nation Vision-2030. During that process, they have faced various challenges. ...
    • Preface : Emergent Materials 

      Yalcin, Huseyin C. ( Springer International Publishing , 2019 , Other)
      Since its foundation in 2018, Emergent Materials aimed to focus on evolving techniques/technologies for advanced materials in a wide variety of fields such as polymer science, composites, electronics, membranes, and ...
    • Preface : Emergent Materials 

      Al-Maadeed, Mariam; Hassan, Zainuriah; Sean, Goh Pei; D'Souza, Nandika ( Springer Nature , 2022 , Other)
      A path for creating an advanced society is being paved with nanotechnology, which is a transformational path for Industry 4.0. It contributes benefits in many important domains, including medicine, energy, environmental ...
    • Preface : Journal of Physics: Conference Series 

      Ma, Maode ( Institute of Physics , 2022 , Other)
      2022 2nd International Conference on Electron Devices and Applications was held virtually during May 13-15, 2022 via Zoom platform due to the pandemic of COVID-19. With a satisfactory ending of ICEDA 2021, ICEDA 2022 has ...
    • Preface : Polymer Nanocomposites Containing Graphene Preparation, Properties, and Applications 

      Rahaman, Mostafizur; Nayak, Lalatendu; A. Hussein, Ibnelwaleed; Das, Narayan Chandra ( Elsevier , 2021 , Other)
      Nowadays, graphene-polymer composites are of great interest because of its practical application point of views. Hence, in this book, a discussion has been made on the different properties and applications of polymer-graphene ...
    • A Promising Future of Balloons for Internet and Other Services 

      Hossain, Mokter ( UC Berkeley Haas School of Business , 2023 , Other)
      This year, balloons have been in the global spotlight. From January 28 to February 4, 2023, Chinese high-altitude balloon was spotted in the airspace of North America. The US and Canada claimed that these are for surveillance ...
    • Protection against Reinfection with the Omicron BA.2.75 Subvariant 

      Chemaitelly, Hiam; Tang, Patrick; Coyle, Peter; Yassine, Hadi M.; Al-Khatib, Hebah A.; ... more authors ( Massachusetts Medical Society , 2023 , Other)
      The BA.2.75 sublineage of the B.1.1.529 (omicron) variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) may escape neutralizing antibodies. The BA.2.75 sublineage (primarily the BA.2.75.2 subvariant) ...
    • Protection against the omicron variant from previous SARS-CoV-2 infection 

      Altarawneh, Heba N.; Chemaitelly, Hiam; Hasan, Mohammad R.; Ayoub, Houssein H.; Qassim, Suelen; ... more authors ( Massachusetts Medical Society , 2022 , Other)
      Natural infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) elicits strong protection against reinfection with the B.1.1.7 (alpha),1,2 B.1.351 (beta),1 and B.1.617.2 (delta)3 variants. However, the ...
    • Restructuring the health education cluster in a public university 

      Al-Kubaisi, Nada; Elbanna, Said ( Emerald Publishing Limited , 2023 , Other)
      This case was developed from the author’s personal experience as a participant in one of the health taskforce subcommittees. The author also sought the inputs of the Vice President of Health and Medical Education, the Dean ...
    • The Role of the Two-Stage Multimethod Design: Developing Relevant Strategy Measures for New Settings 

      Elbanna, Said ( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2020 , Other)
      The two-stage multimethod design is a research strategy which integrates both quantitative and qualitative techniques within a single research project and is conducted over two distinctive stages of the fieldwork. Considering ...