College of Arts & Sciences: Recent submissions
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A Geopolitical Economy of the World Cup: Lessons from Qatar's Hosting of FIFA's Showcase Tournament
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2022 , Conference Paper)Qatar's hosting of the 2022 FIFA World Cup is the embodiment of a new way in which sport in the 21st century is being conceived. This challenges prior utilitarian and neoclassical notions of sport, which are evident both ... -
Infrastructural, Socio-cultural and Economic Issues Dealing with Disabled Spectators: Lessons from the FIFA World Cup 2018.
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2022 , Conference Paper)FIFA World Cup 2018 took place in Russia during 14th of June - 15th of July 2018. More than 3 million people watched the games of the 2018 World Cup live in the 11 cities stadiums across country. The average attendance at ... -
The 2022 World Cup: Putting Qatar's Best Foot Forward
( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2022 , Conference Paper)2022 was Qatar's year to put its best foot forward. A major producer of natural gas, the tiny Gulf state was under the magnifying glass as it entered the final phase of hosting the 2022 World Cup and emerged as a potential ... -
An analytical study of employee happiness in service sectors: A pilot study
( Natural Sciences Publishing , 2021 , Article)The present paper aims to investigate happiness levels of employees in services and underpin disparate evidences from existing literature, to any reported differences in the levels of happiness among employees. This paper ... -
The Reliability, Validity and Normative Scores of the Bene-Anthony Family Relations Test for Use With Arab Children
( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2021 , Article)Background: The Bene-Anthony Family Relations Test (BAFRT) is one of the most widely used measures of family dynamics seen from a child's perspective. However, the most common issue surrounding this test is the lack of ... -
Genomic and Bioinformatics Approaches for Analysis of Genes Associated With Cancer Risks Following Exposure to Tobacco Smoking
( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2018 , Article Review)Cancer is a significant health problem in the Middle East and global population. It is well established that there is a direct link between tobacco smoking and cancer, which will continue to pose a significant threat to ... -
Using Grades in Core Curriculum Chain Courses as Predictors of Academic Performance in Subsequent Courses: A Study at Qatar University
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2023 , Article)The study aimed to investigate students' final grades in a linked course or chain course to determine any effect on students' academic performance in their next linked course. Courses with high D, F, and W grades were ... -
SEIRD model for Qatar COVID-19 outbreak: A case study
( Intercollegiate Biomathematics Alliance , 2021 , Article)The COVID-19 outbreak of 2020 has required many governments to develop mathematical-statistical models of the outbreak for policy and planning purposes. This work provides a tutorial on building a compartmental model using ... -
Causes of Undergraduate Students' Underachievement in a Gulf Cooperation Council Country (GCC) University
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2022 , Article)UNESCO reports enrollment in higher education in the Arab and Gulf Cooperation Council region doubled from 5.1 million in 2000 to 10.7 million in 2015. Despite significant budgets and the world's lowest teacher-to-student ... -
Association of Serum Vitamin D level and COVID-19 infection: A Case-control Study
( HBKU Press , 2022 , Article)Background: Vitamin D is considered a potent modulator of the immune system, albeit its role in COVID-19 infection is a matter of debate. The present study aimed to estimate the association between serum vitamin D levels ... -
Optimization of tank engine crank shaft material properties
( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2023 , Article)Metals and coating materials, with best material properties are highly desired in the field of engineering to control the stresses and strains, that play important role in design strategies. The crankshaft, an important ... -
Dynamical analysis of the delayed immune response to cancer
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)In the antitumor response, cytotoxic CD8 + T cells and the functional organization of CD4 + T cells play an important role. During this research, a mathematical model is built. In this model, the ability of CD4 + T cells, ... -
On the Investigation of Monthly River Flow Generation Complexity Using the Applicability of Machine Learning Models
( Hindawi Limited , 2021 , Article)Streamflow is associated with several sources on nonstationaries and hence developing machine learning (ML) models is always the motive to provide a reliable methodology to understand the actual mechanism of streamflow. ... -
Assessing spatial confounding in cancer disease mapping using R
( Blackwell Publishing Ltd , 2020 , Article)Background: Exploring spatial patterns in the context of cancer disease mapping (DM) is a decisive approach to bring evidence of geographical tendencies in assessing disease status and progression. However, this framework ... -
Estimation of health-related quality of life in the presence of missing Values in EQ-5D
( Hindawi Limited , 2021 , Article)One of the notes worthy problems in analysis of clinical and observational studies is missing data and nonresponse from patients. Turning a blind eye to the missing behavior may provide biased results with overestimated ... -
Novel Bayesian CUSUM and EWMA control charts via various loss functions for monitoring processes
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2023 , Article)In this work, both the cumulative sum (CUSUM) and exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control charts have been reconfigured to monitor processes using a Bayesian approach. Our construction of these charts are ... -
Semiparametric MEWMA for Phase II profile monitoring
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2021 , Article)A control chart is one of the statistical process techniques that is used to monitor different processes. Some processes are characterized by functions or profiles, and a profile is a functional relationship between the ... -
Testing statistical assumptions in research
( wiley , 2019 , Book)This book facilitates researchers in checking the assumptions of statistical tests used in their research by focusing on the importance of checking assumptions in using statistical methods, showing them how to check ... -
Model robust profile monitoring for the generalized linear mixed model for Phase I analysis
( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2020 , Conference Paper)The generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) becomes very popular in profile monitoring, especially when the production processes follow nonnormal distribution. In most of the real-life applications in industry, medicine, ... -
The date palm microbiome: A review
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) is a significant crop grown in warm, tropical, and arid regions. The microorganisms associated with plants can have positive and negative effects on the growth and yield of crops. Thus, there ...