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Developing Culturally Aware School Leaders: Measuring the Impact of an International Internship Using the MGUDS
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SAGE Publications
, 2013 , Article)
Developing globally minded citizens has become a national push and a stated priority for many higher education institutions in the United States. This article focuses on one university’s efforts to develop globally minded ...
Light-Switchable Polymer from Cationic to Zwitterionic Form: Synthesis, Characterization, and Interactions with DNA and Bacterial Cells
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WILEY-VCH Verlag
, 2013 , Article)
A novel cationic polymer poly(N,N-dimethyl-N-[3-(methacroylamino) propyl]-N-[2-[(2-nitrophenyl)methoxy]-2-oxo-ethyl]ammonium chloride) is synthesized by free-radical polymerization of N-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl] methacrylamide ...
Promoting Learning Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education : Factors of Success
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Penn State University Press
, 2013 , Article)
This article presents results of a study on factors that contribute to successful learning outcomes assessment practices. This qualitative study uses the case study method to analyze factors of success in higher education ...
Reasons for unit non-response in household Surveys in the Arab Gulf Countries
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The Social and Economic Survey Research Institute, Qatar University
, 2013 , Poster)
For in-person household surveys, it is fundamental to consider societal customs when choosing appropriate times and interviewer gender. However, even after all these procedures were taken into consideration with an eye to ...
Trusted News Sources’ Measures and their Relationships to Social and Public Attitudes: An Analysis of the First Annual Omnibus Survey of Life in Qatar
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Georgia State Univesrity
, 2013 , Article)
An overwhelming majority (77 percent) of Qatari Nationals reported television as their most
trusted local news source (87 percent for Arab/regional news and 89 percent for international
news), and 80 percent rated the ...
Practices of obtaining informed consent in Lebanon and Qatar: a disconnect between standards and practice
(2013 , Presentation)
With the increasing number of universities in the Arab region, there has been a consequent increase in the number of research projects conducted particularly with human subjects. Despite the need to understand the application ...
A Portrait of Low-Income Migrants in Contemporary Qatar
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Taylor & Francis
, 2013 , Article)
Though transnational labor migration in the Gulf States has increasingly been of scholarly interest, that scholarship has to date relied largely on qualitative ethnographic methodologies or small non-representative sampling ...
Thermal and mechanical properties of injection molded recycled high density polyethylene blends with virgin isotactic polypropylene
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Elsevier, Ltd
, 2013 , Article)
Polymer blending has become an important field in polymer research and especially in the area of recycling. In this research the target was to reduce the polymer waste problem. Therefore, recycled high density polyethylene ...
The mechanical and adhesive properties of electrically and thermally conductive polymeric composites based on high density polyethylene filled with nickel powder
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Elsevier, Ltd
, 2013 , Article)
Electrically and thermally conductive composites made using high density polyethylene (HDPE) matrix blended with a special grade of branch-structured nickel particles were studied. Composites with high filler content were ...
An experimental investigation into mechanical behavior of hybrid and nonhybrid composite semi-elliptical springs
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Elsevier, Ltd
, 2013 , Article)
This study introduces a new composite semi-elliptical suspension spring by utilizing fiber reinforced composite strength in principal direction instead of shear direction. Three types of composites were tested, namely, ...