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Effects of perceived social support and family demands on college students' mental well-being: A cross-cultural investigation
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
, 2015 , Article)
The effects of perceived social support and family demands on college students' mental well-being (perceived stress and depression) were assessed in 2 samples of Jordanian and Turkish college students. Statistically ...
Materials Development in EALP Legal Writing Courses
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European Knowledge Development (EUROKD)
, 2019 , Article)
While the field of materials development has grown in the past twenty years, covering areas like EAP and ESP, there remains a need to elaborate further the strategies and to develop a process for developing materials for ...
Investigating critical obstacles to entrepreneurship in emerging economies: A comparative study between males and females in Qatar
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Allied Business Academies
, 2019 , Article)
Qatar's Entrepreneurship sector faces major obstacles that impede its growth prospects. While Qatar has started to focus more on improvement of the entrepreneurial environment through semi-governmental agencies and creation ...
Female audit committee members and their influence on audit fees
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Blackwell Publishing
, 2018 , Article)
We test the relationship between female representation on the audit committee and audit fees for 624 Australian companies in the year 2011. A positive relationship is found, leading to the conclusion that female presence ...
Always negotiate, sometimes cooperate: an agent-based model
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use agent-based modeling to simulate the negotiation and cooperation between agents working on tasks in an organization and to study the effects that gender differences might have ...
Qatari women in a corporatized higher education setting: International reforms and their local bearings
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Institute for Education Policy Studies
, 2017 , Article)
Discussions of the difficulties Qatari women experience in higher educational settings are unlikely to be found in international organization or government reports on the State of Qatar. Instead, recent reports have tended ...
ARAP: Arabic author profiling project for cyber-security
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Sociedad Espanola para el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural
, 2018 , Article)
In this paper we describe the current state of the ARAP project on Arabic Author Profiling for Cyber-Security funded by the Qatar National Research Fund via the Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. The project focuses on ...
Implications of Religion, Culture, and Legislation for Gender Equality at Work: Qualitative Insights from Jordan
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Springer Nature
, 2018 , Article)
With a view to consolidating the existing theory development and stimulating new conceptual thinking, this paper explores the implications of culture, religion (Islam), and the legal framework on women’s employment and ...
Women in engineering: A qualitative investigation of the contextual support and barriers to their career choice
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Elsevier
, 2019 , Article)
This study explores both past and current experiences of female engineering students. Women continue to be underrepresented in certain STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields in most countries. Using ...
Participative decision-making and job satisfaction for teachers in the UAE
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Emerald Group Holdings Ltd.
, 2015 , Article)
Purpose - Knowledge of teachers' participative decision making (PDM) and job satisfaction (JS) is important, as teachers comprise most of a school's staff. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of teacher ...