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University faculty?s perceptions and practices of student centered learning in Qatar: Alignment or gap?
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose: Although student-centered learning (SCL) has been encouraged for decades in higher education, to what level instructors are practicing SCL strategies remains in question. The purpose of this paper is to investigate ...
Migrant wives: dynamics of the empowerment process
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
, 2018 , Article)
An increasing number of male migrants are taking part in intra- and inter-regional migration in Asia, leaving their wives behind at home. Their wives, whom we call emigrant wives, often adapt to new roles and responsibilities ...
A new approach for predicting the shear capacity of FRCM strengthened RC beams in shear
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Institute of Physics Publishing
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
In spite of the availability of different models proposed to predict the shear capacity of reinforced concrete (RC) beams strengthened in shear using fabric reinforced cementitious matrix (FRCM) system, accurately predicting ...
Sociorobotics
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Springer Netherlands
, 2018 , Article)
[No abstract available]
High performance EEG feature extraction for fast epileptic seizure detection
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that affects around 70 million people worldwide. Early detection of epileptic seizures has the potential to help patients in improving their quality of life. Electroencephalogram (EEG) ...
An original transformer and switched-capacitor (T & SC)-based extension for DC-DC boost converter for high-voltage/low-current renewable energy applications: Hardware implementation of a new T & SC boost converter
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MDPI AG
, 2018 , Article)
In this article a new Transformer and Switched Capacitor-based Boost Converter (T & SC-BC) is proposed for high-voltage/low-current renewable energy applications. The proposed T & SC-BC is an original extension for ...
A Secret-key-aided scheme to secure transmissions from single-antenna RF-eh source nodes
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
We propose a two-phase artificial-noise-aided scheme to power a single-antenna energy-harvesting source node (Alice) and secure her transmissions to a multiple-antenna legitimate destination (Bob) in the presence of a ...
Re-ranking web search results for better fact-checking: A preliminary study
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Association for Computing Machinery
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Even though Web search engines play an important role in finding documents relevant to user queries, there is little to no attention given to how they perform in terms of usefulness for fact-checking claims. In this paper, ...
When rank order isn't enough: New statistical-significance-aware correlation measures
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Association for Computing Machinery
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Because it is expensive to construct test collections for Cranfield-based evaluation of information retrieval systems, a variety of lower-cost methods have been proposed. The reliability of these methods is often validated ...
A reconfigurable supporting connected health environment for people with chronic diseases
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IGI Global
, 2018 , Book chapter)
Digital healthcare is becoming increasingly important as the ageing population and the number of people diagnosed with chronic diseases is increasing. The face of healthcare delivery has changed radically and at its core ...