Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings Volume 2014 Issue 1

Manual translation (also known as Human Translation or HT) is a service demanded worldwide on a large scale, but can be quite expensive. As a result, Machine Translation (MT) has boomed in the last decade, trying to provide an automatic, and faster solution. However, MT does not always generate a good quality output, and human intervention is necessary to correct it. This intervention is called Post-Editing (PE) , which co Read More

On average, traffic accidents kill around 137 people around the world every hour. In 2004, road injuries were the first leading cause of death and predicted to be the fifth leading cause of death by 2030. Although the world's high-income countries occupy around 52% of the world's registered vehicles, only 10% of the world's traffic fatalities occur on the roads of these countries. In Qatar, traffic accidents kill between 3 to 4 peo Read More

This is presentation of the results of a research which was granted an NPRP on enhancing teaching the Arabic Language in Qatar. This research combines many approaches to learning the Arabic language by 5-6 year old (kindergarteners) Arabic native speakers. Its focus on learning Modern Standard Arabic allows it to be used by kindergarteners in all 22 Arab countries. This research builds upon the Microsoft Surface Table te Read More

This research project has three general objectives which are: (1) To evaluate Qatar's potential for economic diversification; (2) To analyze how soft power influence can be used to promote economic diversification; (3) To inform diagnostic options for Qatari investment authorities to build up capacities of stakeholders in extractive industry-rich economies. These three objectives include analyzing domestic institutions in Qatar Read More

Transnational families where one or more members are employed abroad while others remain back home are likely be characterized by a higher degree of private information relative to households where members are co-resident. Consequently, international migrants, who can only imperfectly monitor and control uses of remittances by family members left behind, may remit less money home if intra-household pref Read More

تعتبر الانحرافات السلوكية لدى المراهقين من أهم وأخطر المشكلات التي تواجه المجتمعات العربية بشكل عام، والمجتمع القطري باعتباره واحدا منها ليس بمنأى عنها. وتنتج هذه المشكلات عن التغيرات الاجتماعية والاقتصادية السريعة التي تمر بها هذه المجتمعات. وقد تفاقمت في الآونة الأخيرة نتيجة ضعف الرقابة الأسرية، وانشغال الآباء والأمهات بأمور الحياة، وزيادة تعامل الجيل الصاعد مع لوسائط التكنولوجية الحديثة. ومن أمثلة تلك السلوكيات؛ التهريج داخل الفصل وعدم احترام المدرسين، تخريب ممتلكات المدرسة، مخالفة Read More

Key words: GCC national, expatriate, nationalisation, Qatarisation, employability, employee engagement, workplace productivity, diversity and inclusion, early mid-career crisis Background The advancement of national talent is the single biggest human capital priority, if not the single biggest business impressive in the region. "Qudurat" was a longitudinal research study dedicated to understanding what drives and moti Read More

Technology transfer is the process of transferring skills, knowledge and technologies to other parties enabling them to further develop and exploit the technology into new products, processes, or services. Based on Sahal's (1981) concept, Bozeman (2000) argues that technology and knowledge are inseparable simply because when a technological product is transferred or diffused, the knowledge upon which its composition is ba Read More

This paper examines the relation between the net trade cycle as a measure of the efficiency of working capital management and operating cash flow of firms listed in the main US stock markets. The relationship is examined using dynamic panel data analysis. The analysis based on a sample of 5802 U.S. non-financial firms. The analysis is applied at the levels of the full sample and divisions of the sample by size. The results sh Read More