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

The goal of this project is to explore the role of computing technology in enhancing the teaching and learning processes for English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Past studies have demonstrated the potential of technology in enhancing literacy skills and motivating students. We have been building on this work to create a suite of computer and mobile based tools to improve English literacy skills. The distinguishing features o Read More

With projected populations of about 633 million in the Arab region in 2050, water resources per capita are expected to drop to a level of about 470 cubic meters in region, compared with a world average of about 4,700 m3 for the same year (Sadik, 2013). Especially, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries face the most severe water shortages in the region which represents a serious threat to the region's human security (Al Read More

Due to rapid urbanization during the past few decades, Doha has witnessed the disappearance of significant areas of its traditional built environment that were replaced by modern mega real-estate developments, public buildings and projects. More traditional built environments are threatened to be demolished and disappear to pave the way for new projects and developments. Due to their increased land value and Read More

Introduction Today the public perception of any scientific field and in particular of nanotechnology and nanomedicine is fundamental for their convincing grow in everyday life. In this study we provide a worldwide view of nanotechnology and nanomedicine possible future trends and opinions on ethics, funding and economics through the most widely used on line international social media platform: Facebook. At this p Read More

ABSTRACT This paper consists of two parts. It is argued in Part One that, the crisis in our educational systems, reflected in their poor outcomes (SEC) Supreme Education Council (2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006); Rand Organization (2007, 2009); Hoyt, (2002); The Office of the Undersecretary, (2002), is not so much a result of a crisis in classroom assessment per se, as Black and William ( 1998); and R. Stiggins (2001) would like Read More

The current research aimed at evaluating the value-added of the summer enrichment programs on the performance of gifted students at primary school. The subjects consisted of (144) students from the fifth and sixth grades of primary school, those students who participated in the Summer Enrichment Program of AlBushra National school in Mecca in the summer of 2013. The researcher studied the performance of students Read More

The goal of this paper is to study how people do relational reasoning, such as selecting the grade of all students in a class with GPA greater than 3.5. Literature in the field of psychology of human reasoning offer little insight as to how people solve relational problems. We present two studies that look at human performance in relational problems that use basic relational operators. Our results present the first evidence toward Read More

Accountants have been categorized as Conventional among the six well-known Holland's personality types (Holland 1997). We argue that the personality type of successful accountants depend on their respected subfield. In this paper we have subdivided the accountants into three categories; Financial Accountants, Managerial Accountants, and Auditors. We hypothesize that while Conventional individuals are likely to Read More

With the emergence of new brand, preschoolers' television productions and station in the Arab World (i.e. Baraem TV, a subsidiary of JCC TV www.jcctv.net), my MA paper tests the following hypothesis: Arab preschoolers develop their cognitive skills (i.e. language and behavior) once exposed to educational media. The paper orchestras Gerbner et al.'s premise; that is, content rather than screen time or the medium, is Read More

This study examines the Qatar Olympic participation and the creation of a national representation through sport. Until its independence from Britain in 1971, Qatar could not participate in any international sport competition. On September 3, 1971, the country's Heir Apparent appeared on local TV and announced the Qatar's independence. In subsequent years, national sports federations in Qatar started to request for mem Read More

Today, food security is a global problem. The Qatar National Food Security Programme describes the dimensions of food security in Qatar in terms of food quality, physical availability, and affordability, alongside the resilience of the country's food supply to short-term trade shocks and long-term global supply risks. The world's richest country per capita, Qatar has a population of just over two million, but the country does not have Read More

كان من المفترض أن تقوم وسائل الإعلام - ومن بينها الشبكات الاجتماعية - باستكمال دورها في مرحلة إعادة البناء واستكمال مكتسبات واستحقاقات الثورات العربية من إقرار الدساتير واستكمال الأنظمة النيابية والتشريعية التي تساعد في إقرار الأمن وتحقيق العدالة الاجتماعية والكرامة الإنسانية التي قامت من اجلها تلك الثورات ولكن - ومع استثناء جزئي لتونس - حصل العكس وخاصة في التجربة المصرية وقامت وسائل الإعلام والشبكات الاجتماعية خاصة بتجسيد وتأكيد التحزب والتشرذم والاستقطاب السياسي مستخدم Read More

Food is an integral part of our lives, cultures, and well-being, and is of major interest to public health. According to the International Diabetes Federation, 23% of adults in Qatar had diabetes in 2013, being third most affected country in the Middle East and North Africa region. Diet, as a major cause of such diseases, is thus an important subject of study both on personal and societal levels. However, the collection of daily Read More

By the end of 2013, the Qatar Genome Project (QGP) was launched by HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. Similar initiatives in the Gulf region usher new age for genomics in the Arab world. Previous experience in this field has demonstrated that mapping and sequencing human genomes always have profound ethical and social implications. This explains the establishment of the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Pro Read More

Female engagement and participation in the Middle East and in the Arab Gulf in particular—especially among ordinary women interacting within their societies—have been largely overlooked in social science literature until quite recently (e.g., Sonbol 2012; Krause 2008). Too often, the Western and global mindset emphasizes social and cultural exclusion and segregation of women, particularly in the Arab Gulf, to argue t Read More