Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Volume 2013 Issue 1

Surface Properties Of Poly(Imide-Co-Siloxane) Block Copolymers Aigor Novák, A,Banton Popelka, Cpetr Sysel, A,D Igor Krupa, Aivan Chodák, Amarian Valentin, Ajozef Prachár, Evladimír Vanko Apolymer Institute, Slovak Academy Of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia Bcenter For Advanced Materials, Quatar University, Doha, Quatar Cdepartment Of Polymers, Institute Of Chemical Technology, Faculty Of Chemical Technology Read More

In this paper, Face recognition in unconstrained illumination conditions is investigated. A two manifold contribution is proposed: 1) Firstly, Three sate of the art algorithms, namely Multiblock local Binary pattern (MBLBP), Histogram of Gabor Phase Patterns (HGPP) and Local Gabor binary pattern histogram sequence (LGBPHS) are challenged against The IRIS-M3 multispectral face data base. 2) Secondly, The Performance of the th Read More

The World Cup is the most widely viewed sporting event. The total attendance is in the hundreds of thousands. The first-ever World Cup in an Arab nation will be hosted by Qatar in 2022. As the country prepares for this event, the current paper proposes telepresence robots for the World Cup. Telepresence robots refer to robots that allow a person to work remotely in another place as he or she is physically present there. For su Read More

Word segmentation is a necessary step for natural language processing applications, such as machine translation and parsing. In this research we focus on Arabic word segmentation to study its impact on Arabic to English translation. There are accurate word segmentation systems for Arabic, such as MADA (Habash, 2007). However, such systems usually need manually-built data and rules of the Arabic language. In this work, w Read More

Health care systems in countries around the world are focused on improving the health of their populations. Many countries face common challenges related to capturing, structuring, sharing and acting upon various sources of information in service of this goal. Information science, in combination with information and communications technologies (ICT) such as online communities and cloud-based services, can be use Read More

Abstract. The concept of a fault has been introduced in the context of a comprehensive study of system dependability, and is defined as a feature of the system that causes it to fail with respect to its specification. In this paper, we argue that this definition does not enable us to localize a fault, nor to count faults, nor to define fault density. We argue that rather than defining a fault, we ought to focus on defining faulty programs Read More

The production of aluminum products, like other metallurgical industries, comprehends of a large variety of material processing steps. These processes require a multitude of material handling operations, buffers and transports to interconnect single process steps within aluminum smelters or downstream manufacturing plants like rolling mills or extrusion plants. On the one hand, the electrolysis process as the core Read More

We have developed a linear programming formulation to describe Qatar steel manufacturing supply chain from suppliers to consumers. The purpose of the model is to provide answers regarding the optimal amount of raw materials to be requested from suppliers, the optimal amount of finished products to be delivered to each customer and the optimal inventory level of raw materials. The model is validated and solved u Read More

Multiphase production metering - Benefits from an Industrial Data Validation and Reconciliation approach Simon Manson, Mohamed Haouche, Pascal Cheneviere and Philippe Julien TOTAL Research Center-Qatar at QSTP - DOHA, Qatar Contact: simon.manson@total.com Context and objectives TOTAL E&P QATAR (TEPQ) is the Operator of AL-Khaleej offshore Oil field under Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with Qat Read More

In support of Qatar's National Road Safety Strategy and under the umbrella of the National Traffic Safety Committee, Qatar Petroleum's Research and Technology Department in cooperation with Williams Advanced Engineering has undertaken a study of the state of tyre safety in the country. This study has reviewed the regulatory and legislative frameworks governing tyre usage in the country, as well as collected data on how Read More

Reasoning in propositional logic is a key element in software engineering; it is applied in different domains, e.g: specification validation, code checking, theorem proving, etc. Since reasoning is a basic component in the analysis and verification of different critical systems, significant efforts have been dedicated to improve its efficiency in terms of time complexity, correctness and generalization to new problems support (e.g. Read More

The main focus of the study was to find out the level of awareness about effectiveness of ICT mediated extension service in disseminating farm information to the farmers. The factors influencing awareness of the farmers and the problems faced by the farmers in getting farm information were also explored. Data were collected from a sample of 100 farmers out of 700. A structured interview schedule and check list were u Read More

The goal of this work is to explore the role of technology tools in enhancing the teaching and learning processes for English as a foreign or second language. Literacy is a crucial skill that is often linked to quality of life. However, access to literacy is not universal. Therefore, the significance of this research is its potential impact on the global challenge of improving child and adult literacy rates. Today's globalized world often de Read More

In recent years face recognition has received substantial attention from both research communities and the market, but still remained very challenging in real applications. A lot of face recognition algorithms, along with their modifications, have been developed during the past decades. A number of typical algorithms are presented, being categorized into appearance based and model-based schemes. In this paper we wil Read More

Humanitarian Computing Library

Over 70,000 historical books exist in Qatar's Heritage books collection that forms an invaluable part of the Arabic Heritage. The digitization of these books will help to improve accessibility to these texts while ensuring their preservation. The aim of this project is to explore Optical Character Recognition (OCR) techniques for digitizing historical Arabic texts. In this project, the techniques for improving the OCR pipeline were ex Read More

SPEAKER RECOGNITION USING MULTIMODAL NEURAL NETWORKS AND WAVELET ANALYSIS

The current fast track urban growth is an important characteristic of the emerging city of Doha. However, very few studies have addressed several important growth aspects, including the examination of the way in which the inhabitants comprehend and react to their built environment and the resulting spatial experience. The availability of attractive open spaces is an essential feature of a liveable urban environment, for the inh Read More

As in many parts of the world, the tertiary education sector in Qatar is growing rapidly, viewed as key to national development on the path to the “knowledge society”. The states of the Islamic world, with a significant but long-obscured past of scientific achievement, are witnessing a contemporary renaissance. The establishment of international offshore, satellite or branch campuses in the Arabian Gulf region emphas Read More

Since 2008, the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) and the University of Birmingham have collaborated on a cutting-edge research programme called the Qatar National Historic Environment Record (QNHER). This has made a significant contribution to our understanding of Qatar's diverse cultural heritage resource. Commencing with the analysis of terrestrial and marine remotely sensed data, the project expanded to unde Read More

This paper explores the emergent themes from the first stage of our cross cultural research (UK and Qatar) into pregnancy and pregnancy loss. This paper presents a culturally grounded representation of pregnancy and the experience of pregnant women in Qatar. In order to understand the experience of miscarriage in Qatar, it is necessary to first develop an ethnotheory of pregnancy. This research uses the approach and m Read More

A series of archaeological sites in Qatar have been attesting multifaceted aspects of the society and daily life practices in the eve of oil industry, particularly in the period from the 17th to the mid-20th century. The archaeological walled town of Al-Zubarah, for instance, has been excavated, first in the early 1980s by a Qatari mission, and since 2010 by the University of Copenhagen, in partnership with Qatar Museum Authorit Read More

Background: 50% of those who had ever used an on-line life satisfaction measurement tool were considered optimally satisfied about their lives. Categorization into age, sex, country of origin and religion did not seem to affect the results of the on-line database for life satisfaction scores. In Gaza, Palestine, most of the public believed that being a female doctor would kill any form of life enjoyment and it is a common belief h Read More

ملخص بحث تعاطي المواد الطيارة البروفيسور العياشي عنصر وآخرون يتمثل الهدف الرئيسي لهذه الدراسة في التعرف على مدى انتشار تعاطي المواد الطيارة أو "المستنشقات" بين المراهقين في دولة قطر. ويتفرع عن هذا الهدف الرئيسي مجموعة من الأهداف الفرعية. وقد انطلقت الدراسة من مجموعة من التساؤلات الرئيسية مثل: ما هي الخصائص الديموغرافية والاجتماعية لمتعاطي المواد الطيارة. ما الذي أوصلهم إلى تعاطي هذه المواد الطيارة. أين ومتي يتعاطون هذه المواد. ما هي شدة الإقبال عليها، وما طول ف Read More

Over the past years, significant and rapid changes in many aspects of society and the world have led countries such as Qatar and others in the Gulf Region to reform their national education systems, focusing on the integration of standards, assessment, and accountability. One of the key elements in most of these reforms is the professional development as a central feature of such educational improvement initiatives for t Read More