Qatar Foundation Annual Research Forum Volume 2013 Issue 1

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