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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Doha (Qatar)"”.
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The search for city : between being and seeming in the rapid urbanisation of Doha, Qatar
… twenty-first-century city. Looking closely at Doha, Qatar - a city that can choose to be anything it desires - reveals a tension between the regime’s aspirations and the expectations of its (mostly foreign) constituents. Doha’s fundamental transformation from village to metropolis provides an …
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Transnational Labour Migration: Experiences of Mid-to-Highly Skilled African Migrant Workers in Doha, Qatar
… on African labour migration to the GCC and Qatar. The study focuses on younger mid-to-highly skilled Africans (from Cameroon, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe) currently working in Qatar. Attention was given to how racialized positioning intersected with …
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Sustainable urban development and its impact on facilities management: the case of the city of Doha, Qatar
… examines the extent of urban development in Doha in relation to the impact this development poses on Facilities Management (FM). The focus of this study is on the city of Doha, Qatar. Urban growth that is not underpinned by a sustainable development ethos presents unique challenges on social, …
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Introverted architecture and the human dimension : the conflict of placemaking in the disconnected urban fabric of Doha, Qatar
Doha, the capital city of Qatar, has become a metropolis of disconnected inward-facing mega-projects with no regard to the remaining fabric of the city. This can be owed to the relatively short urbanization period that the country has undergone, with its heavy reliance on international firms. The …
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An Examination of the Contradictory Goals of Nation-Building and Neoliberalism of the Education City Project in Doha, Qatar
… thesis seeks to investigate the ways in which Qatari students at Education City (a campus space that houses six US universities in Doha, Qatar) are negotiating the competing imperatives embodied by this space through the transplantation of not only Western ideals and values in the Gulf, but …
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Development, implementation and evaluation of a diabetes patient education toolkit (DPET) for self-management of type 2 diabetes mellitus in Doha, Qatar
… from 22 hospitals and health centres in Doha, Qatar. The intervention group (n = 215) were assigned to a six-week, 2-hourly structured educational class based on the specifically designed DPET, plus their usual one-to-one routine clinical care; the control group (n = 215) used the DPET …
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Development of Relationship Model between Occupant Productivity and Indoor Environmental Quality in Office Buildings in Qatar
… in office buildings. The study was conducted in Doha, Qatar using experiment and survey using 90 sensors in 15 zones in an office building for a period of nine month. Occupant productivity was captured using online survey with nine questions. Occupant response was analysed against various indoor …
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Song is the Secret of of Existence: Fairouz and the Arab Diaspora in London and Doha
… of 59 members of the Arab diaspora living in Doha, Qatar and London, England were heard, understood and categorised thematically, highlighting how music can elucidate and situate experiences of migration, positioning listeners on a fluctuating continuum, which moves beyond standard private and …
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Adding, Retrieving and Browsing Content in Social Media and E-Journalism
… metaphors. 25users from the Aljazeera Channel in Doha, Qatar took part. The first experimental condition consisted of two interfaces, TARCS (traditional adding and retrieving comments system) and CMARCS (classification multimodal adding and retrieving comments system). This was carried out in …
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Exploring the Impact on Students of Western Universities on Foreign Soil: A Case Study of Qatar
… focused on one specific Middle Eastern country, Qatar, and explored how native students respond to attending a Western university that has been transplanted from the West into their country. This case study/cross case research investigated what is leading native students in Qatar to attend one of …
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The Effect of Non-exercise Activity Thermogenesis on subjects with Metabolic Syndrome
… following the rise in obesity across the globe. Qatar, a country in the Arabian Peninsula shares the burden of obesity with recent studies showing prevalences of'---61% among women and —39% among men. These studies found that metabolic syndrome is more common among women. Physical activity helps …
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Language in the Mirror: Language Ideologies, Schooling and Islam in Qatar
… language ideologies in the capital city of Doha, Qatar, where school reform movements are placing greater emphasis on English language acquisition. Through ethnography and a revised theory of language ideologies, I argue that as languages come in greater contact in multi-lingual spaces, …