Project Tags: Arts and Sciences

Information Flow and Strategic Decisions in Social Networks

Consider a person playing a game or making a decision in a strategic situation. If several people are involved then the choices made by one player may influence the choices…

Undergraduate Discipline-Specific Writing: Expectations, Demands, & Development

This study examines the expectations and linguistic demands of discipline specific college writing, and the writing development of 87 students majoring in business administration, computer science, and information systems at…

Learning4Teaching-Qatar: Examining Qatari teachers’ experiences of professional development in English language teaching

This proposed study will examine public-sector Qatari English language teachers’ experiences in, and reported use of, professional development (PD). As a national case study in the larger cross-national Learning4Teaching Project,…

Assessing English Language Placement Tests for Use in Qatari Post-secondary Institutions

New mathematical models for the large strain swelling response of biological tissues

This research has as its goal the development and computational implementation of new mathematical models that describe the mechanics of swelling in highly deformable soft biological tissue. Our aim is…

Complex Material Response Described by Continuum Mechanics with a Deformation Gradient Product Decomposition that has Novel Hyperelastic Implications

Continuum mechanics seeks to describe the mechanical response of materials at size scales in which it is impractical to resolve individual atoms, molecules or their clusters. The theory takes into…

New mathematical models for the large strain swelling response of biological tissues: Applications to Edema, Inflammation, and Pregnancy

Mathematical models that describe how soft biological tissue responds to mechanical stress are an essential part of basic biomechanics. There are many useful models that have been reasonably validated by…

Conservation and Biodiversity in Qatar: Surveying Awareness and Attitudes toward Qatari Fauna

Qatar is home to an impressive variety of unique terrestrial and marine animals, and the number of identified species in the region continues to grow. Current estimates claim 1,955 species,…

Emerging Communities: The Case of Hispanics in Qatar

Transnational Labor Migration in Qatar: An Empirical Sociological Analysis

This project seeks to significantly advance Qatar’s understanding of its large foreign workforce. To date, none of the GCC countries have successfully engaged in a quantitatively grounded analysis of foreign…