Maj. Gen. Prof Khalid Bin Ali Al Khalifa

Ali S. Al-Aufi

Green incentives are included in the “American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009” (ARRA). It is, however, unclear how these government incentives can be carried out most effectively according to market-based principles and if they can serve as a catalyst for an accelerated green transformation and an ultimate solution to the current U.S. and global economic and financial crisis. The article...

Ali S. Al-Aufi

The emergence of networked information and communication has transformed the accessibility and delivery of scholarly information and fundamentally impacted on the processes of research and scholarly communication. The purpose of this study is to investigate disciplinary differences in the use of networked information for research and scholarly communication at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman. Th...

Alhad Kuwadekar & Khalid Al-begain: Quality of Experience Based Investigation

Video call capabilities in 3G mobile handsets and higher data rate in HSPA networks are fuelling resurgence in video telephony. This enables the delivery of exciting video applications to subscribers. The addition of Interactive Voice and Video Response (IVVR) opens up a wide stream of interactive video applications. In this paper we present a comparative study on the encoding tools and the tec...

Incidence and associated risk factors of low birth weight babies born in Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayad Al-Nayan Hospital Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Birth weight is the most important factor that affects infant and child mortality. The most common cause of low birth is malnutrition before and during the pregnancy period. The present study was conducted to explore the associated risk factors of low birth weight which will be helpful to undertake effective measures to reduce the incidence of the low birth weight babie...

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