BACKGROUND Although the incidence of football injuries should relate to team success there is little empirical evidence. OBJECTIVE We investigated the relationship between injury incidence and team success in Qatar first-division football clubs. METHODS Using a prospective cohort study design, we captured exposure and injuries in Qatar male elite football for a season. Club performance was ...

The increasing incidence of end-stage kidney disease in Qatar has led to growing demand for donor kidneys. The deceased donor kidney program has yet to achieve its full potential; hence, living kidney donation has been widely adopted as an appropriate alternative. The reliance on living kidney donors however, raises a number of social, ethical, and legal concerns surrounding informed consent, v...

Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, P.O. Box 5825 Doha, Qatar. Laboratory for theModeling of Biological and Socio-Technical Systems, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Aix-Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, CNRS, CPT, UMR 7332, 13288 Marseille, France. Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA....

In this study, students’ learning has been investigated and satisfaction in one of the course offered at Qatar University Foundation Program. Innovative teaching has been implied methodology that emphasizes on enhancing students’ thinking skills, decision making, and problem solving skills. Some interesting results were found which could be used to further improvement of the teaching methodolog...

1,2 Luke Kelly, 2 Glen Lichtwark, 1 Rodney Whiteley, 1 Sebastien Racinais and Andrew Cresswell ASPETAR, Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar Centre for Sensorimotor Neuroscience, School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland, Australia INTRODUCTION The human foot is a flexible multi-segment structure, capable of conforming to variations in load and surfac...

abstract from historical view point geopolitical factors have encouraged the politicians to be ambitious. countries of the world by making use of geopolitical potentials try to maintain stability and promote their status in world affairs. among the countries of the persian gulf region qatar is one of those countries which in recent regional developments have had geopolitical dynamic and have pl...

1 Discharge properties of abductor hallucis before, during and after an isometric 1 fatigue task. 2 3 Luke A. Kelly 1,2 4 Sebastien Racinais 1,2 5 Andrew G. Cresswell 2 * 6 7 1 Aspetar, Qatar Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Hospital, Department of Exercise 8 and Sport Science, Doha, Qatar 9 2 The University of Queensland, Centre for Sensorimotor Neuroscience, School of 10 Human Movement Studies, ...

A novel betacoronavirus associated with lethal respiratory and renal complications was recently identified in patients from several countries in the Middle East. We report the deep genome sequencing of the virus directly from a patient's sputum sample. Our high-throughput sequencing yielded a substantial depth of genome sequence assembly and showed the minority viral variants in the specimen. D...

This study aims at exploring users’ satisfaction with the traffic violation e-Service provided by the Ministry of Interior in Qatar. The paper presents the findings of a quantitative survey that covered over 300 users of the traffic violation e-Service and reflects on satisfaction based on the four dimensions of the COBRA framework (Osman et al. 2011): cost, opportunity, benefit and risk constr...

While a major reduction in morbidity and mortality from measles has been achieved in Qatar since it adopted the measles elimination programme in 1997, the country has experienced small, recurrent measles outbreaks. The aim of this study was to determine the demographical and epidemiological characteristics of measles cases reported to the surveillance programme in Qatar in 2007. Of 362 confirme...