Department of Chemistry, University of Penn PA 19104, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Qatar Environment and Energy Research Qatar Foundation, Doha, Qatar † Electronic supplementary information labeled by atom types and electrostatic number of water molecules inside crypto free energy changes DA1 and DA2 as fun (Fig. S3). Water maps for water molecule TAAC (Fig. S4). Bond parameters (Table S inside...

1 Qatar Foundation, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Doha, Qatar 2 Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA 3 Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA 4 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Pédologie Hydrostructurale, Bondy, France 5 Biological and Agricu...

1Medical Services of Qatar Army Forces, Doha, Qatar. Received: 07/11/02; accepted 21/06/03 ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study is to draw attention to the presence and the severity of dental fluorosis in Doha (Qatar) through the high level of registered cases of fluorosis found among the groups examined. Of 4800 people aged 8–50 years, 2654 (55.29%) had dental fluorosis of some degree. This...

Information is missing from the Funding section. The correct funding information is as follows: This work was supported by the Qatar Foundation through the Qatar National Research Fund (grant programs NPRP4-640-1-096 and JSREP4-011-1-003) and the Qatar Science Leadership Program. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the ma...

Qatar is a Gulf peninsula country of approximately 1.7 million people, with a multicultural society of more than 80% non-citizen residents, mostly expatriate workers of Middle Eastern and Asian origin. Qatar ranks highly on the Human Development Index, with the highest health index in the Arab world (1). The first kidney transplant in Qatar was performed in 1986. Since then, lack of donors in Q...

AIM To assess health care delivery system in the State of Qatar and audit it according to the Joint Commission International (JCI) standard. METHODS The data for this retrospective descriptive study were taken from the Annual Health Report of the National Health Authority and Hamad Medical Corporation and various additional sources like World Health Organization reports, Annual Report of Saud...

1 Qatar Foundation, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Doha, Qatar 2 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Bondy, France 3 Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA 4 Valorhiz SAS, Parc Scientifique Agropolis II Bat 6, Montferrier-sur-Lez, France 5 Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, and Zachry Departme...

In this study fourteen microsatellite primer pairs were used to study the genetic diversity of Shishi Date palm in Qatar. A total of 32 date palm (15 Shishi cultivar, 10 Khalas and seven male date palms) were collected from Qatar and 5 Shihi cultivars were collected from Saudi Arabia ‎for comparison. The Shishi set collected from Qatar was selected from ‎different regions to represent the ‎gene...

We have updated the list of the lizard species present in Qatar and produced the first distribution maps based on two field surveys in 2012 and 2013. We used the QND95/Qatar National Grid with a grid of 10 × 10 km squares for mapping. Our results show the occurrence of 21 lizard species in Qatar, from the 15 species indicated in the last biodiversity report conducted in 2004. The most abundant ...

It is with pleasure that we publish our 32 issue and the first issue published under Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press). HBKU Press, formerly known as Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation, launched its publishing program in 2010. Founded on international best practices and excellence, its mission is to provide a unique local and international platform for literature, literacy, scholarship, ...