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How the young adult consumer segment responds to trusty and committed marketing relationship
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Wiley-LissInc.
, 2018 , Article)
Service providers build relationship with their customers for mutual satisfaction and benefits. However, little is known about the relational antecedents and outcomes of relationship satisfaction among young adult consumers. ...
Vibration of rotating functionally graded Timoshenko nano-beams with nonlinear thermal distribution
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Taylor and Francis Inc.
, 2018 , Article)
The vibration analysis of rotating, functionally graded Timoshenko nano-beams under an in-plane nonlinear thermal loading is studied for the first time. The formulation is based on Eringen's nonlocal elasticity theory. ...
Automatic ranking of information retrieval systems
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Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Typical information retrieval system evaluation requires expensive manually-collected relevance judgments of documents, which are used to rank retrieval systems. Due to the high cost associated with collecting relevance ...
Control of High Gain Modified SEPIC Converter: A Constant Switching Frequency Modulation Sliding Mode Controlling Technique
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
This paper investigates, analyses and presents a control scheme for a modified SEPIC converter. High voltage conversion ratio is accomplished by using fewer passive components. The modified SEPIC converter is a combination ...
Inconsistency detection in Islamic advisory opinions using multilevel text categorization
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American Scientific Publishers
, 2017 , Article)
Inconsistency detection is a large research area that has many applications. In the scope of Islamic content mining, this topic is of a particular interest because of the continuously increasing content and the need of ...
Piracy in the Horn of Africa Waters: Definitions, History, and Modern Causes
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
, 2015 , Article)
Throughout history, ocean piracy was common in different parts of the world, but it was rare in the Horn of Africa waters. Although international law clearly defines piracy, the term is often carelessly used interchangeably ...
Countering piracy through private security in the Horn of Africa: prospects and pitfalls
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
, 2016 , Article)
Employing secondary research and semi-structured interviews, this article examines the use of private maritime security companies (PMSC) in providing maritime security services in the Horn of Africa. It consists of four ...
Effective framework for change order management using analytical hierarchy process (AHP)
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GaziUniversityEtiMahallesi
, 2018 , Article)
Construction projects are of very complex nature and come along with an intrinsic but undesirable property of change orders. The purpose of this paper is to propose an effective framework for the change order management ...
Calcium deficiency in hydroxyapatite and its drug delivery applications
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Institution of Engineering and Technology
, 2018 , Article)
In this work, calcium deficient hydroxyapatites (HAPs) [Ca 10 ? x (PO 4 ) 6 (OH) 2 ] [where x = 0 ? 0.3] were synthesised by precipitation method and calcined samples were characterised by Fourier transformation infrared ...
Cell shortening and calcium dynamics in epicardial and endocardial myocytes from the left ventricle of Goto-Kakizaki type 2 diabetic rats
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
New Findings: What is the central question of this study? To investigate haemodynamic dysfunction in the type 2 diabetic Goto-Kakizaki (GK) rat, we measured shortening and Ca2+ transport in ventricular myocytes from ...