Search
Now showing items 1401-1410 of 12404
Press freedom and corruption: An examination of the relationship
(
SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
Are countries with a free press less corrupt than countries where the press is partly or completely unfree? Our empirical investigation finds evidence of a significant relationship between higher levels of press freedom ...
Mass problems and density
(
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
Recall that Ew is the lattice of Muchnik degrees of nonempty effectively compact sets in Euclidean space. We solve a long-standing open problem by proving that Ew is dense, i.e. satisfies {equation presented}. Our proof ...
Evaluation of the general public's knowledge, views and practices relating to appropriate antibiotic use in Qatar
(
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
Objective: Studies completed internationally have demonstrated an alarming number of patients believed antibiotics are indicated in the treatment of viral infections and other self-limited illnesses. Evaluation of patient ...
Strategies to Optimize Dual Antiplatelet Therapy after Coronary Artery Stenting in Acute Coronary Syndrome
(
SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2017 , Article)
The use of aspirin and a P2Y12 receptor antagonist as dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) has become the treatment of choice in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) and percutaneous coronary intervention to prevent ...
Leadership in physiotherapy: Experiences of leaders of physiotherapy professional organisations
(
BMJ Publishing Group
, 2019 , Article)
Background The changing demands of healthcare and ongoing advances in practice and technology require corresponding change and development of the physiotherapy profession. Physiotherapy professional organisations perform ...
Extended quantum cuts for unsupervised salient object extraction
(
Springer New York LLC
, 2017 , Article)
In this manuscript, an unsupervised salient object extraction algorithm is proposed for RGB and RGB-Depth images. Saliency estimation is formulated as a foreground detection problem. To this end, Quantum-Cuts (QCUT), a ...
Poly(aniline-co-3-aminophenol): enhanced crystallinity and solubility
(
Springer Verlag
, 2019 , Article)
An improvement of physiochemical properties such as solubility, crystallinity, and the surface morphology of the copolymer have been achieved via the in-situ copolymerization of the monomers units using ammonium persulfate ...
Synthesis and characterization of electrically conductive poly(aniline-co-3-bromoaniline) nanocomposites
(
Springer New York LLC
, 2017 , Article)
Poly(aniline-co-3-bromoaniline) copolymers with varying compositions of the monomers have been prepared in this work by copolymerization of aniline and 3-bromoaniline using ammonium persulphate as oxidant. Structure and ...
Using robot animation to promote gestural skills in children with autism spectrum disorders
(
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
School-aged children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have delayed gestural development, in comparison with age-matched typically developing children. In this study, an intervention program taught children with ...
Effect of ambient temperature on the efficiency of the PCPDTBT: PC71BM BHJ solar cells
(
Springer Verlag
, 2017 , Article)
In this research article, the influence of environment temperature on the performance of the organic bulk heterojunction organic solar cells has been investigated. We describe the effect of ambient temperature on the ...