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Shifting priorities in Russia's foreign and security policy
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Ashgate Publishing Ltd
, 2014 , Book)
Given the resurgence of Russian economic capabilities and of Russia's role as a regional, even global, political actor, much of the literature written more than 4-5 years ago is already dated. The editor and contributors ...
Uptake of Reactive Black 5 by pumice and walnut activated carbon: Chemistry and adsorption mechanisms
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Elsevier
, 2014 , Article)
The potential of using pumice and walnut wood activated carbon as low-cost adsorbents for the removal of the diazo dye Reactive Black 5 (RB5) from aqueous solutions was investigated. The Langmuir isotherm fit to the data ...
b2 -Metric spaces and some fixed point theorems
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Springer International Publishing
, 2014 , Article)
The aim of this paper is to establish the structure of [InlineEquation not available: see fulltext.]-metric spaces, as a generalization of 2-metric spaces. Some fixed point results for various contractive-type mappings in ...
Advances in smart materials and applications
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
, 2014 , Other)
[No abstract available]
Entropy-Like Minimization Methods Based on Modified Proximal Point Algorithm
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University of Toronto Press Inc.
, 2014 , Article)
In this paper we introduce an extension of the proximal point algorithm proposed by Guler for solving convex minimization problems. This extension is obtained by substituting the usual quadratic proximal term by a class ...
Mechanisms underlying the antihypertensive effects of garlic bioactives
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2014 , Article)
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide with hypertension being a major contributing factor to cardiovascular disease–associated mortality. On a population level, non-pharmacological approaches, ...
Bootstrap confidence intervals for adaptive cluster sampling design based on Horvitz-Thompson type estimators
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
, 2014 , Article)
Perez and Pontius (J Stat Comput Simul 76:755-764, 2006) introduced several bootstrap methods under adaptive cluster sampling using a Horvitz-Thompson type estimator. Using a simulation study, they showed that their proposed ...
Revealing the maternal demographic history of Panthera leo using ancient DNA and a spatially explicit genealogical analysis
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BioMed Central Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
Background: Understanding the demographic history of a population is critical to conservation and to our broader understanding of evolutionary processes. For many tropical large mammals, however, this aim is confounded by ...
Benthic marine algae of the arabian gulf: A critical review and analysis of distribution and diversity patterns
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Schweizerbart Science Publishers
, 2014 , Article)
The Arabian Gulf is an extremely inhospitable and physiologically-stressful environment for marine organisms since they are exposed to the widest range and the highest sea temperatures in the world, as well as high salinities. ...
Interval estimation of the stress-strength reliability in the two-parameter exponential distribution based on records
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
We consider interval estimation of the stress-strength reliability in the two-parameter exponential distribution based on records. We constructed Bayesian intervals, Bootstrap intervals and intervals using the generalized ...