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Metal/Metal-Oxide Nanoclusters for Gas Sensor Applications
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
, 2016 , Article Review)
The development of gas sensors that are based on metal/metal-oxide nanoclusters has attracted intensive research interest in the last years. Nanoclusters are suitable candidates for gas sensor applications because of their ...
Satire and Religious Tolerance: How Acceptance/Rejection of Satire is Determined by the Capacity of Religious and Political Forces to Agree on a Modern Civic Contract
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Brill Academic Publishers
, 2016 , Article Review)
The January 2015 assassination at the Charlie Hebdo offices and the dozen ensuing terrorist attacks in France over the last eighteen months are the manifestation of a structural opposition between a civic identity whose ...
Changing role of accounting and its systems: A new vision of accounting as knowledge processing systems
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2016 , Article Review)
This paper introduces a new vision for defining what can be titled " Knowledge accounting and its systems". A review of accounting and information systems literature provides a milestone in the way of architecting a new ...
Saudi women and Islamic discourse, selected examples of Saudi feminisms
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Brill Academic Publishers
, 2016 , Article Review)
Saudi women entered the realm of writing and language only half a century ago through the genres of both creative and journalistic prose. In this paper, I shall take the example of four Saudi female writers who represent ...
Arab 'Parliamentarisation' in the Arab Spring context: The normative vs. the practical
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Deutsches Orient-Institut
, 2016 , Article Review)
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Carbon Nanotubes in Biomedical Applications: Factors, Mechanisms, and Remedies of Toxicity
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American Chemical Society
, 2016 , Article Review)
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) represent one of the most studied allotropes of carbon. The unique physicochemical properties of CNTs make them among prime candidates for numerous applications in biomedical fields including drug ...
The role of mid-chain hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acids in the pathogenesis of hypertension and cardiac hypertrophy
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Springer Verlag
, 2016 , Article Review)
The incidence, prevalence, and hospitalization rates associated with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are projected to increase substantially in the world. Understanding of the biological and pathophysiological mechanisms ...
Synthesis, characterization and applications of electroless Ni-B coatings-A review
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Electrochemical Science Group
, 2016 , Article Review)
Electroless nickel coating process has experienced remarkable modifications since its invention by Branner and Riddell in 1946. This process has proven to be very useful for applying uniform, hard, wear resistant coatings ...
Green Cooperative Device-to-Device Communication: A Social-Aware Perspective
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Article Review)
As the mobile operators strive to accommodate the increasing load and capacity requirements, direct communication among users' devices, namely, device-to-device (D2D) communication, emerges as an advantageous solution for ...
The eutherian pseudoautosomal region
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S. Karger AG
, 2016 , Article Review)
The pseudoautosomal region (PAR) is a unique segment of sequence homology between differentiated sex chromosomes where recombination occurs during meiosis. Molecular and functional properties of the PAR are distinctive ...