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Female audit committee members and their influence on audit fees
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Blackwell Publishing
, 2018 , Article)
We test the relationship between female representation on the audit committee and audit fees for 624 Australian companies in the year 2011. A positive relationship is found, leading to the conclusion that female presence ...
New insights on estimating pore size distribution of latex particles: Statistical mechanics approach and modeling
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2016 , Article)
New statistical mechanics approach for pore size distribution applied in wide the relative pressure range is proposed. The new proposed model was applied to nitrogen adsorption-desorption isotherms at 77 K onto five ...
Knowledge and innovation in the Lebanese software industry
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Cogent OA
, 2018 , Article)
The software industry is strongly influenced by knowledge and innovation. The ability to develop new solutions and services is considered essential to firm survival and growth. The innovation process, being long and costly, ...
Low-quality facial biometric verification via dictionary-based random pooling
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
In the past decade, visual surveillance has emerged as an effective tool in public security applications. Due to the technical limitations of both surveillance cameras and transmission speed, videos collected from surveillance ...
Standard Terms Contracts: The Approaches of Qatari Civil Law and UNIDROIT Principles 2016. A Comparative Study
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Brill Academic Publishers
, 2018 , Article)
This study compares the approach that Qatari Civil Law No. 22/2004 (QCL) takes to standard terms with that taken by the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2016. The main difference between QCL and ...
German metaphysics
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Cambridge University Press
, 2018 , Book chapter)
Before 1850 Herman Melville was a fairly typical American male, in that he was rebellious and needed to earn money to live. He had left school early, and by the time he began work on Moby-Dick; or, The Whale he had been a ...
Driving behaviour and sustainable mobility-policies and approaches revisited
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MDPI AG
, 2018 , Article)
Climate change is receiving increasing attention in recent years. The transportation sector contributes substantially to increased fuel consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and poor air quality, which imposes a ...
Achievable Rates of Buffer-Aided Full-Duplex Gaussian Relay Channels
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2017 , Article)
We derive closed-form expressions for the achievable rates of a buffer-aided full-duplex (FD) multiple-input multiple-output Gaussian relay channel. The FD relay still suffers from residual self-interference (RSI) after ...
Phytochemical screening and assessment of pharmacological properties of Swertia chirayita (Roxb. ex fleming) root methanolic extract
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Asian Network for Scientific Information
, 2017 , Article)
Background and Objective: Various parts of medicinal plants have been used to treat specific disorder from ancient times. Swertia chirayita (Roxb. ex Fleming) is a customary folklore medicine, used in the treatment of liver ...
Synergism between nigella sativa seeds extract and synthetic antibiotics against Mec A gene positive human strains of staphylococcus aureus
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Asian Network for Scientific Information
, 2017 , Article)
Background and Objective: Synergistic combinations of various antimicrobial agents have been introduced as extra successful strategies to combat multidrug resistant (MDR) infections. This study was undertaken to evaluate ...