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A Mechanistic Neural Field Theory of How Anesthesia Suppresses Consciousness: Synaptic Drive Dynamics, Bifurcations, Attractors, and Partial State Equipartitioning
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Springer Verlag
, 2015 , Article)
With the advances in biochemistry, molecular biology, and neurochemistry there has been impressive progress in understanding the molecular properties of anesthetic agents. However, there has been little focus on how the ...
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional control of adipocyte differentiation by Jumonji domain-containing protein 6
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Oxford University Press
, 2015 , Article)
Jumonji domain-containing protein 6 (JMJD6) is a nuclear protein involved in histone modification, transcription and RNA processing. Although JMJD6 is crucial for tissue development, the link between its molecular functions ...
Assessing the effectiveness of a pharmacist-delivered smoking cessation program in the State of Qatar: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
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BioMed Central
, 2015 , Article)
Background:
It had been reported that up to 37% of the adult male population smokes cigarettes in Qatar. The
Global Youth Tobacco Survey also stated that 13.4% of male school students aged 13 to 15 years in Qatar smoke ...
Born small, die young: Intrinsic, size-selective mortality in marine larval fish
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Nature Publishing Group
, 2015 , Article)
Mortality during the early stages is a major cause of the natural variations in the size and recruitment strength of marine fish populations. In this study, the relation between the size-at-hatch and early survival was ...
Security and privacy in emerging networks: Part 1 [Guest Editorial]
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IEEE
, 2015 , Article)
With the recent advancements in networking technologies, some new emerging networks are being implemented that have the potential to be deployed broadly and on a large scale in the near future. In the wired domain, these ...
An energy-efficient distributed clustering algorithm for heterogeneous WSNs
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Springer International Publishing
, 2015 , Article)
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) were envisaged to become the fabric of our environment and society. However, they are yet unable to surmount many operational challenges such as limited network lifetime, which strangle their ...
A survey on the awareness and attitude of pharmacists and doctors towards the application of pharmacogenomics and its challenges in Qatar
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2015 , Article)
RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
Pharmacists are expected to play an important role in applying pharmacogenomics discoveries to patient care. Despite the increased attention to genetic research in Qatar, clinicians' attitudes ...
Studies on chemistry, spectroscopy and antioxidant activities of chromium(III)-hydrazide complexes
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Bentham Science Publishers B.V.
, 2015 , Article)
Acid hydrazides are vital chemical entities due to their biological activities. Upon complexation with certain metal ions, their biological activities are known to be positively enhanced. The present work describes the ...
Criminal thinking in a Middle Eastern prison sample of thieves, drug dealers, and murderers
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Wiley
, 2015 , Article)
The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) has been applied extensively to the study of criminal behaviour and cognition. This study aimed to explore the psychometric characteristics (factorial structure, ...
Translating the style of Aganaktismenoi(Indignants) on Facebook
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De Gruyter
, 2015 , Article)
The paper discusses translation challenges associated with the linguistic and multisemiotic stylistic ways (Kress 2010; Coupland 2007) Aganaktismenoi, the Greek indignants’ movement, employ to produce a digital sense of ...