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Exchange Rates and Stock Prices in the MENA Countries: What Role for Oil?
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2011 , Article)
This paper considers the linkage between stock prices and exchange rates in four MENA (Middle East and North Africa) emerging markets. In contrast to the existing evidence that uses a global market index to uncover such a ...
Modest seductiveness: Reconciling modesty and vanity by reverse assimilation and double resistance
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2012 , Article)
We study conflicting notions of modesty and vanity in the Arab Gulf region by focusing on contemporary female adornment practices and the tensions underlying them. The standard of modest traditional dress that women are ...
Trust in development: some implications of knowing in indigenous knowledge
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
, 2010 , Article)
The indigenous knowledge (IK) initiative in development has met with limited success. The cultural relativity of knowledge � i.e. what qualifies as justified belief � may partly explain why. Drawing on New Guinea Highlands' ...
Sanguinarine Induces Apoptosis in Papillary Thyroid Cancer Cells via Generation of Reactive Oxygen Species.
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MDPI
, 2020 , Article)
Sanguinarine (SNG), a natural compound with an array of pharmacological activities, has promising therapeutic potential against a number of pathological conditions, including malignancies. In the present study, we have ...
Immunomodulation Induced by Host Pathogen Interaction
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Hindawi
, 2019 , Article)
Controlling and preventing infections require deep understanding of the complex interplay that occurs between the host and pathogen following infection. In essence, immunomodulation is any process leading to an immune ...
Relay selection in underlay cognitive networks with fixed transmission power nodes
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2013 , Article)
Underlay cognitive networks operate simultaneously with primary networks satisfying stringent interference constraints, which reduces their transmission power and coverage area. To reach remote destinations, secondary ...
Global patterns and predictions of seafloor biomass using random forests
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Public Library of Science
, 2010 , Article)
A comprehensive seafloor biomass and abundance database has been constructed from 24 oceanographic institutions worldwide within the Census of Marine Life (CoML) field projects. The machine-learning algorithm, Random ...
On fixed points of Berinde's contractive mappings in cone metric spaces
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North University of Baia Mare
, 2010 , Article)
In this paper we establish some common fixed point theorems for two self-mappings satisfying a generalized contractive condition. This result generalizes well known comparable results in the literature. As an application, ...
A Model-driven Approach to the development of a PBL Script Editor
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Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE)
, 2013 , Article)
Designing a pedagogically sound and technically executable collaboration script is a highly complex,
time-consuming and error-prone task. This paper presents a model-driven approach to enable practitioners to design
online ...
Effect of hyperlipidemia on ketoconazole-midazolam drug-drug interaction in rat
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2011 , Article)
Hyperlipidemia (HL) was previously shown to lower liver uptake of the more potent (-) enantiomer of ketoconazole (KTZ) in rat. The current study examined the possible modifying influence of experimental HL on a KTZ ...