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Characterization of cochleate nanoparticles for delivery of the anti-asthma drug beclomethasone dipropionate
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Academic Press
, 2020 , Book chapter)
Cochleates are an exciting new class of nanocarriers derived from multilamellar liposomes. They have a “cigerette like” structures in which the phospholipid bilayers are joined together by calcium ion bridges making them ...
Taxane anticancer formulations: challenges and achievements
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Academic Press
, 2020 , Book chapter)
Taxanes represent a prominent anticancer family. Paclitaxel and docetaxel are the most well-known taxanes owing to their activity against many types of cancers. The poor solubility of taxanes in water is a major obstacle ...
Carbon nanotubes drug delivery system for cancer treatment
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Academic Press
, 2020 , Book chapter)
There has been a predominant interest in using nanotechnology for drug delivery applications, especially for cite-specific targeting. Recently, interest in the potential of carbon nanotubes (CNT) to deliver bio-molecules ...
Humoristic Translanguaging in Intercultural Communication in Qatar: Merits, Limitations, and Its Potential Contribution to Policy Development
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Springer, Singapore
, 2021 , Book chapter)
This paper deals with the merits and limitations of a pedagogical practice that has been developed in the context of teaching undergraduate sociolinguistics courses in a state tertiary education institute in the State of ...
“DELIVER AMAZING”: Qatar as a branded architectural discourse in World Cup 2022
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book chapter)
Qatar brands itself as a projected-in-the-future proud cosmopolitan and progressive country ready to host World Cup 2022. The branding practices, whereby this projection takes place, are the focus of Irene Theodoropoulou’s ...
Social Media Branding : The case of Mykonos, Greece on Facebook
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book chapter)
The chapter aims at contributing to the sociolinguistic theorization of branding through a word-of-mouth marketing lens by delving into the ways whereby Mykonos is branded on Facebook. Place branding is investigated in the ...
Socio-historical multilingualism and language policies in Dubai
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Routledge
, 2020 , Book chapter)
The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the sociolinguistic research which has been and is currently being conducted in Dubai, and has been published in the English language. After providing a discussion of ...
"Know Thyself”: Racial Discrimination before the International Court of Justice – Recent Jurisprudential Developments
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Brill - Nijhoff
, 2021 , Book chapter)
Being the oldest United Nations human rights treaty and enjoying widespread participation, the
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (“CERD” or the
“Convention”) was adopted ...
Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) as a Platform for Modeling Arrhythmias
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Springer Nature
, 2022 , Book chapter)
Cardiac arrhythmias can arise due to a host of both genetic and acquired factors. Specifically, the genetic basis of arrhythmogenesis is not fully understood due to the lack of robust models that reliably recapitulate human ...
McBride, James
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Wiley
, 2022 , Book chapter)
One of the most interesting writers on race to emerge in the last decade of the twentieth century, James McBride (b. 1957) is an African American novelist, memoirist, and jazz musician. His memoir, The Color of Water: A ...