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Challenges of Palestinian Security Sector Reform: Blame Israeli Occupation or Internal Political Fragmentation?
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International Publishing House for China's Culture
, 2014 , Article)
The debate on Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Palestine has emerged within the context of the peace process between Israel and Palestinians, in particular following the Oslo agreement in 1993. There are different perceptions ...
Perceptual Dialectology of the Arab World: A Principal Analysis
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Georgetown University Press
, 2014 , Article)
This study discusses perceptions of variation across dialects of Arabic in the Arab world as revealed through a perceptual dialectology map task. On a map of the Arab world, female undergraduate students at Qatar University ...
Impacts of CO2-induced seawater acidification on coastal Mediterranean bivalves and interactions with other climatic stressors
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Springer Berlin Heidelberg
, 2014 , Article)
The effects of seawater acidification caused by increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), combined with other climatic stressors, were studied on 3 coastal Mediterranean bivalve species: the mussel ...
Temperature dependence of the pressure induced monoclinic distortion in the spin S=1/2 Shastry–Sutherland compound SrCu2(BO3)2
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2014 , Article)
We investigate the monoclinic distortion that occurs at 4.7 GPa at room temperature in the frustrated Shastry-Sutherland model quantum magnet SrCu 2(BO3)2 as a function of pressure and temperature by means of powder and ...
Thermoelectric properties of SbNCa3 and BiNCa3 for thermoelectric devices and alternative energy applications
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2014 , Article)
Thermoelectric properties of two antiperovskites SbNCa3 and BiNCa3 are calculated using first principles calculations. High values of Seebeck coefficients are observed for these materials. Electrical and thermal conductivities ...
On the diet of the Pharaoh Eagle Owl, Bubo ascalaphus (Savigny, 1809), in Qatar, with an overview of its feeding habits
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
The diet of Bubo ascalaphus in Qatar was assessed based on pellets collected from the first known nesting site of the species in the country. The pellets contained a total of 68 prey items, representing 9 different species: ...
Community structure and activity of a highly dynamic and nutrient-limited hypersaline microbial mat in Um Alhool Sabkha, Qatar
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Public Library of Science
, 2014 , Article)
The Um Alhool area in Qatar is a dynamic evaporative ecosystem that receives seawater from below as it is surrounded by sand dunes. We investigated the chemical composition, the microbial activity and biodiversity of the ...
(E)-2-{[(Furan-2-ylmethyl)imino]methyl}-4-nitrophenol
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International Union of Crystallography
, 2014 , Article)
In the title compound, C12H10N2O4, the furan-2-ylmethyl
group is disordered over two sets of sites, with refined
occupancies of 0.858 (3) and 0.143 (3). In the major component
of disorder, the dihedral angle between the ...
Editorial: Some recent trends in variational inequalities and optimization problems with applications
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Hindawi Publishing Corp
, 2014 , Article)
Spectral, thermal, and molecular modeling studies on the encapsulation of selected sulfonamide drugs in ?-cyclodextrin nano-cavity
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Elsevier
, 2014 , Article)
In the present work the inclusion complexation of three sulfonamide (SA) drugs, namely sulfisoxazole (SSX), sulfamethizole (SMZ), and Sulfamethazine (STM) with β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) has been investigated using UV–Vis ...