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Renegotiating the Ruling Bargain: Selling Fiscal Reform in the GCC
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Middle East Institution
, 2016 , Article)
Built upon depletable reservoirs of oil and natural gas, the petro-states of the Arab Gulf
have, since their beginning, always had one eye fixated on the end: the exhaustion of their
life-giving natural resources, and ...
Factors Shaping Qatari Students’ Interest in STEM, Business or Public Sector Careers
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Sage Publishing
, 2016 , Article)
In this article we examine interest in a STEM career in Qatar not in isolation, but as one of numerous career choice options. In particular, we contrast interest in a STEM career with the culturally-relevant alternative ...
Public–Private Partnership in Tunisia: Enfidha Airport Assessment of an Infrastructure Achievement
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Taylor & Francis
, 2016 , Article)
One of the largest recent private-sector investments and the first airport private-sector concession
in the Maghreb is Enfidha Airport, a key factor in the success of the Tunisian Government’s public–
private partnership ...
Two-stage cultivation of N-rich and N-deprived Acutodesmus obliquus biomass: Influence of cultivation and dewatering methods on microalgal biomass used in anaerobic digestion
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
Microalgae can be manipulated to accumulate certain cellular compounds of interest without the need for genetic modification - simply by controlling growth parameters such as nitrogen (N). Therefore, A. obliquus was ...
Anthropogenic related variations in the epibiotic biodiversity and age structure of the “Pearl Oyster” Pinctada radiata within the eulittoral zone of Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
Abstract Oyster aggregations provide critical habitat that contain diverse communities, with epibiota and oysters sensitive to environmental disturbance. The monitoring of oysters and associated organisms has become an ...
The influence of paraffin wax addition on the isothermal crystallization of LLDPE
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Wiley
, 2016 , Article)
The influence of paraffin wax addition on the isothermal crystallization kinetics of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) was studied in a temperature range where the wax was always in the molten state and could be ...
Multivariate multilevel models for attitudes toward statistics: multi-disciplinary settings in Afghanistan
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Taylor & Francis
, 2016 , Article)
The present paper focuses on examining students' attitudes and perception of statistics in Afghanistan universities and the factor structure of the statistical anxiety rating scale (STARS). In total, 209 undergraduate ...
Electrospun PVDF graphene oxide composite fibre mats with tunable physical properties.
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Springer Verlag
, 2016 , Article)
This article is aimed at a basic physical characterization of electrospun PVDF/graphene oxide (GO) composite non-woven fibre mats. The morphological characterization of the prepared fabrics was performed via SEM investigations. ...
Plasticization and co-crystallization in LLDPE/wax blends.
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Wiley Periodicals, Inc
, 2016 , Article)
The structure and thermal properties of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE)/medium soft paraffin wax blends, prepared by melt mixing, were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and small- and wide-angle ...
Effect of layered silicates on the thermal stability of PCL/PLA microfibrillar composites
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This paper reports on an investigation of the influence of the presence of two different clays, Cloisite 15A
and Cloisite 30B, and fibre drawing on the degradation behaviour and kinetics of PCL/PLA composites. It
was ...