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Urban water pricing in Yemen: a comparison of increasing block tariffs to other pricing schemes
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article)
This study examines the viability of increasing block tariffs (IBTs) to achieve the right balance between efficiency, financial requirements and equity, and compares them to alternative pricing schemes. Using numerical ...
Mutations in PLCδ1 associated with hereditary leukonychia display divergent PIP2 hydrolytic function
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
Hereditary leukonychia is a rare genetic nail disorder characterized by distinctive whitening of the nail plate of all 20 nails. Hereditary leukonychia may exist as an isolated feature, or in simultaneous occurrence with ...
Development of a biocompatible creatinine-based niosomal delivery system for enhanced oral bioavailability of clarithromycin
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Taylor and Francis Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
Context: Nonionic surfactant vesicles have gained increasing scientific attention for hydrophobic drugs delivery due to their biocompatibility, stability and low cost. Objective: The aim of the present study was to synthesize ...
Implementation and benchmarking of a novel routing protocol for tactical mobile ad-hoc networks
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Providing efficient routing service over tactical multi-hop ad-hoc networks is a crucial building block in wireless communication networks especially during a disaster relief. To date, there is still a lack of routing ...
Robust model-free gait recognition by statistical dependency feature selection and Globality-Locality Preserving Projections
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Gait recognition aims to identify people through the analysis of the way they walk. The challenge of model-free based gait recognition is to cope with various intra-class variations such as clothing variations and carrying ...
Self-organizing binary encoding for approximate nearest neighbor search
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European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search for indexing and retrieval has become very popular with the recent growth of the databases in both size and dimension. In this paper, we propose a novel method for fast approximate ...
Novel fluorinated surfactants for enhanced oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs
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Wiley-Liss Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
Novel surfactant‐polymer (SP) formulations containing fluorinated amphoteric surfactant (surfactant‐A) and fluorinated anionic surfactant (surfactant‐B) with partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) were evaluated for ...
How Red, Blue, and Green are Affectively Judged
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
The present study aimed at examining how the colors red, blue, and green were affectively judged through three variables: dominance, arousal, and pleasure. All participants were exposed to red, blue, green, and white ...
أهل الألفاظ وأهل المعاني : دراسة في تاريخ الفقه
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نور للنشر
, 2016 , Book)
ينقسم الناس بفطرتهم إلى من يهتم بظواهر الأمور والألفاظ وإلى من يغوص إلى الأعماق . وينظر في المعاني. وهذا الإنقسام الفطري والنفسي الشائع كان له انعكاس على الآراء الفقهية التي تبناها علماء الإسلام على مر العصور الإسلامية. ...
العلّة والحكمة والتّعليل بالحكمة: دراسة مُصطلحيّة
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جامعة الأمير عبد القادر للعلوم الإسلامية
, 2017 , Article)
هدف هذا البحث إلى بيان المعاني التي ينطلق عليها لفظ العلّة والحكمة والتّمييز بينها، كما هدف إلى بيان معنى التّعليل بالحكمة وما يقابله من التّعليل بالـمَظِنّة. وبالاستقراء والتّحليل توصّل الباحث إلى أنّ لفظ العلّة في اللغة ...