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How ethics influence intentions to buy counterfeit drugs: perceptions of policymakers, community pharmacists and consumers in Sudan
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
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The ethical attitudes of consumers have been widely explored in the literature as a key factor influencing the purchase of counterfeit products. However, the manner in which consumers make decisions regarding ...
Review on the Use of Ionic Liquids (ILs) as Alternative Fluids for CO2 Capture and Natural Gas Sweetening
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American Chemical Society
, 2010 , Article)
The capture of CO2 from flue gases derived from fossil-fueled power plants and the absorption of CO2/H2S for natural gas sweetening purposes are two relevant industrial problems closely related to very important environmental, ...
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' ...
Foreword to WOSSPA2013 Proceedings
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IEEE
, 2013 , Conference Proceedings)
A comparison of quadratic TFDs for entropy based detection of components time supports in multicomponent nonstationary signal mixtures
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IEEE
, 2013 , Conference Paper)
Separation of different signal components, produced by one or more sources, is a problem encountered in many signal processing applications. This paper proposes a fully automatic undetermined blind source separation method, ...
Iterative blocking artefact reduction based on local contrast information
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IEEE
, 2011 , Conference Paper)
Block based transform coding is the most popular
technique for image and video compression. However, images
compressed using block based algorithms exhibit highly visible
blocking artifacts. We propose an iterative ...
Access to justice for women victims of domestic violence in the Republic of Macedonia
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
In the recent decades as a result of feminist efforts, significant progress in addressing the issue of domestic violence on the international scene, as well as, on the national level have been made. However, there are still ...
Survey of unreported cases of domestic violence in two heterogeneous communities in Nigeria
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
Women in Nigeria are reluctant to report cases of domestic violence to the police. This study examines the magnitude of domestic violence in Nigeria. It also examines respondents' levels of education, culture, religion, ...