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The World (of Warcraft) through the eyes of an expert
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PeerJ
, 2017 , Article)
Negative correlations between pupil size and the tendency to look at salient locations were found in recent studies (e.g., Mathôt et al., 2015). It is hypothesized that this negative correlation might be explained by the ...
Assessment of prevalence, knowledge and health-related practices of dysmenorrhea among Malaysian women in Kuala Lumpur: a cross-sectional survey
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Taylor & Francis
, 2023 , Article)
Background: Menstruation is a natural phenomenon considered an important indicator of women’s health, reflecting their endocrine function. Women in low middle income countries face substantial menstrual hygiene management ...
Multi-descriptor random sampling for patch-based face recognition
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MDPI AG
, 2021 , Article)
While there has been a massive increase in research into face recognition, it remains a challenging problem due to conditions present in real life. This paper focuses on the inherently present issue of partial occlusion ...
Synchronous spectrofluorimetric study of the supramolecular host–guest interaction of β-cyclodextrin with propranolol: A comparative study
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
The objective of this work is to assess the use of constant-wavelength synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy (SFS) in comparison to conventional fluorescence spectroscopy (CFS) for the investigation of the supramolecular ...
The explicit eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the generalized neumann kernel in annular domains
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Universiti Putra Malaysia
, 2019 , Article)
This paper presents the explicit forms of the eigenvalues of the general-ized Neumann kernel in annular domains and the explicit forms of the corresponding eigenfunctions. It follows from these explicit forms that, except ...
Building an Annotated L1 Arabic/L2 English Bilingual Writer Corpus: The Qatari Corpus of Argumentative Writing (QCAW)
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De Gruyter
, 2024 , Article)
The study presents the creation of the Qatari Corpus of Argumentative Writing (QCAW) as an annotated L1 Arabic and L2 English bilingual writer corpus. It comprises 200,000 tokens of argumentative writing by Qatari university ...
Identifying priority landscapes for conservation of snow leopards in Pakistan
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Public Library of Science
, 2020 , Article)
Pakistan's total estimated snow leopard habitat is about 80,000 km2 of which about half is considered prime habitat. However, this preliminary demarcation was not always in close agreement with the actual distribution-the ...
A comparative study of gender differences in thermal comfort and environmental satisfaction in air-conditioned offices in Qatar, India, and Japan
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Elsevier
, 2021 , Article)
Gender differences in the assessment of thermal comfort and indoor environmental quality (IEQ) in the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) have not previously been investigated, despite the prevalence of the overcooling of ...
Monoacylglycerol lipase reprograms hepatocytes and macrophages to promote liver regeneration
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Elsevier
, 2023 , Article)
Background & Aims: Liver regeneration is a repair process in which metabolic reprogramming of parenchymal and inflammatory cells plays a major role. Monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL) is an ubiquitous enzyme at the crossroad ...
Islamic Jurisprudence as an Ethical Discourse: An Enquiry into the Nature of Moral Reasoning in Islamic Legal Theory
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Oxford University Press
, 2021 , Article)
This article seeks to develop a better understanding of the normative nature of moral reasoning in Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh). This theory is built on a foundational proposition suggesting that moral evaluation ...