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'Why Do You Ask?' the Nature and Impacts of Attitudes towards Public Opinion Surveys in the Arab World
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Cambridge University Press
, 2019 , Article Review)
For the first time in an Arab country, this article examines attitudes toward public opinion surveys and their effects on survey-taking behavior. The study uses original survey data from Qatar, the diverse population of ...
Self-repairing composites for corrosion protection: A review on recent strategies and evaluation methods
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MDPI AG
, 2019 , Article Review)
The use of self-healing coatings to protect metal substrates, such as aluminum alloys, stainless steel, carbon steel, and Mg alloys from corrosion is an important aspect for protecting metals and for the economy. During ...
Pharmaceutical pricing policies in Qatar and Lebanon: narrative review and document analysis
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2019 , Article Review)
Objectives: This study aimed at reviewing and analysing the pharmaceutical pricing policies implemented in two middle-east countries. Methods: Official documents related to national pharmaceutical pricing policies were ...
Cadmium Toxicity: Oxidative Stress, Inflammation and Tissue Injury
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Scientific Research Publishing
, 2019 , Article Review)
Cadmium is a known environmental pollutant targeting various organs. Often implicated in cadmium toxicology is the formation of reactive oxygen species, overwhelming the free radical scavenging mechanisms and inducing ...
Advance research progresses in aluminium matrix composites: manufacturing & applications
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Elsevier Editora Ltda
, 2019 , Article Review)
At present aluminium matrix composites are widely used in engineering applications. Aluminium matrix composites are providing such superior properties which cannot be achieved by any existing monolithic material. Properties ...
Nociceptor subtypes and their incidence in rat lumbar dorsal root ganglia (DRGs): focussing on C-polymodal nociceptors, A?-nociceptors, moderate pressure receptors and their receptive field depths
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2019 , Article Review)
A recent study with Ca++-sensitive-dyes in neurons in whole DRGs (Table 5) found that much lower percentages of nociceptors were polymodal-nociceptors (PMNs) (Emery et al., 2016), than the 50–80% values in many ...
The Internet of Things: A Review of Enabled Technologies and Future Challenges
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article Review)
The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging classical model, envisioned as a system of billions of small interconnected devices for posing the state-of-the-art findings to real-world glitches. Over the last decade, there ...
Understanding adverse drug-related emergency department visits: Development of a conceptual model through a systematic review
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2019 , Article Review)
Background: The burden of adverse drug event (ADE)-related emergency department (ED) visits is increasing despite several preventive measures. The objective of this paper was to develop and validate a conceptual model for ...