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Global change: The Arabian Gulf ecosystem- An introduction
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
The Arabian Gulf is a main source of wealth and food for the people of the Gulf countries. For hundreds of years, the Gulf used to be the main source for some of the finest pearls in the world. It harbors highly diverse ...
Corrosion behavior of superhydrophobic surfaces: A review
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2015 , Article)
Superhydrophobic surfaces have evoked great interest in researchers for both purely academic pursuits and industrial applications. Metal corrosion is a serious problem, both economically and operationally, for engineering ...
International Financial Institutions (IFIs) and Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) as instruments to combat corruption and enhance fiscal discipline in Developing States
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2015 , Article)
Especially since the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century, once more we have seen more focused interest in the use of SWFs by home states—less as a means of projecting sovereign financial power outwards ...
Incipient activism of Sovereign Wealth Funds and the need to update United States securities laws
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2015 , Article)
Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) lie at the cutting edge of a tectonic transformation in global
business and international law embodying the sweeping changes in the global order. Illustrating
the new financial and legal ...
Biological screening of newly synthesized BIAN N-heterocyclic gold carbene complexes in zebrafish embryos
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MDPI AG
, 2015 , Article)
N-Heterocyclic carbene (NHC) metal complexes possess diverse biological activities but have yet to be extensively explored as potential chemotherapeutic agents. We have previously reported the synthesis of a new class of ...
Improvement in properties of Ni-B coatings by the addition of mixed oxide nanoparticles
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Electrochemical Science Group
, 2015 , Article)
A comparison of properties of electrodeposited Ni-B and Ni-B-ZrO2-Al2O3 nanocomposite coatings is presented to explain the benefits of addition of mixed nanoparticles of ZrO2 and Al2O3 into Ni-B matrix. A comparative study ...
Analysis of Resistance to Antimicrobials and Presence of Virulence/Stress Response Genes in Campylobacter Isolates from Patients with Severe Diarrhoea
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Public Library of Science
, 2015 , Article)
Campylobacter infections are a major cause of diarrhoea world-wide and two of the antimicrobials
used for their control (erythromycin and ciprofloxacin) have been losing efficacy in
recent years. In a sample of 174 ...
اعتراض الخارج عن الخصومة أمام القضاءين العادي والإداري دراسة مقارنة في القانون الفرنسي والمصري والقطري
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مركز الدراسات القانونية والقضائية - وزارة العدل
, 2015 , Article)
تقضي قاعدة نسبية الأحكام بعدم حجيتها إلا بمواجهة من كان خصماً أو ممثلاً في الدعوى، وبالتالي فلا يمتد أثرها إلى الغير الخارج عن الخصومة. وعلى الرغم من وجود هذه القاعدة فإن معظم تشريعات المرافعات والإجراءات قد تبنت اعتراض ...
Cambio y estabilidad política en las monarquías del Golfo tras la Primavera Árabe
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CIDOB BARCELONA CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
, 2015 , Article)
The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), aided by their rentier nature, have survived as authoritarian regimes until now. Nevertheless, the desire of significant sectors of society for political liberalisation was ...
A promising drug lead that inhibits HCV infectivity in a genotype-independent manner
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OMICS
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
E2 glycoprotein plays a significant role in the HCV life cycle, but only crystal structures of short peptides, or epitopes were present until Kong et al. resolved the new HCV E2 core (E2c) crystal structure. We have created ...