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Coffee and its waste repel gravid Aedes albopictus females and inhibit the development of their embryos
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BioMed Central
, 2015 , Article)
Background
Dengue is a prevalent arboviral disease and the development of insecticide resistance among its vectors impedes endeavors to control it. Coffee is drunk by millions of people daily worldwide, which is associated ...
Qatar Biobank and Qatar Genome Programs Road Map
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OMICS International
, 2015 , Article)
Qatar Biobank “QBB” is a large-scale, long term medical research initiative for the population of Qatar, which will serve as a platform and driver of biomedical research to achieve benefits for Qatar’s communities. Following ...
Self-reported psychopathy in the Middle East: a cross-national comparison across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United States
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BioMed Central
, 2015 , Article)
Background
The construct of psychopathy is sparsely researched in the non-Western world, particularly in the Middle East. As such, the extent to which the psychopathy construct can be generalized to other cultures, including ...
Editorial: State of art and science advances on nutrition and nutrigenetics in nutrition –related non-communicable diseases in Middle East
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BioMed Central
, 2015 , Article)
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Macro- and micronutrients consumption and the risk for colorectal cancer among Jordanians
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
, 2015 , Article)
OBJECTIVE:
Diet and lifestyle have been reported to be important risk factors for the development of colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the association between total energy and nutrient intake and the risk of developing ...
صكوك المنافع والخدمات المخاطر وخطوات علاجها
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جامعة قطر
, 2015 , Article)
تتلخص هذه الور قة في التعريف بفهوم صكوك المنافع والخدمات، وأنواعها، ومفهوم المخاطر، وأهم المخاطر التي تتعرض لها صكوك المنافع والخدمات، وخطوات علاجها.
An Experimental Performance Evaluation and Compatibility Study of the Bluetooth Low Energy Based Platform for ECG Monitoring in WBANs
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SAGE publications
, 2015 , Article)
A long term healthcare monitoring system requires battery operated devices with low-power technologies. Researchers tried to adapt various short-range technologies for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) in ubiquitous ...
The determinants of student effort at learning ERP: A cultural perspective
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Information Systems and Computing Academic Professionals
, 2015 , Article)
This paper develops a research model based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology model (UTAUT) and Hofstede's cultural dimensions to explore factors that influence student effort at learning Enterprise ...
Efficient processing of hamming-distance-based similarity-search queries over MapReduce
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OpenProceedings.org, University of Konstanz, University Library
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
Similarity search is crucial to many applications. Of particular interest are two flavors of the Hamming distance range query, namely, the Hamming select and the Hamming join (Hamming-select and Hamming-join, respectively). ...
Network Coding versus Replication Based Resilient Techniques to Mitigate Insider Attacks for Smart Metering
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SAGE publications
, 2015 , Article)
The main focus of this paper is the resilience of communication protocols for data gathering in distributed, large scale, and dense networks. In our previous work, we have proposed the resilient methods based on random ...