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Charactertistics of preferred gait patterns: Considerations for exercise prescription
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Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Gait patterns have been widely studied in different fields of science for their particular characteristics. A dynamic approach of human locomotion considers walking and running as two stable behaviours adopted spontaneously ...
Teacher education and the development of teacher identity
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This chapter reports on a study of teachers' professional identity development, which took place in a Sudanese English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher education program. The socio-political and economic discourses are ...
Weaving trending, costing and recommendations using big data analytic: An enterprise capability evaluator
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Springer International Publishing
, 2016 , Book chapter)
In the life cycle of a business organization, unprecedented turmoil and turbulent timings are inevitable. This ever green truth is not only an advice but a motivation for every organization to be dynamic in its business ...
Projecting the Outcomes of Consumer-Brand Value Congruence: The Mediating Role of Relationship Quality
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Springer Nature
, 2016 , Book chapter)
How does consumer-brand relationship quality (CBRQ) influence behaviors attributed to personal values? We answer this question by proposing a model that links customer voluntary performance and propensity to leave with ...
أقلية من المواطنين: التدين والتناغم الاجتماعي في قطر
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المركز العربي للأبحاث و دراسة السياسات - Arab Center for Research & Policy Studies
, 2016 , Book chapter)
التدين والتناغم الاجتماعي في قطر، ناقش ماجد الأنصاري، المتخصص في الثروة الاجتماعية والمجتمع المدني، المحددات القيمية للعلاقة بين المواطن والمقيم في قطر من خلال عامل الثقة، مستخدمًا نتائج مسح التناغم الاجتماعي الصادر عن ...
Advanced implementation and realization of TFDs
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2016 , Book chapter)
The design of efficient algorithms is the key to effective utilization of the properties of time-frequency distributions (TFDs) for real-life applications. This chapter presents the needed procedures, techniques, and ...
Impact of piracy on Somalia: Society, economy, and state building
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Somali pirates have hijacked more than 270 ships and attacked over 1,100 vessels from 1995 to 2014 (IMB, 2014). Reports by the International Maritime Bureau estimate that more than 3,700 crew members have been held hostage ...
Regulating land rights in late nineteenth-century salt: The limits of legal pluralism in Ottoman property law
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Indiana University Press
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This article examines the relationship between different district-level decision-making bodies in the late nineteenth-century Ottoman context. Using Sharia court records and property registers produced in the rural Syrian ...
Small states in the Gulf
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Taylor and Francis
, 2016 , Book chapter)
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book reviews the theories of foreign and security policy analysis and the way they could be applied to small ...
Towards energy-aware 5G heterogeneous networks
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Springer International Publishing
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Over the past decade, the telecommunication industry has witnessed excessive growth in the number of mobile users. Market forecasts envision that there will be nearly 8.6 billion mobile devices worldwide by 2017. This ...