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Outlook and challenges for hydrogen storage in nanoporous materials
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Springer Verlag
, 2016 , Article)
Considerable progress has been made recently in the use of nanoporous materials for hydrogen storage. In this article, the current status of the field and future challenges are discussed, ranging from important open ...
Solvent Uptake of Liquid Rubber Toughened Epoxy/Clay Nanocomposites
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John Wiley and Sons Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
Carboxyl-terminated poly (butadiene-co-acrylonitrile) (CTBN) liquid rubber toughened epoxy (epoxy/CTBN blend) and CTBN-toughened epoxy/clay nanocomposites (epoxy/clay/CTBN nanocomposites) were prepared, and solvent (acetone) ...
Text-Independent Speaker Identification Using Vowel Formants
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Springer New York LLC
, 2016 , Article)
Automatic speaker identification has become a challenging research problem due to its wide variety of applications. Neural networks and audio-visual identification systems can be very powerful, but they have limitations ...
On the coexistence of a primary user with an energy harvesting secondary user: A case of cognitive cooperation
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
In this paper, we consider a cognitive scenario where an energy harvesting secondary user shares the spectrum with a primary user. The secondary source helps the primary source in delivering its undelivered packets during ...
Gender and age differences in life satisfaction within a sex-segregated society: Sampling youth in Qatar
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Routledge
, 2016 , Article)
Recent decades have witnessed a surge of interest in the measures of subjective well-being, including mental and physical health, happiness and life satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to determine if there are ...
Using Health Information Technology to Enhance a Culture of Safety
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OMICS International
, 2016 , Article)
It was astonishing to learn that as many as 98,000 Americans die
annually in hospitals due to preventable medical errors. This number is
expected to increase as many of the medical care occur in ambulatory
settings ...
Prevalence of Virulence/Stress Genes in Campylobacter jejuni from Chicken Meat Sold in Qatari Retail Outlets
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Public Library of Science
, 2016 , Article)
Chicken meat from the shelves of supermarkets in Qatar was tested for the presence of
Campylobacter spp. and the presence of five virulence genes (htrB, cdtB, clpP, cadF and
ciaB) was assessed in isolates. Forty eight ...
Health in times of uncertainty in the eastern Mediterranean region, 1990–2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013
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Elsevier, Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
Background: The eastern Mediterranean region is comprised of 22 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, ...
Phylogeographic Patterns in Africa and High Resolution Delineation of Genetic Clades in the Lion (Panthera leo)
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Nature Publishing Group
, 2016 , Article)
Comparative phylogeography of African savannah mammals shows a congruent pattern in which populations in West/Central Africa are distinct from populations in East/Southern Africa. However, for the lion, all African populations ...
Engineered Biomaterials to Enhance Stem Cell-Based Cardiac Tissue Engineering and Therapy
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Wiley
, 2016 , Article)
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death worldwide. Since adult cardiac cells are limited in their proliferation, cardiac tissue with dead or damaged cardiac cells downstream of the occluded vessel does not ...