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Migrant Knowledge Workers’ Perceptions of Housing Conditions in Gulf Cities
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Springer Netherlands
, 2018 , Article)
The various efforts in diversifying local economies in most Gulf States led to the emergence of new medium to high-income groups of migrant knowledge workers whose efforts are required to develop various new economic ...
Sustainable agriculture in the Arabian/Persian Gulf region utilizing marginal water resources: Making the best of a bad situation
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MDPI AG
, 2018 , Article Review)
One way to encourage agricultural self-sufficiency in arid regions is to increase the productivity of conventional freshwater agriculture. Another way is to develop and implement novel strategies and technologies that do ...
Active and stable methane oxidation nano-catalyst with highly-ionized palladium species prepared by solution combustion synthesis
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MDPI AG
, 2018 , Article)
We report on the synthesis and testing of active and stable nano-catalysts for methane oxidation. The nano-catalyst was palladium/ceria supported on alumina prepared via a one-step solution-combustion synthesis (SCS) method. ...
Epstein-Barr Virus in Gliomas: Cause, Association, or Artifact?
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Frontiers Media
, 2018 , Article Review)
Gliomas are the most common malignant brain tumors and account for around 60% of all primary central nervous system cancers. Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a grade IV glioma associated with a poor outcome despite recent ...
COMBUSTION CHARACTERISTICS AND EMISSION OF A DI DIESEL ENGINE UTILIZING NEW INDUCTION MANIFOLD DESIGNS AND RUNNING ON ALTERNATIVE FUEL BLENDS
(2018 , Master Thesis)
The demands for increasing the swirl in the combustion chamber and for decreasing the exhaust emissions on diesel engines have increased rapidly over the past few years. Consequently, the researchers’ attention has been ...
Fixed point results of F-rational cyclic contractive mappings on 0-complete partial metric spaces
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Forum-Editrice Universitaria Udinese SRL
, 2018 , Article)
Wardowski [19] introduced a new concept of contraction which called F-contraction and proved a fixed point theorem on complete metric space. Following this direction of research, in this paper, we introduce an F-rational ...
Deep Learning Based Approach For Prediction Of Cloud Resource Needs
(2018 , Professional Masters Project)
Cloud computing allows scaling applications to serve dynamic and time-varying workloads and to avoid application performance degradation, while keeping low provisioning costs. But, resource demand of applications need to ...
Pharmacoeconomics Evaluation of the Systemic Antifungal Posaconazole for Prophylaxis against Invasive Fungal Infections among Immunocompromised Cancer Patients in Qatar
(2018 , Master Thesis)
The immunocompromised hematologic malignancy patients, at the National Center
for Cancer Care (NCCCR) in Qatar, receive the antifungal posaconazole for prophylaxis
as systemic prophylaxis against invasive fungal infections ...
Synthesis and Performance Evaluation of Pulse Electrodeposited Ni-AlN Nanocomposite Coatings
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Hindawi Limited
, 2018 , Article)
This research work presents the microscopic analysis of pulse electrodeposited Ni-AlN nanocomposite coatings using SEM and AFM techniques and their performance evaluation (mechanical and electrochemical) by employing ...
Breast cancer image classification using pattern-based Hyper Conceptual Sampling method
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
The increase in biomedical data has given rise to the need for developing data sampling techniques. With the emergence of big data and the rise of popularity of data science, sampling or reduction techniques have been ...