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Selection and characterisation of an HD1-like Bacillus thuringiensis isolate with a high insecticidal activity against Spodoptera littoralis (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
, 2014 , Article)
Spodoptera littoralis (Boisduval) larvae are known by their susceptibility to Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai strains. In order to prevent the appearance of B. thuringiensis (Bt) resistance and to develop economical ...
Provision of health /disease screening and medication monitoring /management in New Zealand community pharmacies
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Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd
, 2014 , Article)
Access to health /disease screening (HDS) and medication monitoring /management (MM) services in New Zealand has traditionally been through general practitioners. While government and professional organisations are supportive ...
Robust human silhouette extraction with Laplacian fitting
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Elsevier
, 2014 , Article)
Human silhouette extraction has been a primary step to estimate human poses or classify activities from videos. While the accuracy of human silhouettes has great impact on the follow-on human pose/gait estimation, it has ...
Manganese-Loaded Activated Carbon for the Removal of Organosulfur Compounds from High-Sulfur Diesel Fuels
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WILEY-VCH Verlag
, 2014 , Article)
The adsorptive capacity of activated carbon (AC) is significantly enhanced toward weakly interacting organosulfur compounds (OSC) from sulfur-rich diesel fuel. Sulfur compounds are selectively removed from diesel after ...
Boost inverter-based HVDC transmission system with inherent blocking capability of AC side contribution during DC side faults
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2014 , Article)
Semiconductor advancements in the past three decades have positioned the voltage source converter-based HVDC (VSC-HVDC) solution as a practical and popular alternative to its line-commutated converter high voltage DC ...
PREDICTING NEXT TRADING DAY CLOSING PRICE OF QATAR EXCHANGE INDEX USING TECHNICAL INDICATORS AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
Accurate prediction of stock market price is of great importance to many stakeholders. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have shown robust capability in predicting stock price return, future stock price and the direction ...
ASSESSMENT AND ASSURANCE OF SERVICE QUALITY IN PEDIATRIC HEALTHCARE IN QATAR
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Qatar University
, 2014 , Article)
The purpose of this study was quality assessment and quality assurance in pediatric
services of public and private hospitals in Qatar. The purpose of quality assessment
was to identify gaps in the delivered services; ...
A new forecasting scheme for evaluating long-term prediction performances in supply chain management
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
, 2014 , Article)
Supply chain management (SCM) practitioners in inventory sites are often required to predict the future sales of products in order to meet customer demands and reduce inventory costs simultaneously. Although a variety of ...
Influence of surface modification of carbon nanotubes on interactions with polystyrene-b-polyisoprene-b-polystyrene matrix and its photo-actuation properties
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2014 , Article)
The influence of various surface modification of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) on preferential interactions with individual phases of the linear triblock copolymer polystyrene-b-polyisoprene-b-polystyrene (SIS) and ...
Insights on the association between somatic aneuploidy and ostreid herpesvirus 1 detection in the oysters Crassostrea gigas, C. angulata and their F1 hybrids
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd
, 2014 , Article)
Cytogenetic abnormalities associated with viral infections, including from viruses of the Herpesvirales order, have been reported in vertebrate species. Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1) has been detected worldwide during ...