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Thermo elastic analysis of functionally graded rotating disks with temperature-dependent material properties: uniform and variable thickness
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Springer Science+Business Media, B.V.
, 2009 , Article)
A thermo elastic analysis is presented for axisymmetric rotating disks made of functionally graded material (FGM) with variable thickness. Material properties are assumed to be temperature-dependent and graded in the radial ...
Islam & the issue of gender
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International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, 2009
, 2009 , Conference Proceedings)
Much confusion has developed on the issue of Islam and gender, Islam as a religion is seen to give preference to one gender over the other. This has been particularly realized in dealing with issues which are of concern ...
Attracting High Achieving Secondary Students through Early Admission Call-Up in an American Style College in Lebanon: A Comparison with American Colleges
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National Association for College Admission Counseling
, 2009 , Article)
An early admission call-up was used to attract high-achieving students to a private university in Lebanon. The callup,
which is essentially an offer of admission before the student takes any formal steps, was administered ...
Synthesis, spectroscopic and thermal structural investigations of the charge-transfer complexes formed in the reaction of 1-methylpiperidine with σ- and π-acceptors
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2009 , Article)
The reactions of the electron donor 1-methylpiperidine (1MP) with the π-acceptors 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ), tetracyanoethylene (TCNE), 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-p-benzoquinone (DDQ), 2,3,5,6-tetrachloro-1,4 ...
Voluntary disclosure in the annual reports of an emerging country: The case of Qatar
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2009 , Article)
This study sets out to examine empirically the determinants of voluntary disclosure in the annual reports of 25 listed firms of Doha Securities Market (DSM) in Qatar forming approximately 86% of the total firms incorporated ...
Optimizing postdisaster reconstruction planning for damaged transportation networks
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American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
, 2009 , Article)
The limited availability of reconstruction resources is one of the main challenges that often confront postdisaster recovery of damaged transportation networks. This requires an effective and efficient deployment and ...
A simulated annealing technique for multi-objective simulation optimization
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Elsevier
, 2009 , Article)
In this paper, we present a simulated annealing algorithm for solving multi-objective simulation optimization problems. The algorithm is based on the idea of simulated annealing with constant temperature, and uses a rule ...
Wireless transmission using cooperation on demand
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2009 , Article)
Mobile users with single antennas can still take advantage of spatial diversity through repetition based cooperative transmission. In this paper, we consider a scheme in which the cooperation is triggered only if the ...
FINANCIAL AID AT PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST: ITS IMPACT ON PERSISTENCE AND STUDENT SATISFACTION, THE CASE OF LEBANON
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Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research
, 2009 , Article)
Many private universities around the world sustain their growth and
retain students through a system of ‘cost-sharing’ where fees and tuition are
channelled back to students in form of financial aid. Not all students are ...
An adaptive allocation sampling design for which the conventional stratified estimator is an appropriate estimator
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2009 , Article)
Adaptive allocations in stratified sampling design are suitable for studying Biological and Environmental populations. Biologists tend to use the conventional stratified estimator for an adaptive allocation sampling design ...