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Costing and Management of Overheads in GCC Countries: Two Grounded Theory Case Studies
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North American Business Press
, 2015 , Article)
This research is a first attempt to investigate overhead costs and cost allocation in terms of product
costing and cost management in the petrochemical companies in GCC Countries using a grounded theory
methodological ...
Numerical investigation of rotating stall in centrifugal compressor with vaned and vaneless diffuser
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Science Press
, 2015 , Article)
This study presents a numerical simulation of the stall and surge in a centrifugal compressor and presents a descriptionof the stall development in two different cases. The first case is for a compressor with vaneless ...
Conducting polyaniline nanorods doped with aromatic carboxyl chain end functionalized polystyrene
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Elsevier
, 2015 , Article)
The preparation of new conducting polyaniline (PANI) derivatives with different nanostructures is described. PANI derivatives doped with aromatic carboxyl chain end functionalized polystyrene derivatives of different number ...
Preparation and Preliminary Dielectric Characterization of Structured C60-Thiol-Ene Polymer Nanocomposites Assembled Using the Thiol-Ene Click Reaction
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MDPI
, 2015 , Article)
Fullerene-containing materials have the ability to store and release electrical energy. Therefore, fullerenes may ultimately find use in high-voltage equipment devices or as super capacitors for high electric energy storage ...
Towards a ‘democratic knowledge’ turn? Knowledge production in the age of the Arab Spring
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Taylor & Francis
, 2015 , Article)
This contribution (and the special issue as a whole) marks a modest attempt to initiate an investigation into what is called here ‘democratic knowledge’. This is done with special reference to the Arab Maghrib (in this ...
The mediating effect of organizational climate on the relationship between transformational leadership and patient safety: A study on Saudi hospitals
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Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research
, 2015 , Article)
The main aim of this paper is to investigate the mediation effect of organizational climate on the relationship between Transformational Leadership and perceived patient safety in Saudi Hospitals from the nurses perspective. ...
The impact of the Arab spring on the gulf cooperation council
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Taylor & Francis
, 2015 , Article)
It is apposite to interrogate the notion of ‘monarchical exceptionalism’ when testing the idea that the ‘Arab Spring’ has not affected the so-called ‘ruling bargain’ in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The Arab Spring ...
Nonheme Fe(IV) Oxo Complexes of Two New Pentadentate Ligands and Their Hydrogen-Atom and Oxygen-Atom Transfer Reactions
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American Chemical Society (ACS)
, 2015 , Article)
Two new pentadentate {N5} donor ligands based on the N4Py (N4Py = N,N-bis(2-pyridylmethyl)-N-bis(2-pyridyl)methylamine) framework have been synthesized, viz. [N-(1-methyl-2-benzimidazolyl)methyl-N-(2-pyridyl)methyl-N-(bi ...
Improved electrical conductivity of carbon/polyvinyl alcohol electrospun nanofibers
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Hindawi
, 2015 , Article)
Carbon nanofibers (CNFs) gained much interest in the last few years due to their promising electrical, chemical, and mechanical characteristics. This paper investigates a new nanocomposite composed of carbon nanofibers ...
Herbal and nutritional supplement use among college students in Qatar
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World Health Organization
, 2015 , Article)
There is increasing demand for herbal and nutritional supplements in the Middle East. This study aimed to examine the use of supplements by college students in Qatar and to elucidate users' views about them. A total of 419 ...