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Profile of Mental and Behavioral Disorders Among Preschoolers in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Oman: A Retrospective Study
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Oman Medical Specialty Board
, 2016 , Article)
Objectives
Early diagnosis and prompt treatment of mental and behavioral disorders in preschoolers is critical for a better prognosis, ultimately leading to improved quality of life for both the child and the family. ...
Curved Beam Computed Tomography based Structural Rigidity Analysis of Bones with Simulated Lytic Defect: A Comparative Study with Finite Element Analysis
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Nature Publishing Group
, 2016 , Article)
In this paper, a CT based structural rigidity analysis (CTRA) method that incorporates bone intrinsic local curvature is introduced to assess the compressive failure load of human femur with simulated lytic defects. The ...
Single-Walled Carbon-Nanotubes-Based Organic Memory Structures
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MDPI AG
, 2016 , Article)
The electrical behaviour of organic memory structures, based on single-walled carbon-nanotubes (SWCNTs), metal–insulator–semiconductor (MIS) and thin film transistor (TFT) structures, using poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) ...
Sleep Medication and Athletic Performance—The Evidence for Practitioners and Future Research Directions
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Frontiers Media
, 2016 , Article)
Opinion piece.
From Zirconium Nanograins to Zirconia Nanoneedles
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Nature Publishing Group
, 2016 , Article)
Combinations of three simple techniques were utilized to gradually form zirconia nanoneedles from zirconium nanograins. First, a physical vapor deposition magnetron sputtering technique was used to deposit pure zirconium ...
Do Diacritical Marks Play a Role at the Early Stages of Word Recognition in Arabic?
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Frontiers Media
, 2016 , Article)
A crucial question in the domain of visual word recognition is whether letter similarity plays a role in the early stages of visual word processing. Here we focused on Arabic because in this language there are various ...
Helminth infections among long-term residents and settled immigrants in Qatar in the decade from 2005 to 2014: temporal trends and varying prevalence among subjects from different regional origins
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BioMed Central
, 2016 , Article)
Background: Travel and migration from developing regions, where tropical diseases are common, to more developed
industrialised nations can contribute to the introduction and subsequent spread of infections. With its rapidly ...
New 3-Cyano-2-Substituted Pyridines Induce Apoptosis in MCF 7 Breast Cancer Cells
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
, 2016 , Article)
The synthesis of new 3-cyano-2-substituted pyridines bearing various pharmacophores and functionalities at position 2 is described. The synthesized compounds were evaluated for their in vitro anti-cancer activities on five ...
Inflammogenesis of Secondary Spinal Cord Injury
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Frontiers Media
, 2016 , Article)
Spinal cord injury (SCI) and spinal infarction lead to neurological complications and eventually to paraplegia or quadriplegia. These extremely debilitating conditions are major contributors to morbidity. Our understanding ...
Novel paclitaxel formulations solubilized by parenteral nutrition nanoemulsions for application against glioma cell lines
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Elsevier, Ltd
, 2016 , Article)
The aim of this study is to investigate using nanoemulsion formulations as drug-delivery vehicles of paclitaxel (PX), a poor water-soluble anticancer drug. Two commercially available nanoemulsion fat formulations (Clinoleic ...