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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 ...
Modest seductiveness: Reconciling modesty and vanity by reverse assimilation and double resistance
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2012 , Article)
We study conflicting notions of modesty and vanity in the Arab Gulf region by focusing on contemporary female adornment practices and the tensions underlying them. The standard of modest traditional dress that women are ...
A Fuzzy Goal Programming Model for Venture Capital Investment Decision Making
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INFOR
, 2014 , Article)
The Venture Capital decision making process involves several conflicting and imprecise criteria. The decision to invest is a difficult one with serious adverse selection risk and surrounded with uncertainty. The aim of ...
Does Political Risk Affect the Flow of Foreign Direct Investment into the Middle East North African Region
(2013 , Article)
Given the political risk in the Middle East North African (MENA) region, this research aimed to
unveil the importance of the different components of political risk on the change in foreign direct investment
(FDI), ...
Boundedness of rough integral operators on triebel-lizorkin spaces
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Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Seccio de Matematiques
, 2012 , Article)
We prove the boundedness of several classes of rough integral operators on Triebel-Lizorkin spaces. Our results represent improvements as well as natural extensions of many previously known results.
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. ...
An examination of assessment practices in colleges of business at various Middle East countries compared to the USA
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Inderscience Enterprises
, 2014 , Article)
This study reports the results of a survey conducted during 2007 which was mailed to deans of schools of business at institutions of higher education located within the USA and the Middle East. Schools of business are now ...
Immersive virtual reality in improving communication skills in children with Autism
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International Association of Online Engineering
, 2017 , Article)
Individuals in the Autism Spectrum often encounter situations where they have to respond to questions and situations that they do not know how to respond to, such as, questions asked by strangers including ones related to ...
Ion-impact-induced interatomic Coulombic decay in neon and argon dimers
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American Physical Society
, 2013 , Article)
We investigate the contribution of interatomic Coulombic decay induced by ion impact in neon and argon dimers (Ne2 and Ar2) to the production of low-energy electrons. Our experiments cover a broad range of perturbation ...