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Modest seductiveness: Reconciling modesty and vanity by reverse assimilation and double resistance
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 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 ...
Trust in development: some implications of knowing in indigenous knowledge
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
, 2010 , Article)
The indigenous knowledge (IK) initiative in development has met with limited success. The cultural relativity of knowledge � i.e. what qualifies as justified belief � may partly explain why. Drawing on New Guinea Highlands' ...
Immunomodulation Induced by Host Pathogen Interaction
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Hindawi
, 2019 , Article)
Controlling and preventing infections require deep understanding of the complex interplay that occurs between the host and pathogen following infection. In essence, immunomodulation is any process leading to an immune ...
Access to justice for women victims of domestic violence in the Republic of Macedonia
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
In the recent decades as a result of feminist efforts, significant progress in addressing the issue of domestic violence on the international scene, as well as, on the national level have been made. However, there are still ...
Survey of unreported cases of domestic violence in two heterogeneous communities in Nigeria
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Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals
, 2013 , Article)
Women in Nigeria are reluctant to report cases of domestic violence to the police. This study examines the magnitude of domestic violence in Nigeria. It also examines respondents' levels of education, culture, religion, ...
Relay selection in underlay cognitive networks with fixed transmission power nodes
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2013 , Article)
Underlay cognitive networks operate simultaneously with primary networks satisfying stringent interference constraints, which reduces their transmission power and coverage area. To reach remote destinations, secondary ...
Global patterns and predictions of seafloor biomass using random forests
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Public Library of Science
, 2010 , Article)
A comprehensive seafloor biomass and abundance database has been constructed from 24 oceanographic institutions worldwide within the Census of Marine Life (CoML) field projects. The machine-learning algorithm, Random ...
On fixed points of Berinde's contractive mappings in cone metric spaces
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North University of Baia Mare
, 2010 , Article)
In this paper we establish some common fixed point theorems for two self-mappings satisfying a generalized contractive condition. This result generalizes well known comparable results in the literature. As an application, ...
The Political Costs of Qatar's Western Orientation
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2012 , Article)
A Model-driven Approach to the development of a PBL Script Editor
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Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education (GCCCE)
, 2013 , Article)
Designing a pedagogically sound and technically executable collaboration script is a highly complex,
time-consuming and error-prone task. This paper presents a model-driven approach to enable practitioners to design
online ...