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Potential benefits and risk assessments of using sewage sludge on soil and plants: A review
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Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.
, 2019 , Article Review)
Fertiliser potential and pollutant risk for the applied sewage sludge in agricultural activities must be specifically evaluated for each sludge due to the fact that there is variation in the characteristics of sludge's in ...
Stability of organometal halide perovskite solar cells and role of HTMs: Recent developments and future directions
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Royal Society of Chemistry
, 2018 , Article Review)
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have recently emerged as one of the most exciting fields of research of our time, and the World Economic Forum in 2016 recognized them as one of the top 10 technologies in 2016. With 22.7% ...
Developing employability skills in information system graduates: Traditional vs. Innovative teaching methods
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IGI Global
, 2018 , Article Review)
It is widely acknowledged that traditional teaching methods such as lectures, textbooks and case study techniques on their own are not adequate to improving the most in-demand employability skills for graduates. The aim ...
AMP-activated protein kinase as a drug target in chronic kidney disease
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Bentham Science Publishers B.V.
, 2018 , Article Review)
Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a condition increasingly affecting millions of individuals worldwide and is ranked as the ninth leading cause of death in the United States. AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) ...
Severity of corrosion under insulation (CUI) to structures and strategies to detect it
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De Gruyter
, 2019 , Article Review)
This review paper considers the research conducted in the past 30 years in the field of corrosion under insulation (CUI). CUI is a significant challenge in many industries for reasons of high cost and risk because it ...
Optimizing assessors’ mental workload in rater-based assessment: a critical narrative review
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Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
, 2019 , Article Review)
Introduction
Rater-based assessment has resulted in high cognitive demands for assessors within the education of health professionals. Rating quality may be influenced by the mental workload required of assessors to ...
Corrosion and surface modification on biocompatible metals: A review
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2017 , Article Review)
Corrosion prevention in biomaterials has become crucial particularly to overcome inflammation and allergic reactions caused by the biomaterials' implants towards the human body. When these metal implants contacted with ...
AROMA: A recursive deep learning model for opinion mining in Arabic as a low resource language
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Association for Computing Machinery
, 2017 , Article Review)
While research on English opinion mining has already achieved significant progress and success, work on Arabic opinion mining is still lagging. This is mainly due to the relative recency of research efforts in developing ...
The Politics of Sovereign Credit Spreads
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Routledge
, 2017 , Article Review)
Using a large sample of 35 developing countries for the period 1993-2009, we provide strong and robust evidence that the political institutions in place play a significant role in explaining sovereign spreads. In particular, ...
Is pyridoxine effective and safe for post-partum lactation inhibition? A systematic review
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2017 , Article Review)
What is known and objective: It has been suggested that pyridoxine has an antilactogenic effect. Studies of the efficacy of pyridoxine in suppressing lactation have reported conflicting results. The aim of this review was ...