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Criminal thinking in a Middle Eastern prison sample of thieves, drug dealers, and murderers
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Wiley
, 2015 , Article)
The Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS) has been applied extensively to the study of criminal behaviour and cognition. This study aimed to explore the psychometric characteristics (factorial structure, ...
المبادئ العامة للفكر الأصول : فقهى الإسلامى فى تعامله مع النص
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المعهد العالمي للفكر الإسلامي
, 2014 , Article)
هدف هذا البحث إلى استقراء المبادئ الكلية التي حكمت ولا تزال تحكم علم أصول الفقه الإسلامي في تعامله مع النص الديني، وتعيينها، وعرضها عرضاً موجزاً. هذا العلم الذي يرسم منهجية البحث بالنسبة للعلوم الدينية الأخرى والفكر الإسلامي ...
Translating the style of Aganaktismenoi(Indignants) on Facebook
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De Gruyter
, 2015 , Article)
The paper discusses translation challenges associated with the linguistic and multisemiotic stylistic ways (Kress 2010; Coupland 2007) Aganaktismenoi, the Greek indignants’ movement, employ to produce a digital sense of ...
Drift optimization of high-rise buildings in earthquake zones
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2011 , Article)
This paper presents a Drift Design Structural Model (DDSM) for the design optimization of high-rise buildings in seismic zones. The model is formulated as a Generalized Single Degree of Freedom System subjected to equivalent ...
Inverse Adaptive Cluster Sampling with Unequal Selection Probabilities: Case Studies on Crab Holes and Arsenic Pollution
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Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.
, 2015 , Article)
Adaptive cluster sampling is an efficient method of estimating the parameters of rare and clustered populations. The method mimics how biologists would like to collect data in the field by targeting survey effort to localised ...
Optimal Determination of Respiratory Airflow Patterns for a General Multicompartment Lung Mechanics System with Nonlinear Resistance and Compliance Parameters
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
, 2015 , Article)
In this paper, we develop a framework for determining optimal respiratory airflow patterns for a multicompartment lung mechanics system with nonlinear resistance and compliance parameters. First, a nonlinear multicompartment ...
An Attack-Resistant Trust Model Based on Multidimensional Trust Metrics in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2015 , Article)
Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) have been widely used in many applications where a variable number of sensor nodes collaborate with each other to perform monitoring tasks. A trust model plays an important role ...
A Fatigue Measuring Protocol for Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks
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Springer New York LLC
, 2015 , Article)
As players and soldiers preform strenuous exercises and do difficult and tiring duties, they are usually the common victims of muscular fatigue. Keeping this in mind, we propose FAtigue MEasurement (FAME) protocol for ...
Politeness on Facebook: The case of Greek birthday wishes
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John Benjamins Publishing
, 2015 , Article)
Facebook forms one of the most widely used online social networks, through which people manage their communication with diverse contacts or 'friends', ranging from members of the family and schoolmates to work colleagues ...
An interdisciplinary specialist team leads to improved diagnostics and treatment for paediatric patients with vascular anomalies
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John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
, 2015 , Article)
Aim Patients with vascular anomalies are often misdiagnosed, leading to delayed or improper treatment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of an interdisciplinary team on the diagnosis and treatment of ...