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Organizational Commitment: Status Quo in Qatar
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SCMS Cochin School of Business
, 2012 , Article)
Qatar is a fast growing economy which is largely dependent on expatriate labour. This
creates a unique situation that affects organizational commitment. This research focusses on
understanding the relationship between ...
Market liberalization and volatility of returns in emerging markets: The case of Qatar Exchange (QSC)
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Emerald Publishing
, 2012 , Article)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine whether stock market liberalization creates excess stock return volatility in the Qatar Exchange (QSC). Design/methodology/approach – The study utilizes two methods, simple ...
Editorial: Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems-What can Industrial Engineering and Management do?
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OMICS International
, 2012 , Article)
Towards the end of the 20thcentrury, the concept of reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMSs) rocked the world of manufacturing and promised a global revolution in the 21stcentury manufacturing landscape. Since then, a ...
Interleukin-28 and hepatitis C virus genotype-4: Treatmentinduced clearance and liver fibrosis
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Baishideng Publishing Group
, 2012 , Article)
AIM: To investigate the association between interleukin-28B (IL28B) genotype and response to treatment and hepatic fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 4. METHODS: Two hundred and one HCV-genotype 4 ...
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.
Advancing Service Operations: The Changing Role of Industrial Engineering
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OMICS International
, 2012 , Article)
Service operations are currently at the hub of economic activities in some parts of the world. Although indicators seem to suggest the existence and future dominance of service economies, such economies will only be ...
Elevated serum leptin levels in patients with acute myocardial infarction; Correlation with coronary angiographic and echocardiographic findings
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Springer Nature
, 2012 , Article)
Background: To assess the relationship between serial serum leptin levels in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) who received thrombolysis and the degree of coronary atherosclerosis, coronary reperfusion, ...
Edge Maximal C2k+1-edge Disjoint Free Graphs
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University of Zielona Gora
, 2012 , Article)
For two positive integers r and s, G(n;r,s) denotes to the class of graphs on n vertices containing no r of s-edge disjoint cycles and f(n;r,s) = max{E(G):G ∈ G(n;r,s)}. In this paper, for integers r ≥ 2 and k ≥ 1, we ...
An Autonomous Packet Transmission Strategy for Opportunistic Wireless Sensor Networks
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
, 2012 , Article)
We consider a wireless sensor network that comprises a single hop between the sensor nodes and the central controller node with multiple antennas. In this system model, we concentrate on the single-beam opportunistic ...
TOTAL QUALITY CULTURE (TQC) IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: A GULF CORPORATION COUNCIL (GCC) REGION STUDY
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DreamCatchers Group, LLC
, 2012 , Article)
Adoption of Total Quality Management (TQM) principles has been recognised as a new
framework for managing change within educational institutions. Although there have been
studies examining the adoption of TQM, research ...