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The (IM)-possible mosque: Spatial mutation and identity needs in northern Ireland
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Emerald Publishing
, 2012 , Article)
Over more than thirty years of violent conflict, Northern Ireland had an intense sectarian violence due to the political-religious opposition between its Catholic and Protestant communities. The history of the Muslim ...
Fostering the Performance of Banks through Total Quality Management (TQM) Practices: A Bank Branches Perspective
(2012 , Article)
This article is mainly based on reviewing the available relevant literature of TQM and its implementation in the service sector organizations in general and banking industry in particular. It has been emphasized that banks ...
Fuzzy model for detection and estimation of the degree of autism spectrum disorder
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Springer Nature
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
Early detection of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is of great significance for early intervention. Besides, knowing the degree of severity in ASD and how it changes with the intervention is imperative for the treatment ...
Performance evaluation of TCP and UDP traffic in IEEE 1451 compliant healthcare infrastructure
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Springer Nature
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
Wireless ad-hoc and intrastructure networks have become very popular during the last ten years. Due to this reason, wireless security has become a very serious issue, specially in healthcare intrastructure networks. The ...
CAMP induces adhesion of microvascular smooth muscle cells to fibronectin via an epac-mediated but PKA-independent mechanism
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Cell Physiol Biochem Press
, 2012 , Article)
Background/Aims: Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) play important roles, both in physiologic and pathophysiologic processes. Adhesion of these cells is critical for their proper functioning, especially in resistance-sized ...
A novel technique for extraction of geothermal energy from abandoned oil wells
(2012 , Conference Paper)
This paper investigates the possibility of design and construction of a geothermal heat exchanger suitable for installation in abandoned oil wells. Based on the in-situ data collected, an amenable heat transfer numerical ...
Using fringes for minimal conceptual decomposition of binary contexts
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World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
, 2012 , Article)
Extracting knowledge from huge data in a reasonable time is still a challenging problem. Most real data (structured or not) can be mapped to an equivalent binary context, with or without using a scaling method, as for ...
Ubiquitous Arabic voice control device to assist people with disabilities
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IEEE
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
In this paper, the design of a very cost effective Arabic speech language controlled device, with continuous speech recognition is presented. The device has been developed as an integrated prototype (patent pending) with ...
Secure and efficient outsourcing of sequence comparisons
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Springer
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
We treat the problem of secure outsourcing of sequence comparisons by a client to remote servers, which given two strings λ and μ of respective lengths n and m, consists of finding a minimum-cost sequence of insertions, ...
Isolation of entomopathogenic Bacillus from a biodynamic olive farm and their pathogenicity to lepidopteran and coleopteran insect pests
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2012 , Article)
The occurrence of Bacillus entomopathogenic bacteria on a Tunisian biodynamic farm was determined by examining 75 samples from olive tree (Olea europaea L.) habitats. A total of 40 Bacillus isolates were characterized ...