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Examining the Extinction of the Barbary Lion and Its Implications for Felid Conservation
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Public Library of Science
, 2013 , Article)
Estimations of species extinction dates are rarely definitive, yet declarations of extinction or extirpation are important as they define when conservation efforts may cease. Erroneous declarations of extinctions not only ...
المرتكز القيمي للفقه السياسي مركزية المفهوم وأبعاده الوظيفية
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جامعة قطر
, 2013 , Article)
هذه الورقة البحثية محاولة لاستكشاف واحد من المرتكزات المتعددة التي حكمت منظومة الفقه السياسي الاسلامي، وهو المرتكز الأخلاقي الذي يتمتع بحضور مكثف ومركزي في التنظير الفقهي المتعلق بهذا المجال . وقد ة تناول هذا الموضوع من ...
Mitotic Arrest and Apoptosis in Breast Cancer Cells Induced by Origanum majorana Extract: Upregulation of TNF-α and Downregulation of Survivin and Mutant p53
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Public Library of Science
, 2013 , Article)
Background: In the present study, we investigated the effect of Origanum majorana ethanolic extract on the survival of the highly proliferative and invasive triple-negative p53 mutant breast cancer cell line MDA-MB-231. ...
Anti-Metastatic and Anti-Tumor Growth Effects of Origanum majorana on Highly Metastatic Human Breast Cancer Cells: Inhibition of NFκB Signaling and Reduction of Nitric Oxide Production
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Public Library of Science
, 2013 , Article)
Background: We have recently reported that Origanum majorana exhibits anticancer activity by promoting cell cycle arrest and apoptosis of the metastatic MDA-MB-231 breast cancer cell line. Here, we extended our study by ...
Drug-Related Hospital Visits and Admissions Associated with Laboratory or Physiologic Abnormalities-A Systematic-Review
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Public Library of Science
, 2013 , Article)
Countless studies have demonstrated that many emergency-room visits and hospital admissions are drug-related and that a significant proportion of these drug-related visits (DRVs) are preventable. It has not been previously ...
Bayesian Hierarchical Clustering for Studying Cancer Gene Expression Data with Unknown Statistics
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Public Library of Science
, 2013 , Article)
Clustering analysis is an important tool in studying gene expression data. The Bayesian hierarchical clustering (BHC) algorithm can automatically infer the number of clusters and uses Bayesian model selection to improve ...
Editorial: New Media and Political Revival: The Middle East Story
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OMICS International
, 2013 , Article)
It has become evident that the Arab revolutions that took place in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have marked a turning point in Arab politics. On the other side, it was also a turning point of realizing the importance of social ...
Towards a Distributed Quality of Service Handler for Multimedia Presentations
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OMICS International
, 2013 , Article)
Distributed multimedia presentation, involving different media objects on different servers, must strictly follow its defined temporal scenario. Out of synchronization is a fundamental problem in case of distributed ...
Al-Jazeera, Advocacy and Media Value Determinism Re-conceptualizing the Network's Coverage of the Arab Spring of Revolutions
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Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
, 2013 , Article)
This article uses a new theoretical perspective developed by an Arab scholar to investigate the news coverage of the Arab spring in Al-Jazeera (Arabic), in search of a style of coverage that may be qualified as socioreligiously ...
Developing a Platform for Mobile Learning Using mLearn
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The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communication
, 2013 , Article)
This paper presents preliminary findings of a research study surrounding the development of an integrated architecture for a mobile learning platform. The study builds on prior design specification architecture for mLearn ...