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MASACAD: a multiagent based approach to information customization
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IEEE
, 2006 , Article)
MASACAD is a multiagent information customization system that adopts the machine-learning paradigm to advise students by mining the Web. In the distributed problem-solving paradigm, systems can distribute among themselves ...
TOWARDS OVERCOMING THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL TAX LEAKAGE AND BORDER TAX ADJUSTMENT CONCESSIONS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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Vermont Law School
, 2010 , Article)
Border tax adjustments (BTAs) may be able to alleviate concerns of
reduced competitiveness for countries introducing environmental taxes and
standards, while limiting the risk of companies relocating to developing
countries ...
Assessing the effectiveness of a pharmacist-delivered smoking cessation program in the State of Qatar: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
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BioMed Central
, 2015 , Article)
Background:
It had been reported that up to 37% of the adult male population smokes cigarettes in Qatar. The
Global Youth Tobacco Survey also stated that 13.4% of male school students aged 13 to 15 years in Qatar smoke ...
What Mothers Know About Child Development and Parenting in Qatar: Parenting Cognitions and Practices
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SAGE Publications
, 2014 , Article)
Maternal knowledge is important to parenting behaviors, children’s development and well-being. Mothers’ knowledge of child
development has been shown to have a significant influence on the way mothers interact with their ...
Ecophysiology of Limonium axillare and Avicennia marina from the coastline of Arabian Gulf-Qatar
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Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
, 2008 , Article)
Attention is being focused on the coastline from Doha to Ras Laffan in Qatar since higher activities in the development of land and establishment of roads, highways and new buildings and houses is not coupled by serious ...
Stability of membrane fouling particles under perikinetic and orthokinetic flow conditions
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2004 , Article)
Stability of fouling particles against Brownian motion (perikinetic) and simple shear flow (orthokinetic) was investigated. The effect of the various parameters such as particle radius, Hamaker constant, salt (1-1 type) ...
An inventory of diabetes care in Qatar
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
, 2011 , Article)
Diabetes is a global epidemic and the highest prevalence rates in the world are found in Gulf Corporation Council countries, including Qatar. The country's Supreme Council of Health has recognised its significant health ...
Born small, die young: Intrinsic, size-selective mortality in marine larval fish
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Nature Publishing Group
, 2015 , Article)
Mortality during the early stages is a major cause of the natural variations in the size and recruitment strength of marine fish populations. In this study, the relation between the size-at-hatch and early survival was ...
Performance and stability analysis of multilevel data structures with deferred reorganization
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IEEE
, 2002 , Article)
We develop a methodology for analyzing the performance and stability of a server that maintains a multilevel data structure to service a set of access operations for (key, value) records. A subset of the operations executed ...
Evidence of the Involvement of E358, A498 and C571 of a New Cry1Ac δ-endotoxin of Bacillus thuringiensis in its High Insecticidal Activity Against Ephestia kuehniella
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Humana Press Inc
, 2010 , Article)
A new cry1Ac-type gene was cloned from Bacillus thuringiensis strain BLB1, sequenced and expressed. The deduced amino acid sequence of the polypeptide has a predicted molecular mass of 132.186 kDa. The amino acid sequence ...