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Testing the risk-return tradeoff in the emerging market of Jordan: What role for financial crises?
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2016 , Article)
This study investigates the risk-return relationship at sector level in the emerging market of Jordan (ASE) over the period 1999-2014. The results of an unconditional test with a structural breakpoint show that the ...
Italo-australian transnational houses: Built forms enhancing social capital
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ArchNet
, 2016 , Article)
The literature reveals that culture, as a way of life, is a factor determining the house's spatial form, which, in turn, can contribute to the construction and/or enhancement of social capital. Scholars also stress that ...
Accounting for innovation paradoxes? A new typology for third wave economy
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2016 , Article)
The topic of accounting for innovation has been highly controversial in the accounting profession for many years. The building block of accounting has never been fully integrated into the innovation process, specifically, ...
A novel PLL resolver angle position indicator
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Article)
This paper describes a novel and high-performance phase-locked loop (PLL) resolver converter for the measurement of mechanical angles. The proposed method does not require the use of demodulators, voltage-controlled ...
Culture, social contestation and Turkey's failed coup: The rivalry of social imaginaries
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SETA
, 2016 , Article)
This article explores the processes involved in the emergence of rival social imaginaries, as they develop in a cultural ecosystem, relating it to Turkey’s failed coup. To accomplish that, it unravels how people construct ...
Flexible thermo-electrochemical cells using Iodolyte HI-30 for conversion of low-grade heat to electrical energy
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Royal Society of Chemistry
, 2016 , Article)
In this research work, we investigated the flexible thermo-electro chemical cells (TECs) for the conversion of low-grade heat into electrical energy in the temperature range of 20–70 °C. The TECs were fabricated using 30 ...
Interaction of: P -synephrine with p -chloranil: Experimental design and multiple response optimization
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Royal Society of Chemistry
, 2016 , Article)
In the current paper, and for the first time, spectrophotometry coupled with a set of factorial designs was executed as a new tool for investigating the interaction between p-synephrine (p-SY) and p-chloranil (p-CHL). Two ...
The impact of cultural distance on local residents perception of tourism development: The case of Dubai in UAE
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Institute for Tourism
, 2016 , Article)
This study discusses the importance of understanding cultural differences between tourists and hosts for developing positive cross-cultural tourist interaction and its influence on the host's perception of sociocultural ...
Possible effect of video lecture capture technology on the cognitive empowerment of higher education students: A case study of gulf-based university
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2016 , Article)
E-learning concept is becoming a vital need for higher and lower education students. It has been observed from the interaction with students of gulf region that they have challenges with the online method of knowledge ...
Investigating the key determinants of Muslim ethical consumption behaviour amongst affluent Qataris
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2016 , Article)
Purpose: The purpose of this research paper was the study of an affluent Islamic market, going through a rapid economic and social transformation, from an ethical consumption perspective. More specifically, impact of ...