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Specific Bioactive Compounds from Ginger, Tea, and Apple Prevent Diabetes-Related Cataract Via Inhibition of Aldose Reducatse
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
North Carolina Research Campus, 500 Laureate Way, Kannapolis, NC 28081, United States Abstract Chronic hyperglycemia is an important risk factor involved in the onset and progression of secondary complications of diabetes. ...
Heme Oxygenase (HO)-1 Induction Prevents Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress-Mediated Endothelial Cell Death and Dysfunction
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Diabetes is intimately associated with cardiovascular complications. Much evidence highlighted the complex interplay between Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) stress and oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of diabetes. Hemeoxygenase-1 ...
Named Entity Disambiguation using Hierarchical Text Categorization
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Named entity extraction is an important step in natural language processing. It aims at finding the entities which are present in text such as organizations, places or persons. Named entities extraction is of a paramount ...
What Is Published About Special Education In Arab Countries? A Preliminary Analysis
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2014 , Conference Paper)
The use of research-based educational practices when serving students with disabilities is an essential component of special education policy as, if such a research foundation is missing, policies are compromised. Because ...
Voicing in Qatari Arabic: Evidence for prevoicing and aspiration
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Languages with a two-way voicing contrast in phonology usually contrast prevoiced b, d, g stops with voiceless unaspirated p, t, k stops or voiceless unaspirated stops with voiceless aspirated stops (Iverson & Salmons, ...
Microbial Desalination Cell: An Integrated Approach for Wastewater Treatment and Desalination Systems for Sustainable Water Desalination and Wastewater Treatment
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
The availability of drinking water from the current available sources is decreasing due to the high demand and population increase. Seawater is a potential source for drinking water but the current desalination technology ...
Roasted-modified Date Pits In Remediation Of Bromide Ions From Desalinated Water: Kinetic Studies
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2014 , Conference Paper)
Disinfection of drinking water is one of the extreme public health activities in Qatar. Chlorination, ozonation, ultra-violet, chloramination, and others are the most important treatment processes used and they can cause ...
Almost BPXOR Coding Technique for Tolerating Three Disk Failures in RAID7 Architectures
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2018 , Conference Paper)
Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) storage architectures provide protection of digital infrastructure against potential disks failures. For example, RAID-5 and RAID-6 architectures provide protection against one ...
Expression Patterns Of Genes Encoding Antioxidative Enzymes In Date Palm(phoenix Dactylifera) In Response To Salinity Stress
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2014 , Conference Paper)
Background Salinity is one of the major abiotic stresses threatening crop productivity worldwide. Plants exposed to severe salinity suffer ionic toxicities, osmotic stress and oxidative damage that lead to inhibition of ...
Improving Livability in Doha: The Role of Neighborhood Microclimates, Land Use, and Materials in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Recent evidence suggests that some densely populated areas of the world will be uninhabitable in the coming century due to extreme climate events (e.g. heat waves, atmospheric pollution, and drought) and due to shifts in ...