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Pottery from Halat Aobeer and Hazem Al-Jasrah, Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2013 , Article)
In this paper the results of investigations on six archaeological ceramic sherds of the most common Islamic earthenware from the site of Halat Aobeer and Hazam Al-Jasrah are presented. The data was obtained by using a ...
General learning approach for event extraction: Case of management change event
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SAGE Publications Ltd
, 2013 , Article)
Starting from an ontology of a targeted financial domain corresponding to transaction, performance and management change news, relevant segments of text containing at least a domain keyword are extracted. The linguistic ...
Team Satisfaction and Student Group Performance: A Cross-Cultural Study
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Taylor and Francis Ltd.
, 2013 , Article)
The authors examined the relationship between team satisfaction and students' performance in group projects in two universities, one from the United States and one from Qatar. The results showed that there is a significant ...
The role of healthcare professionals in establishing unhealthy pharmaceutical promotion activities in Yemen
(2013 , Article)
Background: Recently, the relationship between healthcare professionals and pharmaceutical companies has been given considerable attention worldwide and has been criticised with the companies being blamed for corrupting ...
Characterisation of winter respiratory viral infections in patients with asthma and COPD in Qatar
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Springer Verlag
, 2013 , Article)
Respiratory viruses in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma have not been characterised in Qatar. This study aimed to identify the most common viral strains responsible for respiratory tract ...
الخطاب الحجاجي في شعر بشار بن برد : مقاربة في تحولات الهوية الثقافية
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جامعة أم القرى
, 2013 , Article)
يسعى هذا البحث إلى الكشف عن تحولات الهوية الثقافية في شعر بشار بن برد من خلال دراسة نص شعري برزت فيه هوية الشاعر الثقافية بوصفها هوية متميزة ومتمايزة. ويكشف البحث عن حجم الصراع المتشكل في عالم الشاعر الذي واجه محنة الهوية ...
Time to entry of generic medicines in Malaysia: implications for pharmaceutical cost containment
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
, 2013 , Article)
Generic medicine availability is crucial for maintaining the Malaysian heavily subsidised public healthcare system, and for reducing rising national pharmaceutical expenditure. This paper analyses the time to entry of ...
The athlete’s heart Part II Influencing factors on the athlete’s heart: Types of sports and age (Review)
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Akadémiai Kiadó
, 2013 , Article)
In our previous review characteristics of the athlete’s heart were divided into three groups: morphologic (left
ventricular (LV) hypertrophy, improved coronary circulation), functional (better diastolic function) and ...
Incentive scheduler algorithm for cooperation and coverage extension in wireless networks
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2013 , Article)
In this paper, we focus on wireless coverage extension and nodes' cooperation. We propose a new protocol based on an incentive approach and a scheduling algorithm to reward cooperative nodes. The cost of cooperation can ...
MIP models for minimizing total tardiness in a two-machine flow shop
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Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.
, 2013 , Article)
We propose compact mixed-integer programming models for the NP-hard problem of minimizing tardiness in a two-machine flow shop. Also, we propose valid inequalities that aim at tightening the models' representations. We ...