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Perspectives of pharmacy graduates toward an undergraduate ethics course and its potential impact on their professional practice
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Dove Medical Press Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
Purpose: The aim of this study was to gauge the opinions and attitudes of pharmacy graduates toward an undergraduate ethics course they received and to explore if the ethics course was relevant to their practice. Sample ...
Independent and combined effects of antioxidant supplementation and circuit resistance training on selected adipokines in postmenopausal women
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Frontiers Media
, 2019 , Article)
We examined the effects of the independent and combined effects of Zataria Multiflora supplementation and circuit resistance training (CRT) on selected adipokines among postmenopausal women. Forty-eight postmenopausal women ...
Privacy Leakage in Smart Homes and Its Mitigation: IFTTT as a Case Study
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2019 , Article)
The combination of smart home platforms and automation apps introduce many conveniences to smart home users. However, this also brings the potential of privacy leakage. If a smart home platform is permitted to collect all ...
Traditional plant functional groups explain variation in economic but not size-related traits across the tundra biome
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Wiley
, 2019 , Article)
Aim: Plant functional groups are widely used in community ecology and earth system modelling to describe trait variation within and across plant communities. However, this approach rests on the assumption that functional ...
Utilizing radio frequency identification in libraries: The case of Qatar
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IGI Global
, 2019 , Article)
Nowadays, RFID technology is widely being used in libraries across the world. This study is in line with global literature pertaining to the implementation of RFID technology in libraries and intends to explore and examine ...
Influence of the shape and mass of a small robot when thrown to a dummy human head
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springer link
, 2019 , Article)
Social robots have shown some efficacy in assisting children with autism and are now being considered as assistive tools for therapy. The physical proximity of a small companion social robot could become a source of harm ...
Human olfactory bulb neural stem cells (Hu-OBNSCs) can be loaded with paclitaxel and used to inhibit glioblastoma cell growth
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MDPI
, 2019 , Article)
Exploitation of the potential ability of human olfactory bulb (hOB) cells to carry, release, and deliver an effective, targeted anticancer therapy within the central nervous system (CNS) milieu remains elusive. Previous ...
Implementation and comparison of particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithm techniques in combined economic emission dispatch of an independent power plant
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MDPI AG
, 2019 , Article)
This paper presents the optimization of fuel cost, emission of NOX, COX, and SOX gases caused by the generators in a thermal power plant using penalty factor approach. Practical constraints such as generator limits and ...
Wiretap TDMA Networks with Energy-Harvesting Rechargeable-Battery Buffered Sources
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IEEE
, 2019 , Article)
We investigate the physical-layer security of an uplink wireless time-division multiple-access channel with energy-harvesting source nodes. We consider a set of source nodes equipped with rechargeable batteries and information ...
Revisiting the Exchange Rate Pass-Through to Domestic Inflation in Egypt: Why Is the Statistical Association Weak in the Short Run?
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Association-Institute for English Language and American Studies (AIELAS)
, 2019 , Article)
This study investigates the question of “Why is the statistical association between exchange rate shocks and domestic inflation in Egypt weak?” The study relies on two econometric models, the SVAR model and the Markov ...