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Traveling within pharaonic Egypt for discovering the past
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Scientific Culture
, 2017 , Article)
The aim of this paper is to assess to what degree were archaeological visits in ancient Egypt is regarded as visits of historical or touristical purpose. Research questions include: Who traveled, where and why? The ...
A Mechanistic Neural Field Theory of How Anesthesia Suppresses Consciousness: Synaptic Drive Dynamics, Bifurcations, Attractors, and Partial State Equipartitioning
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Springer Verlag
, 2015 , Article)
With the advances in biochemistry, molecular biology, and neurochemistry there has been impressive progress in understanding the molecular properties of anesthetic agents. However, there has been little focus on how the ...
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional control of adipocyte differentiation by Jumonji domain-containing protein 6
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Oxford University Press
, 2015 , Article)
Jumonji domain-containing protein 6 (JMJD6) is a nuclear protein involved in histone modification, transcription and RNA processing. Although JMJD6 is crucial for tissue development, the link between its molecular functions ...
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 ...
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 ...
An energy-efficient distributed clustering algorithm for heterogeneous WSNs
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Springer International Publishing
, 2015 , Article)
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) were envisaged to become the fabric of our environment and society. However, they are yet unable to surmount many operational challenges such as limited network lifetime, which strangle their ...
المبادئ العامة للفكر الأصول : فقهى الإسلامى فى تعامله مع النص
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المعهد العالمي للفكر الإسلامي
, 2014 , Article)
هدف هذا البحث إلى استقراء المبادئ الكلية التي حكمت ولا تزال تحكم علم أصول الفقه الإسلامي في تعامله مع النص الديني، وتعيينها، وعرضها عرضاً موجزاً. هذا العلم الذي يرسم منهجية البحث بالنسبة للعلوم الدينية الأخرى والفكر الإسلامي ...
Political Contingency and the Implementation of Qatarization
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Qatar University
, 2011 , Article)
This paper represents an exploratory study that examines political contingency in a less liberal regulatory regime such as the ‘positive state’ or the ‘developmental state’. As an example of a state-led policy, the ...