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Childhood Labor in India: issues and complexities
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Symposium Journals, Ltd
, 2008 , Article & Presentation)
It is estimated that more than 12 million children in India under the age of 14 engage in paid labor at least part time, due mostly to economic reasons. Dominant discourses about childhood however conceptualize childhood ...
Evaluation of the Universal Screening Strategy in Qatar for the Management of Pregnant Women Carrying Group B Streptococci
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2008 , Article)
Group B Streptococcus infection (GBS) has emerged as a serious disease, infecting 18,000 people in the United States annually including life-threatening illness in about 8,000 newly-born infants. To evaluate the efficiency ...
Performance evaluation of secured versus non-secured EIGRP routing protocol
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dblp computer science bibliography
, 2008 , Conference Paper)
Routing is the process of forwarding data across an inter-network from a designated source to a final destination. Along the way from source to destination, at least one intermediate node is considered. Due to the major ...
AICCSA 08 - 6th IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications: Message from the general chairs
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2008 , Other)
Presents the introductory welcome message from the conference proceedings.
A system for automatic gathering and intelligent analyses of Doha traffic data
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2008 , Conference Paper)
In recent years, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have gained increased attention. ITS [1] [2] provide opportunities for traffic engineers and decision-makers to deal with problems related to highway traffic operation ...
Hypoadiponectinemia in obese and diabetic subjects in the State of Qatar
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Karger
, 2008 , Article)
Background: Obesity is commonly associated with insulin resistance (IR), and is a common cause of type 2 diabetes. Adiponectin is an adipose tissue protein that enhances insulin sensitivity and has anti-atherogenic properties. ...
Poisonous plants contaminating edible ones and toxic substances in plant foods IV. Phytochemistry and toxicity of lolium temulentum
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Taylor & Francis
, 2008 , Article)
Different procedures were carried out for the preparation and separation of the total alkaloids of Lolium temulentum. Loline has been identified as the major pyrrolizidine alkaloid of the seeds. The toxicity of the alcoholic ...
Novel thorium membrane sensors with anionic response based on trioctylphosphine oxide and toluate ionophores
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Wiley-VCH Verlag
, 2008 , Article)
Two novel potentiometric polymeric membrane sensors for rapid and accurate determination of thorium are described. These are based on the use of trioctylphosphine oxide (TOPO) and thorium toluate (Th-TA) as ionophores ...
Economical study by determining the optimum thickness of insulation of some heaters utilized in Qatar refinery
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International Information and Engineering Technology Association
, 2008 , Article)
Some furnaces and heaters utilized in the industry in Qatar (such as Qatar Refinery) are analyzed economically by the determination of the optimum thickness of insulation for each of these equipments. Different common ...
Text summarization based on conceptual data classification
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IGI Global
, 2008 , Book chapter)
In this paper, we present an original approach for text summarization using conceptual data classification. We show how a given text can be summarized without losing meaningful knowledge and without using any semantic or ...