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FDI in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Foreign direct investment (FDI), which may be flow or stock, represents the investment of foreign assets into domestic structures, equipment, and organizations. The parent multinational corporations (MNCs) may use vertical, ...
Ability and Hurdle to Provide Banking Online Services: A Case Study of Banking Employees in Nigeria
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Identifying the employee version regarding the necessities of customers and the status of the technological initiatives is one of the latest strategies of the online banking companies. As many of the studies are limited ...
The Arab spring: A fourth wave of democratization?
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Wiley-Blackwell
, 2016 , Article)
Between 1974 and 1990, over 30 countries in southern Europe, Latin America, some parts of Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa made transitions to democracy, nearly doubling the number of democratic governments in the world. ...
Controlled Prelithiation of Silicon Monoxide for High Performance Lithium-Ion Rechargeable Full Cells
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American Chemical Society
, 2016 , Article)
Despite the recent considerable progress, the reversibility and cycle life of silicon anodes in lithium-ion batteries are yet to be improved further to meet the commercial standards. The current major industry, instead, ...
Experimental investigation of the laminar flame speeds of GTL fuel blends
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American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
This work investigates the laminar flame speed of GTL fuel and its 50%-50% blend with conventional diesel, in a cylindrical bomb capable of measuring laminar flame speed, SN, at different initial temperatures and equivalence ...
How the experience of assessed collaborative writing impacts on undergraduate students' perceptions of assessed group work
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Routledge
, 2016 , Article)
A time-series analysis was used to investigate Arabic undergraduate students' (n = 50) perceptions of assessed group work in a major government institution of higher education in Qatar. A longitudinal mixed methods approach ...
Flexible impedance and capacitive tensile load Sensor based on CNT composite
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Institute of Physics Publishing
, 2016 , Article)
In this paper, the fabrication and investigation of flexible impedance and capacitive tensile load sensors based on carbon nanotube (CNT) composite are reported. On thin rubber substrates, CNTs are deposited from suspension ...
An empirical study of intuition and its context
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Our knowledge of what determines intuitive decision making is still in its early stages, although there is an increasing interest in intuition in the last decade. In order to fill this gap, this study examines the differential ...
Corrosion Behavior of Carbon Steel in CO2 Saturated Amine and Imidazolium-, Ammonium-, and Phosphonium-Based Ionic Liquid Solutions
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American Chemical Society
, 2016 , Article)
This work presents a recent investigation on corrosion behavior of carbon steel amine and ionic liquid based carbon dioxide absorbents. The first class focused on classical amine solutions: monoethanolamine (MEA), ...
A dual three-phase induction machine based flywheel storage system driven by modular multilevel converters for fault ride through in HVDC systems
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IEEE Computer Society
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
One of the main challenges of voltage source converter based high voltage direct current (VSC-HVDC) transmission systems is the AC faults at the grid side. This work introduces the integration of multiphase induction machine ...