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DEMATEL-ANP risk assessment in oil and gas construction projects
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MDPI AG
, 2017 , Article)
Oil and gas construction projects are complex and risky because of their dynamic environment. Furthermore, rising global energy demand has increased the need for trustworthy risk assessment models for such projects that ...
Cell shortening and calcium dynamics in epicardial and endocardial myocytes from the left ventricle of Goto-Kakizaki type 2 diabetic rats
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
, 2018 , Article)
New Findings: What is the central question of this study? To investigate haemodynamic dysfunction in the type 2 diabetic Goto-Kakizaki (GK) rat, we measured shortening and Ca2+ transport in ventricular myocytes from ...
Classification of corneal nerve images using machine learning techniques
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Penerbit UTHM
, 2019 , Article)
Recent research shows that small nerve fiber damage is an early detector of neuropathy. These small nerve fibers are present in the human cornea and can be visualized through the use of a corneal confocal microscope. A ...
Volatile Components of the Phaeophyceae Hormophysa cuneiformis Growing Along Qatar Coasts
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Qatar University
, 2007 , Article)
The present work deals with the study on volatile compounds from the brown alga Hormophysa cuneiformis collected from the Northwest coast of Qatar on May 2002. Two extraction methods have been used: conventional hydrodistillation ...
Policy-Based Customization and Corrective Adaptation of Composite Web Services
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Inderscience Publishers
, 2010 , Article)
Due to the typical long-running character of business processes, it is often desirable to be able to change a running process. Common scenarios include the occurrence of faults, the change of business requirements and ...
Predictors of Continued Breastfeeding at One Year among Women Attending Primary Healthcare Centers in Qatar: A Cross-Sectional Study
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MDPI
, 2018 , Article & Book chapter)
The number of babies in Qatar being exclusively breastfed is significantly lower than the global target set by the World Health Organization. The purpose of this study was to assess knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP), ...
Diagnostic value of bronchoalveolar lavage in the subset of patients with negative sputum/smear and mycobacterial culture and a suspicion of pulmonary tuberculosis
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Elsevier B.V.
, 2019 , Article)
Background: The diagnostic value of bronchoalveolar lavage in patients with negative sputum/smear for tuberculous bacilli has been well studied. However, its value in the subset of patients with both negative sputum/smear ...
Toward High Power Generating Piezoelectric Nanofibers: Influence of Particle Size and Surface Electrostatic Interaction of Ce-Fe 2 O 3 and Ce-Co 3 O 4 on PVDF
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American Chemical Society
, 2019 , Article)
Development of flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) is a real challenge for the next-generation energy-harvesting applications. In this paper, we report highly flexible PENGs based on poly(vinylidene fluoride) ...
Laparoscopic Extirpation of Adrenal Gland Ganglioneuroma Incidentally Diagnosed During Evaluation for Patchy Alopecia Areata in an Adolescent Boy
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Karger
, 2019 , Article)
We present a 17-year-old boy with an incidentally diagnosed left adrenal ganglioneuroma (GN) during the diagnostic work up of alopecia areata (AA). Clinical Presentation and Intervention Laboratory investigations revealed ...
Country and gender-specific achievement of healthy nutrition and physical activity guidelines: Latent class analysis of 6266 university students in Egypt, Libya, and Palestine
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MDPI AG
, 2017 , Article)
Research on healthy behaviour such as physical activity and healthy nutrition and their combination is lacking among university students in Arab countries. The current survey assessed healthy nutrition, and moderate/vigorous ...