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Novel oral formulations of metformin in semi-solid matrices: Design, characterization and in vitro dissolution testing
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Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press)
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
Objectives: To formulate and evaluate oral dosage forms of metformin hydrochloride (MH) having sustained-release properties that would also increase MH bioavailability and address the shortcomings in the currently marketed ...
University Students' Knowledge and Attitude toward HIV/AIDS in Qatar
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Lesley Pocock
, 2012 , Article)
Introduction
HIV/AIDS is one of the most complex health problems of the 21st century and has become a pandemic disease that threatens the world population. Young people are particularly vulnerable to the HIV, worldwide ...
Editorial: Time frequency and array processing of non-stationary signals
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Springer
, 2012 , Article)
Conventional time-frequency analysis methods were extended to data arrays in many applications, and there is the potential for more synergistic development of new advanced tools by exploiting the joint properties of ...
Adsorption of 2, 4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid onto date seeds activated carbon: Equilibrium, kinetic and thermodynamic studies
(2012 , Article)
Adsorption isotherm and kinetics of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) herbicide on activated carbon prepared from Barhi date seeds were determined from batch tests. The effects of contact time, initial herbicide ...
Government ownership, business risk, financial leverage and corporate performance: Evidence from gcc countries
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Virtus Interpress
, 2012 , Article)
This study investigates the effect of government ownership structure, business risk and financial leverage among other variables (size, age and growth) on a company’s performance in a panel data, using 191 companies from ...
Systems engineering design of engineering education: A case of an embedded systems course
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IEEE Education Society
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
Systems and Cybernetics can be found elsewhere in natural and engineering sciences. Control systems methods (technical cybernetics) are the nerve of the industrial revolution; they have recently penetrated some social ...
Settlement of axially loaded piles entirely embedded in rock - analytical and experimental study
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Taylor and Francis
, 2012 , Article)
Finite element analysis was performed to study the settlement behaviour of axially loaded piles entirely embedded in nonhomogenous rock. The elastic modulus of the rock mass was taken to increase linearly along the pile ...
Meta-heuristics for aircraft arrival and departure scheduling on multiple runways
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Institute of Industrial Engineers
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
The problem of scheduling aircrafts on multiple runways can be modeled as an identical parallel machine scheduling with release times, target times and deadlines. To schedule arriving and departing aircrafts as close as ...
Government ownership, competition, and the risk-taking attitude of the GCC banking system
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2012 , Article)
Purpose - In the recent financial crisis, the risk-taking behavior of banks led to severe financial and economic instability. Many reasons have been attributed to the cause of the financial crisis. This paper attempts to ...
Efficient alignment of next generation sequencing data using MapReduce on the cloud
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2012 , Conference Paper)
This paper presents a methodology for running NGS read mapping tools in the cloud environment based on the MapReduce programming paradigm. As a demonstration, the recently developed and robust sequence alignment tool, ...