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Microwave rapid sintering of al-metal matrix composites: A review on the effect of reinforcements, microstructure and mechanical properties
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MDPI AG
, 2016 , Article Review)
Aluminum metal matrix composites (AMMCs) are light-weight materials having wide-spread use in the automobile and aerospace industries due to their attractive physical and mechanical properties. The promising mechanical ...
Satire and Religious Tolerance: How Acceptance/Rejection of Satire is Determined by the Capacity of Religious and Political Forces to Agree on a Modern Civic Contract
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Brill Academic Publishers
, 2016 , Article Review)
The January 2015 assassination at the Charlie Hebdo offices and the dozen ensuing terrorist attacks in France over the last eighteen months are the manifestation of a structural opposition between a civic identity whose ...
A Hard Test of Individual Heterogeneity in Response Scale Usage: Evidence From Qatar
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Oxford University Press
, 2016 , Article Review)
A common approach to correcting for interpersonal differences in response category
thresholds in surveys is the use of anchoring vignettes. Here we present results from
the first applications of anchoring vignettes in ...
Synthesis, characterization and applications of electroless Ni-B coatings-A review
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Electrochemical Science Group
, 2016 , Article Review)
Electroless nickel coating process has experienced remarkable modifications since its invention by Branner and Riddell in 1946. This process has proven to be very useful for applying uniform, hard, wear resistant coatings ...
Chromosome aberrations and fertility disorders in domestic animals
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Annual Reviews Inc.
, 2016 , Article Review)
The association between chromosomal abnormalities and reduced fertility in domestic animals is well recorded and has been studied for decades. Chromosome aberrations directly affect meiosis, gametogenesis, and the viability ...
DNA-based influenza vaccines as immunoprophylactic agents toward universality
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Future Medicine Ltd.
, 2016 , Article Review)
Influenza is an illness of global public health concern. Influenza viruses have been responsible for several pandemics affecting humans. Current influenza vaccines have proved satisfactory safety; however, they have ...
Influence of graphene oxide on mechanical, morphological, barrier, and electrical properties of polymer membranes
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article Review)
This paper expresses a short review of research on the effects of graphene oxide (GO) as a nanocomposite element on polymer morphology and resulting property modifications including mechanical, barrier, and electrical ...
Application of various water soluble polymers in gas hydrate inhibition
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article Review)
Formation of hydrates in gas transmission lines due to high pressures and low temperatures is a serious problem in the oil and gas industry with potential hazards and/or economic losses. Kinetic hydrate inhibitors are water ...
Review on recent advances in polythiophene based photovoltaic devices
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2016 , Article Review)
Discovery of conducting polymer introduced us to the total polymeric solar cells (PSC). During the last decade, power conversion efficiency (PCE) of these solar cells has increased from 1% to 11.5% (with the bulk heterojunction ...
Heavy metal removal from aqueous solution by advanced carbon nanotubes: Critical review of adsorption applications
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article Review)
The scarcity of water, especially in arid and semi-arid regions of the world is exerting great pressure on resources and establishing more need to provide good quality water for human and other consumptions. Water ...