Browsing College of Arts & Sciences by Publisher "Wiley-Blackwell"
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An Analysis of the Comprehensive Implementation of Strategic Plans in Emerging Economies: The United Arab Emirates as a Case Study
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2016 , Article)Despite the potentially important impact of strategy implementation on organizational performance, relatively little has been discovered so far about its antecedents and consequences. This study aims to help fill this gap ... -
Association of single nucleotide polymorphisms with dyslipidemia and risk of metabolic disorders in the State of Qatar
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2023 , Article)Background: Dyslipidemia is recognized as one of the risk factors of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Objective: The study aimed to investigate ... -
Differential survival of nursery-reared Acropora cervicornis outplants along the Florida reef tract
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2020 , Article)In recent decades, the Florida reef tract has lost over 95% of its coral cover. Although isolated coral assemblages persist, coral restoration programs are attempting to recover local coral populations. Listed as threatened ... -
Facile Synthesis of Crystalline Nanoporous GaN Templated by Nitrogen Enriched Mesoporous Carbon Nitride for Friedel-Crafts Reaction
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2016 , Article)Highly crystalline nanoporous GaN (NP-GaN) materials have been synthesized for the first time by the transformation of novel diamino tetrazine based mesoporous carbon nitride (MCN-4) having very high nitrogen content (N/C ... -
Foraging and habitat use of common duikers, Sylvicapra grimmia, in a heterogeneous environment within the Soutpansberg, South Africa
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2015 , Article)We investigated aspects of the foraging behaviour and activity patterns of free-ranging common duikers (Sylvicapra grimmia) within the Soutpansberg, South Africa. We used giving-up densities (GUD) and camera traps to test ... -
Iran and political dynamism in the arab world: The case of Yemen
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2016 , Article)This article examines the role of Iran in Yemen within the context of Arab-Iranian relations. It also examines the debate on the involvement of Iran in the ongoing political developments in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria. The ... -
Optimal sampling design for spatial capture–recapture
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2020 , Article)Spatial capture–recapture (SCR) has emerged as the industry standard for estimating population density by leveraging information from spatial locations of repeat encounters of individuals. The precision of density estimates ... -
Physicochemical Properties of Derivatives of N,N-Dimethylamino–cyclic–chalcones: Experimental and Theoretical Study
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2016 , Article)A series of three N,N-dimethyl-amino-cyclic-chalcones chromophores of the D-π-A type (1-3) where, (Donor= N,N-dimethyl-aniline) and Acceptor= indan-1-one (1), 3,4-dihydro-2H-naphthalen-1-one (2) and 3,4,5-tetrahydro-benz ... -
Potato-Herb Synergies as Food Designs for Hyperglycemia and Hypertension Management
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2011 , Book chapter)The incidence of diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular diseases is increasing at a rapid rate globally. Adult on-set type II diabetes, which is closely associated with obesity, is reported to be 90-95% of all diabetic cases ... -
A Preliminary Assessment of Global CO2: Spatial Patterns, Temporal Trends, and Policy Implications
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2023 , Article)This study offers a comprehensive analysis of the distribution, evolution, and driving factors of CO2 emissions from 1990 to 2016 at multiple spatial scales. Utilizing 26 indicators encompassing various facets of CO2 ... -
Psychological momentum: The phenomenology of goal pursuit
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2018 , Article)Psychological momentum (PM) is thought to be a force that influences judgment, emotion, and performance. Based on a review of the extant literature, we elucidate two distinct approaches that researchers have adopted in ... -
The Role of Attention in Word Recognition: Results from OB1-Reader
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2020 , Article)When reading, orthographic information is extracted not only from the word the reader is looking at, but also from adjacent words in the parafovea. Here we examined, using the recently introduced OB1-reader computational ... -
Social media and social change
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2016 , Article)The growing impact of new media around the world has been the subject of study by scores of scientists in multidisciplinary fields. Satellite TV and the Internet have been viewed as instruments of social and political ... -
Synthesis and biological activity of some new 3-and 6-substituted coumarin amino acid derivatives. Part I
( Wiley-Blackwell , 1981 , Article)The synthesis of 6-nitrocouarrain-3-CO-amino acids and their corresponding methyl esters (II-XVII) and some dipeptide methyl esters (XVIII-XXVI) are described. 6-(N-Tosyl- or N-phthalylaminoacyl)aminocoumarin-3-carboxylic ... -
Synthesis and biological activity of some new aminoacylcarbazole derivatives. Part I
( Wiley-Blackwell , 1982 , Article)The syntheses of different 9-(N-phthalyl- or N-tosyl- or free aminoacyl)carbazoles and the corresponding derivatives of 3,6-dinitrocarbazoles and some derivatives of 3,6-diamino-9-(N-phthalylaminoacyl)carbazoles (II-XXXII) ... -
Synthesis, Vibrational (IR), Thermal analysis and Quantumchemical Study of a Series of Cyclic Chalcones
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2016 , Article)In this work, the influence of expanding the cyclic ring (adding methylene group) on the properties of three dimethylamino chalcones derivatives (1-3), is addressed, using a combined experimental (vibrational spectra (IR), ... -
The Arab spring: A fourth wave of democratization?
( 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. ... -
The Arab uprisings and the united states: The dichotomy between balancing stability and upholding commitment to democracy
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2016 , Article)The Arab Spring, a revolutionary movement for democracy that swept across the Arab Middle East in 2010, has contributed to the downfall of several oppressive authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. The ... -
The post Arab spring reform: The maghreb at a cross roads
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2016 , Article)The Arab Spring, which was launched in Tunisia, took the Arab Middle East by storm. Its results, to varying degrees, have been felt in every country in the region. In the Maghreb, three scenarios have been unfolding. Tunisia ...