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Negotiating an End to Somalia's War with al Shabaab Why Military Solutions Aren't Enough: Why Military Solutions Aren't Enough
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Council on Foreign Relations
, 2012 , Article)
In August 2011, after three years of fighting, forces backing the Somali Transitional Federal
Government (TFG) took control of the Somali capital of Mogadishu. Although this was a welcome
development, it was a short-term ...
Disease mapping of Leishmaniasis outbreak in Afghanistan: spatial hierarchical Bayesian analysis
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Elsevier
, 2012 , Article)
Abstract ObjectiveTo analyze the spatial pattern of Leishmaniasis disease in Afghanistan, using provincial level geo-referenced data. The disease is contracted through bites from sand flies and is the third most common ...
Qualitative Analysis of Student Perceptions of E-Portfolios in a Teacher Education Program
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International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)
, 2012 , Article)
In the last decade, e-portfolios have moved to the forefront of teacher preparation programs across the
United States. With its widespread use, faculty and administrators need to understand teacher candidates’ perspectives ...
Introduction to the cyanobacteria
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Springer Netherlands
, 2012 , Article)
Summary: Features of cyanobacteria are introduced for non-specialists by highlighting topics in the various chapters. Aspects where much more is known now than a decade ago are pointed out, such as the importance of ...
Baseline data for Arabic acquisition with clinical applications: Some phonological processes in Qatari children’s speech
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LAR Center Press
, 2012 , Article)
This paper has two aims. The first is to inform our language acquisition colleagues about the “Baseline Data for Arabic Acquisition with Clinical Applications” project, which is a multi-institutional and international ...
Critiquing the Modern Western Theory of Knowledge and Insights into a Qur’anic Epistemology
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International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
, 2012 , Article)
This article compares and contrasts a western post-Enlightenment theory of knowledge with a Qur’anic epistemology. It first analyzes the development of post-Enlightenment epistemology, which resulted in the disappearance ...
Islam, Religion and Society: The Movement for Pakistan
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Common Ground Research Networks
, 2012 , Article)
The relationship between the sacred and temporal has been an enduring phenomenon throughout history. Both in ancient and medieval times, religion and the formation of society, including the politicization of religion into ...
Cyclic AMP-Rap1A signaling activates RhoA to induce α2c-adrenoceptor translocation to the cell surface of microvascular smooth muscle cells
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American Physiological Society
, 2012 , Article)
Intracellular signaling by the second messenger cyclic AMP (cAMP) activates the Ras-related small GTPase Rap1 through the guanine exchange factor Epac. This activation leads to effector protein interactions, activation, ...
CAMP induces adhesion of microvascular smooth muscle cells to fibronectin via an epac-mediated but PKA-independent mechanism
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Cell Physiol Biochem Press
, 2012 , Article)
Background/Aims: Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) play important roles, both in physiologic and pathophysiologic processes. Adhesion of these cells is critical for their proper functioning, especially in resistance-sized ...
Horvitz-thompson estimator of population mean under inverse sampling designs
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Iranian Mathematical Society
, 2012 , Article)
Inverse sampling design is generally considered to be an appropriate technique when the population is divided into two subpopulations, one of which contains only a few units. Here, we de- rive the Horvitz-Thompson estimator ...