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The post Arab spring reform: The maghreb at a cross roads
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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 ...
Adolescents Surveillance System for Obesity in Europe. A pioneering project to prevent obesity in Italy using e-technology: the ASSO Project Adolescence Surveillance System for Obesity Prevention
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IADIS
, 2016 , Conference Paper)
Adolescents’ obesity is a major concern in our modern life; it could lead to significant increase in the rate of obese in the
future generations and consequently the health budget. The ASSO Project in Italy (Adolescence ...
First report of some adult mosquitoes captured by CDC gravid traps from North-Eastern Qatar
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
ObjectiveTo report six species of female mosquitoes caught in CDC gravid traps for the first time in Qatar. MethodsFive traps were installed in Al-Khor community, north-eastern Qatar during the outbreak season between ...
Building an Integrated Missile Defense Architecture for Gulf States: Perceptions, Capabilities and Challenges
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Gerlach Press
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Ballistic missile defense (BMD) plays an important role in the defense
planning of all GCC members, involving huge investments with strong reliance on
US assistance. This is a major concern in relations with regional ...
Macrobenthos in the central Arabian Gulf: a reflection of climate extremes and variability
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Springer International Publishing
, 2016 , Article)
The arid subtropical ecosystem of the central Arabian Gulf was used to explore the combined effects of low primary productivity, high salinities, and variable temperatures on the composition and structure of benthic ...
Handling Big Data in Modern Healthcare
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Oxford University Press
, 2016 , Article)
The constant growth of medical knowledge and the increases in
specialization in clinical practice have created a significant need to share
and access patient information with speed and efficiency. However,
current ...
The Role of the GCC Countries in Ending Piracy in the Horn of Africa
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Center for Research and Policy Studies
, 2016 , Article)
Piracy in the Horn of Africa has had a far-reaching security and economic impact both globally and regionally. The World Bank estimated that between 2008 and 2012, the global economy lost $18 billion annually due to Somali ...
A multi-criteria approach of assessing public transport accessibility at a strategic level
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Elsevier
, 2016 , Article)
This paper presents an approach for accessibility categorization in areas where there is no extensive data available to run the conventional analysis. The presented method has the advantages of the lower data requirements ...
On the basis number of the wreath product of ladders
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Charles Babbage Research Centre
, 2016 , Article)
The basis number of a graph G is defined to be the least non negative integer d such that there is a basis B of the cycle space of G such that each edge of G is contained in at most d members of B. In this paper, we determine ...
Conjugated Copolymers of Vinylene Flanked Naphthalene Diimide
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American Chemical Society
, 2016 , Article)
We report the synthesis of a novel naphthalene diimide (NDI) monomer containing two (tributylstannyl)vinyl groups. The utility of this building block is demonstrated by its copolymerization with five different electron-rich ...