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Knowledge, Attitude, and Perception of Students Regarding Renewable Energies in Agriculture in Guilan, Iran
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)Transitioning from fossil to renewable energy is a global challenge, especially for countries with large fossil-fuel reserves and exports, such as Iran. This study analyses agricultural students' knowledge of, attitudes ... -
Knowledge, attitude, and practice toward antibiotic use among the general public in a resource-poor setting: A case of Aden-Yemen
( Journal of Infection in Developing Countries , 2023 , Article)Introduction: Antibiotic overuse and misuse can cause serious health issues. These problems have contributed to a rise in bacterial resistance. Hence, our study aims to highlight the existing knowledge and attitudes toward ... -
Knowledge, attitude, and readiness towards disaster management: A nationwide survey among healthcare practitioners in United Arab Emirates
( Public Library of Science , 2023 , Article)Health professionals are expected to be knowledgeable on disaster medicine and prepared to deal with medicine disasters. This study aimed to assess the level of knowledge, attitude, and readiness to practice disaster ... -
Knowledge, Attitude, Practices, and Sources of Information (KAPS) toward COVID-19 during the second wave pandemic among university population in Qatar: A cross-sectional study
( Frontiers Media , 2022 , Article)Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Many efforts were performed to contain the virus worldwide. People's knowledge and attitude should be directed toward strict ... -
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of community pharmacists on generic medicines in Qatar
( Kluwer Academic Publishers , 2014 , Article)Background: The practice of generic medicines prescribing, dispensing and substitution in developing countries has been controversial among healthcare professionals, particularly due to issues on quality, safety and efficacy. ... -
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of pediatricians in relation to breastfeeding support: A national survey in Lebanon
( PLOS Medicine , 2023 , Article)Background Rates of breastfeeding (BF) remain suboptimal despite overwhelming evidence for its benefits to the mother and child. Pediatricians play an important role in supporting breastfeeding (BF). In Lebanon, the rates ... -
Knowledge, beliefs, attitude, and practices of E-cigarette use among dental students: A multinational survey
( Public Library of Science (PLOS) , 2022 , Article)E-cigarette use is a trend worldwide nowadays with mounting evidence on associated morbidities and mortality. Dentists can modify the smoking behaviors of their patients. This study aimed to explore the knowledge, beliefs, ... -
Knowledge, Perception, and Self-Confidence of Antibiotic Resistance, Appropriate Antibiotic Therapy, and Antibiotic Stewardship Among Undergraduate Pharmacy Students in Sudan
( Dove Medical Press Ltd , 2024 , Article)Background: Adequate training in infectious diseases and antibiotic resistance is crucial for pharmacy students to participate in antibiotic stewardship programs and understand microbiology careers. Aim: The study was ... -
Koh-based modified solvay process for removing na ions from high salinity reject brine at high temperatures
( MDPI , 2021 , Article)The traditional Solvay process and other modifications that are based on different types of alkaline material and waste promise to be effective in the reduction of reject brine salinity and the capture of CO2 . These ... -
Koopman Operator Approximation Under Negative Imaginary Constraints
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2023 , Article)Nonlinear Negative Imaginary (NI) systems arise in various engineering applications, such as controlling flexible structures and air vehicles. However, unlike linear NI systems, their theory is not well-developed. In this ... -
Krabbe Disease in the Arab World
( IOS Press , 2015 , Article)The autosomal recessive inherited Krabbe disease (KD) is a devastating pediatric lysosomal storage disorder affecting white matter of the brain. It is caused by mutations in the gene coding for the lysosomal enzyme ... -
KRAP tethers IP3 receptors to actin and licenses them to evoke cytosolic Ca2+ signals
( Nature Research , 2021 , Article)Regulation of IP3 receptors (IP3Rs) by IP3 and Ca2+ allows regenerative Ca2+ signals, the smallest being Ca2+ puffs, which arise from coordinated openings of a few clustered IP3Rs. Cells express thousands of mostly mobile ... -
Krein's Method For Singular Mixed Problems
( Qatar University , 1993 , Article)In this paper, the spectral relations of the Fredholm integral equation of the first kind for the mixed problems with singular kernel are obtained. -
Krein's method for solving the integral equation of the first kind With logarithmic kernel
( Qatar University , 1993 , Article)Consider the Fredholm's integral equation of the first kind with logarithmic kernel K(IXI) = (- In Ixl. The aim of this paper is to establish the equivalence of Krein's method of solving the equation with the following ... -
Kuran-ı Kerim Işığında Çocukların Ahlak Eğitiminde Dikkat Edilmesi Gereken Hususlar
( TOJET , 2018 , Conference Paper)İnsan, Kuran-ı Kerim ışığında almış olduğu ahlak eğitimiyle iyi bir kimse olmakta ve bu suretle de gerçek mutluluğu yakalamaktadır. Almış olduğu bu eğitimin kalıcı olması için, çocuk yaşta bu eğitime başlanmalı ve bu eğitim ... -
Kuwait Islamists: From Institutionalized to Informal Opposition
( ministry of research, science and technology , 2019 , Article)This article analyses the evolution of the Islamist political associations and groups, both Shiites and Sunnis since the independence of Kuwait in 1962 to the last legislative elections which was held in 2016. It tries to ... -
Kuwait's Mediation in the Gulf Crisis: Dynamics of Kuwait's Foreign Policy Approaches
( Springer , 2023 , Book chapter)This study examines Kuwaiti mediation in the 2017 Gulf crisis from the perspective of the disputants-mainly Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar-and the mediator-Kuwait. While using qualitative research method ... -
Kuwait’s Islamist Proto-parties and the Arab Uprisings: Between Opposition, Pragmatism and the Pursuit of Cross-Ideological Cooperation
( edinburgh university press , 2018 , Book chapter)Exploring the evolution of Islamist proto-parties in Kuwait, this chapter revealed that in the aft ermath of the Arab uprisings their behaviour was guided mostly by pragmatism, albeit with diff erent outcomes. As we have ... -
KYNU, a novel potential target that underpins CD44-promoted breast tumour cell invasion
( Blackwell Publishing Inc. , 2021 , Article Review)Using a validated tetracycline-off-inducible CD44 expression system in mouse model, we have previously demonstrated that the hyaluronan (HA) receptor CD44 promotes breast cancer (BC) metastasis to the liver. To unravel the ... -
Kynurenine 3-Monooxygenase gene associated with Nicotine initiation and addiction: Analysis of novel regulatory features at 5' and 3'-Regions
( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2018 , Article)© 2018 Aziz, Abdel-Salam, Al-Obaide, Alobydi and Al-Humaish. Tobacco smoking is widespread behavior in Qatar and worldwide and is considered one of the major preventable causes of ill health and death. Nicotine is part of ...