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Foraging and habitat use of eastern cottontails (Sylvilagus floridanus) in an urban landscape
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Springer Nature
, 2015 , Article)
Urban landscapes such as college campuses, arboretums, and backyards provide excellent habitats for education and research into animal behavior. We investigated aspects of the foraging activity of free-ranging Eastern ...
Assessing uncertainty in sighting records: An example of the Barbary lion
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PeerJ
, 2015 , Article)
As species become rare and approach extinction, purported sightings can be controversial, especially when scarce management resources are at stake.We consider the probability that each individual sighting of a series is ...
Privacy and gendered spaces in Arab Gulf homes
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Taylor & Francis
, 2015 , Article)
We report the findings of a qualitative study of Qatari homes in the Arab Gulf. We identify the significance of privacy and gender segregation as anchors for identity, both national and religious. Maintaining these anchors ...
Discoursing ‘democratic knowledge’ & knowledge production in North Africa
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Taylor & Francis
, 2015 , Other)
North Africa (interchangeably used with the term ‘Maghrib’) has historically featured as a contributor to Euro-Med cultures and civilisations. Mesopotamia, Egypt and Phoenicia all at one point in time or another mediated ...
The determinants of student effort at learning ERP: A cultural perspective
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Information Systems and Computing Academic Professionals
, 2015 , Article)
This paper develops a research model based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology model (UTAUT) and Hofstede's cultural dimensions to explore factors that influence student effort at learning Enterprise ...
A Comparative Analysis of Arab and U.S. Cultural Values on the Web
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Taylor & Francis
, 2015 , Article)
ABSTRACT: This study aims to explore the depiction of cultural values on global websites. There exists a research gap in terms of better understanding cross-cultural differences in web communications between the Arab and ...
التاريخ الاجتماعي للجواري في مصر قبيل عصر التحديث: نفيسة خاتون المرادية نموذجاً
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المركز العربي للأبحاث ودراسة السياسات - معهد الدوحة للدراسات العليا
, 2015 , Article)
تركّز هذا المقالة على دراسة شخصية نسائية تنتمي إلى صفوة نساء المجتمع، في مرحلة شديدة التقلب وعدم الاستقرار، بين آخر القرن الثامن عشر ومطلع القرن التاسع عشر، إنها "السيدة نفيسة" التي خطفها اللصوص من إحدى القرى الجبلية ...
Predicting Corporate Failure of Jordanian Companies Using Discriminant Analysis
(2015 , Article)
This research studies the corporate failure of Jordanian companies using Discriminant
Analysis. The study contains detailed analysis and comparisons of two groups of failure and
continues companies. The study examines ...
Proposed cooling wall system: A lesson from nature
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ISEC Press
, 2015 , Conference Paper)
The study commences with a comparative analysis between desert adapted cactus plants and traditional mud houses. Primary comparative results yielded three main similarities: 1) Effective utilization of self-shading surfaces; ...
Appraising e-commerce systems performance in the engineering and information technology industry
(2015 , Other)
This research aimed to understand the factors influencing e-commerce systems performance in
Jordan. Using previous literature, we developed a theoretical model of performance with four
contributing factors: perceived ...