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Mechanism in the clot formation of horseshoe crab blood during bacterial endotoxin invasion
Published 2010“…Endotoxins from gram-negative microorganisms initiates clot formation in blood when it is accidentally encountered by horseshoe crab. …”
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Cytotoxicity of Vibrio cholerae of Madin Darby bovine kidney cells
Published 2010“…The cytotoxicity of APW filtrates on Vero cells was low and only noted when polymyxin was added to the medium. Keywords: Vibrio cholerae, MDBK cells, Vero cells, Cytotoxicity and MTT test.…”
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A comparative evaluation of the prevailing models for measuring sustainable performance
Published 2016“…The organizations are found to focus on varieties of strategic aspects rather than adopting identical or uniform strategies when dealing with sustainability issues. This paper aims at reviewing the various models prevailing in the contemporary research papers along with presentation of an in-depth analysis exposing the similar and dissimilar aspects. …”
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An empirical investigation of banking customers’ perception of the viability of Islamic banking in Côte d’Ivoire
Published 2015“…Moreover, the customers indicate commendable willingness to patronize the Islamic banks when established in Côte d’Ivoire as long as it is not relatively costlier to do so. …”
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Extending the scope of proprietary remedies to recovery of pure profits from successful investment of bribes: the endgames in Lister v Stubbs
Published 2015“…The rule also fell out of favour in other leading commonwealth jurisdictions and recently the English courts at all levels had the opportunity to reassess its relevance when the Supreme Court in FHR European Ventures LLP and others v Cedar Capital Partners LLC [2014] 4 All ER 79 consigned it to oblivion. …”
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Liberalisation of services in malaysia: is malaysian professionals ready to compete?
Published 2015“…The findings of this study also confirms that regulatory reforms and liberalisation initiatives can only be effective in achieving the intended objectives when the government and stakeholders have in-depth understanding of the industry at the sectoral and disaggregated levels, and have appropriate knowledge of the industry’s competitive strengths, weaknesses and opportunities. …”
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The concept of internet of things and its challenges to privacy
Published 2015“…However, the IoT has a cost especially when it comes to security and privacy. It also raises serious questions which need to be legally addressed. …”
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A new efficient text detection method for image spam filtering
Published 2015“…Besides its robustness against obfuscating methods in image spam, ATE shows efficient performance when used for scene text detection.…”
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Emotion and mood recognition in response to video
Published 2015“…Furthermore, the results demonstrated that a positive video content can stimulate a subject into being in positive emotional state even when the subject was in bad mood. The emotional state in response to watching a video was shown to be correlated with Self-Assessment Manikin analysis.…”
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A fast method for psychophysical estimation of nonlinear cochlear processing using Schroeder phase harmonic complexes
Published 2014“…The difference in masked thresholds at different phases of the masker (the "phase effect") is reduced when the cochlea behaves more linearly, e.g. at very high and low stimulus levels and in ears with sensorineural hearing loss (Summers & Leek, 1998). …”
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Establishing the analytical relationships for mass and volumetric mass fractions for hybrid buoyant aircraft
Published 2016“…This situation becomes more critical when a wing is attached to the hull of airship and there is no proven algebraic formulation that is able to distinguish between electric and fuel powered propulsion. …”
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An evaluation of heat loss on top of solar collector with multilayered absorber in solar water heating system
Published 2016“…The results show the impact to the solar water heating system is indeed predictable where multilayered absorber in solar collector is proven to play its main role when it able to keep the hot water temperature longer at minimum amount of 176.4 W/unit area as for heat loss.…”
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The ‘God Helmet’ and neuro-spirituality : the pedagogical ramifications for religious and moral education
Published 2015“…A few Journalists gave it this name when they learned that some people had visions of God while participating in Koren Helmet experiments. …”
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Analysis of electromechanical coupling coefficient of surface acoustic wave resonator in ZnO piezoelectric thin film structure
Published 2014“…Simulation results indicate maximum electromechanical coupling coefficient is achieved when normalized thickness is in the range of 0.63 <; (hzno/λ) <; 0.78. …”
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Heat transfer enhancement in a triangular duct using compound nanofluids and turbulators
Published 2015“…High gradient in wall temperatures is monitored when the water is replaced by nanofluid particularly at higher volume fraction. …”
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Intelligent path guidance robot for visually impaired assistance
Published 2015“…Then, controllers were applied in the devices’ system so that it can improve the system’s efficiency and accuracy in dealing with real-time situations. That’s when the intelligent system was introduced in the field to handle nonlinear process of the devices. …”
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Experimental investigations on wall pressure in suddenly enlarged ducts at supersonic Mach number regimes
Published 2012“…It is found that for area ratio 4.84 the Microjets which are used as active control method for base pressure, does not adversely affect the wall pressure,contradicting the peculiar oscillatory nature in the enlarged duct when controls are employed.…”
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Combating piracy and armed robbery against ships: international cooperation in high risk areas
Published 2016“…This exercise should be done in cooperation with the regional powers in the respective state and cease when it is capable of conducting efficient surface and aerial patrols on its own or jointly with other states.…”
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Short selling and the development of anti-shorting laws in the UK
Published 2016“…Thus, the reason for shorting is to make a profit on the downfall when investors hold a bearish view on the stock. …”
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Gender issues in Muslim countries
Published 2016“…There is a long line of women scholars and activists who attained high positions and were renowned for their excellence as scholars, social workers, public figures, educators during the time of the Prophet SAW and during the next generations, when Islamic civilisation was flourishing. The presentation suggests that such empowerment has little relation to modern status of women in the Muslim world. after discussing the violation of the women's rights, the paper says that these problems existing in the Muslim world are not related to women rights alone, but the main problem is in the absence of citizen rights and the absence of good governance. …”
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