Introduction: background and aims: Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous pollutants released into the atmosphere as a mixture of different congeners due to incomplete combustion and pyrolysis of organic ...
High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is one of thermal ablation techniques that are used to treat the cancer tumors by generating coagulation necrosis in the tumor cells. It is designed to focus a high acoustic intensity ...
The thesis deals with the issue of partnership between the governments and civil society organizations. It asserts the importance of this issue as a mean for pr omoting sustainable development. The thesis define Partnership ...
Interest in Corporate Social Responsibility has proliferated in academic and bus iness circles alike since the 20th century. This has been the case not only for the developed world but also for developing countries. The ...
This study investigates the performance of a hybrid cooling system for an office space. The hybrid system combines a phase change material (PCM) storage layer with a melting temperature of 25 ºC to cool the supply air and ...
Although advanced maternal age continues to be associated with higher risks of adverse reproductive outcomes (Kenny et al., 2013), the mean maternal age at first childbirth in developed and developing countries has been ...
This paper studies the impact of a paternity leave provision on the labor market outcomes of parents. We exploit the 2002 French reform which entitled fathers to eleven consecutive days of leave. Prior to that, fathers ...
Introduction: Patient safety (PS) remains a paramount concern within the global healthcare landscape. Among healthcare practitioners, physicians, by virtue of their central role in healthcare, have a major direct and ...
One of the most critical issues in distributed systems is security. For an entity to interact with another, it should trust the other entity to ensure the correctness and credibility of its responses. The ideal solution ...
Patronage and clientalism are a system of service provision and support networks based on personality or political party which frequently supplant the national state. In Lebanon, patronage networks are especially strong ...
Self-organization in precipitate systems has been extensively studied in one and two dimensions. Ordered spatial structures such as bands in. one dimension, speckled, concentric ring and spiral patterns in two dimensions ...