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    • Research on the Method of Capitalization of Entertainment Products in GDP Statistics 

      Gong, Weiguang; Hu, Jiaojiao; Peng, Xiaobao; Li, Yang (Scientific Research, 2016-06)
      It is one of directions of the reform about China’s national economic statistics system to incorporate the intellectual property products into the GDP statistics, and the capital of intellectual property products is the ...
    • Speed of Adjustment of Capital Structure in Emerging Markets 

      Supra, Bharath; Narender, Vunyale; Jadiyappa, Nemiraja; Girish, G. P. (Scientific Research, 2016-06)
      Speed of Adjustment (SOA) is a concept well studied in the area of capital structure. The concept is premised upon the fact that firms have a target capital structure for the next year and strive to achieve this target; ...
    • The Impact of Nonfarm Activities on Rural Farm Household Income and Food Security in the Upper East and Upper West Regions of Ghana 

      Osarfo, Daniel; Senadza, Bernardin; Nketiah-Amponsah, Edward (Scientific Research, 2016-06)
      Research shows that participation in rural non-farm activities exerts a pronounced impact on agriculture, household farm decisions, rural development, income and welfare as well as household food security. This paper ...
    • Modeling the Relationship between FDI and Financial Development in Small Island Economies: A PVAR Approach 

      Fauzel, Sheereen (Scientific Research, 2016-06)
      FDI is considered as an important source of capital investment for small island economies and is considered as a crucial tool for attaining economic growth and development. Most studies that have been done relating to ...
    • A Tree-Based Distributed Permutation Routing Protocol in Multi-Hop Wireless Sensors Network 

      Bomgni, Alain B.; Fute, Elie T.; Sindjoung, Miguel L. F.; Djamegni, Clémentin T. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-06)
      A Wireless Sensors Network (WSN) is an ad-hoc network populated by small hand-held commodity devices, running on batteries called stations or sensors. Often used in hostiles and sometimes unreachable environments, stations ...
    • Moderate Hyperthermia Induces Apoptosis in Metaphase-Arrested Cells But Not in Interphase Hela Cells 

      Paulson, James R.; Kresch, Agnes K.; Mesner, Peter W. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-06)
      Metaphase-arrest agents and hyperthermia are both known to be capable of inducing apoptosis, and they have been used, separately, in cancer treatments. Here, we have examined whether the two treatments together may have a ...
    • The Novel Pyruvated Glucogalactan Sulfate Isolated from the Red Seaweed, Hypnea pannosa 

      Tako, Masakuni; Ohtoshi, Rintaro; Kinjyo, Kazutaka; Uech, Shuntoku (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-06)
      The polysaccharide was isolated from Hypnea pannosa which was grown in Okinawa, Japan. The yield of the polysaccharide was 17.2%, and the total carbohydrates, pyruvic acid, sulfuric acid and ash contents were 55.2%, 3.8%, ...
    • Generalized Electromagnetic Pollution Monitoring Using WSN 

      Nouh, Sara; Elgaml, Nada; Ali, Nora; Khattab, Ahmed; Daoud, Ramez; Amer, Hassanein (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-06)
      Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have recently become one of the major research areas in the wireless communication field and are implemented in a variety of applications. One of these applications that will be tackled in ...
    • A Mass Spectrometric Study of Kratom Compounds by Direct Infusion Electrospray Ionization Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry 

      Fu, Hanzhuo (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-06)
      Mitragynine (MG) and its major metabolites 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH-MG) are two of the major components of the plant extract Kratom, which is a tree planted in Southeast Asia. Kratom has long been used by opioid-dependent ...
    • Differential Effect of Aluminium on Enzymes of Nitrogen Assimilation in Excised Bean Leaf Segments 

      Gupta, Priyanka; Sarengthem, Juliana; Dhamgaye, Sonal; Gadre, Rekha (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-06)
      Aluminium is a potent toxicant in acidic soils. The present study was taken up to analyze the effects of Al on enzymes of nitrogen assimilation in excised bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) leaf segments so as to gain an insight ...
    • E lectrospun fibers for wound healing and treatment of hyperglycemia: A review 

      Soares, J.M.D.; Silva, J.C.; Almeida, J.R.; Quintans, J.R.; Júnior, L.J.; de Oliveira, H.P. (Academic Journals, 2016-06-22)
      The use of electrospun fibers in diabetic wound healing assays represents an extremely important topic for investigation. Electrospun fibers have been applied in the immobilization of drugs, allowing sustained and controlled ...
    • Address Resolution Protocol (ARP): Spoofing Attack and Proposed Defense 

      Al Sukkar, Ghazi; Saifan, Ramzi; Khwaldeh, Sufian; Maqableh, Mahmoud; Jafar, Iyad (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-07)
      Networks have become an integral part of today’s world. The ease of deployment, low-cost and high data rates have contributed significantly to their popularity. There are many protocols that are tailored to ease the process ...
    • Cancer Risk Due to the Natural Radioactivity in Cigarette Tobacco 

      Ridha, Ali A.; Hasan, Hasan A. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-07)
      Thirty-one samples of cigarettes have been collected from local markets of different types of origins. The samples were selected according to a survey distributed to smokers by paper and digital survey to see the most ...
    • Measurement of the Potassium Content of Different Food Samples with High Purity Germanium Detectors 

      Abt, Iris; Garbini, Lucia; Schulz, Oliver (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-07)
      Measurements of the potassium content of samples of food, performed with High Purity Germanium detectors, are presented in this paper. The potassium content was measured by identifying the 1460 keV photons produced in the ...
    • Studying Different Etching Methods Using CR-39 Nuclear Track Detector 

      Kadhum, Nada F.; Jebur, Layth A.; Ridha, Ali A. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-07)
      In this research we try to investigate the optimum etching time for the tracks originate in (CR-39) solid state nuclear track detector after irradiated with alpha source (241Am) using three different etching techniques: ...
    • Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks Applications and Its Challenges 

      Raza, Naeem; Aftab, Muhammad U.; Akbar, Muhammad Q.; Ashraf, Omair; Irfan, Muhammad (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-07)
      Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) is an infrastructure less wireless network of autonomous collection of mobile nodes (Smart phones, Laptops, iPads, PDAs etc.). Network is self-configured to reconstruct its topology and routing ...
    • Estimating a Falsified Model 

      Buck, Andrew J.; Lady, George M. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-07)
      It is common econometric practice to propose a system of equations, termed the “structure,” estimate each endogenous variable in the structure via a linear regression with all of the exogenous variables as arguments, and ...
    • The Combining Confidence Distribution Method to the Behrens-Fisher Problem 

      Tao, Wenyong; Ye, Wanzhou (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-07)
      Based on the Confidence Distribution method to the Behrens-Fisher problem, we consider two approaches of combining Confidence Distributions: P Combination and AN Combination to solve the Behrens-Fisher problem. Firstly, ...
    • Super-Enhancement and Control of Amh Expression 

      Dresser, David W. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-07)
      In previous work it was shown that mutation of site 1 in the downstream enhancer sequence (DE) led to ablation of enhancement. Mutation of the Wilms tumour factor element (Wt), situated in the Amh promoter between the tata ...
    • Relevant Facts from Aerosol Measles Vaccine Studies 

      Jorge, Fernández de Castro; Garcia-Garcia, M. L.; Diaz-Ortega, Jose L.; Castaneda, Deyanira (Scientific Research, 2016-08)
      Most of the facts regarding measles aerosol vaccination have been quite thoroughly dealt with in the book by S. Plotkin, Mass Vaccination: Global Aspects—Progress and Obstacles (2006 Ed) [1]. However, there are some ...