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    • Can Reputation Ensure Efficiency in the Structured Finance Market? 

      Elamin, Mahmoud (Scientific Research, 2017-01)
      Structured finance products are opaque and their ratings are unverifiable. Therefore, a credit rating agency (CRA) cannot credibly fully reveal its information about the quality of a rated structured finance project. Can ...

    • 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 ...

    • Capacitive Model and S-Parameters of Double-Pole Four-Throw Double-Gate RF CMOS Switch 

      Srivastava, Viranjay M.; Yadav, Kalyan S.; Singh, Ghanashyam (Scientific Research Publishing, 2011-01)
      In this paper, we have analyzed the Double-Pole Four-Throw Double-Gate Radio-Frequency Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (DP4T DG RF CMOS) switch using S-parameters for 1 GHz to 60 GHz of frequency range. DP4T DG RF ...

    • Capacity Development for smallholder Irrigation in Kenya 

      Mati, Bancy M. (Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com), 2008-05)
      This paper presents the experiences on capacity development for irrigation in Kenya, drawing from a study of sevensmallholder irrigation schemes, namely: New Mutaro, Emening, Mitunguu, Ng’uuru Gakirwe, Lari, Mukuria-Kyambogo ...

    • Cardiac Immobilization in Beating Heart Surgery Using Pericardial Bands 

      Sirivella, Srikrishna; Gielchinsky, Isaac (Scientific Research, 2012-06)
      A novel technique of stabilization of the coronary targets with autogenous pericardial bands is described in off pump coronary revascularizations. Pericardial bands are placed across the coronary targets and snared to the ...

    • Cardiac Surgery during Pregnancy-Our Experience 

      Kanhere, Vivek M.; Kanhere, Anjali V.; Chakravarty, Devashish; Pendse, Nikhil; Pendse, Milan; Khan, Munir A.; Shrivastava, Anita; Narkhede, Vinod (Scientific Research, 2017-08)
      Background: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) continues to be endemic in developing countries like India, thus a number of female patient present with valvular heart disease complicating pregnancy. Surgery is lifesaving in ...

    • Cardiomyopathies in Tropical Countries: Causes and Nosological Perspective 

      Touze, Jean-Etienne; Fourcade, Laurent (Scientific Research, 2013-11)
      Background: Cardiomyopathy is the main cause of heart failure in developing countries, mainly in Africa. In those areas the concept of “tropical cardiomyopathy” is still used to design all unexplained cardiomyopathy. The ...

    • Cation Sensing of Pyridoxal Derived Sensors Towards Fe (II) Ion in Pure Aqueous Solution 

      Darshana, Rana; Rana, Aniruddhasinh M; Sahoo, Suban K (2017-12)
      A novel sensor (L) was synthesized using Schiff base reaction of pyridoxal with orthophenylene diamine and was characterized by various spectroscopic techniques such as FTIR, 1H NMR and Mass spectrometry. The cation ...

    • The Chain Reaction of Atmospheric Nitrogen Oxidation, Initiated by an Electric Discharge in Air 

      Fedotov, V. G.; Fedotova, EYa (2015-11)
      The data, concerning to the nitrogen oxidation reaction, initiated by electrical discharge, are reviewed in this article. The reviewed data lead to conclusion that critical concentrations of NO molecules and NO3 radicals ...

    • Characterization and Evaluation of Antibacterial Activities of Chemically Synthesized Iron Oxide Nanoparticles 

      Behera, Sudhanshu Shekhar; Patra, Jayanta Kumar; Pramanik, Krishna; Panda, Niladri; Thatoi, Hrudayanath (Scientific Research, 2012-12)
      The iron oxide nanoparticles have been synthesized in co-precipitation method using aqueous solution of ferric and ferrous ions with sodium salt. The synthesis of iron-oxide nanoparticles were validated by UV-Visible ...

    • Characterization of asian and north American avian H5N1 

      Hu, Wei (Scientific Research Publishing, 2011-07)
      Since the emerge of the highly pathogenic avian H5N1 virus in Asia in 1996, the possibility for this virus to cross species barriers to infect humans and its ability to cause large outbreaks in birds have been a public ...

    • Characterization of bacteria isolated from rumen substrates of goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) 

      Odeyemi, A. T.; Oluwole, O. A.; Oso, M. O. (African Journal of Biological Sciences, 2020-04-06)
      Studies on microorganisms associated with rumen substrates of goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) were done through aerobic and anaerobic fermentation for a period of 12 days. Microscopic, biochemical and molecular identification ...

    • Characterization of Some Hydrogels Used in Water Purification: Correlation of Swelling and Free-Volume Properties 

      Mohsen, M.; Maziad, N. A.; Gomaa, E.; Aly, E. Hassan; Mohammed, R. (Scientific Research, 2015-07)
      In this study, the main objective is to develop a good chelation and ion exchange hydrogel. This hydrogel is obtained by polymerization of dimethyl amino ethyl methacrylate (DMAEMA) and acrylic acid (AAc) by gamma ...

    • Characterization of the role of Smu1 in nuclear localization of splicing factors in the mammalian temperature-sensitive mutant 

      Sugaya, Kimihiko; Ishihara, Yoshie; Sugaya, Keiko; Inoue, Sonoe (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-01)
      A temperature-sensitive (ts) mutant of the CHO-K1 cell line, tsTM18, grows at 340C but not at 390C. Smu1 is the gene responsible for ts defects of tsTM18 cells. Previously, we found that the Smu1 ts defect altered the ...

    • Characterization of winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.) based on molecular, chemical and physiological parameters 

      Mohanty, Chandra S.; Verma, Sushma; Singh, Vinayak; Khan, Shahina; Gaur, Priyanka; Gupta, Priya; Nizar, M. Abdul; Dikshit, Nilamani; Pattanayak, Rojalin; Shukla, Alpika; Niranjan, Abhishekh; Sahu, Nayan; Behera, Soumit K.; Rana, Tikam S. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2013-10)
      Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.) is a potential legume crop of the tropics with high protein and oil content in the seeds. Analysis of the mutual genotypic relationships among twenty four genotypes of P. ...

    • Characterological Correlates of Selfie Taking Behavior 

      Morrison, Todd G; Morrison, Melanie A; Kiss, Mark J.; Gilliland, Eric (Scientific Research Publishing, 2018-06-29)
      Few researchers have examined selfie taking behavior. To address this gap, 235 participants (age 18 - 60) completed an online questionnaire assessing a variety of psychological factors, personality traits, and selfie ...

    • Chemistry in Second Life 

      Lang, Andrew SID; Bradley, Jean-Claude (Springer Open, 2009-10)
      This review will focus on the current level on chemistry research, education, and visualization possible within the multi-user virtual environment of Second Life. We discuss how Second Life has been used as a platform ...

    • Chicken feathers degrading bacteria isolated from flamingo feathers in Lake Nakuru, Kenya 

      Musikoyo, Eddison Opiyo*, Muia, Anastasia Wairimu and Oduor, Steve Omondi (African Science Publications, 2021-04-05)
      This study investigated the ability to degrade chicken feathers by bacteria isolated from flamingo feathers in Lake Nakuru which can be applied in the degradation of poultry and abattoir wastes for the production of protein ...

    • Children 

      Wu, Kuang-Ming (Scientific Research, 2018-02)
      As children grow, so this paper develops many themes that children and we all love, coherently yet freely, and attractively as children are enthralling.

    • Chimeric oncogenic interferon regulatory factor-2 (IRF-2): Degradation products are biologically active 

      Prakash, Krishna; Kumar, Pardeep; Rath, Pramod C. (Scientific Research Publishing, 2012-10)
      Interferon Regulatory Factor-2 (IRF-2) belongs to IRF family, was identified as a mammalian transcrip-tion factor involved in Interferon beta (IFNβ) gene regulation. Besides that IRF-2 is involved in ...