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Ammonia borane (NH3BH3) with its high hydrogen content (19.6 % per mass) and mild desorption conditions has the potential to meet the onboard hydrogen storage requirements for vehicular applications.  Ammonia borane decomposes in three steps at the temperatures of about 100°C, 140°C and 1000°C respectively,…

Although reputation management literature has been dominated by marketing and communications-led perspectives, there is anagreementthat corporate reputation and good governance are often built from the internal towards external stakeholders. Lately, balancing the usage of social media as opposed  to conventional media has demanded both human…

This paper examines ethical awareness in the large Corporate & SME IT sector of the Middle East & North African (MENA) region. It uses the prevalence of corporate codes of conduct in the industry to analytically ascertain the level of ethical awareness. The literature is…

Our goal is to measure the overall perceived effectiveness of supporting and supplemental instruction (SSI) in a more critical teaching pedagogy. SSI focused on improving student performance explicit in an effort to foster measurable improvements in students’ failure rates and student retention rates in the…

Objective: Primary Malignant Melanoma (PMM) arising from the digestive, respiratory or genitourinary tract is extremely rare. Rectal PMM accounts for less than 1% of all melanomas; it is often advanced at initial presentation with a poor prognosis with a 5-year survival below 20%. Treatment of…

Background: To determine the pattern of recurrence in patients with high-risk pathology at radical prostatectomy and to identify disease characteristics associated with clinical and biochemical recurrence (BCR).  Methods: We identified 893 patients who underwent radical prostatectomy between January 2000 and June 2009 with pathologic T3N0…

Many scholars have proposed all kinds researches of key successful factors (KSFs) for successfully implementing ERP, but which are quite conceptual and vague, caused enterprises couldn’t apply it in practical and achieve objectives. Therefore, this research presents the required dynamic capability for each factor by…

The meat is regarded as one of the main sources of food-borne diseases; its evaluation can constitute a valuable source of information that can be used in the design of the collective prophylaxis programs in public health. The purpose of this study consisted in evaluating…

This study compared the clinical effects of scaling and root planing (SRP) after the adjunctive subgingival administration of Andrographis paniculata (AP) gel or placebo (PB) gel in a 6-month clinical trial for patients with chronic periodontitis. The study was a split-mouth, single-blind, randomized and controlled…

Research Motivation: Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a well-recognised cause of respiratory symptoms in children. Confirming a diagnosis of reflux aspiration remains difficult, due to limitations in currently available investigations. The presence of pepsin in respiratory secretions has been documented in literature as a marker…