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Research Articles

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IMPACT OF FAMILY & SOCIAL FACTORS ON YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP – A STUDY OF UTTARAKHAND STATE, INDIA

Lalit Sharma

Department of Business Administration, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, career choices, family impact, youth entrepreneurship in Uttarakhand, career intentions, entrepreneurship orientation

The research paper intends to interpret how the family & social factors like family income, family size and influence of family & society relates to the entrepreneurial intentions of students after co...

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SUSTAINABLE EDUCATION OF GIFTED CHILDREN

Gabriela Kelemen, Ph.D.

Department of Education, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Keywords: Gifted children; educational process; orientation of learning, special curriculum

As the goal of education, the educational ideal expresses the requirements and the aspirations of a society in a particular historical moment, in the shape of a desirable pattern of human personality;...

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A novel method to combat the cholera epidemic among the Romanian Army during the Balkan War - 1913

Florin Leasu, Codruta Nemet, Liliana Rogozea

Department of Military Medicine, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Keywords: cholera, vaccine, outbreak, vast Romanian experiment, Ion Cantacuzino

The history of cholera, a specific infection caused by Vibrio Cholerae, starts in ancient times. The sixth pandemic that began in 1899 and lasted until 1923, started in India and came to Eastern Europ...

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Groundwater hydro-chemical classification for agriculture purposes using different methods; case study: chahrdoli’s basin located in west of Iran

Min-Jun Park, Wei Zhang

Department of Chemistry, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Keywords: groundwater, classification, quality, EC

Hydrochemical quality of groundwater in chahardoli’s basin located in southeast of Iran has been investigated in this study. 66 water samples were taken in an area of 340 square kilometers and analy...

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Clean Energy Research: A Critical Review and Future Research Directions

C.W. Kan, C.E. Zhou and Y.L. Lam

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Keywords: Clean energy, Energy policy, Energy use, Managing energy

In this paper, we presented a literature review on clean energy between 1993 and 2012. We organized these studies into six main categories: (i) production of clean energy, (ii) energy policy, (iii) en...

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Comparative study of intraorganelle nanoporation among osteoblast and bone cancer cell in 3D Advanced Microchip

SWARUPSARKAR

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Keywords: Picoseconds Pulsed Electric Field (psPEF), hybrid micro chip, Osteoblast cell, Intra- organelle, nanoporation. Cancer cell

Nanoporation and bio-electric effect on cancer cells exposed to an specific pulse is gaining applications in medical treatments, especially for cancer treatment. The effectiveness of the cancer treat...

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A Data Mining Approach for Liveness Authentication for Iris Template

Maqsood Mahmud, Mansour Zauir

School of Computer Science, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

Keywords: Biometrics, Iris Liveness Detection, Classification, Clustering, Data mining, WEKA.

The liveness authentication is very important in surveillance environment especially in border crossing and those places where there is buffer zone or war area. In this paper it is considered that ho...

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Fabrication of chitosan/nanosilver nanofiber composites with enhanced morphology and microbiological properties

Raj Sharma, Carlos Santos, James Wilson, Robert Thompson

Faculty of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Keywords: Chitosan, Polyvinyl alcohol, Electrospinning, Nanosilver, Nanofiber

Chitosan as a natural polymer has been converted into nanofibers and the effect of silver nanoparticle on the antibacterial properties of the nanocomposite fibers has been investigated. Chitosan (Cs)/...

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