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Graduate recruitment in Oman's private construction industry (2012)
Thesis

Traditionally, the Sultanate of Oman has relied heavily on expatriate labour to build its
economy, but with the expansion of the Higher Education (HE) sector and increasing
numbers of Omani nationals graduating from HE, there has been a call for th... Read More about Graduate recruitment in Oman's private construction industry.

The reader and the page : textual gaps, textual arrangements and images in prose fiction (2012)
Thesis

This thesis is a reader-focused analysis of unconventional graphic devices that appear on
the pages of graphically innovative prose fictions. The main aim is to provide a study of
the implications that unconventional and graphically disruptive page... Read More about The reader and the page : textual gaps, textual arrangements and images in prose fiction.

Exploring the level of readiness and identifying Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for the successful adoption of the Virtual Team (VT) mode of work into the Omani Commercial Banking Sector (OCBS) (2012)
Thesis

Knowledge has been realized as an invaluable intangible asset and source of
organisations' competitive advantage. Research on knowledge is as long as human
civilization history. The knowledge management (KM) field of research has grown
steadily re... Read More about Exploring the level of readiness and identifying Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for the successful adoption of the Virtual Team (VT) mode of work into the Omani Commercial Banking Sector (OCBS).

Synthesis and evaluation of novel kinase inhibitors as anti-cancer agents (2012)
Thesis

Disruption of protein kinase signalling pathways is often associated with cancer. The
RhoA/ROCK kinase pathway has been shown to be constitutively expressed in many cancers
and has also been shown to be involved in metastasis and apoptosis. ROCK is... Read More about Synthesis and evaluation of novel kinase inhibitors as anti-cancer agents.

The use of medical grade honey to reduce the incidence of surgical wound infection : a randomised controlled feasibility trial (2012)
Thesis

Background: Patients having free tissue transfer for oral and oropharyngeal squamous
cell carcinoma are susceptible to MRSA. There are many strategies to reduce wound
infection rates such as hand washing policies antibiotics but NICE guidelines sug... Read More about The use of medical grade honey to reduce the incidence of surgical wound infection : a randomised controlled feasibility trial.

Revisiting open space provision in Beirut (2012)
Journal Article

In a country like Lebanon with a notorious reputation of being chaotic and hectic, it might be hard to believe that the professions which promote organisation and structure, such as urban design, have considerable impact on shaping urban settings. Ye... Read More about Revisiting open space provision in Beirut.

Editorial: migration and development: comparing Mexico-US and Turkey-Europe (2012)
Journal Article
Martin, P., Sirkeci, I., & Stark, E. (2012). Editorial: migration and development: comparing Mexico-US and Turkey-Europe. Migration Letters, 9(1), 1-10

About 12 million people born in Mexico are in the US while about four million Turks are in the European Union. Migration has been part of the strong relationship between these sending and receiving countries. Both Mexico's and Turkey's economies expa... Read More about Editorial: migration and development: comparing Mexico-US and Turkey-Europe.

Turkish culture of migration: flows between Turkey and Germany, socio-economic development and conflict (2012)
Journal Article
Sirkeci, I., Cohen, J., & Yazgan, P. (2012). Turkish culture of migration: flows between Turkey and Germany, socio-economic development and conflict. Migration Letters, 9(1), https://doi.org/10.33182/ml.v9i1.201

In this paper we explore the rise of Turkey as a destination for new migrants including the children of Turks and Kurds who emigrated to Europe and Germany over the last five decades. An environment of social, economic and human insecurity dominated... Read More about Turkish culture of migration: flows between Turkey and Germany, socio-economic development and conflict.

Simulation of interval censored data in medical and biological studies (2012)
Journal Article
Kiani, K., & Arasan, J. (2012). Simulation of interval censored data in medical and biological studies. International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series, 09, 112-118. https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010194512005168

This research looks at the simulation of interval censored data when the survivor function of the survival time is known and attendance probability of the subjects for follow-ups can take any number between 0 to 1. Interval censored data often arise... Read More about Simulation of interval censored data in medical and biological studies.