Foreign Aid and the Quest for Poverty Reduction: Is Aid to Agriculture Effective? by Kaya, Ozgur

“…If agricultural development is more effective in reducing poverty than some other types of development, then foreign aid directed towards agriculture may be more efficient in increasing the well-being of the poor than aid directed to some other sectors or uses. …”
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Governance and firm value by Dah, Mustafa A.

“…This paper examines the relationship between the firm's governance structure and its value during different economic conditions. We show that both relative industry turnover and CEO entrenchment increase during economic downturns. …”
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Design and Analysis of Buffer-Aided Cooperative Networks using Deterministic and Reinforcement Learning Techniques by El Zahr, Sawsan

“…Applications enabled by 5G technology resulted in an unforeseen increase in data traffic and data flows from any source to a destination are experiencing increased outages, delays, and drop-outs. …”
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Essays on the effect of excess compensation and governance changes on firm value by Dah, Mustafa A.

“…Finally, we highlight a negative association between the change in board composition and firm value. …”
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Board composition, CEO turnover and firm value by Dah, Mustafa A.

“…Finally, we highlight a negative association between the change in board composition and firm value. …”
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Foreign aid and economic development in postwar Lebanon by Dibeh, Ghassan

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Exploring students’ understanding of the second derivative within the context of a differential equations course by Habre, Samer

“…The teaching of this course emphasizes a qualitative approach and therefore a solid understanding of the first and second derivatives is critical to determine the increase/decrease of solutions as well as their rate of increase/decrease. …”
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Gender differences in personal values by Ismail, Hussein

“…Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore gender differences in personal values in an Arab country. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a sample of 137 participants, the Kruskal-Wallis test was used to identify if the mean scores or ranks of personal values scores were significantly different between males and females. …”
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A Novel Method to Identify Initial Values of Chaotic Maps in Cybersecurity by Amir Anees (14147853)

“…With the addition of chaos, the overall strength of communication security systems can be increased, as seen in recent proposals. However, there is a major drawback of using chaos in communication security systems. …”

Toward a Clearer Understanding of Value‐Based Healthcare: A Concept Analysis by Vahe Kehyayan (21241649)

“…By aligning healthcare delivery with the values and needs of patients, VBHC represents a promising avenue toward achieving high‐quality, sustainable healthcare. …”

Increasing efficiency of Atriums in Hot Arid Zones by Vethanayagam, Vijayantha

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AgroAId: A Mobile App System for Visual Classification of Plant Species and Diseases Using Deep Learning and TensorFlow Lite by Reda, Mariam

“…Finally, our system also uses the collective user classification data to generate spatiotemporal analytics about regional and seasonal disease trends, making these analytics accessible to all system users to increase awareness of global agricultural trends.…”
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Increased Fracture Risk After Bariatric Surgery: a Case-Controlled Study with a Long-Term Follow-Up by Omar Suhail Alsaed (14151861)

“…This study aimed to investigate whether bariatric surgery increases fracture risk.</p> <h2>Material and Methods</h2> <p>It was a case-controlled study. …”

The effect of independent directors on firm value by Dah, Abdallah

“…And to investigate whether increasing the independent directors for a high managerial entrenched firm will have a higher impact on shareholders’ wealth. …”
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Corporate Governance, Disclosure Content and Shareholder Value by Jizi, Mohammad

“…Its implications on banks' performance, corporate image and stakeholders' trust are of a high concern for all interested parties. Banks market capitalisation dropped significantly, risk levels increased and stakeholders’ confidence was shaken. …”
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Salesperson moral identity and value co-creation by Itani, Omar S.

“…This process facilitates the mechanisms for salesperson moral identity centrality to decrease selling orientation and increase customer orientation and value co-creation, leading to higher sales performance. …”
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Stent-assisted coiling of intracranial aneurysms aided by virtual parent artery reconstruction by Karmonik, Christof

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Dealing with the challenges of legitimacy, values, and politics in policy advice by Giliberto Capano (16734990)

“…It highlights the need to consider several key subjects in the topic in the contemporary era: namely the challenge of legitimacy, that of values, and the challenge of politics. The papers in the issue shed light on the ongoing delegitimization of conventional knowledge providers, the problem of the normative basis of experts’ advice, the increasing politicization of expertise in policymaking, and the relevance of political context in influencing not only the role of experts but also whether or not their advice is accepted and implemented. …”

Second-law-based performance evaluation of cooling towers and evaporative heat exchangers by QURESHI, BILAL AHMED

“…Abstract In this paper, we present thermodynamic analysis of counter flow wet cooling towers and evaporative heat exchangers using both the first and second laws of thermodynamics. A parametric study is carried out to determine the variation of second-law efficiency as well as exergy destruction as a function of various input parameters such as inlet wet bulb temperature. …”
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Lung cancer medical images classification using hybrid CNN-SVM by Abdulrazak Yahya Saleh (18520026)

“…Early detection of this disease increases the chances of survival. Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) has been used to process CT images of the lung to determine whether an image has traces of cancer. …”