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Effect of increasing the number of anchors on the flexural performance of FRP-strengthened RC beams
Published 2024“…Results showed that increasing the number of anchors significantly improved the flexural behavior of the strengthened beam in terms of the beam's response at failure and the strain utilized in the FRP laminates. …”
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Pharmacist Role in Hypertension Management in the Community Setting: Questionnaire Development, Validation, and Application
Published 2023“…Pharmacists can play a substantial role in decreasing the burden of the disease.</p><h3>Purpose</h3><p dir="ltr">The primary aim of this study was to develop and validate a scale assessing the pharmacist role in hypertension management in the community pharmacy setting. …”
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Internet Searches for Medical Symptoms Before Seeking Information on 12-Step Addiction Treatment Programs: A Web-Search Log Analysis
Published 2019“…Specifically, symptom queries were first determined to be significantly predictive of subsequent 12-step queries if the probability of querying a medical symptom by those who later sought information about the 12-step program exceeded the probability of that same query being made by a comparison group of all other Bing users in the United States. …”
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Aerosol Optical Thickness over Large Urban Environments of the Arabian Peninsula—Speciation, Variability, and Distributions
Published 2019“…Over the past decade, the mean annual aerosol optical thickness (AOT) values were in the range of 0.3–0.5, which is attributed to both mineral dust (60–70%) and anthropogenic activities (20–30%). An increase in AOT values between 2005 and 2009 is attributed to increased dust generation from the Sahel region in Northern Africa, and the Fertile Crescent (Syria, Iraq, Jordan) due to an extended dry period. …”
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Tranexamic Acid for Traumatic Injury in the Emergency Setting: A Systematic Review and Bias-Adjusted Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Published 2024“…ResultsSeven randomized controlled trials met the set criteria. This meta-analysis indicated an 11% decrease in the death risk at 1 month after TXA use (odds ratio [OR] 0.89, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.84 to 0.95) with a number needed to treat of 61 to avoid 1 additional death. …”
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Evaluating the impact of the Minimization of Aggression and Violence (MoAV) intervention on mechanical restraint use in Qatar's acute mental health setting
Published 2025“…</p><h3>Conclusion</h3><p dir="ltr">Overall, the MoAV intervention appears to have made significant strides in reducing restraint use in acute mental health settings. …”
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Impact of Using Recycled Materials in the Construction Industry of the United Arab Emirates
Published 2015“…However, the country faces significant challenges in ensuring the sustainability of the industry. …”
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Protection of Banks Customers in the UAE
Published 2021“…The study aimed to explore in depth the concerns of protection of bank customers in UAE. …”
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Initial risk assessment for pulmonary hypertension in patients with COPD
Published 2012“…Diffusion capacity was lower but did not reach statistical significance (P = 0.07). In multivariate analysis, statistically significant independent variables were >3% decrease in exercise oxyhemoglobin saturation and decline in prebronchodilator FEV1 (P = 0.01 and P = 0.04, respectively). …”
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Organizational Strategy and Employee Productivity in Oil and Gas Industry: The Case of the United Arab Emirates
Published 2013“…Owing to the advent of globalization, there is an increasing demand for improved productivity and increased efficiency from employees. …”
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A novel hybrid methodology for fault diagnosis of wind energy conversion systems
Published 2023“…Feature selection pre-processing is an important step to increase the accuracy of the classification algorithm and decrease the dimensionality of a dataset. …”
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Conceptual Skills in Leading Change: A Competence Approach to Public Sector Leadership
Published 2019“…Then, the middle level group of leaders have a lower set of conceptual skills, and progressively fewer skills still at the third level. …”
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Project Productivity vs. Health & Safety
Published 2008“…It was found in both cases that the improved safety management approaches had a great effect on the workforce both in improving accident reporting statistics matched by significant gains in productivity. The outcome of the surveys also supported this showing great increase in the perception of safety in the work place and increased levels of motivation and good feeling towards the management of each Company. …”
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Impact of the positive pressure valve on vascular access device occlusions and bloodstream infections
Published 2009“…These types of devices have been shown to significantly decrease VAD occlusion rates by 8.2%, when compared to a standard connector device (Jacobs et al., 2004). …”
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Recent advances in the treatment and outcome of locally advanced rectal cancer
Published 1999“…Pathologic downstaging for depth of invasion increased from 42% to 58%, but lymph node negativity remained similar. …”
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Sustainable Consumption and Education for Sustainability in Higher Education
Published 2022“…In this article, a literature review of sustainable consumption and education is presented as an in-depth review of relevant literature over the last 25 years. …”