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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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Enhanced Solar Still Efficiency Using Water Film Cooling of the Glass
Published 1996“…The results of this investigation indicate that proper use of film cooling parameters can increase the still efficiency by as much as 6 percent, but poor combinations of film cooling parameters can lead to significant reductions in still efficiency. …”
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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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Effect of Crude Oil Products on the Geotechnical Properties of Sandy Soil
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Evaluation of nutrition support practices: Results from a nationwide survey
Published 2018“…The majority of the hospitals (92.6%) do not systematically use a screening system for malnutrition. Seventy six percent of hospitals reported less than 5% of their patients are kept for more than 7 days with no nutrition support. …”
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Prescription patterns of benzodiazepines in the Lebanese adult population
Published 2016“…Among those using BDZs for at least 1 month, 35.5% increased the dose with time. Thirty-three percent reported having experienced side effects. …”
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Dexmedetomidine for improved quality of emergence from general anesthesia
Published 2017“…The respective incidences for the groups D 1, D 0.5, and D 0.25 versus group C were 48%, 64%, and 64% vs 84% for cough-corrected P < .003 between groups D 1 and C; 33%, 34%, and 33% vs 72% for agitation-corrected P < .003 between group C and each of the study groups; and 4%, 2%, and 7% vs 22% for shivering-corrected P = .03 and corrected P = .009 between groups D 1 and D 0.5 versus group C, respectively. The percent increase from baseline blood pressure on extubation for the 3 treatment groups was significantly lower than group C. …”
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A GRASP Approach for Solving Large-Scale Electric Bus Scheduling Problems
Published 2021“…The results of the conducted computational experiments indicate that an increase in infrastructure investment through high speed chargers can significantly decrease the size of the necessary fleets. …”
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Herbal Products and Dietary Supplements
Published 2016“…There has been a marked increase in use of herbal products and dietary supplements (HP/DS) in many developed and developing countries. …”
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The Russia-Ukraine war, soaring food prices, and the Turkish economy: insights from computable general equilibrium
Published 2023“…Finally, the war-led price shock resulted in an estimated income loss of 0.2 or 0.8 percent of real GDP depending on the utility function, and a significant welfare loss. …”
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Adherence to international guidelines for the treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections in Lebanon
Published 2018“…The prescribed antibiotic was appropriate in 35 percent of the patients. Age (more than 50 years) did not significantly affect the appropriateness of the prescribed antibiotic (p=0.508). …”
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A decision support system for automating document retrieval and citation screening
Published 2021“…The proposed DSS is effective and can substantially decrease the document retrieval and citation screening steps' workload and error rate.…”
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The effect of indoor air quality on health and performance of labors in joinery factories
Published 2020“…In addition, the foundation of development has a significant rise since 2013 when EXPO 2020 awarded to Dubai. …”
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Kefir induces cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis in HTLV-1-negative malignant T-lymphocytes
Published 2011“…Results: The maximum cytotoxicity recorded after 48-hours treatment with 80 μg/μL kefir was only 42% and 39% in CEM and Jurkat cells, respectively. The percent reduction in proliferation was very significant, and was dose-, and time-dependent. …”
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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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Use of Ultrasound and Ionic Liquids to Enhance the Extractive Desulfurization of Oils
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Reasons behind the non-application of the activity based costing system in developing countries, case of Lebanon
Published 2016“…With the service industry contributing to more than seventy percent of the GDP in Lebanon, this makes it a subject of interest to justify the non-application of the ABC system in this sector. …”
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