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Influence of Cognitive Bias on Decision Making in Mega Projects
Published 2020“…The main reasons for cost overrun have been clustered into three groups namely technical, optimism bias and strategic misrepresentation. Since mega projects are increasing in size and number, and their poor performance has been consistent despite various proposals suggested based on project management best practices that have mainly focused on the technical element of implementing mega projects, the performance in mega projects has not improved prompting this study to focus on optimism bias and strategic misrepresentation where if optimism is exceeded, it is termed as over optimism and leads to cost overrun due to significant underestimation of costs. …”
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Enhancing Project Success in Construction: The Role of Internal Risk Management, Emotional Intelligence, Cognitive Bias, and Organisational Risk Culture
Published 2024“…The construction industry continues to face significant challenges in contemporary society, and the need to improve project outcomes in this sector has become indispensable. …”
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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“…Study objectiveTraumatic injury causes a significant number of deaths due to bleeding. Tranexamic acid (TXA), an antifibrinolytic agent, can reduce bleeding in traumatic injuries and potentially enhance outcomes. …”
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Nonlinear Control of Brushless Dual-Fed Induction Generator With a Flywheel Energy Storage System for Improved System Performance
Published 2025“…After optimization, the SMC settling time was significantly reduced from 0.7 seconds to 19.97 milliseconds, achieving a 96.9% improvement in response speed, while its steady-state error decreased from 0.48 to 0.06, marking an 87.5% reduction in tracking error. …”
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Characterizing the dynamics of climate and native desert plants in Qatar
Published 2024“…Increased drought seasons correlated with changes in annual temperature, dew point, and soil temperature. Vegetation growth depended not only on rainfall amount but also on the number of rainfall events and accumulation. …”
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Modification of glucocorticoid effects on body weight gain, plasma lipids by changes in diet composition
Published 2003“…The four groups [group I (HC, placebo), group II (HC, prednisolone), group III (HF, placebo), group IV (HF, prednisolone)] were pair fed and given the mean amount of food eaten by the group with the least amount of energy intake on the previous day. …”
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Revealing the Adoption Factors of Electric Vehicles in Dubai
Published 2024“…Electric vehicles (EVs) have gained interest in the last decades, as a significant amount of people in Dubai depend on private vehicles. …”
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Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Anthropometric and Cardiometabolic Improvements at 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 years—Are the Initial Benefits Sustained?
Published 2025“…Fasting blood glucose decreased significantly across the five time points, from 9.27 ± 4.11preop to 7.06 ± 2.70 <sub>year9 </sub>mmol/L. …”
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The effect of Ramadan focused education on patients with type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Published 2020“…</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p dir="ltr">This systematic review and meta-analysis shows that Ramadan-focused diabetes education leads to a decrease in HbA1c and LDL, but an increase in TG and weight during Ramadan. …”
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A clustering metaheuristic for large orienteering problems
Published 2022“…The Orienteering Problem is a challenging NP-hard problem, such that obtaining optimal or near optimal solutions usually requires a significant amount of computation for large and even moderately large instances. …”
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A Comprehensive Method of Ion Exchange Resins Regeneration and Its Optimization for Water Treatment
Published 2020“…In general, it was observed that the conductivity decreases with time until one point is reached and then starts to increase as a result of resin saturation. …”
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A snapshot of current medical research: The notion of supply and demand
Published 2017“…Research has never been more in demand and pursued by various health disciplines worldwide as it is at present. Contemplating the amount, type and quality of current medical research over the last decade leads one to consider the driving forces behind such research. …”
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Orthodontic camouflage versus orthodontic-orthognathic surgical treatment in borderline class III malocclusion: a systematic review
Published 2022“…Regarding the vertical jaw relation, one study reported a significant decrease in mandibular plane inclination in OC and a significant increase in OOS. …”
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Risk factors for stoma outlet obstruction: systematic review and meta-analysis
Published 2025“…Increased rectus abdominis muscle thickness was found to significantly increase the risk of SOO (odds ratio [OR] 4.04, 95% confidence interval [CI] 2.36–6.93). …”
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Cardiovascular impact of post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Published 2024“…Substantial heterogeneity was observed across the studies for stroke and MACE, and evidence of publication bias was noted. </p><h3>Conclusion</h3><p dir="ltr">This meta-analysis confirms a significant association between PTSD and an increased risk of several cardiovascular outcomes, indicating the importance of integrating cardiovascular risk management with psychiatric care for PTSD patients to mitigate the heightened risk of CVDs. …”
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Alterations in blood Lipoprotein & Apolipoprotein B profile induced by moderate acute & chronic alcohol intake in the rat model. (c2002)
Published 2002“…On the other hand, a 3% alcohol consumption (as beer or whisky) maintained for a two months period did not have an effect on fasting plasma TAG concentration while total and LDL cholesterol concentrations showed a significant decrease and HDL cholesterol concentration was moderately increased. …”
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Nurses’ work environment and intent to leave in Lebanese hospitals
Published 2011“…Regression analysis revealed that for every 1 point score decrease on career development there was a 93% increase in likelihood of reporting intent to leave country. …”
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