Quality improvement can decrease blood delivery turnaround time: Evidence from a single tertiary-care academic medical center by Hammad Y.A.

“…Results: After implementing the remedial actions, the second audit confirmed considerable improvements across all three components that comprise the blood TAT. The transport time significantly decreased from an initial majority of > 15 mins duration, to a majority of < 15 mins transport time after the second audit; there was a 50% improvement in 30 mins response time; and the percentage of requests processed in < 10 mins were significantly higher after the second audit. …”
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Forced spectrum access termination probability analysis under restricted channel handoff by NoroozOliaee, MohammadJavad

“…Our obtained results show that the forced access termination probability of cognitive users decreases significantly as the number k increases. 2012 Springer-Verlag.…”
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Power control and RB allocation in cloud radio access networks by Essassi, Safa

“…In this paper, a novel approach power control will be proposed, to avoid such throughput loss and combined with a novel approach resource block allocation based on genetic algorithm in cloud radio access network. The simulations results show that the performance of the proposed system is significantly improved with respect to universal frequency reuse.…”
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Oman: Food Security in Times of Uncertainty by Hoetjes, Gertjan

“…Simultaneously, farming has not been a profitable business, as large segments of Omani farmers live below the poverty line, as they are struggling to sell their products to retailers and often lack access to finance for their operations. As a result, the number of farmers has significantly decreased since the 1970s, reducing self-sufficiency in wheat and livestock production making Oman largely depended on the world food markets to satisfy domestic demand. …”
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A model for capacitated green vehicle routing problem with the time-varying vehicle speed and soft time windows by Xu Z.

“…The results of numerical experiments show that the consumption of fuel in a supply chain can be decreased sharply without any significant loss in customer satisfaction. …”
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Vascular access types in hemodialysis patients in palestine and factors affecting their distribution: A cross-sectional study by Hamdan, Zakaria

“…There was no statistically significant association between the type of dialysis access use with gender, body mass index, or diabetic status. …”
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National trends of outcomes in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) through transapical versus endovascular approach: From the National Inpatient Sample (NIS). by Abugroun, Ashraf

“…Among the endovascular-TAVR group, national trends showed a diminishing incidence of procedural mortality (incidence rate ratio [IRR] 0.77; 95% CI: 0.72-0.84, p < 0.001), stroke (IRR 0.80; 95% CI: 0.73-0.87, p < 0.001), and all secondary outcomes, but no significant change in myocardial infarction. In contrast, most transapical-TAVR related procedural complications remained unchanged over time, except for a significant decrease in stroke, acute respiratory failure and need for pacemaker insertion. …”
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Time Delay and Cost Overrun in Qatari Public Construction Projects by Senouci, Ahmed

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Event-triggered fault detection for discrete-time LPV systems by Golabi, Arash

“…It is shown that through two event-triggered data transmission mechanisms, the amount of data sent to the fault detection module is decreased significantly. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed design methodology.…”
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A Framework for Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing for Orthopedic Procedure by Holozada, Bayan Hani

“…Multiple linear regression (MLR) model is used to test strength of relationship between time and cost variable. Optimization model applied to decrease uncertainties by using Least Square method. …”
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Event-triggered fault detection and isolation for discrete-time linear systems by Hajshirmohamadi, Shahram

“…It is shown that through an event-triggered data transmission mechanism, the amount of data that is sent to the FDI module is significantly decreased. Simulation results corresponding to a remotely operated vehicle demonstrate the effectiveness and capabilities of the proposed design methodology. …”
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Swimming exercise improves short- and long-term memories: Time-course changes by Alomari, Mahmoud A.

“…However, the memory enhancement profile following the time-course of exercise training remains unknown. …”
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Applying value-based strategies to accelerate access to novel cancer medications: guidance from the Oncology Health Economics Expert Panel in Qatar (Q-OHEP) by Hamad, Anas

“…Background: In line with global trends, cancer incidence and mortality may have decreased for specific types of cancer in Qatar. However, the cancer-related burden on patients, healthcare systems, and the economy is expected to expand; thus, cancer remains a significant public healthcare issue in Qatar. …”
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Is It Time We Changed How We Measure Length of Stay for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty? by McCulloch, Robert

“…Use of hours as the unit of measure of LOS enabled analysis of the time of day of discharge. With decreasing LOS and day-case arthroplasty, a measurement in median hours should become the standard to allow for the detection of subtle changes.…”
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DVF-fog: Distributed virtual firewall in fog computing based on risk analysis by Kamoun-Abid, Ferdaous

“…Furthermore, the comparison with existing approaches based on the openstack framework illustrates that the fog-based distributed virtual firewall (DVF) approach decreases significantly the false positive rate (FPR) to be 0.0942% and increases the true positive rate (TPR) to be 99.9%. 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.…”
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Impact of time synchronization error on the mode-shape calculation in wireless sensor networks for structural health monitoring by Abdaoui, Abderrazak

“…Numerical results prove that the time synchronization error has a significant impact on the accuracy of the mode shape calculation. …”
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On Time-Dependent Rheology of Sutterby Nanofluid Transport across a Rotating Cone with Anisotropic Slip Constraints and Bioconvection by Abdal, Sohaib

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The Effectiveness of Teacher Behavior in Managing Academic Learning Time in Secondary Physical Education Classes in The Kingdom of Bahrain by Almulla-Abdulla, Faisal

“…Twelve physical education teachers were observed four times. Data were collected using two instrument (ALT-PE) & (ASUOI)). …”
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Passive detection of accelerometer-recorded fetal movements using a time–frequency signal processing approach by Boashash, B.

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Changing Trends in the Referral and Timing of Treatment for Congenital Cryptorchidism: A Single-Center Experience from Bosnia and Herzegovina. by Zvizdic, Zlatan

“…The analysis of the observed two periods (2008-2010 and 2015-2017) showed a statistically significant decrease in the mean referral age and the mean age at surgery over the last 5 years (2015-2017) (p = 0.007 and p = 0.003, respectively). …”
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