Conceptual Skills in Leading Change: A Competence Approach to Public Sector Leadership by JASIM, ARIF FADHEL AHMED

“…These interpretive cognitive acts of meaning construction by leaders and followers include significant elements of conceptual thinking and explanation. …”
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Can bitcoin’s volatility be tamed? by Ammous, Saifedean

“…Bitcoin is a software for operating a peer-to-peer payment network with its own hard money, without having to rely on a trusted third party. …”
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Implementation of corporate governance rules and procedures in lebanese firms by Elgammal, Walid

“…It also helps the organization to determine the means to achieve its objectives and monitor its performance. …”
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Trends in prevalence of blindness and distance and near vision impairment over 30 years: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study by Rupert Bourne (603842)

“…Globally, between 1990 and 2020, among adults aged 50 years or older, age-standardised prevalence of blindness decreased by 28·5% (–29·4 to −27·7) and prevalence of mild vision impairment decreased slightly (–0·3%, −0·8 to −0·2), whereas prevalence of moderate and severe vision impairment increased slightly (2·5%, 1·9 to 3·2; insufficient data were available to calculate this statistic for vision impairment from uncorrected presbyopia). …”

Venous thromboembolic events after bariatric surgery: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Walid El Ansari (93732)

“…Publication bias will be visually estimated by inspecting the funnel plots. Pooled estimates will be computed. …”

Prevalence and Potential Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Resistance in Qatar: Results from a Nationally Representative Survey of Qatari Nationals and Migrants betwee... by Salma M. Khaled (16441981)

“…Bivariate and multinomial logistic regression models estimated associations between willingness groups and fifteen variables. …”

Analysis of risk factors progression of preterm delivery using electronic health records by Zeineb Safi (18281719)

“…Identifying the population level factors that increase the risk of preterm deliveries is an important step in the direction of mitigating the impact and reducing the frequency of occurrence of preterm deliveries. …”

Battery Energy Management Techniques for an Electric Vehicle Traction System by AbdelAziz, Ahmed Sayed AbdelAal

“…Furthermore, this work utilizes a model-in-loop strategy comprising a Chen and Mora (CM) battery model and the experimentally obtained battery bank power consumption to estimate the increase in battery bank runtime and lifetime. …”
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Predicting Compression Modes and Split Decisions for HEVC Video Coding Using Machine Learning Techniques by Hassan, Mahitab Alaaeldin

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Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Stein Emil, Vollset

“…Forecasts for the reference scenario found that health will improve in the coming decades, with all-cause age-standardised DALY rates decreasing in every GBD super-region. The total DALY burden measured in counts, however, will increase in every super-region, largely a function of population ageing and growth. …”
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Measuring routine childhood vaccination coverage in 204 countries and territories, 1980–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020, Release 1 by Natalie C Galles (9715361)

“…</p><p><br></p><h3>Findings</h3><p dir="ltr">By 2019, global coverage of third-dose DTP (DTP3; 81·6% [95% uncertainty interval 80·4–82·7]) more than doubled from levels estimated in 1980 (39·9% [37·5–42·1]), as did global coverage of the first-dose measles-containing vaccine (MCV1; from 38·5% [35·4–41·3] in 1980 to 83·6% [82·3–84·8] in 2019). …”

Effectiveness of Positron Emission Tomography for Predicting Chemotherapy Response in Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases by Glazer, Evan

“…A meta-analysis9 found that PET had higher sensitivity rates (76%) for detection of malignant lesions than did helical CT (64%) or MRI (71%). That meta-analysis included 61 articles from 1990 to 2003. …”
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The economic impact of cigarette smoking on the poor in Jordan by Toukan, Amjad M.

“…Methods Review of available statistics and calculations were performed to estimate the economic cost of cigarette smoking in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. …”
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Optimization of multiple fuel utilization options in Tri-generation systems by Rachid Klaimi (17337682)

“…In addition, an average incremental increase of 5.5% in the WPC has been observed during seasons that provide the lowest solar availability values.…”

Myxedema psychosis A protocol for a systematic review and a pooled analysis by Mouhand F.H. Mohamed (16932579)

“…The findings of this review will help increase our knowledge of this condition so as to recognize this condition promptly. …”

Efficient experimental design for uncertainty reduction in gene regulatory networks by Roozbeh Dehghannasiri (5725805)

“…MOCU quantifies the expected increase of cost resulting from uncertainty. The optimal experiment to be conducted first is the one which leads to the minimum expected remaining MOCU subsequent to the experiment. …”

On the Performance of Wireless Video Communication Using Iterative Joint Source Channel Decoding and Transmitter Diversity Gain Technique by Amaad Khalil (19670374)

“…The motive of adding artificial redundancy is to increase the iterative decoding performance. The performance of diverse SBC schemes is investigated for identical overall code rate. …”

Role of nutritional indices in predicting outcomes of vascular surgery by Jabbour, Jana

“…Risk-adjusted odds ratios (AOR) with 95% confidence intervals were estimated by multivariable logistic regression (N-Alb [no weight loss], reference). …”
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Characteristics and health implications of fine particulate matter near urban road site in Islamabad, Pakistan by Sabir Hussain (1332675)

“…Utilizing health risk assessment models developed by the US EPA, we estimated the potential health risks associated with PM2.5 exposure, highlighting the urgency of addressing air quality issues. …”

Exploring the bearing of liquidity risk in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) banks by Bashar Abukhalaf (21488780)

“…Besides, additional non-performing loans increase the bank’s costs and thus diminish profitability. …”