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Education, democracy, and pollution a nonlinear and panel causality frameworks
Published 2025“…Our results show that a higher level of school enrollment (EDU) increases the level of pollution. Also improvement in the political life of developing countries can have less pollution. …”
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Efficiency of commercial banks in Lebanon
Published 2008“…The stochastic production and cost function estimates show that bank level inefficiency effects decreases with time and increases with number of branches, employees per branch, and ratio of staff to operating expenses.…”
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Geopolitical instability and environmental sustainability
Published 2025“…We control the estimation for inflows of foreign direct investment, economic growth, environmental patents, stringency, trade, and population. …”
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Joint Transmitter / Receiver Optimization for Cognitive Radio Applications
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A Robust Approach for Enhanced Autonomous Robot Navigation
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586
Transmission Line Fault Location Using Unsynchronized Measurements
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Guidance, Control and Trajectory Tracking of Small Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's)
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588
Finding novel targets for the treatment and reversal of type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity
Published 2023“…The present pilot study represents a novel dietary means by which to reduce BCAA, and as such, provides a blueprint for a potential dietary therapeutic in obesity/diabetes.…”
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Solar water heating in Lebanon
Published 2006“…Regulatory support and tax breaks, if implemented, will have a positive effect on the market. The current increases in diesel prices are increasing demand on solar thermal water heaters.…”
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Body surface area and body weight predict total liver volume in Western adults
Published 2002“…Computed tomography (CT) is used increasingly to measure liver volume in patients undergoing evaluation for transplantation or resection. …”
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Shoulder complaints more likely in volleyball players with a thickened bursa or supraspinatus tendon neovessels
Published 2020“…Outside hitters and opposites were 12.2-fold more likely to develop complaints, and greater shoulder ER ROM increased risk by 8% for each additional degree. A side-to-side difference in SAB thickness ≥0.3 mm in the dominant compared with the non-dominant arm was associated with a 10.2-fold increased risk. …”
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The Immunophenotyping Changes of Peripheral CD4+ T Lymphocytes and Inflammatory Markers of Class III Obesity Subjects After Laparoscopic Gastric Sleeve Surgery – A Follow-Up Study...
Published 2021“…</p><h3>Results </h3><p dir="ltr">The means (SD) of age and BMI of class III obesity subjects was 32.32 (8.36) years and 49.02 (6.28) kg/m<sup>2</sup>, respectively. …”
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Clinical reappraisal of the composite international diagnostic interview version 3.3 in Qatar's National Mental Health Study
Published 2024“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">Initial CIDI prevalence estimates differed significantly from the SCID for most diagnoses ( X<sup>2</sup><sub>1</sub>= 6.6–31.4, p = 0.010 < 0.001), but recalibration reduced most of these differences and led to consistent increases in individual‐level concordance (AU‐ROC) from 0.53–0.76 to 0.67–0.81. …”
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Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
Published 2020“…GBD, an ongoing multinational collaboration to provide comparable and consistent estimates of population health over time, used all available population-level data sources on incidence, prevalence, case fatality, mortality, and health risks to produce estimates for 204 countries and territories from 1990 to 2019. …”
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A novel on-demand vehicular sensing framework for traffic condition monitoring
Published 2018“…With the increased need for mobility and the overcrowding of cities, the area of Intelligent Transportation aims at improving the efficiency, safety, and productivity of transportation systems by relying on communication and sensing technologies. …”
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Genomic ancestry of North Africans supports back-to-Africa migrations
Published 2012“…We identify a gradient of likely autochthonous Maghrebi ancestry that increases from east to west across northern Africa; this ancestry is likely derived from “back-to-Africa” gene flow more than 12,000 years ago (ya), prior to the Holocene. …”
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What we do not know, hardly know, and really know about traffic safety
Published 2015“…Likewise, we have no direct experimental investigation of how a driver’s crash risk increases with increasing speed. Our estimate of the effectiveness of safety belts (4) in preventing fatalities rests on an assumption that we know is not true. …”
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Corporate Diversification, Earnings Management, and Financial Statement Readability
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The Relationship between Smoking Cessation and Health Insurance Coverage: An Analysis of Cost Saving and Health Outcomes
Published 2023“…This approach involved analyzing data on health insurance coverage and smoking behavior to estimate the potential impact of smoking cessation on health outcomes and costs. …”
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Integrated desalination plant expansion and water distribution planning model
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