Effect of concentration of calcium and sulfate ions on gypsum scaling of reverse osmosis membrane, mechanistic study by Mohammad Y. Ashfaq (14152290)

“…It was noted that the permeate flux declined more than 90% when the concentration of ions was increased to 50–150 mM. …”

Microgrid Operation and Control by Suleiman, Mohammad Saad

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Changing life expectancy in European countries 1990–2021: a subanalysis of causes and risk factors from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Nicholas, Steel

“…In 2019–21, there was an overall decrease in mean annual life expectancy across all countries (overall mean –0·18 years [95% UI –0·22 to –0·13]), with all countries having an absolute fall in life expectancy except for Ireland, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, which showed marginal improvement in life expectancy, and Belgium, which showed no change in life expectancy. …”
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IS security menace by Balozian, Puzant

“…It is widely believed in IS security literature that enforcing IS security policy compliance on employees through various means is the solution for security effectiveness. …”
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Holistic Transitional Approach of Humanitarian Shelters Through The Implementation of Adaptable Design Strategies. by ALSHALABI, WASEEM

“…The issue of forcibly displaced portions of a population has become an emerging global trend that is driven by significantly increased numbers of displaced people. This is caused by increases in natural disasters due to global warming, war, and other conflicts. …”
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The Assessment of Wind Power for Electricity Generation in Lebanon by Elkhoury, Michel

“…Implementing such wind farms would greatly decrease the harmful emission of greenhouse gases produced by the energy sector devoted to electricity generation by fuel (El-Fadel et al., 2003). …”
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Investigation of positive education implementation and its impact on students' wellbeing and academic self-efficacy in K-12 private schools in Dubai by KHREIBI, RIMA ABOU

“…The findings revealed the following: 1) in recent years there has been increasing positive education implementation grounding in the recent international, national, local, and educational authority policies and initiatives. 2) absence of standardised local and school policy related to positive education implementation has led to the need for adaptability of positive education implementation across school. 3) there has been strong engagement of the internal school community (teachers, school leaders and students) with external school community (parents). 4) significant changes in the overall level DSWC indicators associated with social emotional wellbeing, life satisfaction, perseverance, feeling safe, and belonging to school. 5) insignificant changes associated with DSWC indicators associated with emotional regulation, happiness, optimism, academic self-concept, cognitive engagement, engagement (flow), peer belonging and school climate. 6) PASS assessment factors show increase in wellbeing, motivation and self-efficacy for regulation and decrease in academic self-efficacy. 7) significant increase in emotional, social wellbeing and academic self-efficacy among students due to positive education implementation as perceived by teachers, parents, and students.…”
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The fiscal crisis in Lebanon. (c1993) by Dimashkieh, Salim

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Initial risk assessment for pulmonary hypertension in patients with COPD by Yammine, Joe

“…Background Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a comorbidity associated with increased mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients. …”
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Characterizing the transitioning epidemiology of herpes simplex virus type 1 in the USA: model-based predictions by Houssein H. Ayoub (9262512)

“…In < 3 decades, seroprevalence declined by > 30% for those aged 0–19 years, but < 5% for those aged > 60. …”

Safety and Efficacy of Inclisiran in Hyperlipidemia: An Updated Meta‐Analysis of Randomised Controlled Trials by Jawad Basit (19231376)

“…Our pooled analysis demonstrated that inclisiran was associated with a significant decline in the % of LDL‐C levels (MD = −50.42, 95% CI: −56.15 to −44.70), % of PCSK9 levels (MD = −78.57, 95% CI: −81.64 to −75.50), % of total cholesterol levels in the body (MD = −31.22, 95% CI: −33.08.15 to −29.37), and apo B levels (MD = −41.47, 95% CI: −44.83 to −38.11) when compared with the control group. …”

Breast cancer cells and bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells by Faour, Wissam H.

“…Co-cultures with either MG-63 cells or MSCs induced OPG and MMP-2 in both tumor cell lines. Interestingly, conditioned medium from co-cultures of MSCs and MDA-MB-231 cells significantly decreased the proliferation of activated T lymphocytes which was reversed by addition of anti-OPG antibodies to the co-cultures. …”
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Intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) treatment of retinal angiomatous proliferation by Ghazi, Nicola G.

“…Results: Twelve eyes (92.3%) had stable or improved BCVA, and 8 eyes (61.5%) had at least 2 lines of vision improvement. The average BCVA improved from 20/203 at baseline to 20/113 at 12 weeks (P = 0.001). …”
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PSA-activated proaerolysin as a prostate specific cancer therapy by Abi-Habib, Ralph

“…Activity toward proaerolysin was decreased 10-100 fold for each of the proteases tested except PSA, which showed a 4-fold increase in activity against the modified protein. …”
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The mechanism of action of kefir and its effect on the motility of breast and colorectal cancer cells. (c2013) by Khoury, Nathalie El

“…In this study, we aim to determine a possible mechanism of action of kefir and to study its effect on the motility of colorectal and breast cancer cell lines. Results from the reverse-transcription PCR experiment have shown that kefir decreases the expression of TGF-α and TGF-β1 in HT-29 cells in a dose dependent manner. …”
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Psychological and Coping Strategies Related to Home Isolation and Social Distancing in Children and Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Study by Abduljaleel Abdullatif Zainel (18055382)

“…Higher levels of anger, depression, and general anxiety were prevalent among 1.3% (n=84), 3.9% (n=260), and 1.6% (n=104) of participants, respectively. The mean score for the emotional constructs anger and depression decreased with increased compliance with regulations (<i>P</i>=.04 and <i>P</i>=.11, respectively). …”

The effect of Dopamine Agonists on patients with advanced Parkinson's disease subjected to subthalamic deep brain stimulation. (c2000) by Jabre, Mazen Gerges

“…The mean levodopa dose was reduced by 90% (p < 0.01), while the mean dopamine agonist dose was increased by 15% from preoperative level. …”
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Produced water treatment: Application of Air Gap Membrane Distillation by Alkhudhiri, Abdullah

“…Also, the effect of feed flow rate, coolant temperature and feed temperature on permeate flux is studied. The flux increases as the feed temperature and flow rate increase, and declines as the coolant temperatures increase. …”
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Examining time-to-transport decisions in Emergency Medical Services by Hassan Farhat (9000509)

“…The Schoenfeld plot (Figure 2) demonstrates that multiple variables have a significant impact on increasing the time-to-handover.</p><h3>Conclusion</h3><p dir="ltr">The study elucidates and clarifies key factors affecting time-to-transport in EMS, underscoring a decline in transport success rates as time on scene lengthens. …”

Impact of COVID-19 restrictions on health and well-being in the United Arab Emirates by Dalibalta, Sarah

“…Smoking habits, especially among cigarette smokers, may have worsened, with 45.2% reporting an increase in cigarette smoking, 16.8% declaring an increase in shisha smoking and 35.3% reporting an increase in smoking other tobacco products. …”
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