Essays on international environmental policy by Marrouch, Walid

“…However, since countries are linked via trade, tying-in environmental and trade agreements generates negative spillovers over defectors. …”
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The burden of prostate cancer in North Africa and Middle East, 1990–2019: Findings from the global burden of disease study by Mohsen Abbasi-Kangevari (9714440)

“…This study presents estimates of PCa prevalence, incidence, death, years-of-life-lost (YLLs), years-lived-with-disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted-life-years (DALYs), and the burden attributable to smoking during 1990-2019 in North Africa and Middle East using data of Global Burden of Diseases (GBD) Study 2019.…”

Exogenous Contrast Agents in Photoacoustic Imaging: An In Vivo Review for Tumor Imaging by Farooq, Afifa

“…While current state-of-the-art oncology imaging techniques have decreased mortality rates, patients still face a diminished quality of life due to treatment. …”
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Exogenous Contrast Agents in Photoacoustic Imaging: An In Vivo Review for Tumor Imaging by Farooq, Afifa

“…While current state-of-the-art oncology imaging techniques have decreased mortality rates, patients still face a diminished quality of life due to treatment. …”
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Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of candida albicans Lebanese hospital isolates resistant and sensitive to caspofungin. (c2018) by Toutounji, Maggie Nazih

“…Caspofungin sensitive strains showed decreased resistance to Congo red yet increased virulence and biofilm formation. …”
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Enhanced oil recovery using hyperbranched polyglycerol polymer-coated silica nanoparticles by Wamda Faisal Elmobarak (17058024)

“…The %η_dem improved as the C_sur and pH decreased, with maximum values of 98.8% and 98.5% achieved at C_sur = 0.05 g/L and a pH = 4, respectively. …”

Quantitative Elastohydrodynamic Film-Forming for an Oil/ Refrigerant System by Bair, Scott

“…It seems that only central film thicknesses have been experimentally measured for oil/refrigerant systems leaving these calculations as the only means of assessing the minimum.…”
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Road safety and traffic medicine in Iran: Achievements and challenges by A. Motevalian (19807242)

“…<p dir="ltr">Road traffic injuries found to be the second rank of Years of Life Lost (YLL) and third rank of Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALY) in Iran based on Global Burden of Disease 2010. …”

Global pattern, trend, and cross-country inequality of early musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 to 2019, with projection from 2020 to 2050 by Yingzhao, Jin

“…The disease burden of gout, LBP, and OA attributable to high BMI and gout attributable to kidney dysfunction increased, while the contribution of smoking to LBP and RA and occupational ergonomic factors to LBP decreased. Between 1990 and 2019, the slope index of inequality increased for six MSK disorders, and the relative concentration index increased for gout, NP, OA, and OMSKDs but decreased for LBP and RA. …”
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Self-Reported Sleep and Exercise Patterns in Patients with Schizophrenia: a Cross-Sectional Comparative Study by Nancy Kiwan (12451992)

“…Patients with schizophrenia have shown abnormal sleep patterns and decreased physical activity that were linked to their psychopathology and physical health. …”

An Experimental Investigation of the Effects of Dressing and Grinding Parameters on Sustainable Grinding of Inconel 738 Used for Automated Manufacturing by Mohammadjafar Hadad (17541345)

“…With multipoint diamond tools, the grinding performance during the life of the dressing tool also tends to remain more consistent, which is a definite advantage in automated production. …”

Techno-economic and environmental analyses of the pyrolysis of food waste to produce bio-products by Mohammad Alherbawi (14155767)

“…The water footprint increased with increasing pyrolysis temperature but decreased with increasing moisture content in all scenarios. …”

Corporate Governance and the diversification discount by Boumosleh, Anwar

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Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations are inversely associated with body adiposity measurements but the association with bone mass is non-linear in postmenopausal women by Vijay Ganji (8710491)

“…<p dir="ltr">Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to increased adiposity and decreased bone density. …”

Energy saving potential analysis applying factory scale energy audit – A case study of food production by Derar, Al Momani

“…The results of a preliminary energy audit carried out at a sizable industrial facility in Jordan that creates some of the most well-known foods in the Middle East are presented in this study. …”
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Channel Network Control on Seasonal Lake Area Dynamics in Arctic Deltas by Tejedor, Alejandro

“…This shrinkage signal, easily extracted from remote sensing observations, may offer the means to constrain estimates of lacustrine methane emissions and to develop process-based estimates of depth to permafrost on arctic deltas.…”
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A component analysis of positive behaviour support plans by Grey, Ian

“…The most commonly implemented components of intervention were setting event changes and quality-of-life-based interventions. Conclusion Only treatment acceptability was found to be related to decreases in behavioural frequency. …”
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State of Global Financial Crime In-­depth Analysis on GCC Countries by Odeh, Layan Mazen

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Cost-benefit analysis of antimicrobial stewardship program in a cancer setting in Qatar by Dina Abushanab (10696501)

“…The total economic benefit of the ASP maturity was calculated as the sum of the cost savings and the cost avoidance associated with the service minus the operational cost.3 Cost savings were the reduction in therapy cost linked to decreased antimicrobial consumption and resource utilization. …”

New media and new practices of exploitation by Uzunoglu, Sarphan

“…As evolving labor processes signify that reader/audience participation can also be evaluated as a form of production, citizen journalism’s rise in web 2.0 era has also caused a shift in terms of the share of surplus value and decreasing salary of contracted media employees. Reporting turned into a process where a reporter tries to act within the hegemonic space that state and capital created through the Internet, whose conditions rely on the admission and approval of the state and the capital (Fuchs and Mosco, 2014:31). …”
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