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Topical Vancomycin for Prevention of Surgical Site Infection after Craniotomy: Meta-analysis and Systematic Literature Review
Published 2022“…</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p dir="ltr">The results of this meta-analysis suggest that the use of topical vancomycin after performing craniotomies is safe and effective in decreasing the incidence of cSSIs, although there is a need to perform randomized controlled trials to strongly support this conclusion.…”
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Business Continuity Management Maturity Model for Banks in UAE
Published 2008“…They are faced with increasing levels of global competition, demanding customers and employees, shrinking product lifecycles and decreasing acceptable response times (Lockamy & McCormack, 2004) They have employees and deal with clients, suppliers & vendors from all over the world. …”
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Chemical, rheological, and sensory properties of wheat biscuits fortified with local buckwheat
Published 2023“…The additional increment enhanced the arrival time, dough development time, dough stability, the mixing tolerance index, and weakening. …”
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Clinical characteristics and outcome of children with acute cryptorchid testicular torsion: A single-center, retrospective case series study
Published 2024“…The median age of patients at the time of the surgery was 65 months (interquartile range (IQR) 4–136 months). …”
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Nonlinear Control of Brushless Dual-Fed Induction Generator With a Flywheel Energy Storage System for Improved System Performance
Published 2025“…After optimization, the SMC settling time was significantly reduced from 0.7 seconds to 19.97 milliseconds, achieving a 96.9% improvement in response speed, while its steady-state error decreased from 0.48 to 0.06, marking an 87.5% reduction in tracking error. …”
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Optimization of Vapor Compression Refrigeration Cycles with Clathrate Hydrates Thermal Energy Storage
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Successful endoscopic management of gastrojejunal anastomotic strictures after Roux-en-Y gastric bypas
Published 2007“…Dilation to at least 15 mm is safe and decreases the need for further endoscopic dilation.…”
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Effect of phosphorus supplementation on weight gain and waist circumference of overweight/obese adults
Published 2015“…The exact mechanisms of action and longer-term effects still need to be elucidated.…”
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Phase II National Study: Job Satisfaction and Workplace Environment Among Community Pharmacists in Lebanon: Pre and Post Economic Crisis
Published 2024“…Average weekly working hours decreased from 59.2 hours in Phase 1 to 49.8 hours in Phase II. …”
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Fixing a heart valve
Published 2015“…As Antune points out, however, the proportion of repaired valves that need to be replaced later on decreases with surgeons' increasing experience of the procedure. …”
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Diffusion tensor imaging with tractography in surgical resection of brainstem cavernous malformations: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Published 2023“…The utilization of preoperative diffusion tensor imaging significantly increased the proportion of improved patients and decreased the proportion of worsened patients. However, further controlled research is needed to draw a definite conclusion about the usefulness of its role.…”
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Upgrading co-pyrolysis products from ternary biomass: An investigative study of commercial and locally-made catalysts
Published 2024“…At higher temperatures, secondary decompositions become prominent, leading to increased gas yields and decreased char and liquid oil yields. The introduction of catalysts generally enhances char yields across both temperature regimes. …”
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Green Inhibition of Mild Steel Corrosion in a CO2 Saturated Saline Solution
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Total Quality Implementation on Marine Transportation Association Under Natural Disruption of COVID-19 Pandemic
Published 2021“…Social distancing, i.e., decreasing collaborations between people to dial back the spread of the infection, has turned into the new standard. …”
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The Sources of Variance in the Helsinki Stock Exchange
Published 2017“…Furthermore, inserting the ratio of volume expectation to duration expectation in the ARMA model and the vector error correction (VEC) model, we find that the short-term variance increases (decreases) when more (less) than 1 unit share is traded for 1 unit time.…”
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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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Unpacking the asymmetric impact of exchange rate volatility on trade flows: A study of selected developed and developing Asian economies
Published 2023“…However, the result suggests that decreased volatility stimulates Malaysia’s exports. …”
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Mapping subnational HIV mortality in six Latin American countries with incomplete vital registration systems
Published 2021“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">All countries displayed over a 40-fold difference in HIV mortality between municipalities with the highest and lowest age-standardized HIV mortality rate in the last year of study for men, and over a 20-fold difference for women. Despite decreases in national HIV mortality in all countries—apart from Ecuador—across the period of study, we found broad variation in relative changes in HIV mortality at the municipality level and increasing relative inequality over time in all countries. …”
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One-year experience of hybrid closed-loop system in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes previously treated with multiple daily injections: drivers to successful outcomes
Published 2022“…The participants used the sensor 88.4 ± 6.5% of the time with Auto Mode usage 85.6 ± 7.4% during 12 months of HCL system use. …”
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Error probability of coded STBC systems in block fading environments
Published 2006“…Results show that the performance degradation due to channel memory decreases as the number of transmit antennas is increased. …”
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