Association Between Serum Bicarbonate Levels and Prediabetes and Subclinical Inflammation in Young Healthy Adults: A Cross-sectional Study by Abeer A Omar (21623774)

“…After multivariable logistic regression, each unit increase in serum bicarbonate was associated with a 17% decreased risk of prediabetes (OR: 0.83, 95%CI: 0.70– 0.99, <i>p</i>=0.034), in males but no association was observed for females. …”

Can Leadership-coaching Mind-set Substitute that of Crisis Management in Higher Education? by Chaika, Oksana

“…The term ‘crisis management’ includes the three stages, i.e. pre-crisis, crisis per se, and post-crisis management in higher education. …”
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Second-law-based performance evaluation of cooling towers and evaporative heat exchangers by QURESHI, BILAL AHMED

“…Keywords: Exergy; Evaporative cooler; Evaporative condenser; Dead state…”
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Walking around the preferred speed: examination of metabolic, perceptual, spatiotemporal and stability parameters by Lina Majed (7485380)

“…While metabolic, perceptual and spatiotemporal values were sensitive to the smallest change in speed (i.e., 0.5 km·h⁻¹⁾, a significant increase in the rate of carbohydrate oxidation and decrease in % fat oxidation were only observed at speeds above PWS. …”

Salicylic acid restricts mercury translocation by activating strong antioxidant defense mechanisms in sweet pepper (Capsicum annum L.) by Muhammad Fasih Khalid (10652246)

“…Spraying of 100 μ M SA at three different Hg levels, i.e., 0 μ M, 50 μ M, 100 μ M, and 150 μ M. The maximum decrease in photosynthetic machinery, plant growth attributes (shoot length, root length, no. of leaves, fresh and dry biomass (shoot and root)), and more accumulation of Hg in leaves, roots, and fruits of sweet pepper. …”

Boron doped silver-copper alloy nanoparticle targeting intracellular S. aureus in bone cells by Tahir Abdulrehman (8697696)

“…The ACB-OBAb nanoparticles showed a 1.32 log reduction of intracellular S. aureus at a concentration of 1mg/L. …”

Multivariate epidemiologic analysis of type 2 diabetes mellitus risks in the Lebanese population by Ghassibe-Sabbagh, Michella

“…Exercise activity level negatively correlated with the disease (p = 0.002), whereas the prevalence of T2DM (p < 0.0001) and CAD family history (p = 0.006) positively correlated with the affection status. The mean levels of triglycerides and LDL-C were significantly higher in diabetics (1.87; 1.35) compared to individuals with prediabetes (1.63; 1.26) and unaffected controls (1.49; 1.19). …”
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An experimental measurement of corona discharge using laser Dopplervelocimetry by Belhadj, C.A.

“…The corona wind velocity was measured by means of a laser Doppler velocimetry system implemented and calibrated in the laboratory. …”
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Dynamic Change in Insulin Resistance Induced by Free Fatty Acids Is Unchanged Though Insulin Sensitivity Improves Following Endurance Exercise in PCOS by Myint Myint Aye (6404327)

“…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">Insulin resistance (IR) is the hallmark of PCOS and it is known that exercise may decrease it. What is unknown is whether exercise may mechanistically alter the underlying IR, attenuating the dynamic lipid induced IR in insulin resistant subjects.…”

The downsides of information systems security policy compliance efforts 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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CEAP by Abdel Wahab, Omar

“…To reduce the overhead of the proposed detection model and make it feasible for the resource-constrained nodes, we reduce the size of the training dataset by (1) restricting the data collection, storage, and analysis to concern only a set of specialized nodes (i.e., Multi-Point Relays) that are responsible for forwarding packets on behalf of their clusters; and (2) migrating only few tuples (i.e., support vectors) from one detection iteration to another. …”
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Gaining or Losing Team Ball Possession: The Dynamics of Momentum Perception and Strategic Choice in Football Coaches by Walid Briki (688845)

“…The match scenario was manipulated so that the coach was exposed to either a positive momentum sequence (i.e., ascending scenario of TBP) or a negative momentum sequence (i.e., descending scenario of TBP). …”

Visitors off the trail: Impacts on the dominant plant, bryophyte and lichen species in alpine heath vegetation in sub-arctic Sweden by Monika, Rawat

“…One bryophyte species (Dicranum elongatum) among the six most commonly found decreased with proximity to the trail. …”
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Self-reported awareness and attitude of cancer patients towards clinical nurse coordinators by Deeb, Ahmad

“…Responses on Likert scales were converted to percentage mean scores. Results: The overall percentage mean scores ± standard deviation of knowledge was 59 ± 17, perception towards clinical nurse coordinators (79 ± 14) and attitude towards seeking their services (69 ± 16). …”
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D2IA: Stream Analytics on User-Defined Event Intervals by Awad, Ahmed

“…In most of the cases, data items and events are considered instantaneous, i.e., they are single time points in a discrete temporal domain. …”
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Writing and publishing language studies in the Arab region [Khitabaat Journal] by Emad Abdul-latif (21841985)

“…Schreiben oder Lesen, aber nicht beides, oder: Vorschlag zur Wiedereinführung der Keilschrift mittels Hammer und Meißel. <i>Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik </i>74. 116–119) article. …”

Food safety knowledge attitude and practices of oncology nurses, in Lebanese hospitals by Angy, Mallah

“…Knowledge scores were higher among nurses holding a graduate degree (mean = 85; p < 0.05), and those who attended a training course (mean = 79; p < 0.05). …”
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Excess pCO2 and carbonate system geochemistry in surface seawater of the exclusive economic zone of Qatar (Arabian Gulf) by Connor, Izumi

“…The slope suggests that removal of C as CaCO3, organic matter (CH2O) or gas exchange (FCO2) is occurring with a ratio of ΔCaCO3/(ΔCH2O or FCO2) = 1:2.86. The tracer Alk*, defined as the deviation of potential alkalinity (AP) (where AP = TA + 1.26 [NO3]) from conservative potential alkalinity ((ApC), (ApC = S Ap′S′ where A'P and S′ are mean values for the whole surface ocean) has values primarily determined by CaCO3 precipitation and dissolution. …”
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D 2IA: User-defined interval analytics on distributed streams by Awad, Ahmed

“…In most of the cases, data items and events are considered instantaneous, i.e., they are single time points in a discrete temporal domain. …”
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Empirical evaluation of change in crash risk due to lane marking reallocation: A case study in Kochi City, Japan by Hiroaki, Nishiuchi

“…In addition, the results indicate that the PICUD value tends to decrease (i.e., the crash risk tends to increase) with increasing speed of the following vehicle relative to the leading vehicle. …”
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