Notes total mesorectal excision (TME) for patients with rectal neoplasia by Chouillard, E.

“…Additional abdominal, single-incision laparoscopic assistance was required in 6 (38 %) patients. Mean operative time was 265 min (range 155–440 min). …”
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A comprehensive design and rating study of evaporative coolers and condensers. Part I. Performance evaluation by QURESHI, BILAL AHMED

“…It is demonstrated that thermal effectiveness of the evaporative heat exchangers degrades significantly with time indicating that, for a low risk level (pZ0.01), there is about 66.7% decrease in effectiveness for the given fouling model. …”
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A snapshot of current medical research: The notion of supply and demand by Almutairi, Adel F.

“…The fever for publication has led to a number of predatory journals on the Internet that accepts papers for the sake of making money, regardless of their quality and originality. Therefore, it is time to be more selective and innovative with our research in order to have a significant positive impact on healthcare services.…”
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Doppler broadening spectroscopy of carbon black and carbon black-filled rubbers by Semaan, Mars E.

“…This is due to (1) reduction in positronium formation as carbon black is added to the rubber, and (2) positron trapping at the carbon black–rubber interface, which depends on the carbon black morphology. The S parameter decreases with the carbon black surface area. The S parameter does not depend on the sample mixing time.…”
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Recent advances in the treatment and outcome of locally advanced rectal cancer by Abdalla, Eddie

“…No significant differences were seen in patients (age, gender, race) or tumor characteristics (mean distance from the anal verge, annularity, fixation). …”
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Empiric antibiotic therapy of community-acquired Pneumonia at the American University of Beirut Medical Center. (c2001) by Cherfan, Antoine

“…Special attention should be given to decrease hospitalization rate, to preserve fluoroquinolones, and to improve microbiological studies outcome.…”
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1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene Transformation Reaction Compared With Its Transalkylation Reaction With Toluene Over USY Zeolite by Al-Khattaf, H

“…Kinetic parameters for the 1,2,4-TMB disappearance during the transalkylation reaction and in its conversion into isomerization and disproportionation products were calculated using the catalyst activity decay function based on time on stream (TOS). The apparent activation energies were found to decrease as follows: E-transalkylation > E-isomerization > E-disproportionation.…”
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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. Nevertheless, a point-based time semantics does not satisfy the requirements of a number of use-cases. …”
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Optimization of Electric Vehicles Wireless Charging by Gesrou, Abdalla

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Deep Reinforcement Learning Powered IRS-Assisted Downlink NOMA by Muhammad Shehab (16904880)

“…As the imperfection increases by ten times, the rate decreases by more than 10%.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ojcoms.2022.3165590" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ojcoms.2022.3165590</a></p>…”

SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH FOR WHOLE LIFE CYCLE COST MODELLING OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDING PROJECTS IN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES by Sadek, Ahmed

“…This is achieved by applying adjusting risks on project's initial cost at the preconstruction stage with respect to cost and risk behaviours at each time step. Cost impact is following an increasing S-Curve behaviour during CAPEX time and risk impact is following a decreasing S-Curve behaviour during CAPEX lifetime. …”
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A clustering metaheuristic for large orienteering problems by Almiqdad Elzein (13141038)

“…The metaheuristic aims to dramatically improve the computation time of a given Orienteering Problem algorithm without a significant decrease in the solution quality of that algorithm, especially for large Orienteering Problems. …”

Positron annihilation doppler broadening spectroscopy of carbon black and carbon black-filled rubber polymers by Semaan, Mars E.

“…The S parameter is found to decrease with carbon black particle and aggregate diameter, to increase with carbon black surface area, and to decrease as more carbon black is added to the polymer samples. …”
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Critical Review of Steel Column Base Plate Design Codes and Their Relevance to United Arab Emirates by SREENIVASAN, SREEJU

“…Structural engineers are often posed with a question for an economical design of a structural building which would decide the overall economic and the time concern in a construction. If the design is at optimum by choosing a suitable code the involvement of the materials would be less which will help to decrease the pollution caused in the environment as well. …”
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Modeling the influence of daily temperature and precipitation extreme indices on vegetation dynamics in Katsina State using statistical downscaling model (SDM) by Mohammad, Hadi Ahmad

“…The results indicate that the statistical downscaling model (SDSM) is performing satisfactorily in predicting maximum and minimum temperatures, along with precipitation, for the time horizon of the simulation. Mean precipitation of 1.98 mm (RCP2.6), 2.03 mm (RCP4.5), and 2.07 mm (RCP8.5) was revealed in the study area. …”
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Effects of ethanol addition to diesel–biodiesel blends on the CI engine characteristics by Fakher Hamdi (21225134)

“…All blends show an increase in brake mean effective pressure (BMEP) compared to B0, with the maximum enhancement observed in B10 with an average increase of 13% across all speeds. …”

An imageable retinoid acid derivative to detect human cancer xenografts and study therapeutic dosing to reduce its toxicity by Wang, Wei

“…Therapeutic agents labeled with reporters will interrogate tumor–drug interactions and permit analysis of biodistribution, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics in real time. At the same time, we can apply the biologically effective dose for therapy, instead of the traditional maximum tolerated dose, to reduce systemic toxicity…”
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Influence of shelf-life duration on mechanical, thermal and shape recovery motion derivatives of shape memory polyurethane by Vasavi, Boggarapu

“…The results indicated that tensile and flexural strength decreased by 35.16 % and 29.3 % respectively, from S1 to S10. …”
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The role of objectively recorded smartphone usage and personality traits in sleep quality by Aftab Alam (5158601)

“…The usage data of smartphone apps were processed to calculate smartphone usage amounts and sleep variables, including sleep duration, sleep distraction, sleeping time, and wake-up time. The data were analyzed using the correlation coefficient and regression analyses.…”

Pleiotropic functions of the tumor- and metastasis-suppressing matrix metalloproteinase-8 in mammary cancer in MMTV-PyMT transgenic mice by Julie Decock (44558)

“…Using quantitative real-time RT-PCR, we tracked the expression of the entire Mmp and Timp gene families, observing a significant decrease in Mmp3 expression in Mmp8-null tumors compared to wild-type and heterozygotes throughout the time course of the model, which was confirmed at the protein level. …”