Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2... by Michael, Brauer

“…We separated risk factors into three groups according to trajectory over time: those with a decreasing attributable burden, due largely to declining risk exposure (eg, diet high in trans-fat and household air pollution) but also to proportionally smaller child and youth populations (eg, child and maternal malnutrition); those for which the burden increased moderately in spite of declining risk exposure, due largely to population ageing (eg, smoking); and those for which the burden increased considerably due to both increasing risk exposure and population ageing (eg, ambient particulate matter air pollution, high BMI, high FPG, and high SBP). …”
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Assessing the Built Environment’s Reflectivity, Flexibility, Resourcefulness, and Rapidity Resilience Qualities against Climate Change Impacts from the Perspective of Different Sta... by Mohammed M. Al-Humaiqani (18325554)

“…Therefore, the rapidity characteristic of a built environmental system to accept the change and uncertainty inherited from the past or generated over time is correlated to the system’s reflectivity quality. …”

A Novel Technique for Detecting Underground Water Pipeline Leakage Using the Internet of Things by Ahmad Abusukhon (19418644)

“…Besides, reducing the amount of time needed to precisely detect and locate the leak is another challenge. …”

Receivers location privacy in avionic crowdsourced networks: Issues and countermeasures by Savio Sciancalepore (16864152)

“…As a worst-case scenario, we demonstrate that, when a feasible number of receivers are deployed in the same area of a protected one, due to the nature of involved ADS-B data, standard time-based localization schemes can identify the location of any protected receiver. …”

Energy conversion of heat from abandoned oil wells to mechanical refrigeration - Transient analysis and optimization by Mohammed Al-Khawaja (17093017)

“…The effects of the temperature variation of the geofluid over operation time, the working fluids, the high pressure and the temperatures of the heat source and sink are investigated. …”

Chemical, rheological, and sensory properties of wheat biscuits fortified with local buckwheat by Ahmed Hussein (683680)

“…The additional increment enhanced the arrival time, dough development time, dough stability, the mixing tolerance index, and weakening. …”

Clinical characteristics and outcome of children with acute cryptorchid testicular torsion: A single-center, retrospective case series study by Zlatan Zvizdic (9212371)

“…The median age of patients at the time of the surgery was 65 months (interquartile range (IQR) 4–136 months). …”

Nonlinear Control of Brushless Dual-Fed Induction Generator With a Flywheel Energy Storage System for Improved System Performance by Mohammed Hamidat (3722086)

“…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. …”

Pore-scale simulation of fine particles migration in porous media using coupled CFD-DEM by Ahmed Elrahmani (17128837)

“…Simulations indicate that permeability reduction due to fine migration in porous media is directly proportional to flow velocity. The time required to develop bridging and subsequent clogging of the pore space that lead to permeability reduction decreases as the flow velocity increases. …”

Mapping subnational HIV mortality in six Latin American countries with incomplete vital registration systems by Local Burden of Disease HIV Collaborators (13279180)

“…</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. …”

Appropriateness of gentamicin therapeutic drug monitoring at a Middle Eastern tertiary hospital setting: a retrospective evaluation and quality audit by Fatima Khalifa Al-Sulaiti (14152056)

“…Gentamicin dose regimen continuations, dose regimen decreases and dose regimen discontinuations were inappropriately applied in 27% (<i>n</i> = 10), 25% (<i>n</i>= 2) and 14% (<i>n</i> = 1) of the times, respectively.…”

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 by Goran Petrovski (129836)

“…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. …”

Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 co... by Alize J, Ferrari

“…Background Detailed, comprehensive, and timely reporting on population health by underlying causes of disability and premature death is crucial to understanding and responding to complex patterns of disease and injury burden over time and across age groups, sexes, and locations. …”
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Assessing Intra-Arab Trade Integration and Potential: Evidence from the Stochastic Frontier Gravity Model by Ebaidalla M. Ebaidalla (16960008)

“…The results also reveal that the influence of “behind the border” constraints on trade flows between Arab countries has been decreasing over time. Moreover, the efficiency scores of intra-Arab trade indicate a relatively low degree of trade integration among Arab countries.…”

Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 by Joan B Soriano (6458528)

“…However, when accounting for ageing and population growth, declines were observed in age-standardised prevalence (14·3% decrease), age-standardised death rates (42·6%), and age-standardised DALY rates (38·2%). …”

Effects of financial turmoil on financial integration and risk premia in emerging markets by Boubakri, Salem

“…Accordingly, we estimate a variant of the International Asset Pricing Model developed by Carrieri et al. (2007), allowing for time-varying stock market integration, in which we include the foreign currency risk. …”
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Microstructure–properties relationship in ethylene-propylene diene monomer (EPDM)/nitrile butadiene rubber (NBR)/halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) nanocomposites by Seyed Mohamad Reza Paran (17541846)

“…The crosslinking rate increased by HNTs loading, but the scorch time decreased. Moreover, a 45% rise in tensile strength was observed for systems containing 10 wt% HNTs. …”

Resilience-uncertainty nexus in building energy management integrated with solar system and battery storage by Hasan Mehrjerdi (16869957)

“…The energy resilience is improved and the energy cost is decreased at the same time while all events and uncertainties are modeled. …”

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

“…The CO2 harmful emissions were also decreased. Additionally, it is estimated that switching from the proposed motors to energy-efficient motors will cost less overall over time, saving around 3472.314 JD/month or 0.33576/year on average. …”
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Modeling the risk-based decisions of the microgrid in day-ahead energy and reserve markets considering stochastic dispatching of electrical and thermal energy storages by Salah Bahramara (21347576)

“…Also, the risk-based behavior of the MGO showed that increasing the robust parameter decreases the reserve provided for the market and the net power trading with the market. …”