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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Durability of Cardiometabolic Outcomes Among Adolescents After Sleeve Gastrectomy: First Study with 9-Year Follow-up by Wahiba Elhag (5245547)

“…</p> <h2>Results</h2> <p>Follow-up rates were 57.53%, 82.87%, 85.24%, 83.92%, and 83.33% at the five time points. The preoperative mean body mass index (BMI) (45.60 ± 6.50 kg/m2) decreased at year 1 (30.04 ± 4.96 kg/m2, P=0.001) and was maintained up to 9 years (30.20 ± 3.92 kg/m2, P = 0.001). …”

10-Day structured initiation protocol from multiple daily injection to hybrid closed-loop system in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes by Goran Petrovski (129836)

“…The participants used the sensor for a median of 92% of the time and spent a median of 89% in Auto Mode. The mean HbA1c decreased from 8.2 ± 1.4% (66 ± 15.3 mmol/mol) at baseline to 6.7 ± 0.5% (50 ± 5.5 mmol/mol) at the end of the study (p = 0.017). …”

Hypospadias Reconstruction Training: Development of an Ex-Vivo Model for Objective Evaluation of Surgical Skills by Tariq Abbas (368053)

“…However, EMG measurements showed significant reductions in average EMG power, total time, dominant frequency, and cumulative muscle workload after training. Additionally, the mean power spectral density of the EMG signal decreased notably post-training. …”

Peripheral inflammatory and metabolic markers as potential biomarkers in treatment-resistant schizophrenia: Insights from a Qatari Cohort by Mohamed Adil Shah Khoodoruth (14589828)

“…Multivariate analysis highlighted significant differences in platelet count, mean platelet volume (MPV), TG, HbA1c, BMI, neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR), monocyte/lymphocyte ratio (MLR), and ferritin among the groups. …”

Brain microstructural changes support cognitive deficits in HIV uninfected children born to HIV infected mothers by Yadav, Santosh K.

“…Decreased FA along with both increased and decreased MD in different brain regions was present in HUC compared to CHNM. …”
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The Genetic Pathways Underlying Immunotherapy in Dilated Cardiomyopathy by Ayat Kadhi (18281710)

“…<div><p>Heart failure (HF) is a global public health threat affecting 26 million individuals worldwide with an estimated prevalence increase of 46% by 2030. One of the main causes of HF and sudden death in children and adult is Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM). …”

Theoretical and Experimental evaluation of the health status of a 1018 steel I Beam using nonlinear Rayleigh waves: Application to evaluating localized plastic damage due to Impact... by Masurkar, Faeez

“…Whereas, in case of damaged state, the nonlinearity parameter at the impacted location shows a sudden increase and reaches a value higher than that of the nonlinearity evaluated at the same location for intact state. …”
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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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Many meta-analyses of rare events in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were underpowered by Pengli, Jia

“…Background and ObjectiveMeta-analysis is a statistical method with the ability to increase the power for statistical inference, while it may still face the problem of being underpowered. …”
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Project Crisis Management Techniques to Overcome the Problems of Schedule Delays and Cost Overruns by Halloum, Mohammad

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Life Cycle Cost Analysis as a Technique to Reduce Project’s Cost Overruns of Assets in UAE: A Case Study-Based Research by El Gergawy, Yahia

“…In 13 projects investigated from both organisations, it was found that the cost overruns were approximately estimated as AED27 million. These cost overruns represent 7.7% of the total allocated budget for the 13 projects, and if all the projects were studied, the percentage might increase further. …”
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Price-aware traffic splitting in D2D HetNets with cost-energy-QoE tradeoffs by Abbas, Nadine

“…With the advances in wireless technologies, there has been tremendous increase in user demand for resource-intensive mobile Internet services. …”
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Economic policy uncertainty: Global energy security with diversification by Dagar, Vishal

“…The results reveal that when EPU increases, the spectrum of energy sources declines, negatively impacting energy security. …”
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Sustainable governance and technological innovation: Moderating environmental risks of resource rents by Shao, Xuefeng

“…The Driscoll and Kray standard error (DKse) and Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) estimation techniques confirm the robustness of the MMQR findings. …”
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Editorial: Genomics, proteomics and immunological signatures as diagnostic, predictive, and prognostic biomarkers in head and neck cancers by Afsheen Raza (492657)

“…The North African and South-East Asian populations are the most affected by these types of cancers. Recent estimates predict a major increase from 45%-77%, in the number of people who will be affected by these types of tumors in the next 20 years.…”

The global, regional, and national burden of pancreatic cancer and its attributable risk factors in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global B... by Akram Pourshams (63963)

“…All of the estimates were reported as counts and age-standardised rates per 100 000 person-years. 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) were reported for all estimates.…”

Error probability of coded STBC systems in block fading environments by Zummo, S.A.

“…Results show that the performance degradation due to channel memory decreases as the number of transmit antennas is increased. Moreover, the optimal channel memory increases with increasing the number of transmit antennas.…”
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Benefit and risk analysis of an automatic meter reading system for electricité du Liban by Ghajar, Raymond F.

“…Like all economic evaluations, there are uncertainties associated with the estimated costs and benefits which could increase the value of the payback period. …”
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Public motives and willingness to participate in first-in-human clinical trials in Saudi Arabia: A new era in the making by Almutairi, Adel F.

“…Results Study participants who were invited and completed the survey were 657. The percentage mean score of participants’ attitudes and concern was 70.1 ± 16.4 and 58.3 ± 15.3 respectively. …”
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