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Blockchain implementations. (c2019)
Published 2019“…The results also show that the use of smart contracts in the implementation of the blockchain technology in the insurance sector leads to increase in efficiency and decrease in the costs, fraud and processing time.…”
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A clustering metaheuristic for large orienteering problems
Published 2022“…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. …”
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Evaluation of pretreatment and membrane configuration for pressure-retarded osmosis application to produced water from the petroleum industry
Published 2021“…When minimally pretreated PW (10-micron cartridge filtration (CF)) was tested in FLS mode, severe membrane fouling occurred and the PRO flux decreased by 60%. In contrast, HF modules showed <1% flux decrease under both minimal and intermediate pretreatment schemes. …”
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New algorithm based active method to eliminate stick-slip vibrations in drill string systems
Published 2022“…<p dir="ltr">The drill string is always exposed to various types of vibrations among which, stick slip is one of the most important types. It is a severe state of torsional vibrations. …”
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Biomolecular alterations in acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) imaging spectroscopy
Published 2021“…<p dir="ltr">Acute injury is one of the substantial stage post-traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurring at the moment of impact. …”
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Data-Efficient Wheat Disease Detection Using Shifted Window Transformer: Enhancing Accuracy, Sustainability, and Global Food Security
Published 2025“…<p dir="ltr">Wheat is an essential crop that plays a vital role in global food security, but is susceptible to a variety of diseases, which have the potential to drastically decrease crop productivity. Detection of disease at an early stage and in an accurate manner is crucial to minimize crop losses. …”
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Crumpled MXene nanosheets for sensing of ascorbic acid in food, biological fluids, and erythrocytes in-vitro microenvironment
Published 2023“…The sensor also demonstrated excellent reproducibility (~1 % RSD for five repetitive assays) and a shelf life of nearly one month with a negligible decrease in response. …”
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Board Characteristics and Bank Stock Performance: Empirical Evidence from the MENA Region
Published 2024“…To test the robustness of our analysis, we implemented a one-limit Tobit model, which enables lower-bound censoring, and obtained similar findings thus confirming our hypotheses. …”
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Towards secure private and trustworthy human-centric embedded machine learning: An emotion-aware facial recognition case study
Published 2023“…We find that input quantization partially degrades the efficacy of adversarial and backdoor attacks at the cost of a slight decrease in accuracy over clean inputs. By analyzing the explanations generated by SHAP, we identify that the decision of a FER model is largely influenced by features such as eyes, alar crease, lips, and jaws. …”
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Using Data Mining and Text Mining Techniques in Predicting the Price of Real Estate Properties in Dubai
Published 2014“…It is found that the results of linear regression prediction have been improved significantly after adding text mining to the experiments. The root mean squared errors RMSEs for all data subsets have decreased leading to enhancing the accuracy of prediction. …”
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Investigating the Quality Combined Effect of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in Quality Management in Manufacturing Firms
Published 2024“…Such products need to be manufactured more often if companies want to survive in the Middle East as consumers will not settle for anything less. Refined production line layouts and automated key assembly stages alongside lean production principles are crucial to eliminate non-value activities. …”
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A potential therapeutic agent for sickle cell anaemia
Published 2016“…They also found increased levels of ROS that were associated with decreased levels of antioxidant enzymes and their co-factors.…”
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Innovative strategies to reduce traffic related injuries and deaths in youth
Published 2015“…This is consistent with the cognitive dissonance theory, which states that changing the beliefs that underlie certain behaviors can cause a behavioral change (2). From these theories, one can expect that changing the risk taking attitudes of adolescents can lead to a decrease in the probability of collisions. …”
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Road safety and traffic medicine in Iran: Achievements and challenges
Published 2015“…The number of annual fatalities, which had been on the rise for several decades, reached to the maximum number of over 27500 deaths in 2005. The number decreased to 23000 in 2010 and less than 18000 in 2013. …”
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Quantitative Compressibility Effects in Thermal Elastohydrodynamic Circular Contacts
Published 2015“…The results reconfirm the well-known observations that minimum film thickness is very little affected by lubricant compressibility while central film thickness decreases linearly with the increase in volume compression of the lubricant. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden of upper respiratory infections and otitis media, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
Published 2024“…The global all-age incidence rate of URIs decreased by 10·1% (–12·0 to –8·1) from 1990 to 2019. …”
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Shared Clean Mobility Operations for First-Mile and Last-Mile Public Transit Connections: A Case Study of Doha, Qatar
Published 2022“…However, due to rapid urbanization acceleration and regions’ extension, commuters often combine the fixed-route/fixed schedules public transportation and car-sharing service in one journey. To this end, we study a one-way, station-based electric car-sharing service interaction with public transportation. …”
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An Experimental Investigation of R134a Clathrates with Liquid Additives
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Inappropriate Medication Use in Elderly Lebanese Outpatients
Published 2006“…With increasing availability of newer and more appropriate medications, use of potentially inappropriate drugs may decrease. Pharmacists have a major role to play in counselling patients about the importance of appropriate drug use.…”
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