HIV epidemiology among female sex workers and their clients in the Middle East and North Africa: systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions by Hiam Chemaitelly (439114)

“…There was strong evidence for increasing prevalence post-2003; the odds increased by 15% per year (AOR = 1.15, 95% CI = 1.09–1.21). …”

Optimal design of a new vibration absorber setup for randomly forced systems by Issa, Jimmy

“…White noise excitation is assumed and the objective function is the mean square value of the primary system response function. …”
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Renal Function Decline in Recipients and Donors of Kidney Grafts by Bahous, Sola Aoun

“…Background/Aims: Renal function decreases over time as a result of reduction in the number of functioning nephrons with age. …”
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Subsarcolemmal cAMP signals monitored by cyclic nucleotide gated channels in hypertrophied cardiac myocytes by Abi-Gerges, Aniella

“…These results show that CNG channels allow to measure cAMP variations at the membrane in living cardiomyocytes and to detect alterations of cAMP signals during early hypertrophy.…”
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Food purchase and eating behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey of Russian adults by Tarek Ben Hassen (15742605)

“…<p dir="ltr">The Russian government took strong containment measures to prevent the spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) with rigid hygiene protocols and restrictions on daily living, such as social distancing and closing businesses and schools. …”

Energy Efficient Refurbishment for Existing Office Building in UAE by Kalkura, Subraya

“…The other principles are to decrease the energy use and related operational expenses while to increase use of environment-friendly materials and renewable energy sources. …”
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Testing and Evaluation of a Smart Irrigation System towards Smart landscaping in UAE by ALSULAIMANI, FATMA

“…It is clear that the population is growing drastically causing an increase in urban development and landscape expansion which as a result increase the demand for water. …”
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Crisis Communication Management Model in the Public Sector of Dubai by Ali, Budoor Hussain

“…Communication is at the heart of our lives. It is our means of conveying information and understanding facts, of enabling us to prepare for a predicted event, deal with that event and to be informed. …”
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A discrete-time stochastic iterative learning control algorithm for a class of nonlinear systems by Saab, S. S.

“…The state disturbance, reinitialization errors, and measurement errors are considered to be zero-mean white processes. It is shown that the input error covariance matrix converges to zero in presence of uncorrelated disturbances. …”
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Tailoring motivational health messages for smoking cessation using an mHealth recommender system integrated with an electronic health record: a study protocol by Santiago Hors-Fraile (5950823)

“…The usage of tailored health messages to support quitting has been proved to increase quitting success rates. Technology can provide convenient means to deliver tailored health messages. …”

Positional and dimensional temporomandibular joint osseous changes in patients treated with the forsus fatigue resistant device: a non-randomized clinical trial by Ramy Abdul-Rahman Ishaq (22928974)

“…After alignment and leveling with fixed orthodontic appliances using 0.019 × 0.025-inch stainless-steel archwires, the FFRD was fitted. The overjet was corrected to achieve an edge-to-edge incisor relationship. …”

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

“…The binding of the targeting nanoparticles to infected osteoblasts as well as the visualization of live/dead bacteria due to treatment was carried out using fluorescence microscopy. …”

Wales’ tourists not a burden for local healthcare by Nature Research (16552612)

“…</p><p>Instead, they found that Welsh residents were responsible for the vast majority of unintentional injury presentations to the emergency department. They also found a decrease in non-resident presentations between 2006 and 2014, the data range that was studied.…”

Women’s empowerment as a determinant of neonatal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: a narrative review focused on Nigeria by Joel-Medewase Victor Idowu (22155178)

“…Notably, SSA and South Asia are the regions most lagging behind the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.2, aiming for <12 neonatal deaths per 1,000 live births by 2030. Within SSA, Nigeria, the most populous country, records the highest number of neonatal deaths annually. …”

Using Data Mining in CRM to Understand the Insurance Market by Qadadeh, Wafa

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Quality of palliative care. Perspective of Lebanese patients with cancer by Doumit, Myrna

“…The number of cancer patients in Lebanon is increasing, and patients are living longer due to early detection and enhanced methods of treatment. …”
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Comparison between Nonlinear Analysis and ACI Simplified Effective Stiffness Analysis Methods for Reinforced Concrete Frames Under Lateral Load by ELMUTASHY, HAJER

“…Conversely, employing the non-linear analysis method result in higher effective stiffness than simplified method by mean value of 1.36, 1.44 and 1.57 for frames with compressive strength 40,80 and 120mpa respectively. …”
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Adapted arithmetic optimization algorithm for multi-level thresholding image segmentation: a case study of chest x-ray images by Abu Zitar, Raed

“…Particularly in recent years, there has been increased interest in determining the ideal thresholding for picture segmentation. …”
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Diagnosing type 2 diabetes using Hemoglobin A1c: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the diagnostic cutpoint based on microvascular complications by Alexandra E. Butler (6189536)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">Pooled mean prevalence was: 4.0%(95% CI: 3.2–5.0%) for retinopathy, 10.5% (95% CI: 4.0–19.5%) for nephropathy, 2.5% (95% CI: 1.1–4.3%) for neuropathy. …”

Network Analysis and its Applications in Financial and Digital Assets by Almazloum, Ward

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