Dividend policy and corporate investment under information shocks by Harakeh, Mostafa

“…Overall, I show how reducing information asymmetry mitigates agency conflicts over dividend policy and thereby decreases the probability of forgoing valuable investments to pay dividends, which is found to maximize shareholders’ wealth.…”
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Breast cancer cells and bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells by Faour, Wissam H.

“…Interestingly, conditioned medium from co-cultures of MSCs and MDA-MB-231 cells significantly decreased the proliferation of activated T lymphocytes which was reversed by addition of anti-OPG antibodies to the co-cultures. …”
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The Sources of Variance in the Helsinki Stock Exchange by Ben Sita, Bernard

“…Furthermore, inserting the ratio of volume expectation to duration expectation in the ARMA model and the vector error correction (VEC) model, we find that the short-term variance increases (decreases) when more (less) than 1 unit share is traded for 1 unit time.…”
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Effect of acute and chronic grapefruit, orange, and pineapple juice intake on blood lipid profile in normolipidemic rat. by Daher, Costantine F.

“…In the chronic study, blood samples from fasted animals were subjectedto analyses after six months of either water [control] or water-juice [1:1] intake. Results: In the acutestudy, pineapple and grapefruit significantly decreased plasma triacylglycerol [TAG], and chylomicron[CM] TAG and cholesterol concentrations concomitantly with delayed gastric emptying. …”
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Impact of composition and salinity on swelling and gel strength of poly (acrylamide-co-acrylic acid) preformed particle gel by Ahmed Ben Ali (17792594)

“…In contrast, increasing the crosslinker content decreases the swelling ratio and increases the gel strength. …”

Potent anti-tumor promoting effects of Daucus carota oil extract in mice by Abou Zeinab, RM

“…Inraperitoneal treatment inhibited tumor yield by 43%, and decreased the tumor volume by 85% at week 20. Gavage treatment failed to inhibit the promotion of tumors but decreased tumor volume by 20%. …”
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Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of candida albicans Lebanese hospital isolates resistant and sensitive to caspofungin. (c2018) by Toutounji, Maggie Nazih

“…Caspofungin sensitive strains showed decreased resistance to Congo red yet increased virulence and biofilm formation. …”
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Clinical correlates of white-matter abnormalities on head magnetic resonance imaging by Dimassi, Hani

“…The children with white-matter abnormalities and decreased tone had significantly less signal intensity abnormality than the other study groups. …”
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Dynamics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae transmission among female sex workers and clients: A mathematical modeling study by Houssein H., Ayoub

“…Increasing symptomatic treatment coverage among FSWs from 0 % to 100 % decreases prevalence from 10.6 % to 4.5 %, 0.8 % to 0.4 %, and 0.3 % to 0.1 %, respectively. …”
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Effect of phosphorus supplementation on weight gain and waist circumference of overweight/obese adults by Bassil, MS

“…Similarly, BMI and waist circumference were significantly lower in the phosphorus group when compared with the placebo group (−0.24 kg m−2 (95% CI −0.59 to 0.12) vs 0.42 kg m−2 (95% CI 0.05 to 0.78), P=0.01; −3.62 cm (95% CI−4.90 to −2.33) vs 0.38 cm ( 95% CI−0.44 to 1.20), P<0.001; respectively). Several parameters of subjective appetite scores were decreased in the phosphorus-supplemented group. …”
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The effect of Hydrogen Peroxide treatments on dental enamel porosity and protein structure and its long-term implications on tooth hardness and optical properties by Jelena Eric (21015107)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">Shade analysis revealed that, in the short term, HP treatment significantly increased lightness and Hue and decreased chroma compared to DW (<i>p </i>< 0.05); however, 1 week after treatment some of the initial gains in tooth lightness were partially lost. …”

Resilience of UAE high-rise buildings to climate change: Impacts of projected climate changes on annual energy demands. by Sallam, Duaa

“…This study has revealed that the derived future weather files daily dry-bulb temperatures are increasing throughout the years, while the daily relative humidity ratio and global horizontal solar radiation values are marginally decreasing from the present values. …”
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Embedding and global stability in periodic 2-dimensional maps of mixed monotonicity by Al-Sharawi, Ziyad

“…In this paper, we consider nonautonomous second order difference equations of the form xn+1 = F(n, xn, xn−1), where F is p-periodic in its first component, non-decreasing in its second component and non-increasing in its third component. …”
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Effect of climate change on the annual energy consumption of a single family house in British Columbia by Mutasim Baba, Fuad

“…The simulation results show that for both bylaw and PH cases, heating energy consumption will be reduced while cooling energy consumption will be increased, as a result for bylaw case, the energy consumption will be decreased for four climate zones, while for PH case, the energy consumption will be increased for zone 4 & 5 and decreased for zone 6 & 7. …”
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Marine Bacterial Community Structures of Selected Coastal Seawater and Sediment Sites in Qatar by Shimaa S. El-Malah (16931790)

“…The concentration levels of indicator bacteria were affected by increasing temperatures and pH, and by decreasing salinity of seawater samples. Diversity indices and the molecular phylogeny demonstrated that <i>Proteobacteria, Bacteroidetes, </i>and <i>Cyanobacteria</i> were the dominant phyla in all locations. …”

Heat Shock-Related Protein Responses and Inflammatory Protein Changes Are Associated with Mild Prolonged Hypoglycemia by Abu Saleh Md Moin (6189512)

“…At hypoglycemia, UBE2N, STIP1, and UBE2L3 increased (all p < 0.05), whilst TLR4:MD-2 and HSPA8 decreased (p < 0.05) in T2D versus baseline. …”

AN INVESTIGATION OF THE PHASE BEHAVIOR OF AN AQUEOUS SYSTEM THAT CONTAINS A POLYAMPHOLYTE AND POLY(ETHYLENE GLYCOL) by Waziri, S. M.

“…The phase behavior of aqueous two-phase polymer system containing poly(ethylene glycol) and a synthetic polyampholyte in 0.1 N KCl was studied as a function of pH. The top phase was poly(ethylene glycol)-rich and the bottom phase was polyampholyte-rich. …”
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Novel paclitaxel formulations solubilized by parenteral nutrition nanoemulsions for application against glioma cell lines by Najlah, Mohammad

“…The pH range for the Clinoleic formulations (7.1–7.5) was slightly higher than that of the Intralipid formulations (6.5–6.9). …”
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Antecedents and consequences on employee turnover intention in the hospitality industry in Lebanon by Baajour, Maya

“…Findings: The finding of the research supported all three hypotheses. H1 (There is an indirect relationship between PAT and Turnover) showed a significant result that when training is available employees’ intention to leave decreases. …”
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Screening the growth inhibition mechanism of sulfate reducing bacteria by chitosan/lignosulfonate nanocomposite (CS@LS) in seawater media by Kashif Rasool (2542492)

“…We investigated in detail the inhibition mechanism of SRBs by CS@LS in seawater media. Stable CS@LS-1:1 with 150–200 nm average size, and zeta potential of + 34.25 mV was synthesized. …”