Re-Examining the Technical Efficiency of Australian Banks: A Bootstrap DEA Approach by Moradi-Motlagh, Amir

“…The aim is to improve the choice of variables of the core profit efficiency model which is commonly used in earlier Australian banking efficiency studies. After we introduce the "interest income" over "net interest income" variable in the core profit efficiency model, the proportion of fully pure technical efficient banks decreased to 23% which is significantly lower than 81% which was reported in a recent study. …”
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The potential role of vitamin D supplementation as a gut microbiota modifier in healthy individuals by Singh, Parul

“…Comparing supplementation responders and non-responders we found more pronounced changes in abundance of major phyla in responders, and a significant decrease in Bacteroides acidifaciens in non-responders. …”
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Development and in Vitro Testing of a Nitric Oxide Nanoparticle Carrier for Acute Lung Injury by Kordi, Haya

“…Also NO secretion was shown to decrease stiffness in various tissue types which can aid as a treatment of conditions like ARDS.One issue with using NO is that the life-time is too short so the treatment is not very effective. …”
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Erratum: ITRAQ-based Quantitative Protein Expression Profiling and MRM Verification of Markers in Type 2 Diabetes (Journal of Proteome Research (2012) 11 (5527-5537) DOI: 10.1021/p... by Kaur, Prabhjit

“…As expected, the diabetic cohort showed an elevation in serum glucose, HbA1c, and insulin levels and a decrease in the serum levels of Vitamin D and HDL .Addition/Correctionpubs.acs.org/jpr © 2013 American Chemical Society 1065 dx.doi.org/10.1021/pr4000224 | J. …”
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Urology Residents' Perspectives on the In-House On-Call Systems: A Study in an Accredited Academic Center by Khalil, Ibrahim A. and Ibrahim, Tarek and Aldeeb, Maya and Mohamed, Ahmed and Ben Salah, Rym and Aboumarzouk, Omar M. and Al-Naimi, Abdulla

“…Quality of life and education: We adopted a validated survey based on a 5-point Likert scale to assess the residents' perception of the transition to a 12-hour on-call system on their quality of life and education. …”
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Adult appendicitis score versus Alvarado score: A comparative study in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis by Ghali, Mohamed Said

“…Method A retrospective study with 1303 cases of AA is performed. …”
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Socket Shield Technique to Improve the Outcomes of Immediate Implant: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Scarano, Antonio

“…Meta-analyses revealed that the immediate implants placed with SST had a statistically significant decrease in horizontal (MD = −0.28, 95% CI [−0.37, −0.19], p < 0.0001), vertical (MD = −0.85, 95% CI [−1.12, −0.58], p < 0.0001), and crestal (MD = −0.35, 95% CI [−0.56, −0.13], p = 0.002) bone loss, as well as probing depth (MD = −0.64, 95% CI [−0.99, −0.29], p = 0.0003). …”
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Corrigendum: Renoprotective Effects of Aldose Reductase Inhibitor Epalrestat against High Glucose-Induced Cellular Injury (BioMed Research International (2017) 2017 (5903105) DOI:... by El Gamal, Heba

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A New Detection Function Model for Distance Sampling Based on the Burr XII Model by Alanzi, Ayed R. A.

“…In this paper, we provide a new flexible parametric model based on the Burr XII distribution. …”
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A kernelized sparsity-based approach for best spectral bands selection for face recognition by Bouchech, H.J.

“…Second, we propose to enhance the performance of the four mentioned algorithms, which has been drastically decreased upon the day lighted face images provided by IRIS-M3 face database. …”
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A vector quantization based k-NN approach for large-scale image classification by Ozan, Ezgi Can

“…In this paper we propose a vector quantization (VQ) based k-NN classifier, which has improved efficiency for both storage requirements and computational costs. …”
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Anticancer activity of Neosetophomone B, A Fungal Secondary Metabolite, against Hematological Malignancies by Kuttikrishnan, Shilpa

“…We tested a panel of leukemic cell lines with different doses of NSP-B. …”
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Bordetella pertussis risA, but not risS, is required for maximal expression of Bvg-repressed genes by Stenson, Trevor H.

“…Here, we show that mutation of B. pertussis risA does not affect Bvg-activated genes or proteins. …”
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Juvenile Hyaline Fibromatosis: Literature Review and a Case Treated With Surgical Excision and Corticosteroid. by Braizat, Omar

“…In our paper, we present a literature review and case presentation for 28-year-old women with JHF, treated with surgical excision and corticosteroid therapy. …”
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Online monitoring of climatic parameters: a statistical study about environmental changes in Qatar by Mahmood, Tahir

“…Unwanted effects have also been observed in the Gulf region in terms of reduced but intensive and unpredictable rainfall, average increase in temperature, sea level rise, lack of drinking water and regular drought. Qatar, being a richest country whose economic growth depends on petroleum and natural gas industry, is paying focus on its environmental development programs, which is also a goal of recent national vision. …”
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Sorption of benzene and naphthalene on (semi)-arid coastal soil as a function of salinity and temperature by NgueleuS.K.

“…To quantify the sorption rates of PHCs in (semi)-arid coastal soil environments, we conducted a series of controlled-laboratory batch experiments under variable temperature and salinity conditions. …”
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Basophil-VAMP7 is a vital regulator of skin barrier integrity and chronic itch by Zhang, Wenhao

“…BackgroundAtopic dermatitis (AD) is a multifaceted inflammatory skin disease characterized by chronic itch and acute itch flare (AIF), with basophils playing pivotal roles in both. …”
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A QoE-Aware Joint Resource Allocation and Dynamic Pricing Algorithm for Heterogeneous Networks by Trakas, Panagiotis

“…Under these circumstances, the MNOs need to guarantee the users' Quality of Experience (QoE) requirements, while ensuring the sustainability of HetNet investments. To this end, we consider a HetNet deployment where MNOs offer a multitude of services with diverse pricing. …”
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Elastic properties of chiral, anti-chiral, and hierarchical honeycombs: A simple energy-based approach by Mousanezhad, Davood

“…The results were also compared with the numerical and experimental data available in the literature. We found that introducing a hierarchical refinement increases the Young's modulus of hexagon based honeycombs while decreases their shear modulus. …”
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Tailoring optical absorption in silicon nanostructures from UV to visible light: A TDDFT study by Hassan, Walid M.I.

“…(ii) The exciton binding energy is seen to decrease by approximately 45% from 0.67 eV to about 0.3 eV with length increase, for a nanostructure with a cross-section diameter of approximately 12 Å. …”
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