Tobacco control in the Eastern Mediterranean region: implementation progress and persisting challenges حسب Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M E

"…Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable mortality worldwide, projected to claim 1 billion lives in the twenty-first century.1 Tobacco prevalence rates are expected to decrease across all the WHO regions by 2025 as a result of tobacco control efforts. …"
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Corporate governance and cost of debt financing: Empirical evidence from Canada حسب Ghouma, Hatem

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Effect of mobile text messages on antiretroviral medication adherence and patient retention in early HIV care: An open-label, randomized, single center study in south Florida حسب Sherman, Elizabeth M.

"…Background People with HIV (PHIV) with limited access to health services often experience suboptimal antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence. We investigated whether a daily text messaging intervention improves ART adherence and retention in early HIV care in PHIV in a south Florida hospital-based clinic. …"
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Integrated planning of spare parts and service engineers with partial backlogging حسب Rahimi-Ghahroodi, S.

"…In a numerical study, we show that for problems with more than five types of spare parts it is preferable to use approximate evaluations as they become significantly faster than exact evaluation. …"
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Evacuated tube heat pipe solar collector for Encontech engine-driven reverse osmosis solar desalination حسب Takalkar, Gorakshnath

"…Both energetic and exergetic efficiencies exhibit upper values at A co/A abs ratio up to 1. Further increment in this ratio up to 3 resulted in a decrease in the efficiency of the ETHPSC.…"
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Influenza prevalence and vaccine efficacy among diabetic patients in Qatar حسب Swapna, Thomas

"…Among the typed IVA-positive cases, 33.4% were H1N1, and 7.7% were H3N2. A significant decrease in influenza infections was reported in vaccinated DM patients (14.5%) when compared to non-vaccinated patients (18.9%) (p-value = 0.006). …"
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Influenza prevalence and vaccine efficacy among diabetic patients in Qatar حسب Swapna, Thomas

"…Among the typed IVA-positive cases, 33.4% were H1N1, and 7.7% were H3N2. A significant decrease in influenza infections was reported in vaccinated DM patients (14.5%) when compared to non-vaccinated patients (18.9%) (p-value = 0.006). …"
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Nanoclay compatibilization of phase separated polysulfone/polyimide films for oxygen barrier حسب Ammar, Ali

"…Herein, we quantify the effect of a nanoclay, Cloisite 30B on the phase separated blend film morphology compatibilization of PSF/PI and associated changes in its mechanical properties and film surface energy. …"
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Adult appendicitis score versus Alvarado score: A comparative study in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis حسب Ghali, Mohamed Said

"…It requires proper management to decrease mortality and morbidity. Clinical scoring systems for diagnosing AA aimed to decrease the use of radiological scans and the rate of negative appendectomies (NA). …"
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Dispatchable capacity optimization strategy for battery swapping and charging station aggregators to participate in grid operations حسب Mingze, Zhang

"…Considering the characteristics of an aggregator’s multilateral services, in this study, BSCSs need to ensure the quality of swapping service for EV users and participate in the demand-side regulation response. Firstly, we analyze the operation mechanism of a BSCS in the aggregation mode and propose a state transition model for EV batteries. …"
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Dynamic Imaging of Hydrate Specific Area Evolution during Xenon Hydrate Formation حسب Jarrar, Zaher

"…During hydrate formation and dissociation, full 3D images are acquired at a time resolution of 45 seconds and a spatial resolution of 5.38 ?…"
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Specific Bioactive Compounds from Ginger, Tea, and Apple Prevent Diabetes-Related Cataract Via Inhibition of Aldose Reducatse حسب Ahmedna, Mohamed

"…Results show that cell viability decreased to 93 ± 3%, 83 ± 6%, 65 ± 4% and 39 ± 3% at 10, 25, 50 and 100 mM of glucose on day 1 with further drastic decrease in cell viability to 73 ± 5%, 61 ± 3%, 35 ± 2%, and 11 ± 6%, respectively, on day 4 compared to the untreated cell. …"
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Gas Driven Fracture during Gas Production using HeleShaw Cell حسب Al-Raoush, Riyadh

"…The cell consists of two transparent acrylic sheets that are separated by a small gap. The gap between the two sheets is maintained using filter sheets that have a thickness of 1/16 in. (1.6 mm) at the boundaries. …"
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Computational structural assessment of BReast CAncer type 1 susceptibility protein (BRCA1) and BRCA1-Associated Ring Domain protein 1 (BARD1) mutations on the protein-protein inter... حسب Thirumal Kumar, D.

"…From the analysis, we observed the highest deviation with lowest compactness and a decrease in the intramolecular h-bonds in the BRCA1-BARD1 protein complex with the V11G mutation compared to the native complex or the complexes with other mutations. 2022 Elsevier Inc.…"
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Cold Plasma as Effective Tool for Aluminum Surface Cleaning حسب Popelka, Anton

"…A continuous amorphous oxide layer is formed immediately after rolling process due to the reaction of oxygen and air humidity and therefore new metal surface is produced [5]. …"
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Smoking cessation counseling in Qatar: Community pharmacists' attitudes, role perceptions and practices حسب El Hajj, Maguy Saffouh

"…Main outcome measures: Qatar community pharmacists' smoking cessation practices, their attitudes toward tobacco use, smoking cessation and smoking cessation counseling and their perceived barriers for smoking cessation counseling. Results: Over 5 months, we collected 127 surveys (40 % response rate). …"
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The Structure of the Free Volume in Poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) from Positron Lifetime and Pressure Volume Temperature (PVT) Experiments حسب Dlubek, Gunter

"…The mean hole volume, vh, varies in PS between 105 Å3 (27 °C) and 220 Å3 (190 °C), and shows a systematic decrease with increasing AN content, at Tg from 121 Å3 for PS to 102 (±2) Å3 for SAN50. …"
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Utilization of Emergency Services by Children with Asthma in Qatar حسب Arafah, Dima

"…Around 900 children were admitted (1.6%) and almost 20 children attended once a month or more. …"
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Understanding the progress and challenges in the fields of thermo-catalysis and electro-catalysis for the CO2 conversion to fuels حسب Yadav, V. S. K.

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Hydrogen Production via Ethanol Decomposition over Bimetallic Catalyst حسب Ashok, Anchu

"…The reaction between NH3 and HNO3 released during decomposition of glycine and metal nitrate respectively produces the energy required for single step combustion synthesis. At higher value of φ, the reactive medium generates H2 rich reducing environment to convert metal oxide to metallic form Bimetallic CuCo were synthesized from the aqueous solution of cobalt nitrate (Co(NO3)2·6H2O), copper nitrate (Cu(NO3)2·6H2O) and glycine (C2H5NO2) in solution combustion synthesis (SCS) method using a fuel to oxidizer ratio of φ 0.5, 1, 1.75 and 2.5. …"
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