Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (HALE), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: a comprehensive demographic anal... by Haidong, Wang

“…FindingsThe global TFR decreased from 2·72 (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 2·66–2·79) in 2000 to 2·31 (2·17–2·46) in 2019. …”
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Pilot-scale spiral wound membrane assessment for THM precursor rejection from upland waters by Golea, D.

“…The dissolved organic carbon (DOC) passage decreased with decreasing molecular weight cut-off, with a less than one-third the passage recorded for the NF membranes than for the UF ones. …”
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Pilot-scale spiral wound membrane assessment for THM precursor rejection from upland waters by Golea, D.

“…The dissolved organic carbon (DOC) passage decreased with decreasing molecular weight cut-off, with a less than one-third the passage recorded for the NF membranes than for the UF ones. …”
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RIGOROUS SIMULATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE COLD SECTION IN A REAL LNG PLANT: UPFRONT NITROGEN REMOVAL AS PROCESS ENHANCING CONCEPT by MKACHER, HAJER

“…NG processing and liquefaction include complicated unit operations such as impurities removal (e.g. CO2, H2S), separation of heavy hydrocarbons (C3+), and then liquefaction. …”
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Implementing and Analyzing a Recursive Technique for Building Path Oblivious RAM by Rachid, Maan Haj

“…If the position map is still larger than the client's capacity, a smaller ORAM O2 is built to store the position map for O1. We call these additional trees auxiliary trees. …”
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Contrasting cardiovascular mortality trends in Eastern Mediterranean populations: Contributions from risk factor changes and treatments by Critchley, Julia

“…Results Risk factor trends: Smoking prevalence was high in men, persisting in Syria but decreasing in Tunisia, oPt and Turkey. BMI rose by 1-2 kg/m2 and diabetes prevalence increased by 40%-50%. …”
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L5 Spinal Nerve Axotomy Induces Distinct Electrophysiological Changes in Axotomized L5- and Adjacent L4-Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons in Rats . by Djouhri, Laiche

“…Its underlying neuronal mechanisms are still illusive, but pre-clinical studies using animal models of PNP including the L5-spinal nerve axotomy (L5-SNA) model, suggest that it is partly caused by excitability changes in dorsal root ganglion (DRG) neurons. L5-SNA results in two DRG neuronal groups: (1) axotomized/damaged neurons in L5- plus some in L4-DRGs, and (2) ipsilateral L4-neurons with intact/uninjured fibers intermingling with degenerating L5-fibers. …”
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Temporal patterns of cancer burden in Asia, 1990–2019: a systematic examination for the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study by Rajesh, Sharma

“…The age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR) was 120.6/100,000 [110.1–130.7] in 2019, varying 4-folds across countries from 71.0/100,000 [59.9–83.5] in Kuwait to 284.2/100,000 [229.2–352.3] in Mongolia. …”
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Machine learning-based management of electric vehicles charging: Towards highly-dispersed fast chargers by Shibl, M.

“…ML models used in this paper are (1) Decision Tree (DT), (2) Random Forest (RF), (3) Support Vector Machine (SVM), (4) Naïve Bayes (NB), (5) K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), (6) Deep Neural Networks (DNN), and (7) Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM). …”
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MOLECULAR FEATURES OF TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER STEM CELLS: A GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING ANALYSIS OF MDA-MB-231 CELLS by Hourani, Shireen Bayan

“…Nonetheless, CYP3A4, and CYP2D6 were lower in CSCs by 75%, 23%, 43%, 23.8%, and 17%, respectively. …”
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Profiling of the Differentially Expressed Genes of Inflammation and Angiogenesis of Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells Evoked by Cell Injury In-Vitro to Mimic Acute Ischem... by Al Hamed, Fatima Alzahra Mahmoud

“…Major signaling pathways identified were HIF1A and NOTCH3. These signaling pathways affected different functions, including cell survival, proliferation, angiogenesis, and cytoskeleton organization. …”
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Forced spectrum access termination probability analysis under restricted channel handoff by NoroozOliaee, MohammadJavad

“…Specifically, we consider a cognitive access network with m channels in which a cognitive user, currently using a particular channel, can only switch to one of its k immediate neighboring channels. This set of 2k channels is referred to as the target handoff channel set. …”
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Structural performance and moment redistribution of basalt FRC continuous beams reinforced with basalt FRP bars by Abushanab, Abdelrahman

“…A total of 10 reinforced concrete (RC) continuous beams over two equal spans of 1800 mm were tested under five-point loading until failure. …”
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Radiation-free imaging for distal hole targeting in Intramedullary nailing by Abu-Gaoud, Monther Ghafel

“…The investigated solution poses several major challenges like contrast between different regions, time consumption, and detecting NMR signals in less than 19 ml water volume. The first two problems are resolved by using a contrast agent, Copper (II) Sulfate (CuSO4), which decreases the relaxation time by 6-7 times. …”
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Is It Time We Changed How We Measure Length of Stay for Hip and Knee Arthroplasty? by McCulloch, Robert

“…Between January 2013 and December 2015, patient LOS for primary hip and knee replacement was collected in 1,168 patients. There were two groups: pre- and postinstitution of the Rapid Recovery Program. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of Sm3+-doped ZnO nanoparticles via a sol–gel method and their photocatalytic application by Ba-Abbad, Muneer M.

“…The photocatalytic degradation of 2-chlorophenol was investigated under sunlight in presence of ZnO and samarium-doped ZnO nanoparticles. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on smoking (waterpipe and cigarette) and participants' BMI across various sociodemographic groups in Arab countries in the Mediterranean Region by Al Sabbah, Haleama

“…Descriptive and regression analyses were conducted to examine the association between smoking practices and the participant's country of origin, sociodemographic characteristics, and BMI (kg/m2). RESULTS: Overall, the prevalence rate of smoking decreased significantly during the lockdown from 29.8% to 23.5% (p<0.05). …”
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Hot and Hypoxic environments inhibit simulated soccer performance and exacerbate performance decrements when combined by Aldous, Jeffrey

“…Sprint distance covered was unchanged (p>0.05) in HOT and HYP and only decreased in HH (−8%) compared with CON. Body mass (−2%), temperatures (+2–5%), and TS (+18%) were altered in HOT. …”
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The cost associated with the development of the antimicrobial stewardship program in the adult general medicine setting in Qatar by Abushanab, Dina

“…Methods: Patient records were retrospectively reviewed during two periods: preliminary ASP was defined as the 12 months following ASP implementation (i.e. …”
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Origanum syriacum L. Attenuates the Malignant Phenotype of MDA-MB231 Breast Cancer Cells by AlKahlout, Amal

“…This was supported by decreased activity of focal adhesion kinase (FAK), reduced α2 integrin expression, and downregulation of secreted PgE2, MMP2 and MMP-9, in OSE-treated cells. …”
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