Corporate governance and cost of debt financing: Empirical evidence from Canada by Ghouma, Hatem

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Combinatorial effect of mutagenesis and medium component optimization on Bacillus amyloliquefaciens antifungal activity and efficacy in eradicating Botrytis cinerea by Masmoudi, Fatma

“…The new optimized medium (35 g/L of peptone, 32.5 g/L of sucrose, 10.5 g/L of yeast extract, 2.4 g/L of KH2PO4, 1.3 g/L of MgSO4 and 23 mg/L of MnSO4) achieved 1.62 fold enhancement in antifungal compound production (3000 AU/mL) by this mutant, compared to that achieved in MC medium. …”
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Real-Time PCR Quantification of Metallothionein Gene Expression in Sprague–Dawley Rats Chronically Exposed to Cd by Al-Ghanem, M.

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Epidemiology of herpes simplex virus type 1 in the United States: Systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions by Rwedah A., Ageeb

“…The pooled mean proportion of HSV-1 detection in genital herpes was 15.4% (95% CI: 10.8–20.6), increasing by 1.02-fold (95% CI: 1.00–1.04) per year. …”
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Impact of combined oil-in-water emulsions and particulate suspensions on ceramic membrane fouling and permeability recovery by Abdalla M.

“…The addition of 1500 mg·L−1 of bentonite to a 10 vol.% emulsion resulted in a permeability decrease of 3.5–5 times over that recorded for the emulsion, and 8–36 times lower than that of the bentonite suspension. …”
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Utilization of Emergency Services by Children with Asthma in Qatar by Arafah, Dima

“…Respiratory diseases are the most common conditions seen in Pediatric Emergency Centers (PECs) in Qatar. 2 The five PECs are an essential point of healthcare access for severely sick children, however, many people utilize them for potentially preventable reasons. 3 Methods: This was a quantitative retrospective observational study of children with asthma utilizing the five PECs during 2019. …”
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Epidemiology of gonorrhoea: systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions, World Health Organization European Region, 1949 to 2021 by Chidiac, Omar

“…Current urogenital infection declined 0.97-fold (95% CI: 0.96-0.98%) yearly, but anorectal and oropharyngeal infection increased (1.02-fold; 95% CI: 1.01-1.04% and 1.02-fold; 95% CI: 1.00-1.04%), respectively. …”
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Recent advances in the thermochemical transformation of biomass to bio-oil, biochar and syngas and its upgrading methods by Atabani, A.E.

“…For instance, in 2021, the energy demand increased by 5.8 % and it is expected that the global energy requirement will rise several-fold by the year 2050. …”
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Aberrant sialylation of a prostate-specific antigen: Electrochemical label-free glycoprofiling in prostate cancer serum samples by Pihikova, Dominika

“…The biosensor could detect PSA down to 100 ag/mL with a linear concentration working range from 100 ag/mL up to 1 μg/mL, i.e. 10 orders of concentration magnitude and the sensitivity of (5.5 ± 0.2)%/decade. The results showed that a commercial carbo-free blocking solution was the best one, reducing non-specific binding 55-fold when compared to the immunosensor surface without any blocking agent applied, while allowing to detect PSA. …”
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Improvement of both lipid and biomass productivities of Qatar Chlorocystis isolate for biodiesel production and food security by Saadaoui, Imen

“…Most previous research evidenced that the increase of the lipid content is accompanied by a decrease of the biomass production, which increases the cost of the downstream processing. …”
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Overconfident results with the bivariate random effects model for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies by Furuya-Kanamori, Luis

“…In 2001, Rutter and Gatsonis proposed the hierarchical summary receiver operating characteristic (HSROC) model,1 and in 2004 Macaskill described an empirical Bayes approach.2 Soon after, in 2005, Reitsma et al. proposed the bivariate random effects model,3 which has been widely adopted and is the most commonly used method for diagnostic meta-analysis.4 However, as pointed out by Diaz,5 the statistical performance of the bivariate model has not been scrutinized. …”
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Recycling of gas-to-liquid sludge as a potential organic amendment: Effect on soil and cotton properties under hyperarid conditions by Oumaima, Mabrouk

“…To reduce any environmental concerns, an application rate of 1.5% could be provisionally recommended since a two-fold increase in sludge dose did not result in a significant yield improvement.…”
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A hardware implementation for efficient spectrum access in cognitive radio networks by Shabara, Yahia

“…Finally, we evaluate the performance of the whole channel access scheme and compare its results to the classical sense-transmit scheme. We show that 28.5% increase in SU throughput can be achieved for the same PU packet collision rate.…”
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Specific Bioactive Compounds from Ginger, Tea, and Apple Prevent Diabetes-Related Cataract Via Inhibition of Aldose Reducatse by Ahmedna, Mohamed

“…The activity of aldose reductase was found to increase 5 folds at 10 mM from day 1 to day 4, whereas at 25, 50 and 100 mM concentrations of glucose the AR activity was increased to almost 2 folds. …”
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The Hsp72 and Hsp90a mRNA responses to hot downhill running are reduced following a prior bout of hot downhill running, and occur concurrently within leukocytes and the vastus late... by Tuttle, James A.

“…Attenuated leukocyte and VL Hsp72 (2.8 to 1.8 fold and 5.9 to 2.4 fold; p < 0.05) and Hsp90α mRNA (2.9 to 2.4 fold and 5.2 to 2.4 fold; p < 0.05) responses accompanied reductions (p < 0.05) in physiological strain [exercising rectal temperature (−0.3°C) and perceived muscle soreness (~ −14%)] during HPC2HOTDOWN compared to HPC1HOTDOWN (i.e., a preconditioning effect). …”
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Interventions to improve spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting by healthcare professionals and patients: systematic review and meta-analysis. by Paudyal, Vibhu

“…Meta-analysis showed a statistically significant 3.5-fold overall increase in reporting of ADRs [RR 3.53; 95% CI (1.77,7.06)] in the intervention group compared to the control. …”
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Lyophilized drug-loaded solid lipid nanoparticles formulated with beeswax and theobroma oil by Amekyeh, Hilda

“…Fresh SLNs were stable with sizes ranging between 206.5–236.9 nm. Lyophilization and storage for 24 months (4–8 °C) caused a 1.6- and 1.5-fold increase in size, respectively, in all three SLNs. …”
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Prevalence of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer in Autopsy Studies Over Six Decades: A Meta-Analysis by Furuya-Kanamori, Luis

“…Differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) incidence has been reported to have increased three- to 15-fold in the past few decades. …”
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Unifying the diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus: Introducing the NPRP criteria by Suhail A.R., Doi

“…The odds of pregnancy induced hypertension increased 2.10 fold (P = 0.024) in GDM & hGDM groups compared to the IGG and NGG groups. …”
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Nitric oxide releasing chitosan-poly (vinyl alcohol) hydrogel promotes angiogenesis in chick embryo model by Zahid A.A.

“…The developed CS-PVA hydrogels loaded with SNAP produced a continuous and sustained supply of NO. 3T3 and HaCaT cells showed a significant increase in cell proliferation with 5‰ SNAP loaded CS-PVA hydrogel compared to the control group. …”
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