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

"…Our empirical findings point to a decrease in the bond spreads for an improvement of the overall quality of the corporate governance index. …"
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Novel Ternary Adder and Multiplier Designs without Using Decoders or Encoders حسب Aljaam J.M.

"…The obtained results show the superiority of the designs in a reduction between 32% and 74% in transistors count and between 18% and 99% in PDP compared to the most recent works.…"
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Decision Support System to Risk Stratification in the Acute Coronary Syndrome Using Fuzzy Logic حسب Xiao, Hui

"…In ACS, the heart muscles cannot function properly due to the decrease of blood flow. Myocardial infarction (MI) is a condition which comes under the umbrella of acute coronary syndrome. …"
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Sex Differences in Healthy Eating: Investigating the Moderating Effect of Self-Efficacy حسب Razaz, Jalaledin Mirzay

"…Conclusions and Implications: Eating behavior self-efficacy had a significantly decreasing moderating effect on sex differences in the adoption of a healthy diet. …"
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Graph-Guided Regularized Regression of Pacific Ocean Climate Variables to Increase Predictive Skill of Southwestern U.S. Winter Precipitation حسب Tejedor, Alejandro

"…This approach both decreases the effective dimensionality of the problem and identifies the most predictive features without specifying them a priori. …"
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Effect of rat serum lipoproteins on mRNA levels and amiodarone metabolism by cultured primary rat hepatocytes حسب Brocks, D. R.

"…The effect of hyperlipidemic rat serum, either before or with AM, was profound, causing a significant reduction in the CLint. Reductions were seen in mRNA for cytochrome P450 1A1, 3A2, and 2D1, some transporters, and low-density lipoprotein receptors after exposure of hepatocytes to lipoprotein-rich sera. …"
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Palestinian import - export trade modeling For the period 1968-1998, an application of seemingly unrelated regression equations حسب Abugamea, Gaber Hussain

"…Also, under the prevailing relationship with Israel the Palestinian trade experienced losing of competitiveness, a situation let a shock in real exchange rate renders an increase in imports and a decrease in exports in trading with the ROW. …"
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Tailoring electrocatalytic properties of Pt nanoparticles grown on Ti3C2Tx MXene surface حسب Filip, Jaroslav

"…Furthermore, good stability of the electrode modified by the MX-Pt was achieved without any polymeric binder and the HER reaction achieved only a negligible decrease over 3 000 potentiodynamic cycles.…"
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Undrained interface shear strength of fine-grained soils for near-shore marine pipelines حسب Eid, Hisham T.

"…The peak and residual interface shear strengths for a variety of normally consolidated soils were measured using a torsional ring shear apparatus modified to suit soil and interface testing under the undrained condition, which is usually prevalent at soil-marine pipeline interfaces. …"
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Impact of combined oil-in-water emulsions and particulate suspensions on ceramic membrane fouling and permeability recovery حسب 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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Mathematical modeling assisted investigation of forward osmosis as pretreatment for microbial desalination cells to achieve continuous water desalination and wastewater treatment حسب Yuan, Heyang

"…Herein, an FO-MDC system was developed and examined in a continuously-operated mode. It achieved 70.6% COD removal from a synthetic wastewater and 94.0% conductivity decrease in a salt solution containing 35gL-1 NaCl. …"
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Production of flexible nanocomposite membranes for x-ray detectors حسب Ahmad I., Ayesh

"…Flexible membranes of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) polymer and CuO nanoparticles for x-ray detection applications are reported in this work. PVA represents a polymer matrix for nanoparticles, and its flexibility and electrical conductivity are enhanced by addition of glycerol (GL) plasticizer. …"
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Evaluation of different personalized ventilation air terminal devices: Inhalation vs. clothing-mediated exposures حسب Al Assaad, Douaa

"…The model was validated experimentally in a climatic chamber by comparing real-time particle mass concentration near a thermal manikin. …"
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Guidelines for Patients with Bleeding Disorders Undergoing Dentalveolar Surgeries حسب Amirova, Mahira

"…Prolongation of bleeding time can seriously complicate the patient’s condition during and after surgery, especially if there is iron deficiency anemia or any other condition accompanied by a decrease in hematopoiesis. For this reason, the dentist surgeon must be aware about the presence of such diseases in advance, in order to prevent the development of bleeding and its undesirable consequences promptly. …"
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Effect of self-healing calcium nitrate microcapsules on concrete properties حسب Milla, Jose

"…Overall, the results of this study indicated that although microcapsules caused a decrease in the compressive strength of the concrete, they enhanced the self-healing capability of the concrete that was produced. …"
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Modeling of dual-metal Schottky contacts based silicon micro and nano wire solar cells حسب Rabbani, M. Golam

"…However current per surface area exposed to light is found to decrease rapidly with increase in length. The use of a multi-contact interdigitated design for long wires is investigated to increase the photovoltaic response of the devices.…"
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Reinfections in COVID-19 Patients: Impact of Virus Genetic Variability and Host Immunity حسب Fakhroo, Aisha

"…The COVID-19 pandemic is still posing a devastating threat to social life and economics. …"
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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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Responses of lichen communities to 18 years of natural and experimental warming حسب Alatalo, Juha M.

"…The negative effect on species richness and effective number of species was driven by a decrease in lichens under experimental warming in the meadow. …"
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Changes in plant composition and diversity in an alpine heath and meadow after 18 years of experimental warming حسب Alatalo, Juha M.

"…The meadow community was more negatively affected in terms of species and phylogenetic diversity than the heath community. A potential driver for the changes in the meadow may be decreased soil moisture caused by long-term warming.…"
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