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Evaluation of the durability and shielding properties of high-strength concrete incorporating locally available materials and carbon additives
Published 2026“…However, the addition of carbon materials along with steel fibers (FCLDUNE) decreased these strengths by 19.6 and 15%, and increased shrinkage and creep by 18 and 9%, respectively. …”
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Changing life expectancy in European countries 1990–2021: a subanalysis of causes and risk factors from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
Published 2025“…Exposure to these major risk factors differed by country, with trends of increasing exposure to high BMI and decreasing exposure to tobacco smoke observed in all countries during 1990–2021. …”
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Coping mechanisms among Lebanese first-time college students
Published 2012“…As scores on resilience, social support and being male increased, the well-being of Lebanese first-time College students also increased. As the usage of withdrawal coping strategies, being exposed to stress related to self and uncertainty increased, the well-being of Lebanese first-time college students decreased. …”
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Electrochemical and thermodynamic study on the corrosion performance of API X120 steel in 3.5% NaCl solution
Published 2020“…The overall results revealed that PEI significantly decreases the corrosion rate of API X120 steel with inhibition efficiency of 94% at a concentration of 100 μmol L<sup>−1</sup>. …”
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Reinforcement R-learning model for time scheduling of on-demand fog placement
Published 2020“…We also demonstrate the ability of our model to improve over time by adapting the new demand of users. Experiments comparing the decisions of our model with two other potential fog placement approaches used for task/service scheduling (threshold based and random based) show that the number of processed requests performed by the cloud decreases from 100 to 30% with a limited number of fogs to push. …”
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Ambulatory general urgent clinic: an initiative at the time of COVID-19 pandemic
Published 2024“…Our quality improvement study aimed to decrease the waiting time by 20%, from 21 days in January 2021 to 14 days in April 2021, to evaluate the newly established clinics for urgent referrals during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to assess the physicians’ satisfaction regarding these clinics.…”
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Deep Learning for Dynamic Wildlife Monitoring: A Real-Time Approach
Published 2025“…The parameters of the fine-tuned YOLOv11 decreased by 30% relative to the previous version, resulting in a very small model size of 5.5 MB and reduced processing time. …”
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Effect of Girder Damage on the Structural Behavior of Slab-on-Girder Bridges
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the HIV Cascade of Care in Botswana – An Interrupted Time Series
Published 2024“…In multivariable Poisson interrupted time series regression, the COVID-19 lockdown was associated with a 27% decrease in the monthly numbers of HIV tests (IRR 0.73, 95%CI 0.72–0.73), a 25% decrease in HIV positive tests (IRR 0.75, 95%CI 0.71–0.79), and a 43% reduction in ART initiations (IRR 0.57, 95%CI 0.55–0.60). …”
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Swimming exercise improves short‐ and long‐term memories: Time‐course changes
Published 2021“…However, the memory enhancement profile following the time-course of exercise training remains unknown. …”
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An empirical evaluation of the technology cycle time indicator as ameasure of the pace of technological progress in superconductortechnology
Published 1999“…This study found the trend in TCT changed abruptly from gradually increasing (slowing in cycle time) to steadily decreasing (speeding up in cycle time) following the discovery of high-temperature superconductors. …”
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Capacity allocation for voice over IP networks using maximum waiting time models
Published 2004“…However, the amount of network resources could be drastically decreased if only a small number of all voice connections are allowed to be negatively affected. …”
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Part II.: Dissimilar friction stir welding of nickel titanium shape memory alloy to stainless steel – microstructure, mechanical and corrosion behavior
Published 2021“…<p dir="ltr">In the present work, nickel-titanium (NiTi) shape memory alloys (SMAs) is joined to 304 stainless steel (SS) using friction stir welding (FSW) using process parameters of 400 rpm and a constant tool translation speed of 75 mm/min. …”
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Biodegradable polysaccharide grafted polyacrylamide inhibitor for corrosion in CO<sub>2</sub>- saturated saline solution
Published 2023“…Lastly, potentiostatic testing of steel with AGGPAM at an applied potential of 50 mV illustrated surface protection and decreased current over a prolonged time. …”
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Towards Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Manufacturing Applying Environmentally Friendly Machining of a Precipitation Hardened Stainless Steel Using Hot Turning Process
Published 2023“…In this research, the conventional and hot turning of AISI630 hardened stainless steel have been investigated using PVD-(Ti,Al)N/(Al,Cr)<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> coated carbide cutting tools at various feed rates and cutting speeds. …”
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Driving against the clock: Investigating the impacts of time pressure on taxi and non-professional drivers’ safety and compliance
Published 2024“…<p>Drivers often encounter time pressure, which can lead to riskier driving habits, decreased safety margins, and a higher chance of accidents. …”
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Theoretical and experimental insights into the C-steel aqueous corrosion inhibition at elevated temperatures in 1.0 M HCl via multi-carbonyl Gemini cationic surfactants
Published 2023“…We aimed to evaluate these surfactants as potential corrosion inhibitors for carbon steel (CS) in 1 M HCl at temperatures of 25–55 ± 0.1 °C. …”
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Biomolecular changes and subsequent time-dependent recovery in hippocampal tissue after experimental mild traumatic brain injury
Published 2021“…This study reports the time-dependent contextual and structural effects of TBI on hippocampal brain tissue. …”