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Clotted blood samples in the neonatal intensive care unit: A retrospective, observational study to evaluate interventions to reduce blood sample clotting
Published 2023“…</p><h3>Aims</h3><p dir="ltr">To decrease the incidence of rejected blood samples taken for laboratory investigation as a result of clotted sample.…”
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Efficiency of commercial banks in Lebanon
Published 2008“…The stochastic production and cost function estimates show that bank level inefficiency effects decreases with time and increases with number of branches, employees per branch, and ratio of staff to operating expenses.…”
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CEO gender and managerial entrenchment
Published 2020“…We find that the presence of female CEO decreases the turnover-performance sensitivity, increases the E-index, and inflates CEO compensation. …”
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The Effect of Auditor Characteristics on the Quality of Segment Disclosures of Diversified Firms
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Solar syngas production via methanothermal reduction of strontium oxide
Published 2020“…The efficiency analysis is conducted by investigating a) Sr-Syn open process and b) Sr-Syn semi-open process as a function of the rise in the CH<sub>4</sub>/SrO ratio from 0.1 to 1. As per the results allied with the equilibrium analysis, a temperature of 2230 K is needed for the complete conversion of SrO into Sr and CH<sub>4</sub> into a mixture of H<sub>2</sub> and CO (syngas). …”
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The global, regional, and national burden of oesophageal cancer and its attributable risk factors in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global...
Published 2020“…Oesophageal cancer caused 9·78 million (9·53–10·03) DALYs, with an age-standardised rate of 120 (117–123) per 100 000 population. Between 1990 and 2017, age-standardised incidence decreased by 22·0% (18·6–25·2), mortality decreased by 29·0% (25·8–32·0), and DALYs decreased by 33·4% (30·4–36·1) globally. …”
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Research on the potential of photovoltaic technologies in reducing energy consumption in an urban mixed use residential community. A Case study for net zero energy community in Dub...
Published 2018“…This is mainly because most of its domestic energy needs are meet by subsidized electricity tariffs in Abu Dhabi also to blame for their high per capita GHG emissions. …”
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Concise fuzzy representation of big graphs
Published 2018“…However, rigorous edge storage might not always be essential to be able to draw the needed conclusions. A similar problem takes records with many variables and attempts to extract the most discernible features. …”
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Bevacizumab and neovascular age related macular degeneration
Published 2011“…Further, randomized prospective clinical trials are needed to determine the efficacy and safety of intravitreal bevacizumab in the treatment of neovascular AMD.…”
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A component analysis of positive behaviour support plans
Published 2012“…Conclusion Only treatment acceptability was found to be related to decreases in behavioural frequency. No single intervention component was found to have a greater association with reductions in challenging behaviour…”
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Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 co...
Published 2024“…Globally between 2010 and 2021, the age-standardised DALY rates for HIV/AIDS decreased by 47·8% (43·3–51·7) and for diarrhoeal diseases decreased by 47·0% (39·9–52·9). …”
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Effects of natural organic matter on aggregation kinetics of boron nanoparticles in monovalent and divalent electrolytes
Published 2010“…However, the attachment efficiency kept increasing in the presence of CaCl2 and alginate with the increase in the electrolyte concentration and was greater than unity at >4 mM CaCl2. The destabilization was attributed to bridging of the nanoparticles by the alginate–Ca2+ system. …”
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Optimizing Functional Unit Binding During HighLevel Synthesis
Published 2012“…The optimization procedure swaps possible nodes to decrease the number of needed multiplexers in the final design. …”
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Optimum sizing of steam turbines for concentrated solar power plants
Published 2012“…Finally, although the cost of electricity of a CSP plant with capacities greater than 1MWe is significantly reduced to less than 1US$/kWh, currently such technology can only become economically viable through supporting schemes.…”
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Improving the Performance Measurement Using Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in Borouge
Published 2023“…According to the findings, the average OEE on a first extruder is 95%, and second extruder is 91%, the value is higher than the world's ideal OEE standard value of > 85%. But This research needs to make improvement on these components to increase the value of OEE. …”
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A control algorithm to increase the efficient operation of wind energy conversion systems under extreme wind conditions
Published 2022“…<p dir="ltr">This paper aims to increase the power production of gearless permanent magnet synchronous generator (PMSG) based wind energy conversion systems (WECS) in strong (greater than 25 m/s) wind speed regions. In general, most wind turbines cut off when wind speed is over the cut-out rate; as a result, the power generation of the wind farm decreases. …”
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Journalism and media studies in Lebanon
Published 2009“…While the three groups differed on various matters, they all agreed that journalism and media studies in Lebanon urgently needed more qualified faculty, locally oriented research, and relevant academic and technical resources. …”
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Co‐operative learning for Children with an Autistic Spectrum disorder (ASD) in mainstream and special class settings
Published 2007“…CL was found to be successful in substantially increasing the level of social engagement for both the child in the special needs class and the child in the mainstream class. …”
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Implementation of corporate governance rules and procedures in lebanese firms
Published 2014“…This leads to a serious problem which is the lack of knowledge and awareness of the advantages of corporate governance in such economies. Thus, there is a need to understand the framework and implementation of corporate governance in developing/emerging countries. …”
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Medication safety spontaneous reporting system
Published 2019“…The form was tuned based on the findings of the Community pharmacists, hospital pharmacists and the general population questionnaires about medication safety culture, to fit the needs of the practice and to be comprehensive and aligned with international validated standards. …”
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