Urban Geometry: The Effect of Height Diversity and Buildings Configuration on Thermal Performance and Cooling Load at Urban Scale. A Case Study in Dubai / UAE by SHAREEF, SUNDUS LUAY

“…However, the previous studies have primarily focused on traditional methods of increasing the shading effect, such as by increasing buildings height / canyon width H/W ratio to provide the required compactness for desired solar access and energy saving target. …”
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Tabu search based circuit optimization by Sait, Sadiq M.

“…Such a strategy leads to sizable circuit speed improvement with minimum increase in the overall circuit capacitance. Compared to earlier approaches, the presented technique produces circuits with remarkable increase in speed (greater than 20%) for very small increase in overall circuit capacitance (less than 3%)…”
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The Effect of Auditor Characteristics on the Quality of Segment Disclosures of Diversified Firms by Elkelani, Sarah Ahmed

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Carbon dioxide insufflation during ERCP for reduction of postprocedure pain by Azar, Riad

“…Adverse events were infrequent and did not differ by group. No serious cardiopulmonary complications occurred. …”
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Novel paclitaxel formulations solubilized by parenteral nutrition nanoemulsions for application against glioma cell lines by Najlah, Mohammad

“…Both nanoemulsions were less toxic to the normal glial cells (SVG-P12), decreasing the cell viability to 25–35%. …”
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Valorization of Gas-To-Liquid Sludge as a Sustainable Soil Organic Amendment for Cotton Cultivation by Oumaima Mabrouk (17679435)

“…Accordingly, plants grown on GTL sludge-amended soils showed lower antioxidant activity despite a significant salinity increase. In addition, the concentrations of detected heavy metals in soil were within the standards’ limits, which did not pose environmental issues under the described experimental conditions. …”

Effect of Construction Void Defects on Flexural and Axial Load Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Members by Al Moukdad, Mohammad Mustafa

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The Internet Dilemma: An Exploratory Study of Luxury Firms' Usage of Internet-Based Technologies by Baker, Jeff

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Parallel multi-voltage power minimization in VLSI circuits. (c2013) by Younes, Rabih Halim

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Con-Detect: Detecting Adversarially Perturbed Natural Language Inputs to Deep Classifiers Through Holistic Analysis by Hassan Ali (3348749)

Con-Detect: Detecting adversarially perturbed natural language inputs to deep classifiers through holistic analysis by Hassan, Ali

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Evaluation of the appropriate use of commonly prescribed fluoroquinolones and the risk of dysglycemia by Kabbara, Wissam K.

“…The incidence of hypoglycemia was less common than hyperglycemia.…”
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Executive turnover and firm performance. (c2018) by Mehio, Khaled J.

“…Our results suggest an increase in executive turnover during the early years of a CEO’s tenure. …”
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Multilayer Reversible Data Hiding Based on the Difference Expansion Method Using Multilevel Thresholding of Host Images Based on the Slime Mould Algorithm by Abu Zitar, Raed

“…In the DE-based RDH method, finding spaces that create less distortion in the marked image is a significant challenge, and has a high insertion capacity. …”
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Training for awareness of one's own spirituality by Bar-Sela, Gil

“…The results showed that 82% of respondents think staff should provide spiritual care at least occasionally, but 44% provide spiritual care less often than they think they should. In multivariable analysis of respondents who valued spiritual care yet did not themselves provide it to their most recent patients, predictors included low personal sense of being spiritual (p < 0.001) and not having received training (p = 0.02; only 22% received training). …”
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Phenotypic and Proteomic characterization of Clinical Candida albicans isolates resistant to Fluconazole by Geukgeuzian, Giovanni

“…Our results showed that resistant isolates had increase ergosterol content, and a slight increase in chitin deposition leading to resistance, but were on average attenuated in virulence compared with sensitive isolates. …”
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Chemical, rheological, and sensory properties of wheat biscuits fortified with local buckwheat by Ahmed Hussein (683680)

“…</i> tataricum contained less protein and fat than the sample with <i>F</i>. esculentum. …”

Turning solid waste incineration ashes into a usable material in construction by Chatila, Jean G.

“…Furthermore, the dissolution of these ashes in water and acetic acid was checked and did not pose a problem within the applicable standards.…”
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Hippocampal Programmed Cell Death after Status Epilepticus by Abi-Habib, Ralph J.

“…Ceramide did not increase after KA-induced SE in P7 pups, which also did not manifest any DNA fragmentation. …”
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The role of objectively recorded smartphone usage and personality traits in sleep quality by Aftab Alam (5158601)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">The results indicated that more smartphone usage was associated with reduced sleep duration, increased sleep distraction, and later bedtime. Furthermore, smartphone users with the conscientiousness trait had a longer sleep duration, earlier sleeping time, less sleep distraction, and earlier wakeablity. …”