Effect of acute and chronic moderate alcohol consumption on fasted and postprandial lipemia in the rat by Daher, Costantine F.

“…Unlike the acute study, an alcohol–fat load in animals put on chronic alcohol intake results in increased HDL cholesterol concentrations and less pronounced postprandial hypertriglyceridemia and hypercholesterolemia but not hyperchylomicronemia. …”
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Production and investigation of flexible nanofibers of sPEEK/PVP loaded with RuO2 nanoparticles by Mariem Chamakh (14150481)

“…The results illustrated the increase in resistivity as well as the activation energy with the increase of nanoparticle concentration due to the reduction in the free SO₃H groups because of the strong ionic crosslinking. …”

Off-design performance analysis of combined CSP power and direct oxy-combustion supercritical carbon dioxide cycles by Ahmad K., Sleiti

“…On the other hand, the increase of the TIT improves the cycle efficiency (by 8.6%) but also increases the consumed fuel by (57%).…”
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Essays on the effect of excess compensation and governance changes on firm value by Dah, Mustafa A.

“…Our results suggest that an increase in director excess compensation decreases the likelihood of CEO turnover, reduces the turnover-performance sensitivity, and increases managerial entrenchment. …”
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Functional disability of road traffic injury patients admitted to the National Hospital of Sri Lanka on admission and three months after discharge from the hospital by Roshan Chaminda Sampath (19774524)

“…At three months after the injury significant increase proportion of functional disability was observed with increase number of body regions injured (p=0.000) and with increase injury severity (p=0.000). …”

A Parallel Algorithm for Inverse Halftoning and its Hardware Implementation by Siddiqi, Umair F.

“…Abstract Lookup Table (LUT) method for inverse halftoning is computation less, fast and also yields goods results. This paper proposes a parallel algorithm for inverse halftoning by parallelizing the LUT method of inverse halftoning. …”
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A geoenvironmental application of burned wastewater sludge ash in soil stabilization by AI-Sharif, Munjed M.

“…The results show that the addition of 7.5 % of the burned sludge ash by the dry weight of the soil will increase the unconfined compressive strength and maximum dry density and also decrease the swelling pressure and the swell potential of the soil. …”
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Personnel contributions to UN and non-UN peacekeeping missions A public goods approach by Gaibulloev, Khusrav

“…The analysis shows that UN missions are much less responsive to personnel spillovers, derived from other contributors' peacekeepers, than is the case of non-UN missions. …”
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Energy Performance of Public Housing Buildings in Sao Paulo, Brazil An Evaluation of the Current Design Process by Leister, Alexandra Maria Aguiar

“…On the other hand, the worldwide population increase forced the implementation of mass production constructions to solve housing deficits. …”
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Risk Factors for Post-Cesarean, Surgical Site Infections in a Multi-Ethnic Population of Qatar by Sufia Athar (14777830)

“…In our hospital, the SSIs after CD were noted to increase in 2016 and first quarter of 2017. One of the methods implemented for SSI reduction included identifying modifiable risk factors.…”

Evaluation of heavy metals content in dietary supplements in Lebanon by Korfali, Samira Ibrahim

“…Results: Some samples had levels of metals above their maximum allowable levels (Fe: 24%, Zn: 33%, Mn: 27%, Se: 15%, Mo: 12% of samples), but did not pose any health risk because they were below permitted daily exposure limit and recommended daily allowance except for Fe in 6% of the samples. …”
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The relationship between the implementation of reader's workshop on MAP test result. (c2017) by Khoury, Megan

“…Two research questions guided the study: How did the MAP results compare prior to and post implementation of the Reader’s Writer’s Workshop and Words Their Way? …”
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Muscle protein anabolism in type 2 diabetes by Bassil, Maya S.

“…One study of chronic leucine supplementation in elderly T2DM patients did not increase muscle mass. However, they lacked sarcopenia and had adequate dietary protein intake, so may be atypical. …”
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Treatment of apixaban- and rivaroxaban-associated major bleeding using 4-factor prothrombin complex concentrate by Sheikh-Taha, Marwan

“…Clinical hemostasis was achieved in 21 (72.4%) patients. Patients who did not achieve clinical hemostasis (27.6%) suffered from ICH, and all of them died during hospitalization except for two patients who were discharged with neurologic deterioration. …”
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Enhanced thermal conductivity of polyethylene nanocomposites with graphene, granulated graphene, graphene nanoplatelet, and their hybrids by Chaudhry Usman (14778280)

“…The hybrid fillers revealed that fillers with similar shape and different aspect ratios did not display any synergetic <i>κ_c</i>.…”

Impact of Classroom Plants on Students’ Comfort and Performance in UAE by Al-Bustami, Hadil

“…It was concluded that the impact on the students was more psychological than tangible as the measurements did not differ to the extent to affect indoor quality. …”
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A comprehensive design and rating study of evaporative coolers and condensers. Part I. Performance evaluation by QURESHI, BILAL AHMED

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Tranexamic Acid for Traumatic Injury in the Emergency Setting: A Systematic Review and Bias-Adjusted Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials by Pieter Francsois, Fouche

“…No compelling evidence of increased vascular occlusive events emerged (OR 0.96, 95% CI 0.73 to 1.27). …”
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Image coding using entropy-constrained reflected residual vector quantization by Khan, M.A.U.

“…The constrained Ref-RVQ codebook exhibits an increase in distortion. However, it was conjectured that the Ref-RVQ codebook has a lower output entropy than that of the multipath RVQ codebook. …”
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An experimental and numerical approach to understand the effect of the IPMC composition on its sensing and energy harvesting behavior by Akle, Barbar

“…Previous numerical work by the author, demonstrated that increasing the ionic concentration of the ionomer will increase the current and voltage generated by an IPMC. …”
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