Foreign Aid and the Quest for Poverty Reduction: Is Aid to Agriculture Effective? by Kaya, Ozgur

“…This study contributes to the debate on aid effectiveness by disaggregating total aid into subcategories and specifically investigating the relationship between aid given to the agricultural sector and poverty reduction. …”
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Greywater reuse in the water-scarce Gulf Region by Canal Forgues, Eric

“…The current article discusses these issues and, given the public reluctance in the UAE to accept interior greywater reuse, it focuses on the applicability of constructed wetlands in the Gulf region and their potential to enhance irrigation streams and landscape appeal.…”
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Evaluation of Lycopus uniflorus water extract for anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcerogenic and antioxidant activities by Saade, S.

“…The estimated total phenolic content was 228.5 GAE per gram. The results show that Lycopus uniflorus possesses a potential anti-inflammatory, anti-ulcerogenic and antioxidant activities.…”
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Notes total mesorectal excision (TME) for patients with rectal neoplasia by Chouillard, E.

“…A median of 17 nodes (range 12–81) was retrieved per specimen. Mean length of hospital stay was 10 days (range 4–29 days). …”
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Self-Reported Sleep and Exercise Patterns in Patients with Schizophrenia: a Cross-Sectional Comparative Study by Nancy Kiwan (12451992)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">The majority of patients with schizophrenia slept more than 8 h per day and exercised less when compared with controls. …”

Swimming exercise improves short‐ and long‐term memories: Time‐course changes by Mahmoud A. Alomari (14780446)

“…Young adult Wistar rats were tested for both short-term and long-term memories using the radial arm water maize (RAWM) paradigm following 0, 1, 7, 14, and 28 days of swimming exercise training (60 min per day, 5 days/week)s. The mean total errors on RAWM during the learning phase and memory testing remained the same (p > 0.5) after 1 day of swimming exercise. …”

Crunching the numbers of food poisoning in Qatar by Nature Research (16552612)

“…</p><p>The incidence rate of salmonellosis in Qatar in 2012 was 18.1 per 100,000. This rate is comparable to others in countries such as Canada (19.4/100,000), Poland (22.9/100,000) and the US (16.4/100,000).…”

Shear performance of FRP Reinforced Deep Beams Made of Ultra High Performance Concrete (UHPC) by Salman, Omar

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Optimal design of a new vibration absorber setup for randomly forced systems by Issa, Jimmy

“…It is shown that an optimal mass ratio exists, unlike the case of classical absorbers where performance increases with increasing absorber mass. The optimal parameters associated with the optimal mass ratio are calculated and tabulated for a range of primary system damping ratios. …”
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Effect of StarD13 on colorectal cancer proliferation, motility and invasion by Nasrallah, Anita

“…Colon cancer is a cancer of the epithelial cells lining the colon. It is mainly divided into different stages according to the invasiveness and metastatic ability of the tumor. …”
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Clinical correlates of white-matter abnormalities on head magnetic resonance imaging by Dimassi, Hani

“…Children with white-matter abnormalities and increased tone had a greater frequency of increased reflexes and tended to have more signal abnormalities than the other groups. …”
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Colon cancer classification using microarray data by Tariq Khan, Saima

“…In treating cancer time is of the essence and early detection can dramatically increase the chances of survival. Imaging techniques, which are the prevalent method of detection and diagnosis, are only useful once the cancerous growth has become visible.However, if techniques that detect cancerous processes at a genetic level are utilized then the cancerous tissues could be identified, and the disease diagnosed much earlier, thus giving a far better prognosis.Therefore, the aim of this thesis is to evaluate the performance of a variety of different classification methods with a particular dataset containing genetic samples of both normal and cancerous biopsies of the colon tissue.A classifier will be recommended which is able to learn the patterns within the microarray data that best determines the classification of the samples.…”
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PDX1⁻/NKX6.1⁺ progenitors derived from human pluripotent stem cells as a novel source of insulin‐secreting cells by Bushra Memon (4792767)

“…Also, the 3D-beta cells secreted C-peptide in response to increased glucose concentrations indicating their functionality.…”

Effects of selenium in comparison to exendin-4 on the expression of GLP-1R, IRS-1 and preproinsulin in the pancreas of diabetic rats by Rizk, Sandra

“…It binds and activates GLP-1R with greater potency than GLP-1 and is used in the treatment of diabetes mellitus. …”
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Trends in criminal convictions in Japan for vehicle collisions where one driver suffers from an epileptic seizure by Mineko Baba (19774386)

“…To reduce collisions to an even greater degree, this type of collision should be prevented. …”

Efficient and cost-effective alternative treatment for recurrent urinary tract infections and interstitial cystitis in women by Mansour, Anthony

“…UTIs are primarily caused by Escherichia coli, which increases the likelihood of a recurrent infection. …”
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Narratives of internal migration experiences, health/well-being issues among females working as head-porters (Kayayei) in Ghana by Kuyini, Ahmed Bawa

“…They also suggest that the Kayayei phenomenon is a significant child protection, health/well-being concern yet to be given adequate attention in ways that consider the implications of such large internal migration of females on the overall humanresourcedevelopmentcapacitiesofruralcommunities. …”
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A discrete-time stochastic iterative learning control algorithm for a class of nonlinear systems by Saab, S. S.

“…The author also shows that in presence of measurement noise, the state error covariance matrix converges to zero as the number of learning iterations increases. Finally, a numerical example is given that compares the performance of the proposed algorithm to a conventional ILC algorithm.…”
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Design of a vibration absorber for harmonically forced damped systems by Issa, Jimmy

“…The optimal absorber parameters are obtained with the aim of minimizing the maximum of the primary system frequency response. For a given damping ratio of the primary system and mass ratio of the system, the optimal stiffness and damping ratios of the absorber are calculated numerically. …”
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Students’ conceptual understanding of a function and its derivative in an experimental calculus course by Habre, Samer

“…Calculus has been witnessing fundamental changes in its curriculum, with an increased emphasis on visualization. This mode for representing mathematical concepts is gaining more strength due to the advances in computer technology and the development of dynamical mathematical software. …”
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