Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants by Bin, Zhou

“…The number of adults with raised blood pressure increased from 594 million in 1975 to 1·13 billion in 2015, with the increase largely in low-income and middle-income countries. …”
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Towards a Unified Arabic Government Services Chatbot Based on Ontology by Areed, Sufyan

“…Since the birth of the term "e-government", the amount of structured and unstructured information has increased dramatically, which has forced all government entities worldwide to provide many call centers with long working hours that may reach to 24/7 in some entities to answer users' questions related government services, regardless of the time wasted by the clients while waiting to get in touch with the agent. …”
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Changes in Blood microRNA Expression and Early Metabolic Responsiveness 21 Days Following Bariatric Surgery by Stephen L. Atkin (6684368)

“…<h3>Background: </h3><p dir="ltr">Early metabolic responses following bariatric surgery appear greater than expected given the initial weight loss and coincide with improvement in diabetes. …”

Understanding the phenomenon of saltwater intrusion sourced from desalination plants at coastal aquifers by Farhat Abbas (5480)

“…Column Peclet numbers from the two analyses were identical for potassium ions but those for bromide ions were c. 60% greater from the two-region model than from the convective–diffusion equation. …”

Comparative study of the parameters affecting the performance of microchannels' heat exchangers: Latest advances review by Muhammad Asim (2235472)

“…Apart from this, investigating the inlet/outlet arrangement through finite volume method for D‐, I‐, N‐, S‐, U‐, and V‐type arrangements, it is evident that the V‐type sink has overall greater performance. In terms of gravity, it is observed that it has no effect on the performance of microchannel heat exchangers. …”

Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of candida albicans Lebanese hospital isolates resistant and sensitive to caspofungin. (c2018) by Toutounji, Maggie Nazih

“…Caspofungin sensitive strains showed decreased resistance to Congo red yet increased virulence and biofilm formation. All filamentous strains were adhesive but only some were virluent. …”
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Fuzzified ant colony optimization algorithm for efficient combinational circuits synthesis by Sarif, B.A.B.

“…With the increasing demand for high quality, more efficient, less area and less power circuits, the problem of logic circuit design has become a multiobjective optimization problem. …”
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Tumor protease-activated fusion toxins by Abi-Habib, Ralph J.

“…These toxins are activated by ubiquitously expressed furin-proteases and, though highly potent and selective against tumor cells, are still toxic to some normal cells that express the receptor for their tumor-targeting moiety. …”
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TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVE ON ENGAGED TEACHING: STUDY FROM AN AMERICAN CURRICULUM ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN DUBAI by ALBASHA, WAFA

“…Problem statement: Collaborative learning is hectic for some learners, hence the need for a skilled teacher to ensure effective teaching outcomes. …”
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The Determinants of the Performance of Commercial Banks Industry Evidence of Listed Commercial Banks at ADX by MOHAMMAD YASSEN DARKAL, MOHAMMAD YASSAR

“…In addition to simple linear regression method that used in hypotheses testing, correlation and some descriptive statistics were also applied in the analysis of data. …”
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Structure of a reattaching supersonic shear layer by Samimy, M.

“…The preliminary results show that large-scale relatively organized structures with limited spanwise extent form in the free shear layer. Some of these structures appear to survive the recompression and reattachment processes, while others break down into smaller scales and the flow becomes increasingly three-dimensional. …”
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A marking technique for intraoperative localization of small liver metastases before systemic chemotherapy by Zalinski, Stephanie

“…Preoperative chemotherapy is increasingly used prior to resection of colorectal liver metastases (CLM). …”
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Sensitivity analysis of work plane illuminance to room surface reflectance values by WAFI, RANA BASHIR

“…In the large open spaces , and when the ceiling surface reflectance is high , the illumination will be increased more than results of increasing wall reflectance values . …”
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Effects of religious diversity on the employees' perception and reaction by Messarra, Leila

“…With increased globalization and emigration, religious diversity is becoming an essential part of workforce diversity. …”
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On the exact recovery of cumulants by Cheded, L.

“…Two new theorems on the variance aspects of 3 unbiased linear sample moment estimators are also presented. Finally, some simulation results on the recovery of cumulants, which are in very good agreement with the theory, are included…”
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Provision of spiritual care to advanced cancer patients by doctors and nurses in the Middle East by Bar_Sela, G.

“…Background: In the US, ∼75% of advanced cancer patients want doctors and nurses to provide some spiritual care, and a similar percentage of staff believe they should do so. …”
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Breakthroughs and Limitations of XML Grammar Similarity by Tekli, Joe

“…SVG1, SMIL2, X3D3 and MPEG-74 are only some examples of XML-based multimedia data representations. …”
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Study of the Electromechanical Models for Cardiac Activity by Itani, Rana

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Trends and levels of the global, regional, and national burden of appendicitis between 1990 and 2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Letourneau, Ian D

“…Although the global age-standardised incidence rate of appendicitis has steadily decreased between 1990 and 2021, almost half of GBD regions saw an increase of greater than 10% in their age-standardised incidence rates. …”
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Squamous Cell Carcinomas of the Head and Neck Cancer Response to Programmed Cell Death Protein-1 Targeting and Differential Expression of Immunological Markers: A Case Report by Maysaloun Merhi (4246147)

“…Several cytokines/chemokines involved in immune activation were upregulated after nivolumab treatment; two biomarkers were reduced at progression [interleukin (IL)-10: ****p < 0.0001 and CX3CL1: ****p < 0.0001]. On the other hand, some cytokines/chemokines contributing to immune inhibition were downregulated after nivolumab treatment; two biomarkers were increased at progression (IL-6: ****p < 0.0001 and IL-8: ****p < 0.0001). …”