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Exploring urban growth–climate change–flood risk nexus in fast growing cities
Published 2022“…Growth in urban areas and the perturbation of climatic parameters caused runoff to increase by 422%, suggesting that urban growth contributed more than climatic parameters. …”
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Comparative Study on Beneficial Effects of Hydroxytyrosol- and Oleuropein-Rich Olive Leaf Extracts on High-Fat Diet-Induced Lipid Metabolism Disturbance and Liver Injury in Rats
Published 2020“…Equally, it showed a rise of the apoptotic markers (a decrease in the expression of the Bcl-2 and an increase of the P53). …”
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Gaining or Losing Team Ball Possession: The Dynamics of Momentum Perception and Strategic Choice in Football Coaches
Published 2019“…Nonetheless, both variables displayed asymmetrical effects, in the sense that: (1) the strength of positive PM appeared to be easier to decrease than to increase; and (2) the greater the positive PM (or the negative PM), the lesser (or the greater) the coaches’ tendency to make a change in the organization of their teams. …”
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Colloid retention and mobilization mechanisms under different physicochemical conditions in porous media: A micromodel study
Published 2021“…However, for hydrophobic colloids, changes in solution chemistry significantly increase colloid retention where the colloid interaction become attractive with the increase in ionic strength and decrease in pH values. …”
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Cost-effectiveness of novel treatment of hepatitis C virus in Lebanese patients
Published 2018“…Sensitivity analysis showed that a 25% decrease in the cost of dual drug option resulted in a decrease of incremental cost to 16,982 euro per QALY gained at first year of treatment with DAAs upon early HCV diagnosis. …”
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Water Footprint Assessment and Virtual Water Trade in the Globally Most Water-Stressed Country, Qatar
Published 2023“…<p dir="ltr">Qatar is one of the most water stressed countries globally, despite Qatar’s aridity and its lack of freshwater resources, per capita water consumption became one of the highest in the world due to population growth, agricultural expansion, rapid urbanization and industrialization and it is expected to increase in the coming decades. …”
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Utilization of the internet for physical activity and diet information and its influence on pregnant women’s lifestyle habits in Qatar
Published 2023“…</p><h3>Conclusion</h3><p dir="ltr">Many pregnant women use the internet to access information about PA and diet, and greater use is associated with more positive lifestyle changes. …”
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Evidence-based safety education and training for traffic injury prevention
Published 2015“…Bicycle skill training for children and youth may increase their safety knowledge, but not necessarily improve their behavior or decrease their injury rates. …”
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Flexural Response of Reinforced Concrete One-Way Slabs Embedded with Pet Bottles
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The impact of COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown on smoking habits and lifestyle: A cross‐sectional study
Published 2023“…Females who started smoking last year were 2.6‐fold more than males (<i>p</i>< 0.0001). We also noticed that there is a significant relationship between those who started smoking and are <18 years, living in a family consisting of seven members or more, being unemployed, having a diploma or bachelor's degree in a health‐related major, having no chronic illnesses, increasing of daily meals or night meals, almost daily sugar intake, starting to follow social media account concerning physical activity, exercising once or twice a week, and sleeping more hours per day since the beginning of the pandemic (<i>p</i> < 0.01).…”
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Growth hormone treatment modulates active ghrelin levels in rats
Published 2014“…Consequently, under such treatment, determination of active ghrelin concentration per tissue mass rather than per tissue protein is favored. …”
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A Comprehensive Method of Ion Exchange Resins Regeneration and Its Optimization for Water Treatment
Published 2020“…The amount of resin significantly impacts the deionization efficiency; more ions are removed as the amount of resin increases.…”
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Performance assessment of an integrated absorption cooling-hydrogen liquefaction system using geothermal energy
Published 2013“…The results show that the mass of hydrogen gas pre-cooled by the absorption system per unit mass flow rate of geothermal water flowing through the system (n) and the amount of hydrogen liquefied per unit mass flow rate of geothermal water flowing through the system (y) increase with an increase in the geothermal source temperature. …”
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The global, regional, and national burden of stomach cancer in 195 countries, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease study 2017
Published 2020“…Compared with 1990, in 2017 more than 356 000 more incident cases of stomach cancer were estimated, leading to nearly 96 000 more deaths. …”
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An improved non-dimensional model of wet-cooling towers
Published 2020“…The first method shows a maximum decrease of 4.4 per cent in error, whereas in the second method, the maximum error was found to be 3.3 and 6.8 per cent when the inlet air was unsaturated and saturated, respectively. …”
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Global, regional and national burden of bladder cancer and its attributable risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of...
Published 2021“…Although there was a clear global decrease in the age-standardised death, and DALY rates, some countries experienced an increase in these rates. …”
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Solar water heating in Lebanon
Published 2006“…Simplified initial estimates indicate a payback period of 4–5 years while advanced mathematical models (RETScreen) indicate that the most advanced evacuated tube technology has a payback period of less than 9 years at current market prices. With decreasing cost per square meter of installed collectors, payback periods are expected to rapidly decrease. …”
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Shear Behavior of One-Way Reinforced Concrete Hollow Slabs Voided with PET Void Formers
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YOLO-DefXpert: An Advanced Defect Detection on PCB Surfaces Using Improved YOLOv11 Algorithm
Published 2025“…Compared to the standard YOLOv11 model, the proposed YOLO-DefXpert attained an improvement of 9.3% and 13.2% in mAP50 and mAP95, an 11.25% increase in frames per second, and a 69.85MB decrease in model size. …”
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