Durability of the bond between CFRP plates and concrete exposed to harsh environment حسب Al-Tamimi, Adil

"…It was observed that the specimens exposed to the sun and saline environments experienced an increase in both the bond strength and attained peak loads because exposure of the adhesive to elevated temperature increased the bond because of greater polymer crosslinking, thus creating complex interactions in the polymer matrix. …"
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Con-Detect: Detecting adversarially perturbed natural language inputs to deep classifiers through holistic analysis حسب Hassan, Ali

"…Even in the worst case, we note a 100% increase in the required number of queries and a 50% increase in the number of words perturbed, suggesting that Con-Detect is hard to evade.…"
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Proteomics Analysis of Human Obesity Reveals the Epigenetic Factor HDAC4 as a Potential Target for Obesity حسب Mohamed Abu-Farha (18535590)

"…Thrombospondin 1 (TSP1) was among the proteins that were upregulated in obese subjects and then decreased by physical exercise. Conversely, the histone deacetylase 4 (HDAC4) was downregulated in obese subjects and then induced by physical exercise. …"

Carotid artery revascularization through a radiated field حسب Lesèche, Guy

"…Follow-up duplex scans showed asymptomatic recurrent stenosis greater than 60% in 3 patients, 2 of whom with stenosis greater than 80% underwent repeat operation. …"
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Risk at the margins حسب Pollock, William

"…In light of these issues, we quantitatively assess the landslide risk profile of Lebanon, finding a 75% increase in landslide risk since the start of the Syrian crisis. …"
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Engaging with readers: Students’ metalinguistic understanding of the use of pronouns in building reader-writer relationships حسب Debra Myhill (12042048)

"…<p>Students’ metalinguistic understanding of the written academic argument is important both to increase writer independence and inform writing instruction. …"

Survival Misperceptions, Time Inconsistency, and Implications for Life-cycle Saving and Welfare حسب Gahramanov, Emin

"…In general equilibrium, however, such time inconsistent behavior with survival misperception is conducive to aggregate capital accumulation and greater equilibrium bequest income. The latter effects can produce substantial welfare gains. …"
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Positron annihilation doppler broadening spectroscopy of carbon black and carbon black-filled rubber polymers حسب Semaan, Mars E.

"…This behavior can be understood as due to a combination of reduction in positronium formation as carbon black is added to the polymer, and the decrease in positron annihilation with valence electrons in the sample as the amount of carbon black-polymer links are increased. …"
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Association Between Serum Bicarbonate Levels and Prediabetes and Subclinical Inflammation in Young Healthy Adults: A Cross-sectional Study حسب Abeer A Omar (21623774)

"…After multivariable logistic regression, each unit increase in serum bicarbonate was associated with a 17% decreased risk of prediabetes (OR: 0.83, 95%CI: 0.70– 0.99, <i>p</i>=0.034), in males but no association was observed for females. …"

Risk Factors for Post-Cesarean, Surgical Site Infections in a Multi-Ethnic Population of Qatar حسب Sufia Athar (14777830)

"…Physicians should give special attention to modifiable risk factors and antibiotic stewardship to decrease the risk of SSI and improve patient outcomes.…"

High flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) in the treatment of COVID-19 infection of adult patients from – An emergency perspective: A systematic review and meta-analysis حسب Nabil, Shallik

"…HFNO was associated with a significant decrease in mortality and intubation rates (0.28 (95% CI; 0.19, 0.39) and 0.28 (95% CI; 0.18, 0.41), respectively). …"
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Evidence-based safety education and training for traffic injury prevention حسب Abbas Motevalian (338825)

"…Bicycle skill training for children and youth may increase their safety knowledge, but not necessarily improve their behavior or decrease their injury rates. …"

Initial risk assessment for pulmonary hypertension in patients with COPD حسب Yammine, Joe

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Reputation-based cooperative detection model of selfish nodes in cluster-based QoS-OLSR protocol. (c2014) حسب Moati, Nadia

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Ablation of LAT2 Transporter Causes Intramuscular Glutamine Accumulation and Inhibition of Fasting‐Induced Proteolysis حسب Meritxell Espino‐Guarch (22565774)

"…Ex vivo incubation of LAT2KO muscle with rapamycin recovered proteolysis function, demonstrating a mTORC1‐dependent pathway. Decreased proteolysis in LAT2KO animals was associated with increased mTORC1 translocation to the lysosome (mTORC1‐Lamp1 colocalization in fasted LAT2KO muscles was 1.23‐fold, <i>p</i> < 0.0001). …"

The performance of banks in post-war Lebanon حسب Raad, Elias

"…Although we find that Lebanese banks are profitable, most of them had accounting return on assets (ROA) greater than one percent over most of our test period, they are not as profitable as a control group of banks from five other countries located in the Middle East. …"
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A review of cleaner alternative fuels for maritime transportation حسب Ahad Al-Enazi (19541737)

"…<p>Environmental regulations have always been an essential component in the natural gas supply chain, with recent and greater emphasis on shipping operations. Recently more stringent regulations have been imposed by the International Maritime Organization on global maritime shipping operations. …"

Insight into Faculty Open Access Perceptions: A Quantitative Analysis among UAE Faculty حسب Lusk, Jeniece

"…While there is a variety of extant literature broaching these perceptions, there are few quantitative analyses with an n greater than 100 respondents, and a notable lack of research in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). …"
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Arab women: No longer silent, but can they guarantee rights for themselves حسب Sayed, Sana

"…I will then discuss how political upheaval in the Arab region demonstrates a greater need for women/gender recognition and study. …"
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Targeting Breast Cancer Using Hyaluronic Acid-Conjugated Liposomes Triggered with Ultrasound حسب Ben-Daya, Mohamed

"…These modifications allow nannocarriers to achieve greater targeting specificity through binding to specific receptors overexpressed on the surface of the tumor cells. …"
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