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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
Published 2024“…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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The impact of maternal care on child development
Published 2019“…Results show that treated children enjoy an increase of 3.6 h per week in the time they spend with their mothers, mainly due to a decrease in the time spent in non-institutional care. …”
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Tabu search based circuit optimization
Published 1998“…Such a strategy leads to sizable circuit speed improvement with minimum increase in the overall circuit capacitance. Compared to earlier approaches, the presented technique produces circuits with remarkable increase in speed (greater than 20%) for very small increase in overall circuit capacitance (less than 3%)…”
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Operation optimization of propane pre-cooled mixed refrigerant LNG Process: A novel integration of knowledge-based and constrained Bayesian optimization approaches
Published 2024“…At large-scale LNG production (10,000 tons per day), the reduction in the SEC is translated into an 18 MW decrease in compression power, saving approximately 4.7 million $ per year for each C3MR train. …”
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Why do some countries produce more capital intensive output than others?
Published 2016“…Our model predictions suggest that differences in productivity and therefore output per worker across countries are driven primarily by differences in the quality of governance. …”
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Efficiency of commercial banks in Lebanon
Published 2008“…The stochastic production and cost function estimates show that bank level inefficiency effects decreases with time and increases with number of branches, employees per branch, and ratio of staff to operating expenses.…”
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A Comprehensive Method of Ion Exchange Resins Regeneration and Its Optimization for Water Treatment
Published 2020“…The strong acidic cation polymeric exchanger resin is commercially called MERCK 104765 cation exchanger IV with capacity greater than 3.2 mmol/ml, while the strong basic anion polymeric exchanger resin is commercially called MERCK 104767 anion exchanger III with capacities greater than 1.0 mmol/ml. …”
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Reduction of laboratory utilization in the intensive care unit
Published 2016“…The number of iSTAT laboratory tests per patient-day decreased from 7.37 to an average of 1.16 (P < .001) over the same time period. …”
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Evapotranspiration and water availability response to climate change in the Middle East and North Africa
Published 2021“…Outcomes reveal that the MENA region is indeed vulnerable to a surge in temperature, which can increase evapotranspiration losses and decrease water availability. Under the shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP2-4.5), the potential evapotranspiration (PET) has been projected to increase throughout the MENA region by up to 0.37 mm per year during the middle of the twenty-first century (2021–2050) and by up to 0.51 mm per year during the end of the twenty-first century (2071–2100). …”
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Can Leadership-coaching Mind-set Substitute that of Crisis Management in Higher Education?
Published 2021“…The term ‘crisis management’ includes the three stages, i.e. pre-crisis, crisis per se, and post-crisis management in higher education. …”
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Effect of Hydroxycut Intake on Fasted and Postprandial Lipemia in Rats
Published 2015“…The drug did not affect the number and composition of secreted very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) particles except for a decrease in VLDL TAG when the fat content in the diet was high. …”
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Prophylactic and therapeutic antibiotic patterns of lebanese dentists for the management of dentoalveolar abscesses
Published 2016“…The main prescribed antibiotic was amoxicillin.This study showed that dentists often did not follow the current prophylactic and therapeutic antibiotic prescription guidelines.Antibiotics prescriptions in dentistry will be more pertinent, leading to a decrease in inadequacy of prescriptions, microbial resistance, and the development of multiresistant germs against antibiotics…”
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Isolation and study of Lipase activity of an olive oil degrading Thermoactionomyces SP. (c2002)
Published 2002“…A concentration of 10% (v/v) olive oil did not inhibit its growth. Lipase production was constitutive, and did not depend on the presence of olive oil. …”
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1787 evaluation of transperineal prostatic administration of a PSA-activasted protoxin (PRX302) in men with luts secondary to BPH
Published 2010“…The IPSS still showed a decrease of 4.3 points at 2 years post-treatment. However, no clear dose response was observed and Qmax did not increase in this study. …”
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Trends of the Dementia Burden in South Asia: An Analysis of 2021 Global Burden of Disease Study
Published 2025“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">A slight decrease in incidence rates from 80.57 to 79 per 100,000 was observed, alongside a significant increase in mortality rates from 14.11 to 17.2 per 100,000. …”
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Empiric antibiotic therapy of community-acquired Pneumonia at the American University of Beirut Medical Center. (c2001)
Published 2001“…Special attention should be given to decrease hospitalization rate, to preserve fluoroquinolones, and to improve microbiological studies outcome.…”
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Hydrogen energy systems: Technologies, trends, and future prospects
Published 2024“…Presently, electrolysis efficiencies range between 60 % and 80 %, with hydrogen production costs around $5 per kilogram. Strategic advancements are necessary to reduce these costs below $2 per kilogram and push efficiencies above 80 %. …”
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