The benefits of employees' empowerment by Armache, Jalal

“…More responsibility generates greater productivity, and commitment. Most employees were more productive when empowered by management; almost all firms recognize the importance of increased employee performance and measure it. …”
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Combating political hostage‐taking by Shahin, Wassim

“…Rational actor models have examined the effects of increasing punishment or the probability of apprehension on terrorists activities including hostage‐taking. …”
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Entropy generation due to Laminar Natural Convection over a Heated Rotating Cylinder by A.K. Abu-Hijleh, Bassam

“…Entropy generation increased as the Reynolds number and buoyancy parameter increased. Entropy generation decreased as the cylinder radius increased. For the same combination of Reynolds number and buoyancy parameter, entropy generation was mainly due to thermal effects at small cylinder radii and due to viscous effects at large cylinder radii.…”
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The Assessment of Wind Power for Electricity Generation in Lebanon by Elkhoury, Michel

“…Implementing such wind farms would greatly decrease the harmful emission of greenhouse gases produced by the energy sector devoted to electricity generation by fuel (El-Fadel et al., 2003). …”
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Implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in Higher Education: A Case Study of Teacher Experiences in Private High Schools in Dubai by SALEH, ABDELWAHB YEHIA

“…Despite challenges such as limited resources and insufficient professional development, the implementation of UDL has led to increased student engagement, improved academic performance, and greater inclusivity. …”
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Breast cancer cells and bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells by Faour, Wissam H.

“…Co-cultures with either MG-63 cells or MSCs induced OPG and MMP-2 in both tumor cell lines. Interestingly, conditioned medium from co-cultures of MSCs and MDA-MB-231 cells significantly decreased the proliferation of activated T lymphocytes which was reversed by addition of anti-OPG antibodies to the co-cultures. …”
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PSA-activated proaerolysin as a prostate specific cancer therapy by Abi-Habib, Ralph

“…Activity toward proaerolysin was decreased 10-100 fold for each of the proteases tested except PSA, which showed a 4-fold increase in activity against the modified protein. …”
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The mechanism of action of kefir and its effect on the motility of breast and colorectal cancer cells. (c2013) by Khoury, Nathalie El

“…In this study, we aim to determine a possible mechanism of action of kefir and to study its effect on the motility of colorectal and breast cancer cell lines. Results from the reverse-transcription PCR experiment have shown that kefir decreases the expression of TGF-α and TGF-β1 in HT-29 cells in a dose dependent manner. …”
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Molecular Mechanisms of Adiponectin-Induced Attenuation of Mechanical Stretch-Mediated Vascular Remodeling by Crystal M. Ghantous (14571292)

“…Mechanically stretching the RPV significantly decreased APN protein expression after 24 hours and APN mRNA expression in a time-dependent manner in VSMCs. …”

Phase transitions of nanoemulsions using ultrasound: Experimental observations by Singh, Ram

“…As expected, perfluorohexane emulsions require greater intensity to form cavitating bubbles than perfluoropentane emulsions.…”
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Economics of hydrogen production and liquefaction by geothermal energy by Yilmaz, Ceyhun

“…The results show that the cost of hydrogen production and liquefaction decreases as the geothermal water temperature increases. Also, capital costs for the models involving hydrogen liquefaction are greater than those for the models involving hydrogen production only.…”
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Channel Network Control on Seasonal Lake Area Dynamics in Arctic Deltas by Tejedor, Alejandro

“…This pattern of shrinkage is predominantly attributed to a deeper active layer enhancing near-surface connectivity and storage and greater vegetation density closer to the channels leading to increased evapotranspiration rates. …”
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The Effect of Auditor Characteristics on the Quality of Segment Disclosures of Diversified Firms by Elkelani, Sarah Ahmed

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Application of eggplant peels powder for the removal of oil from produced water by Gulistan, Abdul Sami

“…The results showed that the removal efficiency increases with increasing adsorbent dosage, salinity, and pH. …”
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CEO gender and managerial entrenchment by Dah, Mustafa A.

“…We find that the presence of female CEO decreases the turnover-performance sensitivity, increases the E-index, and inflates CEO compensation. …”
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Assessing Struvite Formation Potential at Wastewater Treatment Plants by Fattah, Kazi Parvez

“…The three locations investigated all has a supersaturation value greater than unity; this indicated that struvite formation potential was high. …”
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Receivers location privacy in avionic crowdsourced networks: Issues and countermeasures by Savio Sciancalepore (16864152)

“…<p dir="ltr">The lack of message encryption characterizing wireless avionic protocols, including Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast (ADS-B), recently favored the rise of a few communities that, gathering data collected by receivers at the ground or in space, offer advanced services, while at the same time releasing the cited data to the public.…”

Anterior ankle impingment syndrome is less frequent, but associated with a longer absence and higher re-injury rate compared to posterior syndrome: a prospective cohort study of 67... by Pieter D’Hooghe (3530984)

“…AAIS and PAIS were similar regarding injury characteristics except for a greater proportion of AAIS having a gradual onset (69% vs.47%; P = 0.03) and being re-injuries (31% vs. 9%; P = 0.01). …”

Association Between Three-Months Vitamin D Supplementation and Depressive Symptomatology incidence among Saudi Arabian Adults by Khaddaj, Rashel

“…PHQ-9 scores decreased from 12.53 ±5.33 to 4.92 ±2.44 in vitamin D group (p <0.001), and from 12.46 ±4.66 to 8.96±3.75in the control group (p<0.001), indicating enhancement in depressive symptomatology. …”
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Optimisation of PV Cleaning Practices: Comparison Between Performance Based and Periodic Based Approaches by ALHAJERI, RASHED ABDULLA

“…Periodic based automatic cleaning showed decreases in improvement of between 164.64% to 245.34%. …”
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