Solar water heating in Lebanon حسب Houri, Ahmad

"…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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COPE for adolescent Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a brief cognitive–behavioral skill-building intervention to improve quality of life and promote positive mental health حسب Doumit, Rita

"…Lebanon has the highest per-capita concentration of refugees worldwide. …"
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Should the Outsiders be Left Out? Director Stock Options, Expectations and Earnings Management حسب Boumosleh, Anwar

"…A comparison of director and CEO stock options reveals that CEO options only increase the likelihood of lowering overly optimistic expectations; we find no evidence consistent with CEO options increasing the likelihood of walking up pessimistic expectations. …"
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Finite Element Analysis of Machining Lightweight Syntactic Foams حسب Thomas, Kevin Koshy

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Causes of Delay in Construction Projects in Oil and Gas Construction Industry حسب FANOUSSE, MARWA IMAD

"…With regard to design, the contractor’s need to decrease construction costs through a cheaper design was found to be a factor in design changes. …"
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Daucus carota Pentane-Based Fractions Suppress Proliferation and Induce Apoptosis in Human Colon Adenocarcinoma HT-29 Cells by Inhibiting the MAPK and PI3K Pathways حسب Shehaby, Wassim N.

"…Western blot revealed the activation of caspase-3, PARP cleavage, and a considerable increase in Bax and p53 levels, and a decrease in Bcl-2 level. Treatment of HT-29 cells with either fraction markedly decreased the levels of both phosphorylated Erk and Akt. …"
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PD-L1 Expression in Human Breast Cancer Stem Cells Is Epigenetically Regulated through Posttranslational Histone Modifications حسب Pramod Darvin (153341)

"…PD-L1 promoter was significantly hypomethylated in MCF-7 tumorspheres, but not from BT-549 tumorspheres, compared with their cell line counterparts. The active demethylation of PD-L1 promoter was confirmed by the increase in the distribution of 5hmC and decrease in 5mC levels and the upregulation of TET3 and downregulation of DNMTs enzymes in MCF-7 tumorspheres, compared with the cell line. …"

Exploring Sustainable Strategies for Shelter Design at Refugee Camps: The Case of Domiz 1 Refugee Camp in Iraq حسب AL AMEEN, FARAH

"…Iraq is one of the main host countries of Syrian refugees, besides the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) inside the country caused by the internal conflict, resulting in an over exhaustion of its resources, infrastructure, and services. The need to conduct an investigation on sustainable strategies of shelter design in Domiz refugee camp in Iraq emerged as a result of direct communication with the UNHCR office in Iraq, aiming to improve the living conditions of the refugee population and reduce the pressure on host community and environment. …"
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Modeling circadian clock–cell cycle interaction effects on cell population growth rates حسب El Khatib, N.

"…Particularly, we show that Cry 1, Cry 2 mutations decrease the growth rate of cells, Per 2 mutation enhances it and Bmal 1 knockout increases it for autonomous periods of the cell cycle less than 21 h and decreases it elsewhere. …"
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Successful Use of Intravenous B-blocker Therapy in Cardiogenic Shock Supported With Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Case Series حسب Alaa Rahhal (14150403)

"…<p dir="ltr">Tachycardia in cardiogenic shock (CS) might reduce the cardiac output (CO) by decreasing the ventricular filling time. Nevertheless, heart rate (HR) control with agents that possess negative inotropy might decrease the CO. …"

An atomistic molecular dynamic model to study the properties of LLDPE and wax حسب M. F. T. Mosoabisane (17725950)

"…After validation, the application of the model showed that the branch content of modelled LLDPE affected the glass transition temperature when the branch content was 70 per 1000 carbons for models with different branch lengths. …"

Solar hydrogen production via thermochemical magnesium oxide – Magnesium sulfate water splitting cycle حسب Rahul R. Bhosale (6467102)

"…As per the analysis, this cycle achieved the highest solar-to-fuel energy conversion efficiency (47.7%) at the molar flow rate of Ar = 1 mol/s, thermal reduction temperature = 1490 K, and water splitting temperature = 475 K. …"

What drives cryptocurrency pump and dump schemes: Coin versus market factors? حسب Lanouar Charfeddine (10705000)

"…These include lower market capitalization, lower trading volume, greater social media popularity, increased developer activity, and fewer exchanges trading them. …"

Acute pain management and assessment حسب Zeitoun, Abeer A.

"…Furthermore, as pain severity scores increased, the adequacy of pain management decreased. Only 22% of the patients had a daily follow-up, and the majority of those continued to receive inappropriate therapy. …"
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The role of OM-85 BV (Broncho-Vaxom) in preventing recurrent acute tonsillitis in children حسب Saade, Rami

"…For patients given Broncho-Vaxom, we defined response as a decrease in the frequency of acute tonsillitis episodes after 3 months of therapy (partial: by ≤50% and total: by >50%). …"
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The role of RhoG in migration and invasion of glioblastoma cells. (c2017) حسب Ezzeddine, Amani M.

"…Invasion assay also showed a decrease in cell invasion when RhoG was knocked down. …"
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Towards secure private and trustworthy human-centric embedded machine learning: An emotion-aware facial recognition case study حسب Muhammad Atif Butt (10849980)

"…<p dir="ltr">The use of artificial intelligence (AI) at the edge is transforming every aspect of the lives of human beings from scheduling daily activities to personalized shopping recommendations. …"

Distribution and predictors of emergency department charges حسب Dimassi, Hani

"…Results: Findings revealed that the professional fee (40.9 %) followed by facility fee (26.1 %) accounted for the majority of the ED charges. While greater than 80 % of visit charges went to physician and facility fee for low acuity cases, these contributed to only 52 and 54 % of the high acuity presentations where ancillary services and solutions’ contribution to the total charges increased. …"
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Did the periodic intensification of routine immunisation strategy (Intensified mission Indradhanush) reduce the demand for pediatric antibiotic formulations in India? حسب Habib Hasan Farooqui (7861166)

"…Interestingly, Trimethoprim sales increased by 17.1% in the first month but decreased by 0.4% per month (IRR 0.959, 95%CI 0.945–0.973) post-intervention. …"

Predictors of prolonged hospitalization among geriatric trauma patients using the modified 5-Item Frailty index in a Middle Eastern trauma center: an 11-year retrospective study حسب Husham Abdelrahman (768893)

"…The injury rate for age ≥ 65 was 24 per 10,000 compared to 10 per 10,000 in the younger group age (≥ 55–64). 35% of injuries occurred at home due to falls. …"