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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Exploring the potential of applying Sustainable Retrofitting Policies & Regulations for existing low-rise small-scale Residential Buildings (Villas) in Dubai, UAE حسب Albedwawi, Khulood

"…Green retrofit for existing buildings has now become as one of the effective options to decrease energy consumption worldwide. It is crucial to develop sustainable retrofitting policies and regulations for the existing old villas since there is lack of regulations to retrofit old existing low scale residential buildings like villas in Dubai. …"
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Combined bronchodilators (tiotropium plus olodaterol) for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease حسب Ramadan, Wijdan H.

"…The combination of olodaterol and tiotropium provided additional improvements in lung function greater than monotherapy with each drug alone. Several well-designed randomized trials confirmed that the synergistic effect of both drugs in combination was able to improve lung function and health-related quality of life without a significant increase in adverse effects. …"
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Evaluating impact of electrified vehicles on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions reduction in Lebanese driving conditions using onboard GPS survey حسب Mansour, Charbel

"…This growth is mainly attributed to the raise of daily passenger trips and the increase of car ownership. Moreover, this increase in mobility demand results in severe congestion, mostly in Greater Beirut Area (GBA), which leads to chaotic traffic conditions. …"
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The efficacy of transcranial direct current stimulation in patients with medication overuse headaches secondary to chronic migraines (P4.128) حسب Ahdab, Rechdi

"…They render their medications less effective and develop daily medication overuse headaches (MOH) notoriously difficult to treat. …"
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Context-Tailored Food-Based Nutrition Education and Counseling for Pregnant Women to Improve Birth Outcomes: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Malawi حسب Kamudoni, Penjani Rhoda

"…Intervention infants had greater birth length (P = 0.043) and abdominal circumference (P = 0.007) compared to controls, whereas other birth outcomes did not differ significantly. …"
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Civil Unrest and the Poaching of Rhinos in the Kaziranga National Park, India حسب Lopes, Adrian

"…This paper accounts for a period of civil unrest in Assam, India, which saw a marked increase in rhino poaching. Census data on the greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam are used to estimate a population growth function. …"
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Impact of Plant Life on Formaldehyde Levels in an Existing Office Setting In the UAE حسب AbuZayed, Isra Ibrahim

"…Recommendations for future research: 1) Conduct the research in a more controlled environment for optimized results. 2) Increase to plant / space ratio in order to achieve greater results.…"
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Electric vehicles charging management using deep reinforcement learning considering vehicle-to-grid operation and battery degradation حسب Mostafa M., Shibl

"…Finally, the system was tested with a range of case studies using real-life EVs charging data, which proved the effectiveness and reliability of the system to protect the distribution grid and satisfy the EV user’s charging requirements.…"
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Shear Strength Behaviors of Tire Shred-Dune Sand Admixtures حسب Elmootassem, Ruba A.

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Role of intravitreal antivascular endothelial growth factor injections for choroidal neovascularization due to choroidal osteoma حسب Mansour, Ahmad M.

"…BCVA improved by 3.3 lines at 6 months after therapy (n = 26; P = 0.003 ), 2.8 lines (n = 20; p less than 0.001 ) at 1 year, and 3.1 lines ( n = 20; P = 0.01) at 2 years. …"
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Characterisation of Pga1, a putative Candida albicans cell wall protein necessary for proper adhesion and biofilm formation حسب Malouf, Katia

"…It was observed that the mutant strain showed less oxidative stress tolerance and an increased susceptibility to calcofluor white, a cell surface disrupting agent that inhibits chitin fibre assembly which translated as a 40% decrease in cell wall chitin content. …"
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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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Performance of Monofacial and Bifacial Silicon Heterojunction Modules under Desert Conditions and the Impact of PV Soiling حسب Amir A. Abdallah (11183642)

"…Moreover, the bifacial module was found to be less sensitive to the PV soiling than the monofacial module. …"

Testing and Evaluation of a Smart Irrigation System towards Smart landscaping in UAE حسب ALSULAIMANI, FATMA

"…The outcomes of the use of SMS have shown a better results in water conservation and a decrease in water flow in the month of September by 21% and 26% in October. …"
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Investigation of positive education implementation and its impact on students' wellbeing and academic self-efficacy in K-12 private schools in Dubai حسب KHREIBI, RIMA ABOU

"…The findings revealed the following: 1) in recent years there has been increasing positive education implementation grounding in the recent international, national, local, and educational authority policies and initiatives. 2) absence of standardised local and school policy related to positive education implementation has led to the need for adaptability of positive education implementation across school. 3) there has been strong engagement of the internal school community (teachers, school leaders and students) with external school community (parents). 4) significant changes in the overall level DSWC indicators associated with social emotional wellbeing, life satisfaction, perseverance, feeling safe, and belonging to school. 5) insignificant changes associated with DSWC indicators associated with emotional regulation, happiness, optimism, academic self-concept, cognitive engagement, engagement (flow), peer belonging and school climate. 6) PASS assessment factors show increase in wellbeing, motivation and self-efficacy for regulation and decrease in academic self-efficacy. 7) significant increase in emotional, social wellbeing and academic self-efficacy among students due to positive education implementation as perceived by teachers, parents, and students.…"
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Adsorption studies on the removal of coloring agent phenol red from wastewater using waste materials as adsorbents حسب K. Gupta, Vinod

"…Different thermodynamic parameters such as free energy, enthalpy, and entropy have been calculated and it was concluded that with the increase in temperature adsorption increases, indicating the endothermic nature of the process for both adsorbent materials. …"
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Corporate SDG adoption, share price synchronicity, and the role of incentive-compatible contracts in India حسب Sharma, Rajat

"…Using data from Indian firms, the analysis demonstrates that SDG adoption reduces share price synchronicity by enhancing stock market liquidity and attracting greater analyst coverage. The effect is stronger in non-state-owned firms and those with high institutional ownership. …"
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Personnel contributions to UN and non-UN peacekeeping missions A public goods approach حسب Gaibulloev, Khusrav

"…The positive response to the population variable supports this conjecture for UN missions, because a greater population base provides the recruits for peacekeeping operations. …"
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Integrated Water Resources Management Plan for the UAE حسب ALSHAIKH, SHAIKHA AHMAD

"…Increased human populations, rapid economic developments, and climate change have driven many countries in the Middle East to suffer acute water shortages. …"
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