Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of chewing tobacco use in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Diseas... حسب Parkes J Kendrick (9714851)

"…Among females, none of these 12 countries had significant decreases in prevalence of chewing tobacco use, whereas seven of 12 countries had a significant decrease in the prevalence of tobacco smoking use for the period. …"

The benefits of employees' empowerment حسب 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 حسب 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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Improvement Algorithm for Limited Space Scheduling حسب Zouein, Pierrette

"…This paper addresses the combined problem termed “space scheduling” and presents an algorithmic time-space trade-off model for adjusting activity durations and start dates to decrease the need for space over congested time periods. …"
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Water Footprint Assessment and Virtual Water Trade in the Globally Most Water-Stressed Country, Qatar حسب Nayla Higazy (17679453)

"…The virtual water exports gradually decreased over the years with the most notable decrease in 2018 following Qatar’s blockade. …"

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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Implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in Higher Education: A Case Study of Teacher Experiences in Private High Schools in Dubai حسب 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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Soluble ACE2 and angiotensin II levels are modulated in hypertensive COVID-19 patients treated with different antihypertension drugs حسب Mohamed A. Elrayess (21398687)

"…BB and CCB reduce mortality, according to some evidence. Their effect on circulating levels of ACE2 and angiotensin II, as well as the severity of COVID-19, is less well studied.…"

Prehospital plasma transfusion versus standard of care following traumatic injury: a review of the systematic reviews and a meta-analysis حسب Ayman El-Menyar (440103)

"…In contrast, RCTs had some concerns but were generally at a low risk for most domains.…"

Doppler broadening spectroscopy of carbon black and carbon black-filled rubbers حسب Semaan, Mars E.

"…This is due to (1) reduction in positronium formation as carbon black is added to the rubber, and (2) positron trapping at the carbon black–rubber interface, which depends on the carbon black morphology. The S parameter decreases with the carbon black surface area. The S parameter does not depend on the sample mixing time.…"
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Economics of hydrogen production and liquefaction by geothermal energy حسب 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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Barriers of Additive Manufacturing Adoption in United Arab Emirates Automotive Supply Chain حسب ALI, ASMA ALI ABDULLA

"…AM offers a tremendous opportunity by improving adaptability and efficiency of the supply chain such as reducing lead times, decreasing the dependence on foreign suppliers, and promoting sustainability in manufacturing processes. …"
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The Effect of Auditor Characteristics on the Quality of Segment Disclosures of Diversified Firms حسب Elkelani, Sarah Ahmed

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Machine Learning Models for Scheduling On-Demand Fog Placement and Optimizing Container Deployment حسب Farhat, Peter

"…However, due to the huge increase in the number of requests coming from end devices including IoT users, fog deployment and container placement must be scheduled to serve locations with high service requesting profiles while decreasing the cloud processing load. In this context, we first propose a fog placement model that allows to produce an adequate scheduling decision by using a hybrid technique combining time series forecasting and reinforcement learning. …"
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Application of eggplant peels powder for the removal of oil from produced water حسب Gulistan, Abdul Sami

"…The results showed that the removal efficiency increases with increasing adsorbent dosage, salinity, and pH. …"
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Follow up and comparative assessment of IgG, IgA, and neutralizing antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 between mRNA-vaccinated naïve and unvaccinated naturally infected individuals ov... حسب Salma, Younes

"…To explore the relationship between the antibody responses and time, Spearman's correlation coefficient was computed. …"
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CEO gender and managerial entrenchment حسب 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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Critical Review of Steel Column Base Plate Design Codes and Their Relevance to United Arab Emirates حسب SREENIVASAN, SREEJU

"…Structural engineers are often posed with a question for an economical design of a structural building which would decide the overall economic and the time concern in a construction. If the design is at optimum by choosing a suitable code the involvement of the materials would be less which will help to decrease the pollution caused in the environment as well. …"
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Assessing Struvite Formation Potential at Wastewater Treatment Plants حسب 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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Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 حسب Joan B Soriano (6458528)

"…Deaths due to chronic respiratory diseases numbered 3 914 196 (95% UI 3 790 578–4 044 819) in 2017, an increase of 18·0% since 1990, while total DALYs increased by 13·3%. …"