Recent advances in the treatment and outcome of locally advanced rectal cancer by Abdalla, Eddie

“…Results There were 219 patients in the early era and 109 in the late era. No significant differences were seen in patients (age, gender, race) or tumor characteristics (mean distance from the anal verge, annularity, fixation). …”
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Willingness to pay for green power in an unreliable electricity sector : Part 1. The case of the Lebanese residential sector by Dagher, Leila

“…Four scenarios for WTP for green power were designed to best reflect the possibilities of integrating renewable energy (RE) sources in Lebanon׳s ‘unreliable’ electricity sector; (1) local system covering partial electricity needs, (2) local system covering entire electricity needs, (3) utility-provided green power covering partial electricity needs, and (4) utility-provided green power covering entire electricity needs. The results based on a Tobit model highlight the importance of RE options that displace completely the diesel generator sets, i.e. options 2 and 4. …”
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Investigating the Impact of an Online Coaching Programme for Educators by AZAZA, MOHAMED BEN MELKI

“…The study follows a mixed-method approach utilizing both quantitative (i.e., survey instrument) and qualitative (i.e., interviews) tools. …”
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Exercise training-induced speeding of VO₂kinetics is not intensity domain-specific or correlated with indices of exercise performance by Erin Calaine Inglis (7042334)

“…<h3>Purpose</h3><p dir="ltr">This study examined the effect of 3 and 6 weeks of intensity domain-based exercise training on VO₂ kinetics changes and their relationship with indices of performance.…”

SBA-XACML by Mourad, Azzam

“…Accordingly, the size and complexity of XACML policies are significantly growing to cope with the evolution of web-based applications and services. …”
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Damage assessment and recovery from malicious transactions using data dependency for defensive information warfare by Haraty, Ramzi A.

“…Since even segmenting the log into clusters may not solve the problem, as clusters/segments may grow to be humongous in size, this is in case of high data/transaction dependency, we suggest a method for segmenting the log into clusters and its sub-clusters; i.e, segmenting the cluster; based on exact data dependency [12], into sub-clusters; based on two different criteria: number of data items or space occupied. …”
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An Analysis of Thermal Comfort at the School Outdoor Spaces: A Case Study of the American School of Creative Science, Dubai, UAE by ABU-QULBAIN, LANA

“…Outdoor school spaces are significant spaces which, regardless of a child’s residential area, provide great opportunity for outdoor space exploration leading to overall enhancement to the students’ wellbeing. …”
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Effects of ethanol addition to diesel–biodiesel blends on the CI engine characteristics by Fakher Hamdi (21225134)

“…All blends show an increase in brake mean effective pressure (BMEP) compared to B0, with the maximum enhancement observed in B10 with an average increase of 13% across all speeds. …”

Enhancing the Main Contractor-Subcontractor trusting relationship in the United Arab Emirates: A strategic approach to rebuilding trust in complex construction projects by ISSA, RAMAZ SELMAN

“…The oil price drop has significantly affected complex construction projects in the United Arab Emirates. …”
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Nurses’ work environment and intent to leave in Lebanese hospitals by Dimassi, Hani

“…Results The NWI-R subscale with the lowest mean score related to control. Younger nurses had lower scores on organizational support and career development. …”
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Statistical Modelling and Correlation of Membrane Distillation Data by Hamdoon, Azza

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Medical data integration using HL7 standards for patient’s early identification by A. AlQudahl, Adi

“…The goal of this study is to propose a solution based on the integration between queue management solution (QMS) and the electronic medical records (EMR), using Health Level Seven (HL7) protocols and Extensible Markup Language (XML). …”
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Using primary healthcare facilities and patients’ expectations about triage system: Patients’ perspective from multisite Jordanian hospitals by Mohammad Minwer Alnaeem (19143733)

“…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr"> Using primary healthcare facilities can decrease the tension and workload in emergency departments (EDs). …”

A Novel Hybrid Physical-Layer Authentication Scheme for Multiuser Wireless Communication Systems by Elmehdi Illi (19368673)

“…In addition, the detection probability (DP) rises at high legitimate and intruder links SNRs, while it degrades for low SNR (i.e., noisy attributes observations). Finally, the more significant the difference between the actual malign and benign nodes’ CFOs, the better the DP.…”

Vegetation analysis and environmental indicators of an arid tropical forest ecosystem of Pakistan by Muhammad Majeed (5707736)

“…In each grid, three sites were randomly selected (i.e. 513 samples), and subsequently-nine plots were laid at each sampling site (i.e. 1539 plots). …”

Unsupervised knowledge representation of panoramic dental X-ray images using SVG image-and-object clustering by Salameh, Khouloud

“…We have created a labelled SVG dataset consisting of 22,553 objects from 750 images based on panoramic dental X-ray images. To our knowledge, it is the first significant dataset of labelled SVG objects and images, which we make available online as a benchmark for future research in this area. …”
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Insulin detemir in combination with oral antidiabetic drugs improves glycemic control in persons with type 2 diabetes in Near East countrie by Echtay, Akram

“…The percentage of persons who achieved the target of HbA1c<7% increased from .7% at baseline to 39% at week 24. Mean FPG decreased significantly from 213.7 ± 60.1 mg/dL to 120.3 ± 25.7 mg/dL (P<.001), and mean PPG from 271 ± 65.3 mg/dL to 158.1 ± 36.4 mg/dL (P<.0001). …”
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An XML Document Comparison Framework by Tekli, Joe

“…Nevertheless, a thorough investigation of current approaches led us to identify several similarity aspects, i.e., sub-tree related structural and semantic similarities, which are not sufficiently addressed while comparing XML documents. …”
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Statistical analysis of air-gap membrane desalination experimental data: Hypothesis testing by Alcheikh Hamdona, Azza

“…Several statistical techniques, i.e., F-test, Fisher's LSD test, Bonferroni and Tukey's test for multiple comparisons are applied. …”
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Beta-blocker therapy in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (B-HFpEF): a systematic review and meta-analysis by Dr. Rasha Kaddoura (17823428)

“…The main endpoints were mortality (i.e., all-cause and cardiovascular), rehospitalization (i.e., all-cause and for heart failure) and a composite of the two.…”