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Effects of natural organic matter on aggregation kinetics of boron nanoparticles in monovalent and divalent electrolytes
Published 2010“…The addition of SRHA caused the boron nanoparticles to stabilize and resulted in (1) decreased attachment efficiency for the reaction-controlled regime and (2) an increase in the critical coagulation concentration, in CaCl2 and MgCl2 solutions. …”
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DiaNet v2 deep learning based method for diabetes diagnosis using retinal images
Published 2024“…<p dir="ltr">Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a prevalent chronic metabolic disorder linked to increased morbidity and mortality. With a significant portion of cases remaining undiagnosed, particularly in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, more accurate and accessible diagnostic methods are essential. …”
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Modulation of Human Valve Interstitial Cell Phenotype and Function Using a Fibroblast Growth Factor 2 Formulation
Published 2015“…Some VICs and some valve endothelial cells expressed FGF2 in valve tissue and this expression was increased in calcified valves. VICs in DMEM exhibited large, spread cells whereas VICs in fibroblast media were smaller, elongated and spindly. …”
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FAST FUZZY FORCE-DIRECTED/SIMULATED EVOLUTION METAHEURISTIC FOR MULTIOBJECTIVE VLSI CELL PLACEMENT
Published 2006“…A major difculty with such multi-objective combinatorial optimization problems is the existence of a very large solution search space, one of which is the desired optimal solution. …”
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Full-fledged semantic indexing and querying model designed for seamless integration in legacy RDBMS
Published 2018“…In the past decade, there has been an increasing need for semantic-aware data search and indexing in textual (structured and NoSQL) databases, as full-text search systems became available to non-experts where users have no knowledge about the data being searched and often formulate query keywords which are different from those used by the authors in indexing relevant documents, thus producing noisy and sometimes irrelevant results. …”
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Occupational Violence at Lebanese Emergency Departments
Published 2011“…Results: Over the past 12 mo, four in five ED employees were verbally abused and one in four was physically assaulted. Exposure to verbal abuse was associated with serious outcomes including significantly higher levels of occupational burnout and an increased likelihood to quit current job. …”
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Immune Checkpoints in Circulating and Tumor-Infiltrating CD4+ T Cell Subsets in Colorectal Cancer Patients
Published 2019“…We also found that CD4<sup>+</sup>CTLA-4<sup>+</sup> T cells in circulation are increased in patients with advanced disease stage. …”
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Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17
Published 2020“…Access to both sewer or septic sanitation and improved sanitation overall also increased across all LMICs during the study period. …”
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Evaluating Citizens’ Sentiments in Smart Cities: A Deep Learning Approach
Published 2021“…Recently, social media users are increasingly using images and videos to express their feelings and share emotions. …”
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HIV epidemiology among female sex workers and their clients in the Middle East and North Africa: systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions
Published 2019“…There was strong evidence for increasing prevalence post-2003; the odds increased by 15% per year (AOR = 1.15, 95% CI = 1.09–1.21). …”
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Improving performance of collaborative question answering systems by using semantic resources
Published 2015“…All these shared information on the web create a huge collection of data. This data is increasing day by day. Online social networks gather data from individual users and offer them to create link with other users of mutual interests in the same network. …”
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An Incentivized and Optimized Dynamic Mechanism for Demand Response for Managing Voltage in Distribution Networks
Published 2022“…<p>The voltage regulation in distribution networks is one of the major obstacles when increasing the penetration of distributed generators (DGs) such as solar photovoltaics (PV), especially during cloud transients, causing potential stress on network voltage regulations. …”
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The impact of metformin therapy for gestational diabetes on fetal growth in women with risk factors for fetal growth restriction- a registry-based study from Qatar
Published 2023“…The use of metformin in these women should be judicious and increased fetal surveillance during pregnancy is warranted.…”
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Parallelization of Stochastic Evolution for Cell Placement
Published 2004“…However the major drawback of these iterative heuristics has been the large runtime involved in reaching acceptable solutions especially when optimizing for multiple objectives. …”
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Law enforcement role in reducing road crashes
Published 2015“…According to WHO reports, the number of road crashes fatalities will increase worldwide by 60% by 2020. Road crashes represent a major social cost to most societies, and their management has thus been a high priority. …”