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Bias Assessment in Outcomes Research: The Role of Relative Versus Absolute Approaches
(2021 , Article)
ObjectivesBias assessment tools vary in content and detail, and the method used for assessment may produce different assessment results in a study if not carefully considered. Therefore, taking an approach to the assessment ...
Secure and Optimized Load Balancing for Multitier IoT and Edge-Cloud Computing Systems
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
Mobile-edge computing (MEC) has emerged as a new computing paradigm with great potential to alleviate resource limitations attributed to mobile device users (MDUs) by offloading intensive computations to ubiquitous MEC ...
Self-organized Operational Neural Networks with Generative Neurons
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Elsevier Ltd
, 2021 , Article)
Operational Neural Networks (ONNs) have recently been proposed to address the well-known limitations and drawbacks of conventional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) such as network homogeneity with the sole linear neuron ...
Current progress in chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy for glioblastoma multiforme
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John Wiley and Sons Inc
, 2021 , Article)
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is one of the deadliest brain tumors with an unfavorable prognosis and overall survival of approximately 20 months following diagnosis. The current treatment for GBM includes surgical resections ...
Conducting a state-of-the-art mental health survey in a traditional setting: Challenges and lessons from piloting the World Mental Health Survey in Qatar
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Wiley
, 2021 , Article)
Objectives: A small country in the Arabian Peninsula, Qatar experienced rapid economic growth in the last 3 decades accompanied by major socio-demographic shifts towards a younger and more highly educated population. To ...
A modular approach for a patient unit for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation simulator
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MDPI AG
, 2021 , Article)
Despite many advancements in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), the procedure is still correlated with a high risk of patient complications. Simulation-based training provides the opportunity for ECMO staff to ...
Research Methods for Zero Event Proportion Studies: The Incidence of Bleeding After Thoracentesis and Tube Thoracostomy in Patients With Uncorrected Coagulopathy
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Elsevier Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
In a recent meta-analysis published in CHEST (November 2021), Fong et al1 investigated the incidence of bleeding after thoracentesis and tube thoracostomy in patients with uncorrected coagulopathy. The authors used the ...
A Novel Downlink IM-NOMA Scheme
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
In the next generations of communication systems, resources' scarcity devolves to a more critical point as a consequence of the expected massive number of users to be served. Furthermore, the users' contradicting requirements ...
Gender, education, and career in the Arab world: A literature review
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SAGE
, 2021 , Article)
The underrepresentation of females in certain fields has been studied extensively in many countries. Similar to other parts of the World, the number of females graduating each year from universities in the Arab World now ...
Observer-Based Leader-Following Consensus for Linear Multiagent Systems with a Leader of Unknown Input
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
, 2021 , Article)
In this article, a distributed observer-based tracking control protocol is proposed for linear multiagent systems having a leader with unknown nonzero input. The leader is assumed to be uncooperative, i.e., no communication ...