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University of Jordan
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About: University of Jordan is a education organization based out in Amman, Jordan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Health care. The organization has 7796 authors who have published 13764 publications receiving 213526 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, energy analysis is carried out to account for inputs and outputs of energy and GHG emissions associated with the biodiesel production system, and the results show that the NEB and NER values are calculated at 46724.1 and 2.16, respectively.
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TL;DR: MDCTU has excellent diagnostic performance in detecting UTUC and ruling-out suspicious upper urinary tract lesions in per-patient and per-lesion-based analyses, confirming the choice of MDCTU as the radiologic diagnostic modality of choice for work-up of suspicious upper urine tract lesions.
Abstract: To systematically review the literature evaluating the performance of MDCTU for the diagnosis of UTUC and meta-analyse available data. We also compared the diagnostic accuracy of MDCTU to other radiologic modalities. This systematic review and meta-analysis was conducted according to the PRISMA statement. A systematic research using Pubmed, Scopus, Cochrane, and Web of Science libraries was performed on November 1st, 2018. We included all original articles investigating the performance of MDCTU for the diagnosis of UTUC using histopathology as the reference standard for true positives and an unsuspicious clinical follow-up of at least 1 year for true negatives. Overall, 13 studies comprising 1233 patients were eligible and included in this systematic review and meta-analysis. In patient-based analyses, the pooled sensitivity and specificity were 92% (CI 0.85–0.96) and 95% (CI 0.88–0.98), respectively. The reported sensitivity in the per-lesion analysis ranged between 91 and 97%. All studies reporting segment-based analysis demonstrated high diagnostic accuracy (> 90%). While one study reported higher accuracy of retrograde ureteropyelography than MDCTU (97% vs. 94%), another study demonstrated an inferior accuracy of intravenous pyelogram compared to MDCTU. Findings on the accuracy of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging compared to MDCTU were inconsistent. MDCTU has excellent diagnostic performance in detecting UTUC and ruling-out suspicious upper urinary tract lesions in per-patient and per-lesion-based analyses. We confirm the choice of MDCTU as the radiologic diagnostic modality of choice for work-up of suspicious upper urinary tract lesions providing valuable information in patient counseling, decision-making, and treatment planning.
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TL;DR: In this article, the accuracy of land suitability classifications derived from predicted soil attributes versus those derived from traditional soil maps was explored, and three suitability maps were derived, one from predicted terrain attributes and two from conventional soil maps (scales 1:10,000 and 1:50,000).
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TL;DR: The findings of this research can be used to suggest future strategies in enhancing student’s awareness in efficient time management and better multitasking that can lead to improving study activities and academic achievements.
Abstract: Social Networks Sites (SNSs) are dominating all internet users’ generations, especially the students’ communities. Consequently, academic institutions are increasingly using SNSs which leads to emerge a crucial question regarding the impact of SNSs on students’ academic performance. This research investigates how and to what degree the use of SNSs affects the students’ academic performance. The current research’s data was conducted by using drop and collect surveys on a large population from the University of Jordan. 366 undergraduate students answered the survey from different faculties at the university. In order to study the impact of SNSs on student’s academic performance, the research hypotheses was tested by using descriptive analysis, T-test and ANOVA. Research results showed that there was a significant impact of SNS on the student’s academic performance. Also, there was a significant impact of SNS use per week on the student’s academic performance, whereas no differences found in the impact of use of SNSs on academic performance due to age, academic achievement, and use per day to most used sites. The findings of this research can be used to suggest future strategies in enhancing student’s awareness in efficient time management and better multitasking that can lead to improving study activities and academic achievements.
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TL;DR: The demographic and clinicopathological characteristics and molecular profile of PTCs have been changing over the past few decades, and modifications suggest changes in etiologies and risk factors of thyroid cancer that influence the tumorigenesis of P TCs.
Abstract: // Huy Gia Vuong 1,2 , Ahmed M.A. Altibi 3 , Amr Hesham Abdelhamid 4 , Phuong Uyen Duong Ngoc 5 , Vo Duy Quan 6 , Mohamed Yousef Tantawi 7 , Mohamed Elfil 8 , Tran Le Huy Vu 9 , Ahmed Elgebaly 10 , Naoki Oishi 1 , Tadao Nakazawa 1 , Kenji Hirayama 11 , Ryohei Katoh 1 , Nguyen Tien Huy 12 and Tetsuo Kondo 1 1 Department of Pathology, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan 2 Department of Pathology, Cho Ray Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 3 Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan 4 Faculty of Medicine, Menoufia University, Shebin El-Kom, Menoufia, Egypt 5 Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 6 University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 7 Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt 8 Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt 9 University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 10 Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt 11 Department of Immunogenetics, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Leading Graduate School Program, and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Sakamoto, Nagasaki, Japan 12 Department of Clinical Product Development, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan Correspondence to: Tetsuo Kondo, email: // Nguyen Tien Huy, email: // Keywords : BRAF, RAS, RET/PTC, papillary, thyroid carcinoma Received : August 02, 2016 Accepted : October 14, 2016 Published : October 25, 2016 Abstract Background: The genetic alterations of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) have been reported to change over the past few decades. We performed this systematic review to further examine the trends and modifications of patient demographic, clinicopathological features and molecular profiles of PTC over time. Methods: A literature search was performed within six electronic databases to identify relevant articles. The inclusion criteria were published studies investigating BRAF mutations, RET/PTC rearrangements or RAS mutations in PTCs or classical PTCs. Two teams of reviewers independently screened titles and abstracts of all articles. Full texts of potential articles were read and extracted data were listed and stratified into an excel file according to country, city, institution, and surgical time period. Student t test and Pearson Chi-square were used to analyze the trends of demographic and clinicopathological features of PTC patients and the prevalence of each genetic alteration in individual institutions. Results: From 3139 articles, we included 16 articles for final analysis. Our results showed an increasing trend of BRAF and a decreasing trend of RET/PTC prevalence over time in PTCs and classical PTCs, accompanied by an older age of PTC patients, an increase in proportion of PTMC and less aggressive behaviours of tumours. Conclusions: The demographic and clinicopathological characteristics and molecular profile of PTCs have been changing over the past few decades. These modifications suggest changes in etiologies and risk factors of thyroid cancer that influence the tumorigenesis of PTCs.
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Yousef Khader | 94 | 586 | 111094 |
Crispian Scully | 86 | 917 | 33404 |
Debra K. Moser | 85 | 558 | 27188 |
Pierre Thibault | 77 | 332 | 17741 |
Ali H. Nayfeh | 71 | 618 | 31111 |
Harold S. Margolis | 71 | 199 | 26719 |
Gerrit Hoogenboom | 69 | 560 | 24151 |
Shaher Momani | 64 | 301 | 13680 |
Robert McDonald | 62 | 577 | 17531 |
Kaarle Hämeri | 58 | 175 | 10969 |
James E. Maynard | 56 | 141 | 9158 |
E. Richard Moxon | 54 | 176 | 10395 |
Liam G Heaney | 53 | 234 | 8556 |
Stephen C. Hadler | 52 | 148 | 11458 |
Nicholas H. Oberlies | 52 | 262 | 9683 |