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Venture Capital Practices in Saudi Arabia: The Views of Investors
Thunderbird International Business Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how venture capital (VC) investors in Saudi Arabia evaluate, negotiate, and support entrepreneurial ventures in a rapidly developing yet institutionally young setting. Drawing on 21 semi‐structured interviews with 24 investors, it offers rare insight into VC practices in the Middle East.
Tibah al‐Harbi +2 more
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Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sargassum inundation of Caribbean and American shorelines is a growing environmental hazard. Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and ammonia (NH3) produced by decomposing Sargassum could be involved in airway obstruction and bronchial inflammation. The study was undertaken to evaluate the effects of exposure to H2S and NH3 gases emitted during Sargassum ...
Rishika Banydeen +9 more
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Application Status and Development Trends of DC Ice‐Melting Devices in China's Power Grid
IET Smart Energy Systems, EarlyView.This paper summarises the development history and engineering application status of DC ice‐melting devices (DCIMD) in China, analyses the principles, advantages, disadvantages and adaptability of mainstream topologies and discusses the key problems and corresponding improvement directions.
Ming Lei +6 more
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IET Smart Energy Systems, EarlyView.The Graphical Abstract depicts the proposed Artificial Bee Colony algorithm‐based optimal tuning of PI controllers for back‐to‐back Voltage Source Converters in a hybrid wind–PV system. ABSTRACT This paper proposes a hybrid model‐based back‐to‐back voltage‐source converter (B2B‐VSC) system comprising a Photovoltaic (PV) array and a Permanent Magnet ...
Ch. Sreenu +3 more
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Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2007 In patients who require a permanent central venous catheter (PCVC), the usual aim is to put the catheter tip at the superior vena cava and right atrium (SVC-RA) junction.
Jong-Hau Hsu +5 more
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QoE assessment for SVC streaming in ENVISION
CoRR, 2013 Scalable video coding has drawn great interest in content delivery in many multimedia services thanks to its capability to handle terminal heterogeneity and network conditions variation. In our previous work, and under the umbrella of ENVISION, we have proposed a playout smoothing mechanism to ensure the uniform delivery of the layered stream, by ...
Bradai, Abbas +2 more
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Artificial Organs, EarlyView.This study utilized an extensive optimization involving n = 540 design of experiments to produce a superior drainage cannula design. Compared to the clinically used Maquet model, our optimized design demonstrated reduced blood stagnation volumes, increased cannula tip velocities, and higher upper body drainage, potentially minimizing risk of thrombosis
Avishka Wickramarachchi +3 more
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Successful Venous Angioplasty of Superior Vena Cava Syndrome after Heart Transplantation
Case Reports in Cardiology, 2014 Introduction. For patients with terminal heart failure, heart transplantation (HTX) has become an established therapy. Before transplantation there are many repeated measurements with a pulmonary artery catheter (PAC) via the superior vena cava (SVC ...
Thomas Strecker +5 more
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World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2009 Herein, we report two extremely rare cases of differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) with extended tumor thrombus or mediastinum lymph node metastasis (LNM) involving the superior vena cava (SVC), causing SVC syndrome.
Uchida Keiichi +11 more
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