Zooming Into Clarity: Image Denoising Through Innovative Autoencoder Architectures by Khatereh Mohammadi (17309662)

“…The ResoFocus Autoencoder is designed to optimize and denoise upsized images, while the FragmentumZoom Autoencoder targets small image segments to enhance denoising tasks. Empirical evaluations on diverse datasets, including CelebA and Autism Face data, demonstrate significant improvements in the Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) and Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM). …”

SVM-based task admission control and computation offloading using lyapunov optimization in heterogeneous MEC network by Abbas, Nadine

“…Significant increase in number of completed tasks, energy savings, and cost reductions are resulted as compared to alternative baseline approaches.…”
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An Optimized Feature Selection Technique in Diversified Natural Scene Text for Classification Using Genetic Algorithm by Ghulam Jillani Ansari (16896342)

Optimisation of PV Cleaning Practices: Comparison Between Performance Based and Periodic Based Approaches by ALHAJERI, RASHED ABDULLA

“…Solar energy has the largest untapped reserve in energy and is one of the fastest emerging energy markets. …”
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Effect of consanguinity on birth weight for gestational age in a developing country by Wakim, Gerard

“…No significant difference was observed in the decrease in birth weight between the first- and second-cousin marriages. …”
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β-2-himachalen-6-ol protects against skin cancer development in vitro and in vivo by Daaboul, Hamid E.

“…Also, there was a significant decrease in p-Erk and p-Akt protein levels. …”
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Renewable Energy, Coal as a Baseload Power Source, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Evidence from U.S. State-Level Data by Squalli, Jay

“…After controlling for other sources of emissions, U.S. states that produce a larger share of renewable energy are found to have lower GHG emissions. …”
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Vigilance Decrement and Enhancement Techniques: A Review by Yahya, Fares

“…Furthermore, the paper reveals the effectiveness of unconventional means of enhancement in significant reduction of vigilance decrement compared to conventional means. …”
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Effects of habitat complexity on the abundance, species richness and size of darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) in artificial vegetation by Bartholomew, Aaron

“…Increasing complexity appeared to lead to decreasing beetle widths. 9 beetle species were relatively rare in, or absent from, the higher complexity treatments, including 5 of the 6 largest species. 2 rare, small beetle species were only found in higher complexity treatments. …”
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An Effective Fault Diagnosis Technique for Wind Energy Conversion Systems Based on an Improved Particle Swarm Optimization by Majdi Mansouri (16869885)

“…The main idea behind the use of the PSO algorithm is to remove irrelevant features and extract only the most significant ones from raw data in order to improve the classification task using a neural networks classifier. …”

Stemming cardiovascular diseases in Qatar by Nature Research (16552612)

“…“Both Qatari nationals and expatriates should adopt healthier lifestyles to reduce the prevalence of these risk factors,” says Christos. Diabetes was the largest preventable risk factor to decrease heart attacks and strokes.…”

Adaptive Effects of Seeing Green Environment on Psychophysiological Parameters When Walking or Running by Walid Briki (688845)

“…Study 1 revealed that walking in a green environment induced a significant reduction in heart rate values as compared to the red and white conditions although no differences in gait speed were found. …”

Influenza prevalence and vaccine efficacy among diabetic patients in Qatar by Swapna, Thomas

“…Among the typed IVA-positive cases, 33.4% were H1N1, and 7.7% were H3N2. A significant decrease in influenza infections was reported in vaccinated DM patients (14.5%) when compared to non-vaccinated patients (18.9%) (p-value = 0.006). …”
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Why do some countries produce more capital intensive output than others? by Toukan, Amjad

“…Based on my model I offer an explanation for the variation in physical capital intensity across countries where the model predictions show that a lower quality of governance in a country results in a decrease in the output of capital-intensive goods and an increase in the output of labor-intensive goods. …”
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Influenza prevalence and vaccine efficacy among diabetic patients in Qatar by Swapna Thomas (17337925)

“…Among the typed IVA-positive cases, 33.4% were H1N1, and 7.7% were H3N2. A significant decrease in influenza infections was reported in vaccinated DM patients (14.5%) when compared to non-vaccinated patients (18.9%) (p-value = 0.006). …”

Shear Behavior of One-Way Reinforced Concrete Hollow Slabs Voided with PET Void Formers by Hasan, Haider H.

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Use of Ultrasound and Ionic Liquids to Enhance the Extractive Desulfurization of Oils by Zuraiqi, Karma

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Semi-supervised Clustering of Facial Expressions by Jalal, Ahsan

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Qatar’s immigrants at higher risk of diabetes by Nature Research (16552612)

“…The researchers stress, however, that their preliminary results should be confirmed in future studies involving larger numbers of participants. 1 “We would advise the Qatari government to screen all immigrants entering the country, as this would decrease the risk of unnecessary complications due to the late diagnosis of diabetes,” says lead author Dennis Mook-Nakamori. …”

Simulation Based Optimization of Logistics Decisions Under Horizontal Collaboration by Hammoud, Shaza Mouhib

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