Land surface temperature responses to land use dynamics in urban areas of Doha, Qatar by Shikha, Patel

“…The LST data derived from remote sensing sources demonstrates an upward trend for summer and a contrasting trend for winter. Specifically, the mean summer LST increases by 7.64 °C (0.34 °C annually), and the mean winter LST decreases by 4.87 °C (0.22 °C annually). …”
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Surgical Strategies for Synchronous Colorectal Liver Metastases in 156 Consecutive Patients by Bouquet, Antoine

“…Median numbers of CLMs per patient were 1 in the combined, 3 in the classic, and 4 in the reverse strategy group (p = 0.01 classic vs reverse; p < 0.001 reverse vs combined). …”
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The Effects of Local Aggregates on the Mechanical Properties of Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) by Obied, Michel

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Transfusion of Plasma from Young Exercise mice ameliorates Aging-associated Cognitive Impairments on Learning and Memory through activation of Autophagy by Khoury, Reine

“…The same exercise paradigm did not promote learning and memory formation in middle aged and old male mice. …”
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Design and Development of an Autonomous Caged Drone for Leak Detection in HVAC Ducts by Khalil, Ahmed

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Supplementation of retrobulbar block with clonidine in vitreoretinal surgery by Abi Nader, Elie

“…The median number of postoperative analgesic requests per patient during the first 24 hours was higher in the control group than the clonidine group [2 (0-3) vs. 1 (0-3); P < 0.001]. …”
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Daucus carota pentane/diethyl ether fraction inhibits motility and reduces invasion of cancer cells by Zgheib, Perla

“…The present study aims to investigate the effect of the most potent DC fraction, pentane/diethyl ether (50:50), on lung, skin, breast and glioblastoma cancer cell motility and invasion. …”
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Mental health, burnout and resilience in community pharmacists during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study by Zeana, Samir AlKudsi

“…Participants had shown moderate resilience (mean score: 27.64 (SD = 8.31)) and their mean score fear of COVID19 was 15.67 (SD = 6.54). …”
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Impact of staying at home measures during COVID-19 pandemic on the lifestyle of Qatar’s population: Perceived changes in diet, physical activity, and body weight by Muna Abed Alah (14779534)

“…Participants reported increased sitting/reclining time (1.94 h/day mean increase), screen times (2.05 h/day mean increase) with p < 0.001, and decreased exercise time (0.11 h/day mean reduction) with p < 0.001. …”

Which factor explains the life‐history of <i>Xanthium strumarium</i> L., an aggressive alien invasive plant species, along its altitudinal gradient? by Rafi Ullah (8146836)

“…Among climatic variables, mean yearly temperature, mean annual yearly humidity, and mean day length in hours, while in soil variables, organic matter and nitrogen percentage significantly affect the phenological and morphological stages. …”

Land surface temperature responses to land use dynamics in urban areas of Doha, Qatar by Shikha Patel (14151027)

“…The LST data derived from remote sensing sources demonstrates an upward trend for summer and a contrasting trend for winter. Specifically, the mean summer LST increases by 7.64 °C (0.34 °C annually), and the mean winter LST decreases by 4.87 °C (0.22 °C annually). …”

Role of two efflux proteins, ABCB1 and ABCG2 in blood-brain barrier transport of bromocriptine in a murine model of MPTP-induced dopaminergic degeneration by Milane, Aline

“…Studies of ABCB1 and ABCG2 activity showed that MPTP intoxication did not alter their functionality. Conversely, ABCG2 expression studied on brain capillaries from MPTP-treated mice was decreased (1.3-fold, p<0.05) and ABCB1 expression increased (1.43-fold, p<0.05) as an off-setting of brain transport. …”
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Hepatitis serology predicts tumor and liver-disease characteristics but not prognosis after resection of hepatocellular carcinoma by Abdalla, Eddie

“…The presence of hepatitis did not significantly affect the survival rate, but hepatic fibrosis and vascular invasion predicted a decreased survival rate. …”
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Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for th... by Jaimie D Steinmetz (18015919)

“…</p><p><br></p><h3>Findings</h3><p dir="ltr">Global crude prevalence of avoidable vision impairment and blindness in adults aged 50 years and older did not change between 2010 and 2019 (percentage change −0·2% [95% UI −1·5 to 1·0]; 2019 prevalence 9·58 cases per 1000 people [95% IU 8·51 to 10·8], 2010 prevalence 96·0 cases per 1000 people [86·0 to 107·0]). …”

RHOG activates RAC1 through CDC42 leading to tube formation in vascular endothelial cells by El Atat, Oula

“…While knocking down either RHO, GTPase did not affect p-AKT levels, and p-ERK decreased in response to the knocking down of RHOG, CDC42 or RAC1. …”
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Severe hematoma following the use of low molecular weight heparin in preterm neonate by Dr. Naveed Ur Rehman Durrani (18262147)

“…<h3>Objectives</h3><p dir="ltr">With the increased survival of preterm neonates, thromboembolic (TE) events are increasingly being recognized due to the use of indwelling catheters. …”

Factors associated with functional disability among Lebanese elderly living in rural areas by Zgheib, Elias

“…Chronic diseases, nutrition, and socioeconomic status also had a large effect on disability. Skin ulcer (ORa = 8.569; CI 5.330-14.823), followed by dementia (ORa = 3.667; CI 1.167-8.912), and anti-gout drugs (ORa = 3.962; CI 1.290-7.622) were found to be significantly associated with increased odds of disability the most. …”
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mTORC1 loss impairs epidermal adhesion via TGF-b/Rho kinase activation by Georgess, Dan

“…In mice with mTORC1 loss of function, we found that Rho kinase (ROCK) signaling was constitutively activated, resulting in increased cytoskeletal tension and impaired cell-cell adhesion. …”
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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries: a retrospective study by Ahammed Mekkodathil (4578838)

“…</p> <h2>Results</h2> <p>A total of 4040 patients with fall-related injuries were identified in the study duration which corresponds to the rate of 2.34 per 10,000 population. Although the rate of fall-related injuries decreased over the years, the average number of patients per year remained high accounting for 32% of the hospitalized patients with moderate to severe injuries. …”

An efficient failure-resilient mutual exclusion algorithm for distributed systems leveraging a novel zero-message overlay structure by Mouna Rabhi (17086969)

“…., node queue dimension, number of exchanged messages, and number of disconnected nodes) indicate a graceful degradation in performance with decreasing number of functioning nodes. For instance, for 4,096 nodes organized in a logical tree of arity 4 and with 4 physical nodes for logical node, a negligible number of nodes is disconnected from the tree after 250 epochs when the per-node per-epoch failure probability is p f ≤ 0 . 0008 . …”