Assessment of treatment burden and its impact on quality of life in dialysis-dependent and pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease patients by Asmaa Al-mansouri (16931739)

“…There was a strong negative correlation between TBQ score and KDQOL-36™ score [rs (251) = −0.616, p < 0.001], signifying that HR-QOL decreases as treatment burden increases.</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p dir="ltr">This study suggests that a considerable proportion of CKD patients suffered from treatment-related burden and deterioration in HR-QOL at a varying degree of seriousness. …”

Resource recovery through bioremediation of fuel-synthesis wastewater in a biofilm photobioreactor using purple non-sulfur bacteria: A circular bioeconomy approach by Sultan Shaikh (19256497)

“…This study observed a direct correlation between the concentration of FSW and PHB content; specifically, as the FSW content decreased from 100 % (undiluted) to 25 % the PHB content decreased. …”

Custom foot orthoses improve performance, but do not modify the biomechanical manifestation of fatigue, during repeated treadmill sprints by Olivier Girard (409080)

“…Regardless of footwear condition, mean horizontal forces, step frequency, vertical and leg stiffness decreased from sprint 1 to sprint 8 (all <i>P</i> < 0.001). …”

A new perspective on cardiovascular drift during prolonged exercise by Amine Souissi (9931616)

“…<p dir="ltr">Prolonged exercise induces cardiovascular drift, which is characterized by decreasing mean arterial pressure (MAP), stroke volume and heart rate increase. …”

Prediction of biogas production from chemically treated co-digested agricultural waste using artificial neural network by Fares Almomani (12585685)

“…The CMP was the highest for the substrate with moisture content (%MC) in the range of 34% to 48%, and it decreased for %MC > 50%. The chemical treatment with NaHCO₃ improved the biodegradability of the substrate and increased the CMP by at least 43% with reference to the untreated substrate. …”

Maternal Body Mass Index and Recommended Gestational Weight Gain in a Middle Eastern Setting by Tawa Olukade (11619453)

“…In line with IOM recommendations, we found that higher BMI was correlated with decreased GWG and BMI was significantly associated with GWG even after adjusting for maternal age, parity, and infants’ gestational age at birth. …”

Fluid-Structure-Acoustic coupling analysis for external laminar and turbulent fluid flows by Tohid Adibi (17871551)

“…The results indicate that the transmission loss is 27% more at the elastic plate’s highest position. By decreasing the length of the elastic plate by 50%, the mean transmission loss is reduced by 9%. …”

Extraction and characterization of biofunctional lignocellulosic fibers from Pulicaria undulata plant and the effect of alkali treatment on their bio-physicochemical properties by Mohammed, Alsafran

“…In contrast, alkali-treated fibers showed a significant decrease in radical scavenging activity (almost 7–8 fold) and reducing power potential (6-fold) and exhibited no antifungal activity, potentially due to the loss of bioactive components such as lignin and essential oils. …”
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Old subjects with sepsis in the emergency department: trend analysis of case fatality rate by Andrea Fabbri (356760)

“…The relative proportion of subjects ≥80 years (overall, 52.9% of cases) and classified as high-risk did not change along the years. CFR decreased only in low-risk subjects (from 13.3 to 5.2%; P < 0.001), and particularly in those aged ≥80 (from 18.2 to 6.6%; P = 0.003), but not in high-risk individuals (from 69.9 to 64.2%; P = 0.713).…”

Dispatchable capacity optimization strategy for battery swapping and charging station aggregators to participate in grid operations by Mingze, Zhang

“…Also, the aggregator does not worsen the original power load while meeting the EV swapping demand and can decrease the daily load fluctuations by 0.65% and 12.89%, reduce the peak–valley difference by 5.81% and 7.80%, and increase the load rate by 3.67% and 4.08% in working and non-working day situations through providing the dynamic dispatchable capacity for the grid.…”
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Coalition game theoretic P2P trading in a distribution network integrity-ensured local energy market by M., Imran Azim

“…The simulation results confirm that participants, both sellers and purchasers, can decrease their energy costs substantially, and the LEM operator can also secure its margin while the distribution network voltages and line congestion are within the prescribed ranges.…”
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Circular economy application for a Green Stadium construction towards sustainable FIFA world cup Qatar 2022™ by Abathar Al-Hamrani (16494884)

“…Therefore, sustainable construction became a hot topic, which strives to reduce material consumption, limit constructional waste disposal, and decrease contribution to climate change. In line with Qatar's commitment to organizing a sustainable FIFA World Cup in 2022, this study aims to conduct an environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) for the construction of the Education City Stadium. …”

Biomolecular changes and subsequent time-dependent recovery in hippocampal tissue after experimental mild traumatic brain injury by Sebnem Garip Ustaoglu (18460611)

“…Band area and intensity ratios, band frequency and bandwidth values of specific spectral bands showed that TBI causes significant structural and contextual global changes including decrease in carbonyl content, unsaturated lipid content, lipid acyl chain length, membrane lipid order, total protein content, lipid/protein ratio, besides increase in membrane fluidity with an altered protein secondary structure and metabolic activity in hippocampus 24 h after injury. …”

A novel hybrid methodology for fault diagnosis of wind energy conversion systems by Khaled Dhibi (16891524)

“…Feature selection pre-processing is an important step to increase the accuracy of the classification algorithm and decrease the dimensionality of a dataset. Therefore, a hybrid feature selection based diagnosis technique, that can preserve the advantages of wrapper and filter algorithms as well as RF model, is proposed. …”

Insights on the effect of water content in carburizing gas mixtures on the metal dusting corrosion of iron by El Tayeb Bentria (9904024)

“…At later stage, the formation of oxide scale leads to an elevated concentration of H₂O/OH molecules on the surface due to the decrease in Fe affinity to dissociate water. This results into blocking the Fe catalytic sites leading to lower C and O diffusion to the bulk of the sample.…”

Biomolecular alterations in acute traumatic brain injury (TBI) using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) imaging spectroscopy by Fazle Rakib (5768069)

“…<p dir="ltr">Acute injury is one of the substantial stage post-traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurring at the moment of impact. Decreased metabolism, unregulated cerebral blood flow and direct tissue damage are triggered by acute injury. …”

Bond durability of sand coated and ribbed basalt FRP bars embedded in high-strength concrete by Abathar Al-Hamrani (16494884)

“…However, specimens with high-strength concrete achieved most of or above their maximum bond strength after the descending stage, while those with normal-strength concrete showed a decrease in bond strength to an approximately constant value with continuous slip. …”

Evaluation of the cementite morphology influence on the hydrogen induced crack nucleation and propagation path in carbon steels by Shabnam Karimi (19457575)

“…The results show that both materials are resistant to crack initiation in the H-free condition while under −1050 mV charging, crack propagates through the grain boundaries in a tortuous path in spheroidite mi-crostructure and the lamellar microstructure displayed a higher strength with small cracks propagating through both the grain boundaries and the lamellas. A drastic load decrease in the load-displacement (L-D) curve happened under −1550 mV charging for both microstructures accompanied by a straight crack growth path in spheroidite microstruc-ture, independent of grain boundaries or ferrite-cementite interfaces while a competition between the shear crack growth mechanism and the interfacial cracking determines the crack growth path in the lamellar microstructure.…”

Thermally Conductive Polyethylene/Expanded Graphite Composites as Heat Transfer Surface: Mechanical, Thermo-Physical and Surface Behavior by Patrik Sobolčiak (4401364)

“…This enhanced surface wettability was retained over a long time with only a 9% and 18% decrease in RF and corona plasma-treated samples’ surface energy after two months. …”

Deep Learning-Based Fault Diagnosis of Photovoltaic Systems: A Comprehensive Review and Enhancement Prospects by Majdi Mansouri (16869885)

“…These faults may affect the different system components such as PV modules, connection lines, converters/inverters, which can lead to a decrease in the efficiency, performance, and further system collapse. …”