The impact of COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown on smoking habits and lifestyle: A cross‐sectional study by Almu'atasim Khamees (11875640)

“…While those who had a decrease in their smoking level experienced a somehow healthier lifestyle regarding nutrition and other aspects.…”

Transcriptome Profile Identifies Actin as an Essential Regulator of Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein C3 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in a Zebrafish Model by Sahar Isa Da’as (18288880)

“…These knockout zebrafish displayed significant morphological heart alterations related to a significant decrease in ventricular and atrial diameters at systolic and diastolic states at the larval stages. …”

Optimization of design and operation of solar assisted district cooling systems by Dana M. Alghool (18387132)

“…Hence, the proposed model aims at finding the optimal system design (i.e., the system’s main components along with their optimal capacities) together with the optimal hourly policies for production and storage of hot and cold water while satisfying the expected cooling demand. …”

Design and analysis of PV fed high-voltage gain DC-DC converter using PI and NN controllers by Madisa V.G., Varaprasad

“…In this article, a modified High-Voltage DC-DC converter was explained. The main intention of the modified converter is to decrease the reverse recovery currents and voltage stress across the switch, similarly, it generates high voltage at the converter output. …”
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A Multidecadal Assessment of Haze Development and Fluctuations in Visibility for Arabian Peninsula by Luqman Atique (16036586)

“…Visibility in KWT was 0.5 km in 1994, indicating a period of exceptionally poor visibility whereas the daily mean visibility for KSA was approximately 0.6 km. …”

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in the Adult General Medicine Setting in Qatar by Dina Abushanab (10696501)

“…</p><h3> Results</h3><p dir="ltr">The operational costs of the program decreased with maturity by cost savings of QAR125 per 100-patient beds per year. …”

Mitigating soil water deficit using organic waste compost and commercial water retainer: a comparative study under semiarid conditions by Hatem Zgallai (17792567)

“…<p dir="ltr">Semiarid regions have particularly been confronted with climate change effects reflected by the consistent decrease of rainfall and increase of evapotranspiration. …”

Hydrothermal and irreversibility numerical analysis of helical coil energy storage tank with nano-encapsulated PCMs: A comprehensive study with magnetic filled, Soret/Dufour, and m... by Mohammed Azeez Alomari (20482592)

“…On the other hand, average values of Nusselt and Sherwood are decreased with the rise of the Hartmann number. Furthermore, Nusselt average and Sherwood’s average decrease by 21.4 % and 24.9 % respectively when Darcy’s number increases from 0.1 to 10^-4.…”

Effective non-intrusive load monitoring of buildings based on a novel multi-descriptor fusion with dimensionality reduction by Yassine Himeur (14158821)

“…This paper presents an efficient non-intrusive load monitoring framework that consists of the following main components: (i) a novel fusion of multiple time-domain features is proposed to extract appliance fingerprints; (ii) a dimensionality reduction scheme is introduced to be applied to the fused time-domain features, which relies on fuzzy-neighbors preserving analysis based QR-decomposition. …”

Competition vs cooperation: An agent based model for sustainable tomatoes’ import system by Sarah Namany (17268922)

“…Market dynamics represented by competitive and cooperative behaviors of the system's main players is one of the uncertainties that influence the availability and <u>affordability</u> of food products. …”

A customised fetal growth and birthweight standard for Qatar: a population-based cohort study by Thomas Farrell (3933833)

“…Constitutional coefficients significantly affecting birthweight were gestational age, height, weight, and parity. The main pathological factors were preexisting diabetes (increase by +175.7 g) and smoking (decrease by −190.9 g). …”

Automated detection of posterior urethral valves in voiding cystourethrography images: A novel AI-Based pipeline for enhanced diagnosis and classification by Saidul Kabir (15302407)

“…This study aimed to automate and increase accuracy of PUV detection in voiding cystourethrography (VCUG) images using an AI-based pipeline. The main objective was to detect presence of PUV based on urethral ratio calculated automatically from segmented urethra region. …”

Regional variations in incidence of surgical site infection and associated risk factors in women undergoing cesarean section: A systematic review and Meta-Analysis by Nazmul, Islam

“…Subgroup and sensitivity analyses and meta-regression examined SSI-related heterogeneity. Main results49 cohort studies with 271,954 participants met the inclusion criteria. …”
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Disrupted harvests: how Ukraine – Russia war influences global food systems – a systematic review by Hamid El Bilali (15864930)

“…Effects on food utilization are mainly seen in the decrease in diet quality and dietary diversity. …”

A robust experimental-based artificial neural network approach for photovoltaic maximum power point identification considering electrical, thermal and meteorological impact by Samer Gowid (15955152)

“…The results showed a decrease in the MSE of V_mp by 74.3% (from 1.6 V to 0.411 V), and in the MSE of I_mp by 95% (from 4.4e−6 A to 2.16e−7 A), respectively. …”

Efficient Integration of Direct Air Capture With HVAC System by Yasser Mohamed Mohamed Taher Abdellatif (20741534)

“…Further advancements with SBA-15-TEPA in DAC-HVAC setup reduce the LCOD to $208 per ton, while using NbOFFIVE in amine free DAC system achieves the most economical rate at $184 (reduction by 58% of initial DAC LCOD) per ton. …”

The cost associated with the development of the antimicrobial stewardship program in the adult general medicine setting in Qatar by Dina Abushanab (10696501)

“…The operational costs decreased with the developed ASP. Whereas antimicrobial consumption and resource utilisation, and their associated costs, appear to have declined with the developed ASP, with a cost saving of QAR458 (US$125) per 100-patient beds, the avoided cost was negative, by QAR4,807 (US$1,317) per 100-patient beds, adding to a total QAR4,224 (US$1,160) increase in the 100-patient beds cost after ASP development.…”

Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Stein Emil, Vollset

“…MethodsUsing forecasts of major drivers of health such as the Socio-demographic Index (SDI; a composite measure of lag-distributed income per capita, mean years of education, and total fertility under 25 years of age) and the full set of risk factor exposures captured by GBD, we provide cause-specific forecasts of mortality, years of life lost (YLLs), years lived with disability (YLDs), and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) by age and sex from 2022 to 2050 for 204 countries and territories, 21 GBD regions, seven super-regions, and the world. …”
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Fourier-Transform Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy and Laser Ablation -ICPMS New Vistas for Biochemical Analyses of Ischemic Stroke in Rat Brain by Mohamed H. M. Ali (5768066)

“…<h3>Objective</h3><p dir="ltr">Stroke is the main cause of adult disability in the world, leaving more than half of the patients dependent on daily assistance. …”

Orthodontic camouflage versus orthodontic-orthognathic surgical treatment in borderline class III malocclusion: a systematic review by Maged S. Alhammadi (14150757)

“…Regarding the vertical jaw relation, one study reported a significant decrease in mandibular plane inclination in OC and a significant increase in OOS. …”