Differential water quality in confined and free-flowing water bodies, Lebanon by Korfali, Samira Ibrahim

“…This emphasises the importance of assessing surface water quality as a projected means to increase water availability. This study involves two different water bodies, the freely flowing Nahr-Ibrahin River and the Qaraaoun Reservoir, an impoundment of the Litani River. …”
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Performance analysis of a new designed PEM fuel cell by Ratlamwala, Tahir Abdul Hussain

“…Moreover, decrease in the efficiency of the cell ranges from 45.5% to 28.4% with the increase in the current density and membrane thickness. …”
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Testing and Evaluation of a Smart Irrigation System towards Smart landscaping in UAE by ALSULAIMANI, FATMA

“…The outcomes of the use of SMS have shown a better results in water conservation and a decrease in water flow in the month of September by 21% and 26% in October. …”
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A framework for implementing Green Supply Chain Management: The Case of Petco Gulf by HASSAN, HUDA YOUSIF ALI AHMED

“…From this research, it was found that as Petco gulf is present in the U.A.E. it can take advantage of this and by applying the GSCM strategies against each of its components this will help the company by, increased overall gross profit with the decrease in cost since going green in its supply chain means reducing the overheads. …”
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Human health risks associated with the consumption of groundwater in the Gaza Strip by Basem, Shomar

“…On the other hand, nitrate (NO3) decreased by 30 %, due to expansion of the sewer network and decrease in the number and distribution of septic tanks. …”
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Maternal Body Mass Index and Recommended Gestational Weight Gain in a Middle Eastern Setting by Tawa Olukade (11619453)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">The mean maternal age was 29.7 ± 5.5 years, prepregnancy BMI was 27.5 ± 5.8 kg/m2, GWG was 9.58 kg ± 6.87 kg and gestational age at birth was 38.5 ± 1.9 weeks. …”

Modeling the influence of daily temperature and precipitation extreme indices on vegetation dynamics in Katsina State using statistical downscaling model (SDM) by Mohammad, Hadi Ahmad

“…All the scenarios present increasing minimum and maximum temperatures and decreasing precipitation, except for RCP8.5, which predicted a more adverse trend. …”
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Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Instructional Delivery Modalities, and the Role of School Leaders: a Study among Selected Private Schools in Abu Dhabi. by YAHYA, AHMAD

“…For example, the interviews recommended that school leaders are invited to build an active channel of communication with their teachers, share the decision-making process with them, decrease the workload, raise the teachers’ autonomy, and establish a remuneration system.…”
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Breakdown of perineal laceration repair after vaginal delivery by JAllad, Karl

“…Objective The aim of the study was to estimate risk factors associated with breakdown of perineal laceration repair after vaginal delivery. …”
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Body surface area and body weight predict total liver volume in Western adults by Vauthey, Jean-Nicolas

“…Computed tomography (CT) is used increasingly to measure liver volume in patients undergoing evaluation for transplantation or resection. …”
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Lifetime prevalence, risk, and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders in Qatar's national mental health study by Salma Mawfek Khaled (14159013)

“…<h3>Objectives</h3><p dir="ltr">To estimate lifetime prevalence, risk, and treatment for mental disorders and their correlates in Qatar's general population for the first time.…”

Anomaly Detection on Smart Grids With Optimized Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory Model by Ahmad N. Alkuwari (22392226)

“…<p dir="ltr">The integration of digital technologies into traditional power systems has increased the efficiency and sustainability of power grids, transforming traditional grids into smart grids. …”

Developing biochar from potential wastes in Qatar and its revenue potential by Prakash Parthasarathy (10159511)

“…<p>Global population growth, booming economies, and modernization are all contributing to increased waste generation, including in Qatar. A more sustainable waste treatment strategy is therefore essential to reaching Qatar's National Vision 2030. …”

Three-way decision-based conditional probabilities by opinion scores and Bayesian rules in circular-Pythagorean fuzzy sets for developing sustainable smart living framework by A. Alsattar, Hassan

“…At σ=0.05, the remaining SSL framework alternatives are positioned within the boundary region. When σ value increases to a range of 0.55–0.59, TWD is transformed into a two-way decision-…”
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Hypospadias Reconstruction Training: Development of an Ex-Vivo Model for Objective Evaluation of Surgical Skills by Abbas, Tariq

“…However, EMG measurements showed significant reductions in average EMG power, total time, dominant frequency, and cumulative muscle workload after training. Additionally, the mean power spectral density of the EMG signal decreased notably post-training. …”
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Cytotoxicity of [HuArgI (co)-PEG5000]-induced arginine deprivation to ovarian Cancer cells is autophagy dependent by Nasreddine, Ghenwa

“…Ovarian cancer cell lines were negative for annexinV staining while showing loss of membrane integrity and absence of caspase activation, indicating caspase-independent, non-apoptotic cell death. …”
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Drug-free phototherapy of superficial tumors by Mehanna, Stephanie

“…While previous data proved its inherent cytotoxicity, this study is the first to explore the use of a commercially available, high-intensity white LED light (24.5 mW.cm−2) as a treatment for skin tumors. After a 9-h exposure in vitro, the viability of Human Malignant Melanoma cells (A375) decreased by around 70%. …”
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Pharmacological evaluation of aqueous extract of Althaea officinalis flower grown in Lebanon by Hage-Sleiman, Rouba

“…Antiplatelet activity was investigated in vitro using the adenosine 5′-diphosphate (ADP)-induced platelet aggregation bioassay. …”
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Diabetes-related cardiovascular and economic burden in patients hospitalized for heart failure in the US: a recent temporal trend analysis from the National Inpatient Sample by Menatalla Mekhaimar (14103708)

“…The prevalence of DM increased from 40.4 to 46.5% in patients hospitalized for HF. In patients with HF and DM, mean (SD) age slightly decreased from 71 (13) to 70 (13) years, in which 47.5% were males in 2005 as compared with 52% in 2014 (p trend < 0.001 for both). …”

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). …”