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. …”

Intracellular Ionic Strength Sensing Using NanoLuc by Tausif Altamash (3846304)

“…Therefore, there is a demand for the development of sensitive tools for real-time monitoring of intracellular ionic strength. …”

Privacy-Preserving Fog Aggregation of Smart Grid Data Using Dynamic Differentially-Private Data Perturbation by Fawaz Kserawi (16904859)

“…We describe our differentially-private model with flexible constraints and a dynamic window algorithm to maintain the privacy-budget loss in infinitely generated time-series data. Our experimental results show a possible decrease in data perturbation error by 51.7% and 61.2% for smart meters and fog-computing data aggregators perturbed data, respectively, compared to the commonly used Gaussian mechanism.…”

Grid integration of renewable energy in Qatar: Potentials and limitations by Eric C. Okonkwo (14151060)

“…A one-year dynamic analysis based on an hourly time step is conducted using the EnergyPLAN tool. …”

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.…”

Inland Treatment of the Brine Generated from Reverse Osmosis Advanced Membrane Wastewater Treatment Plant Using Epuvalisation System by Qurie, Mohannad

“…The increasing of channel number or closed loop time is estimated for enhancing the treatment process and increasing the nutrient uptake. …”
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Factors affecting acoustically triggered release of drugs from polymeric micelles by Husseini, Ghaleb

“…The measurements were based on the decrease in fluorescence intensity when drug was transferred from the micelle core to the aqueous environment. …”
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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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SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH FOR WHOLE LIFE CYCLE COST MODELLING OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDING PROJECTS IN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES by Sadek, Ahmed

“…This is achieved by applying adjusting risks on project's initial cost at the preconstruction stage with respect to cost and risk behaviours at each time step. Cost impact is following an increasing S-Curve behaviour during CAPEX time and risk impact is following a decreasing S-Curve behaviour during CAPEX lifetime. …”
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Expanding the donor pool by Ramos, Emilio

“…Based on Organ Procurement Transplant Network (OPTN) data as of January 11, 2002, the waiting time for a cadaveric renal transplant has grown to a mean of 422 d for patients with blood type AB and 1453 d for patients with blood type O. …”
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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. …”

Biomarkers show promise for treatment of heart valve disease by Nature Research (16552612)

“…The researchers suggest that patients with increased pro- or decreased anti-calcific factors in their serum should avoid replacement with a bioprosthesis. …”

Optical coherence tomography findings in autoimmune retinopathy by Abazzari, Azin

“…Macular OCT showed reduced central macular and foveal thicknesses in 6 patients (mean thickness 143 ± 30 μm and 131 ± 29 μm respectively). …”
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Reducing terrorism with development ; the United Nations' new path. (c2009) by Kassis, Maria-Rita

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Positional and dimensional temporomandibular joint osseous changes in patients treated with the forsus fatigue resistant device: a non-randomized clinical trial by Ramy Abdul-Rahman Ishaq (22928974)

“…</p><h3 dir="ltr">Materials and methods</h3><p dir="ltr">This non-randomized clinical trial included 40 female subjects, aged 11 to 15, with skeletal Class II malocclusion. …”

A clustering metaheuristic for large orienteering problems by Almiqdad Elzein (13141038)

“…The metaheuristic aims to dramatically improve the computation time of a given Orienteering Problem algorithm without a significant decrease in the solution quality of that algorithm, especially for large Orienteering Problems. …”

Changes in Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Amid Confinement: The BKSQ-COVID-19 Project by Mahmoud A Alomari (12150939)

“…Additionally, gender, job type, obesity, and being worried to contract the disease were associated (p<0.05) with changes in PA. On the other hand, age, gender, obesity, job type and income were related (p<0.05) to changes in SB. …”

DNA methylation signature in peripheral blood reveals distinct characteristics of human X chromosome numerical aberrations by El Maarri, Osman

“…The X inactivation process appears to be less effective in Klinefelter syndrome as methylation on the X was decreased compared to normal female samples. In a large number of individuals, we verified several loci by pyrosequencing and observed only weak inter-loci correlations between the verified regions. …”
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Microbial and operational factors affecting energy recovery potential for anaerobic membrane bioreactors treating different wastewater types by Ramadan, Lama

“…The third experiment treating poultry slaughterhouse wastewater (PSW) over three phases with decreasing hydraulic retention times (HRTs) concluded that the microbial adaptation to the high-strength wastewater can directly impact the energy produced from the system. …”
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Evaluation and Enhancement of Triaging Services Through Quality Improvement Tools at Primary Health Care Level: A Clinical Audit Study by Ansif Pallath Majeed (17993848)

“…Compliance with the suggested time target of 5 minutes for physicians to attend medical emergencies has shown a small improvement from 48% at baseline to 55% in the re-audit. …”