Effect of climate change on the annual energy consumption of a single family house in British Columbia حسب Mutasim Baba, Fuad

"…The simulation results show that for both bylaw and PH cases, heating energy consumption will be reduced while cooling energy consumption will be increased, as a result for bylaw case, the energy consumption will be decreased for four climate zones, while for PH case, the energy consumption will be increased for zone 4 & 5 and decreased for zone 6 & 7. …"
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Developing Dynamic Daylighting Metric for Dynamic Facades in Office Buildings in Dubai حسب THALOOB, AFRA BAKHIT

"…To fulfill this purpose, a modified daylight metric has been developed which consists of Dynamic Useful Daylight (DUD) to measure the work plane area that receives a desired daylight illuminance and Dynamic Sunlight Exposure (DSE) to measure the work plane area that receives excessive direct sunlight. …"
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in the Adult General Medicine Setting in Qatar حسب Dina Abushanab (10696501)

"…</p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">Patient records were retrospectively reviewed during two periods: premature ASP (i.e. the 12 months following ASP implementation (May 2015-April 2016)), and mature ASP (i.e. the last 12 months of a 5-year ASP implementation in Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) (February 2019-January 2020)). …"

CRISPR-Cas Controls Cryptic Prophages حسب Sooyeon Song (4891132)

"…We show here that the E. coli CRISPR-Cas system is active and serves to inhibit its nine defective (i.e., cryptic) prophages. Specifically, compared to the wild-type strain, reducing the amounts of specific interfering RNAs (crRNA) decreases growth by 40%, increases cell death by 700%, and prevents persister cell resuscitation. …"

Do Older Adults with Multimorbidity Meet the Recommended Levels of Physical Activity? An Analysis of Scottish Health Survey حسب Ahmad Salman (3173418)

"…Adherence to PA guidelines seems to be more related to age, BMI, gender (i.e. higher PA adherence in men vs. women), social support (i.e. social deprivation), dietary habits (i.e. fruit and vegetable intake) and social isolation among the elderly. …"

Effect of climate change on the energy performance and thermal comfort of high-rise residential buildings in cold climates حسب Mutasim Baba, Fuad

"…As a result, for the bylaw case, the total energy consumption would be decreased for two climate zones, while for PH case, the total energy consumption would be increased for zone 4 and decreased for zone 7. …"
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Epibenthic communities from offshore platforms in the Arabian Gulf are structured by platform age and depth حسب Felipe, Torquato

"…A step further is now required to determine whether these platform foundations should be converted to reefs after their decommissioning (i.e., Rigs to Reefs approach).…"
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Exogenous Contrast Agents in Photoacoustic Imaging: An In Vivo Review for Tumor Imaging حسب Farooq, Afifa

"…While current state-of-the-art oncology imaging techniques have decreased mortality rates, patients still face a diminished quality of life due to treatment. …"
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Exogenous Contrast Agents in Photoacoustic Imaging: An In Vivo Review for Tumor Imaging حسب Farooq, Afifa

"…While current state-of-the-art oncology imaging techniques have decreased mortality rates, patients still face a diminished quality of life due to treatment. …"
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A comparison of peer, teacher and self-feedback on the reduction of language errors in student essays حسب Diab, Nuwar Mawlawi

"…Three Lebanese university student groups sat for a pre-test, received instruction on the errors under study, and practiced correcting them in response to their respective source of feedback. …"
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Machine Learning Models for Scheduling On-Demand Fog Placement and Optimizing Container Deployment حسب Farhat, Peter

"…Second, we propose a K-Means based clustering model embedded within a multi-objective optimization scheme for fog and container placement. …"
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Waterpipe Tobacco Smoke Nicotine Mediates Resilience to Chronic Stress by Activating BDNF Signaling حسب Khalifeh, Mohamad Rabieh

"…The mice were exposed to WTS or received intraperitoneal injections of nicotine for thirty days, before being subjected to CSDS for ten days. …"
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Effects of Different Processing Methods on the Antibiotic Enrofloxacin Residues Occurrence in Middle Eastern Dairy Products حسب Haddad, Rita

"…They will also guide the dairy industries to decide on which product to process the raw milk to whenever they receive milk contaminated with ENF to ensure the safety of their products.…"
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A positive change in energy balance modulates TrkB expression in the hypothalamus and nodose ganglia of rats حسب Zeeni, Nadine

"…Secondly, using rats that received the same diets, real-time PCR was performed in the DVC, hypothalamus and nodose ganglia in order to compare TrkB receptor levels. …"
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Performance Analysis of FSO Communications With Diversity Methods حسب Abou-Rjeily, Chadi

"…By comparing the MIMO and cooperative methods with point receivers, we reach the central result that it is always better, from a diversity gain point of view, to add more apertures to the source and destination rather than adding more relays in their vicinity despite the fact that the fading variance along FSO links decreases with the distance. …"
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Interleukin-35 and Thymoquinone nanoparticle-based intervention for liver protection against paracetamol-induced liver injury in rats حسب Maisa Siddiq Abduh (16381125)

"…Group IV (PAR) received 600 mg/kg of PAR orally; V (PAR + IL-35) and VI (PAR + TYHO); rats received 600 mg/kg of PAR orally and i.p injection of IL-35 (200 ng/kg) or THYO (0.5 mg/kg), respectively. …"

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

"…Clonidine group patients (n = 40) received 4.5 mL of lidocaine-bupivacaine and 0.5 μg/kg of clonidine in a 0.5 mL volume. …"
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Treatment sequencing strategy for hepatic epithelioid haemangioendothelioma حسب Thomas, Ryan

"…However, 5-year survival for patients treated with chemotherapy at any point during their disease course was decreased compared with those who did not receive any chemotherapy (43.6% versus 82.9%, respectively; P = 0.02) and was predictive of a decreased overall survival on univariate analysis [HR 3.1 (CI 0.9–10.7), P = 0.02]. …"
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The cost-benefit associated with the maturity of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program versus prematurity in Heart Hospital of Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar حسب Dina Abushanab (10696501)

"…</p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">This retrospective study evaluated patients who received antimicrobial medications during the premature (P-ASP) and mature ASP (M-ASP) periods. …"

Nicotine induces resilience to chronic social defeat stress in a mouse model of water pipe tobacco exposure by activating BDNF signaling حسب Khalifeh, Mohamad

"…Male C57BL/6 J mice were exposed to WTS or received intraperitoneal injections of nicotine for thirty days then subjected to CSDS for ten days. …"
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