Sleeve Gastrectomy in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: Anthropometric and Cardiometabolic Improvements at 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 years—Are the Initial Benefits Sustained? حسب Wahiba Elhag (5245547)

"…Mean HbA1c significantly decreased from 8.1%preop to 6.77%_{year 9}. …"

Managing Endothelial Dysfunction in COVID-19 حسب Matli, Kamal

"…Conclusion Among patients hospitalized with mild, moderate, or severe COVID-19 infection, targeting endothelial dysfunction by administering Nicorandil, L-arginine, Folate, Nebivolol, and Atorvastatin on top of optimal medical therapy did not decrease time to recovery. However, this treatment protocol was associated with an excellent safety profile. …"
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Improvement of heat sink performance using paraffin/graphite/hydrogel phase change composite coating حسب Sreedevi Paramparambath (17346997)

"…The W-G-H composite coated solar panel displayed a surface temperature that was near ∼4 °C lower than the bare solar panel while operating. The real-time experiment indicates that the W-G-H composite has high thermal conductivity and heat release properties. …"

Improvement of heat sink performance using paraffin/graphite/hydrogel phase change composite coating حسب Sreedevi, Paramparambath

"…The W-G-H composite coated solar panel displayed a surface temperature that was near ∼4 °C lower than the bare solar panel while operating. The real-time experiment indicates that the W-G-H composite has high thermal conductivity and heat release properties. …"
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Exploring the potential of applying Sustainable Retrofitting Policies & Regulations for existing low-rise small-scale Residential Buildings (Villas) in Dubai, UAE حسب Albedwawi, Khulood

"…Due to the different electricity rates for locals and non-locals, mandating these measures will not be economically feasible and the time of the payback period is too long. However, in nonlocal families, mandating more than only one retrofit measure can be effective as it is shown when combing changing the AC set point and adding roof insulation which leads to savings that can be paid back in less than two years. …"
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Dissecting the signaling pathways regulating the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in brain tumor cells. (c2017) حسب Nicolas, Samer Michel

"…However, when both RhoA and RhoC were knocked down, VEGF expression decreased after EGF stimulation. Moreover, when the astrocytoma cells were subjected to hypoxia at different times, we detected a significant increase in pERK. …"
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Catalytic Transformation Of C-7-C9 Methyl Benzenes Over USY-Based FCC Zeolite Catalyst حسب Al-Khattaf, S

"…While m-xylene's eta(ss) was close to unity at all condition, 1,2,4-TMB's eta(ss) was less than that of m-xylene. The effectiveness factor was estimated from the quasi-steady state approximation modeling of the experimental data involving a decay function based on 'Time on Stream' (TOS). …"
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Renal Function Decline in Recipients and Donors of Kidney Grafts حسب Bahous, Sola Aoun

"…Background/Aims: Renal function decreases over time as a result of reduction in the number of functioning nephrons with age. …"
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Modification of glucocorticoid effects on body weight gain, plasma lipids by changes in diet composition حسب Bouclaous, Carmel

"…All groups showed a decrease in relative intestinal absorption with time. …"
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Shear Behavior of One-Way Reinforced Concrete Hollow Slabs Voided with PET Void Formers حسب Hasan, Haider H.

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Modeling circadian clock–cell cycle interaction effects on cell population growth rates حسب El Khatib, N.

"…Particularly, we show that Cry 1, Cry 2 mutations decrease the growth rate of cells, Per 2 mutation enhances it and Bmal 1 knockout increases it for autonomous periods of the cell cycle less than 21 h and decreases it elsewhere. …"
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The role of objectively recorded smartphone usage and personality traits in sleep quality حسب Aftab Alam (5158601)

"…Furthermore, smartphone users with the conscientiousness trait had a longer sleep duration, earlier sleeping time, less sleep distraction, and earlier wakeablity. …"

Vocal Changes in Patients With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome حسب Hannoun, Antoine

"…There was no statistically significant difference in the acoustic parameters except for an increase in the relative average perturbation (P value = 0.035) and a decrease in maximum phonation time (P value = 0.001) in patients with PCOS. …"
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Assessment of resin systems as solution for well integrity challenge in carbonate reservoirs حسب Albertus Retnanto (17269237)

"…Additionally, the transit time showed a 26–42% range decrease in the travel period, indicating that the cement was stronger under increased pressure and temperature. …"

Testing and Evaluation of a Smart Irrigation System Towards Smart Landscaping in UAE حسب Al Sulaimani, Fatma

"…The outcomes of the use of SMS have shown better results in water conservation, 21%, and 26% decrease in water consumption for the months of September and October, respectively.…"
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Association between sources of sexuality education, sexual beliefs and behaviours in Lebanese young adults حسب Bouclaous, Carmel H.

"…Sex and classes on reproductive health predicted a rise in SBI. The timing of classes, namely earlier introduction, and communication with family and religious figures predicted a decrease in SBI. …"
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Drive‐up INR testing and phone‐based consultations service during COVID‐19 pandemic in a pharmacist‐lead anticoagulation clinic in Qatar: Monitoring, clinical, resource utilization... حسب Eman N. Alhmoud (14778706)

"…</p> <h3> Results</h3> <p>There was no statistically significant difference between clinic-based and phone-based anticoagulation services in mean time and number of visits within therapeutic range (<i>P</i> = .67; <i>P</i> = .06 respectively); mean number of extreme subtherapeutic and supratherapeutic INR values (<i>P</i> = .32 and <i>P</i> = .34, respectively); incidence of thromboembolic complications and warfarin related hospitalization. …"

Predictors of prolonged hospitalization among geriatric trauma patients using the modified 5-Item Frailty index in a Middle Eastern trauma center: an 11-year retrospective study حسب Husham Abdelrahman (768893)

"…There was a significant decrease in the trend of geriatric trauma over the years. …"

Andrographolide pre-treatment enhances the anti-tumor activity of topotecan on acute myeloid leukemia cells in vitro حسب Rizk, Sandra

"…However, pretreating the cells with andrographolide for 24 hours prior to topotecan addition, led to a significant decrease in cell proliferation (39%) as compared to treatment with the compounds separately (67%). …"
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Retinal imaging based glaucoma detection using modified pelican optimization based extreme learning machine حسب Debendra Muduli (20748758)

"…For mass fundus image-based glaucoma classification, an improved automated computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) model performing binary classification (glaucoma or healthy), allowing ophthalmologists to detect glaucoma disease correctly in less computational time. We proposed learning technique called fast discrete curvelet transform with wrapping (FDCT-WRP) to create feature set. …"