Qatar’s immigrants at higher risk of diabetes by Nature Research (16552612)

“…Those of South Asian descent had a 13-fold increased risk of having elevated glycated haemoglobin levels, and Filipinos a 4.5-fold increase, compared to the native Arab population. …”

Insulin detemir in combination with oral antidiabetic drugs improves glycemic control in persons with type 2 diabetes in Near East countrie by Echtay, Akram

“…The percentage of persons who achieved the target of HbA1c<7% increased from .7% at baseline to 39% at week 24. Mean FPG decreased significantly from 213.7 ± 60.1 mg/dL to 120.3 ± 25.7 mg/dL (P<.001), and mean PPG from 271 ± 65.3 mg/dL to 158.1 ± 36.4 mg/dL (P<.0001). …”
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Adsorption in nanopores with finite pore walls from truncated graphene by Firlej, Lucyna

“…This model mimics real carbon samples better than usually used infinite pore models, whatever is the assumed pore shape (slit-like, tubular, curved etc). …”
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Validating a new model for rapid multi-dimensional combined heat and air infiltration building energy simulation by Abi Shdid, Caesar

“…It reduces error versus CFD analysis to less than 4.5% while requiring less than 1% of the time required for a complex hygrothermal analysis. …”
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Implications on Educational Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Alfalasi, Khulood

“…Also, A-range students (students with a GPA of 3.7 and above) were significantly less stressed than B-range students (GPA of 2.7–3.3). First-year students were significantly more stressed than second-year, third-year, and fourth-year students. …”
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The construction of a categorisation system for Total Care Products by Ahmed, Murshed Mohamed

“…Total Care Products, which refer to products that are based on hardware, software and services, may be sold as a function rather than as hardware. In Total Care Products, also known as Functional Products, the supplier takes care of every aspect of the product, which allows the customer to focus on value rather than hardware. …”
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Optimal scheduling algorithm for residential building distributed energy source systems using Levy flight and chaos-assisted artificial rabbits optimizer by D., Sathish Kumar

“…The efficiency of LFCARO is compared with other algorithms, and the results show that LFCARO performs better than other algorithms. The execution time of the proposed LFCARO is less than 1 sec. for 10 numerical problems and less than 1.5 sec. for the resource scheduling of residential distribution systems. …”
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Developments in Coarse-Grain Modeling of Transient Heat-Flow in Buildings by Abi-Shdid, C.

“…Earlier work has shown that CGM can provide reasonably accurate simulations at a processing speed several orders of magnitude faster than FDM or FEM. This note describes and demonstrates refinements to the CGM approach that increase its modeling accuracy to a level comparable to FEM, while doubling its processing speed. …”
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Influence of physicochemical properties on the in vitro skin permeation of the enantiomers, racemate, and eutectics of ibuprofen for enhanced transdermal drug delivery by Capomacchia, Anthony C.

“…The eutectic emulsion had the highest permeation rate, a 2.21-fold increase in flux compared with saturated aIPA solutions of the racemate with a 2.03-fold increase in flux. …”
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DLC2/StarD13 plays a role of a tumor suppressor in astrocytoma by El-Sitt, Sally

“…However, when we mined the REMBRANDT data, we found that the mRNA levels of StarD13 are indeed higher in the higher grades but much lower than the normal tissues. Knocking down StarD13 using siRNA led to a decrease in cell death and an increase in cell viability, proving that StarD13 is indeed a tumor suppressor in astrocytomas. …”
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Reduced graphene aerogels as energy efficient selective oil sorbents by Junaid Saleem (14670322)

“…However, they tend to absorb water along with oil, and to overcome this problem; surface coatings are generally employed using expensive fluoro-silane compounds. It leads to an increase in production costs and environmental concerns. …”

Exploiting the Spatio-Temporal Patterns in IoT Data to Establish a Dynamic Ensemble of Distributed Learners by Mehdi Mohammadi (5024105)

“…This increase is 82% less than the 11.3 increase seen in the baseline model. …”

A GRASP Approach for Solving Large-Scale Electric Bus Scheduling Problems by Raka Jovanovic (17947838)

“…The results also show that high speed chargers have a more significant impact than an increase in battery sizes of the EBs.</p><p> </p></div><h2>Other Information</h2> <p> Published in: Energies<br> License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14206610" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14206610</a></p>…”

Characterization of heavy vehicle headways in oversaturated interrupted conditions: Towards development of passenger car equivalency factors by Ghanim, Mohammad Shareef

“…Passenger cars immediately behind trucks had longer than average headway. The simulation results suggest that PCE increases nonlinearly with increase in congestion level and with percentage of trucks; PCE's increase becomes less marked once sever congestion (stop-and-go with increasing queue lengths) conditions set in.…”
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Effect of CFRP Wraps on the Compressive Strength of Normal and Structural Lightweight Concrete by Hawileh, Rami

“…The compressive strength of structural LWC increased by 67.9% and 118.1%, compared to an increase of 46.1% and 105.0% for LWC, using one and two layers of CFRP, respectively. …”
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Home Automation Awareness in United Arab Emirates by AL SUWAIDI, MUNIRA ABDULLA

“…More than ever, we use internet excessively almost everyone access the world wide web daily, from kids to elderlies, even from people with different academic backgrounds we use it to connect, socialize and even perform tasks. …”
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Multilayer Reversible Data Hiding Based on the Difference Expansion Method Using Multilevel Thresholding of Host Images Based on the Slime Mould Algorithm by Abu Zitar, Raed

“…Experimental results show that the proposed method is better than comparable methods regarding the degree of distortion, quality of the marked image, and insertion capacity.…”
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The economic impact of cigarette smoking on the poor in Jordan by Toukan, Amjad M.

“…Our calculations show that the poorest 40% of adult males are 1.7 times more likely to smoke cigarettes than the richest 17% of adult males. The average poorest adult male cigarette smoker with an income of 100 to 250 Jordanian dinars per month spends approximately 25 times more on cigarettes than on health, approximately 10 times more on cigarettes than on education, approximately 2.5 times more on cigarettes than on housing, and approximately 1.5 times more on cigarettes than on food. …”
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Cobalt iron oxide-infused silicone nanocomposites: Magnetoactive materials for remote actuation and sensing by Ans Al Rashid (14777050)

“…Silicone/CIO MAPCs also revealed a higher failure strain than pure silicone samples. Finally, an improvement in the magnetic properties of MAPCs was observed with increasing CIO concentrations, where increased saturation magnetization from 0.087 to 1.057 EMU/g and remanence from 0.054 to 0.625 EMU/g were recorded with an increase in CIO content from 0.25 to 3% in the silicone matrix. …”

Utilization of the internet for physical activity and diet information and its influence on pregnant women’s lifestyle habits in Qatar by Ayman Al-Dahshan (8962568)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">A total of 327 pregnant women (mean age of 29.5 years ± 4.0) completed and returned the questionnaire (response rate: 87.5%). …”