Credit bureaus and financial constraints do corruption matter? by Mohamed Sami Ben Ali (14152038)

“…Our findings remain robust with different corruption indices and with the addition of new control variables such as firms’ sales and size, government and exporting firms, and per-capita GDP, inflation, trade, population and human capital.…”

Social Network Analysis for Precise Friend Suggestion for Twitter by Associating Multiple Networks Using ML by Dharmendra Kumar Singh Singh (19517710)

“…This approach is by and large used to decrease the dimensionality of the information alongside its feature space. …”

Wasted Da’am: Evaluating the Impact of Food Waste Management Practices on the Environment in Hotels in Qatar by Mohammed Abubakar Metcho (22674068)

“…Interestingly, the result showed that for every decrease in the number of guests, methane decreased by 0.009 kilograms, and the absence of technological efficiency increased methane by 3.30kg. …”

Does standalone phacoemulsification lower intraocular pressure in glaucomatous eyes? A systematic review and meta-analysis by Osama Hussein (21301202)

“…In ACG patients, the pooled effect showed a percentage of IOP reduction (IOPR%) of 35.22% with a mean IOP reduction of −9.51 mmHg, <i>p</i>< 0.001 at 12 months, and an IOPR% of 27.47% with a mean reduction of −6.37 mmHg, <i>p</i> < 0.001 at 24 months. …”

Effectiveness of external myofascial mobilisation in the management of male chronic pelvic pain of muscle spastic type: A retrospective study by M. S Ajimsha (21250760)

“…The mean (SD) NIH-CPSI score at initial evaluation was 29.41 (8.3) and decreased to 9.14 (3.45) after the fifth visit. …”

Driving simulation sickness and the sense of presence: Correlation and contributing factors by Mustafa Almallah (17280568)

“…Importantly, designing buildings that replicate a real-world environment could increase SP and decrease SS. Moreover, designing high quality and resolution scenarios could also increase SP, thus decreasing the severity of SS symptoms. …”

Successful Use of Intravenous B-blocker Therapy in Cardiogenic Shock Supported With Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Case Series by Alaa Rahhal (14150403)

“…<p dir="ltr">Tachycardia in cardiogenic shock (CS) might reduce the cardiac output (CO) by decreasing the ventricular filling time. Nevertheless, heart rate (HR) control with agents that possess negative inotropy might decrease the CO. …”

Caloric restriction reduces trabecular bone loss during aging and improves bone marrow adipocyte endocrine function in male mice by Charlotte Rinne (18766966)

“…Cortical bone, however, was decreased in young mice on CR and remained reduced in aged mice, irrespective of dietary intervention. …”

Rebound effects undermine carbon footprint reduction potential of autonomous electric vehicles by Nuri C. Onat (14779093)

“…<p dir="ltr">Autonomous vehicles offer greater passenger convenience and improved fuel efficiency. However, they are likely to increase road transport activity and life cycle greenhouse emissions, due to several rebound effects. …”

Age‐associated cholesterol reduction triggers brain insulin resistance by facilitating ligand‐independent receptor activation and pathway desensitization by Adrián Martín‐Segura (18615133)

“…During aging, these faculties decline, as does insulin signaling. The mechanism behind this last phenomenon is unclear. …”

Gaining or Losing Team Ball Possession: The Dynamics of Momentum Perception and Strategic Choice in Football Coaches by Walid Briki (688845)

“…Results revealed that positive (or negative) momentum sequence increased (or decreased) perceived PM and increased stick (or switch) choices. …”

Reversal of memory and neuropsychiatric symptoms and reduced tau pathology by selenium in 3xTg-AD mice by Ann Van der Jeugd (18629695)

“…Chronic sodium selenate treatment efficiently reversed hippocampal-dependent learning and memory impairments, and behavior- and neuropsychiatric-like symptoms in old female 3xTg-AD mice. Selenium significantly decreased the number of aggregated tau-positive neurons and astrogliosis, without globally affecting amyloid plaques, in the hippocampus of 3xTg-AD mice. …”

Self-assembly of Pseudo-Dipolar Nanoparticles at Low Densities and Strong Coupling by Mariano E. Brito (18622741)

“…This system self-assembles in a rich variety of string-like configurations, depicting three clearly distinguishable regimes with decreasing temperature: fluid, composed by isolated colloids; string-fluid, a gas of short string-like clusters; and string-gel, a percolated network. …”

Understanding the phenomenon of saltwater intrusion sourced from desalination plants at coastal aquifers by Farhat Abbas (5480)

“…For the two-region model, dispersion coefficients were well defined and remained unchanged from the convective–diffusion equation for potassium ions but decreased for bromide ions. …”

Genetic Deletion of DNAJB3 Using CRISPR-Cas9, Produced Discordant Phenotypes by Shadi Nejat (19457212)

“…Similarly, KO 47 mice also showed a slower rate of glucose clearance in GTT that was consistent with decreased mRNA expression of the GLUT4 gene in WAT but not in the muscle. …”

Evaluation of pretreatment and membrane configuration for pressure-retarded osmosis application to produced water from the petroleum industry by Dareen Dardor (17052381)

“…When minimally pretreated PW (10-micron cartridge filtration (CF)) was tested in FLS mode, severe membrane fouling occurred and the PRO flux decreased by 60%. In contrast, HF modules showed <1% flux decrease under both minimal and intermediate pretreatment schemes. …”

Evapotranspiration and water availability response to climate change in the Middle East and North Africa by Salah Basem Ajjur (14150967)

“…Relative to the reference period (1981–2010), the decline in annual water availability would reach 26 (62) mm by 2100 under SSP2-4.5 (SSP5-8.5). …”

An Exploration of Smoking Patterns Among People with Serious Mental Illness Attending an Outpatient Clinic in Qatar by Monica Zolezzi (10115698)

“…Many countries worldwide have observed a decrease in the prevalence of tobacco smoking; however, the smoking rates among people with SMI have declined much less than in those without mental illness. …”

Insights on the effect of water content in carburizing gas mixtures on the metal dusting corrosion of iron by El Tayeb Bentria (9904024)

“…In spite of considerable attention to this process, many questions remain about its origin. We conduct reactive molecular dynamics simulations of multi-grain iron systems exposed to carburizing gas mixtures to investigate the effect of water content on metal dusting corrosion. …”

Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Performance Adaptations to High-Intensity Interval Training: Are There Differences Between Men and Women? A Systematic Review with Meta-Analyses by Merilyn Lock (9440240)

“…Data were sub-grouped for men and women, baseline training level, mean age, intervention type, and intervention length. …”