The flexural behavior of bolting and bonding Aluminum Alloy plates to RC beams by Abuodeh, Omar Raed

“…The results indicated that the beam with bonded AA plates showed a 32% increase in load capacity and 45% increase in deflection compared to the control beam, whereas the beam with bolted and bonded AA plates showed a 24% increase in load capacity and 84% increase in deflection compared to the control beam. …”
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Unraveling the future productivity burden of cardiovascular disease in Qatar: Investigating the modifiable risk factors control in type 2 diabetes by Dina Abushanab (10696501)

“…The financial value of PALYs was determined based on the gross domestic product (GDP) per full-time worker (i.e. US$80,573). The base-case model estimated the productivity burden of CVD, and interventional scenarios were simulated to assess potential gains resulting from improved control of modifiable risk factors, including reduced incidence of T2D, lower systolic blood pressure (SBP), decreased number of smokers, and reduced total cholesterol. …”

YOLO-DefXpert: An Advanced Defect Detection on PCB Surfaces Using Improved YOLOv11 Algorithm by Prabu Selvam (22330264)

“…Compared to the standard YOLOv11 model, the proposed YOLO-DefXpert attained an improvement of 9.3% and 13.2% in mAP50 and mAP95, an 11.25% increase in frames per second, and a 69.85MB decrease in model size. …”

Assessment of strategic management practice in private nonprofit hospitals in Greater Beirut. (c1996) by Baltagi, Dima Abdallah

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Types of PMO and their roles in the UAE Oil & Gas Production Companies by Mohamed, Walid Ramadan Ibrahim

“…Some researchers argued that this failure might be due to the increase in the concurrent projects number in big organizations which were increasing the project management complexity while competing, and in the same time depleting the organization resources. …”
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Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 co... by Alize J, Ferrari

“…However, despite this overall increase, HALE decreased by 2·2% (1·6–2·9) between 2019 and 2021. …”
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The downside of cardiac devices insertion by Nature Research (16552612)

“…Echocardiography will be performed at a mean of one year post-pacemaker insertion to assess whether there is an increase in TR after lead implantation. …”

Effects of ethanol addition to diesel–biodiesel blends on the CI engine characteristics by Fakher Hamdi (21225134)

“…All blends show an increase in brake mean effective pressure (BMEP) compared to B0, with the maximum enhancement observed in B10 with an average increase of 13% across all speeds. …”

Environmental enrichment and cafeteria diet attenuate the response to chronic variable stress in rats by Zeeni, N.

“…Furthermore, the increase in ACTH associated with CVS was attenuated in the presence of EE and the CAF diet independently while the stress-induced increase in corticosterone was reduced by the combination of EE and CAF feeding. …”
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Mining government tweets to identify and predict citizens engagement by Siyam, Nur

“…Governments and policy makers always aim to increase such participation not only to utilize public expertise and experience, but also to increase the transparency, trust, and acceptability of government decisions. …”
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The Jordan and Litani rivers in the Middle East. (c1996) by Rizk, Edgar

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The burden of unintentional drowning: global, regional and national estimates of mortality from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study by Richard Charles Franklin (9154052)

“…Global age-standardised mortality rates decreased 57.4%, from 9.3 (8.5 to 10.0) in 1990 to 4.0 (3.8 to 4.1) per 100 000 per annum in 2017. …”

Prevalence, correlates and management of hyperglycemia in diabetic non-critically Ill patients at a tertiary care center in Lebanon by El Khoury, Ghada

“…Episodes of hyperglycemia in hospitalized diabetic patients are associated with poor clinical outcomes and increased morbidity and mortality. Therefore, prevention of hyperglycemia is critical to decrease the length of hospital stay and to reduce complications and readmissions. …”
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Dissecting the signaling pathways regulating the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in brain tumor cells. (c2017) by Nicolas, Samer Michel

“…First, we showed, by conducting experiments at different time intervals, that both hypoxia and EGF stimulation lead to an increase in the expression of HIF-1α and VEGF. Then, the time point with the highest VEGF expression was used to carry out the remaining experiments in order to identify the players behind VEGF production in these cells. …”
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Effect of water extract of Althaea officinalis flowers on inflammation, gastric ulcer, bacterial activity, platelet aggragation, glycemia, and lipidemia. (c2006) by Hage-Sleiman, Rouba

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Experimental and Numerical Study of RC Beams Strengthened in Flexure with Bolted/Bonded AA Plates by Abuodeh, Omar Raed

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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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Achieving thermal comfort by applying passive cooling strategies to courtyard houses in Dubai (UAE) by Feroz, Sheikh Mehreen

“…The outcomes of temperature and wind patterns verified and helped in accepting numerous outdoor performances which are helpful for directing an ecological design for courtyard spaces. One of the foremost conclusions was the reality of a limit to the amount of passive applications to accomplish a substantial enhancement still, an increase in it was achievable. …”
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Turkronicles: diachronic resources for the fast evolving Turkish language by Togay Yazar (22828175)

“…Despite the substantial vocabulary changes, we demonstrate that it is possible to identify old Turkish words that have the same meanings with newly coined ones using word embeddings. …”

Behavior of axially loaded drilled shaft foundations with symmetric voids outside and inside the caging by Abishdid, Caesar

“…These conditions have created a need for a high-level of quality assurance during and after construction process. …”
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