Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Stein Emil, Vollset

“…In the assessment of alternative future scenarios, the combined effects of the scenarios (Safer Environment, Improved Childhood Nutrition and Vaccination, and Improved Behavioural and Metabolic Risks scenarios) demonstrated an important decrease in the global burden of DALYs in 2050 of 15·4% (13·5–17·5) compared with the reference scenario, with decreases across super-regions ranging from 10·4% (9·7–11·3) in the high-income super-region to 23·9% (20·7–27·3) in north Africa and the Middle East. …”
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Studying coral reef patterns in UAE waters using panel data analysis and multinomial logit and probit models by Ben Romdhane, Haifa

“…An extended dataset will enable a means to independently validate the defined models and test other modelling approaches. …”
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Production and investigation of flexible nanofibers of sPEEK/PVP loaded with RuO2 nanoparticles by Mariem Chamakh (14150481)

“…Several characterization tests were conducted to study and compare the performance of the samples. …”

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)

Evaluation of the cementite morphology influence on the hydrogen induced crack nucleation and propagation path in carbon steels by Shabnam Karimi (19457575)

“…Two carbon steels with lamellar cementite morphology (pearlitic microstructure) and spherical or broken lamellas cementite morphology (spheroidite microstructure), both with approximately the same carbon equivalent, were used in this study. The ECCB tests were performed in H-free and two H charging steps with −1050 mV and −1550 mV charging potential versus Ag/AgCl reference electrode. …”

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

“…Body weight was measured biweekly, and a glucose tolerance test (GTT) and insulin tolerance test (ITT) were conducted at week 13 and 14, respectively. …”

Insulin sensitivity variations in apparently healthy Arab male subjects: correlation with insulin and C peptide by Noor Suleiman (5245580)

“…<h3>Introduction</h3><p dir="ltr">Decreased insulin sensitivity occurs early in type 2 diabetes (T2D). …”

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%. …”

Swimming exercise improves short‐ and long‐term memories: Time‐course changes by Mahmoud A. Alomari (14780446)

“…The mean total errors on RAWM during the learning phase and memory testing remained the same (p > 0.5) after 1 day of swimming exercise. …”

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. …”

CO₂ enhanced gas recovery and sequestration in depleted gas reservoirs: A review by Ahmed Hamza (7224470)

“…Furthermore, this article assesses the ecological and economic impact of storing CO₂ in different types of reservoirs. Field pilot tests, as well as challenges in the application of the CO₂-EGR technique, are also covered.…”

IoT‐based mock oxygenator for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation simulator by Aya Sayed (14779249)

“…</p> <h3> Conclusions</h3> <p>The final 3D modeled oxygenator body was tested and integrated with the other simulation modules at Hamad Medical Corporation with several participants to evaluate the effectiveness of the training session.…”

Institutional development and the dowry death curve across states in India by Austin M. Mitchell (14778793)

“…Women are increasingly exploited and murdered over dowry as incomes increase from a low level, but fewer deaths occur as incomes increase from a high level. We test this argument using a dataset of dowry deaths in years 2001–2011 for 32 Indian states and territories. …”

Healthcare Professionals' Attitudes Toward Patients With Mental Illness: A Cross-Sectional Study in Qatar by Suhaila Ghuloum (796180)

“…Stigmatizing attitudes by HCP can have adverse consequences on people with mental illness from delays in seeking help to decreased quality of care provided. Assessing such attitudes is an essential step in understanding such stigma and, if needed, developing and testing appropriate and culturally adapted interventions to reduce it.…”

Acute intense fatigue does not modify the effect of EVA and TPU custom foot orthoses on running mechanics, running economy and perceived comfort by Ken Van Alsenoy (14150559)

“…Flight time shortened (P = 0.026), peak braking (P = 0.016) and push-off (P = 0.032) forces decreased and vertical stiffness increased (P = 0.014) from before to after the repeated-sprint exercise, independent of footwear condition. …”

A lipidomic screen of hyperglycemia-treated HRECs links 12/15-Lipoxygenase to microvascular dysfunction during diabetic retinopathy via NADPH oxidase by Ahmed S. Ibrahim (10049522)

“…Our previous studies demonstrated the potential role of NADPH oxidase in mediating the permeability effect of 12- and 15-HETEs, therefore we tested the impact of intraocular injection of 12-HETE in mice lacking the catalytic subunit of NADPH oxidase (NOX2). …”

Fabrication of Ag₂O/WO₃ based sensors for detection of hydrogen sulfide by Ahmad Al-Sarraj (17151007)

“…The sensing properties of the sample were tested at different temperatures varying from room temperature to 200 °C. …”

Phosphate removal from synthetic and treated sewage effluent by carbide derive carbon by Ismail W. Almanassra (14151321)

“…<p dir="ltr">In the present work, a sequence of adsorption tests were implemented to assess the adsorption of Phosphate (PO₄³⁻) from synthetic wastewater and treated sewage effluents using carbide derived carbon (CDC). …”

Plasma volume variations in response to high intensity interval training in obese women: The influential role of menopausal status and age by Jabbour, Georges

“…Multiple linear regression analysis revealed that age was a significant contributor to the decreases in plasma volume (PV) observed both after warm-up and following the supramaximal cycling test - SCT (r = 0.44 and r = 0.57). …”
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A new quadratic asymmetric error correction model: does size matter? by Ayman Mnasri (16932486)

“…We use a nonparametric residual recursive bootstrap technique to report p-values for the long-run tests. Simulation results confirm the consistency of our proposed estimator in finite samples and show that the bootstrapped tests have reasonably good size and power properties. …”