Editorial of Harnessing the Power of T Cells: The Promising Hope for a Universal Influenza Vaccine by Salman M. Toor (8854751)

“…Moreover, the hemagglutination inhibition (HAI) titers are widely considered to correlate with protection against influenza; however, patients with high titers have also been infected by influenza, while others without titers were protected [2]. Therefore, there is a real need to explore novel candidates of vaccine development and decrease mortality rates.…”

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

“…Less water is required to irrigate when the soil is saturated enough causing a healthier plants growth. 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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Investigating vulnerability for developing eating disorders in a multi-confessional lebanese sample by Khazen, Georges

“…Being Christian was found to significantly decrease the vulnerability to developing an ED. Furthermore, the interaction of anxiety with intrinsic religiosity was found to have a protective role on reducing ED. …”
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A cooperative watchdog model based on Dempster–Shafer for detecting misbehaving vehicles by Abdel Wahab, Omar

“…According to this protocol, vehicles might misbehave either during the clusters’ formation by claiming bogus information or after clusters are formed. A vehicle is considered as selfish or misbehaving once it over-speeds the maximum speed limit or under-speeds the minimum speed limit where such a behavior will lead to a disconnected network. …”
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A comprehensive review of the chemical-based conformance control methods in oil reservoirs by Perekaboere Ivy Sagbana (19546987)

“…This increasing problem has forced oil companies to reconsider methods that promote an increase in oil recovery and a decrease in water production. Many techniques have been applied over the years to reduce water cut, with the application of chemicals being one of them. …”

Testing and Evaluation of a Smart Irrigation System towards Smart landscaping in UAE by ALSULAIMANI, FATMA

“…Less water is required to irrigate when the soil is saturated enough causing a healthier plants growth. The outcomes of the use of SMS have shown a better results in water conservation and a decrease in water flow in the month of September by 21% and 26% in October. …”
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A framework for implementing Green Supply Chain Management: The Case of Petco Gulf by HASSAN, HUDA YOUSIF ALI AHMED

“…From this research, it was found that as Petco gulf is present in the U.A.E. it can take advantage of this and by applying the GSCM strategies against each of its components this will help the company by, increased overall gross profit with the decrease in cost since going green in its supply chain means reducing the overheads. …”
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A novel hybrid methodology for fault diagnosis of wind energy conversion systems by Khaled Dhibi (16891524)

“…Feature selection pre-processing is an important step to increase the accuracy of the classification algorithm and decrease the dimensionality of a dataset. Therefore, a hybrid feature selection based diagnosis technique, that can preserve the advantages of wrapper and filter algorithms as well as RF model, is proposed. …”

Disrupted harvests: how Ukraine – Russia war influences global food systems – a systematic review by Hamid El Bilali (15864930)

“…This systematic study delves into this intricate interaction, examining scholarly literature to determine the magnitude and complexities of the war’s impact on global agri-food systems. Utilizing a rigourous methodology, we screened 236 articles from the Web of Science database as of March 2023, narrowing the corpus to 62 significant publications that meet comprehensive eligibility criteria. …”

A Machine Learning Approach on Chest X-Rays for Pediatric Pneumonia Detection by Barakat, Natali Imad

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Thermoelectric power of (Cu0.5Tl0.5)-1223 superconducting phase added with BaSnO3 nanoparticles by Srour, A.

“…Superconducting transition temperature (Tc) increases up to 117.5 for x = 0.25 wt.% and then it decreases with further x addition. The TEP coefficient was measured as a function of temperature in a wide temperature range from ∼77 K (liquid nitrogen temperature) up to 280 K using a standard differential technique. …”
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The Effects of Online Formative and Summative Assessment on Test Anxiety and Performance: A Study Among First-Year Undergraduate Students at A Higher Education Institution in Abu D... by ALSUWAIDI, MUNA

“…The presented study was conducted to provide greater insight into the potential positive, neutral and/or negative effects of online formative and summative assessment on test anxiety and performance. …”
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Trade Flow and Nation Brand Distance: A Structural Gravity Model Approach by AL BESHER, HUDA ISMAIL

“…The results on the impact of NBD on FTA and trade flows provides some interesting insights as the there is a negative and significant moderation impact of NBD on the relationship between FTA and both export and import volume which suggest that a decrease of NBD will increase the effect of FTA on trade flow. …”
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Thermodynamic analysis of a new renewable energy based hybrid system for hydrogen liquefaction by Ratlamwala, Tahir Abdul Hussain

“…In this paper, a parametric study of the triple effect absorption cooling system (TEACS) integrated with solar photo-voltaic/thermal (PV/T), geothermal, and Linde–Hampson cycle is conducted. …”
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A Comprehensive Method of Ion Exchange Resins Regeneration and Its Optimization for Water Treatment by Al-Asheh, Sameer

“…Water conductivity, as an indicator of regeneration efficiency, was monitored over time at the different conditions and scenario. In general, it was observed that the conductivity decreases with time until one point is reached and then starts to increase as a result of resin saturation. …”
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Conceptual Skills in Leading Change: A Competence Approach to Public Sector Leadership by JASIM, ARIF FADHEL AHMED

“…A substantial amount of advice is available on how top management should lead, but less is known about how leaders conceptualise their leadership of change. …”
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Is board compensation excessive? by Dah, Mustafa A.

“…We also find that overcompensated directors exacerbate agency problems and lead to reduced CEO turnover sensitivity to performance and a decrease in CEO pay-for-performance sensitivity. …”
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Exploring students’ understanding of the second derivative within the context of a differential equations course by Habre, Samer

“…The teaching of this course emphasizes a qualitative approach and therefore a solid understanding of the first and second derivatives is critical to determine the increase/decrease of solutions as well as their rate of increase/decrease. …”
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Sleeping habits during COVID-19 induced confinement: A study from Jordan by Mahmoud A. Alomari (14780446)

“…In addition, gender (p < 0.001) is an independent predictor of nighttime sleeping. Being a male is associated with a “decrease” and being a female is associated with an “increase” in nighttime sleeping hours (p < 0.05). …”

A comprehensive design and rating study of evaporative coolers and condensers. Part I. Performance evaluation by QURESHI, BILAL AHMED

“…It is demonstrated that thermal effectiveness of the evaporative heat exchangers degrades significantly with time indicating that, for a low risk level (pZ0.01), there is about 66.7% decrease in effectiveness for the given fouling model. …”
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