Effect of acute and chronic grapefruit, orange and pineaple juice consumption upon blood lipoprotein synthesis and metabolism in the rat. (c2004) by Abou-Khalil, Jamil

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Short-term outcomes in robotic vs laparoscopic ileal pouch-anal anastomosis surgery: a propensity score match study by Sofoklis Panteleimonitis (17766012)

“…Robotic surgery has been increasingly used for IPAA surgery, but there is limited evidence supporting its use. …”

Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants by Bin, Zhou

“…Global age-standardised prevalence of raised blood pressure was 24·1% (21·4–27·1) in men and 20·1% (17·8–22·5) in women in 2015. Mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure decreased substantially from 1975 to 2015 in high-income western and Asia Pacific countries, moving these countries from having some of the highest worldwide blood pressure in 1975 to the lowest in 2015. …”
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Resection Prior to Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Belghiti, Jacques

“…Conclusions: In selected patients, liver resection prior to transplantation does not increase the morbidity or impair long-term survival following LT. …”
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Systemic Chemotherapy and Two-Stage Hepatectomy for Extensive Bilateral Colorectal Liver Metastases by Chun, Yun Shin

“…PVE was performed in 18 group I and 12 group II patients without increase in morbidity. For group I, group II first stage, and group II second stage, respectively, morbidity (24%, 24%, 43%), median hospital stay (7 days, 6 days, 6.5 days) and 30 days postoperative mortality (2%, 0%, 0%) were not significantly different (P = NS). …”
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Effectiveness and safety of early versus late caffeine therapy in managing apnoea of prematurity among preterm infants: a retrospective cohort study by Won Zi Yun (14151525)

“…</p> <h2>Conclusion</h2> <p>Early oral caffeine therapy can potentially improve respiratory outcomes among infants with apnoea of prematurity. However, an increase in mortality associated with early caffeine therapy requires further investigation.…”

Understanding the Factors Affecting Teachers’ Well-being in Harmony with the Leadership Practices: A Study Among Teachers at a Private School in Dubai by YACOUB, HIBA ALI MAHMOUD

“…This study aims to find out how teachers’ well-being in one of Dubai’s private schools is affected by different factors such as: leadership and management, job satisfaction, organizational culture, teamwork, relationships, pay and benefits, and the work environment, and understand which practices leadership implement in order to increase their faculty’s well-being. Scholars around the world agree that teachers are the basic foundation in the education field, yet few studies have discussed the ways to build the environment needed for teachers to stay healthy with a positive well-being and less stress and burnout. …”
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Recent advances in the treatment and outcome of locally advanced rectal cancer by Abdalla, Eddie

“…No significant differences were seen in patients (age, gender, race) or tumor characteristics (mean distance from the anal verge, annularity, fixation). …”
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Renal Function Decline in Recipients and Donors of Kidney Grafts by Bahous, Sola Aoun

“…Results: Decline in renal function was estimated at 1-year post-transplantation and annually thereafter (median follow-up 8 years, range 3.6-18.3), as the mean of the annualized decrease in the glomerular filtration rate. …”
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Empiric antibiotic therapy of community-acquired Pneumonia at the American University of Beirut Medical Center. (c2001) by Cherfan, Antoine

“…Special attention should be given to decrease hospitalization rate, to preserve fluoroquinolones, and to improve microbiological studies outcome.…”
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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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0844 Impact of Obstructive Sleep Apnea on patients admitted with Influenza Viral Pneumonia, A Nationwide Study by El Labban, Mohamad

“…Introduction There is evidence of increased risk of admission with influenza in patients with untreated obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). …”
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Prevalence and clinical significance of antiphospholipid antibodies in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 admitted to intensive care units: a prospective observational study by Mostafa Najim (14150400)

“…<p>Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) increases the risk of coagulopathy. Although the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs) has been proposed as a possible mechanism of COVID-19-induced coagulopathy, its clinical significance remains uncertain. …”

Two-Surgeon Technique for Hepatic Parenchymal Transection of the Noncirrhotic Liver Using Saline-Linked Cautery and Ultrasonic Dissection by Aloia, Thomas

“…From the same database, we identified a contemporary and matched set of 32 patients who underwent liver resection with similar indications using ultrasonic dissection alone (UD alone). …”
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A clustering metaheuristic for large orienteering problems by Almiqdad Elzein (13141038)

“…As a result, existing algorithms cannot effectively be utilized for solving large Orienteering Problems in an online setting, which is often required in real-world applications where a plan has to be iteratively computed. …”

Energy Efficient Refurbishment for Existing Office Building in UAE by Kalkura, Subraya

“…In order to determine the feasibility of energy efficient refurbishments in the region, a case study approach was adopted in which a representative set of office buildings were considered for the study. …”
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Giving anaemic cardiac surgery patients a better chance by Nature Research (16552612)

“…There were also no significant differences in their lengths of stay in the intensive care unit or hospital or in the occurrence of lung complications. …”

Nutritional Status and Clinical Outcomes of Children with Medical Complexity in the United Arab Emirates: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study by Al Slaybe, Maryam

“…Longer hospital length of stay was associated with reduced LAZ scores (β = -0.005, p = 0.006) and increased WLZ scores (β = 0.006, p = 0.035). …”
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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. …”

The Kumaraswamy Pareto IV Distribution by Tahir, M. H.

“…The usefulness of the new model is illustrated by means of three real-life data sets. In fact, our proposed model provides a better fit to these data than the gamma-Pareto IV, gamma-Pareto, beta-Pareto, exponentiated Pareto and Pareto IV models.…”
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