Managing Endothelial Dysfunction in COVID-19 by Matli, Kamal

“…Secondary outcomes included the composite outcome of ICU admission or the need for mechanical ventilation, all-cause mortality, and the occurrence of side effects Results Of 42 randomized patients, 37 were included in the primary analysis. The mean age of the patients was 57 years; the mean BMI of study participants was 29.14. …”
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Exploring Sustainable Strategies for Shelter Design at Refugee Camps: The Case of Domiz 1 Refugee Camp in Iraq by AL AMEEN, FARAH

“…As a result, the proposed strategy provides an opportunity for personalization and deepens the refugees’ sense of belonging and dignity. Furthermore, a 42% decrease in cooling loads, and 31% decrease in heating loads was achieved by using the proposed wall panel, the sunspace during winter, and the roof canopy during winter, in comparison to the baseline case, the UNHCR tent.…”
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Fixed Shading Scenarios to Optimize Lighting Performance and Energy Efficiency in Office Buildings Case Study of Dubai Design District by Hamad, Khadije

“…Moreover, daylighting analysis shows decreased average illuminance levels from 407.8 to 154.97 Lux, equivalent to a 60% reduction in December and June. …”
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Vocal Changes in Patients With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Hannoun, Antoine

“…Results The age range was between 19 and 38 years with a mean age of 26 years. The most common prevailing symptom was throat clearing present in 76.5% versus 4.8% in the controls, followed by loss of voice (47.6%), lump in the throat (41.2%), and deepening of voice (35.3%). …”
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Improving pediatric trauma care: an automated system for wrist trauma detection using GELAN by Promit Basak (22997776)

“…Our proposed framework surpassed the most advanced techniques, showcasing exceptional precision and effectiveness, achieving a mean average precision (mAP50) score of 74.1%, 95%, and 85.5% for Task A (trauma detection), Task B (fracture detection), and Task C (fracture severity detection), respectively. …”

Recent advances in the treatment and outcome of locally advanced rectal cancer by Abdalla, Eddie

“…Background Preoperative therapy has been used in locally advanced rectal cancer to preserve sphincter function, decrease local recurrence, and improve survival. At the University of Florida, preoperative radiation has been used since 1975, and it was combined with chemotherapy beginning in 1991. …”
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The Effects of Local Aggregates on the Mechanical Properties of Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) by Obied, Michel

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Empiric antibiotic therapy of community-acquired Pneumonia at the American University of Beirut Medical Center. (c2001) by Cherfan, Antoine

“…Failure was considered if the patient's antimicrobial regimen was changed or if there is clinical deterioration from baseline. 65 eligible patients were identified with a mean age of 62.5 ± 18 years. 63 patients were treated in the medical ward and two patients in the intensive care unit. …”
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Drive‐up INR testing and phone‐based consultations service during COVID‐19 pandemic in a pharmacist‐lead anticoagulation clinic in Qatar: Monitoring, clinical, resource utilization... by Eman N. Alhmoud (14778706)

“…Combined with teleclinics, using drive-up fingerstick International normalized ratio (INR) testing was recommended to decrease exposure risk of anticoagulation patients.…”

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

“…However, adding ethanol helps mitigate this increase, especially at low and medium speeds, with an average decrease of 32% for a 2.5% ethanol blend compared to B0. …”

Assessment of Brain Function After 240 Days Confinement Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy by Yahya, Fares

“…The FCN shows a significant decrease in most of the right frontal areas. Five different machine learning classifiers are employed to differentiate between two levels of stress resulting in impressive classification accuracy rates: 96.44% with-nearest neighbor (KNN), 95.52% with linear discriminant analysis (LDA), 88.71% with Naïve Bayes (NB), 87.41 with decision trees (DT) and 96.48% with Support Vector Machine (SVM). …”
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Sequential therapy in patients receiving Fluoroquinolones at the American University of Beirut Medical Center. (c2001) by Homsi, Maria

“…Date of switch (if applicable), oral antibiotic chosen, mean time to switch, mean hospital duration, and mean treatment duration were also recorded. …”
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Association Between Serum Bicarbonate Levels and Prediabetes and Subclinical Inflammation in Young Healthy Adults: A Cross-sectional Study by Abeer A Omar (21623774)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">A total of 825 participants with mean age 29.2 years (5.9) of which 365 (44.2%) were males. …”

Using primary healthcare facilities and patients’ expectations about triage system: Patients’ perspective from multisite Jordanian hospitals by Mohammad Minwer Alnaeem (19143733)

“…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr"> Using primary healthcare facilities can decrease the tension and workload in emergency departments (EDs). …”

The effect of bullying-themed literature on the bullying behavior of upper elementary students in Lebanon. (c2012) by Bazzy, Anissa

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A robust experimental-based artificial neural network approach for photovoltaic maximum power point identification considering electrical, thermal and meteorological impact by Samer Gowid (15955152)

“…The results showed a decrease in the MSE of V_mp by 74.3% (from 1.6 V to 0.411 V), and in the MSE of I_mp by 95% (from 4.4e−6 A to 2.16e−7 A), respectively. …”

Water Footprint Assessment and Virtual Water Trade in the Globally Most Water-Stressed Country, Qatar by Nayla Higazy (17679453)

“…The virtual water exports gradually decreased over the years with the most notable decrease in 2018 following Qatar’s blockade. …”

Explicit Vocabulary Learning Through Technology by Jeddi, Abdelbasset Ben Mohammed

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The Protective Effects of Daucus carota L. ssp. carota and Cannabis sativa L. Extracts against Cisplatin Induced Nephrotoxicity in Animal Models by Al Toufaily, Sahar

“…DCOE (100 mg/kg body weight) and HC (25 and 50 mg/kg body weight) were administered daily to rats for 10 days, and a single dose of cisplatin (7.5 mg/kg body weight) was administered on day five. …”
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Utilization of the internet for physical activity and diet information and its influence on pregnant women’s lifestyle habits in Qatar by Ayman Al-Dahshan (8962568)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">A total of 327 pregnant women (mean age of 29.5 years ± 4.0) completed and returned the questionnaire (response rate: 87.5%). …”