Ambulatory general urgent clinic: an initiative at the time of COVID-19 pandemic by Abdullah Al-Hothi (18505290)

“…Our quality improvement study aimed to decrease the waiting time by 20%, from 21 days in January 2021 to 14 days in April 2021, to evaluate the newly established clinics for urgent referrals during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to assess the physicians’ satisfaction regarding these clinics.…”

Board Characteristics and Bank Stock Performance: Empirical Evidence from the MENA Region by Antoine B. Awad (21591401)

“…However, we found that having frequent board meetings per year and separate roles for the CEO and chairman have no impact on bank stock performance. …”

10-Day structured initiation protocol from multiple daily injection to hybrid closed-loop system in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes by Goran Petrovski (129836)

“…The mean HbA1c decreased from 8.2 ± 1.4% (66 ± 15.3 mmol/mol) at baseline to 6.7 ± 0.5% (50 ± 5.5 mmol/mol) at the end of the study (p = 0.017). …”

Evidence and gaps in clinical outcomes of novel pharmacologic therapies for sickle cell disease: A systematic literature review highlighting insights from clinical trials and real-... by Mohamed Yassin (4166515)

“…The high discontinuation rate and results of the STAND trial led to a significant decrease in the use of crizanlizumab. The HOPE trial demonstrated a 51 % improvement in hemoglobin response and a reduction in hemolytic markers in patients treated with voxelotor. …”

Trends and levels of the global, regional, and national burden of appendicitis between 1990 and 2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Letourneau, Ian D

“…FindingsIn 2021, the global age-standardised mortality rate of appendicitis was 0·358 (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 0·311–0·414) per 100 000. Mortality rates ranged from 1·01 (0·895–1·13) per 100 000 in central Latin America to 0·054 (0·0464–0·0617) per 100 000 in high-income Asia Pacific. …”
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Psychological and Coping Strategies Related to Home Isolation and Social Distancing in Children and Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Study by Abduljaleel Abdullatif Zainel (18055382)

“…The differences in mean scores for all psychological and coping strategies used among participants across the 3 levels of vulnerability to SARS-CoV-2 were statistically significant. …”

Fluid-Structure-Acoustic coupling analysis for external laminar and turbulent fluid flows by Tohid, Adibi

“…By decreasing the length of the elastic plate by 50%, the mean transmission loss is reduced by 9%. …”
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Women’s empowerment as a determinant of neonatal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: a narrative review focused on Nigeria by Joel-Medewase Victor Idowu (22155178)

“…Notably, SSA and South Asia are the regions most lagging behind the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.2, aiming for <12 neonatal deaths per 1,000 live births by 2030. Within SSA, Nigeria, the most populous country, records the highest number of neonatal deaths annually. …”

SynergyGrids: blockchain-supported distributed microgrid energy trading by Moayad Aloqaily (14158932)

“…A centralized system can be used to manage this energy trading that faces several security issues and increase centralized development cost. …”

Fluid-Structure-Acoustic coupling analysis for external laminar and turbulent fluid flows by Tohid Adibi (17871551)

“…By decreasing the length of the elastic plate by 50%, the mean transmission loss is reduced by 9%. …”

Optimal Energy Dispatch Engine for PV-DG-ESS Hybrid Power Plants Considering Battery Degradation and Carbon Emissions by Laith Kanaan (21632714)

“…To test the performance of the developed model, real-time load and photovoltaic (PV) data were used in conjunction with a PV-DG-ESS hybrid plant. …”

Welding of Semiconductor Nanowires by Coupling Laser-Induced Peening and Localized Heating by Kelly M. Rickey (19568770)

“…During the laser peening phase, a shockwave is used to compress the film. Laser sintering comprises the second step, where a nanosecond pulse laser beam welds the nanowires. …”

Exploring urban growth–climate change–flood risk nexus in fast growing cities by Salah Basem Ajjur (14150967)

“…Finally, the Pearson correlation was used to verify the potential nexus between flood risk, climate change, and urban growth. …”

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. …”

Global, regional, and national burden of household air pollution, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Fiona B, Bennitt

“…We first estimated the mean fuel type-specific concentrations (in μg/m3) of fine particulate matter (PM2·5) pollution to which individuals using solid fuels for cooking were exposed, categorised by fuel type, location, year, age, and sex. …”
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The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, 2010–19: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 by Christopher J L Murray (18278781)

“…</p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">The GBD 2019 comparative risk assessment framework was used to estimate cancer burden attributable to behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risk factors. …”

An efficient failure-resilient mutual exclusion algorithm for distributed systems leveraging a novel zero-message overlay structure by Mouna Rabhi (17086969)

“…An extensive simulation study demonstrates the viability and efficiency of the proposed algorithm under various node failure models, and relevant metrics (e.g., node queue dimension, number of exchanged messages, and number of disconnected nodes) indicate a graceful degradation in performance with decreasing number of functioning nodes. For instance, for 4,096 nodes organized in a logical tree of arity 4 and with 4 physical nodes for logical node, a negligible number of nodes is disconnected from the tree after 250 epochs when the per-node per-epoch failure probability is p f ≤ 0 . 0008 . …”

Towards secure private and trustworthy human-centric embedded machine learning: An emotion-aware facial recognition case study by Muhammad Atif Butt (10849980)

“…<p dir="ltr">The use of artificial intelligence (AI) at the edge is transforming every aspect of the lives of human beings from scheduling daily activities to personalized shopping recommendations. …”

Nickel toxicology testing in alternative specimen from farm ruminants in a urban polluted environment by Zafar Iqbal Khan (21225059)

“…General monitoring of soil and vegetation pollution load, as well as the use of other non-conventional water like canal water for forage irrigation could be a sustainable solution to decrease the access of nickel in the food chain.…”

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. …”