Solar Technology and District Cooling System in a Hot Climate Regions: Optimal Configuration and Technology Selection by Rabah Ismaen (18387189)

“…<div><p>With the increasing need for cooling and the concerns for pollution due to fossil fuel-based energy use, renewable energy is considered an add-on to cooling technologies. …”

Delineating the molecular mechanisms of hippocampal neurotoxicity induced by chronic administration of synthetic cannabinoid AB-FUBINACA in mice by Ayman Alzu'bi (18192898)

“…<p dir="ltr">Chronic use of synthetic <u>cannabinoids</u> (SCs) has been associated with cognitive and behavioural deficits and an increased risk of neuropsychiatric disorders. …”

Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2... by Michael, Brauer

“…Methods: The GBD 2021 risk factor analysis used data from 54 561 total distinct sources to produce epidemiological estimates for 88 risk factors and their associated health outcomes for a total of 631 risk–outcome pairs. …”
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Cost-benefit analysis of antimicrobial stewardship program in a cancer setting in Qatar by Dina Abushanab (10696501)

“…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">It is estimated that physicians prescribe antibiotics inappropriately in 50% of cases.1,2 We aimed to compare the economic advantage of mature antimicrobial stewardship program (ASP) versus premature ASP use in hematology and oncology settings in Qatar. …”

Changes in Blood microRNA Expression and Early Metabolic Responsiveness 21 Days Following Bariatric Surgery by Stephen L. Atkin (6684368)

“…</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><h3>Methods: </h3><p dir="ltr">Twenty-nine type 2 patients with severe obesity (mean BMI 46.2 kg/m²) and diabetes underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery. …”

Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for th... by Jaimie D Steinmetz (18015919)

“…</p><p><br></p><h3>Findings</h3><p dir="ltr">Global crude prevalence of avoidable vision impairment and blindness in adults aged 50 years and older did not change between 2010 and 2019 (percentage change −0·2% [95% UI −1·5 to 1·0]; 2019 prevalence 9·58 cases per 1000 people [95% IU 8·51 to 10·8], 2010 prevalence 96·0 cases per 1000 people [86·0 to 107·0]). …”

Correlations between Resting Electrocardiogram Findings and Disease Profiles: Insights from the Qatar Biobank Cohort by Fatima Qafoud (14778571)

“…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">Resting electrocardiogram (ECG) is a valuable non-invasive diagnostic tool used in clinical medicine to assess the electrical activity of the heart while the patient is resting. …”

Basin of Attraction through Invariant Curves and Dominant Functions by Alsharawi, Ziyad

“…We study a second-order difference equation of the form z<inf>n+1</inf> = z<inf>n</inf> F (z<inf>n-1</inf>) + h, where both F (z) and z F (z) are decreasing. We consider a set of invariant curves at h = 1 and use it to characterize the behaviour of solutions when h > 1 and when 0 < h < 1. …”
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Drying Studies of Purple Non-Sulphur Bacterial Biomass and Application as a Single-Cell Protein Feed for <i>Litopenaeus vannamei</i> by Asifa Anwar (20884229)

“…This research assessed the use of SCP biomass, produced from the integrated PNSB-based treatment of fuel synthesis process wastewater (FSW) in a circular economy approach, as feed for shrimp aquaculture. …”

Adaptation of a Mice Doppler Echocardiography Platform to Measure Cardiac Flow Velocities for Embryonic Chicken and Adult Zebrafish by Fatiha M. Benslimane (6695087)

“…<p dir="ltr">Ultrasonography is the most widely used imaging technique in cardiovascular medicine. …”

Global, regional, and national burden of hepatitis B, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 by Brittney S Sheena (9715568)

“…We used mortality-to-incidence ratios modelled with spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression to estimate the incidence of liver cancer. …”

A new quadratic asymmetric error correction model: does size matter? by Ayman Mnasri (16932486)

“…We also propose a test protocol that allows to rigorously identify different sources of long-run nonlinearity, namely quadratic nonlinearity, size asymmetry and sign asymmetry. We use a nonparametric residual recursive bootstrap technique to report p-values for the long-run tests. …”

Case report: Safety and efficacy of voxelotor in a patient with sickle cell disease and stage IV chronic kidney disease by Awni Alshurafa (15468195)

“…The data about the safety and efficacy of voxelotor use in chronic kidney disease is limited. Herein we report a 49-year-old man, with sickle cell disease and stage IV chronic kidney disease, who was managed successfully with voxelotor and resulted in decreasing transfusion requirement and vaso-occlusive painful crisis without affecting kidney function.…”

The nexus between debt structure, firm performance, and the financial crisis: non-linear panel data evidence from Japan by Rami Zeitun (17075215)

“…<p dir="ltr">This study seeks to analyze the non-linear relationship between a firm’s debt structure and performance based on evidence from Japan through the use of a panel data fixed effects model for a sample of 1,670 listed firms. …”

On the Performance of the Node Control Volume Finite Element Method for Modeling Multi-phase Fluid Flow in Heterogeneous Porous Media by Abdul Salam Abd (14151648)

“…Large artificial fluid smearing is observed in coarse meshes; however, it decreases with the increase in mesh resolution. These findings prompt the use of high-resolution meshes for the method and the need for development of novel numerical methods to address this unphysical flow.…”

Flavonoids Alleviate Peripheral Neuropathy Induced by Anticancer Drugs by Manaal Siddiqui (18891637)

“…Methods: PubMed and Google Scholar were used, and studies that investigated flavonoids in models of CIPN and models of neuropathic pain similar to CIPN were included. …”

Acute spasticity in malignant MCA stroke: a case report and review of literature by Muhammad Faizan (12710607)

“…The patient was a known smoker with androgenic anabolic steroid use. This case represents a rare presentation of malignant MCA infarction with acute spasticity and adds a unique aspect to the clinical spectrum of stroke presentation. …”

Technical assessment of different extraction methods and transcriptome profiling of RNA isolated from small volumes of blood by Mahesh Kumar Reddy Kalikiri (17886695)

“…<p dir="ltr">Transcriptome profiling of human whole blood is used to discover biomarkers of diseases and to assess phenotypic traits. …”

Effects of visual field impairment on driving by Jan Andersson (218600)

“…An advanced driving simulator was used to develop a simulated driving task, which also included a choice reaction test performed while driving on a rural road. …”

Graph-Guided Regularized Regression of Pacific Ocean Climate Variables to Increase Predictive Skill of Southwestern U.S. Winter Precipitation by Tejedor, Alejandro

“…We use large ensemble simulations from a climate model to construct this regularizer, reducing the structural uncertainty in the estimation. …”
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