Molecular Analysis and Conformational Dynamics of Human MC4R Disease-Causing Mutations by Munazza Tamkeen Fatima (17316955)

“…<div><p>Obesity is a chronic disease with increasing cases among children and adolescents. Melanocortin 4 receptor (MC4R) is a G protein-coupled transporter involved in solute transport, enabling it to maintain cellular homeostasis. …”

Structural and Biophysical Characterization of Stable Alpha-Synuclein Oligomers by Nishant Vaikath (3554687)

“…Finally, both HNE and ONE α-syn oligomers can be used as a calibrator in an α-syn oligomers-specific ELISA.…”

What Makes Work “Good” in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Islamic Perspectives on AI-Mediated Work Ethics by Mohammed Ghaly (17380576)

“…<p dir="ltr">Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are increasingly creeping into the work sphere, thereby gradually questioning and/or disturbing the long-established moral concepts and norms communities have been using to define what makes work good. …”

SRP: An Efficient Runtime Protection Framework for Blockchain-based Smart Contracts by Isra M. Ali (17869355)

“…Then, we evaluate our approach empirically and demonstrate the applicability of SRP using a proof-of-concept implementation on a local instance of the Ethereum network. …”

Terrorist attacks and environmental social and governance performance: Evidence from cross‐country panel data by Hamzeh Al Amosh (15944827)

“…The terrorism level has been measured using the Global Terrorism Index as reported by The Institute for Economics and Peace Limited. …”

Genomic and pleiotropic analyses of resting QT interval identifies novel loci and overlap with atrial electrical disorders by Stefan van Duijvenboden (7116386)

“…Investigation of pleiotropic effects of QT interval variants using phenome-wide association analyses in 302 000 unrelated individuals from the UK Biobank and pairwise genome-wide comparisons with other ECG and cardiac imaging traits revealed genetic overlap with atrial electrical pathology. …”

CD146, a novel target of CD44-signaling, suppresses breast tumor cell invasion by Allal Ouhtit (14153256)

“…More interestingly, activation of CD44 decreased cellular CD146 and increased soluble CD146 through CD44-dependent activation of MMP. …”

A state of the art review on phosphate removal from water by biochars by Ismail W. Almanassra (14151321)

“…Iron has been also widely used in BC composites for increasing the adsorption capacity of phosphate, in addition to providing an opportunity for magnetic recovery of the adsorbent. …”

Past, present and future global mangrove primary productivity by Mark Chatting (5728340)

“…<p dir="ltr">Mangrove productivity is crucial for the global <u>carbon cycle</u>, yet previous research has mostly focused on small-scale temporal changes or static global patterns, with limited investigation into global or regional temporal trends. This study used existing data on mangrove <u>leaf litter</u> to model mangrove Net Primary Productivity (NPP) on a monthly timescale from 1980 to 2094 across global regions defined by the Marine Ecoregions of the World framework. …”

LightEnsemble-Guard: An Optimized Ensemble Learning Framework for Securing Resource-Constrained IoT Systems by Muhammad Usama Tanveer (22225360)

“…<p dir="ltr">The rapid proliferation of real-time Internet of Things (IoT) devices has increased the need for efficient and accurate security mechanisms. …”

<i>Haematococcus pluvialis</i> Microalgae Extract Inhibits Proliferation, Invasion, and Induces Apoptosis in Breast Cancer Cells by Nouralhuda Alateyah (21363215)

“…Ongoing experiments aim to identify the molecular mechanisms underpinning T1-inhibited BC cell invasion using pre-designed metastasis gene-based array method.…”

Amniotic stem cells as a source of regenerative medicine to treat female infertility by Aisha Naeem (14157078)

“…Despite the technological developments to treat infertility, the global infertility rate is increasing significantly. Many infertility conditions are currently treated using various advanced clinical approaches such as intrauterine semination (IUI), in vitro fertilization (IVF), and intracytoplasmic injection (ICSI). …”

Applying the ecosystem services - EBM framework to sustainably manage Qatar's coral reefs and seagrass beds by Lucia M. Fanning (16928394)

“…These include maximizing the increasing role that stakeholders can play in mitigating further decline of the country’s coastal ecosystems and leveraging mega events planned in Qatar, such as FIFA World Cup 2022.…”

Eating habits and obesity among Lebanese university students by Rizk, Sandra

“…Body mass index (BMI) was used to assess students' weight status. Statistical analyses were performed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences software (version 13.0) to determine overweight and obesity among students and to categorize eating habits. …”
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Treatment with a Combination of Metformin and 2-Deoxyglucose Upregulates Thrombospondin-1 in Microvascular Endothelial Cells: Implications in Anti-Angiogenic Cancer Therapy by Samson Mathews Samuel (18808246)

“…<p dir="ltr">Metformin, the most widely used anti-diabetic drug, also exhibits anti-cancer properties; however, the true potential of metformin as an anticancer drug remains largely unknown. …”

Tirofiban Combination Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis by Abdullah Bin Kamran (22565237)

“…Inclusion criteria comprised randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and comparative observational studies where tirofiban was used as an adjunct to standard antiplatelet therapy. …”

Establishing a certificate in the analysis of medical data: a cross-sectional evaluation of a continuing professional development course in biostatistics in for healthcare professi... by Saima Ali (5393201)

“…</p><h3 dir="ltr">Method</h3><p dir="ltr">A cross-sectional descriptive analysis was conducted using routine data collected in accordance with CPD accreditation requirements. …”

Knowledge and Anxiety about COVID-19 in the State of Qatar, and the Middle East and North Africa Region—A Cross Sectional Study by Sathyanarayanan Doraiswamy (4091776)

“…The final dataset used for the analysis comprised of 1658 questionnaires (53.0% of 3129 received questionnaires; 1337 [80.6%] from the general public survey and 321 [19.4%] from the healthcare survey). …”

Experimental investigations on the performance of a thermo-mechanical refrigeration system utilizing ultra-low temperature waste heat sources by Ahmad K. Sleiti (14778229)

“…At a heat source temperature of 85 °C, a condenser water temperature of 15 °C, and an evaporator water temperature of 33 °C, the energy efficiency of the ORC and COP of the VCC are increased to 9.85 % and 3.99, respectively. For the cooling quality, the TMR system shows a minimum evaporator temperature of −10 °C using R134a in both the power and cooling loop, which is improved to lower than −20 °C by using R407C in the cooling loop. …”

Pregnant Women's experiences with intimate partner violence one year after the COVID‐19 pandemic in Jordan by Sanaa Abujilban (12106945)

“…</p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">A convenience sampling technique was used to select pregnant women from National Woman's Health Care Center from 15 April to 1 September 2021. …”