The cost associated with the development of the antimicrobial stewardship program in the adult general medicine setting in Qatar by Abushanab, Dina

“…The operational costs decreased with the developed ASP. Whereas antimicrobial consumption and resource utilisation, and their associated costs, appear to have declined with the developed ASP, with a cost saving of QAR458 (US$125) per 100-patient beds, the avoided cost was negative, by QAR4,807 (US$1,317) per 100-patient beds, adding to a total QAR4,224 (US$1,160) increase in the 100-patient beds cost after ASP development. …”
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Channel Network Control on Seasonal Lake Area Dynamics in Arctic Deltas by Tejedor, Alejandro

“…To characterize variability in lake extents, we analyzed summertime lake area loss (i.e., shrinkage) on two deltas over the past 20 years, using Landsat-derived water masks. …”
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Call for emergency action to restore dietary diversity and protect global food systems in times of COVID-19 and beyond: Results from a cross-sectional study in 38 countries by Hoteit, Maha

“…Middle and older ages [OR = 1.2; 95 % CI = [1.125–1.426] [OR = 2.5; 95 % CI = [1.951–3.064], being a woman [OR = 1.2; 95 % CI = [1.117–1.367], having a high education (p < 0.001), and showing amelioration in food-related behaviors [OR = 1.4; 95 % CI = [1.292–1.709] were all linked to having a higher dietary diversity. …”
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The Role of Qatar Community Pharmacists in Depression care: A Survey of Attitudes, Practices and Perceived Barriers by Shami, Rula

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Demographic characteristics, laboratory features and complications in 346 cases of brucellosis: A retrospective study from Qatar by Varikkodan, Irfan

“…Blood culture was positive in 72.8% whereas Brucella immunoglobulin G antibody and immunoglobulin M antibody titer was positive in 72.5% and 73.1% patients, respectively. Approximately 21.4% had focal involvement and osteoarticular (11.6%) involvement was the most frequently observed focal form. …”
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Driving simulation sickness and the sense of presence: Correlation and contributing factors by Almallah, Mustafa

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Towards understanding the effects of climatic and environmental factors on solar PV performance in arid desert regions (Qatar) for various PV technologies by Touati F.

“…Results obtained show that mono-crystalline PVs have efficiencies as high as 85% compared to 70% for amorphous ones. Also, dust accumulation degrades more critically the efficiency of amorphous and mono-crystalline silicon PVs than the panel's temperature or relative humidity. …”
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Development and in Vitro Testing of a Nitric Oxide Nanoparticle Carrier for Acute Lung Injury by Kordi, Haya

“…Also NO secretion was shown to decrease stiffness in various tissue types which can aid as a treatment of conditions like ARDS.One issue with using NO is that the life-time is too short so the treatment is not very effective. …”
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Processing, characterization and modeling of recycled polypropylene/glass fibre/wood flour composites by Al-Maadeed, M.A.

“…Polypropylene (PP) is one of the most common thermoplastic materials in the world. …”
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Effect Of Gossypol, Apogossypol And Gossypolone On Fatty Acids Pattern Of Lipid Fractions In Rat Serum And Seminal Fluid by El sharaky, A. S. [احمد صبحي الشراكي]

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A resource provisioning framework for bioinformatics applications in multi-cloud environments by Senturk, Izzet F.

“…However, the lack of standards in cloud computing leads to interoperability issues among the providers rendering the selected one unalterable. Furthermore, even a single provider offers multiple configurations to choose from. …”
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Effect Of Temperature On Hyalomma (Hyalomma) Impeltatum Schulze And Schlottke (Ixodoidea: Ixodidae) by Khalil, Galila M. [جليلة مصطفى خليل]

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Effects of covid-19 lockdown on physical activity, sedentary behavior, and satisfaction with life in Qatar: A preliminary study by Hermassi, Souhail

“…The largest reduction was detected for the sum parameter all physical activity (minutes per week, ηp2 = 0.67, p < 0.001; MET (metabolic equivalent of task)-minutes/week, ηp2 = 0.69, p < 0.001). Life satisfaction decreased, with the score for “I am satisfied with my life” (ηp2 = 0.76, p < 0.001) decreasing from 28.1 ± 4.81 to 14.2 ± 6.41 arbitrary units (AU). …”
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Gas Driven Fracture during Gas Production using HeleShaw Cell by Al-Raoush, Riyadh

“…The gap between the two sheets is maintained using filter sheets that have a thickness of 1/16 in. (1.6 mm) at the boundaries. Fluids flow radially between the sheets through a port in the middle of the bottom sheet. …”
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Towards a Comprehensive Study of Fatigue Deducing Techniques for Evaluating the Quality of Experience of Haptic-Visual Applications by Alja'afreh M.

“…Undesirable muscular fatigue decreases the overall Quality of Experience (QoE) of such systems. …”
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EFFECT OF PHENOL AS A CONTAMINANT ON THE WILD PEARL OYSTER PINCTADA IMBRICATA RADIATA IN QATAR: ECOTOXICOLOGICAL APPROACH AND USE OF OYSTER SHELL STRUCTURE AS A POTENTIAL MITIGATIO... by BARAH, FARAHNAZ GHOLAMREZA

“…The phenol desorption was 97.44% and 98.64% by reacting 0.1 M NaOH and 0.1 M HCl respectively.…”
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Modeling of dual-metal Schottky contacts based silicon micro and nano wire solar cells by Rabbani, M. Golam

“…The most efficient photovoltaic behavior is found to occur when one metal makes a Schottky contact with the wire, and the other makes an Ohmic contact. …”
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Repositioning of the global epicentre of non-optimal cholesterol by Taddei, Cristina

“…High blood cholesterol is typically considered a feature of wealthy western countries1,2. However, dietary and behavioural determinants of blood cholesterol are changing rapidly throughout the world3 and countries are using lipid-lowering medications at varying rates. …”
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Energy recovery and nutrients recycling from municipal sewage sludge by Das, Probir

“…With the increase in HTL reaction time, the concentration of nitrogen in the APL increased (5.1 to 6.8 mg/L) while the concentration of phosphorus decreased (0.89 to 0.22 mg/L); the opposite was observed for the biochar. …”
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Palestinian import - export trade modeling For the period 1968-1998, an application of seemingly unrelated regression equations by Abugamea, Gaber Hussain

“…Clearly, empirical results depicts gains of employing with SURE estimation in a comparison with OLS estimation one in terms of both estimated coefficients (trade elasticities) and equations explanatory power (trade variations). …”
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