Impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on lifestyle behaviors and their association with personality among adults in Qatar: A cross-sectional study by Tamara Al-Abdi (8710488)

“…Met-min/week values of total PA (1330.5 vs. 1836.7), vigorous activity (711.5 vs. 867.4), moderate activity (208.3 vs. 301.3), and walking (410.7 vs. 668.0) all decreased during lockdown (p < 0.001, p = 0.010, p = 0.010 p < 0.001, respectively), while sitting increased (3837.3 vs. 2896.4 p < 0.001). …”

Integration of Wind Catchers in Modern Residential Buildings in the UAE as a Means of Providing Thermal Comfort by Riza, Raashid

“…Furthermore, when the existing case was re-simulated with a cooling device switched on, it was estimated that the existing case consumes 39.5% more energy than the optimal configuration. …”
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Setting up a National Research Data Curation Service for Qatar: Challenges and Opportunities by Arif Shaon (13761784)

“…</p> <h2>Other Information</h2> <p>Published in: International Journal of Digital Curation<br> License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</a><br> See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v12i2.515" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v12i2.515</a></p>…”

NMT verb rendering: A cognitive approach to informing Arabic-into-English post-editing by Ali Almanna (14585162)

“…<p>Machine translation (MT) has made significant strides and has reached accuracy levels that often make the post-editing (PE) of MT output a viable alternative to manual translation. However, despite professional translators increasingly considering PE as a valid stage in their translation workflow, little has been done to investigate MT output for the purpose of informing training in PE. …”

Characterization of Dse1 a candida albicans cells wall protein. (c2009) by Daher, Jalil Y.

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Seasonal variations of trace metal chemical forms in bed sediments of a karstic river in Lebanon by Korfali, Samira Ibrahim

“…Results on the distribution of metals are reported for Fe, Pb, Zn, Cu and Cd in bed sediments from Nahr Ibrahim (a karstic river) for summer and winter. A Tessier-like sequential extraction scheme was applied to samples (< 75 μm) for five locations along a 13 km stretch to the sea. …”
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Mychonastes homosphaera (Chlorophyceae): A promising feedstock for high quality feed production in the arid environment by Imen Saadaoui (14159025)

“…<p dir="ltr">Rapid development and drastic population increase in Qatar have led to increasing awareness about food security. …”

Obesity in children with Down syndrome: A retrospective review of growth charts and professional recommendations to parents by Nagat Al Kabir (18504997)

“…</p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">During a 6-year period (2016-2021), 247 DS patients aged 5 to 14 years old were seen in child development clinics. 40% (100 patients) were selected and represented each age group and gender. …”

Carbon dioxide capture through reaction with potassium hydroxide and reject brine: A kinetics study by Aya A-H. Mourad (17380423)

“…<p dir="ltr">The aim of this research is to investigate the reaction kinetics for a modified Solvay process based on KOH. The global reaction rate was measured within 3−15% CO₂ inlet concentration, 10−50 °C reaction temperature, 30–190 g/L KOH concentration, 400–2000 mL/min CO₂ gas flow rate, and 1–5 bar total applied pressure range, changing one factor at a time while keeping the values of the remaining parameters fixed. …”

Artificial Intelligence for Detecting and Quantifying Fatty Liver in Ultrasound Images: A Systematic Review by Fahad Muflih Alshagathrh (18427950)

“…</p><p> </p></div><h2>Other Information</h2> <p> Published in: Bioengineering<br> License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9120748" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bioengineering9120748</a></p>…”

Terahertz Multiple Access: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Controlled Multihop IRS Topology by Muhammad Shehab (16904880)

“…Furthermore, our findings show that as channel correlation increases, DRL’s performance improves, capitalizing on the correlation for enhanced statistical learning</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a><br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ojcoms.2024.3357701" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ojcoms.2024.3357701</a></p>…”

Investigation on micro-patterned gold-plated polymer substrate for a micro hydraulic actuator by Akle, Barbar

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Colon Cancer General Knowledge, Attitude and Awareness Channels: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Mu'taz Massad (22466734)

“…Awareness of colon cancer and its screening tools has a fundamental role in increasing screening participation. …”

Genomic Landscape And Structural Impact Of Biotinidase (BTD) Variants In A Middle Eastern Population by BalaSubramani Gattu Linga (19325617)

A single-institution review of 157 patients presenting with benign and malignant tumors of the ampulla of Vater by Azar, Riad

“…For ampullary adenocarcinoma postoperative survival rates are rising. Recent series report 5-year postoperative survival rates of 53–68%.7 Successful endoscopic removal of high-grade intraepithelial neoplasia, in situ tumors, and focal T1 cancers has been reported, but is not widely practiced.8, 9 and 10 For patients with slow-growing benign tumors, endoscopic resection is an attractive alternative with decreased cost and morbidity.11 and 12 Endoscopic papillectomy has a recurrence rate of 30% with 13.9% of endoscopically treated patients subsequently undergoing follow-up surgery. …”
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Porphyrin distribution after topical aminolevulinic acid in a novel porcine model of sebaceous skin by Tannous, Zeina

“…Topical 20% ALA in water/ethanol was applied under occlusion. Biopsies taken after 5, 10, 15, and then every 15 minutes for a total of 3 hours were examined by fluorescence microscopy of frozen sections to assess accumulation and distribution of porphyrins. …”
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A memristive all-inclusive hypernetwork for parallel analog deployment of full search space architectures by Bo Lyu (16522643)

“…The hardware performance simulation indicates that the memristive all-inclusive hypernetwork costs slightly more resource consumption (nearly the same in power, 22 % ∼ 25 % increase in Latency, 1 . 5 × in Area) relative to the individual deployment, which is reasonable and may reach a tolerable trade-off deployment scheme for industrial scenarios.…”

Temporal patterns of cancer burden in Asia, 1990–2019: a systematic examination for the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study by Rajesh, Sharma

“…Between 1990 and 2019, deaths due to 17 of the 29 cancers either doubled or more, and 20 of the 29 cancers underwent an increase of 150% or more in terms of new cases. Tracheal, bronchus, and lung cancer (both sexes), breast cancer (among females), colon and rectum cancer (both sexes), stomach cancer (both sexes) and prostate cancer (among males) were among top-5 cancers in most Asian countries in terms of ASIR and ASMR in 2019 and cancers of liver, stomach, hodgkin lymphoma and esophageal cancer posted the most significant decreases in age-standardized rates between 1990 and 2019. …”
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Effect of climate change on the annual energy consumption of a single family house in British Columbia by Mutasim Baba, Fuad

“…The simulation results show that for both bylaw and PH cases, heating energy consumption will be reduced while cooling energy consumption will be increased, as a result for bylaw case, the energy consumption will be decreased for four climate zones, while for PH case, the energy consumption will be increased for zone 4 & 5 and decreased for zone 6 & 7. …”
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Risk Factors for Post-Cesarean, Surgical Site Infections in a Multi-Ethnic Population of Qatar by Sufia Athar (14777830)