The effect of Hydrogen Peroxide treatments on dental enamel porosity and protein structure and its long-term implications on tooth hardness and optical properties حسب Jelena Eric (21015107)

"…CD and DLS analyses showed that proteins from HP-treated teeth mostly adopted a non-random conformation and had smaller average protein sizes compared to the control. …"

Achieving low-density lipoprotein cholesterol treatment goals among dyslipidemic individuals in the Levant حسب Ghanem, Georges

"…Design and methods: Jump to section Background: Design and methods: Results: Conclusions: Introduction Methods Results Discussion Conclusions Transparency A multi-center, cross-sectional survey enrolled 1002 dyslipidemic patients (August 2010 – January 2011) on LLAs for ≥3 months. …"
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Workforce localization in the UAE : recruitment and selection challenges and practices in private and public organizations حسب Waxin, Marie-France

"…Workforce localization (WL) has become an issue of increasing importance in the Arab Gulf region, a key emerging market, where, in many cases, local citizens are the minority in terms of population, and compete with high numbers of expatriate employees for jobs and positions. …"
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AI-driven cybersecurity framework for software development based on the ANN-ISM paradigm حسب Habib Ullah Khan (12024579)

"…<p dir="ltr">With the increasing reliance on software applications, cybersecurity threats have become a critical concern for developers and organizations. …"

Epigenetic DNA Methylation Signatures Associated With the Severity of Paget’s Disease of Bone حسب Ilhame Diboun (3522413)

"…Additionally, methylation profiles in 11 regions showed Bonferroni-significant association with disease severity including six islands (located in VCL, TBX5, CASZ1, ULBP2, NUDT15 and SQSTM1), two gene bodies (CXCR6 and DENND1A), and 3 promoter regions (RPL27, LINC00301 and VPS29). …"

Divergent Biochemical Properties and Disparate Impact of Arrhythmogenic Calmodulin Mutations on Zebrafish Cardiac Function حسب Sahar I. Da'as (17128747)

"…In cardiac muscle, CaM modulates directly or indirectly the activity of several proteins that play a key role in excitation‐contraction coupling (ECC), such as ryanodine receptor type 2 (RyR2), l‐type Ca²⁺ (Ca_v1.2), sodium (NaV1.5) and potassium (KV7.1) channels. …"

Effect of Surface Treatment of Halloysite Nanotubes (HNTs) on the Kinetics of Epoxy Resin Cure with Amines حسب Vahideh Akbari (18768001)

"…Detailed assessment revealed that autocatalytic reaction degree, m increased at low heating rate from 0.107 for neat epoxy/amine system to 0.908 and 0.24 for epoxy/P-HNT and epoxy/A-HNT nanocomposites, respectively, whereas epoxy/F-HNT system had m value of 0.072 as a signature of dominance of non-catalytic reactions. …"

Chamber investigation of the formation and transformation of secondary organic aerosol in mixtures of biogenic and anthropogenic volatile organic compounds حسب Aristeidis Voliotis (16563090)

"…The observed average SOA particle mass yields (the organic particle mass produced for a mass of VOC consumed) in descending order were found for the following systems: α-pinene (32 ± 7 %), α-pinene–o-cresol (28 ± 9 %), α-pinene at 1/2 initial reactivity (21 ± 5 %), α-pinene–isoprene (16 ± 1 %), α-pinene at 1/3 initial reactivity (15 ± 4 %), o-cresol (13 ± 3 %), α-pinene–o-cresol–isoprene (11 ± 4 %), o-cresol at 1/2 initial reactivity (11 ± 3 %), o-cresol–isoprene (6 ± 2 %), and isoprene (0 ± 0 %). …"

Inhibition of alpha-synuclein seeded fibril formation and toxicity by herbal medicinal extracts حسب Mustafa T. Ardah (4858657)

"…In order to investigate the inhibitory mechanisms of these two compounds towards fibril formation, we demonstrated that salvianolic acid B binds predominantly to monomers, while dihydromyricetin binds to oligomeric species and to a lower extent to monomers. Remarkably, these two compounds stabilized the soluble non-toxic oligomers lacking β-sheet content after subjecting them to proteinase K digestion.…"

Salivary α-amylase activity is associated with cardiometabolic and inflammatory biomarkers in overweight/obese, non-diabetic Qatari women حسب Neyla S. Al Akl (15189997)

"…Additionally, sAAa demonstrated a significant positive association with adiponectin β 0.007 [95% CI 0.001 to 0.01]while concurrently displaying significant negative associations with CRP β -0.02 [95% CI -0.044 to -0.0001], TNF-α β -0.105 [95% CI -0.207 to -0.004], IL-6 β [95% CI -0.39 -0.75 to -0.04], and ghrelin β -5.95 [95% CI -11.71 to -0.20], specifically within the female population.…"

The impact of enteric coating of aspirin on aspirin responsiveness in patients with suspected or newly diagnosed ischemic stroke: prospective cohort study: results from the (ECASIS... حسب Mohamed Nabil Elshafei (9960500)

"…Univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that patients treated with EC-ASA were more likely to have a lower rate of non-responders compared to P-ASA (unadjusted OR 0.78; 95% CI 0.20, 3.11); with the risk highest in type 2 diabetic patients with HBA1c > 6.5% (adjusted OR 6; 95% CI 1.02, 35.27; P = 0.047). …"

Overview of Artificial Intelligence–Driven Wearable Devices for Diabetes: Scoping Review حسب Arfan Ahmed (17541309)

"…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">Prevalence of diabetes has steadily increased over the last few decades with 1.5 million deaths reported in 2012 alone. …"

Exercise training-induced speeding of VO₂kinetics is not intensity domain-specific or correlated with indices of exercise performance حسب Erin Calaine Inglis (7042334)

"…Despite significant increases in maximal VO₂ (VO_2max ), estimated lactate threshold (θLT), maximal metabolic steady state (MMSS), and peak power output (PPO) for the intervention groups (p < 0.05), there were no significant correlations from PRE to MID or MID to POST between ΔτVO₂ and Δ V O_2max (r=– 0.221, r = 0.119), ΔPPO (r= – 0.112, r= – 0.017), ΔθLT (r= 0.083, r = 0.142) and ΔMMSS (r= – 0.213, r = 0.049)(p > 0.05).…"

In vitro effects of multi-purpose contact lens disinfecting solutions towards survivability of Acanthamoeba genotype T4 in Malaysia حسب Hussain, Rosnani Hanim Mohd

"…The incidence of Acanthamoeba keratitis has been increasing since the previous decades, especially among contact lens users. …"
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Exploring Unique Physiological and Genetic Features of Desert-dwelling Legumes حسب Madhurima Chatterjee (5331215)

"…Our presented work will support several crop improvement programs to design research strategies ensuring improved environmental stress tolerance to legumes and non-legumes and eventually address the world food insecurity to a great extent.…"

Fixed Shading Scenarios to Optimize Lighting Performance and Energy Efficiency in Office Buildings Case Study of Dubai Design District حسب Hamad, Khadije

"…The results in chapter 5 show that the Egg-crate scheme performed most effectively on the office building case study achieving a reduction in energy consumption of 8.2% from the base case result in a year. …"
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Efficacy and safety of using Etelcalcetide for controlling secondary hyperparathyroidism حسب Tarek Fouda (18472476)

"…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">In Qatar, secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) is a common problem in haemodialysis (HD) patients, associated with significant clinical consequences for Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients, including osteitis fibrosa cystica and calcific cardiovascular disease, broadly referred to as CKD–mineral bone disorder. …"

Prevalence and Phylogenetic Analysis of Parvovirus (B19V) among Blood Donors with Different Nationalities Residing in Qatar حسب Doua Abdelrahman (17280667)

"…</p><p> </p></div><h2>Other Information</h2> <p> Published in: Viruses<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/v13040540" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v13040540</a></p>…"

Masked phenomenon: renal and cardiovascular complications; review and updates حسب Elmukhtar Habas (14777677)

"…Normal blood pressure should be 120/80 mmHg, which generally decreases when a person is sleeping or sitting. High blood pressure or hypertension occurs when the blood pressure is too high. …"

An ensemble-based machine learning model for predicting type 2 diabetes and its effect on bone health حسب Belqes Alsadi (18695031)

"…ML models were utilized to distinguish diabetes groups from non-diabetes controls. Recursive feature elimination (RFE) was leveraged to identify a subset of features to improve the performance of model. …"