Association Between Sleep Duration, Food Consumption Patterns and Obesity Among Adolescents in Qatar by Mohammed, Sara

“…Hypothesis: Sleep duration and unhealthy dietary pattern may be positively correlated to obesity. Methods: This is a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study including 1161 adolescents aged 14-19 years from a representative sample of independent secondary schools in the state of Qatar. …”
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Application of a property-based inherently safety quantification framework for integrating risk assessment into process safety life cycle by Kazi, Monzure-Khoda

“…It also helps to develop characteristic equations for different safety parameters (i.e., flammability, explosiveness, toxicity, etc.) and provides cluster safety parameter score for doing inherent safer design during early stage of design using very limited amount of process information. …”
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High-sensitive detection and quantitation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) from capillary/fingerstick and venepuncture whole-blood using fluorescence-based rapid lateral flow i... by Samar, Shurbaji

“…Most of these TSH-LFIAs are designed for qualitative measurements (i.e., if TSH values > 5, or >15 IU/L) and as screening tests for primary hypothyroidism in children and adults. …”
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High-sensitive detection and quantitation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) from capillary/fingerstick and venepuncture whole-blood using fluorescence-based rapid lateral flow i... by Samar, Shurbaji

“…Most of these TSH-LFIAs are designed for qualitative measurements (i.e., if TSH values > 5, or >15 IU/L) and as screening tests for primary hypothyroidism in children and adults. …”
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Impact of Irrational Use of Antibiotics Among Patients in the Intensive Care Unit on Clinical Outcomes in Sudan by Abdelkarim, Omalhassan Amir

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Compressive SensingBased Remote Monitoring Systems for IoT applications by Djelouat, Hamza

“…Whereas for data identification and classification, K-nearest neighbour (KNN), E-nearest neighbour (ENN), decision tree (BDT) and committee machine (CM) have been adopted.…”
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Reactive Absorption of CO2 Using Ethylaminoethanol Promoted Aqueous Potassium Carbonate Solvent by Bhosale, Rahul Rambhau

“…The absorption kinetics was observed to be of overall second order i.e. first order with respect to both CO2 and EAE concentrations, respectively. …”
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Covid-19 pandemic and quality of life among Romanian athletes by Cosma, Germina Alina

“…Trait anxiety has an increasing effect on the intensity of the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 0.23, CI 95% (.10, 0.35), Z = 3.56, p < 0.01, and the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has a decreasing effect on quality of life, −0.47, CI 95% (−0.67, −0.27), Z = −4.62, p < 0.01. …”
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Contrasting cardiovascular mortality trends in Eastern Mediterranean populations: Contributions from risk factor changes and treatments by Critchley, Julia

“…Results Risk factor trends: Smoking prevalence was high in men, persisting in Syria but decreasing in Tunisia, oPt and Turkey. BMI rose by 1-2 kg/m2 and diabetes prevalence increased by 40%-50%. …”
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Investigation of the rheological properties of nanosilica-reinforced polyacrylamide/polyethyleneimine gels for wellbore strengthening at high reservoir temperatures by Shamlooh M.

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STANDARDIZATION OF AN IN VITRO MODEL OF DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY IN RENAL TUBULAR CELLS AND INVESTIGATION OF THE ROLE OF ALDOSE REDUCTASE PATHWAY IN HIGH GLUCOSE-INDUCED RENAL CELL INJ... by El Gamal, Heba

“…In addition, mitochondrial membrane potential has been assessed using JC-1 assay. Exposing NRK-52E cells to 30 mM glucose containing media decreased cell viability after 48 h (84%) with further decline in viability at 72 h (64%). …”
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Binding energy, structural, and dielectric properties of thin film of poly(aniline-co-m-fluoroaniline) by Waware, Umesh S.

“…The permittivity of copolymer PA-co-m-FA50 has a higher value than polyaniline in the high-frequency regime and decreases with the increase of frequency. …”
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Energy saving potential analysis applying factory scale energy audit – A case study of food production by Derar, Al Momani

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Outcomes of critically ill COVID-19 patients boarding in the emergency department of a tertiary care center in a developing country: a retrospective cohort study by Zahran, Tharwat El

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Burden and trend of diet-related non-communicable diseases in Australia and comparison with 34 OECD countries, 1990-2015: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. by Melaku, Yohannes Adama

“…Young (25-49 years) and middle-age (50-69 years) male adults had a higher PAF of diet-related NCD deaths and DALYs than their female counterparts. …”
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Run Rules-Based EWMA Charts for Efficient Monitoring of Profile Parameters by Yeganeh, Ali

“…In this article, we improve the performance of the Exponentially Weighted Moving Average Range (EWMAR) control charts, which are implemented for monitoring linear profiles (i.e., intercept, slope and average residual between sample and reference lines) by integrating them with run rules in order to quickly detect various magnitudes of shifts in profile parameters. …”
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Phase, microstructure and tensile strength of Al–Al2O3–C hybrid metal matrix composites by Ahamad, N.

“…Scanning electron microscopy shows that Al matrix has uniform distribution of reinforcement particles, i.e. Al2O3 and carbon. Density decreases due to variation of reinforcement because ceramic reinforcement has low density. …”
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Morphology, Nucleation, and Isothermal Crystallization Kinetics of Poly(ε-caprolactone) Mixed with a Polycarbonate/MWCNTs Masterbatch by Gumede, Thandi P.

“…The thermal conductivities (i.e., 4 wt % MWCNTs) were enhanced by 20% in comparison to the neat material. …”
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Clinical pharmacokinetics: perceptions of hospital pharmacists in Qatar about how it was taught and how it is applied by Kheir, Nadir

“…Setting All hospitals under Hamad Medical Corporation, the main healthcare provider in Qatar. Methodology This was a cross-sectional, descriptive study that was conducted between October 2012 and January 2013, using a self-administered web-based survey. …”
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Harmed Trait Self-Control: Why Do People with a Higher Dispositional Malicious Envy Experience Lower Subjective Wellbeing? A Cross-Sectional Study by Briki W.

“…Therefore, the present study is the first to examine the interrelationships between dispositional benign and malicious envy, trait self-control, demographics (i.e., sex and age) and subjective wellbeing. Four hundred six people (234 females and 172 males; M age=32.07, SD age=10.98, from 18 to 71 years old) took part voluntarily in the study and answered questions related to demographics, dispositional envy, trait self-control, and subjective wellbeing. …”
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