Trends and levels of the global, regional, and national burden of appendicitis between 1990 and 2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Letourneau, Ian D

“…Mortality rates ranged from 1·01 (0·895–1·13) per 100 000 in central Latin America to 0·054 (0·0464–0·0617) per 100 000 in high-income Asia Pacific. …”
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Event-triggered based consensus of autonomous underactuated surface vessels by Mirzaei, Morteza

“…Furthermore, agents broadcast their information based on predefined event triggering conditions and the amount of data exchange among the surface vessels is significantly decreased. To illustrate the performance of the proposed approach, simulation results are provided. 1 2017 IEEE.…”
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Impaired Liver Size and Compromised Neurobehavioral Activity are Elicited by Chitosan Nanoparticles in the Zebrafish Embryo Model by Abou-Saleh, Haissam

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A Deep Learning Approach for Vital Signs Compression and Energy Efficient Delivery in mhealth Systems by Said, A.

“…Results indicate that: 1) the proposed adaptive single modality compression scheme outperforms conventional compression methods by 13.24% and 43.75% reductions in distortion and processing time, respectively; 2) the proposed adaptive multiple modality compression further decreases the distortion by 3.71% and 72.37% when compared with the proposed single modality scheme and conventional methods through leveraging inter-modality correlations; and 3) adaptive multiple modality compression demonstrates its efficiency in terms of energy consumption, computational complexity, and responding to different network states. …”
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Combined effects of gamma radiation and Some physical factors on the rate of development of culex pipiens complex(L) by Wakid, A. M.

“…Larval development was stopped at some mating combinations, when gamma radiation followed exposure to partial vacuum (0.1 torr) or low humidity; Pupal duration at most of the treatments was increased. …”
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Performance Evaluation of A Class of Adaptive Bifurcated Routing Algorithms by Ayad, N. M.

“…In this paper a class of bifurcated routing algorithms is considered. One of the algorithms uses distributed control and routing decisions based on stochastic measures. …”
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Development And Performance Evaluation Of Smart Polymeric Coatings For Corrosion Protection Of Steel by Khan, Adnan

“…Most common cause of materials and equipment failure in the oil and gas industry is corrosion. According to one survey, about 1/4 to 1/3 of the total downtime in plants is due to deleterious effects of corrosion. …”
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Harmful Effects Of Sea Water Administration On Kidney Structure And Function by El Gohary, Z. M. A. [زينب محمود احمد الجوهري]

“…In contrast, urine sodium, calcium and magnesium excretion increased 24 hours and one week following sea water administration. Renal angiotensin-1-converting enzyme significantly decreased 24 hours following the administration but increased significantly one week later comparing to control. …”
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Comparative skull analysis suggests species-specific captivity-related malformation in lions (Panthera leo) by Saragusty, Joseph

“…There was no difference between wild (18.47±1.26 mm) and captive (18.56±1.64 mm) tigers in FMH. …”
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Application of natural compounds–based gold nanoparticles for the treatment of hemolytic anemia in an anemic mouse model: Formulation of a novel drug from relationship between the... by Goorani, S.

“…Also, AuNPs significantly (p ≤ 0.01) increased the body weight; anti-inflammatory cytokine (IL4, IL5, IL10, IL13, and IFNα) concentration; and the total platelet, white blood cells, lymphocyte, neutrophil, monocyte, eosinophil, and basophil counts and red blood cell parameters but decreased the weight and volume of the liver and spleen and their subcompartments and decreased the concentration of pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL1, IL6, IL12, IL18, IFNY, and TNFα) compared to the untreated mice. …”
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Trends in prescribing and outcomes in obese versus non-obese patients receiving rivaroxaban therapy: an observational study using real-world data by Alalawneh, Majdoleen

“…Multivariate logistic regression analyses showed that the likelihood of all-cause mortality was significantly higher in overweight and all categories of obese patients compared to underweight patients: overweight (OR: 5.3, 95% CI: 2.3–11.9, p< 0.001); obese class 1 (OR: 5.4, 95% CI: 2.3 – 12.2, p< 0.001); obese class 2 (OR: 6.5, 95% CI: 2.7 – 15.6, p< 0.001); and obese class 3 (OR: 3.7, 95% CI: 1.6 – 8.7, p = 0.003). …”
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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

“…Pharmacists were eligible to participate if they: (1) were working as full-time hospital pharmacists and; (2) have been in practice for at least 1 year. …”
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Corrosion inhibition of API X120 steel in a highly aggressive medium using stearamidopropyl dimethylamine by Radwan, A.Bahgat

“…The overall results showed that SAPDA significantly decreased the corrosion rate of API X120 steel with an inhibition efficiency of approximately 99% at an inhibitor concentration of 136 μmol L− 1. …”
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Effect of the induced dielectrophoretic force on harvesting of marine microalgae (Tetraselmis sp.) in electrocoagulation by Hawari, Alaa H.

“…A maximum algal harvesting efficiency of 90.9% was achieved using 7.1 mA/cm2 current density and 10 min electrolysis time. …”
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دراسة تأثير تركيز تيترا أيزوبروبكسيد التيتانيوم (TTIP) على بعض مواصفات ألياف ثنائي أكسيد التيتانيوم النانوية المغزولة كهربائياً... by طهماز, غزل

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Impact of a pharmacist-delivered discharge and follow-up intervention for patients with acute coronary syndromes in Qatar: A study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Zidan, Amani

“…Introduction: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. …”
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Effect Of Aspect Ratio On Torsional Capacity Of High-Strength Plain Concrete Deep Beams by Samman, Tamim A.

“…Concrete strengths of 51.01, 58.53, 76.60 and 83.66 MPa and depth/width (aspect) ratios varying from 1 to 5 were used. The tested beams failed suddenly and violently along a smooth surface. …”
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Scalable Containerized Pipeline for Real-time Big Data Analytics by Aurangzaib, Rana

“…The proposed solution yields a x 1.31 to x 2.4 increase in throughput, and x 32 to x 80 decreased latency compared to the commonly used static resource allocation strategy for data pipelines. 2022 IEEE.…”
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Temporal cross talk between endoplasmic reticulum and mitochondria regulates oxidative stress and mediates microparticle-induced endothelial dysfunction by Safiedeen, Zainab

“…Results: Here, we show that both types of MPs increased expression of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress markers XBP-1, p-eIF2alpha and CHOP and nuclear translocation of ATF6 on human aortic endothelial cells. …”
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Corrosion behavior of API-X120 carbon steel alloy in a GTL F-T process water environment at low COD concentration by Ewis, Dina

“…Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and potentiodynamic polarization techniques were used to determine the carbon steel corrosion rate under temperatures ranging from 293 to 323 K and rotation speed of 0, 500, 1000, 2000 rpm when the immersion time was 0.5, 1, and 2 h. The corrosion rate increased with temperature and rotation speed but decreased with immersion time. …”
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