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Maternal Body Mass Index and Recommended Gestational Weight Gain in a Middle Eastern Setting
Published 2023“…In line with IOM recommendations, we found that higher BMI was correlated with decreased GWG and BMI was significantly associated with GWG even after adjusting for maternal age, parity, and infants’ gestational age at birth. …”
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Shear Behavior of One-Way Reinforced Concrete Hollow Slabs Voided with PET Void Formers
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Effects of financial turmoil on financial integration and risk premia in emerging markets
Published 2016“…Our sample consists of monthly data for 12 emerging stock markets over the period 1988M3-2015M3. We find that while the financial integration of emerging stock markets has registered short-term reversals episodes in countries that have been exposed to national or/and regional financial crises, it has decreased in most of the emerging countries of our sample since the global crisis. …”
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Phase state of secondary organic aerosol in chamber photo-oxidation of mixed precursors
Published 2021“…Liquid (bounce fraction; BF < 0.2) at RH > 80 % and nonliquid behaviour (BF > 0.8) at RH < 30 % were observed, with a liquid-to-nonliquid transition with decreasing RH between 30 % and 80 %. …”
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Assessment of Brain Function After 240 Days Confinement Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy
Published 2024“…The FCN shows a significant decrease in most of the right frontal areas. Five different machine learning classifiers are employed to differentiate between two levels of stress resulting in impressive classification accuracy rates: 96.44% with-nearest neighbor (KNN), 95.52% with linear discriminant analysis (LDA), 88.71% with Naïve Bayes (NB), 87.41 with decision trees (DT) and 96.48% with Support Vector Machine (SVM). …”
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Dynamic Change in Insulin Resistance Induced by Free Fatty Acids Is Unchanged Though Insulin Sensitivity Improves Following Endurance Exercise in PCOS
Published 2018“…The glucose disposal rate during the lipid infusion was reduced following exercise in PCOS, indicating decreased IR (67 ± 5 vs. 50 ± 7%, p = 0.02), but IR was not altered in controls (49 ± 7 vs. 45 ± 6%, p = 0.58). …”
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Occupational Violence at Lebanese Emergency Departments
Published 2011“…Such measures will be necessary to protect the well-being and decrease the turnover of ED workers.…”
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Fixed Shading Scenarios to Optimize Lighting Performance and Energy Efficiency in Office Buildings Case Study of Dubai Design District
Published 2021“…The second-best method was the Horizontal Louvers, where it achieved a reduction in energy consumption by 7.7% compared to the base case, and in daylight, it achieved a decrease of 50% in Both selected months. …”
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Age–sex differences in the global burden of lower respiratory infections and risk factors, 1990–2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
Published 2022“…PAFs of female LRI deaths attributed to household air pollution were 21·1% (95% UI 14·5–27·9) in those aged 15–49 years and 18·2% (12·5–24·5) in those aged 50–69 years. …”
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Clinical correlates of white-matter abnormalities on head magnetic resonance imaging
Published 2001“…We identified all patients less than 5 years of age who had undergone cranial MRI studies at Riley Hospital for Children between June 30, 1999, and July 1, 2000, whose scans were read as showing white-matter abnormalities. …”
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Effectiveness of Positron Emission Tomography for Predicting Chemotherapy Response in Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases
Published 2010“…The impetus for this research was finding viable cancer in patients with clearly negative findings on PET. We hypothesized that PET uptake levels were artificially decreased after chemotherapy. …”
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Technical assessment of different extraction methods and transcriptome profiling of RNA isolated from small volumes of blood
Published 2023“…We have used the QuantSeq 3′ FWD mRNA-Seq Library Prep kit to prepare RNA-seq libraries, which were sequenced on the Illumina NextSeq 500 system. …”
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Excess pCO2 and carbonate system geochemistry in surface seawater of the exclusive economic zone of Qatar (Arabian Gulf)
Published 2022“…Its values in the Gulf ranged from −50 to −310 μmol kg−1 implying CaCO3 precipitation. …”
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Exendin-4 alleviates steatosis in an in vitro cell model by lowering FABP1 and FOXA1 expression via the Wnt/-catenin signaling pathway
Published 2022“…We established steatotic HepG2 cells by incubating the cells with 400 µM oleic acid (OA) overnight. …”
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miRNA-dependent regulation of STIM1 expression in breast cancer
Published 2019“…The ER Ca<sup>2+</sup> sensor STIM1 and Orai plasma membrane Ca<sup>2+</sup> channels molecularly mediate SOCE. Here we investigate the role of the microRNA machinery in regulating STIM1 expression. …”