Impact of the positive pressure valve on vascular access device occlusions and bloodstream infections by Btaiche, Imad

“…This leads to interruptions and delays in therapy administration and to the need for VAD replacement, associated with increased risk of complications to the patient and increased costs (Stephens, Haire, & Kotulak, 1995; Hoch, 1997). …”
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The Triple “S” Impact of COVID-19: Nationwide Evidence of the Impact of the Stress Associated With Restrictive Measures on Substance Use, Sleep, and Social Connectedness in Qatar... by Muna Abed Alah (18171346)

“…Of tobacco users in our sample, 36% reported increased tobacco use since the start of home confinement, while 41.6% of alcohol users reported decreased alcohol use. Concerning sleep, 46.1% reported an increase in average sleep duration per day (0.77 h mean increase, 95% CI: 0.66-0.88, P<0.001), and a third of participants reported poorer sleep quality. …”

Independent and Combined Effects of Antioxidant Supplementation and Circuit Resistance Training on Selected Adipokines in Postmenopausal Women by Ayoub Saeidi (17331085)

“…Participants in experimental groups either performed CRT (3 sessions per week with intensity at 55% of one-repetition maximum) or supplemented with Zataria Multiflora (500 mg every day after breakfast with 100 ml of water), or their combination, for 8 weeks. …”

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Sacubitril/Valsartan for Reducing the Use of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD) and the Risk of Death in ICD-Eligible Heart Failure Patient... by Rasha Kaddoura (12506936)

“…Sacubitril/valsartan resulted in a relative increase of 0.04 quality-adjusted life year (QALY) and 0.67 years of life lived (YLL)/person, with an incremental cost increase of QAR13,952 (USD3,832). …”

Altered regulation of cell migration in IRF6-mutated orofacial cleft patients-derived primary cells reveals a novel role of RhoGTPases in cleft/lip palate development by Al Saneh, Mounir

“…Cleft lip and/or palate (CL/P) affects on average 1 in 700 live births and is considered to be the most common congenital craniofacial birth defect (Setó-Salvia and Stanier 2014). …”
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Global, regional, and national stillbirths at 20 weeks' gestation or longer in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Comfort, Haley

“…Findings: In 2021, the global stillbirth rate was 23·0 (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 19·7–27·2) per 1000 births (stillbirths plus livebirths) at 20 weeks' gestation or longer, compared to 16·1 (13·9–19·0) per 1000 births at 28 weeks' gestation or longer. …”
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Off-design performance analysis of combined CSP power and direct oxy-combustion supercritical carbon dioxide cycles by Ahmad K., Sleiti

“…On the other hand, the increase of the TIT improves the cycle efficiency (by 8.6%) but also increases the consumed fuel by (57%).…”
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Modeling of Chlorophyll-a and Eutrophication Indicators in the Dubai Creek Area using Remote Sensing by Bachir, Abdallah Raafat

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Effect of Frequency on The Dynamic Properties in Resonant Column Testing by Ali, Ismail Tarek

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CFD Study of Particle Concentration and Stokes Number Effect on Erosion Profile. by Salim, Wahib Mufid

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The Use of Lime to Stabilize Clay Soil against Internal Erosion by Aqel, Rawan Ibrahim

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Five-Level MLI-Based Grid-Connected Photovoltaic Systems: A Review on Control Methodologies, Modulation Strategies and Recent Developments by Anurag Tiwari (3563561)

“…Five-level MLI-based PV systems have become a crucial option as the relevance of renewable energy keeps increasing because of their increased efficiency, less harmonic distortion, and greater power quality. …”

Named Data Networking: A Survey on Routing Strategies by Farhan Ahmed Karim (17542143)

“…<p dir="ltr">As the Internet grows in popularity, data become an increasingly crucial component. People now care more about the data than the data location. …”

Emerging trends in direct air capture of CO₂: a review of technology options targeting net-zero emissions by Yasser Abdullatif (19438219)

“…In order to keep the global mean temperature at approximately 1.5 °C above the preindustrial era, the world needs increased deployment of negative emission technologies. …”

A study on Speaker Recognition System by Bakkar, Hazem Wa'il Mohammed

“…Security systems developers and manufacturers are trying hardly to cope with the increasing security breaching attacks. The need to overcome this challenge forced many researchers and manufacturers to think about adding extra levels of security to protect information and resources; these extra levels of security are mainly involve around using the human biometrics in order to identify the real identity of the user. …”
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An Ontology-based Semantic Web for Arabic Question Answering: The Case of E-Government Services by ALBARGHOTHI, ALI BAHA’EDDIN

“…The fact that the number of diverse users is growing urges researchers to benefit from this information and develop techniques that analyse customers’ experiences to meet their needs. As far as e-government is concerned, the number of structured and unstructured webpages of electronic services has increased, making the repositories more complex and harder to analyse without considering semantic knowledge. …”
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The Role of DJ-1 in the Glycation Process of Skin and Plasma Proteins in Mice Models by Abou Younes, Nour

“…Mice were then treated with ND-13 to identify through it the deglycase activity of DJ-1.Overall, the findings of this study indicate that the glycation process in the skin might need more than just a few weeks to form the early and intermediate glycation products, this was translated by the significant increase of DJ-1 levels after 8 weeks of treatment with an exogenous glycating agent compared to week 4. …”
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Clinical characteristics and outcome of children with acute cryptorchid testicular torsion: A single-center, retrospective case series study by Zlatan Zvizdic (9212371)

“…Preoperative color Doppler ultrasonography revealed absent or decreased testicular blood flow in the affected testes in 7/8 of patients. …”

COVID-19 biomarkers for severity mapped to polycystic ovary syndrome by Abu Saleh Md Moin (6189512)

“…These protein panels target biological processes involved in vessel damage, platelet degranulation, the coagulation cascade and the acute phase response [1], with greater protein changes dependent on the COVID-19 severity. …”

A study of Emirati Undergraduates Students’ Perceptions of Cooperative Learning by Al Rasbi, Sumayya Naajem

“…The final overall recommendations indicate the need to increase the usage of cooperative learning techniques to ensure a sustain improvement of students’ learning process.…”
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