Vitamin D Association With Macrophage-Derived Cytokines in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: An Enhanced Risk of COVID-19 Infection? by Abu Saleh Md Moin (6189512)

“…Vitamin D deficiency was associated with decreased CD80 and IFN-γ in PCOS and IL-12 in both groups (p<0.05). …”

Effects of COVID-19 on Autism Spectrum Disorder in Qatar by Fouad A. Alshaban (17281108)

“…Parents also reported decreased access to family and social support networks, as well as decreased quality of clinical and community support. …”

Exploring attitudes towards health preparedness in the Middle East and North Africa against chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats: A qualitative study by Hassan Farhat (9000509)

“…A qualitative thematic analysis was performed on the responses using Nvivo®12 software, following semi‐structured modified interviews using the Phonic® application.…”

Investigating physicians’ views on non-formulary prescribing: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework by Zachariah Nazar (8600154)

“…<div><h2>Background</h2> <p>Well-designed and well-maintained drug formularies serve as a reliable resource to guide prescribing decisions; they are associated with improved medicine safety and increased efficiency, while also serving as a cost-effective tool to help manage and predict medicine expenditure. …”

Exploring critical factors in referral systems at different health‐care levels by Farrukh Jamal (8605026)

“…Along with conducting semi‐structured interviews with healthcare professionals, we systematically examined a wealth of retrospective data on 1331 referred patients from 130 health facilities, including patient records, demographics, referral status, and clinical presentation. …”

The Impact of Agility in Management in Higher Education Institutions: A Case Study in Dubai by JAMMAL, MOHAMMAD

“…Agility in organisational management is increasingly recognised as an essential factor for the success of educational institutions, particularly in the context of rapid changes in educational demands, such as the UAE's dynamic higher educational landscape. …”
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Developing a Digital Trust Framework between Government and Private Sector in the Financial Sector by AL SHAMSI, SUAAD SALEM YOUSEF

“…The DSRM research method integrates existing theoretical knowledge and insights from industry practitioners obtained through semi-structured expert interviews. The proposed framework to imporve the KYC process was successfully implemented as prototype system and it was evaluated through a case study evaluation with real users to verify its feasibility. …”
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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. …”

Validation of the geometric equivalent field concept in total scatter factor calculations, for half‐, quarter‐ and off‐isocenter asymmetric square fields by Mohammad Samir Hmodi (17746776)

“…Compared with the S_cp (IC), the S_cp (EFC) increased with increasing r, by up to 2% and 4% for 18/23 and 6 MV, respectively.…”

Coping mechanisms among Lebanese first-time college students by Doumit, Rita

“…Strategies xiv used varied with the type of situation. A greater proportion of overall strategies used included active and internal coping strategies which were focused on resolving the issue or problem. …”
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A 5-year trend in the use of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors and other oral antidiabetic drugs in a Middle Eastern country by Nancy Zaghloul (14147865)

“…The trend among SGLT2is suggests greater preference for empagliflozin over dapagliflozin.…”

The impact of different acidic conditions and food substrates on Listeria monocytogenes biofilms development and removal using nanoencapsulated carvacrol by Jina, Yammine

“…However, at pH 5.5 and 6.5, increased biofilm levels were observed in both the culture media and food substrates, with the WT strain showing significantly higher biofilm formation (3.04–6.05 log CFU cm−2) than the mutant strains (2.30–5.48 log CFU cm−2). …”
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Unsupervised Feature-Based Visualization Tool Applied on Medical Data by Moufarrej, Angela Sleiman

“…Our tool accepts as input semi-structured and multi-featured data, and allows the user to select the target features to be visualized and mapped against each other, as well as their relative impacts (weights) on the visualization process. …”
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Breakthroughs and Limitations of XML Grammar Similarity by Tekli, Joe

“…All these applications require some notion of structural similarity, XML representing semi-structured data. In this area, most work has focused on estimating similarity between XML documents (i.e., data layer). …”
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Adopting a systems thinking approach to investigate the implementation and provision of a pharmacist-led post-discharge domiciliary medicines review service by Hamde Nazar (1733509)

“…</p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">Semi-structured interviews informed by a conceptual model for the diffusion, dissemination and implementation of innovations, were conducted with hospital and community pharmacy staff between Oct–Dec 2016. …”

Application of Fe₃O₄ magnetite nanoparticles grafted in silica (SiO₂) for oil recovery from oil in water emulsions by Wamda Faisal Elmobarak (17058024)

“…Demulsification process best fits the combined Langmuir-Freundlich (L-F) isotherm with highest adsorption capacity (Q_max) of 186.0 ± 5 mg_oil/g_MD compared to 86.0 ± 5 mg_oil/g_MD for Fe₃O₄, which is 1.1 folds greater than Q_max reported in the literature for other demulsifiers.…”

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

“…The masked phenomenon (MP) (MHTN and MUHTN) increases susceptibility to end-organ damage (a two-fold greater risk for cardiovascular events and kidney dysfunction). …”

Investigation of the Effect of Imatinib and Hydroxyurea Combination Therapy on Hematological Parameters and Gene Expression in Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) Patients by Esraa K. Al-Amleh (16023071)

“…With regards to the treatment effect on hematological parameters, notably in CML patients in later stages, the combination therapy (HU + IM) raised lymphocyte count, indicating a greater response to the treatment. When compared to single medicines, the combination treatment reduced the proportion of neutrophils to normal reference ranges. …”

Advancing human and social dimensions in balanced scorecards for GCC corporations: a nuanced approach by Emad Awadallah (22155562)

“…Our empirical investigation involved 89 GCC firms and 201 senior executives, alongside 21 semi-structured interviews from the same pool of senior executives who had completed the survey. …”