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. …”

Do Older Adults with Multimorbidity Meet the Recommended Levels of Physical Activity? An Analysis of Scottish Health Survey by Ahmad Salman (3173418)

“…Also, meeting recommended PA decreased with age [OR 0.92 (95% CI 0.90–0.94)] and body mass index [OR 0.93 (95% CI 0.91–0.95]; but increased per additional portion of fruit and vegetables taken [OR 1.19 (95% CI 1.12–1.25)] and with increase in well-being scale score [OR 1.05 (95% CI 1.03 to 1.06)]. …”

A utility-based algorithm for joint uplink/downlink scheduling in wireless cellular networks by Saad, Walid

“…By jointly considering the time varying channel conditions in both the uplink and the downlink directions, the proposed algorithm avoids wasting of resources and achieves notable performance gains in terms of increased number of active connections, lower packet drop rate, and increased network throughput. …”
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Information security awareness in Lebanese community. (c2017) by Sinno, Abir Mohammad

“…In an interconnected economy, as technology evolves and reliance on information increases, new information security threats emerge. …”
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Quantification of relaxor behavior in (1 − x)Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3 – xCaTiO3 lead-free ceramics system by Roukos, Roy

“…Ceramics exhibit normal ferroelectric properties at room temperature, and then they develop relaxor characteristics with increasing temperature showing the same dispersive properties. …”
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Targeting acute myeloid leukemia cells with novel photosensitive ruthenium-based metal-organic compounds. (c2015) by Azar, Daniel Fadi

“…Furthermore, we have attempted to examine the photochemical potential of our metal-organic compound model by combining L-II and L-III in the same metal complex, thus generating four final complexes with differing net charges (from +2 to -4), and examining their activities on a panel of AML cell lines with or without exposure to blue light. …”
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Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Arab American refugee and recent immigrant wormen by Kulwicki, Anahid

“…Routine male circumcision (RMC) has been found effective in preventing HIV infection in Africa; at the same time, incidence of HIV infection has been rising in China. …”
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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. …”

An enhanced k-means clustering algorithm for pattern discovery in healthcare data by Haraty, Ramzi A.

“…Our experimental results, which were used in an increasing manner on the same dataset, show that G-means outperforms k-means in terms of entropy and F-scores. …”
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Achieving full transmit diversity for PPM constellations with any number of Antennas via double position and symbol permutations. (c2008) by Baba, Zeina

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Redefining global influence: The roles of small states – Norway and Qatar in the aftermath of the Russian-Ukraine war by Si Liu (1915687)

“…However, the outcome has been the same: two small states projecting outsized global influence despite their size and limited military capabilities. …”

An investigation of the different risks associated with: The public Wi-Fi and Hotspots by ALMARRI, ASMA JAMAL

“…The use of Wi-Fi and public hotspots has increased during the past years. A statistical study done by Cisco declared that there were roughly 279 million hotspots in 2018, which further demonstrates the importance of a review of the risks associated with these networks. …”
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Strategies for Promoting & Integrating Renewable Energy Resources in UAE by Al-Amir, Jawaher Hassan

“…Renewable Energy (RE) supplies are of increasing environmental and economic importance in all countries. …”
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Connecting Water Resources across Political Borders: A Pearl River Delta Special Ecological Area by Carlow, Jason

“…Climate change, urbanization, and pollution from industrial and agricultural development threaten the steady supply of fresh water to the Pearl River Delta and its cities, while population growth in the region only increases demand. At the same time, Hong Kong, Macau and Shenzhen's increasing economic, political and cultural interdependency presents the possibility to tackle these challenges holistically. …”
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Diabetes mellitus and renal failure by Aoun, S.

“…Aortic PWV was significantly higher in the diabetic subgroup as well as PP at the peripheral and central levels for the same age and mean arterial pressure. In addition, renal failure was independently associated with an increased aortic PWV but not PP in the general population. …”
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Nonclassicality of open circuit QED systems in the deep-strong coupling regime by Tomohiro Shitara (18508206)

“…In contrast, when the two couplings are of the same type (for instance, both are inductive), by increasing the R–W coupling strength, the average number of virtual photons increases and the quantum superposition realized in the Q–R entangled ground state is partially degraded. …”

Control of Flow Past an Airfoil Section Using Rotating Cylinders by Nazari, Argin

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Removal of bacterial contaminants and antibiotic resistance genes by conventional wastewater treatment processes in Saudi Arabia: Is the treated wastewater safe to reuse for agricu... by Al-Jassim, Nada

“…Among them, Pseudomonas spp. had the highest approximated cell number in the influent but decreased to less than 30 cells/100 mL in both types of effluent. …”
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