The impact of COVID‐19 pandemic lockdown on smoking habits and lifestyle: A cross‐sectional study by Almu'atasim Khamees (11875640)

“…While those who had a decrease in their smoking level experienced a somehow healthier lifestyle regarding nutrition and other aspects.…”

Evidence-based safety education and training for traffic injury prevention by Abbas Motevalian (338825)

“…Stronger GDL programs achieve greater fatality reduction. A systematic review on the effects of post-license driver education, provides no evidence of its effects on preventing road traffic crashes or injuries. …”

Utilization of the internet for physical activity and diet information and its influence on pregnant women’s lifestyle habits in Qatar by Ayman Al-Dahshan (8962568)

“…</p><h3>Conclusion</h3><p dir="ltr">Many pregnant women use the internet to access information about PA and diet, and greater use is associated with more positive lifestyle changes. …”

The Economic Impact of Optimizing a COVID-19 Management Protocol in Pre-Existing Cardiovascular Disease Patients by Dina Abushanab (10696501)

“…In the critically ill patients, however, the cost increased from QAR202,094 (USD 55,505) to QAR292,856 (USD 80,433) per patient, with added cost of QAR90,762 (USD 24,928). …”

Sustainability of Composite Columns under Repeated Load and Harsh Environment by Kashwani, Ghanim

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Internet Searches for Medical Symptoms Before Seeking Information on 12-Step Addiction Treatment Programs: A Web-Search Log Analysis by George Nitzburg (18614989)

“…Second, we examined symptom queries preceding queries on the 12-step program at time lags of 0-7 days, 7-14 days, and 14-30 days, where the probability of asking about a medical symptom was greater in the 30-day time window preceding 12-step program information-seeking as compared to all previous times that the symptom was queried.…”

Fixed Shading Scenarios to Optimize Lighting Performance and Energy Efficiency in Office Buildings Case Study of Dubai Design District by Hamad, Khadije

“…The annual energy consumption of the optimal scenario is reduced from 1670 MWh to 1532MWh in the Egg-crate scenario three, which is a high reduction of 138MWh per year. Moreover, daylighting analysis shows decreased average illuminance levels from 407.8 to 154.97 Lux, equivalent to a 60% reduction in December and June. …”
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Biodegradable polysaccharide grafted polyacrylamide inhibitor for corrosion in CO₂- saturated saline solution by Rem Jalab (11715205)

“…Nevertheless, the AGGPAM-inhibited solution exhibited a corrosion rate of 26.7 mils per year at 50 °C, which is still lower than that of blank at 25 °C. …”

Location matters: spatial dynamics of tumor-infiltrating T cell subsets is prognostic in colon cancer by Hehuan Zhu (4808445)

“…We demonstrated an increase in immune cell density and a decrease in the distance of CD3⁺CD8⁺ T cells to the nearest tumor cell, in the immune active, ICR High, immune subtypes. …”

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in labor housing in Dubai and its impact on ccupants' health by Nazzal, Saja Bassam

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A Comprehensive Method of Ion Exchange Resins Regeneration and Its Optimization for Water Treatment by Al-Asheh, Sameer

“…The strong acidic cation polymeric exchanger resin is commercially called MERCK 104765 cation exchanger IV with capacity greater than 3.2 mmol/ml, while the strong basic anion polymeric exchanger resin is commercially called MERCK 104767 anion exchanger III with capacities greater than 1.0 mmol/ml. …”
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Hemodynamics of small aneurysm pairs at the internal carotid artery by Jou, Liang-Der

“…The maximum wall shear stress increases for serial aneurysms, but decreases for parallel aneurysms. Interaction between parallel aneurysms is not significant; however, the proximal aneurysm in serial aneurysms may be subject to a greater rupture risk.…”
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Trade Flow and Nation Brand Distance: A Structural Gravity Model Approach by AL BESHER, HUDA ISMAIL

“…The NBD is calculated based on Country Brand Strength Index (CBSI) which consists of relative values per capita of the statistical data for five different areas that composite the index, which includes the dimensions of exports, tourism, foreign direct investment, immigration, and government environment. …”
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Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 by Joan B Soriano (6458528)

“…However, when accounting for ageing and population growth, declines were observed in age-standardised prevalence (14·3% decrease), age-standardised death rates (42·6%), and age-standardised DALY rates (38·2%). …”

Surgical Strategies for Synchronous Colorectal Liver Metastases in 156 Consecutive Patients by Bouquet, Antoine

“…Median numbers of CLMs per patient were 1 in the combined, 3 in the classic, and 4 in the reverse strategy group (p = 0.01 classic vs reverse; p < 0.001 reverse vs combined). …”
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Supplementation of retrobulbar block with clonidine in vitreoretinal surgery by Abi Nader, Elie

“…The median number of postoperative analgesic requests per patient during the first 24 hours was higher in the control group than the clonidine group [2 (0-3) vs. 1 (0-3); P < 0.001]. …”
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Long non-coding RNA MALAT1 promotes steatosis in HepG2 cells by modulating target gene expression in presence of Exendin-4 by Olfa Khalifa (10914452)

“…<p><strong>Poster by Olfa Khalifa (Hamad Bin Khalifa University), Khaoula Errafii (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University), Sama Ayoub (Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar), Abdelilah Arredouani (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)</strong></p> <p>Background: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease worldwide in part due to the obesity epidemic and insulin resistance. …”

The Influence of Loneliness and Living Alone on the Quality of Life of the Elderly: Evidence from Europe by Ammari, Lora

“…This research indicates a positive correlation between living alone and loneliness, with a greater effect on males, and identifies loneliness as an independent factor decreasing QoL. …”
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Carotid artery revascularization through a radiated field by Lesèche, Guy

“…Follow-up duplex scans showed asymptomatic recurrent stenosis greater than 60% in 3 patients, 2 of whom with stenosis greater than 80% underwent repeat operation. …”
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An efficient failure-resilient mutual exclusion algorithm for distributed systems leveraging a novel zero-message overlay structure by Mouna Rabhi (17086969)

“…., node queue dimension, number of exchanged messages, and number of disconnected nodes) indicate a graceful degradation in performance with decreasing number of functioning nodes. For instance, for 4,096 nodes organized in a logical tree of arity 4 and with 4 physical nodes for logical node, a negligible number of nodes is disconnected from the tree after 250 epochs when the per-node per-epoch failure probability is p f ≤ 0 . 0008 . …”