Enhancing the notification system for surveillance of infectious diseases in Qatar during the FIFA World Cup 2022: project overview by Wafa Ibrahim (18067631)

“…Infectious disease notification activities by healthcare workers increased from 2.5% between January and May 2022 to 41.4% between November and December 2022.…”

Investigating the incidence, nature, severity and potential causality of medication errors in hospital settings in Qatar by Binny Thomas (5801969)

“…Effort is required to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the reporting system. …”

Impacts of climate change on the global spread and habitat suitability of <i>Coxiella burnetii</i>: Future projections and public health implications by Abdallah Falah Mohammad Aldwekat (22457821)

“…By 2090, a 44.56 % (range: 33–57.9 %) across the models, increase in suitable habitat is predicted, accompanied by a 27.66 % (range: 22.4–31.7 %) loss of current habitats. …”

Investigating the Effectiveness and Teachers’ Perceptions of Rigorous Curriculum Design for Project-Based Learning Implementation on Middle School Science Students’ Achievement and... by ASSAF, NOURA FOUAD

“…In addition to the type of assessment (GRASPS), resources, delivery time, leadership, and parental involvement and support. …”
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Integration of Smart Sensors in Buildings to achieve Energy Efficiency in Hot and Humid Climate by JABR, BILAL SUDQI SAEED

“…It is also estimated that this utilization would grow to above 50% by 2030 because of the fast and consistent growth in economic activity and increase in population around the world. People tend to spend the greater part of their time in indoor spaces e.g., commercial and residential buildings. …”
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Targeting acute myeloid leukemia cells with novel photosensitive ruthenium-based metal-organic compounds. (c2015) by Azar, Daniel Fadi

“…The cytotoxic effect of L-II was shown to occur at earlier time points than that of Ru-II, although maximum effect for both was reached at 72h, possibly indicating a simpler mechanism of cytotoxicity in the ligand. …”
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Estimation of road network reliability on resiliency by Soltani-Sobh, Ali

“…Past research shows that a better understanding of reliability and identification of ways to improve it can help a system's response to a disaster, leading to increased transportation system resilience. This study focuses on the quantification of improved reliability, which reduces the time of annealing and recovery post uncertain disruption. …”
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The Impact of Absenteeism and Islamic Work Ethics on Project Delivery in Public Projectized Organizations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) by ALKEAIBI, NOORA RASHED

“…The collected data was analysed through a series of statistical tests and the results show that there is a negative relationship between Islamic work ethics and absenteeism; and a positive relationship between Islamic work ethics and project completion within scheduled time. The main conclusion of this study enhancing work ethics can be a factor that reduces the absenteeism in turn increases the productivity of the organizations through the on-time completion of projects. …”
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A Modification to Enhance the Survival of the Island FDMA Flap by Adding a Skin Bridge by Salim Al Lahham (16515333)

“…Distal necrosis of the patients in this study patients was compared with that in a control of 10 patients in whom we did the conventional FDMA flap. Patients were followed for 6 weeks to trace early postoperative complications (infection, dehiscence, and necrosis) and the establishment of protective sensation (pain and temperature).…”

The Impact of Acute and Chronic Exercise on Immunoglobulins and Cytokines in Elderly: Insights From a Critical Review of the Literature by Maha Sellami (4351159)

“…Strength training for 6-12 weeks did not alter plasma IL-1β, IL-2, IL-6 and TNF-α concentration in healthy elderly adults and patients with chronic-degenerative diseases, while 12 weeks of resistance training decreased muscle TNF-α mRNA in frail elderly individuals. …”

Knowledge-based virtual outdoor weather event simulator using unity 3D by Noueihed, Hamza

“…We have also conducted performance evaluations to test VOWES loading, execution, and data search time, among other features. Results show that most operations require almost instantaneous or linear time, where search, refresh, and export operations share almost identical performance levels, with execution time increasing by approximately 179 μs for every added game object. …”
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Effects of Operating Conditions on Water Absorption Capacity of Superabsorbent Hydrogels by Abdelwahab, Noun

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Efficiency of semi-implicit alternating direction implicit methods for solving cardiac monodomain model by Belhamadia, Youssef

“…The proposed methods have second-order accuracy in both space and time while evaluating the ionic model only once per time-step. …”
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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. …”

Differential changes in cyclic adenosine 3′-5′ monophosphate (cAMP) effectors and major Ca2+ handling proteins during diabetic cardiomyopathy by Chaoul, Victoria

“…Diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) is associated with differential and time-specific regulation of β-adrenergic receptors and cardiac cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases with consequences for total cyclic adenosine 3′-5′ monophosphate (cAMP) levels. …”
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Changing life expectancy in European countries 1990–2021: a subanalysis of causes and risk factors from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Nicholas, Steel

“…Exposure to these major risk factors differed by country, with trends of increasing exposure to high BMI and decreasing exposure to tobacco smoke observed in all countries during 1990–2021. …”
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A single-institution review of 157 patients presenting with benign and malignant tumors of the ampulla of Vater by Azar, Riad

“…We anticipate that the debate on the roles of surgery and endoscopy in the treatment of small cancerous tumors will likely increase as experience with endoscopic resection increases. …”
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Implementing 360° Quantified Self for childhood obesity: feasibility study and experiences from a weight loss camp in Qatar by Luis Fernandez-Luque (3572423)

“…Data from mobile phones, wearables and social media can facilitate a better understanding of the health behaviors of individuals. At the same time, there is an unprecedented increase in childhood obesity rates worldwide. …”

A Comprehensive Overview of the COVID-19 Literature: Machine Learning–Based Bibliometric Analysis by Alaa Abd-Alrazaq (17430900)

“…This led to a rapid increase in the number of COVID-19–related publications. …”