Urban Geometry: The Effect of Height Diversity and Buildings Configuration on Thermal Performance and Cooling Load at Urban Scale. A Case Study in Dubai / UAE by SHAREEF, SUNDUS LUAY

“…The variation along the short direction of the urban block has a greater positive effect and the saving in cooling energy consumption reaches 4.6 %. …”
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النشر العلمي الإلكتروني في الجزائر بين مطرقة التطور وسندان القصور القانوني: دراسة مقارنة by Hannane, Khouadjia Samiha

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Postprandial Insulin and Triglyceride Concentrations Are Suppressed in Response to Breaking Up Prolonged Sitting in Qatari Females by Bryna C. R. Chrismas (6820142)

“…Sedentary behavior is associated with increased cardiometabolic disease risk and early mortality and breaking up sitting can attenuate postprandial cardiometabolic risk markers. …”

Predictive modelling in times of public health emergencies: patients’ non-transport decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic by Hassan Farhat (9000509)

“…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">During the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a surge in pre-hospital emergency calls due to the increased prevalence of flu-like symptoms and panic related to the pandemic. …”

Why wear a seat belt? I’m going to die anyway: Young Arab men’s rationales for deadly driving behaviors by Susan Dun (19807227)

“…A second generation of campaigns has recently been developed that are also fear appeal based, but feature more sophisticated messaging and visuals than the first group did. While laudable in their goals, both set of campaigns are not based on either a theoretical framework or research on the target audience. …”

Intracoronary pharmacological therapy versus aspiration thrombectomy in STEMI (IPAT-STEMI): A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials by Rasha Kaddoura (12506936)

“…Intracoronary GPI, either alone or combined with AT, did not improve procedural or clinical outcomes.…”

Sex Differences in Fish Oil and Olanzapine Effects on Gut Microbiota in Diet-Induced Obese Mice by Mostafa M. Abbas (17058093)

“…In conclusion, FO reduced dietary obesity and its associated inflammation and increased the B/F ratio in male mice but did not benefit the female mice. …”

Monitoring the Athlete Match Response: Can External Load Variables Predict Post-match Acute and Residual Fatigue in Soccer? A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis by Karim Hader (2548618)

“…For every 100-m run above 5.5 m·s⁻¹, CK activity measured 24 h post-match increased by 30% and CMJPPO decreased by 0.5%. Conversely, the total distance covered did not present any evidence of a clear relationship with any fatigue-related marker at any time-point.…”

Pill-burden and its association with treatment burden among patients with advanced stages of chronic kidney disease by Asmaa, Al-mansouri

“…HD patients experienced higher pill-burden than non-dialysis patients [122 (61) vs. 109 (33) pills/week]; however, this difference did not reach statistical significance (p = 0.81). …”
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Assessing Energy Saving Potential in Existing Buildings in Abu Dhabi through Passive Retrofitting Strategies: Case Study –Office Buildings by Manneh, Abeer

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How does an imaginary persona's attractiveness affect designers' perceptions and IT solutions? An experimental study on users' remote working needs by Joni Salminen (7434770)

“…A linguistic analysis indicated that the IT solutions created for more attractive user personas demonstrated a higher degree of affect, but for the most part, task outputs did not vary by the personas' perceived attractiveness.…”

Pravastatin plus L-arginine prevents adverse pregnancy outcomes in women with uteroplacental vascular dysfunction by Aleksandar Jurisic (17052408)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">PRAV+L-arginine improved uteroplacental haemodynamics, increased fetal growth and prevented early onset preeclampsia leading to delivery close to term (delivery date: median 38 weeks, IQR[36.5–39]) and appropriate weight for gestational age compared to controls, in which placental blood flow did not improve and 2 women developed severe early onset preeclampsia. …”

Performance analysis of FSO cooperative communications with rf inter-connected relays in the absence and presence of channel state information. (c2018) by Hamad, Mustapha Ismail

“…Conversely, some limitations face the proposed scheme such as the difficulty of ensuring clear line of sight (LOS) between all the relays in the system which is required for deploying the FSO links. …”
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Seismic Site Response, Analysis and Characterization of Major Cities in UAE by Irfan, Muhammad

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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)

“…Death rates due to interstitial lung disease and pulmonary sarcoidosis were greater than those due to pneumoconiosis in all super-regions. …”

Can bitcoin’s volatility be tamed? by Ammous, Saifedean

“…Bitcoin is a software for operating a peer-to-peer payment network with its own hard money, without having to rely on a trusted third party. …”
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Constructing a successful career in the Fourth Industrial Revolution for young graduates in the UAE by AHMED, AYMAN MOUSTAFA HANAFY

“…In recent years, and particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, young graduates have found it increasingly difficult to secure full-time employment with career prospects, and many individuals have begun questioning the meaning of their jobs and careers (Baruch and Sullivan, 2022; Duffy et al., 2016; Trevor-Roberts et al., 2018). …”
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''Effectiveness of Non-invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation in ELBW Infants: A Comparison of Successful and Failed Outcomes'' by Ratheesh Paramban (17046388)

“…Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) has become an increasingly popular mode of respiratory support for these infants. …”

Trends and levels of the global, regional, and national burden of appendicitis between 1990 and 2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Letourneau, Ian D

“…Although the global age-standardised incidence rate of appendicitis has steadily decreased between 1990 and 2021, almost half of GBD regions saw an increase of greater than 10% in their age-standardised incidence rates. …”
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Causes of blindness and vision impairment in 2020 and trends over 30 years, and prevalence of avoidable blindness in relation to VISION 2020: the Right to Sight: an analysis for th... by Jaimie D Steinmetz (18015919)

“…</p><p><br></p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">We did a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-based surveys of eye disease from January, 1980, to October, 2018. …”