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)]. …”

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. …”

New media and new practices of exploitation by Uzunoglu, Sarphan

“…While Google controls 84.7% of search engine market, it is not a condition free of charge. Users share serious amount of information with google for the exchange of the services they think they use free of charge. …”
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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.…”

Metabolic comparison of polycystic ovarian syndrome and control women in Middle Eastern and UK Caucasian populations by Alexandra E. Butler (6189536)

“…UK PCOS women had a higher body mass index, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, triglycerides (p < 0.01), whilst Middle Eastern PCOS women showed increased testosterone, free androgen index, HDL and CRP (P < 0.01). …”

Prevalence and Predictors of Insulin Resistance in Non-Obese Healthy Young Females in Qatar by Mohamed A. Elrayess (7956179)

“…Prevalence of insulin resistance in non-obese healthy females from Qatar ranges between 7% and 37% and increases with BMI. Overall, predictors of insulin resistance in the Qatari population are triglycerides/high-density lipoprotein (HDL) ratio and free fat mass but vary according to the BMI group. …”

Raising breast cancer awareness by Nature Research (16552612)

“…In the Arab world, however, its incidence has increased in the past 24 years, with women being diagnosed at more advanced stages of the disease. …”

Paracrine Mechanisms of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells in Angiogenesis by Selma Maacha (501715)

“…<p dir="ltr">The role of the mesenchymal stromal cell- (MSC-) derived secretome is becoming increasingly intriguing from a clinical perspective due to its ability to stimulate endogenous tissue repair processes as well as its effective regulation of the immune system, mimicking the therapeutic effects produced by the MSCs. …”

Evaluation of the efficiency of ionic liquids in the demulsification of oil-in-water emulsions by Wamda Faisal Elmobarak (17058024)

“…Recycling the ILs can be enhanced by reestablishing the IL anion part using water-free inversed ion exchange mixed with salts. The results suggest that ILs can be an appropriate substitute for commercial demulsifiers. …”

Microwave-synthesized composite preformed particle gels based on tragacanth gum and palygorskite for high-salinity high-temperature conditions by Ahmed Ben Ali (17792594)

“…In this study, hybrid composite PPGs were synthesized using tragacanth gum (TG), a biodegradable polysaccharide, grafted with acrylamide (AM) and crosslinked with <i>N</i>, <i>N</i>′-methylene bisacrylamide (MBA) in the presence of palygorskite (Pal) clay sourced from Qatar's Midra Shale. A microwave-assisted free-radical polymerization technique facilitated the rapid formation of gel particles with well-integrated organic-inorganic networks. …”

Waste to energy: Facile, low-cost and environment-friendly triboelectric nanogenerators using recycled plastic and electronic wastes for self-powered portable electronics by Muhammad Umaid Bukhari (17148322)

“…On the other hand, the increasing consumption of fossil energy is further damaging our environment. …”

Conceptual Design and Analysis of Concentrated Photovoltaic Thermal (CPVT) Solar Collectors with Different Configurations by Sharaf, Omar Z.

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Economic Diplomacy And Its Effect On Trade by Al Hajri, Rashid Ghanem

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Removal of Hexavalent Chromium from Wastewater using Modified Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes by Dokmaji, Tamara Georgesaleh

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In vitrocomparison of natural tooth-whitening remedies and professional tooth-whitening systems by Randa F., Abidia

“…Materials and methodsNinety caries-free extracted anterior and premolar teeth were collected, cleaned, and sectioned at the roots. …”
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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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