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%). …”

The domestic challenges facing Saudi Arabia. (c2007) by Barrage, Rada Soubra

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Promising approaches for controlled pulmonary drug delivery by Nature Research (16552612)

“…Immune cells called alveolar macrophages are found deep inside the lungs. They provide an additional line of defence by engulfing foreign particles that entre. …”

Investigation of the physics of transduction in nafion / Ionic liquid composite membranes by Akle, Barbar

“…Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is also used to investigate the composites and reveals that the mobility of the counterions increases as the content of ionic liquid within the membrane is increased. …”
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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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Optimisation of PV Cleaning Practices: Comparison Between Performance Based and Periodic Based Approaches by ALHAJERI, RASHED ABDULLA

“…Periodic based automatic cleaning showed decreases in improvement of between 164.64% to 245.34%. …”
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Ultrasound-responsive Nanocarriers in Cancer Treatment: a review by Awad, Nahid S.

“…This review gives a comprehensive overview of recent research findings on the different types of stimuli-responsive nanocarriers and their application in cancer treatment, with a particular focus on ultrasound.…”
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The Impact of Teacher Inclusion in Decision-Making on School Performance by Mohamed, Nagy Fathy

“…Directly involving teachers in the decision-making process has many positive impacts on both the school and the teachers, which are then reflected in the attitudes of the students.Therefore school systems must be reformed and restructured to activate the role of the teachers by giving them more authority and giving them constructive roles in addition to their teaching mission to make them active members in the decision-making community. …”
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Pool Free Rapid Segmentation Network (PFRS-Net) to detect human blastocyst compartments for embryonic assessment by Abida Hussain (22049752)

“…<p>Assisted reproductive technology has become an increasingly popular solution to address infertility in humans, primarily by in vitro fertilization (IVF). …”

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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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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Real-time AI-based inference of people gender and age in highly crowded environments by Jasseur Abidi (17870426)

“…Automatic gender identification is increasingly being used in areas such as security, marketing, and social robots. …”

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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A conjugate self-organizing migration (CSOM) and reconciliate multi-agent Markov learning (RMML) based cyborg intelligence mechanism for smart city security by S. Shitharth (12017480)

“…Various machine learning and deep learning-based cyborg intelligence mechanisms have been developed to protect smart city networks by ensuring property, security, and privacy. …”

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 . …”

Chemical, rheological, and sensory properties of wheat biscuits fortified with local buckwheat by Ahmed Hussein (683680)

“…The samples with <i>F</i>. tataricum demonstrated greater amounts of fiber and ash while the samples made of soft wheat flour were rich in carbohydrates. …”

Online social transparency in enterprise information systems: a risk assessment method by Tahani Alsaedi (14151090)

“…The Covid-19 crisis led to increased utilisation of social networking tools within enterprises, especially when working remotely. …”

Neuro-Wavelet Based Islanding Detection Technique by Fayyad, Yara

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Content-Symmetrical Multidimensional Transpose of Image Sequences for the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) All-Intra Configuration by Shanableh, Tamer

“…This finding supports the claim of there being increasing spatial coherence as a result of the proposed solution. …”
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Plant disease management: a fine-tuned enhanced CNN approach with mobile app integration for early detection and classification by Mudassir Iftikhar (21323900)

“…This paper addresses this critical issue through an exploration of a deep learning-based approach to disease detection. …”