Context-Tailored Food-Based Nutrition Education and Counseling for Pregnant Women to Improve Birth Outcomes: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Malawi by Kamudoni, Penjani Rhoda

“…BackgroundInadequate maternal dietary intakes remain a public health challenge in low-income countries like Malawi and can cause adverse birth outcomes. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Do high energy-efficient buildings increase overheating risk in cold climates? Causes and mitigation measures required under recent and future climates by Mutasim Baba, Fuad

“…While without adequate ventilation, the overheating risk in high-energy-efficient buildings can be higher than old buildings, where decreasing wall and window U-values and infiltration rate has a greater contribution to the increase of indoor temperature, while decreasing window SHGC has a lower contribution to the decrease in indoor temperature compared to the case with adequate ventilation. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

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)

“…Participants who reported using the internet for PA information a great deal were more likely to increase their PA during pregnancy compared to those who used it somewhat or very little (57.6, 26.8, and 5.0%, p < 0.001; respectively). …”

Renewable Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from an Oil-Rich Economy by Shahriyar Mukhtarov (19325662)

“…The results reveal that renewable energy consumption has a negative impact on CO₂ emissions, while real GDP per capita has a positive effect. According to the findings, a 1% increase in renewable energy consumption leads to a 0.26% decrease in consumption-based CO₂ emissions, while a 1% rise in real GDP per capita leads to a 0.46% rise in consumption-based CO₂ emissions. …”

The effect of vancomycin doses greater than 2 grams on serum creatinine and vancomycin trough levels by Mansour, Hanine

“…The two subjects who did have a significant increase in serum creatinine were receiving concomitant nephrotoxins. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

The impact of maternal care on child development by Sayour, Nagham

“…Results show that treated children enjoy an increase of 3.6 h per week in the time they spend with their mothers, mainly due to a decrease in the time spent in non-institutional care. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Breast cancer cells and bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells by Faour, Wissam H.

“…Materials and methods Conditioned medium and direct cell–cell contacts experiments were used to investigate the effect of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs), osteoprogenitor-like cells (MG-63) and osteosarcoma cells (SaOS-2) on luminal-like (MCF-7) and basal-like (MDA-MB-231) BCCs flow cytometry was used to assess the purity of isolated BCCs and osteoblasts. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Targeting solid tumor cells with novel photosensitive ruthenium-based metal-organic compounds. (c2016) by Farhat, Stephanie Roy

“…As for the free ligands, L-II presented major cytotoxic effect on five out of six cell lines, L-I on two cell lines, L-IV on one cell line only. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Operation optimization of propane pre-cooled mixed refrigerant LNG Process: A novel integration of knowledge-based and constrained Bayesian optimization approaches by Roba Shady (22048043)

“…At large-scale LNG production (10,000 tons per day), the reduction in the SEC is translated into an 18 MW decrease in compression power, saving approximately 4.7 million $ per year for each C3MR train. …”

Effect of consanguinity on birth weight for gestational age in a developing country by Wakim, Gerard

“…No significant difference was observed in the decrease in birth weight between the first- and second-cousin marriages. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Why do some countries produce more capital intensive output than others? by Toukan, Amjad

“…Our model predictions suggest that differences in productivity and therefore output per worker across countries are driven primarily by differences in the quality of governance. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

The Anti-Proliferative and Pro-apoptotic Effect of Topotecan in Combination With Thymoquinone in Acute Myelogenous Leukemia by Rizk, Sandra

“…Many studies showed synergism upon combination of topotecan with other chemotherapeutic agents like Gemcitabine, bortezomin and CP-4055.…”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Giving cancer patients the support they need by Nature Research (16552612)

“…</p><p>Sixty-seven per cent of the respondents indicated that they would like to receive psychosocial support. Twenty-six per cent did not show a preference for any particular type, but 20% preferred receiving religious support, another 20% preferred receiving physician-referred support, and 13% indicated they would like to receive all four forms of support.…”

A Real-Time Energy Management System Across Diverse Energy Sectors in Smart Cities by Alshamsi, Aisha Rashid

Get full text

Identification of Cancer Stem Cells in Human Gastrointestinal Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumors by Gaur, Puja

“…Although many primary cell lines failed to grow, CNDT96 ALDH+ cells formed spheres in anchorage-independent conditions, whereas ALDH- cells did not. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Efficiency of commercial banks in Lebanon by Djoundourian, Salpie

“…The stochastic production and cost function estimates show that bank level inefficiency effects decreases with time and increases with number of branches, employees per branch, and ratio of staff to operating expenses.…”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Reduction of laboratory utilization in the intensive care unit by Diab, Khalil

“…The number of iSTAT laboratory tests per patient-day decreased from 7.37 to an average of 1.16 (P < .001) over the same time period. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Evapotranspiration and water availability response to climate change in the Middle East and North Africa by Salah Basem Ajjur (14150967)

“…Outcomes reveal that the MENA region is indeed vulnerable to a surge in temperature, which can increase evapotranspiration losses and decrease water availability. Under the shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP2-4.5), the potential evapotranspiration (PET) has been projected to increase throughout the MENA region by up to 0.37 mm per year during the middle of the twenty-first century (2021–2050) and by up to 0.51 mm per year during the end of the twenty-first century (2071–2100). …”

Non-medical cancer support for Qatari women by Nature Research (16552612)

“…Only 13% indicated that they would like to receive all four types of support, while just over one quarter did not indicate a preference. …”

Can Leadership-coaching Mind-set Substitute that of Crisis Management in Higher Education? by Chaika, Oksana

“…The term ‘crisis management’ includes the three stages, i.e. pre-crisis, crisis per se, and post-crisis management in higher education. …”
Get full text