Employing refined licensing conditions to reduce the serious crashes of young drivers by Chika Sakashita (536454)

“…This tougher penalty for speeding is intended to increase deterrence for speeding and for novice drivers based on evidence of young driver over-representation in serious speed related crashes. …”

Innovative strategies to reduce traffic related injuries and deaths in youth by Joanne Banfield (19794507)

“…Thus, an effective intervention to increase road safety may be to change the attitudes that influence the driving behavior of adolescents. …”

Internet Searches for Medical Symptoms Before Seeking Information on 12-Step Addiction Treatment Programs: A Web-Search Log Analysis by George Nitzburg (18614989)

“…Second, we examined symptom queries preceding queries on the 12-step program at time lags of 0-7 days, 7-14 days, and 14-30 days, where the probability of asking about a medical symptom was greater in the 30-day time window preceding 12-step program information-seeking as compared to all previous times that the symptom was queried.…”

Fixed Shading Scenarios to Optimize Lighting Performance and Energy Efficiency in Office Buildings Case Study of Dubai Design District by Hamad, Khadije

“…The annual energy consumption of the optimal scenario is reduced from 1670 MWh to 1532MWh in the Egg-crate scenario three, which is a high reduction of 138MWh per year. Moreover, daylighting analysis shows decreased average illuminance levels from 407.8 to 154.97 Lux, equivalent to a 60% reduction in December and June. …”
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Biodegradable polysaccharide grafted polyacrylamide inhibitor for corrosion in CO₂- saturated saline solution by Rem Jalab (11715205)

“…Nevertheless, the AGGPAM-inhibited solution exhibited a corrosion rate of 26.7 mils per year at 50 °C, which is still lower than that of blank at 25 °C. …”

Bevacizumab Improves Pathologic Response and Protects Against Hepatic Injury in Patients Treated With Oxaliplatin-Based Chemotherapy for Colorectal Liver Metastases by Ribero, David

“…However, the addition of bevacizumab to 5FU/OX did not appear to increase the incidence of complete pathologic response (11.3% vs 11.6%; P = .59). …”
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Kefir induces cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis in HTLV-1-negative malignant T-lymphocytes by Rizk, Sandra

“…However, kefir did not affect the mRNA expression of metalloproteinases needed for the invasion of leukemic cell lines. …”
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The effects of Salvia Officinalis leave on hyperlipidemia, glycemia, ulcer, inflammation, and bactericidal activity. (c2006) by Alayan, Iman

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Enhanced glucose uptake in phenylbutyric acid-treated 3T3-L1 adipocytes by Fakhoury, H.

“…PARK7 protein expression increased with PBA. Treating differentiated adipocytes with PBA did not alter their differentiation status, but decreased the leptin to adiponectin ratio. …”
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Resource allocation and reallocation techniques in high-level synthesis with testability constraint by Harmanani, Haidar M.

“…High Level Synthesis emerged as a result; however, most solutions (1) were not optimal; (2) did not incorporate testing at the system level. …”
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Choosing between the formal and informal economy by Abi Aad, Amine A.

“…Using institutional economic theory, previous research shows that, at the country level, weak formal institutions create institutional voids that increase the transaction costs of using the formal economy. …”
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Seasonal variations of trace metal chemical forms in bed sediments of a karstic river in Lebanon by Korfali, Samira Ibrahim

“…Iron occurred mostly (> 77 sum of fractions) in the residual fraction compared with 6– 31 for pollutants; residual Cu and Zn showed a small increase in winter whereas Cd and Pb did not change. …”
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Association of genetic polymorphisms in FTO with Overweight/Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in the Lebanese Population by Maroun, Veronica

“…Background and aims: Overweight and obesity are a worldwide threat to health and quality of life as they increase the risk of many chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). …”
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Ethylmalonic aciduria by Youssef, N.

“…The urine organic acids indicated increased excretion of ethylmalonic, methylsuccinic, glutaric, and adipic acids. …”
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Investigating the impact of a novel active gap metering signalization strategy on driver behavior at highway merging sections by Nora Reinolsmann (16931784)

“…The results showed that the AGM effectively influenced the drivers’ behavior on the right stream lane. Drivers did gradually increase the distance to the lead vehicle, which resulted in optimal headways to merging on-ramp vehicles. …”

p53 Inhibition in Pancreatic Progenitors Enhances the Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells into Pancreatic β-Cells by Idil I. Aigha (14913774)

“…Inhibition of p53 using pifithrin-μ (PFT-μ) at the MPC stage resulted in a significant increase in the number of PDX1+/NKX6.1+ cells and a reduction in the number of CHGA+/NKX6.1− cells. …”

Characterization of the dynamic flow response in microfluidic devices by Elgack, Mohammed Elmahdi

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Assessment of Diabetes and its Risk Factors Knowledge in AUS students by Hannan, Hadia

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The Effects of Teacher-Turnover due to Short-term Contracts on Students’ Academic Performance: A Study among Selected Primary Private Schools in the United Arab Emirates by ACHAHBAR, HIND

“…Despite the efforts of the UAE government to address the increase of teacher-turnover in the region, their policy on employing expatriate teachers on short-term contracts has been central in increasing the teachers-turnover rate in the country. …”
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Efficient experimental design for uncertainty reduction in gene regulatory networks by Roozbeh Dehghannasiri (5725805)

“…MOCU quantifies the expected increase of cost resulting from uncertainty. The optimal experiment to be conducted first is the one which leads to the minimum expected remaining MOCU subsequent to the experiment. …”