Decreased Analgesic Requirements in Super Morbidly Versus Morbidly Obese Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy by Hamed Elgendy (14148846)

Increasing consultant-level staffing as a proportion of overall physician coverage improves emergency department length of stay targets by Dominic Jenkins (9983446)

“…<h3>Objectives</h3><p dir="ltr">One goal of Emergency Department (ED) operations is achieving an overall length of stay (LOS) that is less than four hours. The goal of the current study was to assess for association between increasing number of on-duty EM Consultants and LOS, while adjusting for overall (all-grade) on-duty emergency doctors’ numbers and other operational factors.…”

Challenges for road safety in fast developing societies: We need a vision zero to permanently reduce accidents and save life and health by facing fast increasing traffic by Kurt Bodewig (19794543)

Money and credit policies in small open less-developed economies by Shahin, Wassim Naim

“…he thesis addresses the issues of money and credit policies in small open less-developed economies. We examine the effects of varying monetary policy instruments on money and credit aggregates under a fixed exchange rate regime and a flexible regime when the nonborrowed base is the instrument of policy. …”
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Assessment of strategic management practice in private nonprofit hospitals in Greater Beirut. (c1996) by Baltagi, Dima Abdallah

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Aorta deformation linked to heart disease by Nature Research (16552612)

“…Normally this stiffening is associated with increased morbidity in patients with hypertension, diabetes, and end-stage kidney disease, but whether this is also true of HCM is still not clear. …”

Increasing efficiency of Atriums in Hot Arid Zones by Vethanayagam, Vijayantha

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Emergency ultrasound training needs review by Nature Research (16552612)

“…The relationship between number of scans and accuracy of diagnosis was less clear for other types of ultrasonography. Residents’ level of confidence also increased with increased years of experience for all types of sonography except for scanning first trimester pregnancies. …”

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

Multicast at Edge: An Edge Network Architecture for Service-Less Crowdsourced Live Video Multicast by Kamran Zahoor (16896354)

“…In this paper, we propose an overlay network architecture to augment eMBMS to address the limitations of the standard eMBMS architecture and enable service-less multicast for crowdsourced live video providers. …”

Why and when do family firms invest less in talent management? The suppressor effect of risk aversion by Basco, Rodrigo

“…Risk-averse family-owned firms tend to invest less in talent management practices when industry competition is weak. …”
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Nanoscale studies link amyloid maturity with polyglutamine diseases onset by F. S. Ruggeri (19738036)

“…<p dir="ltr">The presence of expanded poly-glutamine (polyQ) repeats in proteins is directly linked to the pathogenesis of several neurodegenerative diseases, including Huntington’s disease. …”

Link between Transformational Leadership and Organizational Efficiency & Employee Performance by ALALI, ABDULLA HASSAN

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Customers' need for uniqueness theory versus brand congruence theory by Abosag, Ibrahim

“…Social media brands may experience a lack of competitiveness and attraction due to the silent negative increase of customers' need for uniqueness (NFU). This is the result of a tension between the theory of brand congruence, that most brands endeavor to establish with their customers, and the theory of consumers' NFU, that many consumers aim to fulfill, that has not been previously examined. …”
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Meeting the need for online learning at the HCT: Investigating alternatives to BBVista by Al Mansoori, Aamna Esmaeel

“…This implies the need for flexibility, allowing for individual preferences and experience with ICT, but also the need for a set of overarching values, to respond to the changing role of the institution as a provider of information and the shift, for educators, from sources of knowledge to facilitators of collaborative information management. …”
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Potential of horizontal louvers in increased energy savings in a commercial building in Dubai by BORDAWEKAR, SANIYA

“…The dissertation creates a correlation link between the simulation results and changes in parameters. …”
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Performance and microbial community variations of anaerobic digesters under increasing tetracycline concentrations by Xiong, Yanghui

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GFRP-Reinforced Concrete Columns: State-of-the-Art, Behavior, and Research Needs by Elkafrawy, Mohamed

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A relational frame skills training intervention to increase general intelligence and scholastic aptitude by Grey, Ian M.

“…In Experiment 1, fifteen 11–12 year old children were exposed over several months to an intensive training intervention to improve their understanding of the relations Same, Opposite and More and Less. Significant increases in full scale IQ of around one standard deviation were recorded for each child. …”
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Additive manufacturing of polymer nanocomposites: Needs and challenges in materials, processes, and applications by Ans Al Rashid (14777050)