An Evaluation of Short-Term Effects of Different Soil Management Systems on Soil Physical, Structural and Hydraulic Properties and an Estimation and Optimization of Water Infiltrat... by Merheb, Caroline

“…Nevertheless, implementing all management systems to determine water infiltration capacities for a specific site can be costly and time-consuming. Hence, the need for a mathematical model that computes infiltration into agricultural soils is necessary. …”
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Risk of post-ERCP pancreatitis with placement of self-expandable metallic stents by Azar, Riad R.

“…Patients: This study involved patients undergoing ERCP for malignant biliary obstruction between January 2005 and October 2008. Intervention: First-time placement of a SEMS or PS for biliary decompression. …”
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Comparative Effect of Sodium Butyrate and Sodium Propionate on Proliferation, Cell Cycle and Apoptosis in Ovarian Cancer Cells by Danaf, Daniella

“…Our results revealed that NaB and NaP inhibit proliferation and impaired spheroid formation of SKOV-3 and PA-1 cells in a dose- and time-dependent manner. Moreover, both NaB and NaP induced cell cycle arrest at the G2/M phase, which was further supported by the downregulation of cyclin A2 and B1. …”
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Using fuzzy reasoning to improve redundancy elimination for data deduplication in connected environments by Yakhni, Sylvana

“…It then applies pattern codes and fuzzy reasoning to detect duplicates at both the edge level and the sink level of the network. This reduces the time required to hard-code the deduplication process, while adapting to the domain expert’s needs for different data sources and applications. …”
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In vitro regulation of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa using synthetic autoinducers By Hrag Dilabazian A thesis by Dilabazian, Hrag

“…The inducing ability of OdDHL and BHL on the lasB gene was tested under different conditions: by increasing cell density or manipulating the concentration of or time of exposure to autoinducers, revealed that induction was not possible in elastase negative strains and had no detectable effect on the elastase positive strains. …”
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Breakdown of perineal laceration repair after vaginal delivery by JAllad, Karl

“…OR, 4.0; 95% CI, 1.1–15.7), presence of episiotomy at time of delivery (adj. OR, 11.1; 95% CI, 2.9–48.8), operative delivery (adj. …”
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Urban Sustainability and Livability: An Analysis of Doha’s Urban-form and Possible Mitigation Strategies by Soud Al-Thani (18174334)

“…Consequently, this urban form has resulted in long and frequent commutes for individuals and families, increasing the number of vehicles in traffic almost every hour of every day, traffic congestion, high transportation-related CO₂ emissions, additional expenses, and loss of quality family time, among several other environmental, social, and economic sustainability impacts. …”

Cadmium-induced endothelial dysfunction mediated by asymmetric dimethylarginine by Hamda A. Al-Naemi (14151675)

“…<p dir="ltr">Cadmium (Cd) is a naturally occurring toxic heavy metal with no known essential biological functions. Exposure to Cd increases the risk of cardiovascular disease by disrupting vascular homeostasis at the endothelium. …”

Analysis of Qatar's electricity landscape: Insights from load profiling, clustering, and policy recommendations by Haya Monawwar (14151168)

“…It was found that among all the sectors there were only two usage periods of the same time. There is naturally a strong correlation between temperature and electricity consumption throughout the sectors. …”

Road Accidents In Bangalore: A Report by Sanjeev Kumar (279609)

“…The absolute number of road accidents has also been growing at an alarming rate which reflects concomitant investment in road safety strategies coupled with rapid rate of motorisation. At the same time, there is lacuna in the whole system of reporting, recording and analysing road traffic crashes. …”

Video surveillance using deep transfer learning and deep domain adaptation: Towards better generalization by Yassine Himeur (14158821)

“…However, they might not perform as expected, take much time in training, or not have enough input data to generalize well. …”

Acute intense fatigue does not modify the effect of EVA and TPU custom foot orthoses on running mechanics, running economy and perceived comfort by Ken Van Alsenoy (14150559)

“…Two-way repeated measures ANOVA [condition (CON, EVA, and TPU) × fatigue (fresh and fatigued)] were conducted. Flight time shortened (P = 0.026), peak braking (P = 0.016) and push-off (P = 0.032) forces decreased and vertical stiffness increased (P = 0.014) from before to after the repeated-sprint exercise, independent of footwear condition. …”

Cyberbullying Detection and Abuser Profile Identification on Social Media for Roman Urdu by Ayesha Atif (22155133)

“…Furthermore, we present temporal abusive tweet probability analysis method to provide a nuanced analysis of the number of bullying and non-bullying tweets sent by individuals within a specific time interval. To evaluate the performance, we compare the GRU-based approach with other machine learning models. …”

Indoor Air Quality in Critical Indoor Environments: A Review Paper by Ashraf Chamseddine (22193767)

“…<p dir="ltr">Indoor air quality (IAQ) plays a critical role in public health, particularly in environments where individuals spend prolonged periods of time indoors, and this become a key consideration to researchers and health practitioners. …”

EEG Signal Processing for Medical Diagnosis, Healthcare, and Monitoring: A Comprehensive Review by Nisreen Said Amer (17984077)

“…This is because EEG visual analysis can be complex and time-consuming, as it mostly involves high dimensions and consists of large datasets. …”

A High‐Performance MPPT Solution for Solar DC Microgrids: Leveraging the Hippopotamus Algorithm for Greater Efficiency and Stability by Debabrata Mazumdar (18560506)

“…As per stability concerns, the proposed HA‐based MPPT approach attains minimal settling time and gives steady‐state stable output power to its load in both partial shading, temperature fluctuation and steady‐state conditions. …”

Fuzzy Logic Adaptive Crow Search Algorithm for MPPT of a Partially Shaded Photovoltaic System by Mohamed Ali Zeddini (22047920)

“…Additionally, the proposed FL-CSA-based MPPT strategy reduces the convergence time by an average of 42%, 63% and 61%, respectively, in comparison to the CCSA, the CPSO and the P&O MPPT methods.…”

Tailored nanofiber composites for a flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator: Poly(vinylidene fluoride) with BaTiO₃/NiFe₂O₄ by Hemalatha Parangusan (6556133)

“…An excellent alternative is a self-sufficient, adaptable piezoelectric energy harvester, easily integrated with small electronics to generate real-time, sustained energy. This study develops a piezoelectric nanogenerator (PENG) by uniformly drawing spun membranes containing 2 wt% of barium titanate (BaTiO₃) and nickel ferrite (NiFe₂O₄). …”

Sustainable Urban Regeneration of Blighted Neighborhoods: The Case of Al Ghanim Neighborhood, Doha, Qatar by Victoria Maruanova Mareeva (18877591)

“…<p dir="ltr">At a time when urban expansion and regeneration are being prioritized, many cities are undergoing significant widespread urban decay. …”

Prevalence of anxiety, sleep bruxism and temporomandibular disorders during COVID-19 in Qatari children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study by H. Nazzal (14152233)

“…<h3>Purpose</h3><p dir="ltr">Understanding the impact of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic social restrictions on the lives of children and adolescents is of utmost importance to enable timely diagnosis and treatment. Therefore, the aim of this study was to explore the prevalence of anxiety, sleep bruxism, temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and change in dietary and brushing habits and their association with COVID-19 social restrictions.…”