Exendin-4 promotes GSIS without increasing β-cell number through upregulation of glucose-sensing apparatus and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation machinery genes in hPSC-deriv... by Abdoulaye Diane (14152749)

“…</p> <p>Conclusion: Our data demonstrated for the first time in 3D differentiation of hPSC-derived β-cells that addition of Exendin-4 promotes GSIS through upregulation of both glucose-sensing apparatus and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation machinery genes without increasing β-cell number.…”

OSRA Grant Cycle 5 Public Reports : Project Title: Comprehensive Parenting Program to Enhance Preterm Infants’ Health and Development A Randomized Controlled Trial by Lama Charafeddine (6843536)

“…The primary aim focused on cognitive, motor, and language development, while secondary aims examined various factors, including time to full oral feeds, hospital stay duration, parental stress levels, and parenting behavior.…”

An Optimal Production Run For An Imperfect Production Process With Allowable Shortages And Time-Varying Fraction Defective Rate by Rahim, M.A.

“…The effects of an imperfect production process on the optimal production run by assuming that an elapsed time until the process shift is exponentially distributed have been studied. …”
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Lifetime prevalence, risk, and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders in Qatar's national mental health study by Salma Mawfek Khaled (14159013)

“…<h3>Objectives</h3><p dir="ltr">To estimate lifetime prevalence, risk, and treatment for mental disorders and their correlates in Qatar's general population for the first time.</p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">We conducted a national phone survey of 5,195 Qatari and Arab residents in Qatar (2019–2022) using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview Version 3.3 and estimated lifetime mood and anxiety defined diagnoses. …”

Ensemble-Guard IoT: A Lightweight Ensemble Model for Real-Time Attack Detection on Imbalanced Dataset by Muhammad Usama Tanveer (22225360)

“…<p dir="ltr">The rapid increase in the number of IoT devices has made ensuring robust real-time attack detection more critical than ever. …”

Theoretical and experimental investigations of vanadium pentoxide–based electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline media by Dima Abu Alhawa (21768260)

“…This was reflected experimentally through kinetically non-ideal alkaline electrochemical HER using Zn_0.4V_1.6O₅ whereby − 194 mV of overpotential was required to attain − 10 mA/cm² of current density, as opposed to pristine V₂O₅ which required 32% higher overpotential requirement at the same conditions. …”

From time-series to 2D images for building occupancy prediction using deep transfer learning by Aya Nabil Sayed (17317006)

“…The proposed scheme transforms multivariate time-series data into images for better encoding and extracting relevant features. …”

GIS-based spatiotemporal analysis for road traffic crashes; in support of sustainable transportation Planning by Semira, Mohammed

“…Road traffic crashes pose a significant challenge worldwide, necessitating increased efforts to reduce them and promote sustainable transport systems. …”
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Design and Evaluation of a Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI) to Reduce Sedentary Behavior at Work: Experimental Study by Tasnim Ismail (18418554)

“…</p><h3>Objective</h3><p dir="ltr">The objective of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of using personalized messages that include user information, user goals, daily routine, and the surrounding environment to increase the level of activity among employees. In this study, we hypothesize that sending context-aware motivational messages to workers in sedentary occupations after sitting for 40 minutes can break sedentary behavior and increase daily active time compared to static reminder messages.…”

Influence of hosting the world’s most popular football competition on Response and Transport Time of Ground Emergency Ambulances in Qatar by Reem Bassam Tluli (18505131)

“…Response and transport times were shortest during that period despite an increase in the population size. …”

The molecular mechanisms of apoptosis accompanied with the epigenetic regulation of the NY-ESO-1 antigen in non-small lung cancer cells treated with decitabine (5-aza-CdR) by Varghese P. Inchakalody (14557382)

“…These results reiterate the decisive role of 5-Aza-CdR in lung cancer treatment since it induces the epigenetic regulation of NY-ESO-1 antigen, inhibits cell proliferation, increases apoptosis, and decreases invasiveness.…”

Age, Disease Severity and Ethnicity Influence Humoral Responses in a Multi-Ethnic COVID-19 Cohort by Muneerah Smith (12542939)

“…As expected, patients with severe disease showed significantly higher antibody titers and interestingly also had significantly broader epitope coverage. A significant increase in antibody titer and epitope coverage was observed with increasing age, in both mild and severe disease, which is promising for vaccine efficacy in older individuals. …”

Economic Statistical Design Of (X)Over-Bar Control Charts For Systems With Gamma(Lambda, 2) In-Control Times by Al-Oraini, H.A.

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In-Person and Online Learning in Communicative Language Teaching Classes: Interaction Levels and Parents’ Perspectives by Jbarah, Lara

“…Moreover, 10 classroom observations were conducted, 5 of which were in an online setting and 5 in in-person ones. …”
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Does the CEO effect differ in times of crisis? Evidence from US and China during the global financial crisis by Kleindienst, Ingo

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Screen Time Soars and Vision Suffers: How School Closures During the Pandemic Affected Children and Adolescents’ Eyesight by Muna Abed Alah (18336771)

“…We interviewed 1546 parents of selected students, about 24% reported their children’s history of visual disturbances, primarily refractive errors. The mean screen time across the week increased significantly by 11.5 ± 11.6 h during school closures. …”

PFT: A Novel Time-Frequency Decomposition of BOLD fMRI Signals for Autism Spectrum Disorder Detection by Samir Brahim Belhaouari (9427347)

“…Our research proposes Progressive Fourier Transform (PFT), a novel time-frequency decomposition, together with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), as a preferred alternative to available ASD detection systems. …”

Biomolecular changes and subsequent time-dependent recovery in hippocampal tissue after experimental mild traumatic brain injury by Sebnem Garip Ustaoglu (18460611)

“…This study reports the time-dependent contextual and structural effects of TBI on hippocampal brain tissue. …”

Deciphering the In vitro Role of microRNAs miR-21-3p and miR-222-5p In the Regulation of Clostridioides difficile Flagellin-Induced Inflammation by Salman, Zeina

“…Western blot and pathway analyses demonstrated that miR-222-5p and miR-21-3p overexpression increased phosphorylation of p65, a key component of the NF-κB complex, while their knockdown reduced p65 phosphorylation. …”
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