Risk of Malignancy in Indeterminate Liver Nodules Among Patients with Cirrhosis: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Yousef Yahia (19756989)

“…</p><h3>Conclusion</h3><p dir="ltr">Our findings show a higher incidence of HCC in patients with indeterminate liver nodules, increasing over time and reaching 30% at seven years. …”

Old subjects with sepsis in the emergency department: trend analysis of case fatality rate by Andrea Fabbri (356760)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">Two thousand four hundred ninety-two subjects were included. Over time the incidental admission rate (no. of sepsis-related admissions per 100 total admissions) increased from 4.1% (2009–2010) to 5.4% (2015–2016); P < 0.001, accompanied by a reduced CFR (from 38.0 to 18.4%; P < 0.001). …”

Applying morpho-emergent theory to the evolution of public buildings: new design strategies for the building envelopes by Jaheen, Noha

“…The versatility and vicissitudes of nature highlight survival abilities as a main feature of the adaptation and development of organisms through time. Concurrent environmental hazards and the increasing size of construction projectshasraised the importance of buildings in terms of creating healthy conditions for users. …”
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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. …”

Crunching the numbers of food poisoning in Qatar by Nature Research (16552612)

“…The trend was generally decreasing during the investigated time period, which can be attributed to improvements in the food chain and sanitation in the country, they say.…”

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. …”