Population Reference Values for Serum Methylmalonic Acid Concentrations and Its Relationship with Age, Sex, Race-Ethnicity, Supplement Use, Kidney Function and Serum Vitamin B12 in... by Vijay Ganji (8710491)

“…Geometric mean MMA was ≈22.3% higher in non-Hispanic white compared to non-Hispanic black (141.2 vs. 115.5 nmol/L) and was ≈62.7% higher in >70 years old persons compared to 21–30 years old persons (196.9 vs. 121.0 nmol/L). …”

The Impact of Interprofessional Immersive Simulation-Based Education on Learning Outcomes and Perceived Competence and Practice in Specialty and Sub-specialty Critical Care Courses by Mona Farah (18466432)

“…High levels of critical care workload and complexity can increase the likelihood of mistakes and practice errors. …”

Roadside observational surveys of restraint use by young children in Qatar: Initial results and recommendations by Shahnaz Malik (19774584)

“…This is the first observational study in Qatar that measures child restraint rates in children younger than 5. Less than half of these children are traveling safely. …”

Observations on Food Consumption Behaviors During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Oman by Tarek Ben Hassen (15742605)

“…Indeed, the paper findings indicated (i) a shift to healthier diets, as shown by the fact that 45.5% of the participants increased their intake of fruits and vegetables, 42.4% ate more healthy foods, and 53.1% reduced their intake of unhealthy foods; (ii) an increase in the consumption of local products, owing to food safety concerns, with 25.8% of the cohort stating that they purchase more local food items; (iii) a shift in grocery shopping behaviors, especially with 28.1% of the participants buying more groceries online; (iv) the absence of panic buying in Oman, since 62.36% of the participants said they did not stockpile food items; and (v) a reduction of food waste. …”

Co-doped zigzag graphene nanoribbon based gas sensor for sensitive detection of H₂S: DFT study by Ehab Salih (17075206)

“…The adsorption energy (E_ads) of H₂S/Zn-ZGNR and H₂S/Cu-ZGNR systems were found to be −2.237 and −1.129 eV, respectively. For the case of H₂S/Cu/Zn-ZGNR, the adsorption energy (E_ads) and charge transfer (q) reflected an outstanding increase to −7.043 eV and −0.311 e, respectively, when compared with both pristine and doped systems: ZGNR, Zn-ZGNR, and Cu-ZGNR. …”

Vectors and Vector-borne diseases in Qatar: epidemiology and key challenges by Devendra Bansal (255958)

“…The mean incidence of malaria and dengue was estimated to be 13.5/100,000 and 0.7/100,000 population, respectively. …”

Bond Stress-Slip Models and Behavior of Aluminum Alloys-Concrete Interface by Mirghani, Ahmed

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Predicting Compression Modes and Split Decisions for HEVC Video Coding Using Machine Learning Techniques by Hassan, Mahitab Alaaeldin

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Exploring Nursing Education Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Students with Disabilities Inclusion in Nursing Education Programs in the United Arab Emirates: Issues and Challenges by DARWISH, AMANI ABDUL RAZZAK

“…Thematic analysis of the interviews with 7 nursing education stakeholders revealed the following barriers to the inclusion of nursing students with disabilities: 1) Nature of Disability 2) Knowledge of Nursing Faculty 3) Attitudes 4) Communication 5) Resources 6) Nursing Program Requirements 7) Admission and Support Policies 8) Disability Outreach Activities. …”
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Photovoltaic Facades: Key to the Concept of Zero Energy Buildings by KAMPADAM, MATHEW GEORGE

“…Tilted façade: Good idea to increase yield while paying attention to overheating  ii. …”
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Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: a comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Natalia V, Bhattacharjee

“…The proportion of livebirths occurring in sub-Saharan Africa was forecast to increase to more than half of the world's livebirths in 2100, to 41·3% (39·6–43·1) in 2050 and 54·3% (47·1–59·5) in 2100. …”
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Systemic Chemotherapy and Two-Stage Hepatectomy for Extensive Bilateral Colorectal Liver Metastases by Chun, Yun Shin

“…PVE was performed in 18 group I and 12 group II patients without increase in morbidity. For group I, group II first stage, and group II second stage, respectively, morbidity (24%, 24%, 43%), median hospital stay (7 days, 6 days, 6.5 days) and 30 days postoperative mortality (2%, 0%, 0%) were not significantly different (P = NS). …”
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Comparison of the clinical outcomes of non-invasive ventilation by helmet vs facemask in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome by Mohamad Y. Khatib (11659459)

“…The primary and secondary outcomes will be measured by the number of patients requiring endotracheal intubation after application of helmet device, Improvement of oxygenation defined as PaO2/FiO2 ≥ 200 or increase from baseline by 100, duration of mechanical ventilation via an endotracheal tube, intensive care unit length of stay, death from any cause during hospitalization at the time of enrolment, need for proning during the hospital stay, intensive care unit mortality, and the degree to which overt adverse effects of a drug can be tolerated by a patient including feeding tolerance.…”

Turkronicles: diachronic resources for the fast evolving Turkish language by Togay Yazar (22828175)

“…Specifically, we show that vocabulary divergence increases over time, as expected. Due to such significant vocabulary change in Turkish over time, similarity between the periods 1920–1929 and 2010–2019 is 57%. …”

Viscosity and Critical Properties of n-Decane, n-Pentadecane and n-Eicosane using Molecular Simulation by Samad, Ibrar Ul

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Pavement Crack Assessment Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Deep Learning Model by Al Adab, Maryam

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Synthesis and evaluation of novel Cu-based adsorbent-containing catalysts for CO₂ hydrogenation to methanol and value-added products by Rim Ismail (18192922)

“…The best performing catalyst was further promoted using 0.5 wt% Rh promoter which improved both methanol selectivity and space time yield to 23.2% and 0.08 g_MeOHg_cat⁻¹h⁻¹, respectively. …”

Verum- versus Sham-Acupuncture on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in Animal Models: A Preclinical Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Fei-Yi Zhao (10887219)

“…The results of the meta-analysis indicated that verum-acupuncture could reduce the escape latency (MD = −12.90, 95% CI (−17.08, −8.71), <em>p</em><0.001) and increase the time spent in the original platform quadrant (MD = 7.28, 95% CI (4.23, 10.33), <em>p</em><0.001) and frequency of the crossing former platform (MD = 2.01, 95% CI (1.53, 2.50), <em>p</em><0.001) compared with the sham-acupuncture. …”

TB-CXRNet: Tuberculosis and Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Detection Technique Using Chest X-ray Images by Tawsifur Rahman (14150523)

“…However, it is difficult to identify TB from CXR images in the early stage, which leads to time-consuming and expensive treatments. Moreover, due to the increase of drug-resistant tuberculosis, the disease becomes more challenging in recent years. …”

Adaptive Secure Pipeline for Attacks Detection in Networks with set of Distribution Hosts by ALSHAMSI, SUROUR

“…So far none addresses the use of Threat Intelligence (IT) data in Ensemble Learning algorithms to improve the detection process, nor does it work as a function of time, that is, taking into account what happens on the network in a limited time interval. …”
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