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.…”

Fabrication of titanium dioxide nanomaterial for implantable highly flexible composite bioelectrode for biosensing applications by Omnia Mohamed (15862753)

“…The fabricated electrodes appeared to have a smooth surface, as seen in the scanning electron microscope micrographs, compared with electrodes in the literature. Long-time stability tests revealed an overall decrease in impedance and an increase in the charge capacity up to 475% of the initial value within three weeks.…”

ANN Based Mechanistic Force Model for Face by Khattab, Amal

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Over-Pressure Suppresses Ultrasonic-Induced Drug Uptake by Stringham, S. Briant

“…Data also showed a linear increase in membrane permeability with respect to insonation time and intensity. …”
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The role of collaborative knowledge building in the co-creation of artifacts: influencing factors and propositions by Mariano, Stefania

“…Research limitations – This study has limitations related to scope of contribution, covered time span (17 years), and restrictions in journal subscriptions. …”
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Effect of pH, ultrasound frequency and power density on the release of calcein from stealth liposomes by Ahmed, Salma E.

“…For the same frequency, release usually increased with increasing power densities. Additionally, for release at 20 kHz, a comparison was done for PEGylated and non-PEGylated liposomes, at two pH values: 5.2 and 7.4. …”
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Developing a Stochastic Model to Predict Cost Overrun due to the Causes of Projects Delay in Oil Fields Construction Industry by ALKHOORI, KHALID ABDUL MAJEED

“…Finally, the author recommended some areas of the current study that can be developed such as mapping the causes of projects delay to other impacts, such as time overrun success criteria and to increase the number of projects delay in the regression model.…”
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THE UTILIZATION OF DIGITAL ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES IN K-12 EDUCATION by ALAKALEEK, WAFAA SULEMAN IRSHED

“…Similarly, the current study elucidates some of the obstacles that might hamper the prosperity of digital assessments, such as physical distances between students and instructors, as well as insufficient time for data collection regarding student evaluations.…”
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Bank-Specific and Macroeconomic Determinants of Islamic Banks Profitability: The Case of GCC Countries by Al Malkawie, Dia'

“…These findings provide valuable policy implications which may assist Islamic banks operating in the GCC region to improve their performance and increase their profitability.…”
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Effectiveness of Career Guidance and Counselling: A Study among Higher Education Emirati Female Students in Northern Emirates by Al Rasbi, Sumayya

“…Implications: Overall, all recommendations indicate the need to increase the awareness of the importance of the role of the career counsellor and students need to refer to their campus career counsellor for any career major issues. …”
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A Novel Hadoop Security Model for Addressing Malicious Collusive Workers by M. Sauber, Amr

“…With the daily increase of data production and collection, Hadoop is a platform for processing big data on a distributed system. …”
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Improving the effectiveness of public sector organizations to manage change by Iqbal, Arqam

“…These include prioritization issues, timing of the change activities, time allotted to the change activities and issues pertaining to monitoring and feedback of change. …”
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The Effect of Auditor Characteristics on the Quality of Segment Disclosures of Diversified Firms by Elkelani, Sarah Ahmed

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Cigarette smoke extract induces p38-mediated expression and ROS/rho-mediated translocation of alpha 2C adrenoceptor in human microvascular smooth muscle cells by Manal M. Fardoun (22303813)

“…Here, we show that cigarette smoke extract (CSE) upregulates the expression of α₂_C-AR in a concentration- and time-dependent manner in VSMCs extracted from human dermal arterioles. …”

Exploring the Use of E-Portfolios in Madares Al-Ghad Schools in the United Arab Emirates by Tabib, Faiza

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Targeting potential arginine auxotrophy in glioblastoma (GBM) cells using human recombinant arginase I (CO)-PEG 5000 [HuArgl (Co)-PEG5000]. (c2013) by Khoury, Oula

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Agent Based Modeling to Optimize Supermarkets Spatial Dimensions by NASIF, MAJD

“…It is the situation where the shoppers feel that the supermarket is overloaded with people at certain times. We solved this problem by providing an optimal area range for the supermarket where we reduced the crowding levels dramatically, while avoiding unnecessary increase in space dimensions. …”
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Roles of RhoA, RhoC and RhoG in Secretion of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) by Astrocytoma Cells and Angiogenesis in Vascular Endothelial Cells. (c2015) by Fakih, Amira K.

“…As the tumor size increases, cancer cells stimulate neighboring vascular endothelial cells to proliferate and form new blood vessels in order to irrigate the tumor. …”
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Assessing additional fuel consumption from cabin thermal comfort and auxiliary needs on the worldwide harmonized light vehicles test cycle by Mansour, Charbel

“…Regulatory drive cycles, defined as specific time-speed patterns, are used to measure levels of fuel consumption and emissions. …”
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Lean management adoption level in middle eastern manufacturing facilities by El-Khalil, Raed

“…In addition, respondents have indicated that cost conversion reduction, productivity increase, and inventory reduction are the three main drivers of lean implementation…”
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