Trends and levels of the global, regional, and national burden of appendicitis between 1990 and 2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Letourneau, Ian D

“…Although the global age-standardised incidence rate of appendicitis has steadily decreased between 1990 and 2021, almost half of GBD regions saw an increase of greater than 10% in their age-standardised incidence rates. …”
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Competition, regulation, and systemic risk in dual banking systems by Indria Ernaningsih (17871056)

“…Our results also reveal a non-linear relationship between competition and systemic risk. Specifically, greater competition leads to increased systemic stability, but beyond a certain threshold, higher competition exacerbates banks' systemic risk. …”

Communication Network for Ultrasonic Acoustic Water Leakage Detectors by Awwad, Ameen

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Buckling Analysis of Functionally Graded Materials (FGM) Thin Plates with Various Circular Cutout Arrangements by Alashkar, Adnan

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Impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on lifestyle behaviors and their association with personality among adults in Qatar: A cross-sectional study by Tamara Al-Abdi (8710488)

“…The overall MD adherence decreased during lockdown (5.9 vs. 6.1, p < 0.001). …”

Dynamic Change in Insulin Resistance Induced by Free Fatty Acids Is Unchanged Though Insulin Sensitivity Improves Following Endurance Exercise in PCOS by Myint Myint Aye (6404327)

“…The M value was significantly less in PCOS compared to controls for both saline (p < 0.01) and lipid (p < 0.05). …”

Hemodynamics of small aneurysm pairs at the internal carotid artery by Jou, Liang-Der

“…The maximum wall shear stress increases for serial aneurysms, but decreases for parallel aneurysms. …”
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1,2,4-Trimethylbenzene Transformation Reaction Compared With Its Transalkylation Reaction With Toluene Over USY Zeolite by Al-Khattaf, H

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Brain Connectivity Analysis Under Semantic Vigilance and Enhanced Mental States by Yahya, Fares

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Investigation of an integrated hydrogen production system based on nuclear and renewable energy sources: a new approach for sustainable hydrogen production via copper–chlorine ther... by Orhan, Mehmet Fatih

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Enhanced mechanical and corrosion protection properties of pulse electrodeposited NiP-ZrO₂ nanocomposite coatings by Mostafa H. Sliem (6316958)

“…Similarly, the electrochemical results show a gradual increase in corrosion protection behavior of the NiP-ZrO₂ coatings with increasing ZONP concentration, reaching an eventual value ~5.8 kΩ cm⁻² at NiP-1.0 ZrO₂ coating composition, which is six times greater than the pure NiP coatings. …”

Examining Drinking Water Preferences among University Students: A Comparative Assessment by Razi Mahmood (21225092)

“…<p dir="ltr">In recent years, there has been a clear increase in bottled water consumption globally, which has led to significant health and environmental concerns. …”

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

“…The research work carried out, in relation to attack detection ensemble learning, mainly aims to increase the performance of machine learning algorithms by combining their results. …”
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Realizing opportunities: the influence of FinTech on the success of MENA banks by Bashar Abukhalaf (21488780)

“…Our results suggest that greater FinTech inclusion in banks increases profitability, with larger banks, adequate capital banks, and banks with larger market share all expected to perform better. …”

Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 by Joan B Soriano (6458528)

“…Deaths due to chronic respiratory diseases numbered 3 914 196 (95% UI 3 790 578–4 044 819) in 2017, an increase of 18·0% since 1990, while total DALYs increased by 13·3%. …”

Total and segmental liver volume variations by Abdalla, Eddie

“…Bisegment II+III contributed less than 20% of TLV in more than 75% of patients and the left liver contributed 25% or less of TLV in more than 10% of patients. …”
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Effects of visual field impairment on driving by Jan Andersson (218600)

“…Reaction time for double stimuli trials was 15% longer (1,68s vs. 1.46s) and hit rate was 27% less (69% vs. 88%). When the results from a secondary trial for drivers visual impairments were compared the normal sighted drivers’ first try the differences decreased but were still statistical significant. …”

Wild carrot pentane-based fractions suppress proliferation of human HaCaT keratinocytes and protect against chemically-induced skin cancer by Shebaby, Wassim N.

“…Results All fractions exhibited significant cytotoxicity, with HaCaT cells being 2.4–3 times less sensitive than HaCaT-ras A5 (benign tumorigenic), and HaCaT-ras II4 (malignant) cells. …”
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Application of Fe₃O₄ magnetite nanoparticles grafted in silica (SiO₂) for oil recovery from oil in water emulsions by Wamda Faisal Elmobarak (17058024)

“…Demulsification process best fits the combined Langmuir-Freundlich (L-F) isotherm with highest adsorption capacity (Q_max) of 186.0 ± 5 mg_oil/g_MD compared to 86.0 ± 5 mg_oil/g_MD for Fe₃O₄, which is 1.1 folds greater than Q_max reported in the literature for other demulsifiers.…”

A 5-year trend in the use of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 inhibitors and other oral antidiabetic drugs in a Middle Eastern country by Nancy Zaghloul (14147865)

“…The trend among SGLT2is suggests greater preference for empagliflozin over dapagliflozin.…”