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.…”

Leveling the curve of Spee using different sized archwires: a randomized clinical trial of blood flow changes by Raidan Ba-Hattab (17773230)

“…Afterwards, the BF values started to increase until the baseline values were almost restored within 1 week. …”

Shoulder complaints more likely in volleyball players with a thickened bursa or supraspinatus tendon neovessels by Christopher Skazalski (14779618)

“…Outside hitters and opposites were 12.2-fold more likely to develop complaints, and greater shoulder ER ROM increased risk by 8% for each additional degree. …”

Surgical Strategies for Synchronous Colorectal Liver Metastases in 156 Consecutive Patients by Bouquet, Antoine

“…Median numbers of CLMs per patient were 1 in the combined, 3 in the classic, and 4 in the reverse strategy group (p = 0.01 classic vs reverse; p < 0.001 reverse vs combined). …”
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Optimisation of PV Cleaning Practices: Comparison Between Performance Based and Periodic Based Approaches by ALHAJERI, RASHED ABDULLA

“…Periodic based automatic cleaning showed decreases in improvement of between 164.64% to 245.34%. …”
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Supplementation of retrobulbar block with clonidine in vitreoretinal surgery by Abi Nader, Elie

“…The median number of postoperative analgesic requests per patient during the first 24 hours was higher in the control group than the clonidine group [2 (0-3) vs. 1 (0-3); P < 0.001]. …”
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Raising awareness of menopause in Iran by Nature Research (16552612)

“…Women with one or two children had greater awareness than those with more than four. …”

NON-WORK-RELATED FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE WORK COMMITMENT OF GENERATION Y UAE NATIONALS by ALHEFEITI, KHOLOUD SAEED

“…More so, the fact that neighbours appreciate roles that Generation Y play in the society increases commitment. Lastly, religiosity leads to greater commitment among Genera-tion Y to their organisations especially if the work matches their religious values. …”
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Patients’ Perspectives About Factors Affecting Their Use of Electronic Personal Health Records in England: Qualitative Analysis by Alaa Abd-Alrazaq (17430900)

“…</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p dir="ltr">The challenges and concerns that impede the use of Patient Online seem to be of greater importance than the facilitators that encourage its use. …”

Validation of Polygenic Risk Scores for Coronary Heart Disease in a Middle Eastern Cohort Using Whole Genome Sequencing by Mohamad Saad (214545)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">The majority of PRSs performed well; odds ratio (OR) per 1 SD increase (OR1sd) was highest for PGS000337 (OR1sd=1.81, 95% CI [1.66–1.98], <i>P</i>=3.07×10−41). …”

COPE for adolescent Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a brief cognitive–behavioral skill-building intervention to improve quality of life and promote positive mental health by Doumit, Rita

“…Lebanon has the highest per-capita concentration of refugees worldwide. …”
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The global, regional, and national burden of oesophageal cancer and its attributable risk factors in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global... by Farin Kamangar (63964)

“…Oesophageal cancer caused 9·78 million (9·53–10·03) DALYs, with an age-standardised rate of 120 (117–123) per 100 000 population. Between 1990 and 2017, age-standardised incidence decreased by 22·0% (18·6–25·2), mortality decreased by 29·0% (25·8–32·0), and DALYs decreased by 33·4% (30·4–36·1) globally. …”

The Impact of Board Gender Diversity on European Firms’ Performance: The Moderating Role of Liquidity by Robert Gharios (21393863)

“…Our findings indicate that an increased representation of women on the board of directors is associated with greater independence among board members and a higher number of board members being hired. …”

Outcomes of drain versus no drain in total knee arthroplasty: a retrospective cohort study by Anas Albasha (17765964)

“…</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p dir="ltr">This study found that patients who received a drain had longer hospital stays and greater blood loss and transfusion rates compared to those who did not. …”

Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of fall-related injuries: a retrospective study by Ahammed Mekkodathil (4578838)

“…</p> <h2>Results</h2> <p>A total of 4040 patients with fall-related injuries were identified in the study duration which corresponds to the rate of 2.34 per 10,000 population. Although the rate of fall-related injuries decreased over the years, the average number of patients per year remained high accounting for 32% of the hospitalized patients with moderate to severe injuries. …”

An efficient failure-resilient mutual exclusion algorithm for distributed systems leveraging a novel zero-message overlay structure by Mouna Rabhi (17086969)

“…., node queue dimension, number of exchanged messages, and number of disconnected nodes) indicate a graceful degradation in performance with decreasing number of functioning nodes. For instance, for 4,096 nodes organized in a logical tree of arity 4 and with 4 physical nodes for logical node, a negligible number of nodes is disconnected from the tree after 250 epochs when the per-node per-epoch failure probability is p f ≤ 0 . 0008 . …”

Effect of Surgical Margin Status on Survival and Site of Recurrence After Hepatic Resection for Colorectal Metastases by Pawlik, Timothy

“…Adverse preoperative biologic factors including tumor number greater than 3 (P = 0.01) and a preoperative CEA level greater than 200 ng/mL (P = 0.04) were associated with an increased risk of positive surgical margin. …”
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MRP4 by Abi-Gerges, Aniella

“…Application of ISO (1nM) induced a similar increase in cAMP level in WT and MRP4 KO mice (YFP/CFP: 4.4 ± 0.15 in WT vs 4.1 ± 0.44 in KO cells), whereas cAMP signal was greater in MRP4 KO compared to WT mice after PDE inhibition by IBMX (ISO 1nM + IBMX 300µM: 8.1 ± 0.6 in WT vs 11.8 ± 0.62 in KO cells; p<0.01). …”
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The Islamist groups in Tripoli. (c2008) by Abbas, Nivine H.

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Integration of Smart Sensors in Buildings to achieve Energy Efficiency in Hot and Humid Climate by JABR, BILAL SUDQI SAEED

“…It is also estimated that this utilization would grow to above 50% by 2030 because of the fast and consistent growth in economic activity and increase in population around the world. People tend to spend the greater part of their time in indoor spaces e.g., commercial and residential buildings. …”
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