Fixed Shading Scenarios to Optimize Lighting Performance and Energy Efficiency in Office Buildings Case Study of Dubai Design District by Hamad, Khadije

“…The annual energy consumption of the optimal scenario is reduced from 1670 MWh to 1532MWh in the Egg-crate scenario three, which is a high reduction of 138MWh per year. Moreover, daylighting analysis shows decreased average illuminance levels from 407.8 to 154.97 Lux, equivalent to a 60% reduction in December and June. …”
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Biodegradable polysaccharide grafted polyacrylamide inhibitor for corrosion in CO₂- saturated saline solution by Rem Jalab (11715205)

“…Nevertheless, the AGGPAM-inhibited solution exhibited a corrosion rate of 26.7 mils per year at 50 °C, which is still lower than that of blank at 25 °C. …”

Cancer among Arab Americans in the metropolitan Detroit area by Kulwicki, Anahid

“…Arab/Chaldean men had greater proportions of leukemia (29%), multiple myeloma (46%), liver (64%), kidney (33%), and urinary bladder (26%) cancers. …”
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Carbon dioxide insufflation during ERCP for reduction of postprocedure pain by Azar, Riad

“…Similarly, the incidence of any pain at 1 hour post-ERCP was higher with air than with CO2 (48% vs 28%, P Z .04). The mean increase in waist circumference was greater with air than with CO2 (2.1 cm vs 0.3 cm, P Z .003). …”
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Influence of natural gas composition on adsorption in calcite Nanopores: A DFT study by Elkhansa Elbashier (14152815)

“…The results of the simulation calculations showed that as the nanopore diameter decreases, the adsorption energy increases exponentially due to the geometry of the smallest pore that increases the affinity of the molecules to the surface. …”

Development of Modular DC-DC Converters for Low-Speed Electric Vehicles Fast Chargers by Mena ElMenshawy (18810244)

“…This permits reduced charging times, greater vehicle utility, and broader adoption of LS-EVs. …”

Qatari Genotype May Contribute to Complications in Type 2 Diabetes by Youssra Dakroury (9991407)

“…For patients with diabetes, hypertension (p<0.035) and retinopathy (p<0.016) were greater in the Q3 ancestry. Conclusion. These data suggest that the genotype may contribute to complication risk, as exemplified by the increase in hypertension and retinopathy in the Q3 ancestry, though the SLMAP allele was not implicated; however, diabetes prevalence did not differ between the four Qatari ancestries.…”

The Impact of Voluntary Recall on the Trust of Loyal and First-Time Consumers in a High Awareness Brand After a Functional Transgression by Valeria L M A Freundt (17541786)

“…Through an experimental study 2 (company’s response: passive strategy; voluntary product recall) × 2 (relationship: loyal; first-time) × between-subjects design, the findings indicate that after a high awareness brand transgression, loyal consumers perceive greater competence, integrity, and benevolence in the brand than first-time consumers. …”

Correction: The Impact of Voluntary Recall on the Trust of Loyal and First-Time Consumers in a High Awareness Brand After a Functional Transgression by Valeria L M A Freundt (17541786)

“…Through an experimental study 2 (company’s response: passive strategy; voluntary product recall) × 2 (relationship: loyal; first-time) × between-subjects design, the findings indicate that after a high awareness brand transgression, loyal consumers perceive greater competence, integrity, and benevolence in the brand than first-time consumers. …”

Postprandial lipaemia 10 and 34 hours after playing football: Does playing frequency affect the response? by Darren J. Paul (6905450)

“…<p dir="ltr">Elevated postprandial triglyceride (TG) is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular disease. The time window for the last bout beneficial effect on postprandial lipaemia after football play is unknown. …”

Impact of COVID-19 related home confinement measures on the lifestyle, body weight, and perceived glycemic control of diabetics by Muna Abed Alah (14779534)

“…We found a significant increase in the sitting/reclining, and screen times. …”

CFD Based Optimization and Design of a Feeding Tube Enhanced Cross Flow Heat Exchanger for Automotive Heat Transfer Systems by Navas, Mohammed Irfan

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How circular economy can reduce scope 3 carbon footprints: Lessons learned from FIFA world cup Qatar 2022 by Hana Yousef, Al Sholi

“…However, such events also leave significant negative impacts on the environment such as an increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the host and neighboring countries. …”
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Mitigating soil water deficit using organic waste compost and commercial water retainer: a comparative study under semiarid conditions by Hatem Zgallai (17792567)

“…<p dir="ltr">Semiarid regions have particularly been confronted with climate change effects reflected by the consistent decrease of rainfall and increase of evapotranspiration. …”

Transcriptome Profile Identifies Actin as an Essential Regulator of Cardiac Myosin Binding Protein C3 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in a Zebrafish Model by Sahar Isa Da’as (18288880)

“…These knockout zebrafish displayed significant morphological heart alterations related to a significant decrease in ventricular and atrial diameters at systolic and diastolic states at the larval stages. …”

Hydrothermal and irreversibility numerical analysis of helical coil energy storage tank with nano-encapsulated PCMs: A comprehensive study with magnetic filled, Soret/Dufour, and m... by Mohammed Azeez Alomari (20482592)

“…On the other hand, average values of Nusselt and Sherwood are decreased with the rise of the Hartmann number. Furthermore, Nusselt average and Sherwood’s average decrease by 21.4 % and 24.9 % respectively when Darcy’s number increases from 0.1 to 10^-4.…”

Effective non-intrusive load monitoring of buildings based on a novel multi-descriptor fusion with dimensionality reduction by Yassine Himeur (14158821)

“…This paper presents an efficient non-intrusive load monitoring framework that consists of the following main components: (i) a novel fusion of multiple time-domain features is proposed to extract appliance fingerprints; (ii) a dimensionality reduction scheme is introduced to be applied to the fused time-domain features, which relies on fuzzy-neighbors preserving analysis based QR-decomposition. …”

Competition vs cooperation: An agent based model for sustainable tomatoes’ import system by Sarah Namany (17268922)

“…Market dynamics represented by competitive and cooperative behaviors of the system's main players is one of the uncertainties that influence the availability and <u>affordability</u> of food products. …”

Development and Mechanical Performance of Sustainable Geopolymer Concrete by Zannerni, Ghina M.

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Regional variations in incidence of surgical site infection and associated risk factors in women undergoing cesarean section: A systematic review and Meta-Analysis by Nazmul, Islam

“…Subgroup and sensitivity analyses and meta-regression examined SSI-related heterogeneity. Main results49 cohort studies with 271,954 participants met the inclusion criteria. …”
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