Holistic Transitional Approach of Humanitarian Shelters Through The Implementation of Adaptable Design Strategies. by ALSHALABI, WASEEM

“…The issue of forcibly displaced portions of a population has become an emerging global trend that is driven by significantly increased numbers of displaced people. …”
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Macular Buckling for Myopic Traction Maculopathy: A Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Hashem Abu Serhan (15993651)

“…Axial length showed consistent reductions, with a mean long-term reduction of 2.88 mm (95% CI: 2.54-3.21). …”

Acquiring firms' stock returns by Raad, Elias

“…Results indicate that stockholders of mergers financed with stocks suffer significant losses. These losses are larger when management ownership is low and smaller in mergers that resulted in acquiring firm leverage decreases. …”
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Renal Function Decline in Recipients and Donors of Kidney Grafts by Bahous, Sola Aoun

“…The glomerular filtration rate was estimated using the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) equation and the annualized change was determined. Results: Decline in renal function was estimated at 1-year post-transplantation and annually thereafter (median follow-up 8 years, range 3.6-18.3), as the mean of the annualized decrease in the glomerular filtration rate. …”
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Assessment of treatment burden and its impact on quality of life in dialysis-dependent and pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease patients by Asmaa Al-mansouri (16931739)

“…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">The management of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and its complications places a significant burden on patients, resulting in impairment of their health-related quality of life (HR-QOL). …”

Aerosol Optical Thickness over Large Urban Environments of the Arabian Peninsula—Speciation, Variability, and Distributions by Dillan Raymond Roshan (18094867)

“…An increase in AOT values between 2005 and 2009 is attributed to increased dust generation from the Sahel region in Northern Africa, and the Fertile Crescent (Syria, Iraq, Jordan) due to an extended dry period. Reductions in local urban emissions are still considered to be efficient measures to improve air quality in these population centers despite the significant contribution of desert dust in the total particulate matter levels in the region.…”

Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of chewing tobacco use in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Diseas... by Parkes J Kendrick (9714851)

“…Although global age-standardised prevalence of smoking tobacco use decreased significantly between 1990 and 2019 (annualised rate of change: –1·21% [–1·26 to –1·16]), similar progress was not observed for chewing tobacco (0·46% [0·13 to 0·79]). …”

An Evaluation of Short-Term Effects of Different Soil Management Systems on Soil Physical, Structural and Hydraulic Properties and an Estimation and Optimization of Water Infiltrat... by Merheb, Caroline

“…As this stands, this study attempt to solve three questions: (1) what are the changes and their significance that the soil management systems impose on soil properties? …”
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The distribution of toxic sources in Louisiana by Djoundourian, Salpie Sarkis

“…The study also tests whether changes in potential exposure to risks differ significantly across socioeconomic groups. …”
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Managing the safety of young novice drivers through safer vehicle purchase by Jennifer Oxley (10057811)

“…<p dir="ltr">Significant reductions in road trauma among young drivers could be achieved if they drove safer vehicles. …”

The Potential of integrating PV in the Heritage Sites Case Study of Dubai Museum by Faraj, Anwer Hadi

“…The surveys found that the proposals are in harmony with the places where to be installed and the public acceptance is significantly correlated with their awareness about the environment impact of utilizing the solar energy. …”
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Host Genetic Variants Potentially Associated With SARS-CoV-2: A Multi-Population Analysis by Maria K. Smatti (4675852)

“…Analysis of Qatari genomes revealed significantly lower AF of risk variants linked to SARS-CoV-1 severity (CCL2, MBL, CCL5, AHSG, and IL4) compared to that of 1000Genome and/or the EAS population (up to 25-fold change). …”

Engineering the Surface and Mechanical Properties of Water Desalination Membranes Using Ultralong Carbon Nanotubes by Yehia M. Manawi (18091207)

“…It was demonstrated that changing the main characteristics of CNT (e.g., loading in the dope solutions, aspect ratio, and functionality) significantly affected the membrane properties and performance including porosity, water flux, and mechanical and surface properties. …”

Molecular Mechanisms of Adiponectin-Induced Attenuation of Mechanical Stretch-Mediated Vascular Remodeling by Crystal M. Ghantous (14571292)

“…Stretching the RPV also significantly increased ROS generation after 1 hour, whereas APN significantly decreased mechanical stretch-induced ROS production. …”

Tailoring the mechanical and degradation properties of 3DP PLA/PCL scaffolds for biomedical applications by Sumama Nuthana Kalva (17302906)

“…Furthermore, an increase in PCL content correlates with a reduction in weight loss, indicating slower degradation rates in phosphate-buffered saline. …”

Effectiveness of Positron Emission Tomography for Predicting Chemotherapy Response in Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases by Glazer, Evan

“…Hypothesis Chemotherapeutic agents may be able to convert unresectable colorectal hepatic metastasis to resectable disease, therefore changing the surgical options. The role of positron emission tomography (PET) for patients undergoing chemotherapy remains unclear. …”
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Effect of phosphorus supplementation on weight gain and waist circumference of overweight/obese adults by Bassil, MS

“…Several parameters of subjective appetite scores were decreased in the phosphorus-supplemented group. Conclusions: Phosphorus supplementation for 12 weeks significantly decreases body weight, BMI, waist circumference and subjective appetite scores. …”
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Pharmacist-led educational interventions provided to healthcare providers to reduce medication errors: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Myriam Jaam (11014409)

“…Educational programs led by a pharmacist were associated with significant reductions in the overall rate of medication errors occurrence (OR, 0.38; 95% CI, 0.22 to 0.65).…”

UGA-GAN: Unified Geometry-Aware GAN for Enhanced Training and Generation of High-Dimensional Data by Wasi Ahmad (23124064)

“…Our experimental evaluation on the CIFAR-10 dataset demonstrates that UGA-GAN outperforms several baseline models, including DCGAN, WGAN, and LSGAN, achieving a 37.97% reduction in Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) score, indicating superior sample quality and diversity. …”

FLACON: A Deep Federated Transfer Learning-Enabled Transient Stability Assessment During Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Grid Faults by Mohamed Massaoudi (16888710)

“…By introducing convolutional layers alongside multi-head attention mechanisms, the FLACON framework significantly improves learning efficiency across geographically distributed datasets. …”