Modeling electricity consumption patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic across six socioeconomic sectors in the State of Qatar by Ammar Abulibdeh (15785928)

“…<p dir="ltr">The propagation of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the associated measures taken by many countries to slow down the spread of the disease, has significantly affected all aspects of people's lives, including the global energy sector. …”

Screen Time Soars and Vision Suffers: How School Closures During the Pandemic Affected Children and Adolescents’ Eyesight by Muna Abed Alah (18336771)

“…The mean screen time across the week increased significantly by 11.5 ± 11.6 h during school closures. …”

Performance evaluation of interrupted and hybrid channel heat sinks for a triple junction high concentrator photovoltaic cell by Muhammad Usman Sajid (14778232)

“…The results reveal that the hybrid channel design (Geometry F) significantly reduces the maximum solar cell temperature from 82 °C to 78 °C at CR = 1500 and Re = 400, achieving up to a 39.5 % increase in the Nusselt number compared to the conventional straight channel design (Geometry A). …”

Tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase-1 (WARS-1) depletion and high tryptophan concentration lead to genomic instability in Caenorhabditis elegans by Mahmoud Izadi (12899508)

“…Our result demonstrates that exposing C. elegans to a high tryptophan dosage leads to DNA damage checkpoint activation and a significant increase in the tryptophan metabolites. …”

Analysis and Design of Circular Shafts Using Finite Element Method by Chehadeh, Ali Saleh

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Effects of natural organic matter on aggregation kinetics of boron nanoparticles in monovalent and divalent electrolytes by Liu, Xuyang

“…The addition of SRHA caused the boron nanoparticles to stabilize and resulted in (1) decreased attachment efficiency for the reaction-controlled regime and (2) an increase in the critical coagulation concentration, in CaCl2 and MgCl2 solutions. …”
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GFRP-Reinforced Concrete Columns: State-of-the-Art, Behavior, and Research Needs by Elkafrawy, Mohamed

“…Despite a significant corpus of research on GFRP-reinforced structural members, questions about their compression behavior persist, making it a focal area of this review. …”
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Meal pattern of male rats maintained on histidine-, leucine-, or tyrosine-supplemented diet. by Bassil, Maya S.

“…Histidine supplementation reduced diurnal meal size by 42% (p 0.05), whereas that of leucine increased nocturnal meal size by 35% (p 0.05). Tyrosine supplementation increased food intake of the nocturnal period and decreased that of the diurnal period. …”
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Revealing the Adoption Factors of Electric Vehicles in Dubai by BIN HUMAID, HUDA

“…Surprisingly, the research fails to provide enough evidence to prove the claim that the sufficient availability of charging infrastructure has a positive impact on the willingness to adopt EVs. This research provides significant insights into the dynamics of EV adoption in Dubai. …”
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A snapshot of current medical research: The notion of supply and demand by Almutairi, Adel F.

“…Therefore, it is time to be more selective and innovative with our research in order to have a significant positive impact on healthcare services.…”
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Children diabetes prevention camps by Nature Research (16552612)

“…These percentages are significantly higher than the region’s average (13% and 24.5%, respectively). …”

Effect of Diverse Seismic Hazard Estimates on Performance and Overall Cost of RC Shear Wall Buildings in Dubai, UAE by Aly, Nader Essam

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Allelopathic Effects of the Invasive Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. on Native Plants: Perspectives toward Agrosystems by Shazia Bibi (16500318)

“…The seed radicle lengths at 2 mg mL−1 were significantly reduced for both plant species. The seed germination and radicle length of S. aegyptica and H. perfoliata were significantly decreased at 2 mg mL−1 of extract of P. juliflora. …”

Board independence and managerial authority by Dah, Mustafa

“…For certain firms, increasing the number of independent directors may impose costs that exceed the benefits. …”
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Optimisation of PV Cleaning Practices: Comparison Between Performance Based and Periodic Based Approaches by ALHAJERI, RASHED ABDULLA

“…Although the biggest costs involved in this technology is the installation/capital costs, the subsequent running costs (although less than traditional sources of energy) such as cleaning and maintenance can increase or decrease the feasibility of these panels. …”
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Exploring Effects of Mental Stress with Data Augmentation and Classification Using fNIRS by Khan, Malik Nasir Afzal

“…Notably, after augmenting the data with DCGAN, the classification accuracy increases dramatically to 96%. In the time series data, statistically significant differences were noticed in the data before and after BB stimulation, which showed an improvement in the brain state, in line with the classification results. …”
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Myeloid Cells in Circulation and Tumor Microenvironment of Colorectal Cancer Patients with Early and Advanced Disease Stages by Salman M. Toor (8854751)

“…Lastly, we found that levels of GMCs decreased, while IMCs increased in the TME with tumor budding. …”

From classrooms to controllers: how school closures shaped children's video gaming habits by Muna Abed Alah (14779534)

“…Average weekly screen time increased significantly from 19.7 ± 10.1 h to 31.9 ± 12.6 h during closure (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …”

Optimizing indoor air quality and energy efficiency in multifamily residences: Advanced passive pipe system parametrics study by L. M. Obeidat (19239451)

“…Our empirical findings reveal that configurations with more inlet and outlet pipes significantly outperform simpler ones, with a notable configuration of 11 pipes (5 × 6) achieving an actual-to-required ventilation rate increase in 158.15%. …”

Parametric Based Techno‐Economic Evaluation for a Solar Thermal‐PV Integrated Multi‐Commodity Storage Facility by Malik Shahzaib (22504349)

“…The product loading rate significantly affects the cooling load of cold storage and varies directly with it, as observed for an increase in the product loading rate from 0 to 50 000 kg/day cooling load also increases from 34 to 87 kW. …”