Predictors of Mortality in Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Regardless of Early Left Ventricular Unloading: A National Experience by Alaa Rahhal (14150403)

“…However, only one predictor (i.e. prolonged CPR) was found to increase the likelihood of 30-day mortality with early LV unloading, suggesting that concomitant IABP use might minimize the effect of mortality predictors.…”

Carbon Performance and Financial Performance: How R&D Makes a Difference Pre‐ and Post‐Paris Accord by Mohamad H. Shahrour (21393698)

“…Moreover, R&D positively enhances this association, with each additional 1% R&D amplifying the CP's effect on financial performance by 0.154 units. However, following the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the moderating effect of R&D diminishes significantly. …”

The Extent to Which Schools with Mechanistic Structures and their Job Characteristics are Likely to Generate Teachers’ Organisational Commitment: Study Conducted in a Private Schoo... by Mansour, Hadi

“…The study aims to investigate the effect of mechanistic structures on job characteristics and their combined effect on job satisfaction and organisational commitment. …”
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Targeting solid tumor cells with novel photosensitive ruthenium-based metal-organic compounds. (c2016) by Farhat, Stephanie Roy

“…Cancer incidence has been increasing worldwide in the last few decades. Solid tumors are hard to treat, primarily due to drug resistance as well as to the struggle in delivering the drugs specifically to the tumor. …”
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Hypoxic Stress Induces Complement-Mediated Lysis of Mesenchymal Stem Cells by Downregulating Factor H and CD59 by Ramada R. Khaswaneh (22224544)

“…Preserving the level of Factor H and CD59 in MSCs has significant clinical implication to increase their retention rate in hypoxic conditions and prolong their survival.…”

Voiding function improves under long-term testosterone treatment (TTh) in hypogonadal men, independent of prostate size by Aksam Yassin (14779204)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">Prior to TTh interruption, it was observed that testosterone stimulation improved the men’s IPSS, AMS and post-voiding residual bladder volume, while their prostate volume significantly increased. During the TTh interruption, there was a significant worsening in these parameters, although the increase in prostate volume continued. …”

Valorization of Gas-To-Liquid Sludge as a Sustainable Soil Organic Amendment for Cotton Cultivation by Oumaima Mabrouk (17679435)

“…On the other hand, the adverse effects generally related to industrial sludge reuse were not significant and did not affect the designed agro-environmental system. …”

Redox Homeostasis and Inflammation Responses to Training in Adolescent Athletes: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Evdokia Varamenti (8154642)

“…</p><h3>Objectives</h3><p dir="ltr">To search redox homeostasis variables’ and inflammatory mediators’ responses in juvenile athletes following short- or long-term training periods and examine the effect size of those variations to training paradigms.…”

Feast Your Eyes by Malli, Dana

“…Background: Time spent on social networking sites and the images trolling may have variable effects on physical and mental well-being including changes in perception of body image (BI) and dietary behavior. …”
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Can salespeople use social media to enhance brand awareness and sales performance? The role of manager empowerment and creativity by Kalra, Ashish

“…The relationship between social media and brand awareness is magnified with the increase in salesperson creativity. Findings also show that manager empowerment increases salesperson creativity. …”
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Chemotherapy With Bevacizumab Does Not Affect Liver Regeneration After Portal Vein Embolization in the Treatment of Colorectal Liver Metastases by Zorzi, Daria

“…The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab (monoclonal antibody anti-VEGF) on liver regeneration after portal vein embolization (PVE) in the treatment of colorectal liver metastases and its possible effect on postoperative outcome after major liver resection. …”
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The Impact of a Computerized Potassium Alert on Adverse Drug Events and Pharmacists' Interventions by Mansour, Hanine

“…Objective: To determine the effect of a computerized pharmacy alert on the number of adverse events related to hyperkalemia in a hospital setting and to study the impact of guidelines and education on pharmacist response to high potassium levels. …”
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Application of Tools of Quality Function Deployment and Modified Balanced Scorecard for Optimal Allocation of Pavement Management Resources by Okan Sirin (14603304)

“…Consequently, the outcome of QFD-BSC analysis is studied in the Fishbone Diagram and Cause-Effect Analysis to graphically present how significant factors in four perspectives will lead to better financial goals in the pavement management industry. …”

Photocatalytic removal of nitrate from water using activated carbon-loaded with bimetallic Pd-Ag nanoparticles under natural solar radiation by Ahmed M. Soliman (7406576)

“…<p>The increase of nitrate contamination of surface and groundwater has raised a concern, because of its impact on both environment and human health. …”

FE modeling of concrete beams and columns reinforced with FRP composites by Abed, Farid

“…The results resembled the experimental observations that indicate significant effect of the FRP bar diameter and type ont he flexural capacity of the RC beams. …”
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Investigating the Influence of the Individual Empowerment and Cultural Intelligence on the Emergence of Innovation in the Public Sector. by Taqateqah, Morad Lutfi

“…The results indicated that the direct effect of empowered employees with high CQ positively contributed to increasing the emergence of innovation outcomes in the public sector higher education providers. …”
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Growth hormone treatment modulates active ghrelin levels in rats by Haddad, Haytham

“…However, the treatment caused variable effect on total protein concentrations, with a decrease in pancreas and an increase in stomach and kidney supernatants. …”
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Combining Saliency with Prediction for Endoscopic Diagnosis by Rezk, Mahmoud

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Targeting acute myeloid leukemia cells with novel photosensitive ruthenium-based metal-organic compounds. (c2015) by Azar, Daniel Fadi

“…Of the four final complexes Ru-II3, Ru-II2-III, Ru-II-III2 and Ru-III3, only Ru-II3 and Ru-II2-III have shown significant activity against all tested cell lines in the dark, whereas photo-activation against ML2 has shown a marked increase of potency of all four complexes, even those shown to be biologically inert in the dark, reaching IC50 values in the nM range. …”
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Modeling of photovoltaic soiling loss as a function of environmental variables by Wasim Javed (6105866)

“…Higher WS typically favored more positive daily ΔCI when RH was low, but at higher RH levels (>50%) daily ΔCI was more likely to be negative with increasing WS. In fact, high RH levels were related to negative daily ΔCI only at higher WS levels (>2ms−1); at lower WS levels RH had no significant effect on daily ΔCI. …”