Nutritional Status and Clinical Outcomes of Children with Medical Complexity in the United Arab Emirates: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study by Al Slaybe, Maryam

“…Preterm birth was significantly associated with lower WAZ (β = -0.849, p < 0.001) and LAZ (β = -1.464, p < 0.001) scores. …”
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A component analysis of positive behaviour support plans by Grey, Ian

“…Results There was a significant reduction in the frequency, management difficulty, and episodic severity of challenging behaviour over the duration of the study. …”
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Association Between Three-Months Vitamin D Supplementation and Depressive Symptomatology incidence among Saudi Arabian Adults by Khaddaj, Rashel

“…Recently, vitamin D has been reported an important factor that may have significant health benefits in the prevention and the treatment of many chronic illnesses including mental Illness. …”
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Examining time-to-transport decisions in Emergency Medical Services by Hassan Farhat (9000509)

“…The Schoenfeld plot (Figure 2) demonstrates that multiple variables have a significant impact on increasing the time-to-handover.…”

The protective effects of conditioned media from human mesenchymal stem cells against Methylglyoxal-mediated injury of cultured endothelial cells by Maram Hasan (6672440)

“…Moreover, Ea.hy926 cell viability was significantly reduced by 35% when treated with MGO; while cells treated with MSCs-CM (50%) were protected. …”

Coping mechanisms among Lebanese first-time college students by Doumit, Rita

“…Stress (r= -.547, p < .01) had the highest correlation with well-being followed by social support (r= .377, p < .01), resilience (r = .366, p < .01), uncertainty (r= -.353, p < .01), withdrawal coping (r = -.243, p < .01), and gender (p < .01) as a controlling variable. When all those factors were combined together, six variables in addition to gender accounted for significant increments of variance in the level of wellbeing. …”
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Urban Geometry: The Effect of Height Diversity and Buildings Configuration on Thermal Performance and Cooling Load at Urban Scale. A Case Study in Dubai / UAE by SHAREEF, SUNDUS LUAY

“…Urban geometry and buildings morphology are important factors that affect both thermal behaviour of the spatial environment as well as a building’s energy performance. …”
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Preterm birth in low-middle income Countries by Alim, Swarray-Deen

“…Although the overall trend is decreasing, this is mainly in high-income countries (HIC). …”
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Prevalence of bullying and violence among adolescents in Arab Gulf countries: a systematic review by Amani N. Alansari (19743643)

“…Academic impacts included increased absenteeism (24–29%) and decreased performance.</p><h3 dir="ltr">Conclusion</h3><p dir="ltr">This review highlights the widespread prevalence and serious consequences of bullying among adolescents in AGC, with clear gender differences and significant impacts on mental health and academic performance. …”

Rhegmatogenous retinal detachments associated to Stickler syndrome in a tertiary eye care center in Saudi Arabia by Alshahrani, Saeed T.

“…Visual acuity improved in 54% of eyes and decreased in 5%. Statistically significant associations were present for eyes with final visual acuity ≥20/200, and total retinal detachment (P<0.001); preoperative cataract (P=0.023); and proliferative vitreoretinopathy (P<0.001). …”
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Aorta deformation linked to heart disease by Nature Research (16552612)

“…They found that the mechanics of the aorta were altered, with the pulsatile change in aortic diameter, distention and elasticity of the aortic walls being significantly decreased, and aortic stiffness significantly increased, in HCM patients compared to the controls. …”

Developing a Stochastic Model to Predict Cost Overrun due to the Causes of Projects Delay in Oil Fields Construction Industry by ALKHOORI, KHALID ABDUL MAJEED

“…The research results revealed that poor contractor works was found to have the most significant positive impact in the delay experienced by the projects considered in this work. …”
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A slow but steady nanoLuc: R162A mutation results in a decreased, but stable, nanoLuc activity by Wesam S. Ahmed (10170053)

“…<p dir="ltr">NanoLuc (NLuc) <u>luciferase</u> has found extensive application in designing a range of <u>biologica</u><u>l</u><u> assays,</u> including <u>gene expression analysis</u>, protein-protein interaction, and protein conformational changes due to its enhanced brightness and small size. …”

Comprehensive analysis of circulating miRNA expression profiles in insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes in Qatari population by Khaoula Errafii (10914446)

“…MiR-186 showed a consistent significant increase in insulin resistance subjects compared to NGT in the discovery and validation phase analysis. …”

p53 Inhibition in Pancreatic Progenitors Enhances the Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells into Pancreatic β-Cells by Idil I. Aigha (14913774)

“…Inhibition of p53 using pifithrin-μ (PFT-μ) at the MPC stage resulted in a significant increase in the number of PDX1+/NKX6.1+ cells and a reduction in the number of CHGA+/NKX6.1− cells. …”

An ensemble-based machine learning model for predicting type 2 diabetes and its effect on bone health by Belqes Alsadi (18695031)

“…Lower sodium levels were found in diabetics, potentially stemming from clinical factors including specific medications, hormonal imbalances, unmanaged diabetes. …”

Causes of Delay in Construction Projects in Oil and Gas Construction Industry by FANOUSSE, MARWA IMAD

“…With regard to design, the contractor’s need to decrease construction costs through a cheaper design was found to be a factor in design changes. …”
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Epidemiological and genetic characterization of pH1N1 and H3N2 influenza viruses circulated in MENA region during 2009–2017 by Hebah A. Al Khatib (10494573)

“…The molecular analysis of the HA genes (influenza A subtypes) revealed similar mutations to those reported worldwide. …”

Efficient multi-objective neural architecture search framework via policy gradient algorithm by Bo Lyu (16522643)

“…Notably, compared with other multi-objective NAS methods, our NAS framework effectively decreases the computational burden (accounting for just 1/6 of the NSGA-Net). …”

A Comparative study of Technical Efficiency in GCC Islamic Financial Institutions during the Global financial Crisis using Malmquist-Type Data Envelopment analysis by Al Hammadi, Khalid Faisal

“…The results suggest that generally GCC and non-GCC IFIs efficiency was not significantly affected by the financial crisis. However, Individual IFIs result showed that some bank has experienced increase or decrease of efficiency after the crisis. …”
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