Activation of Src kinase in primary colorectal carcinoma An indicator of poor clinical prognosis by Allgayer, Heike

“…RESULTS By CART analysis, Src activity in tumors elevated more than twofold over normal mucosa was significant. Increased Src activity significantly correlated with Dukes stage, pT and pN classification, and increased u-PAR levels (P < 0.001). …”
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Sleeping habits during COVID-19 induced confinement: A study from Jordan by Mahmoud A. Alomari (14780446)

“…<p dir="ltr">Sleep can significantly modulate the immune response to infectious agents. …”

Ratio between positive lymph nodes and total excised axillary lymph nodes as an independent prognostic factor for overall survival in patients with nonmetastatic lymph node-positiv... by Dimassi, Hani

“…On univariate analysis, both the absolute number of positive lymph nodes and the ALNR were significant predictors of OS. On multivariate analysis, only the ALNR remained an independent predictor of OS, with a 2.5-fold increased risk of dying at an ALNR of ≥.25. …”
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Infectious complications with nondaily versus daily infusion of intravenous fat emulsions in non–critically ill adults by Btaiche, Imad F.

“…Background: Increased risk for infection has been associated with the administration of intravenous fat emulsion (IVFE). …”
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Autism spectrum disorder in Qatar: Profiles and correlates of a large clinical sample by Fouad Alshaban (6176771)

“…<p dir="ltr">Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is an increasingly prevalent disorder. Although around 15% of cases are caused by specific genetic causes, most cases involve a complex and variable combination of genetic risk and environmental factors that are not yet identified. …”

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

“…This search framework is also compatible with the other efficiency and performance improvement strategies under the differentiable NAS framework.…”

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

“…However, this arrangement reduces the wind speed due to the obstruction created by the buildings mass and decreases the air velocity in the canyons. On the other hand, this type of configuration improves the distribution of the air around the buildings block and consequently enhances the outdoor thermal comfort around most of the buildings within the urban block. …”
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Methylomic profiling in trisomy 21 identifies cognition- and Alzheimer’s disease-related dysregulation by Larissa Haertle (3864310)

“…</p><h3>Materials and Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">A genome-wide DNA methylation study was performed using Illumina Infinium® MethylationEPIC BeadChips on whole blood DNA of 3 male T21 patients with low IQ, 8 T21 patients with high IQ (4 males and 4 females), and 21 age- and sex-matched control samples (12 males and 9 females) in order to determine whether DNA methylation alterations could help explain variation in cognitive impairment between individuals with T21. In view of the increased risk of developing AD in T21 individuals, we additionally investigated the T21-associated sites in published blood DNA methylation data from the AgeCoDe cohort (German study on Ageing, Cognition, and Dementia). …”

Rising blood pressure in Bangladesh by Nature Research (16552612)

“…People aged 66 to 74 were found to be significantly more at-risk than those in other age groups. …”

Sustainability In Construction In The UAE by Al Fahim, Ahmed Taha

“…In this dissertation, this paper aims to provide a complex and detailed answer to the range of questions in the sphere of sustainable waste management for construction projects in the UAE. The significance of this theme was defined with the rising demand for realization of the construction projects in the country, and the associated increase of risk level for the organizations and stakeholders in the sphere of waste management. …”
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Intermittent nesiritide therapy in outpatients with chronic heart failure by Sheikh-Taha, Marwan

“…For this subset of patients, some centers in the United States continue to use periodic ino-tropic therapy on an inpatient or outpatient basis under the rationale of reducing symptoms, hospitalizations, and medical costs, even at the risk of increased mortality. Nesiritide, a human B-type natriuretic peptide, is the first of a new class of agents for the treatment of decompensated HF. …”
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The downsides of information systems security policy compliance efforts by Balozian, Puzant

“…Nevertheless, this dissertation challenges that notion and advances a stream of research that suggests increasing security measures may lead to decrease in user productivity, increased user mistrust toward the IT department, increased user frustration, increased user technology avoidance, increased non-malicious volitional security violations and overall may lead to increased security risk, instead of decreasing it. …”
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From past famines to present crises: The epigenetic impact of maternal malnutrition on offspring health in Gaza by Mohamed Adil Shah Khoodoruth (14589828)

“…It was shown that first-trimester exposure to severe famine during the Dutch Hunger Winter was associated with increased risk of schizophrenia in offsprings (Hoek et al., 1998). …”

Investigations on Entrepreneurship Needs, Challenges, and Models for Countries in Transition to Sustainable Development from Resource-Based Economy—Qatar as a Case by Mohammad I. Al-Housani (19170967)

“…It explores the role of entrepreneurship to help transition from a resource-based economy, mainly through increasing the number of entrepreneurs and enhancing private-enterprise-led and small and medium enterprises to achieve economic diversification. …”

Carotenoids in Cancer Apoptosis—The Road from Bench to Bedside and Back by Lenka Koklesova (18102994)

“…However, this deficiency can be improved by using nanotechnological approaches, solid dispersions, microemulsions or biofortification that significantly increase the anti-cancer and pro-apoptotic efficacy of carotenoids. …”

Why does the adverse effect of inappropriate MRI for LBP vary by geographic location? An exploratory analysis by Mujahed Shraim (14153145)

“…The aim was to explore whether the known risk of increased length of disability (LOD) associated with eMRI scanning not adherent to guidelines for occupational LBP varies according to patient and area-level characteristics, and the potential reasons for any observed variations.…”

Managing Endothelial Dysfunction in COVID-19 by Matli, Kamal

“…The median(Interquartile range) time to recovery was not significantly different between the endothelial protocol group (6 [4-12] days) and the placebo group (6 [5-8]days)(p-value = 0.854). …”
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Analyzing the Influence of Climate and Anthropogenic Development on Vegetation Cover in the Coastal Ecosystems of GCC by Abhilash Dutta Roy (22466830)

“…Our results revealed significant changes in land cover, as seen by an increase in artificial built-up areas by 15.5% in two decades and a corresponding decrease in bareland and dense vegetation. …”

Comparative Study on Beneficial Effects of Hydroxytyrosol- and Oleuropein-Rich Olive Leaf Extracts on High-Fat Diet-Induced Lipid Metabolism Disturbance and Liver Injury in Rats by Ines Fki (14571855)

“…Equally, it showed a rise of the apoptotic markers (a decrease in the expression of the Bcl-2 and an increase of the P53). …”

Pravastatin plus L-arginine prevents adverse pregnancy outcomes in women with uteroplacental vascular dysfunction by Aleksandar Jurisic (17052408)

“…Efforts to develop effective treatments to protect pregnancies with abnormal UtA Dopplers would be of significant clinical benefit for mothers and their fetuses.…”