Oral contraceptive pills and possible adverse effects by Stone, Rebecca H

“…Since their introduction to the market, there have been significant changes in the drug content and formulations of these products, in part to decrease the risk of adverse effects. …”
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Genetic Variation in CCL5 Signaling Genes and Triple Negative Breast Cancer: Susceptibility and Prognosis Implications by Jingxuan Shan (4711089)

“…We characterized variants in <i>CCL5</i> and that of six other CCL5 signaling genes (<i>CCND1, ZMIZ1, CASP8, NOTCH2, MAP3K21, and HS6ST3</i>) among 1,082 unrelated Tunisian subjects (544 BC patients, including 196 TNBC, and 538 healthy controls), assessed the association of the variants with BC-specific overall survival (OVS) and progression-free survival (PFS), and correlated CCL5 mRNA and serum levels with <i>CCL5</i> genotypes. We found a highly significant association between the <b><i>CCND1</i></b><b> </b><b>rs614367-TT</b> genotype (OR = 5.14; <i>P</i> = 0.004) and TNBC risk, and identified a significant association between the <b>rs614367-T</b> allele and decreased PFS in TNBC. …”

Impact of Using Recycled Materials in the Construction Industry of the United Arab Emirates by Al Zarouni, Tariq

“…The main barrier to the achievement of sustainability relates to the increasing levels of wastes generated in the industry. …”
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Investigation of positive education implementation and its impact on students' wellbeing and academic self-efficacy in K-12 private schools in Dubai by KHREIBI, RIMA ABOU

“…The findings revealed the following: 1) in recent years there has been increasing positive education implementation grounding in the recent international, national, local, and educational authority policies and initiatives. 2) absence of standardised local and school policy related to positive education implementation has led to the need for adaptability of positive education implementation across school. 3) there has been strong engagement of the internal school community (teachers, school leaders and students) with external school community (parents). 4) significant changes in the overall level DSWC indicators associated with social emotional wellbeing, life satisfaction, perseverance, feeling safe, and belonging to school. 5) insignificant changes associated with DSWC indicators associated with emotional regulation, happiness, optimism, academic self-concept, cognitive engagement, engagement (flow), peer belonging and school climate. 6) PASS assessment factors show increase in wellbeing, motivation and self-efficacy for regulation and decrease in academic self-efficacy. 7) significant increase in emotional, social wellbeing and academic self-efficacy among students due to positive education implementation as perceived by teachers, parents, and students.…”
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Organizational climate and its effects on the employees commitment by El-Kassar, Abdul-Nasser

“…Nowadays, firms tend to create comfortable atmosphere and suitable working environment to enhance performance, increase job satisfaction, decrease employees’ turnover and absenteeism and to improve workers’ involvement and attachment to the organization as a whole entity. …”
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The Russia-Ukraine war, soaring food prices, and the Turkish economy: insights from computable general equilibrium by Ozcan Ozturk (14606326)

“…The findings reveal significant effects on agricultural imports of crops (wheat, maize, barley, rice, and cereal grains), fruit and vegetables, and oil products, leading to an increase in both import and domestic prices, resulting in food inflation in the country. …”

Food safety knowledge attitude and practices of oncology nurses, in Lebanese hospitals by Angy, Mallah

“…Oncology nurses, having a direct significant contact with these patients, could be the first information source concerning food safety and play a pivotal role in reducing these risks. …”
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Design and Evaluation of a Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI) to Reduce Sedentary Behavior at Work: Experimental Study by Tasnim Ismail (18418554)

“…This has drawn researchers’ attention to investigate methods of increasing the level of activity of employees during working hours and in their daily lifestyle.…”

Acute exposure to cigarette smoking followed by myocardial infarction aggravates renal damage in an In vivo mouse model by Kobeissy, Firas

“…Finally, reactive oxygen species (ROS) production was significantly accentuated in S+MI group concomitant with a significant increase in NOX-4 protein levels. …”
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Project Productivity vs. Health & Safety by Wilson, Stephen

“…It was found in both cases that the improved safety management approaches had a great effect on the workforce both in improving accident reporting statistics matched by significant gains in productivity. The outcome of the surveys also supported this showing great increase in the perception of safety in the work place and increased levels of motivation and good feeling towards the management of each Company. …”
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Geopolitical instability and environmental sustainability by Dagar, Vishal

“…Panel quantile regression results show a significant relationship between increased geopolitical risk, ecological footprints, and carbon emissions, with coefficients ranging from 0.357 to 0.785 across quantiles in the case of ecological footprints and 0.939–1.961 for carbon emissions. …”
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In vivo immunomodulatory effect of wild carrot oil and its fractions by Taleb, RI

“…Whereas, DCOE and F1 did not induce a significant increase in IFN-γ levels at either interval, F2, F3, F4 and LPS caused 6.7, 4.6, 3.5 and 2.3 fold increases, respectively. …”
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Project manager perceptions factors influencing the delivery of successful innovation in construction projects by DIAB, MOHAMED EL SAYED

“…Unlike in other industries, implementation of innovation is not at an organisation level but at a project level. From this point of view, there is an agreement between studies that project managers of construction projects have a significant role in innovation management at project level. …”
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Asphalt modification with polyphosphoric acid by Bazi, Gabriel

“…Another significant finding is that binders treated with polyphosphoric acid show increased resistance to oxidative aging, as measured by the pressure-aging vessel. …”
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In vivo assessment of the nephrotoxic effects of the synthetic cannabinoid AB-FUBINACA by Ayman Alzu’bi (13162392)

“…Administration of AB-FUBINACA was found to be associated with a significant increase in the expression of oxidative stress markers (iNOS, NOX4, NOX2, NOS3) and the level of lipid peroxidation in the kidney. …”

The effectiveness of Brain Gym® Exercises on Improving Students’ Performance in classes of middle school boys in private schools in Dubai, UAE(Ethnographic Study Conducted at the A... by AL HERBAWI, DUA’A

“…On the academic level, the marks of post-implemented quizzes showed a significant drop, however, post-implemented major exams showed a significant rise. …”
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Feasibility of a group-based laughter yoga therapy on anxiety and happiness among community-dwelling older adults: A quasi-experimental study by Mona Metwally El-Sayed (17725127)

“…As well as an increase in happiness level among the study group compared to the control group were found (pre = 54.23 (6.60), immediate = 62.05 (4.09), post three-month = 61.95 (4.38), with statistical significant= <0.001 and effect size = 0.677.…”

Adult appendicitis score versus Alvarado score: A comparative study in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis by Mohamed Said Ghali (16810713)

“…It requires proper management to decrease mortality and morbidity. Clinical scoring systems for diagnosing AA aimed to decrease the use of radiological scans and the rate of negative appendectomies (NA). …”

Exploiting Sparsity in Amplify-and-Forward Broadband Multiple Relay Selection by Ala Gouissem (7006463)

“…<p dir="ltr">Cooperative communication has attracted significant attention in the last decade due to its ability to increase the spatial diversity order with only single-antenna nodes. …”

IS security menace by Balozian, Puzant

“…Nevertheless, this manuscript challenges that notion and advances a stream of research that suggests increasing security measures may lead to decrease in user productivity, increased user mistrust in 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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