Disrupted harvests: how Ukraine – Russia war influences global food systems – a systematic review by Hamid El Bilali (15864930)

“…The war affected all food security dimensions, but the most dramatic impact was on food access. Indeed, the decrease in domestic food production and productivity; the damage to production assets, food production, and food stocks; the increase in production input prices; changes in land use and land degradation; and labour shortage in rural areas reduced food supply and availability, especially that of cereals. …”

Willingness to Pay for Clean Air: Evidence from the UK by Maarraoui, Giorgio

“…Results show that increases in NO2, PM10 and PM2.5 significantly decrease the odds of longterm happiness and short-term mental health in the UK. …”
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COPE for adolescent Syrian refugees in Lebanon: a brief cognitive–behavioral skill-building intervention to improve quality of life and promote positive mental health by Doumit, Rita

“…Feasibility and acceptability findings indicated that the COPE program was a positive experience for teens. Significant decreases in depression and anxiety, and increases in QOL were also reported. …”
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Unsustainability in emergent systems by Haddad, Marc

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Geopolitical instability and environmental sustainability by Dagar, Vishal

“…This study investigates how geopolitical risk affects ecological footprints and carbon emissions, key proxies for environmental sustainability, using panel data from 27 countries (1990–2020). 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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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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STARD 13 in prostate cancer. (c2018) by Saab, Sahar S.

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A component analysis of positive behaviour support plans by Grey, Ian

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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)

“…<p dir="ltr">The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have experienced rapid coastal development over the past decades, significantly impacting their marine ecosystems. This study aimed to study the land use and land cover change for coastal vegetation in GCC countries from 2000 to 2023 using remote sensing and machine learning techniques, and to identify the impact of climate and anthropogenic factors on coastal vegetation cover of the GCC. …”

Impact of the fear of Covid-19 infection on intent to breastfeed; a cross sectional survey of a perinatal population in Qatar by Shuja Mohd Reagu (12051406)

“…</p><h3>Conclusions</h3><p dir="ltr">The rates of Obsessive–compulsive symptoms were increased and the rates of intent to breastfeed were decreased when compared with pre pandemic rates. The obsessive–compulsive symptoms and the intent to not breastfeed were significantly associated with fear of infection to the new-born. …”

Curcumin encapsulated colloidal amphiphilic block co-polymeric nanocapsules by Bechnak, Linda

“…The cytotoxicity of curcumin and colloidal nanocapsules was assessed using human derived immortalized cell lines (A549 and A375 cells) in the presence and absence of light irradiation. …”
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Metformin treatment inhibits motility and invasion of glioblastoma cancer cells by Al Hassan, Marwa

“…The results show a significant decrease in the survival of SF268 cancer cells in response to treatment with metformin. …”
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Treatment with a Combination of Metformin and 2-Deoxyglucose Upregulates Thrombospondin-1 in Microvascular Endothelial Cells: Implications in Anti-Angiogenic Cancer Therapy by Samson Mathews Samuel (18808246)

“…Treatment with a combination of 2DG (5 mM) and metformin (2 mM) also significantly decreased cell proliferation, migration and tubulogenic capacity when compared to cells that were treated with either 2DG or metformin alone. …”

Revealing the Adoption Factors of Electric Vehicles in Dubai by BIN HUMAID, HUDA

“…The main objective is to identify the factors influencing consumer behaviour towards EV adoption in Dubai. By using descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, and regression analysis, our findings indicate a significant association between the willingness to adopt EVs and several factors, including the performance characteristics and economic cost. …”
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Turkronicles: diachronic resources for the fast evolving Turkish language by Togay Yazar (22828175)

“…Despite the substantial vocabulary changes, we demonstrate that it is possible to identify old Turkish words that have the same meanings with newly coined ones using word embeddings. Regarding writing conventions, we found a noticeable decrease in the use of circumflex. …”

Orthodontic camouflage versus orthodontic-orthognathic surgical treatment in borderline class III malocclusion: a systematic review by Maged S. Alhammadi (14150757)

“…Regarding the vertical jaw relation, one study reported a significant decrease in mandibular plane inclination in OC and a significant increase in OOS. …”

Reactions, Adsorption and Diffusion in FCC Catalysts by Mahaly, Wafa

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Comparative Effect of Sodium Butyrate and Sodium Propionate on Ovarian Cancer Migration, Invasion, and Epithelial-To-Mesenchymal Transition by Sleem, Reem

“…Finally, our results revealed a significant decrease in the ratios of P-ERK/ERK and P-MEK/MEK following treatment. …”
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Peripherally injected cholecystokinin-induced neuronal activation is modified by dietary composition in mice by Zeeni, N.

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Associations between Bone Mineral Density and WOMAC Scores in Healthy Individuals: Insights from the Qatar Biobank by Mohammed Al-Hamdani (16962702)

“…However, BMD measures significantly contributed to predicting stiffness after controlling for sociodemographic variables (R² = 0.065, ΔF(7, 1724) = 3.34, p= 0.002), with a higher total body BMD associated with increased stiffness and a higher trunk BMD associated with decreased stiffness. …”