Evaluating the impact of a brief Health at Every Size-informed health promotion activity on body positivity and internalized weight-based oppression by Lily, O’Hara

“…Weight-based oppression, including negative attitudes about body weight, and harassment, stigma, and discrimination based on body weight, is a widespread phenomenon that leads to considerable distress and poor health and wellbeing outcomes. …”
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Impact of staying at home measures during COVID-19 pandemic on the lifestyle of Qatar’s population: Perceived changes in diet, physical activity, and body weight by Muna Abed Alah (14779534)

“…The ordinal logistic regression analysis showed that the numbers of unhealthy dietary behaviors adopted by participants, and adverse changes in exercise, setting/reclining and screen times were significantly associated with weight gain. …”

Detection of statistically significant network changes in complex biological networks by Raghvendra Mall (581171)

“…Several procedures have been recently proposed to detect sub-network differences in pairwise labeled weighted networks.</p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">In this paper, we propose an improvement over the state-of-the-art based on the Generalized Hamming Distance adopted for evaluating the topological difference between two networks and estimating its statistical significance. …”

Context-Tailored Food-Based Nutrition Education and Counseling for Pregnant Women to Improve Birth Outcomes: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Malawi by Kamudoni, Penjani Rhoda

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Supervised term-category feature weighting for improved text classification by Attieh, Joseph

“…In this study, we provide a novel text classification framework for Category-based Feature Engineering titled CFE. It consists of a supervised weighting scheme defined based on a variant of the TF-ICF (Term Frequency-Inverse Category Frequency) model, embedded into three new lean classification approaches: (i) IterativeAdditive (flat), (ii) GradientDescentANN (1-layered), and (iii) FeedForwardANN (2-layered). …”
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Board changes and CEO turnover by Dah, Mustafa A.

“…For firms that decrease independence, the CEO turnover performance sensitivity significantly decreases following SOX. …”
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Weight Regain and Insufficient Weight Loss After Bariatric Surgery: Definitions, Prevalence, Mechanisms, Predictors, Prevention and Management Strategies, and Knowledge Gaps—a Scop... by Walid El Ansari (93732)

“…<p>Some patients experience weight regain (WR) or insufficient weight loss (IWL) after bariatric surgery (BS). …”

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. …”

Incidence, risk factors, and feto-maternal outcomes of inappropriate birth weight for gestational age among singleton live births in Qatar: A population-based study by Salma Younes (6424865)

Deep random vector functional link transformer network with multiple output layers for significant wave height forecasting by Aryan Bhambu (18767731)

“…This paper introduces a novel random vector functional link transformer (RFT) and ensemble deep random vector functional link transformer (edRFT) networks to capture the dynamic characteristics of significant wave heights. The model employs hidden blocks based on transformer encoders to effectively capture complex sequential dependencies in the data. …”

Notch Signaling Inhibition by LY411575 Attenuates Osteoblast Differentiation and Decreased Ectopic Bone Formation Capacity of Human Skeletal (Mesenchymal) Stem Cells by Nihal AlMuraikhi (6002234)

“…Global gene expression profiling of LY411575-treated cells revealed changes in multiple signaling pathways, including focal adhesion, insulin, TGFβ, IL6, and Notch signaling, and decreased the expression of genes associated with functional categories of tissue development. …”

Vocal Changes in Patients With Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by Hannoun, Antoine

“…There was no statistically significant difference in the acoustic parameters except for an increase in the relative average perturbation (P value = 0.035) and a decrease in maximum phonation time (P value = 0.001) in patients with PCOS. …”
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Binary-NeRV: Hybrid-Precision Weights Binarization for Efficient Neural Video Representation by Shanableh, Tamer

“…In this work, we propose Binary-NeRV, a hybrid-precision extension of NeRV that integrates XNOR-based binary convolutions into the decoding pipeline to significantly reduce model size, bitrate, and computational complexity while reasonably preserving reconstruction fidelity. …”
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Maternal Body Mass Index and Recommended Gestational Weight Gain in a Middle Eastern Setting by Tawa Olukade (11619453)

“…<h3>Objective</h3><p dir="ltr">Maternal body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain (GWG) are modifiable risk factors that influence pregnancy outcomes. …”

Essays on the effect of excess compensation and governance changes on firm value by Dah, Mustafa A.

“…This dissertation consists of three essays on the effect of excess compensation and corporate governance changes on the firm’s performance. The first paper utilizes a cost minimization stochastic frontier approach to investigate the efficiency of director total compensation. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 related home confinement measures on the lifestyle, body weight, and perceived glycemic control of diabetics by Muna Abed Alah (14779534)

“…We found that reporting at least one unhealthy dietary change (p < 0.001) and being a female (p = 0.002) were significantly associated with reporting greater weight gain. …”

Metabolomics of Dynamic Changes in Insulin Resistance Before and After Exercise in PCOS by Anna Halama (545988)

“…While compering within the groups, no significant changes in the amino acid levels before and after exercise were observed. …”

Relationship between fatness, physical fitness, and academic performance in normal weight and overweight schoolchild handball players in Qatar State by Souhail Hermassi (6919487)

“…<p dir="ltr">The aim of this study was to examine the correlation between physiological parameters (namely fatness and physical fitness) with academic performance (namely mathematics and science grade point average [GPA]) in normal weight and overweight schoolchild handball players. …”

Modulation of SLFN11 induces changes in DNA Damage response in breast cancer by Christophe Michel Raynaud (17449906)

Conceptual Skills in Leading Change: A Competence Approach to Public Sector Leadership by JASIM, ARIF FADHEL AHMED

“…Leaders’ capacity to think about abstract and complex ideas has long been acknowledged as essential to leadership tasks such as planning and analysis; however, because conceptualisation is often ambiguous and difficult to understand, many frameworks of leadership and change lack clarity on the actual significance of leaders’ conceptual skills when leading change. …”
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