Enhancing Urban Connectivity and Regeneration of Historic Areas: Case Study of Heart of Sharjah by Jumah, Ghadeer Mohammad

“…It also improves physical and visual connectivity and integration within the neighborhood and among the surrounding areas to encourage walkability in the district provides a liveable community, and increase accessibility and social interaction. A unique and significant historical district in Sharjah called ‘Heart of Sharjah’ is analyzed and assessed in terms of its livability and connectivity through a resilient urban framework. …”
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Friction Reduction in Elastohydrodynamic Contacts by Thin Layer Thermal Insulation by Björling, M.

“…The results of the investigation show that the addition of thin insulating layers could lead to substantial performance increases in many applications. On a component level, the contact friction coefficient in some common machine components like gears, rolling element bearings, and cam followers can potentially be reduced by more than 40 %. …”
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Therapeutic challenges in the management of osmotic demyelination syndrome by Mohamed Elshafei (9376832)

“…</p><h3>Outcomes</h3><p dir="ltr">Significant improvement in patients’ conscious level and motor function with the commencement of sodium relowering therapy. …”

Feast Your Eyes by Malli, Dana

“…Qualitative analysis revealed that young adults are aware that junk food content can increase their cravings and sometimes cause them to feel negatively about their body. …”
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Health-related quality of life and its predictors among adults living with HIV/AIDS and receiving antiretroviral therapy in Pakistan by Ali Ahmed (2567584)

“…<h2>Background</h2> <p>Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is considered to be the fourth 90 of UNAIDS 90-90-90 target to monitor the effects of combination antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART has significantly increased the life expectancy of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). …”

RFX3 is essential for the generation of functional human pancreatic islets from stem cells by Bushra Memon (4792767)

“…The loss of <i>RFX3</i> disrupted pancreatic endocrine gene regulation, reduced the number of hormone-secreting islet cells and impaired beta cell function and insulin secretion. Despite a significant reduction in the expression levels of pancreatic islet hormones, the pan-endocrine marker chromogranin A remained unchanged at both EP and islet stages, likely due to an increase in the abundance of enterochromaffin cells (ECs). …”

Clinical and biochemical determinants of length of stay, readmission and recurrence in patients admitted with diabetic ketoacidosis by Fateen Ata (12217764)

“…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">The increasing prevalence of diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) related admissions poses a significant burden on the healthcare systems globally. …”

Trends of the Dementia Burden in South Asia: An Analysis of 2021 Global Burden of Disease Study by Shubham Chauhan (21334742)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">A slight decrease in incidence rates from 80.57 to 79 per 100,000 was observed, alongside a significant increase in mortality rates from 14.11 to 17.2 per 100,000. …”

Frugal innovation for sustainable rural development by Mokter Hossain (14634969)

“…We developed a classification that identifies the increasing positive and decreasing negative parameters of SDGs to assess the extent to which frugal enterprises contribute to specific SDGs. …”

Long non-coding RNA MALAT1 promotes steatosis in HepG2 cells by modulating target gene expression in presence of Exendin-4 by Olfa Khalifa (10914452)

“…Concurrently, Ex-4 significantly lowered the expression levels of De novo lipogenesis genes such as SREBP-1, SCD-1and ACC. …”

Training and organizational commitment by Ismail, Hussein Nabil

“…The results of the analysis showed that training has a significant effect on organizational commitment. Moderation analysis showed that the relationship between training and affective commitment was stronger for individuals who had higher levels of learning goal orientation. …”
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Reinforced steering Evolutionary Markov Chain for high-dimensional feature selection by Atiq ur Rehman (3044409)

“…(v) The effective size of successful agents is reduced recursively while progressing through different states to further facilitate the speed of convergence and decrease the number of features. (vi) The performance comparison with state-of-the-art feature selection methods shows a significant improvement and promise of the proposed method over the existing methods.…”

Influence of standardized patient body habitus on undergraduate student performance in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination by Bahous, Sola Aoun

“…Conclusions: The body habitus of the SP did not significantly affect students’ performance in an undergraduate OSCE about cardiovascular risk factors, suggesting that students at that level may primarily focus on gaining points the diagnostic checklist without considering SPs as real patients.…”
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Impact of transcranial alternating current stimulation on psychological stress: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study by Khan, Malik Nasir Afzal

“…The results revealed significant hemodynamic changes and reduced stress levels in the tACS group compared to the sham group (p <  0.001). …”
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Behavioural Training Programme for Primary School Teachers in Al Dhafra Private Schools to Modify the Behaviour of Students With ASD by SHARAFEDDIN, ETAB

“…This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of a behavioural training programme for primary school teachers at Al Dhafra Private Schools in modifying the behaviour of students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Despite the increasing prevalence of ASD, teachers often lack the necessary training to effectively support these students in educational settings. …”
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HOW CAN BLOCKCHAIN REVOLUTIONIZE THE JORDANIAN BANKING SECTOR? by Saidat, Zaid

“…As a result, the banking sector must undergo significant transformation to increase performance and attain new levels of growth. …”
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Job Satisfaction and Knowledge Sharing in Oil and Gas Industry: The case of ADNOC Company, Abu Dhabi by Al-Hosani, Ameen Abdulla

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Mapping subnational HIV mortality in six Latin American countries with incomplete vital registration systems by Local Burden of Disease HIV Collaborators (13279180)

“…Despite decreases in national HIV mortality in all countries—apart from Ecuador—across the period of study, we found broad variation in relative changes in HIV mortality at the municipality level and increasing relative inequality over time in all countries. …”

Comparison of Capture Hi-C Analytical Pipelines by Dina Aljogol (12011672)

“…We consider the effect of retaining multi-mapping reads and compare the efficiency of different statistical approaches in both identifying reproducible interactions and determining biologically significant interactions. At restriction fragment level resolution, the number of multi-mapping reads that could be rescued was negligible. …”

Assessing the Impact of Sustainability Risks on Disaster and Pandemic Vulnerabilities: A Global Perspective by Qazi, Abroon

“…The results highlight that shortcomings in SDGs such as ‘quality education’, ‘sustainable cities and communities’, ‘no poverty’, and ‘affordable and clean energy’ significantly increase disaster and pandemic risks. Conversely, strong performance in ‘peace, justice, and strong institutions’ and ‘life on land’ enhances systemic resilience, reducing vulnerability. …”
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