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Impact of Desert Urbanization on Urban Heat Islands Effect

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Open Journal of Geology 2020年第7期10卷 760-770页

作者： Latifa Saeed Al Blooshi Abdelgadir Abuelgasim ahmad nassar Taoufik Ksiksi Biology Department College of Science United Arab Emirates University Al Ain Abu Dhabi UAE Department of Geography and Urban Sustainability College of Humanities and Social United Arab Emirates University Al Ain Abu Dhabi UAE Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences University of Windsor Windsor ON Canada

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has undergone major urban transformation after the establishment of the country in 1971. One noticeable change is urban expansion in terms of massive infrastructure, including new residential areas, highways, airports, and sophisticated transportation systems. Major landscape changes and disturbances, such as urban development, are among the major contributors to global climate change. Urban areas can be 3.5°C - 4.5°C warmer than neighboring rural areas, a phenomenon known as urban heat islands (UHIs). As such, urban development in the UAE was expected to follow a similar pattern and to be a major contributor to the country’s impact on global climate change. Analyses of multi-temporal (1988-2017) land surface temperature (LST) data obtained from Landsat satellite datasets over a desert city in the UAE showed unexpected results. Urbanization of desert surfaces in the study area led to a decrease of 3°C - 5°C in the overall LST. This was attributed to the associated expansion of green spaces in the newly developed urban areas, the expansion of date plantations and perhaps a cooling in the previously desert surface. Therefore, the UHI effect was not well demonstrated in the studied desert surfaces converted to urban areas.

关键词： Land Surface Temperature Thermal Difference UAE Urbanization Urban Heat Islands

Computational Analysis of Novel Extended Lindley Progressively Censored Data

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Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2024年第3期138卷 2571-2596页

作者： Refah Alotaibi Mazen nassar Ahmed Elshahhat Department of Mathematical Sciences College of SciencePrincess Nourah bint Abdulrahman UniversityP.O.Box 84428Riyadh11671Saudi Arabia Department of Statistics Faculty of ScienceKing Abdulaziz UniversityJeddah21589Saudi Arabia Department of Statistics Faculty of CommerceZagazig UniversityZagazigEgypt Faculty of Technology and Development Zagazig UniversityZagazig44519Egypt

A novel extended Lindley lifetime model that exhibits unimodal or decreasing density shapes as well as increasing,bathtub or unimodal-then-bathtub failure rates, named the Marshall-Olkin-Lindley (MOL) model is *** this research, using a progressive Type-II censored, various inferences of the MOL model parameters oflife are introduced. Utilizing the maximum likelihood method as a classical approach, the estimators of themodel parameters and various reliability measures are investigated. Against both symmetric and asymmetric lossfunctions, the Bayesian estimates are obtained using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique with theassumption of independent gamma priors. From the Fisher information data and the simulatedMarkovian chains,the approximate asymptotic interval and the highest posterior density interval, respectively, of each unknownparameter are calculated. Via an extensive simulated study, the usefulness of the various suggested strategies isassessedwith respect to some evaluationmetrics such as mean squared errors, mean relative absolute biases, averageconfidence lengths, and coverage percentages. Comparing the Bayesian estimations based on the asymmetric lossfunction to the traditional technique or the symmetric loss function-based Bayesian estimations, the analysisdemonstrates that asymmetric loss function-based Bayesian estimations are preferred. Finally, two data sets,representing vinyl chloride and repairable mechanical equipment items, have been investigated to support theapproaches proposed and show the superiority of the proposed model compared to the other fourteen lifetimemodels.

关键词： Marshall-Olkin-Lindleymodel reliability inference Bayesian and classical inference progressive Type-II censoring

Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists as a possible intervention to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes:A new horizon

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World Journal of Diabetes 2024年第2期15卷 133-136页

作者： Mahmoud nassar Ajay Chaudhuri Husam Ghanim Paresh Dandona Department of Internal Medicine Division of EndocrinologyDiabetes and MetabolismJacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical SciencesUniversity of BuffaloBuffaloNY 14221United States

Type 1 diabetes(T1D)is a chronic autoimmune condition that destroys insulinproducing beta cells in the pancreas,leading to insulin deficiency and *** management of T1D primarily focuses on exogenous insulin replacement to control blood glucose ***,this approach does not address the underlying autoimmune process or prevent the progressive loss of beta *** research has explored the potential of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists(GLP-1RAs)as a novel intervention to modify the disease course and delay the onset of ***-1RAs are medications initially developed for treating type 2 *** exert their effects by enhancing glucose-dependent insulin secretion,suppressing glucagon secretion,and slowing gastric *** evidence suggests that GLP-1RAs may also benefit the treatment of newly diagnosed patients with *** article aims to highlight the potential of GLP-1RAs as an intervention to delay the onset of T1D,possibly through their potential immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory effects and preservation of *** article aims to explore the potential of shifting the paradigm of T1D management from reactive insulin replacement to proactive disease modification,which should open new avenues for preventing and treating T1D,improving the quality of life and long-term outcomes for individuals at risk of T1D.

关键词： Type 1 diabetes Semaglutide Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists Insulin therapy Autoimmune response Blood glucose monitoring Β-cell preservation Early screening Teplizumab Randomized controlled trials

A modular microfluidic platform to study how fluid shear stress alters estrogen receptor phenotype in ER+breast cancer cells

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Microsystems & Nanoengineering 2024年第1期10卷 287-299页

作者： Braulio Andrés Ortega Quesada Jonathan Cuccia Rachael Coates Blake nassar Ethan Littlefield Elizabeth C.Martin Adam T.Melvin Cain Department of Chemical Engineering Louisiana State UniversityBaton RougeLA 70803USA Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering Clemson UniversityClemsonSC 29634USA Biological and Agricultural Engineering Louisiana State UniversityBaton RougeLA 70803USA Department Medicine Section Hematology and Medical OncologyTulane UniversityNew OrleansLA 70118USA

Metastatic breast cancer leads to poor prognoses and worse outcomes in patients due to its invasive behavior and poor response to *** is still unclear what biophysical and biochemical factors drive this more aggressive phenotype in metastatic cancer;however recent studies have suggested that exposure to fluid shear stress in the vasculature could cause *** this study a modular microfluidic platform capable of mimicking the magnitude of fluid shear stress(FSS)found in human vasculature was designed and *** device provides a platform to evaluate the effects of FSS on MCF-7 cell line,an estrogen receptor positive(ER+)breast cancer cell line,during circulation in the *** of the effects of FSS on MCF-7 cells was carried out utilizing two approaches:single cell analysis and bulk *** single cell analysis,cells were trapped in a microarray after exiting the serpentine channel and followed by immunostaining on the device(on-chip).Bulk analysis was performed after cells were collected in a microtube at the outlet of the microfluidic serpentine channel for western blotting(off-chip).It was found that cells exposed to an FSS magnitude of 10 dyn/cm^(2) with a residence time of 60 s enhanced expression of the proliferation marker Ki67 in the MCF-7 cell line at a single cell *** understand possible mechanisms for enhanced Ki67 expression,on-chip and off-chip analyses were performed for pro-growth and survival pathways ERK,AKT,and JAK/*** demonstrated that after shearing the cells phosphorylation of p-AKT,p-mTOR,and p-STAT3 were ***,there was no change in p-ERK1/*** is a mediator of ER rapid signaling,analysis of phosphorylated ERαwas carried out and no significant differences between sheared and non-sheared populations were *** together these results demonstrate that FSS can increase phosphorylation of proteins associated with a more aggressive phenotype in circulating cancer *** findin

关键词： fluid breast estrogen

Sepsis Prediction Using CNNBDLSTM and Temporal Derivatives Feature Extraction in the IoT Medical Environment

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Computers, Materials & Continua 2024年第4期79卷 1157-1185页

作者： Sapiah Sakri Shakila Basheer Zuhaira Muhammad Zain Nurul Halimatul Asmak Ismail Dua’Abdellatef nassar Manal Abdullah Alohali Mais Ayman Alharaki Department of Information Systems College of Computer and Information SciencesPrincess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman UniversityRiyadh11671Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Department of Computer Science and Information Technology Applied CollegePrincess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman UniversityRiyadh11671Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Background:Sepsis,a potentially fatal inflammatory disease triggered by infection,carries significant healthimplications *** detection is crucial as sepsis can rapidly escalate if left *** in deep learning(DL)offer powerful tools to address this ***:Thus,this study proposeda hybrid CNNBDLSTM,a combination of a convolutional neural network(CNN)with a bi-directional long shorttermmemory(BDLSTM)model to predict sepsis *** the proposed model provides a robustframework that capitalizes on the complementary strengths of both architectures,resulting in more accurate andtimelier ***:The sepsis prediction method proposed here utilizes temporal feature extraction todelineate six distinct time frames before the onset of *** time frames adhere to the sepsis-3 standardrequirement,which incorporates 12-h observation windows preceding sepsis *** models were trained usingthe Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care III(MIMIC-III)dataset,which sourced 61,522 patients with 40clinical variables obtained from the IoT medical *** confusion matrix,the area under the receiveroperating characteristic curve(AUCROC)curve,the accuracy,the precision,the F1-score,and the recall weredeployed to evaluate ***:The CNNBDLSTMmodel demonstrated superior performance comparedto the benchmark and other models,achieving an AUCROC of 99.74%and an accuracy of 99.15%one hour beforesepsis *** results indicate that the CNNBDLSTM model is highly effective in predicting sepsis onset,particularly within a close proximity of one ***:The results could assist practitioners in increasingthe potential survival of the patient one hour before sepsis onset.

关键词： Temporal derivatives hybrid deep learning predicting sepsis onset MIMIC III machine learning(ML) deep learning

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Lupus and Pregnancy

Open Journal of Rheumatology and Autoimmune Diseases 2024年第3期14卷 125-131页

作者： Soukaina Zaher Hussein Boufettal Kawtar nassar Naima Samouh Saadia Janani Rheumatology Department Ibn Rochd University Hospital of Casablanca Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy Hassan II University Casablanca Morocco Obstetrics and Gynecology Department Ibn Rochd University Hospital of Casablanca Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy Hassan II University Casablanca Morocco

Introduction: Systemic lupus erythematosus is a multifactorial autoimmune disease characterised by its clinical polymorphism and its course in flares. The aim of our study was to determine the effects of pregnancy on lupus and vice versa. Material and Methods: This is a retrospective study conducted over a period of 14 years from 2002 to 2015. We included cases of systemic lupus erythematosus associated with pregnancy followed at the obstetrics and gynecology department “C” of the Ibn Rochd University Hospital in Casablanca. Results: The mean age of our parturients was 31.4 years. All our patients were known to have lupus and were followed up. Pregnancy was terminated in six (20%) cases. We noted one (3%) case of intrauterine fetal death, four (13%) cases of intrauterine growth retardation, and five (16%) cases of prematurity. Lupus flare during pregnancy occurred in 16 (52%) cases, including one (3%) patient who developed superimposed pre-eclampsia, had a renal relapse in the third trimester requiring an abortion at 32 weeks of gestation with three sessions of hemodialysis, and another patient who developed eclampsia. Conclusion: A better understanding of the aggravating factors and compatible treatments has led to a more widespread authorization of pregnancy.

关键词： Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Pregnancy Morbidity Prognosis Retrospective Study

AN UNCONDITIONALLY STABLE HYBRID FE-FD SCHEME FOR SOLVING A 3-D HEAT TRANSPORT EQUATION IN A CYLINDRICAL THIN FILM WITH SUB-MICROSCALE THICKNESS

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Journal of Computational Mathematics 2003年第5期21卷 555-568页

作者： Raja nassar Mathematics and Statistics College of Engineering and Science Louisiana Tech University Ruston LA 71272 USA

Heat transport at the microscale is of vital importance in microtechnology applications. The heat transport equation is different from the traditional heat transport equation since a second order derivative of temperature with respect to time and a third-order mixed derivative of temperature with respect to space and time are introduced. In this study, we develop a hybrid finite element-finite difference (FE-FD) scheme with two levels in time for the three dimensional heat transport equation in a cylindrical thin film with sub-microscale thickness. It is shown that the scheme is unconditionally stable. The scheme is then employed to obtain the temperature rise in a sub-microscale cylindrical gold film. The method can be applied to obtain the temperature rise in any thin films with sub-microscale thickness, where the geometry in the planar direction is arbitrary.

关键词： Finite element Finite difference Stability Heat transport equation Thin film Microscale

Anti-aging based on stem cell therapy:A scoping review

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World Journal of Experimental Medicine 2024年第3期14卷 57-63页

作者： nassar El Assaad Alain Chebly Rawad Salame Robert Achkar Nour Bou Atme Khalil Akouch Paul Rafoul Colette Hanna Samer Abou Zeid Marwan Ghosn Charbel Khalil Faculty of Medicine Saint Joseph UniversityBeirut 961Lebanon Centre Jacques Loiselet for Medical Genetics and Genomics(CGGM) Faculty of MedicineSaint Joseph UniversityBeirut 961Lebanon Higher Institute of Public Health Saint Joseph UniversityBeirut 961Lebanon Stem Cell Therapy Lab Reviva Regenerative Medicine CenterBeirut 961Lebanon Poz Pozan University of Medical Sciences Pozan 034Poland Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Faculty of Public HealthLebanese UniversityBeirut 961Lebanon School of Medicine Lebanese American UniversityBeirut 961Lebanon Bone Marrow Transplant Unit Burjeel Medical CityAbu Dhabi 999041United Arab Emirates

Stem cells are present in the tissues and organs and remain in a quiescent and undifferentiated state until it is physiologically necessary to produce new descendant *** to their multipotency property,mesenchymal stem cells have attracted considerable attention worldwide due to their immunomodulation and therapeutic function in tissue *** cells secrete components such as paracrine factors,extracellular vesicles,and exosomes which have been shown to have anti-inflammatory,anti-aging,reconstruction and wound healing potentials in many in vitro and in vivo *** pluripotency and immunomodulatory features of stem cells could potentially be an effective tool in cell therapy and tissue *** affects the capacity for self-renewal and differentiation of stem cells,decreasing the potential for regeneration and the loss of optimal functions in organisms over *** progress in the field of cellular therapy and regenerative medicine has facilitated the evolution of particular guidelines and quality control approaches,which eventually lead to clinical *** therapy could potentially be one of the most promising therapies to control aging due to the fact that single stem cell transplantation can regenerate or substitute the injured *** understand the involvement of stem cells not only in tissue maintenance and disease but also in the control of aging it is important to know and identify their properties,functions,and regulation in vivo,which are addressed in this review.

关键词： Mesenchymal stem cell Anti-aging Telomerase Regenerative medicine Stem cell therapy

Pancreaticoduodenectomy in the Middle East: Achieving optimal results through specialization and standardization

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Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Diseases International 2019年第5期18卷 478-483页

作者： Walid Faraj Hussein nassar ahmad Zaghal Deborah Mukherji Ali Shamseddine Mariam Kanso Rola F. Jaafar Mohamad Khalife Liver Transplantation and Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery Department of General SurgeryAmerican University of Beirut Medical CenterBeirutLebanon Department of Oncology American University of Beirut Medical CenterBeirutLebanon

Background: Pancreaticoduodenectomy is a challenging surgical intervention that remains the cornerstone in the treatment of localized peri-ampullary pathologies. The concept of treatment standardization has been well-established in many high-volume centers in the world. Here, we present our experience in pancreaticoduodenectomy from 1994 to 2015. Methods: We performed a retrospective review of the medical charts of patients who underwent pancreaticoduodenectomy at our institution. Data was entered to SPSS statistical software and analyzed. The Mann-Whitney U and Fisher’s exact tests were used to report statistical differences between groups. Results: Of the 370 patients who underwent pacreaticoduodenectomy, 300 were analyzed. The 1-, 3-, 5- and 10-year survival rates were 85%, 35%, 15%, and 7%, respectively with a 30-day mortality rate of 5.0%(15 patients). The median age of the patients was 61 (13-84) years, with 193 (64.3%) males and 107 (35.7%) females. The median operative time was 300 (130-570) min. The median postoperative length of hospital stay was 12 (5-76) days. Thirty-two patients required re-laparotomies;10 for pancreatic leak, 7 for biliary leak and 15 for control of bleeding. Seventy-five (25.0%) patients developed pancreatic fistulae. Delayed gastric emptying was present in 31 (10.3%) patients. A significant improvement in surgical outcome was observed in cases done after 2008 which indicates the important role of specialized team in surgical management. Conclusions: The number of patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy has been increasing annually over the past twenty-two years in our institution with results comparable to published series from high-volume centers. Through standardization of surgical techniques and perioperative management carried out by a specialist team, our results continue to improve despite the increasing complexity of cases referred to our unit.

关键词： Pancreatic cancer Pancreaticoduodenectomy Middle East