Obesity and Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Middle East and UAE by Mayank G. Vats, Bassam H. Mahboub, Hassan Al Hariri, Ashraf Al Zaabi, Deepa Vats

“…In fact, as per WHO report, Kuwait has the second highest obesity prevalence followed closely by other Middle East (ME) countries, namely, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates (UAE). …”
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Comparing General versus Spinal Anesthesia for Cesarean Section in a Severely Pre-eclamptic Parturients by Omer Abdalbagi Mohamed Elawad, Omayma Hassan Elamin, Areeg Izzeldin Ahmed Yousif, Gamal Abdalla Mohamed Ejaimi

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Bulk Low-Inertia Power Systems Adaptive Fault Type Classification Method Based on Machine Learning and Phasor Measurement Units Data by Mihail Senyuk, Svetlana Beryozkina, Inga Zicmane, Murodbek Safaraliev, Viktor Klassen, Firuz Kamalov

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How Do the Crises of Falling Oil Prices and COVID-19 Affect Economic Sectors in the Rentier Economies? Evidence from the GCC Countries by Erhan Akkaş, Hazem Al Samman

“…The results show that the hardest-hit countries are Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar, respectively, while the least impacted countries are Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait. Furthermore, the sector-wise analysis results reveal that the industrial sector in Saudi Arabia is the sector most affected by the oil price crisis, and the financial sector in Saudi Arabia is the sector most impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak in the GCC countries.…”
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Clustering of countries in terms of deaths and cases of COVID-19 by Ozge PASIN, Tugce PASIN

“…Results: As a result, Armenia, Aruba, Bahrain, French Guiana, Israel, Kuwait, Montenegro, Oman, Qatar, San Marino were a single cluster apart from other countries for two-step clustering. …”
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Photonic Horn Jets and Whispering Gallery Modes in Dielectric Micro-Cylinders With Two Point-Source Illumination by Shadi A. Alboon, Qing Huo Liu, Ibrahim Mahariq

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Explicit iteration of an unbounded solution of turbulent flow model involving ψ-Riemann–Liouville fractional derivatives by Sabri T.M. Thabet, Imed Kedim, Bahaaeldin Abdalla, Thabet Abdeljawad

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A predictive model for electrical conductivity of polymer carbon nanofiber composites considering nanofiber/interphase network and tunneling dimensions by Yasser Zare, Muhammad Tajammal Munir, Kyong Yop Rhee, Soo-Jin Park

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A Data Mining Approach Identified Salivary Biomarkers That Discriminate between Two Obesity Measures by Ping Shi, J. Max Goodson

“…For a random cohort of over 700 subjects from 8137 Kuwait children (10.00 ± 0.67 years), four data mining methods were applied to identify important variables associated with obesity, including logistic regression by lasso regularization (Lasso), multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS), random forests (RF), and boosting classification trees (BT). …”
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An alternative statistical model for modeling the bimodal asymmetric data with properties, copulas, assessment and applications by Mustafa Kamal, Hebatallah H. Mohammad, Sabir Ali Siddiqui, Maryam Ibrahim Habadi, Mohammad Abiad, Badr Aloraini, Atif Ali Yassin Ali, Sara Mohamed Ahmed Alsheikh

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The First Report of Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus (TYLCV) Occurrence in Tomato Greenhouses of Lorestan Province by Farzaneh Rostami, Samira Pakbaz, Mostafa Darvishnia

“…Also, Kh1 isolate had the most similarity (95.40%) with the Kuwait isolate and the Kh2 isolate showed the highest similarity (97.60%) with the Iraq isolate. …”
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Isolation of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 Virus from Saker Falcons (Falco cherrug) in the Middle East by Henju Marjuki, Ulrich Wernery, Hui-Ling Yen, John Franks, Patrick Seiler, David Walker, Scott Krauss, Robert G. Webster

“…We studied the antigenic, molecular, phylogenetic, and pathogenic properties of 2 HPAI H5N1 viruses isolated from dead falcons in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in 2005 and 2007, respectively. Phylogenetic and antigenic analyses grouped both isolates in clade 2.2 (Qinghai-like viruses). …”
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A comparative analysis of fractal and fractionalized thermal non-equilibrium model for chaotic convection saturated by porous medium by Kashif Ali Abro, Imran Qasim Memon, Ali Yousef, Qasem M. Al-Mdallal

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Optical wave features and sensitivity analysis of a coupled fractional integrable system by Jan Muhammad, Usman Younas, D.K. Almutairi, Aziz Khan, Thabet Abdeljawad

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Synthesis and characterization of original fluorinated bis-cyclic carbonates and xanthates from a fluorinated epoxide by Alaaeddine, Ali, Ladmiral, Vincent, El Malti, Wassim, Haydar, Lolwa, Caillol, Sylvain, Améduri, Bruno

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Diagnosis of induction motor stator faults around rotor slot harmonics using the Matrix Pencil method by Mohamed Kouadria, Zakaria Chedjara, Chun-Lien Su, Mohamed Benbouzid, Josep M. Guerrero, Babul Salam KSM Kader Ibrahim, Hafiz Ahmed

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Burden and mortality of breast cancer attributed to diabetes and smoking in women: a secondary analysis based on Global Burden of Disease 2019 in North Africa and the Middle East by Fatemeh Khosravi Shadmani, Ali Jafari-Khounigh, Leili Abedi Gheshlaghi, Leila Rezakhani, Mozafar Khazaei

“…Also, we presented data for DALYs and mortality attributed to diabetes, smoking and passive smoking among women with BC.Results The age-standardised DALY due to BC in women increased slowly from 395 (95% CI: 357 to 458) per 100 000 in 1990 to 473 (95% CI: 409 to 544) per 100 000 in 2019. But Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan and Turkey saw a decrease in age-standardised DALY trends between 1990 and 2019. …”
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The Role of Big Data Analytics in Revolutionizing Diabetes Management and Healthcare Decision-Making by Muhammad Nauman, Ahmad S. Almadhor, Mohammed Albekairi, Ali R. Ansari, Muhammad A. B. Fayyaz, Raheel Nawaz

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Exploring damped and undamped frequencies in beam structures with viscoelastic supports using GFEM and state-space formulation by Gulnaz Kanwal, Hani Alahmadi, Rab Nawaz, Tayyab Nawaz

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Efficient determination of fish spoilage using colorimetric strips from sugarcane bagasse waste by Syed Gazanfar Abbas, Fatima Sherazi, Muhammad Hayat, Suryyia Manzoor, Nadeem Raza, Faryal Aftab, Shamroza Mubarik, Muhammad Imran Khan, Abdallah Shanableh, Rafael Luque

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