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Recent Submissions
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Transcriptome analysis revealed a novel nine-gene prognostic risk score of clear cell renal cell carcinoma.
( Medicine (Baltimore) , 2024 , Article)Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) continues to pose a significant global health concern, with rising incidence and high mortality rate. Accordingly, identifying molecular alternations associated with ccRCC is crucial ... -
Relationship between hemoglobinopathies and male infertility: a scoping review
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)Infertility is a common issue that threatens couples worldwide. Infertility can result from the male or female partner alone, or both partners. It can be due to multiple factors related to the patient’s overall health or ... -
Novel Mutations in AKT1 Gene in Prostate Cancer Patients in Jordan
( MDPI , 2024 , Article)The AKT1 oncogene is related to various cancers due to its critical role in the PIC3CA/AKT1 pathway; however, most of the studies screened the hotspot mutation AKT1 (E17K) with various incidences. Low frequency or lack of ... -
Towards the automatic risk of bias assessment on randomized controlled trials: A comparison of RobotReviewer and humans
( Wiley online library , 2024 , Article)RobotReviewer is a tool for automatically assessing the risk of bias in randomized controlled trials, but there is limited evidence of its reliability. We evaluated the agreement between RobotReviewer and humans regarding ... -
Do Governance Indicators Predict Inequality? A Panel Non-causality Framework for the Emerging Countries
( Springer Nature , 2023 , Book chapter)This investigation aims to explore the causal nexus between governance indicators and income inequality for 15 emerging countries for the period 2002–2019. This study focuses on developing countries because income inequality ... -
Beyond the Bite: Exploring Mental Health of Dental Faculty in Pakistan– a multi-institutional study
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)Introduction: Mental health issues are being reported increasingly amongst healthcare staff and students globally. The aim of this study was to investigate the frequency of common mental health issues amongst dental faculty ... -
Understanding tennis spectators' behavior and the role of social media - Cases from Qatar
( Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. , 2024 , Book chapter)Sports consumption is one of the leading behaviors in the modern world. The spectator world is big in that it contributes billions of dollars to the sporting industry across the globe. The tennis industry is growing according ... -
Undergraduate dental curricula in Middle Eastern and Arabic-speaking African Nations − A cross-sectional study
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)PurposeTo evaluate the design of undergraduate curricula, teaching and learning practices, assessments, admission criteria and quality assurance in dental schools across Middle Eastern and Arab-speaking African nations. ... -
Experimental analysis of free-standing and substrate-constrained Ga-doped ZnO nanostructured thermoelectric films
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)Developing thermoelectric films without substrates—free-standing films—eliminates substrate-induced effects on performance and meets the flexibility requirements of emerging wearable thermoelectric applications. This study ... -
Ethics and Regulation in Metaverse: Risks, Current Approaches, and Way Forward
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Book chapter)The metaverse is rapidly gaining momentum as the next phase of virtual reality, offering an innovative interactive platform for learning, economics, and social activities. This three-dimensional environment is designed to ... -
Navigating Privacy Challenges in the Metaverse: A Comprehensive Examination of Current Technologies and Platforms
( IEEE , 2024 , Article)The metaverse's rise brings unique privacy challenges. While existing research has broadly surveyed security and privacy in this domain, our article provides a targeted analysis of user privacy within notable VR/MR devices ... -
Empirical Research in Education: The Influence of Language
( Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE) , 2023 , Conference Paper)The use of technology and e-learning systems grown significantly during and after Covid-19 era. Language is an important factor in the efficient utilization of technology in education. This study tested the influence of ... -
Real, Live, and Concise: Answering Open-Domain Questions with Word Embedding and Summarization
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Resorting to community question answering (CQA) websites for finding answers has gained momentum in the recent years with the explosive rate at which social media has been proliferating. With many questions left unanswered ... -
Improving tweet timeline generation by predicting optimal retrieval depth
( Springer Verlag , 2015 , Conference Paper)Tweet Timeline Generation (TTG) systems provide users with informative and concise summaries of topics, as they developed over time, in a retrospective manner. In order to produce a tweet timeline that constitutes a summary ... -
QU at TREC-2014: Online Clustering with Temporal and Topical Expansion for Tweet Timeline Generation
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2014 , Conference Paper)In this work, we present our participation in the microblog track in TREC-2014, building upon our first participation last year. We present our approaches for the two tasks of this year: temporally-anchored ad-hoc search ... -
Identification of answer-seeking questions in Arabic microblogs
( Association for Computing Machinery , 2014 , Conference Paper)Over the past years, Twitter has earned a growing reputation as a hub for communication, and events advertisement and tracking. However, several recent research studies have shown that Twitter users (and microblogging ... -
Adaptive method for following dynamic topics on twitter
( The AAAI Press , 2014 , Conference Paper)Many research social studies of public response on social media require following (i.e., tracking) topics on Twitter for long periods of time. The current approaches rely on streaming tweets based on some hashtags or ... -
QU at TREC-2013: Expansion Experiments for Microblog Ad hoc Search
( National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) , 2013 , Conference Paper)In the first appearance of Qatar University (QU) at Text REtrieval Conference (TREC), our submitted microblog runs explored different ways of expanding the context of both queries and tweets to overcome the sparsity and ... -
Query performance prediction for microblog search: A preliminary study
( Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2014 , Conference Paper)Microblogging has recently become an integral part of the daily life of millions of people around the world. With a continuous flood of posts, microblogging services (e.g., Twitter) have to effectively handle millions of ... -
Detecting automatically-generated Arabic tweets
( Springer Verlag , 2015 , Conference Paper)Recently, Twitter, one of the most widely-known social media platforms, got infiltrated by several automation programs, commonly known as "bots". Bots can be easily abused to spread spam and hinder information extraction ...