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Risk prediction models for incident type 2 diabetes in Chinese people with intermediate hyperglycemia: a systematic literature review and external validation study
( BMC , 2022 , Article)BACKGROUND: People with intermediate hyperglycemia (IH), including impaired fasting glucose and/or impaired glucose tolerance, are at higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) than those with normoglycemia. We aimed ... -
Risk prediction of early decline in renal function in diabetic kidney disease with algorithm including fractional excretion of glycated amino acids
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Poster)Background and aims: Diabetic kidney disease occurs in ca. 40% patients with diabetes. Approximately 1 in 5 patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and 1 in 3 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) develop ... -
Risk reporting and earnings smoothing: signaling or managerial opportunism?
( Emerald , 2022 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the association between two reporting mechanisms used by managers to communicate risk information to the capital market: risk disclosure and earnings smoothing. Design/met ... -
Risk spillover from crude oil prices to GCC stock market returns: New evidence during the COVID-19 outbreak
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)In this study, we examine oil price extreme tail risk spillover to individual Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets and quantify this spillover's shift before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. A dynamic conditional ... -
Risk spillovers and hedging effectiveness between major commodities, and Islamic and conventional GCC banks
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)This paper examines the dynamic risk spillovers and hedging effectiveness between two important commodity markets (oil and gold) and both the Islamic and conventional bank stock indices for five GCC countries (Bahrain, ... -
Risk-constrained scheduling of solar Stirling engine based industrial continuous heat treatment furnace
( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)This paper presents a novel framework for designing and optimal scheduling of an air source heat pump based industrial continuous heat treatment furnace (ICHTF) which is driven by a solar Stirling engine and a wind turbine. ... -
Risk-Management Framework and Information-Security Systems for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): A Meta-Analysis Approach
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)Information-technology (IT) security standards are regularly updated in a rapidly changing technological world to maintain pace with advanced technologies. This study was motivated by the realization that established IT ... -
Rivaroxaban Pharmacokinetics in Obese Subjects: A Systematic Review
( Springer Nature , 2022 , Article)Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality globally. The direct oral anticoagulants, including rivaroxaban, are relatively novel therapeutic options in the treatment and prevention of VTE. ... -
RKIP in human diseases and its potential as a prognostic indicator and therapeutic target
( Elsevier , 2020 , Book chapter)The Raf kinase inhibitory protein (RKIP) is an inhibitor of the RAF/MEK/ERK and NF-κB signaling pathways, through which it regulates several key processes of the cell's physiology, such as its proliferation, motility and ... -
RL-Assisted Energy-Aware User-Edge Association for IoT-based Hierarchical Federated Learning
(2022 , Conference Paper)The extremely heavy global reliance on IoT devices is causing enormous amounts of data to be gathered and shared in IoT networks. Such data need to efficiently be used in training and deploying of powerful artificially ... -
RL-Based Federated Learning Framework Over Blockchain (RL-FL-BC)
( IEEE , 2023 , Article)Federated learning (FL) paradigms aim to amalgamate diverse data properties stored locally at each user, while preserving data privacy through sharing users’ learning experiences and iteratively aggregating their ... -
RL-DistPrivacy: Privacy-Aware Distributed Deep Inference for Low Latency IoT Systems
( IEEE Computer Society , 2022 , Article)Although Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have become the backbone technology of several ubiquitous applications, their deployment in resource-constrained machines, e.g., Internet of Things (IoT) devices, is still challenging. ... -
RL-OPRA: Reinforcement Learning for Online and Proactive Resource Allocation of crowdsourced live videos
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)© 2020 Elsevier B.V. With the advancement of rich media generating devices, the proliferation of live Content Providers (CP), and the availability of convenient internet access, crowdsourced live streaming services have ... -
RL-PDNN: Reinforcement Learning for Privacy-Aware Distributed Neural Networks in IoT Systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Due to their high computational and memory demand, deep learning applications are mainly restricted to high-performance units, e.g., cloud and edge servers. Particularly, in Internet of Things (IoT) systems, the data ... -
RLENS: RL-based Energy-Efficient Network Selection Framework for IoMT
( IEEE , 2022 , Conference Paper)With the emergence of smart health (s-health) applications and services, several requirements for quality have arisen to foresee and react instantaneously to emergency circumstances. Such requirements demand fast-acting ... -
RNA splicing: a dual-edged sword for hepatocellular carcinoma
( Springer , 2022 , Article Review)RNA splicing is the fundamental process that brings diversity at the transcriptome and proteome levels. The spliceosome complex regulates minor and major processes of RNA splicing. Aberrant regulation is often associated ... -
RNA:DNA ratios as a proxy of egg production rates of Acartia
( Academic Press , 2017 , Article)Estimates of copepod secondary production are of great importance to infer the global organic matter fluxes in aquatic ecosystems and species-specific responses of zooplankton to hydrologic variability. However, there is ... -
Road Profile Estimation Using Full/Quarter-Car Model with Artificial Neural Networks
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2024 , Conference Paper)The monitoring of road roughness is one of the first and most critical steps in road maintenance. Road networks need constant maintenance to function properly and avoid any hazardous accidents or blockage of the traffic ... -
Road safety status during COVID-19 pandemic: exploring public and road safety expert’s opinions
( Taylor & Francis , 2022 , Article)The main objective of this study is to investigate the status of traffic safety and the public perception of traffic safety during the during COVID-19 pandemic. Three different data sets are used in this study: road crash ... -
Road users' behavior at marked Crosswalks on channelized right-turn lanes at intersections in the state of Qatar
( MDPI AG , 2019 , Article)At non-signalized marked crosswalks, pedestrian priority is neither well-defined nor well acknowledged by drivers. This paper presents the findings of an investigation on both driver and pedestrian behavior at non-signalized ...
