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    • Training During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices of 12,526 Athletes from 142 Countries and Six Continents 

      Washif, Jad Adrian; Farooq, Abdulaziz; Krug, Isabel; Pyne, David B.; Verhagen, Evert; ... more authors ( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2022 , Article)
      Objective: Our objective was to explore the training-related knowledge, beliefs, and practices of athletes and the influence of lockdowns in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe ...
    • Ramadan intermittent fasting induced poorer training practices during the COVID-19 lockdown: A global cross-sectional study with 5529 athletes from 110 countries 

      Washif, Jad; B. Pyne, David; Sandbakk, Oyvind; Trabelsi, Khaled; Aziz, Abdul Rashid; ... more authors ( Institute of Sport , 2022 , Article)
      Ramadan intermittent fasting during the COVID-19 lockdown (RIFL) may present unique demands. We investigated training practices (i.e., training load and training times) of athletes, using pre-defined survey criteria/questions, ...
    • The mitigating role of physical activities on emotions is gender-specific: An experience during "lenient" COVID-19 prevention protocols 

      Alomari, Mahmoud A.; Megreya, Ahmed M.; Hadi, Safya; Haddad, Monoem ( Taylor and Francis Ltd. , 2023 , Article)
      The researchers examined emotional status subsequent to changes in physical (PA) and sedentary (SA) activities during "lenient" COVID-19 prevention protocols that allowed being outdoors. Emotions, PA, and SA were collected ...
    • Covid-19 pandemic and quality of life among Romanian athletes 

      Cosma, Germina Alina; Chiracu, Alina; Stepan, Amalia Raluca; Cosma, Marian Alexandru; Nanu, Marian Costin; ... more authors ( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2021 , Article)
      The aim of this study was to analyze athletes’ quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study involved 249 athletes between 15 and 35 of age, M = 21.22, SD = 5.12. The sample was composed of eight Olympic Games ...
    • Impact of covid‐19 on swimming training: Practical recommendations during home confinement/isolation 

      Haddad, Monoem; Abbes, Zied; Mujika, Iñigo; Chamari, Karim ( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2021 , Article)
      The COVID‐19 pandemic has had severe effects on communities globally, leading to significant restrictions on all aspects of society, including in sports. Several significant decisions were made to postpone or cancel major ...
    • Learning in lockdown: Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on interprofessional education 

      Power, Alison; Sy, Michael Palapal; Hutchings, Maggie; Coleman, Tracy; El-Awaisi, Alla; ... more authors ( Mark Allen Publishing Ltd. , 2021 , Article)
      The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the learning experiences of students undertaking health and social care programmes across the globe. In the UK, the Nursing and Midwifery Council introduced emergency ...
    • Digital-Twins-Based Internet of Robotic Things for Remote Health Monitoring of COVID-19 Patients 

      Khan, Sangeen; Ullah, Sehat; Khan, Habib Ullah; Rehman, Inam Ur ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023 , Article)
      The deadly coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has highlighted the importance of remote health monitoring (RHM). The digital-twins (DTs) paradigm enables RHM by creating a virtual replica that receives data from the physical ...
    • Smart technologies driven approaches to tackle COVID-19 pandemic: a review 

      Khan, Hameed; Kushwah, K. K.; Singh, Saurabh; Urkude, Harshika; Maurya, Muni Raj; ... more authors ( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Article Review)
      The novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) is not diminishing without vaccine, but it impinges on human safety and economy can be minimized by adopting smart technology to combat pandemic situation. The implementation of ...
    • Resilience and Sustainability in the Gulf Migration Regimes: Kafāla in the Era of Covid-19 

      Ewers, Michael; Diop, Abdoulaye; Le, Kien Trung; Bader, Lina ( Routledge , 2023 , Article)
      The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has strongly reaffirmed the critical importance of labor migration to the global economy, even as it has raised questions about the temporary migration programs responsible for much of this ...
    • Prevalence and potential determinants of covid-19 vaccine hesitancy and resistance in qatar: Results from a nationally representative survey of qatari nationals and migrants between december 2020 and january 2021 

      Khaled, Salma M.; Petcu, Catalina; Bader, Lina; Amro, Iman; Al-Hamadi, Aisha Mohammed H. A.; ... more authors ( MDPI AG , 2021 , Article)
      Global COVID-19 pandemic containment necessitates understanding the risk of hesitance or resistance to vaccine uptake in different populations. The Middle East and North Africa currently lack vital representative vaccine ...
    • Understanding the buffering effect of social media use on anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown 

      Marzouki, Yousri; Aldossari, Fatimah Salem; Veltri, Giuseppe A. ( Springer , 2021 , Article)
      During the COVID-19 outbreak, lockdown measures have been deployed worldwide. In the wake of these measures, internet and social media use has reached unprecedented peaks. We hypothesize that social media can, in the context ...
    • Smart 3D Simulation of Covid-19 for Evaluating the Social Distance Measures 

      Al-Khayarin, A.; Halabi, O. ( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      The aim of this research is to model and simulate the recent and ongoing COVID19 pandemic in terms of virus contagiousness among mixed groups of patients, carriers and unaffected individuals when taking into consideration ...
    • Follow up and comparative assessment of IgG, IgA, and neutralizing antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 between mRNA-vaccinated naïve and unvaccinated naturally infected individuals over 10 months 

      Salma, Younes; Nicolai, Eleonora; Al-Sadeq, Duaa W.; Younes, Nadin; Al-Dewik, Nader; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      BackgroundEvidence on the effectiveness of vaccination-induced immunity compared to SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity is warranted to inform vaccination recommendations. AimIn this study, we aimed to conduct a comparative ...
    • Enhancing the sensitivity of rapid antigen detection test (RADT) of different SARS-CoV-2 variants and lineages using fluorescence-labeled antibodies and a fluorescent meter 

      Gheyath K., Nasrallah; Ali, Fatma; Younes, Salma; Al Khatib, Heba A.; Al-Thani, Asmaa A.; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      RT-qPCR is considered the gold standard for diagnosis of COVID-19; however, it is laborious, time-consuming, and expensive. RADTs have evolved recently as relatively inexpensive methods to address these shortcomings, but ...
    • Modeling and forecasting electricity consumption amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Machine learning vs. nonlinear econometric time series models 

      Lanouar, Charfeddine; Zaidan, Esmat; Alban, Ahmad Qadeib; Bennasr, Hamdi; Abulibdeh, Ammar ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      Accurately modeling and forecasting electricity consumption remains a challenging task due to the large number of the statistical properties that characterize this time series such as seasonality, trend, sudden changes, ...
    • Population immunity of natural infection, primary-series vaccination, and booster vaccination in Qatar during the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational study 

      Suelen H., Qassim; Chemaitelly, Hiam; Ayoub, Houssein H.; Coyle, Peter; Tang, Patrick; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)
      BackgroundWaning of natural infection protection and vaccine protection highlight the need to evaluate changes in population immunity over time. Population immunity of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection or of COVID-19 vaccination ...
    • Bivalent mRNA-1273.214 vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 omicron XBB* infections 

      Chemaitelly, Hiam; Ayoub, Houssein H.; AlMukdad, Sawsan; Faust, Jeremy S.; Tang, Patrick; ... more authors (2023 , Article)
      In October of 2022, Qatar introduced COVID-19 bivalent vaccination for persons ≥ 12 years using the 50-μg mRNA-1273.214 vaccine combining SARS-CoV-2 ancestral and omicron BA.1 strains.1 We estimated this vaccine’s effectiveness ...
    • Assessment of Broadly Reactive Responses in Patients With MERS-CoV Infection and SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination 

      Zedan, Hadeel T.; Smatti, Maria K.; Thomas, Swapna; Nasrallah, Gheyath K.; Afifi, Nahla M.; ... more authors ( American Medical Association , 2023 , Article)
      Importance: In the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there remain unanswered questions regarding the nature and importance of the humoral immune response against other coronaviruses. Although coinfection of the Middle East ...
    • Therapeutic potential of resveratrol in covid-19-associated hemostatic disorders 

      Giordo, Roberta; Zinellu, Angelo; Eid, Ali H.; Pintus, Gianfranco ( MDPI , 2021 , Article)
      Coagulation disorders, endotheliopathy and inflammation are the most common hallmarks in SARS-CoV-2 infection, largely determining COVID-19's outcome and severity. Dysfunctions of endothelial cells and platelets are tightly ...
    • Ace2 is an adjacent element of atherosclerosis and covid-19 pathogenesis 

      Poznyak, Anastasia V.; Bezsonov, Evgeny E.; Eid, Ali H.; Popkova, Tatyana V.; Nedosugova, Ludmila V.; ... more authors ( MDPI , 2021 , Article Review)
      COVID-19 is a highly contagious new infection caused by the single-stranded RNA SarsCoV-2 virus. For the first time, this infection was recorded in December 2019 in the Chinese province of Wuhan. The virus presumably crossed ...