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The risk of developing major depression among individuals with subthreshold depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal cohort studies.
( Cambridge University Press , 2019 , Article)Studies have consistently shown that subthreshold depression is associated with an increased risk of developing major depression. However, no study has yet calculated a pooled estimate that quantifies the magnitude of this ... -
Risk of Traffic Incident Delay in Routing and Scheduling of Hazardous Materials
( Springer New York LLC , 2016 , Article)Unlike normal traffic incidents, incidents involving hazardous material are associated with significant traffic delays. The model of the hazardous material routing and scheduling problem presented in this paper considers ... -
Risk of wheezing and asthma exacerbation in children treated with paracetamol versus ibuprofen: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
( BMC , 2020 , Article)Background Paracetamol and ibuprofen are the most commonly used medications for fever and pain management in children. While the efficacy appears similar with both drugs, there are contradictory findings related to adverse ... -
Risk Perception and Psychological Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic Among Healthcare Workers in Primary and Secondary Healthcare Settings in Qatar: A National Study
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2021 , Article)Introduction: During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, primary and secondary healthcare workers (HCWs) have faced unprecedented stress, jeopardizing their mental well-being. Aims: To compare risk perception ... -
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 ...