Mujahid M. Khan, Hasem H. Darwish, Walid Abbas Zaher,
The infratemporal fossa is a clinically important anatomical area for the delivery of local anaesthetic agents in dentistry and maxillofacial surgery. We studied the infratemporal fossas in white cadavers, and in particular the topographical relations of the inferior alveolar nerve and the maxillary artery. In 3 of the 50 fossas dissected the maxillary artery passed through the inferior alveolar nerve, splitting it into superficial and deep divisions. Entrapment of the maxillary artery may cause ...
Tópico(s): Facial Trauma and Fracture Management
2009 - Elsevier BV | British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Thyciane Santos Oliveira, Laís Karla da Silva Barreto, Walid Abbas El-Aouar, Liêda Amaral de Souza, Leonardo Victor de Sá Pinheiro,
NOMOFOBIA. Dependencia do computador, internet, redes sociais? Dependencia do telefone celular? O impacto das novas tecnologias no cotidiano dos individuos. Anna Lucia Spear King, Antonio Egidio Nardi, & Adriana Cardoso (Orgs.). Sao Paulo, SP: Atheneu, 2014. 327 p.
Tópico(s): Education and Digital Technologies
2017 - FUNDAÇÃO GETÚLIO VARGAS | Revista de Administração de Empresas
Sally Mahmoud, Subhashini Ganesan, S V Naik, Safaa Bissar, Isra Al Zamel, KN Warren, Walid Abbas Zaher, Gulfaraz Khan,
Serological assays for measuring severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) antibodies have crucial applications in the control and surveillance of the current COVID-19 pandemic. A large number of such assays have been developed and are now commercially available. However, there are limited studies evaluating the performance of these tests. We evaluated the performances of the following six commercially available serological assays for detecting SARS-CoV-2 antibodies: (i) Genscript ...
Tópico(s): COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
2021 - American Society for Microbiology | Microbiology Spectrum
Walid Abbas Zaher, Faheem Ahamed, Subhashini Ganesan, Katherine S. Warren, Ashish Koshy,
This study analyses the UAE leadership's approach in response to the COVID-19 crisis through the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's Strategic Crisis Management Framework. This framework analyzes the crisis management in three phases: the preparedness, the response to mitigate damage and the feedback mechanism after the crisis. The analysis showed that the key components of the UAE's crisis management included efficient and able governance, integrated utilization of public-private ...
Tópico(s): Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
2021 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Public Health
Nawal Al Kaabi, Yuntao Zhang, Shengli Xia, Yunkai Yang, Manaf M. Al Qahtani, Najiba M. Abdulrazzaq, Majed Al Nusair, Mohamed Hassany, Jaleela S. Jawad, Jehad Abdalla, Salah Eldin Hussein, Shamma K. Al Mazrouei, Maysoon Al Karam, Xinguo Li, Xuqin Yang, Wei Wang, Bonan Lai, Wei Chen, Shihe Huang, Qian Wang, Tian Yang, Yang Liu, Rui Ma, Zaidoon M. Hussain, Tehmina Khan, Mohammed Saifuddin Fasihuddin, Wangyang You, Zhiqiang Xie, Yuxiu Zhao, Zhiwei Jiang, Guoqing Zhao, Yanbo Zhang, Sally Mahmoud, Islam Eltantawy, Peng Xiao, Ashish Koshy, Walid Abbas Zaher, Hui Wang, Kai Duan, An Pan, Xiaoming Yang,
Importance Although effective vaccines against COVID-19 have been developed, additional vaccines are still needed. Objective To evaluate the efficacy and adverse events of 2 inactivated COVID-19 vaccines. Design, Setting, and Participants Prespecified interim analysis of an ongoing randomized, double-blind, phase 3 trial in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain among adults 18 years and older without known history of COVID-19. Study enrollment began on July 16, 2020. Data sets used for the interim analysis ...
Tópico(s): COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
2021 - American Medical Association | JAMA
Sally Mahmoud, Subhashini Ganesan, Esra Ibrahim, Bhagyashree Thakre, Juliet G. Teddy, Preety Raheja, Walid Abbas Zaher,
Abstract In the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic there is a mass screening of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) happening around the world due to the extensive spread of the infections. There is a high demand for rapid diagnostic tests to expedite the identification of cases and to facilitate early isolation and control spread. Hence this study evaluates six different rapid nucleic acid detection assays that are commercially available for SARS‐CoV‐2 virus ...
Tópico(s): Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
2021 - Wiley | Journal of Medical Virology
Rong Liu, Pei Wu, Pauline Ogrodzki, Sally Mahmoud, Ke Liang, Pengjuan Liu, Stephen Francis, Hanif Khalak, Denghui Liu, Junhua Li, Tao Ma, Fang Chen, Weibin Liu, Xinyu Huang, Wenjun He, Zhaorong Yuan, Nan Qiao, Xin Meng, Budoor Alqarni, Javier Quilez, Vinay Kusuma, Long Lin, Xin Jin, Chongguang Yang, Xavier Anton, Ashish Koshy, Huanming Yang, Xun Xu, Jian Wang, Peng Xiao, Nawal Al Kaabi, Mohammed Saifuddin Fasihuddin, Amirtharaj Francis, Stefan Weber, Farida Ismail Al Hosani, Siyang Liu, Walid Abbas Zaher,
To unravel the source of SARS-CoV-2 introduction and the pattern of its spreading and evolution in the United Arab Emirates, we conducted meta-transcriptome sequencing of 1067 nasopharyngeal swab samples collected between May 9th and Jun 29th, 2020 during the first peak of the local COVID-19 epidemic. We identified global clade distribution and eleven novel genetic variants that were almost absent in the rest of the world and that defined five subclades specific to the UAE viral population. Cross- ...
Tópico(s): Viral Infections and Outbreaks Research
2021 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Faheem Ahamed, Subhashini Ganesan, Anila James, Walid Abbas Zaher,
In the current COVID-19 pandemic, the world has reached an important milestone where vaccinations are discovered and are proven to be effective against SARS-COV-2 infections. Though vaccines against COVID-19 are now available, around the globe there is some hesitancy in getting the vaccine. This hesitancy to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is a complex phenomenon with various factors playing a role. This study aims at understanding the perception and expectations of the people about COVID-19 vaccine ...
Tópico(s): COVID-19 epidemiological studies
2021 - BioMed Central | BMC Public Health
Sally Mahmoud, Esra Ibrahim, Bhagyashree Thakre, Juliet G. Teddy, Preety Raheja, Subhashini Ganesan, Walid Abbas Zaher,
Abstract Background The current pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, widely known as COVID-19, has affected millions of people around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended vigorous testing to differentiate SARS-CoV-2 from other respiratory infections to aid in guiding appropriate care and management. Situations like this have demanded robust testing strategies and pooled testing of samples for SARS-CoV-2 virus has provided the solution to mass screening of people for COVID-19. ...
Tópico(s): Biosensors and Analytical Detection
2021 - BioMed Central | BMC Infectious Diseases
Zhimeng Xu, Yuting Mai, Denghui Liu, Wenjun He, Xinyuan Lin, Chi Xu, Lei Zhang, Xin Meng, Joseph Mafofo, Walid Abbas Zaher, Ashish Koshy, Yi Li, Nan Qiao,
Nanopore sequencing from Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) is a promising third-generation sequencing (TGS) technology that generates relatively longer sequencing reads compared to the next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology. A basecaller is a piece of software that translates the original electrical current signals into nucleotide sequences. The accuracy of the basecaller is crucially important to downstream analysis. Bonito is a deep learning-based basecaller recently developed by ONT. Its neural ...
Tópico(s): Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
2021 - Elsevier BV | Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences
Farida Al-Hosani, Anderson Stanciole, Bashir Aden, Andrey Timoshkin, Omar Najim, Walid Abbas Zaher, Fatima AlSayedsaleh AlDhaheri, Shereena Al Mazrouie, Tahir A. Rizvi, Farah Mustafa,
This is a community-based, retrospective, observational study conducted to determine effectiveness of the BBIBP-CorV inactivated vaccine in the real-world setting against hospital admissions and death.Study participants were selected from 214,940 PCR-positive cases of COVID-19 reported to the Department of Health, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates (UAE) between September 01, 2020 and May 1, 2021. Of these, 176,640 individuals were included in the study who were aged ≥ 15 years with confirmed ...
Tópico(s): COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
2022 - Elsevier BV | Vaccine
Pablo Marlon Medeiros da Silva, Walid Abbas El-Aouar, Arthur William Pereira da Silva, Ahiram Brunni Cartaxo de Castro, Juliana Carvalho de Sousa,
Este artigo visa explorar a relação entre a realidade empreendedora feminina com a resiliência humana. Por meio de uma pesquisa descritiva e explicativa e com abordagem quantitativa realizada com 183 mulheres microempreendedoras individuais de duas cidades do Rio Grande do Norte de diferentes ramos. Os resultados apontaram dificuldades enfrentadas pelas pesquisadas como a crise financeira do país, a concorrência, a inadimplência dos clientes, o problema em conciliar as atividades do negócio com ...
Tópico(s): Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
2018 - Universidade Federal de Minas de Gerais | Gestão e Sociedade
S. Holt, Sally Mahmoud, Wasim Ahmed, Juan Acuña, Ayman Kamal Al Madani, Islam Eltantawy, Walid Abbas Zaher, Gareth John Goodier, Nawal Al Kaabi, Ali Obaidli,
To establish the responses to the Sinopharm HB02 COVID-19 vaccination in the dialysis population, which are not well established. We examined the humoral responses to the Sinopharm COVID vaccine in haemodialysis patients.Standard vaccinations (two doses at interval of ~21 days) were given to all consenting haemodialysis patients on dialysis (n = 1296). We measured the antibody responses at 14-21 days after the second vaccine to define the development of anti-spike antibodies >15 AU/ml after vaccination ...
Tópico(s): COVID-19 epidemiological studies
2021 - Wiley | Nephrology
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Júlio César Ferro de Guimarães, Eliana Andréa Severo, Domingos Fernandes Campos, Walid Abbas El-Aouar, Fabiana Lucena Bezerra de Azevedo,
Purpose The organizations need to use strategic drivers such as market orientation (MO) and knowledge management (KM) for the development of product and process innovations, which can become a major source of sustainable competitive advantage (SCA). However, there is a gap in the use of these precepts, specifically in Brazilian companies. The purpose of this paper is to measure the relationship among MO, KM orientation, innovation (product and process), SCA and organizational performance (OP). Design/ ...
Tópico(s): Sustainable Supply Chain Management
2019 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Benchmarking An International Journal
Sally Mahmoud, Subhashini Ganesan, Nawal Al Kaabi, S V Naik, Santosh Elavalli, Prem Gopinath, Alaa Mousa Ali, Lara Bazzi, katherine Warren, Walid Abbas Zaher, Farida Al Hosani,
Booster doses for COVID-19 vaccinations are currently recommended and approved in many countries. However, we need more evidence on the immune response of individuals to booster doses of inactivated vaccines and the neutralizing effect against the variants of concerns of SARS-CoV-2.To compare the fold reduction in antibody titers against the variants of concerns of SARS-CoV-2 between the primary doses and booster dose vaccine cohorts of inactivated BBIBP-CorV vaccine.In this observational study ...
Tópico(s): Animal Virus Infections Studies
2022 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Clinical Virology
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Andréa Carla Monteiro Sales, Luciana Gondim de Almeida Guimarães, Alípio Ramos Veiga Neto, Walid Abbas El-Aouar, Glauber Ruan Barbosa Pereira,
Abstract: Identification and hierarchy of risks in inventory management allow mapping and generating a plan of actions in order to control them, diminish them or even extinguish them. This research aims to identify and measure the degree of importance of the main problems encountered in the sector of a metal production chain. The method used to develop this research is the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), in order to hierarchize and thus defines the best way to manage risks. The main results of ...
Tópico(s): Sustainable Supply Chain Management
2020 - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SÃO CARLOS | Gestão & Produção
Sally Mahmoud, Subhashini Ganesan, Esra Ibrahim, Bhagyashree Thakre, Juliet G. Teddy, Preety Raheja, Walid Z. Abbas,
In this COVID-19 pandemic, there is a dire need for cost-effective and less time-consuming alternatives for SARS-CoV-2 testing. The RNA extraction-free method for detecting SARS-CoV-2 in saliva is a promising option. This study found that it has high sensitivity (85.34%), specificity (95.04%), and was comparable to the gold standard nasopharyngeal swab (NPS) sample tests. The method showed good agreement between salivary and NPS samples, with a kappa coefficient of 0.797. However, there are variations ...
Tópico(s): COVID-19 diagnosis using AI
2021 - Hindawi Publishing Corporation | BioMed Research International
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Walid Abbas El-Aouar, César Ricardo Maia de Vasconcelos, Alípio Ramos Veiga Neto,
Abstract This study aimed to understand how the insertion of music in the work environment contributes to achieving Quality of Working Life (QWL), from the perspective of biopsychosocial and organisational well-being. The context where the study was conducted was the manufacturing area of a major textile company located in Natal, in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The use of a case study was the research strategy adopted, with exploratory and descriptive objectives. The primary data was ...
Tópico(s): Occupational Health and Burnout
2016 - UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA | Organizações & Sociedade
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Arthur William Pereira da Silva, Ana Lúcia de Araújo Lima Coelho, Helaine Cristine Carneiro dos Santos, Alípio Ramos Veiga Neto, Ahiram Brunni Cartaxo de Castro, Walid Abbas El-Aouar,
Tópico(s): Sustainability in Higher Education
2019 - Springer Science+Business Media | Environment Development and Sustainability
Mujahid M. Khan, Hasem H. Darwish, Walid Abbas Zaher,
The axillary arch is a muscle slip varying from 7 to 10 cm in length and 5 to 15 mm in breadth. It occasionally arises from the edge of the latissimus dorsi, at about the middle of the posterior fold of the axilla and crosses the axilla in front of the axillary vessels and nerves to join the under-surface of the tendon of the pectoralis major, the coracobrachialis, or the fascia over the biceps. During the dissection of a human cadaver, an unusual muscle band was encountered and identified as an ...
Tópico(s): Dupuytren's Contracture and Treatments
2008 - | European Journal of Anatomy
Hagar Ateia, Pauline Ogrodzki, Hannah Wilson, Subhashini Ganesan, Rabih Halwani, Ashish Koshy, Walid Abbas Zaher,
In this review, we discuss the current state of population genome programs (PGPs) conducted in the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. This region has high prevalence of genetic diseases and significant health challenges as well as being a significantly underrepresented population in public genetic databases. The majority of ongoing PGPs represent regions in Europe, North and South America, South Asia, Australia, and Africa, with little to no descriptive information highlighted only on the ...
Tópico(s): BRCA gene mutations in cancer
2023 - Karger Publishers | Biomedicine Hub
Abdul‐Latif Hamdan, Walid Medawar, Younes Abbas, Hala Bikhazi, Nabil Fuleihan,
Summary Because respiration is part of the well-coordinated process necessary for phonation, this study was conducted with the purpose of analyzing the effect of chronic hemodialysis on voice characteristics of patients with chronic renal failure. A total of 57 patients were recruited for the study, including 31 males and 26 females ranging in age from 16 to 85 years. Patients underwent evaluation of their voice directly before and after hemodialysis using the Kay Elemetric VISI Pitch (Model 330; ...
Tópico(s): Tracheal and airway disorders
2005 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Voice
Nick Newall, Antony D. Grayson, Aung Oo, Nicholas Palmer, Walid C. Dihmis, Abbas Rashid, Rod Stables,
BackgroundElevated preprocedural systemic markers of inflammation, including white blood cell count, have been associated with adverse clinical outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention. The relationship between preoperative white blood cell count and clinical outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting is less clear despite increasing evidence that neutrophils participate in reperfusion injury. We sought to determine the relationship between preoperative white blood cell count and in ...
Tópico(s): Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
2006 - Elsevier BV | The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Mohamed Abd Ellatif, Amro El Hadidi, Adil M. Musa, Walid Askar, Ashraf Abbas, Ahmed Negm, Ahmed Moatamed, Ibrahim Dawoud,
To compare the results obtained with T3 versus T4 sympathectomy in treatment of primary palmar hyperhidrosis (PH). By retrospective review of medical records of patients with PH who underwent thoracoscopic sympathectomy from February, 2009 to September, 2012. The patients were categorized into two groups: T3 group underwent T3 sympathectomy and T4 group underwent T4 sympathectomy. Patients were evaluated according to the results of sweating, compensatory hyperhidrosis (CH), degree of satisfaction, ...
Tópico(s): Sympathectomy and Hyperhidrosis Treatments
2014 - Wolters Kluwer | International Journal of Surgery
Deborah Mukherji, Bassem Youssef, Christelle Dagher, Albert El Hajj, Rami Nasr, Fadi Geara, Danny Rabah, Saad Al Dousari, Rabih Said, Raja Ashou, Wassim Wazzan, Michel Jabbour, George J. Farha, Nibras Al Hamdani, Yousuf Al Hallaq, Hassan Ghazal, Haifa Dbouk, Bassel G. Bachir, C. El Khoury, Ghazi Sakr, Hero K. Hussain, Khaled Sayyid, Khaled Ibrahim, Mohammad A. Haidar, Nicolas Zouain, Nizar Bitar, Walid Alameh, Fadi Abbas, Sami Faddoul, Elie Nemer, Georges Assaf, Fadi Farhat, Muhammad Bulbul, Sally Temraz, Ali Shamseddine, Silke Gillessen, Aurelius Omlin, Raja B. Khauli,
Prostate cancer care in the Middle East is highly variable and access to specialist multidisciplinary management is limited. Academic tertiary referral centers offer cutting-edge diagnosis and treatment; however, in many parts of the region, patients are managed by non-specialists with limited resources. Due to many factors including lack of awareness and lack of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening, a high percentage of men present with locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer at diagnosis. ...
Tópico(s): Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
2019 - Springer Science+Business Media | World Journal of Urology
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Luiz Antônio Félix Júnior, Wênyka Preston Leite Batista da Costa, Luciana Gondim de Almeida Guimarães, Glauber Ruan Barbosa Pereira, Walid Abbas El-Aouar,
Purpose The participation of society is a valuable aspect of the governability of cities, for it strengthens the citizens’ collaborative component. Such participation, which is seen as social, is considered an essential element for the design of a smart city. This study aims to identify the factors that contribute to social participation in the definition of budgetary instruments’ planning. Design/methodology/approach Concerning the methodological instruments, this study is characterised by a quantitative ...
Tópico(s): Smart Cities and Technologies
2020 - Emerald Publishing Limited | Transforming Government People Process and Policy
Farida Ismail Al Hosani, Anderson Stanciole, Bashir Aden, Andrey Timoshkin, Omar Najim, Walid Abbas Zaher, Fatima AlSayedsaleh AlDhaheri, Shereena Al Mazrouei, Tahir A. Rizvi, Farah Mustafa,
Background: This is a community-based retrospective cohort study conducted to determine effectiveness of the BBIBP-CorV inactivated vaccine in the real-world setting against hospital admissions and death.Methods: Study participants were chosen from 214,940 PCR-positive cases of COVID-19 reported to the Department of Health, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates (UAE) between September 01, 2020 and May 1, 2021. Of these, 176,640 individuals were included in the study who were aged ≥15 years with ...
Tópico(s): Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
2021 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Walid F. Sakr, Mohamed Abbas Ibrahim, Fars K. Alanazi, Adel A. Sakr,
With over 50 years of research in granulation technology, however more research is required to elucidate this widely applicable technology. Wetting phenomena could influence redistribution of individual ingredients within a granule according their solubility and also could affect the drying processes. Binder selection for a particular system is quite often empirical and dependent on the skills and experience of the formulator. Hand squeeze test was and still the main way for determination of wet ...
Tópico(s): Polysaccharides Composition and Applications
2011 - Elsevier BV | Saudi Pharmaceutical Journal
Hashim Elshafie, Norsheila Fisal, Muhammad Abbas, Walid A. Hassan, Hafizal Mohamad, Nordin Ramli, Shanjeevan Jayavalan, Suleiman Zubair,
Abstract Cognitive radio (CR) enables spectrum sharing by allowing new unlicensed services from secondary users to operate in pre‐allocated bands in an opportunistic manner. TV white space (TVWS) is a portion of the spectrum in ultra‐high frequency (UHF) and very‐high frequency bands, which is not utilised by primary users in specific time and location. It is envisaged that more spectrum will be available after digital switchover (DSO) TV transmission replaces the current analogue system. Recently, ...
Tópico(s): PAPR reduction in OFDM
2014 - | Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
Salima Harrat, Karima Meftouh, Mourad Abbas, Walid-Khaled Hidouci, Kamel Smaı̈li,
Arabic is the official language overall Arab coun-tries, it is used for official speech, news-papers, public adminis-tration and school. In Parallel, for everyday communication, non-official talks, songs and movies, Arab people use their dialects which are inspired from Standard Arabic and differ from one Arabic country to another. These linguistic phenomenon is called disglossia, a situation in which two distinct varieties of a language are spoken within the same speech community. It is observed ...
Tópico(s): Translation Studies and Practices
2016 - Science and Information Organization | International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications