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Petra University
Education•Amman, Jordan•
About: Petra University is a education organization based out in Amman, Jordan. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Context (language use) & Population. The organization has 359 authors who have published 727 publications receiving 7343 citations. The organization is also known as: University of Petra.
Topics: Context (language use), Population, Software requirements specification, Pharmacokinetics, Cancer
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a benchmark set of social disclosures appropriate to Islamic banks and compared the actual social disclosures contained in the annual reports of twentynine Islamic banks (located in sixteen countries) to this benchmark.
Abstract: The last thirty years have witnessed the appearance and rapid expansion of Islamic banking both inside and outside the Islamic world. Islamic banks provide financial products that do not violate Sharia, the Islamic law of human conduct. The Islamic principles upon which the banks claim to operate give an important role to social issues. Applying these principles, we develop a benchmark set of social disclosures appropriate to Islamic banks. These are then compared, using a disclosure index approach, the actual social disclosures contained in the annual reports of twenty-nine Islamic banks (located in sixteen countries) to this benchmark. In addition, content analysis is undertaken to measure the volume of social disclosures. Our analysis suggests that social reporting by Islamic banks falls significantly short of our expectations. The results of the analysis also suggest that banks required to pay the Islamic religious tax Zakah provide more social disclosures than banks not subject to Zakah.
485 citations
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TL;DR: Results indicate that RIF attenuates inflammatory status of the body by suppressing proinflammatory cytokine expression and decreasing body fat and circulating levels of leukocytes.
240 citations
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TL;DR: It is believed that real-time symptom data would allow these five algorithms to provide effective and accurate identification of potential cases of COVID-19, and the framework would then document the treatment response for each patient who has contracted the virus.
187 citations
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TL;DR: Both pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic actions of insulin were altered when different initial blood glucose levels of STZ diabetic rats were selected for testing, highlighting the importance of selecting predefined and unified glucose levels when using STZ as a diabetogenic agent in experimental protocols evaluating new antidiabetic agents and insulin delivery systems.
Abstract: Streptozotocin (STZ) is currently the most used diabetogenic agent in testing insulin and new antidiabetic drugs in animals. Due to the toxic and disruptive nature of STZ on organs, apart from pancreas, involved in preserving the body’s normal glucose homeostasis, this study aims to reassess the action of STZ in inducing different glucose response states in diabetic rats while testing insulin. Diabetic Sprague-Dawley rats induced with STZ were classified according to their initial blood glucose levels into stages. The effect of randomizing rats in such a manner was investigated for the severity of interrupting normal liver, pancreas, and kidney functions. Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic actions of subcutaneously injected insulin in diabetic and nondiabetic rats were compared. Interruption of glucose homeostasis by STZ was challenged by single and repeated administrations of injected insulin and oral glucose to diabetic rats. In diabetic rats with high glucose (451–750 mg/dL), noticeable changes were seen in the liver and kidney functions compared to rats with lower basal glucose levels. Increased serum levels of recombinant human insulin were clearly indicated by a significant increase in the calculated maximum serum concentration and area under the concentration–time curve. Reversion of serum glucose levels to normal levels pre- and postinsulin and oral glucose administrations to STZ diabetic rats were found to be variable. In conclusion, diabetic animals were more responsive to insulin than nondiabetic animals. STZ was capable of inducing different levels of normal glucose homeostasis disruption in rats. Both pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic actions of insulin were altered when different initial blood glucose levels of STZ diabetic rats were selected for testing. Such findings emphasize the importance of selecting predefined and unified glucose levels when using STZ as a diabetogenic agent in experimental protocols evaluating new antidiabetic agents and insulin delivery systems.
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TL;DR: This work provides a novel example where computer‐aided design was instrumental at modifying the performance of solid dosage forms and may serve as the foundation for a new generation of dosage forms with complicated geometric structures to achieve functionality that is usually achieved by a sophisticated formulation approach.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Naji M. Najib | 22 | 101 | 1724 |
Khalid Z. Matalka | 20 | 56 | 1198 |
Hatim S. AlKhatib | 19 | 60 | 1050 |
Tawfiq Arafat | 17 | 87 | 880 |
Mo'ez Al-Islam E. Faris | 15 | 54 | 834 |
Nidal A. Qinna | 15 | 50 | 791 |
Nasir Idkaidek | 15 | 60 | 716 |
Heba Alshaker | 14 | 23 | 594 |
Hussein Al-Bahadili | 14 | 55 | 452 |
Hamed R. Takruri | 14 | 64 | 762 |
Ibrahim Alnawas | 14 | 21 | 604 |
Qutuba G. Karwi | 13 | 23 | 490 |
Mayyas Al-Remawi | 13 | 50 | 566 |
Wael Hadi | 12 | 37 | 431 |
Khaled Ramadan | 12 | 39 | 320 |