Response of cauliflower (<i>Brassica oleracea</i> L.) to nitric oxide application under cadmium stress by Jing Ma (24574)

“…The concentration of malondialdehyde (MDA) and Cd accumulation (roots and shoots) increased significantly (P < 0.05) under the increasing levels of Cd in all genotypes of B. oleracea while antioxidant (enzymatic or non-enzymatic) capacity and nutritional status of the plants was decreased with varying levels of Cd in the sand. …”

Assessing the potential of network reconfiguration to improve distributed generation hosting capacity in active distribution systems by Margossian, Harag

“…This paper explores how the DG hosting capacity of active distribution systems can be increased by means of network reconfiguration, both static, i.e., grid reconfiguration at planning stage, and dynamic, i.e., grid reconfiguration using remotely controlled switches as an active network management (ANM) scheme. …”
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Enhancing the Main Contractor-Subcontractor trusting relationship in the United Arab Emirates: A strategic approach to rebuilding trust in complex construction projects by ISSA, RAMAZ SELMAN

“…The oil price drop has significantly affected complex construction projects in the United Arab Emirates. …”
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Mixed matrix membranes containing aspartic acid functionalized graphene oxide for enhanced oil-water emulsion separation by Omnya Abdalla (17100211)

“…The results revealed an increase in the membrane’s hydrophilicity, water permeability and oil rejection at very low fGO loadings, i.e., 0.05 – 0.2 wt.%, but no further enhancement was obtained at higher loadings, i.e., 0.4−0.8 wt.%. …”

Overheating risk of a single-family detached house built at different ages under current and future climate in Canada by Mutasim Baba, Fuad

“…With the anticipated increase in temperature and solar radiation and frequency of extreme weather conditions due to climate change, buildings typically designed/built in Canadian cold climates would experience increased risks of summer overheating. …”
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Effect of Climate Change on the Energy Performance and Thermal Conditions of a Single-family Detached House in Canada by Mutasim Baba, Fuad

“…These measures will significantly reduce the energy consumption of buildings. …”
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Polarimetric SAR Speckle Reduction by Hybrid Iterative Filtering by Yahia, Mohamed

“…An expression that takes into account the following important numerical considerations is proposed. 1) The variability of the pixel is measured by coefficient variation (CV) rather than the variance. 2) The statistics are computed using non-local neighborhood instead of local square one. 3) A new normalizing function (i. e. hyperbolic tangent) is implemented. 4) The dynamic of range of b k is increased by multiplying the CVs of the filtered and the originals images. …”
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Mitigation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Agricultural Fields through Bioresource Management by Rimsha Khan (17542128)

“…Soil moisture was also impacted by soil temperature and rainfall events. There was a significant effect of events of data collection, i.e., the length of the growing season (p-value ≤ 0.05) on soil surface temperature, leading to increased GHG emissions during the summer months. …”

Information Technology Disaster Recovery Plan (IT DRP) Framework – A study on IT Continuity for Smart City in Abu Dhabi Smart Government by AL HASSAN, LINDA KHALED MOHAMMED

“…Over the years, technology application in various fields of business has increased, with one such concept been seen in the form of smart cities. …”
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Experimental validation of numerical model for thermomechanical performance of material extrusion additive manufacturing process: Effect of infill design & density by Ans Al Rashid (14777050)

“…The current practices of the experimental optimization process require significant resources, which can be limited through numerical modeling and simulation techniques. …”

Walking around the preferred speed: examination of metabolic, perceptual, spatiotemporal and stability parameters by Lina Majed (7485380)

“…While metabolic, perceptual and spatiotemporal values were sensitive to the smallest change in speed (i.e., 0.5 km·h⁻¹⁾, a significant increase in the rate of carbohydrate oxidation and decrease in % fat oxidation were only observed at speeds above PWS. …”

Transfer function analysis between arterial pressure and renal sympathetic nerve activity at cardiac pacing frequencies in the rat by Kanbar, Roy

“…In seven urethane-anesthetized rats, AP and RSNA were recorded under baseline conditions (spontaneous HR = 338 ± 6 beats/min, i.e., 5.6 ± 0.1 Hz) and during 70-s periods of cardiac pacing at 6–9 Hz applied in random order. …”
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Assessment of Inventory and Transportation Collaboration in a Logistics Marketplace by Shahid, Saif Mohammad

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Modeling of photovoltaic soiling loss as a function of environmental variables by Wasim Javed (6105866)

“…Overall, higher PM10 resulted in more negative daily ΔCI (i.e. the module became more soiled), and this effect was more visible at low WS and RH levels, but at high WS (>4ms−1) and high RH (>65%) levels, PM10 had no significant (p>0.05, two tailed t-test) effect on daily ΔCI. …”

On-demand mobile sensing framework for traffic monitoring. (c2017) by Abdul Rahman, Sawsan

“…When compared to the traditional continuous sensing, our proposed on-demand sensing approach provides comparable high traffic estimation accuracy while significantly reducing the resource consumption.This is achieved by selecting the smallest number of data collectors that can provided the best quality of sensed data, in order to maintain a good traffic estimation accuracy and an improved system performance (i.e., lower response time and network load). …”
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A Hybrid Intrusion Detection Model Using EGA-PSO and Improved Random Forest Method by Amit Kumar Balyan (18288964)

“…<p dir="ltr">Due to the rapid growth in IT technology, digital data have increased availability, creating novel security threats that need immediate attention. …”

Engineering the Surface and Mechanical Properties of Water Desalination Membranes Using Ultralong Carbon Nanotubes by Yehia M. Manawi (18091207)

“…More pronounced effect on membrane’s mechanical properties was observed due to compatibility of CNTs with PS matrix when compared to other factors (i.e., changes in the CNT aspect ratio). The water contact angle for PS membranes incorporated with commercial CNT sharply decreased from 73° to 53° (membrane hydrophilization) for membranes with 0.1 and 1.0 wt. % of CNTs, while for the same loading of produced CNTs the water contact angles for the membrane samples increased from 66° to 72°. …”

Exercise training-induced speeding of VO₂kinetics is not intensity domain-specific or correlated with indices of exercise performance by Erin Calaine Inglis (7042334)

“…There were no PRE to POST differences for CON (p < 0.05) in any variables. Despite significant increases in maximal VO₂ (VO_2max ), estimated lactate threshold (θLT), maximal metabolic steady state (MMSS), and peak power output (PPO) for the intervention groups (p < 0.05), there were no significant correlations from PRE to MID or MID to POST between ΔτVO₂ and Δ V O_2max (r=– 0.221, r = 0.119), ΔPPO (r= – 0.112, r= – 0.017), ΔθLT (r= 0.083, r = 0.142) and ΔMMSS (r= – 0.213, r = 0.049)(p > 0.05).…”

Mechanical stretch and prostaglandin E2 modulate critical signaling pathways in mouse podocytes by Faour, Wissam

“…These results show that cellular signaling in podocytes is significantly altered under diabetic conditions (i.e., hyperglycemia and increased Pgc). …”
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Inappropriate Medication Use in Elderly Lebanese Outpatients by Saab, Yolande B.

“…Factors predicting potentially inappropriate drug intake included female sex (65.7% vs 53.3% for males, p = 0.03) and alcohol intake (p = 0.007). There were also significant associations between the likelihood of use of an inappropriate drug and (i) increased number of medical illnesses (p < 0.00002); and (ii) consumption of an over-the-counter drug (OTC) and/or prescription drug (p = 0.048 and p = 0.0035, respectively). …”
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