The distribution of toxic sources in Louisiana by Djoundourian, Salpie Sarkis

“…A distance gradient analysis indicates that as distance from the nearest toxic source increases, the mean percentage of blacks in the community decreases and the mean percentage of whites increases. …”
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Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants by Bin, Zhou

“…Global age-standardised prevalence of raised blood pressure was 24·1% (21·4–27·1) in men and 20·1% (17·8–22·5) in women in 2015. Mean systolic and mean diastolic blood pressure decreased substantially from 1975 to 2015 in high-income western and Asia Pacific countries, moving these countries from having some of the highest worldwide blood pressure in 1975 to the lowest in 2015. …”
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Targeting the MAP kinase pathway in astrocytoma cells using a recombinant anthrax lethal toxin as a way to inhibit cell motility and invasion by Al-Dimassi, Saleh

“…However, astrocytoma cells that were treated with LeTx showed a significant decrease in cell motility as seen by wound healing as well as random 2D motility in serum. …”
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The role of OM-85 BV (Broncho-Vaxom) in preventing recurrent acute tonsillitis in children by Saade, Rami

“…For patients given Broncho-Vaxom, we defined response as a decrease in the frequency of acute tonsillitis episodes after 3 months of therapy (partial: by ≤50% and total: by >50%). …”
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Optimal Energy Dispatch Engine for PV-DG-ESS Hybrid Power Plants Considering Battery Degradation and Carbon Emissions by Laith Kanaan (21632714)

“…The test results revealed a 9.2% and 3.5% decrease in daily costs compared to the heuristic and stochastic methods, respectively, and a 29.4% decrease in carbon emission costs.…”

Nanospace-engineered carbons for reversible storage of natural gas and hydrogen by Romanos, J.

“…Excess adsorption dominated by KOH:C ratio. 2.Volumetric storage capacity decreases with increasing activation temperature. 3. 2.5K activated at 700 oC has record volumetric storage capacity of 132 g CH4/liter carbon at 35 bar and 22 oC (200 V/V, 110% of DOE target of 118 g/liter). …”
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Portfolio Selection Problem Using CVaR Risk Measures Equipped with DEA, PSO, and ICA Algorithms by Abdelouahed Hamdi (14158899)

“…It was found that when solving the Mean-CVaR model with evolutionary algorithms, the risk decreased. …”

Land surface temperature responses to land use dynamics in urban areas of Doha, Qatar by Shikha, Patel

“…The LST data derived from remote sensing sources demonstrates an upward trend for summer and a contrasting trend for winter. Specifically, the mean summer LST increases by 7.64 °C (0.34 °C annually), and the mean winter LST decreases by 4.87 °C (0.22 °C annually). …”
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Excess pCO2 and carbonate system geochemistry in surface seawater of the exclusive economic zone of Qatar (Arabian Gulf) by Connor, Izumi

“…CO2 is lost from the Gulf due to gas exchange, decreasing DIC, and reducing pCO2 to 464 μatm, similar to that observed. …”
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Economic consequences of the covid 19 outbreak by Sidik, Hanan

“…The last part of the project is talking about the lockdown in UAE and the decrease of cases of covid and the people in UAE should always have the green pass to access the public sectors finally all the UAE citizens must be vaccinated in order to be safe .…”
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Formation of Bromate in Pet Bottle Water by Sharif, Haifa

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A combined experimental and computational study of the effect of electron irradiation on the transport properties of aromatic and aliphatic molecular self-assemblies by Y. Tong (18394389)

“…In order to interpret the experimental results and give right diagnostics behind the decrease of the current through the junction after electron irradiation, we supplement the experiment with quantum transport calculations using Green's functional formalism in combination with density functional theory. …”

Mental health, burnout and resilience in community pharmacists during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional study by Zeana, Samir AlKudsi

“…Participants had shown moderate resilience (mean score: 27.64 (SD = 8.31)) and their mean score fear of COVID19 was 15.67 (SD = 6.54). …”
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Land surface temperature responses to land use dynamics in urban areas of Doha, Qatar by Shikha Patel (14151027)

“…The LST data derived from remote sensing sources demonstrates an upward trend for summer and a contrasting trend for winter. Specifically, the mean summer LST increases by 7.64 °C (0.34 °C annually), and the mean winter LST decreases by 4.87 °C (0.22 °C annually). …”

Meta-Heuristic Algorithm-Tuned Neural Network for Breast Cancer Diagnosis Using Ultrasound Images by Ahila A (18394806)

“…Early diagnosis is the only way to increase the treatment options which then decreases the death rate and increases the chance of survival in patients. …”

Morphology Control of TiO₂ Nanorods Using KBr Salt for Enhancing the Photocatalytic Activity of TiO₂ and MoS₂/TiO₂ Heterostructures by Zeineb A. Thiehmed (15945042)

“…This results in affecting the morphology by decreasing the diameter of the nanorods, and increasing the free space between them. …”

Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 by Joan B Soriano (6458528)

“…However, when accounting for ageing and population growth, declines were observed in age-standardised prevalence (14·3% decrease), age-standardised death rates (42·6%), and age-standardised DALY rates (38·2%). …”

Notes total mesorectal excision (TME) for patients with rectal neoplasia by Chouillard, E.

“…Additional abdominal, single-incision laparoscopic assistance was required in 6 (38 %) patients. Mean operative time was 265 min (range 155–440 min). …”
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Optimization of Electric Vehicles Wireless Charging by Gesrou, Abdalla

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Parallel Algorithm for Hardware Implementation of Inverse Halftoning by Siddiqi, Umair F.

“…It can provide at least 4 times decrease in lookup table size when compared with serial lookup table method implemented multiple times for same number of pixels.…”
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