Urban Geometry: The Effect of Height Diversity and Buildings Configuration on Thermal Performance and Cooling Load at Urban Scale. A Case Study in Dubai / UAE by SHAREEF, SUNDUS LUAY

“…This over shading reduces the air temperature by 1.1 ͦ C within the canyon and directly reduces the conduction heat gain through the buildings envelop. …”
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Biochar from food waste: a sustainable amendment to reduce water stress and improve the growth of chickpea plants by Snigdhendubala Pradhan (9872262)

“…Two biochar application rates improved soil quality by increasing soil porosity from 49.3 to ≥ 53.4%, more than doubling cation exchange capacity to ≥ 21.1 cmolc.kg−1, providing a small reduction in bulk density of approximately 10% and decreasing electrical conductivity of the extract by at least 40% in comparison to control condition. …”

Global, regional, and national mortality among young people aged 10–24 years, 1950–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 by Joseph L Ward (9715619)

“…Annual percentage decrease in all-cause mortality rate since 1990 in adolescents aged 15–19 years was 1·3% in males and 1·6% in females, almost half that of males aged 1–4 years (2·4%), and around a third less than in females aged 1–4 years (2·5%). …”

MHD Heat Transfer Enhancement in a Curvilinear Enclosure With Oscillating Wall and Nano‐Encapsulated PCM: A Fluid‐Structure Interaction Analysis by Mohammed Azeez Alomari (20482592)

“…Using finite element methodology with specialized treatment for moving boundaries, we evaluate key parameters: Rayleigh number (<i>Ra</i>: 10³–10⁵), Stefan number (<i>Ste</i>: 0.1–0.9), phase transition temperature (θf: 0.1–0.9), NEPCM concentration (ϕ: 0.01–0.04), oscillation amplitude (<i>A:</i> 0.01–0.15), Hartmann number (<i>Ha</i>: 0–20), and magnetic field angle (<i>γ</i>: 0°–90°). …”

The Immunophenotyping Changes of Peripheral CD4+ T Lymphocytes and Inflammatory Markers of Class III Obesity Subjects After Laparoscopic Gastric Sleeve Surgery – A Follow-Up Study... by Nasser M Rizk (18810328)

“…LGS intervention significantly decreased CD4+ T-lymphocytes and effector memory (TEM) cells but increased T-regulatory (Treg), naïve, and central memory (TCM) cells, with all p values < 0.05. …”

A Risk-Based Multi-Objective Modeling Approach to the Preventive Maintenance Process of Roof Waterproofing System at Airports by Shehab, Bahaa

“…The purpose of this study is to: (a) determine current waterproofing systems and components of concrete roofs at airports, (b) explore frequently used techniques to design optimal preventive maintenance policies, and (c) derive an optimal preventive multi-objective risk-based maintenance strategy via simulation that can diminish failure costs, thereby decreasing the system’s overall maintenance costs. …”
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Hedonic valuation of land protection methods: implications for cluster development. by Kling, Robert

“…The key findings of the study are: (i) proximity to national or state park land and to city or county open space has a significant positive impact on property values, while proximity to national forest land or to privately conserved land exhibits no significant effects; and, (ii) inclusion of a property within a cluster development decreases its value by 17 to 26 %. …”
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Global, regional, and national stillbirths at 20 weeks' gestation or longer in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Comfort, Haley

“…The estimated number of stillbirths occurring at 20 weeks' gestation or longer decreased from 5·08 million (95% UI 4·07–6·35) in 1990 to 3·04 million (2·61–3·62) in 2021, corresponding to a 39·8% (31·8–48·0) reduction, which lagged behind a global improvement in neonatal deaths of 45·6% (36·3–53·1) for the same period (down from 4·03 million [3·86–4·22] neonatal deaths in 1990). …”
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A Case Study in Qatar for Optimal Energy Management of an Autonomous Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Station with Multiple Renewable Energy and Storage Systems by Abdulla Al Wahedi (17115613)

“…This interest has focused mainly on reducing the reliance on fossil fuel-based means of transportation and decreasing the harmful emissions produced from this sector. …”

Allelopathic Effects of the Invasive Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. on Native Plants: Perspectives toward Agrosystems by Shazia Bibi (16500318)

“…The seed germination and radicle length of S. aegyptica and H. perfoliata were significantly decreased at 2 mg mL−1 of extract of P. juliflora. …”

Supplementation of retrobulbar block with clonidine in vitreoretinal surgery by Abi Nader, Elie

“…The median number of postoperative analgesic requests per patient during the first 24 hours was higher in the control group than the clonidine group [2 (0-3) vs. 1 (0-3); P < 0.001]. Conclusions The addition of clonidine 0.5 μg/kg to the local anesthetics of a retrobulbar block for vitreoretinal surgery decreases the frequency of postoperative pain and prolongs the time of analgesia.…”
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Successful endoscopic management of gastrojejunal anastomotic strictures after Roux-en-Y gastric bypas by Azar, Riad

“…Dilation to at least 15 mm is safe and decreases the need for further endoscopic dilation.…”
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Mapping geographical inequalities in childhood diarrhoeal morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Stud... by Robert C Reiner (5147636)

“…Findings The greatest declines in diarrhoeal mortality were seen in south and southeast Asia and South America, where 54·0% (95% uncertainty interval [UI] 38·1–65·8), 17·4% (7·7–28·4), and 59·5% (34·2–86·9) of units, respectively, recorded decreases in deaths from diarrhoea greater than 10%. …”

Performance of Membrane Biological Reactor for Tobacco Wastewater Treatment by Alhajar, Abdallah Hazim Abdallah

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Total Quality Implementation on Marine Transportation Association Under Natural Disruption of COVID-19 Pandemic by ASAD, NUHA JAMAL

“…The spread of COVID-19 infections has brought about remarkable measures confining travel and action interest in all countries. Social distancing, i.e., decreasing collaborations between people to dial back the spread of the infection, has turned into the new standard. …”
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Effect of Mg incorporation on the properties of PCL/Mg composites for potential tissue engineering applications by Sumama Nuthana Kalva (19206064)

“…Additionally, the weight loss during <i>in vitro</i> degradation showed that the presence of Mg had significantly increased the degradation rate of composite samples. …”

Associating learning technology to sustain the environment through green mobile applications by Haraty, Ramzi A.

“…The paper proposes a model with four metrics – energy, economic metric, performance, and energy/performance metric that aims to provide a design for mobile applications that address some of the concerns related to the environment. …”
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Exploring Unique Physiological and Genetic Features of Desert-dwelling Legumes by Madhurima Chatterjee (5331215)

“…Other than many ornamental and garden plants, <i>Acacia spp., Astragalus spp., Cassia spp., Alhagi spp., Ceratonia siliqua, Cicer arietinum, Prosopis cineraria, Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, </i>and <i>Vigna aconitifolia</i> are the most recognizable desert legumes. …”

Optimal load distribution for the detection of VM-based DDoS attacks in the cloud by Abdel Wahab, Omar

“…On top of the trust model, we design a trust-based maximin game between DDoS attackers trying to minimize the cloud system's detection and hypervisor trying to maximize this minimization under limited budget of resources. …”
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Oxandrolone Treatment in Adults with Severe Thermal Injury by Btaiche, Imad F.

“…Muscle protein catabolism in patients with severe thermal injury is the result of stress-induced increased release of cytokines and counterregulatory hormones. Coupled with decreased serum anabolic hormone concentrations such as testosterone and growth hormone along with the presence of insulin resistance, anabolism in patients with severe thermal injury is inefficient or impossible during the acute postburn period. …”
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