A green route to the synthesis of highly porous activated carbon from walnut shells for mercury removal by Albatrni, Hania

“…The present study aimed to evaluate the impact of several factors including mass dosage, pH, initial concentration of mercury, temperature, and contact time, on the efficiency of mercury removal. It was observed that the adsorption process exhibited spontaneity, endothermicity, and an increase in entropy. …”
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On the sampling and integration rates of process noise by Saab, Samer S.

“…It is shown that the covariance of a sampled zero-mean exponentially-correlated process is independent of the sampling rate. …”
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Testing and Evaluation of a Smart Irrigation System Towards Smart Landscaping in UAE by Al Sulaimani, Fatma

“…The outcomes of the use of SMS have shown better results in water conservation, 21%, and 26% decrease in water consumption for the months of September and October, respectively.…”
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Causes of Delay in Construction Projects in Oil and Gas Construction Industry by FANOUSSE, MARWA IMAD

“…With regard to design, the contractor’s need to decrease construction costs through a cheaper design was found to be a factor in design changes. …”
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On the selection of constitutive equation for modeling the friction stir processes of twin roll cast wrought AZ31B by Ammouri, A.H.

“…On average, the ZA6 equation showed improvements in solution time by 5.4% as compared with the Johnson–Cook equation and almost identical solution time (0.9% increase) with that of the ST equation. …”
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Corporate culture at Universal Bank, S.A.L. (c1994) by Harfouche, Randa

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Improving performance of collaborative question answering systems by using semantic resources by Javed, Muhammad Arshad

“…Based on predicted class of the question, the entity type (person, location, time etc.) expected to be present in the answers are determined. …”
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Writing and publishing language studies in the Arab region [Khitabaat Journal] by Emad Abdul-latif (21841985)

“…Klein starts from an implicit assumption that writing and reading are individual activities and suggests that (individual) writers must decrease their production to enable their (individual) readers to read it. …”

Transforming growth factor-β1 and phosphatases modulate COX-2 protein expression and TAU phosphorylation in cultured immortalized podocytes by Abdallah, Maya S.

“…Levels of phosphorylated AKT were further reduced and levels of phosphorylated p38 were increased when PGE2 was added to the culture media. …”
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Kefir induces cell-cycle arrest and apoptosis in HTLV-1-negative malignant T-lymphocytes by Rizk, Sandra

“…The percent reduction in proliferation was very significant, and was dose-, and time-dependent. In both cell lines, kefir exhibited its antiproliferative effect by downregulating TGF-α and upregulating TGF-β1 mRNA expression. …”
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Effect of methanolic extract of Quercus infectoria bark on blood lipid profile, glycemia, inflammation, platelet aggregation, ulcer and bacterial activity. (c2005) by Khouzami, Lara

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Blockchain implementations. (c2019) by Sabbagh, Ahmad Al

“…The results also show that the use of smart contracts in the implementation of the blockchain technology in the insurance sector leads to increase in efficiency and decrease in the costs, fraud and processing time.…”
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Nano-aluminum by Doshi, Reeti

“…Soil respiration studies show that there are not statistical differences between the time and sizes of peaks in CO2 production and the total mineralization of glucose.…”
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Supervised term-category feature weighting for improved text classification by Attieh, Joseph

“…Hence, choosing a suitable method for term weighting is of major importance and can help increase the effectiveness of the classification task. …”
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One Hundred Years After “Carcinoid” by Yao, James

“…Conclusion We observed increased reported incidence of NETs and increased survival durations over time, suggesting that NETs are more prevalent than previously reported. …”
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The current status of anatomy knowledge by Yammine, Kaissar

“…(b) Making room for the time-tested dissection method to be taught in gross anatomy at both levels. …”
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Particle size and pH effects on remediation of chromite ore processing residue using calcium polysulfide (CaS5) by Moon, Deok Hyun

“…Ettringite formation, due to pH increase over time in the samples, where the initial pH was adjusted to 9, was verified by XRPD and SEM-EDX analyses, indicating that a pH less than 9 should be maintained to avoid ettringite formation.…”
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Association of genetic polymorphisms in FTO with Overweight/Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes in the Lebanese Population by Maroun, Veronica

“…Background and aims: Overweight and obesity are a worldwide threat to health and quality of life as they increase the risk of many chronic diseases including type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). …”
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Hygroscopicity and CCN potential of DMS-derived aerosol particles by Bernadette Rosati (7498127)

“…Aerosol mass spectrometer measurements from this study indicate that this change most probably stems from a change in chemical composition leading to slightly higher fractions of ammonium sulfate compared to methanesulfonic acid (MSA) within the particles with ageing time. Lowering the temperature to 258 K increases κ slightly, particularly for small particles. …”

Investigating the impact of a novel active gap metering signalization strategy on driver behavior at highway merging sections by Nora Reinolsmann (16931784)

“…Most importantly, the minimum time-to-collision (TTC_min) to the merging vehicle was increased by an additional 1–1.5 s as compared to no treatment. …”