Blockchain, climate damage, and death: Policy interventions to reduce the carbon emissions, mortality, and net-zero implications of non-fungible tokens and Bitcoin حسب Jon Truby (14153022)

"…With CO₂-related deaths attributable to NFT transactions, social pressure from the art market has helped to progress the switch away from the deliberately polluting proof-of-work blockchains to more sustainable consensus protocols.…"

Food purchase and eating behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey of Russian adults حسب Tarek Ben Hassen (15742605)

"…While these measures were crucial to stop the diffusion of SARS-CoV-2, numerous voices highlighted their disorderly psychological, social, and economic impacts on food consumption behavior and lifestyle. …"

EEG-Based Semantic Vigilance Level Classification Using Directed Connectivity Patterns and Graph Theory Analysis حسب Yahya, Fares

"…Behaviorally, all subjects demonstrated vigilance decrement as reflected by the significant increase in response time and reduced accuracy. The strength and directionality of information flow in the connectivity network by RWTE/PDC and the GTA measures significantly decrease with vigilance decrement, p<0.05. …"
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Factors affecting acoustically triggered release of drugs from polymeric micelles حسب Husseini, Ghaleb

"…The measurements were based on the decrease in fluorescence intensity when drug was transferred from the micelle core to the aqueous environment. …"
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ROS-Mediated Autophagic Death in Glioblastoma Cells Upon Treatment by Human Recombinant Arginase I (Co)- PEG5000 [HuArgI (Co)-PEG5000] حسب Abdel Khalek, Maya

"…Addition of N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC); being a reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavenger, led to a significant decrease in the cytotoxicity of arginine deprivation to U251 and A172 cells, indicating that ROS generation reversed the cytotoxicity of arginine deprivation to GBM cells. …"
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Thermally Conductive Polyethylene/Expanded Graphite Composites as Heat Transfer Surface: Mechanical, Thermo-Physical and Surface Behavior حسب Patrik Sobolčiak (4401364)

"…This enhanced surface wettability was retained over a long time with only a 9% and 18% decrease in RF and corona plasma-treated samples’ surface energy after two months. …"

Deep Learning-Based Fault Diagnosis of Photovoltaic Systems: A Comprehensive Review and Enhancement Prospects حسب Majdi Mansouri (16869885)

"…The performance of the FDD method depends mainly on the quality of the extracted features including real-time changes, phase changes, trend changes, and faulty modes. …"

Intracellular Ionic Strength Sensing Using NanoLuc حسب Tausif Altamash (3846304)

"…Therefore, there is a demand for the development of sensitive tools for real-time monitoring of intracellular ionic strength. …"

Privacy-Preserving Fog Aggregation of Smart Grid Data Using Dynamic Differentially-Private Data Perturbation حسب Fawaz Kserawi (16904859)

"…We describe our differentially-private model with flexible constraints and a dynamic window algorithm to maintain the privacy-budget loss in infinitely generated time-series data. Our experimental results show a possible decrease in data perturbation error by 51.7% and 61.2% for smart meters and fog-computing data aggregators perturbed data, respectively, compared to the commonly used Gaussian mechanism.…"

Grid integration of renewable energy in Qatar: Potentials and limitations حسب Eric C. Okonkwo (14151060)

"…A one-year dynamic analysis based on an hourly time step is conducted using the EnergyPLAN tool. …"

Insights on the effect of water content in carburizing gas mixtures on the metal dusting corrosion of iron حسب El Tayeb Bentria (9904024)

"…At later stage, the formation of oxide scale leads to an elevated concentration of H₂O/OH molecules on the surface due to the decrease in Fe affinity to dissociate water. This results into blocking the Fe catalytic sites leading to lower C and O diffusion to the bulk of the sample.…"

Inland Treatment of the Brine Generated from Reverse Osmosis Advanced Membrane Wastewater Treatment Plant Using Epuvalisation System حسب Qurie, Mohannad

"…The increasing of channel number or closed loop time is estimated for enhancing the treatment process and increasing the nutrient uptake. …"
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Unraveling the future productivity burden of cardiovascular disease in Qatar: Investigating the modifiable risk factors control in type 2 diabetes حسب Abushanab, Dina

"…The financial value of PALYs was determined based on the gross domestic product (GDP) per full-time worker (i.e. US$80,573). The base-case model estimated the productivity burden of CVD, and interventional scenarios were simulated to assess potential gains resulting from improved control of modifiable risk factors, including reduced incidence of T2D, lower systolic blood pressure (SBP), decreased number of smokers, and reduced total cholesterol. …"
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Minimizing Traffic Congestion through V2V Communication حسب Alqawasmeh, Suhieb

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Expanding the donor pool حسب Ramos, Emilio

"…Based on Organ Procurement Transplant Network (OPTN) data as of January 11, 2002, the waiting time for a cadaveric renal transplant has grown to a mean of 422 d for patients with blood type AB and 1453 d for patients with blood type O. …"
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A Multidecadal Assessment of Haze Development and Fluctuations in Visibility for Arabian Peninsula حسب Luqman Atique (16036586)

"…Visibility in KWT was 0.5 km in 1994, indicating a period of exceptionally poor visibility whereas the daily mean visibility for KSA was approximately 0.6 km. …"

Optical coherence tomography findings in autoimmune retinopathy حسب Abazzari, Azin

"…Macular OCT showed reduced central macular and foveal thicknesses in 6 patients (mean thickness 143 ± 30 μm and 131 ± 29 μm respectively). …"
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DNA methylation signature in peripheral blood reveals distinct characteristics of human X chromosome numerical aberrations حسب El Maarri, Osman

"…The X inactivation process appears to be less effective in Klinefelter syndrome as methylation on the X was decreased compared to normal female samples. In a large number of individuals, we verified several loci by pyrosequencing and observed only weak inter-loci correlations between the verified regions. …"
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A clustering metaheuristic for large orienteering problems حسب Almiqdad Elzein (13141038)

"…The metaheuristic aims to dramatically improve the computation time of a given Orienteering Problem algorithm without a significant decrease in the solution quality of that algorithm, especially for large Orienteering Problems. …"

Reducing terrorism with development ; the United Nations' new path. (c2009) حسب Kassis, Maria-Rita

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