Nicotine induces resilience to chronic social defeat stress in a mouse model of water pipe tobacco exposure by activating BDNF signaling by Khalifeh, Mohamad

“…Even though WTS initially decreased anxiety-like behaviors, prolonged exposure after the completion of CSDS significantly induced anxiety-like behaviors. …”
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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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Stress induced immunomodulation and the risk of infections during major sporting events: Implications for the FIFA World Cup 2022 by Muna T. Abed Alah (17863853)

“…Having such chronic diseases with immunosuppressing characteristics might further increase the susceptibility of patients to stress induced immunosuppression. …”

Simulation of the size-composition distribution of atmospheric nanoparticles over Europe by David Patoulias (4722960)

“…The ground level concentrations of particles with a diameter larger than 100 nm (N100) were reproduced with a daily normalized mean error of 40 % and a daily normalized mean bias of −20 %. …”

A Stackelberg Game Inspired Model of Real-Time Economic Dispatch with Demand Response by Shakrina, Youssef

“…Especially with the variety of electrical loads and their applications like the residential and industrial consumers and their different sensitivity to prices. …”
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Seasonal variations of trace metal chemical forms in bed sediments of a karstic river in Lebanon by Korfali, Samira Ibrahim

“…Sediment was derived from catchment soils and limestone. Total sediment Fe increased in winter at all sites following deposition of eroded soil from upstream. …”
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The E-learning evolution education & business. (c2004) by Wahoud, Reem

“…In the 21st century the world is rapidly changing into the Information Technology; global communication through new technology like computers has been increasing drastically. The Internet, in partirular, has emerged as a prominent new technology that has pervaded all aspects of educational, business, economic and social sectors of the present world. …”
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Proteomic analyses of the cell walls of candida albicans PGA1 and PIR32 null mutants. (c2017) by Khoury, Pamela Milad El

“…Major virulence proteins like Hsp70 and Mp65 were not detected in the pga1 null strain. …”
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Road safety and traffic medicine in Iran: Achievements and challenges by A. Motevalian (19807242)

“…The reduction in number of deaths happened despite a four-fold increase in number of motor vehicles. Some of the interventions that might be contributing to this achievement include the following: a) the new traffic law passed in 2010 that replaced the previous one dating back to 1968. …”

UniBFS: A novel uniform-solution-driven binary feature selection algorithm for high-dimensional data by Behrouz Ahadzadeh (19757022)

“…Despite its importance, the constantly increasing search space of high-dimensional datasets poses significant challenges to FS methods, including issues like the "curse of dimensionality," susceptibility to local optima, and high computational and memory costs. …”

Super Neurons by Serkan Kiranyaz (3762058)

“…., the generative neurons that yield an elegant level of diversity; however, like its predecessor, conventional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), they still have a common drawback: localized (fixed) kernel operations. …”

Effect of anions on the structural, morphological and dielectric properties of hydrothermally synthesized hydroxyapatite nanoparticles by Lakshmanaperumal Sundarabharathi (14152482)

“…The εʹ and dielectric loss (εʹʹ) values for the HA nanoparticles decrease with increase in the applied frequency as well. The alternating current conductivity values confirm that the as-synthesized HA samples exhibit insulating behavior. …”

Sustainability Assessment Indicators in Higher Education: Stakeholders' Perception and Challenges by Basheer, Najihath

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Characterization of the dynamic flow response in microfluidic devices by Elgack, Mohammed Elmahdi

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Energy Management of a Multi-Source Power System by Salah, Omar Wasseem

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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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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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Friction Reduction in Elastohydrodynamic Contacts by Thin Layer Thermal Insulation by Björling, M.

“…The results of the investigation show that the addition of thin insulating layers could lead to substantial performance increases in many applications. On a component level, the contact friction coefficient in some common machine components like gears, rolling element bearings, and cam followers can potentially be reduced by more than 40 %. …”
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The Effects of Local Aggregates on the Mechanical Properties of Engineered Cementitious Composites (ECC) by Obied, Michel

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