Electrically conductive composites based on an elastomeric matrix filled with expanded graphite as a potential oil sensing material by Krupa, Igor

“…Slightly stretched films (by 4% of the original length) showed a response that was 12.5 times faster with respect to oil absorption than an un-stretched film. …”
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Changes in dietary habits and eating behaviors during COVID-19 induced confinement: A study from Jordan by Alomari, Mahmoud A.

“…Among these changes, they have increased (p < 0.05) the prevalence of fruit and vegetable, immune boosters, water, and hot beverage consumption, as well as decreased (p < 0.05) eating in restaurants and fatty food consumption, indicating a positive change. …”
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Association between Lebanese Mediterranean Diet and Frailty in Community-Dwelling Lebanese Older Adults—A Preliminary Study by Daou, Tracy

“…The results showed that a higher LMD adherence was associated with a significantly decreased frailty prevalence (OR = 0.123, 95% CI: 0.022–0.676, p = 0.016 when categorical and OR = 0.773, 95% CI 0.608–0.983, p = 0.036). …”
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MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL STRATEGY FOR LEAKAGE CURRENT REDUCTION IN PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEMS: A STUDY ON PUC AND CSC INVERTER TOPOLOGIES by ABU-HUMAID, AHMED TEYSEER JABER

“…In the case of a CSC inverter, it decreases from 360 mA to 140 mA, which is below 300 mA as per the DIN VDE 0126-1-1 standard. …”
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Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Stein Emil, Vollset

“…Using the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways climate scenarios SSP2-4.5 as reference and SSP1-1.9 as an optimistic alternative in the Safer Environment scenario, we accounted for climate change impact on health by using the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change temperature forecasts and published trajectories of ambient air pollution for the same two scenarios. …”
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Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Stein Emil, Vollset

“…Using the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways climate scenarios SSP2-4.5 as reference and SSP1-1.9 as an optimistic alternative in the Safer Environment scenario, we accounted for climate change impact on health by using the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change temperature forecasts and published trajectories of ambient air pollution for the same two scenarios. …”
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Box-Behnken approach for optimization of Cr(III) removal from a real tanning effluent using powdered marble by Boujelben, R.

“…The results showed that the maximum uptake (> 99%) was obtained at a chromium initial concentration of 0.758�g/L, pH = 5.0 and using 6% (w:v) of powdered marble. …”
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Temporal patterns of cancer burden in Asia, 1990–2019: a systematic examination for the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study by Rajesh, Sharma

“…FindingsAll cancers combined claimed an estimated 5.6 million [95% uncertainty interval, 5.1–6.0 million] lives in Asia with 9.4 million [8.6–10.2 million] incident cases and 144.7 million [132.7–156.5 million] DALYs in 2019. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of Sm3+-doped ZnO nanoparticles via a sol–gel method and their photocatalytic application by Ba-Abbad, Muneer M.

“…A higher performance of samarium-doped ZnO for photocatalytic degradation of 2-chlorophenol at 0.50 wt.% was observed, compared to pure ZnO nanoparticles under the same experimental conditions.…”
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Choice of Antimicrobials in Surgical Prophylaxis - Overuse and Surgical Site Infection Outcomes from a Tertiary-Level Care Hospital by Vippadapu, Prasanna

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The effect of density in larval rearing of the pullet carpet shell Venerupis corrugata (Gmelin, 1791) in a recirculating aquaculture system by Joaquim, S.

“…The mean survival, growth and metamorphic rate of V. corrugata larvae in RAS was higher (11.1%; 71.3 μm; 21.6% respectively) than in the Batch system, in all tested densities. …”
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Improved properties of Al-Si3N4 nanocomposites fabricated through a microwave sintering and hot extrusion process by Matli, Penchal Reddy

“…In this study, nano-sized Si3N4 (0, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5 vol%)/Al composites were fabricated using a powder metallurgy method involving microwave sintering technique followed by hot extrusion. …”
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The effectiveness of targeted relative to empiric prophylaxis on infectious complications after transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy: a meta-analysis by Scott, S.

“…Overtreatment associated with augmented prophylaxis approaches may be reduced as a result. Further prospective assessment and cost?…”
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An enhanced distance-dependent electric field model for contact-separation triboelectric nanogenerator: Air-breakdown limit as a case study by Ahmed, Anas A.

“…The maximum surface charge density that can be obtained without air breakdown was predicted to be lateral sizedependent. It shows a monotonical decrease from 51.94 to 33.59 µC/m2 with a lateral size increase from 0.5 to 10 cm. …”
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Effect of pH on acidic and basic chelating agents used in the removal of iron sulfide scales: A computational study by Onawole, Abdulmujeeb T.

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The Association between Zinc and Copper Circulating Levels and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adults: A Study of Qatar Biobank Data by Kerkadi, Abdelhamid

“…High Zn/Cu ratio increased the prevalence of low HDL (4.508; p < 0.001) and MetS (5.570; p < 0.01). These findings suggest that high plasma Cu levels are associated with a protective effect on DBP, HDL and MetS and that high plasma Zn/Cu ratio is associated with the risk of having low HDL and MetS.…”
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Exploring the quality of life of cosmetic users: A cross-sectional analysis from eight Arab countries in the Middle East by Mohammed, Ali Haider

“…A validated and specialist instrument tool called BeautyQoL, which consists of five domains and a total of 52 questions, was distributed to a sample of 2219 cosmetic users. …”
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Galvanic exchange as a novel method for carbon nitride supported coag catalyst synthesis for oxygen reduction and carbon dioxide conversion by Nazir, Roshan

“…The cathodic current decreased dramatically below ?0.9V versus Ag/AgCl indicating the high conversion of CO2. - 2019 by the authors. …”
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Assessing the risk of angiotensin receptor blockers on major cardiovascular events: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. by Wanas, Yara

“…Risk of all-cause mortality and stroke decreased with ARB when the proportion of smokers in a population was < 25% (RR 0.91; 95%CI 0.84-0.98) and in females (RR 0.76; 95%CI 0.68-0.84), respectively. …”
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An experimental study on achieving even-frosting for an air source heat pump using a novel dual-fan outdoor coil by Bai, Xiaoxia

“…The experimental results demonstrated that when using the novel dual-fan outdoor coil in Cases 3, 4 and 7, the heating/frosting duration was lengthened by 23.6%, 34.5% and 46.4%, and the averaged output heating capacity () was increased by 5.5%, 9.5% and 9.6 %, and averaged COP () by 6.7%, 10.5% and 11.1% respectively, and the defrosting frequency was decreased by 33.3% in Case 7,when compared to using the traditional single-fan outdoor coil. …”
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