The status of forward osmosis technology implementation by Awad, Abdelrahman M.

“…Against this, FO can be energetically favoured if deployed: (a) without the DS recovery step, i.e. osmotic concentration (OC) or fertilizer-drawn forward osmosis (FDFO), (b) in competition with evaporative desalination processes, or (c) for combined desalination and wastewater purification, when a comparatively low salinity stream is available for providing osmotic dilution (OD) of the saline feed water. …”
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Recycled Polypropylene Fibres for Reinforcing Cement Mortar under Arid Conditions by Bendjillali, Khadra

“…The obtained results showed a substantial increase in the flow time of about 53% in mortar reinforced by 1% of recycled polypropylene fibres (1RPFM). It is also shown that under arid conditions, the presence of 1% of recycled polypropylene fibres in cement mortar leads to a considerable decrease in total shrinkage of about 46% and an increase in the flexural and compressive strength of about 24% and 26%, respectively, compared to control mortar (CM) at the age of 194 days. …”
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Effect of Verbal Encouragement on Performance and Affective Responses in Male Sport Science Students during Sprint Modalities by Sahli, Faten

“…In a randomized crossover design, twenty-two male sport science students (age: 21 ± 1.2 years, body height: 1.77 ± 0.3 m, body mass: 76.6 ± 2.1 kg, BMI: 22.9 ± 1.3 kg·m−2) performed linear and change-of-direction sprint tests under one of three conditions: (1) VETS; (2) VETS; (3) no verbal encouragement. …”
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Pharmacologic inhibition of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-hydroxylases ameliorates allergic contact dermatitis by Manresa M.C.

“…The hypoxia‐inducible factor‐1α (HIF‐1α) promotes an adaptive transcriptional response to hypoxia and as such is a major regulator of immune cell survival and function. …”
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Food purchase and eating behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey of Russian adults by Ben Hassen, Tarek

“…Indeed, the survey results suggested (i) a change in the modality of acquiring food, consumers reduced the number of shopping trips and buying more on each trip to minimize store visits; (ii) a surge of stockpiling of non-perishable food items; (iii) a shift toward healthier diets; (iv) an increase in culinary capabilities; (v) a decrease of food waste. …”
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Optimization of performance and emission characteristics of CI engine fueled with Jatropha biodiesel produced using a heterogeneous catalyst (CaO) by Singh, A.

“…In present investigation has witnessed a significant decrease in HC emissions (14.29 percent) compared to diesel, and a slight increase in NOx emissions (1.98 percent) is also observed. …”
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OIL PRICE SHOCKS AND STOCK PRICE INFORMATIVENESS: EVIDENCE FROM GCC FIRMS by ABOHAMIDA, ALA A.

“…Using a sample of firms from the Gulf Corporation Council GCC members (i.e., United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Bahrain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sultanate of Oman, State of Qatar, and State of Kuwait) along the period from 2006 to 2021, we document a negative association between oil price uncertainty and the information content of stock price. …”
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Roadmap toward energy-positive upfront nitrogen removal process in baseload LNG plant by Mkacher, Hajer

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Effect of hexagonal on the in-plane crushing behaviour of plain weave composite hexagonal quadruple ring system by Mahdi, E.

“…In this study, an experimental investigation into the crushing behaviour of one dimensional composite hexagonal cellular structure between two plates has been carried out. …”
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Response of cauliflower (Brassica oleracea L.) to nitric oxide application under cadmium stress by Jing, Ma

“…The present study was conducted using four different genotypes of B. oleracea named as FD-3, FD-4, FD-2 and Ceilo Blanco which were subjected to the Cd stress at various concentrations i.e., 0, 5, 10 and 20 µM with or without the application of NO i.e., 0.10 mM in the sand containing nutrient Hoagland’s solution. …”
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Effect Of Adsorption Of Tetrabutylammonium Chloride In Polarography by Hamza, A. [عبد الغني حمزة]

“…The polarographic behaviour of chromate, iodate and zinc has been investigated in the presence of different concentrations of tetrabutylammonium chloride in 0.1 M Na2SO4 and 0.1 M H2SO4. The effect of organic compound on the half-wave potential and on the limiting current of the polarographic wave was investigated. …”
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Calmodulin Mutations Associated with Congenital Cardiac Disease Display Novel Biophysical and Biochemical Characteristics by Nomikos, Michail

“…In contrast, in the presence of Ca2+, there was a significant decrease in the stability of the five proteins following the order CaMWT> CaMN98I > CaMD132E > CaMQ136P > CaMD134H. …”
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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN INSULIN RESISTANCE AND NITRIC OXIDE IN HUMAN RETINAL MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS IN VITRO by Bushra, Sumbul

“…This study demonstrated that Hyperglycemia causes an increase in ROS/oxidative stress and apoptosis, while insulin promotes a significant decrease in ROS and apoptosis, eNOS mediated NO production increases with hyperglycemia but remarkably reduced with insulin treatment after 1hour, 2 hours and 4 hours. …”
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Occurrence, origin and potential ecological risk of dissolved polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and organochlorines in surface waters of the Gulf of Gabès (Tunisia, Southern Mediter... by Hatem, Zaghden

“…The results demonstrated a wide range of concentrations (ng L−1) with the following decreasing order: Ʃ16 PAHs (17.6–71.2) > Ʃ20 PCBs (2.9–33.7) > Ʃ6 DDTs (1.1–12.1) > Ʃ4 HCHs (1.1–14.8). …”
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Investigating the effect of polymer-modified graphene oxide coating on RO membrane fouling by Ashfaq, Mohammad Y.

“…The membrane surface characterization showed a decrease in membrane surface roughness from 74.7 nm to 69.0 nm and an increase in membrane hydrophilicity as the contact angle decreased from 41.7 ± 4.50 to 22.0 ± 1.10. …”
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Production of phycocyanin by Leptolyngbya sp. in desert environments by Schipper, Kira

“…The optimum biomass productivity was found at a light intensity of 300 μmol·m−2·s−1, with higher light intensities causing a decrease of 15%. …”
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The mechanical and adhesive properties of electrically and thermally conductive polymeric composites based on high density polyethylene filled with nickel powder by Krupa, Igor

“…The electrical conductivity of composites reached a value of 8.3×103Sm−1 when filled with 30vol.% of the filler, and the thermal conductivity obtained using this filler content was found to be 1.99Wm−1K−1. …”
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Numerical evaluation of the thermal performance of a near-surface earth-to-air heat exchanger with short-grass ground cover: A parametric study by Pakari, Ali

“…By increasing the soil thermal conductivity from 1 to 5 W m−1 K−1 the outlet temperature decreased by about 4.4 °C.…”
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Solar Thermochemical Hydrogen Production via Terbium Oxide Based Redox Reactions by Bhosale, Rahul

“…The computational thermodynamic modeling of the terbium oxide based two-step solar thermochemical water splitting (Tb-WS) cycle is reported. The 1st step of the Tb-WS cycle involves thermal reduction of TbO2 into Tb and O2, whereas the 2nd step corresponds to the production of H2 through Tb oxidation by water splitting reaction. …”
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The spectral and morphological studies of the conductive polyaniline thin film derivatives by the in situ copolymerization by Waware, Umesh S.

“…The properties of copolymer could be modified by varying the monomer ratio in copolymerization reactions. The 1H NMR studies reveal the actual structural details of these polymers.TEM images of polyaniline and copolymer films at high magnification show a flat- shaped tubular morphology. …”
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