Low levels of Vitamin D during pregnancy associated with gestational diabetes mellitus and low birth weight: results from the MAASTHI birth cohort by Deepa, R.

“…For every one-unit increase in Vitamin D levels, Homeostatic Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) decreased by nearly 18%. …”
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The impact of intermittent fasting during Ramadan on psychomotor and cognitive skills in adolescent athletes by Bougrine, Houda

“…Results and discussion: The obtained data illustrated that there was a decrease in SRT, CRT, VT, and MRT performances during R1 in comparison to R0 (all p < .001). …”
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Bariatric Surgery Improves Serum CD40L Levels as a Predictor of Cardiovascular Risk: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Jamialahamdi, Tannaz

“…The overall effect size was detected by a random-effects meta-analysis and the leave-one-out approach. Random-effects meta-analysis of 7 studies including 191 subjects showed a significant reduction in CD40L after bariatric surgery (standardized mean difference (SMD), − 0.531; 95% CI, − 0.981, − 0.082; p = 0.021; I2, 87.00). …”
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Improvement of both lipid and biomass productivities of Qatar Chlorocystis isolate for biodiesel production and food security by Saadaoui, Imen

“…Indeed, culturing QUCCCM14 using f/2 medium with 10× NaH2PO4 (0.15 g L−1 NaNO3 and 5.6 mg L−1 NaH2PO4) resulted in an improvement of 3.178 folds the lipid productivity reaching 56.121 mg L−1 day−1 and enhanced the biomass productivity reaching 141.363 mg L−1 day−1, simultaneously. …”
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Individual and Synergic Effects of Phosphorus and Gibberellic Acid on Organic Acids Exudation Pattern, Ultra-Structure of Chloroplast and Stress Response Gene Expression in Cu-Stre... by Alatawi, Aishah

“…Results revealed that C. capsularis tolerated up to 200 mg kg−1 Cu concentration without a significant (P < 0.05) decrease in biomass, plant height and root length but further increase in Cu concentration from 400 mg kg−1 exhibited a significant reduction in plant height, root length, stem fresh weight, stem dry weight, plant fresh weight and plant dry weight. …”
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Experimental study on effective placement of PCM packets in cooling vest to improve performance in warm environment by Itani, Mariam

“…Global warming has increased the risk of heat stress of outdoor workers and one measure against heat stress is wearing passive personal cooling clothing. …”
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STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACHES TOWARD ACTIVITY RESTORATION OF NOVEL CYSTATHIONINE BETA-SYNTHASE MUTATIONS by AL-SADEQ, DUAA WALID

“…This reduced activity is consistent with both in vitro and in silico evidence, which indicates that the studied CBS mutations, except p.K72I, significantly decrease the overall protein's stability, which may represent the underlying cause of their pathogenicity. …”
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Optimizing nutrient removal of moving bed biofilm reactor process using response surface methodology by Almomani F.

“…Under optimized conditions (HRTtotal = 12.8 hr and R = 1.5) significant chemical oxygen demand removal (%CODremoval), %TNremoval and %TPremoval of 95.5%, 96.2%, 94.70% were attained. …”
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Removal of toxic pollutants from produced water by phytoremediation: Applications and mechanistic study by Atia, Fathy A.M.

“…This conclusion is verified by the shifting or disappearance in transmission bands at 1028, 1334, 2852 and 2921 cm−1. After PW treatment, the soil with sandy-loam texture used in this study showed a huge accumulation of sodium ions up to 17.6 × 103 mg/Kg. …”
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Outdoor scale-up of Leptolyngbya sp.: Effect of light intensity and inoculum volume on photoinhibition and -oxidation by Schipper, Kira

“…Indoor, the strain was capable of growing at light intensities of up to 5600 µmol photons/m2/s, at inoculation densities as low as 0.1 g/L (10% inoculation volume vol/vol). Levels of chlorophyll and phycocyanin showed a significant decrease within the first 24 h, indicating some level of photooxidation, however, both were able to recover within 72 h. …”
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Cultivating microalgae in desert conditions: Evaluation of the effect of light‐temperature summer conditions on the growth and metabolism of nannochloropsis qu130 by Jabri, Hareb Al

“…In the Qatar desert the temperature varies widely, typically between 10° and 45 °C There are also wide variations in light intensity, with values of over 1500 μmolhν.m−2s−1 in summer. A study of the effects of these thermal and light fluctuations is therefore essential for large‐scale outdoor production systems, especially during the summer when temperature and light fluctuations are at their highest. …”
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Mixed Solid Municipal Waste-Based Biochar for Soil Fertility and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation by Bansode, Rishipal

“…Municipal solid waste management is one of the major challenges facing Qatar with more than 2.5 million tons of municipal solid waste each year, a very high waste generation rate in a country with small land mass. …”
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Complex-impedance response of an Ag/TeO2-V2O5/Ag structure by El-Muraikhi, M.

“…The electrical conductance and capacitance were measured over a frequency range of 20 Hz to 1 MHz and a temperature range of 293–450 K; these reveal semiconducting features based predominantly on an ionic mechanism. …”
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Concrete Pavement Truck Equivalence Factors For Upgrades by Razouki, Sabah Said

“…Presented in this paper are the upgrade truck equivalence factors for single unit trucks of type, 1.2 and 1.22 which are not covered by AASHTO. The equivalency factors for front and rear axles of single unit trucks were developed using AASHO Road Test equation after considering the decrease in front axle load and the increase in rear axle load due to the axle load redistribution on upgrades. …”
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Urology Residents' Perspectives on the In-House On-Call Systems: A Study in an Accredited Academic Center by Khalil, Ibrahim A. and Ibrahim, Tarek and Aldeeb, Maya and Mohamed, Ahmed and Ben Salah, Rym and Aboumarzouk, Omar M. and Al-Naimi, Abdulla

“…Working hours: compliance and violations There was no significant difference in the mean weekly working hours (p = 0.1). However, the total number of duty hours violations decreased in the 12-hour on-call system. …”
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Changes in Copepod Community Structure in Response to Land-Based Activities along Alexandria Coastline, Mediterranean Sea by El Din, Nehad M. Nour [نهاد مصطفى نور الدين]

“…Industrial discharge exerted the highest impact on the copepod population by decreasing its density to less than 500 ind./m3. Despite the decrease m copepod abundance during high flow of sewage, the impacted area sustained the maximum copepod density low discharge i.e. 11,222 ind.…”
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Pilot-scale petroleum refinery wastewaters treatment systems: performance and microbial communities' analysis by Karray, Fatma

“…The reduction of the COD, BOD5, phenols, and the total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) reached 82.10%, 85.87%, 91.63%, and 81.11%, respectively at high hydraulic residence time (HRT = 10 days). Decreasing HRT to 5 and 2.5 days led to a decrease in the efficiency of the process and a decrease in biomass concentration was also observed (<1000 mg/l). …”
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Changes in expression of Kv7.5 and Kv7.2 channels in dorsal root ganglion neurons in the streptozotocin rat model of painful diabetic neuropathy by Laiche, Djouhri

“…We found 35 days post-STZ: (1) a significant decrease in Kv7.5-immunoreactivity in small (<30 μm) DRG neurons (both IB4 positive and IB4 negative) and medium-sized (30−40 μm) neurons, and (2) a significant increase in Kv7.2-immunoreactivity in small (<30 μm) neurons, and a non-significant increase in medium/large neurons. …”
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Differentiation of human olfactory bulb-derived neural stem cells toward oligodendrocyte. by Marei, Hany E

“…In addition, a significant up regulation in gene and protein expression profile of stage specific cell markers for OPCs/OLs (CNPase, Galc, NG2, MOG, OLIG1, OLIG2, MBP), neurons, and astrocytes (MAP2, β-TubulinIII, GFAP) and concomitant decrease of OBNSCs pluripotency markers (Oct4, Sox2, Nestin), was demonstrated following induction of OBNSCs differentiation. …”
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Effect of octylphenol polyethylene oxide on the corrosion inhibition of steel in 0.5 M H2SO4 by Algaber, A.S

“…The experimental data were fitted with the Flory-Huggins isotherm at a molecular ratio of 5:1. The Gibbs energy of adsorption decreases with the temperature. …”
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