Pd nanocrystals encapsulated in MOF-derived Ni/N-doped hollow carbon nanosheets for efficient thermal CO oxidation: unveiling the effect of porosity by Ipadeola, Adewale K.

“…This is evidenced in the great ability of Pd/Ni-MOF-HNC to utterly oxidize CO at a lower complete conversion temperature (T100) of 114.5 °C compared with Pd/Ni-MOF-NC (153.8 °C) and Pd/C (201.5 °C) under atmospheric pressure. …”
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AMPK Activation Attenuates Albumin-induced Alterations in Renal Tubular Cells In Vitro by Allouch, Soumaya

“…Moreover, higher concentrations of albumin, particularly 30 mg/ml, caused severe induction of ER stress and EMT, marked by 20-fold increase in CHOP and 6-fold increase in a-SMA respectively. Similarly, the phosphorylation of AKT and P70S6K (a downstream target of mTOR) was increased by more than 1.5-fold in cells subjected to albumin treatment. …”
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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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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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Roadmap toward energy-positive upfront nitrogen removal process in baseload LNG plant by Mkacher, Hajer

“…The results show that UNrem of 87.5% from the NG feed can reduce the total power requirements by 0.24%, increase the production flow rate by 4.4%, and decrease the exergy losses by 0.23% compared with the base case. …”
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Higher egg consumption associated with increased risk of diabetes in Chinese adults - China Health and Nutrition Survey. by Wang, Yue

“…Compared with the first quartile of egg consumption (0-9·0 g/d), the adjusted OR of diabetes for the second (9·1-20·6 g/d), third (20·7-37·5 g/d) and fourth (≥37·6 g/d) quartiles were 1·29 (95 % CI 1·03, 1·62), 1·37 (95 % CI 1·09, 1·72) and 1·25 (95 % CI 1·04, 1·64), respectively (Pfor trend = 0·029). …”
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The Structure of the Free Volume in Poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) from Positron Lifetime and Pressure Volume Temperature (PVT) Experiments by Dlubek, Gunter

“…The specific number of holes, equation image, estimated from a comparison of PVT and PALS results, is independent on the temperature and the composition of SAN, equation image = (0.56 ± 0.02) × 1021 g−1 which corresponds to Nh(Tg) = equation image/V(Tg) = 0.59 nm−3 and 1/Nh(Tg) = 1.7 nm3 for the volume which contains one hole. …”
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Novel voltage balancing algorithm for single-phase cascaded multilevel inverter for post-module failure operation in solar photovoltaic applications by Rahman S.

“…Four cascaded quasi-impedance source inverter (qZSI) modules are required for achieving nine-level output voltage waveform. In case of one module failure, number of levels in output voltage are reduced to seven. …”
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Contrasting effects of necrotrophic and biotrophic plant pathogens on the aphid Aphis fabae by Al-Naemi, F.

“…However, sequential plant infection (pathogens applied 5 days apart) led to a 70% decrease in fecundity and 50% reduction in intrinsic rate of increase. …”
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Mycoremediation of Tunisian tannery wastewater under non-sterile conditions using Trametes versicolor: live and dead biomasses by Boujelben, Raouia

“…The phytotoxicity test showed that the decrease in the toxicity levels was significantly higher for live biomass, reaching 44.1% at pH = 5.5 and did not exceed 33% for dead biomass. …”
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Could Vagus nerve stimulation influence bone remodeling? by Tamimi, Ahmad

“…The lumbar Z score also increased in these patients from -1.22±1.15 to -0.88±1.22, P=0.006). Pre and Post VNA femoral BMD was measured in only 11 patients and, of those 3 showed a significant increase in BMD, 1 a significant decrease and 7 no change. …”
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Novel fluorinated surfactants for enhanced oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs by Al-Amodi, Adel O.

“…A decrease in oil/water interfacial tension (IFT) of almost one order of magnitude was observed when adding surfactant‐A. …”
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Use Of Cement By-Pass Dust In Soil Stabilization by Taha, Ramzi

“…Mixtures were subjected to the following tests: (1) Atterberg limits, (2) pH, (3) compaction, (4) California Bearing Ratio (CBR), (5) swell percent, and (6) swell pressure. …”
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Overconfident results with the bivariate random effects model for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies by Furuya-Kanamori, Luis

“…Diaz found that the performance of the bivariate model deteriorates when between-study heterogeneity increases and the number of studies decrease.5 Our simulation studies found similar results—with moderate levels of heterogeneity (tau2 = 1), the coverage probabilities of Se, Sp, and the diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) with the bivariate model dropped below the nominal level.6 Diagnostic accuracy studies usually favor sensitivity over specificity, or vice versa leading to diagnostic 2 × 2 tables with one or more of the cells with low frequency or zero counts. …”
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Correlation between delta-endotoxin and proteolytic activities produced by Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki growing in an economic production medium by Ennouri, Karim

“…Maximal protease activity (540-2468 UI) obtained by BUPM5-1 and BUPM5-2 was 2.34-fold and 10.7-fold, respectively, more than that obtained by the wild strain BUPM5 with a drastic decrease of their delta-endotoxin production. …”
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Interface modification of compatibilized polyethylene terephthalate/polypropylene blends: Effect of compatibilization on thermomechanical properties and thermal stability by Inuwa, Ibrahim M.

“…Compatibilization with a suitable block/graft copolymer is one way to improve the mechanical and thermal properties of the PET/PP blend. …”
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Pharmacologic inhibition of hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-hydroxylases ameliorates allergic contact dermatitis by Manresa M.C.

“…Background When an immune cell migrates from the bloodstream to a site of chronic inflammation, it experiences a profound decrease in microenvironmental oxygen levels leading to a state of cellular hypoxia. …”
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Tailoring of the thermal, mechanical and dielectric properties of the polypropylene foams using gamma-irradiation by Mrl�k, Miroslav

“…Investigated mechanical properties in case of tensile tests as well as dynamical mechanical analysis proved, that enhanced behaviour was observed only in case of samples with irradiated by low doses, 1 kGy and 5 kGy, respectively, while the higher doses significantly decrease these ones, due to the present scission confirmed by FTIR and other investigations. …”
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Influence of shelf-life duration on mechanical, thermal and shape recovery motion derivatives of shape memory polyurethane by Vasavi, Boggarapu

“…In addition, Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)exhibited a decrease in glass transition temperature (Tg) from S1 to S10, resulting in a corresponding reduction in the rate of shape restoration. …”
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Analysis of dopant diffusion in molten germanium induced by pulsed nd : yag laser by Mousa, Ali M. [علي مطشر موسى]

“…A monotonic decrease in the sheet rcsostance with increasing energy density for all values of E > 10 J/cm2. …”
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