Enhanced boron removal by electricity generation in a microbial fuel cell by Ping, Qingyun

“…In the post-treatment mode, the MFC removed 80–90% of boron and decreased the boron concentration from 20 to 2 mg L− 1 or from 5 to 1 mg L− 1, which meets the irrigation water requirement. …”
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Toxic Effect Of Lannate On Cellular Defence System In Erythrocyte Of Rat by Abd El Aziz , A. F.

“…It has been observed that there was a decrease in the activities of superoxide dismutase and glutathione reductase after 1/2 and 16 hour of Lannate addition. …”
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Radiofrequency Ablation Versus Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation: Meta-analysis of Safety and Efficacy by Yi F.

“…Random effect summary estimates were calculated as standardized mean differences and odds ratios with 95% confidence intervals for continuous and binary outcomes. …”
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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. Adsorption isotherm was satisfactorily described by Langmuir model. …”
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Topiramate monotherapy for weight reduction in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Paravattil, Bridget

“…Results: Of the 284 studies identified, 5 studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Topiramate decreased weight by a mean difference of 3.4 kg (95% CI, -3.79 to -3.04) compared to placebo. …”
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Caffeine use or napping to enhance repeated sprint performance after partial sleep deprivation: Why not both? by Romdhani, Mohamed

“…Purpose: To compare the effect of a 20-minute nap opportunity (N20), a moderate dose of caffeine (CAF; 5 mg·kg-1), or a moderate dose of caffeine before N20 (CAF+N) as possible countermeasures to the decreased performance and the partial sleep deprivation-induced muscle damage. …”
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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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Development of CuAg/Cu2O nanoparticles on carbon nitride surface for methanol oxidation and selective conversion of carbon dioxide into formate by Nazir, Roshan

“…The lower reduction potential of copper ([Cu+(aq) + e− → Cu(s)], + 0.52 eV) compared to Ag ([Ag+(aq) + e− → Ag(s)], +0.80 eV) makes Cu(0) easily exchangeable by Ag+ ions via galvanic exchange without applying any external bias. …”
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Isothermal crystallization kinetics and morphology of double crystalline PCL/PBS blends mixed with a polycarbonate/MWCNTs masterbatch by Gumede T.P.

“…For the nanocomposites, there was a decrease in Tc values. This was attributed to a competition between two effects: (1) The partial miscibility of the PC-rich and the PCL-rich and PBS-rich phases, and (2) the nucleation effect of the MWCNTs. …”
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Anti-Neoplastic Effects of Annonacin against Renal Cell Carcinoma by Munusamy, Shankar

“…M and 1 ?M) showed cell cycle arrest at G1 phase, i.e., 57% of cells in G1 phase with 0.5 ?…”
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Epidemiology of herpes simplex virus type 2 in Europe: systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions by Alareeki, Asalah

“…Seroprevalence decreased by 1% per calendar year. Pooled mean proportions of HSV-2 detection in GUD and in genital herpes were 22.0% (95% CI: 15.3–29.6%) and 66.0% (95% CI: 62.9–69.1%), respectively. …”
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Adult appendicitis score versus Alvarado score: A comparative study in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis by Ghali, Mohamed Said

“…It requires proper management to decrease mortality and morbidity. Clinical scoring systems for diagnosing AA aimed to decrease the use of radiological scans and the rate of negative appendectomies (NA). …”
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Albumin administration in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis: A meta-analytic update by Ashour, A.A.

“…Heterogeneity was mild across all studies (I223.3%). Studies reporting long-term albumin (LTA) administration were found to have a significant decrease in mortality (RR 0.57, 95% CI 0.44-0.73). …”
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Enhanced photovoltaic performance with co-sensitization of a ruthenium(ii) sensitizer and an organic dye in dye-sensitized solar cells by Mehmood, Umer

“…The enhanced efficiency can be attributed to the decrease of the competitive light absorption by I-/I3-, dye aggregation, and charge recombination. …”
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Acute mercury toxicity modulates cytochrome P450, soluble epoxide hydrolase and their associated arachidonic acid metabolites in C57Bl/6 mouse heart by Amara, Issa E.A.

“…Our results showed that mercury treatment caused a significant induction of the cardiac hypertrophy markers, atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP); in addition to Cyp1a1, Cyp1b1, Cyp2b9, Cyp2b10, Cyp2b19, Cyp2c29, Cyp2c38, Cyp4a10, Cyp4a12, Cyp4a14, Cyp4f13, Cyp4f15, Cyp4f16 and Cyp4f18 gene expression. …”
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Hemoglobin Oxidation in Stored Blood Accelerates Hemolysis and Oxidative Injury to Red Blood Cells. by Mustafa, Ibrahim

“…Blood bags with CPD-SAGM stored at 4°C for 28 days were withdrawn aseptically on days 1, 14, and 28. Hematology analyzer was used to investigate RBC indices. …”
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A disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer's disease: Focus on the trans-sulfuration pathway by Berry, Thomas

“…There is a decrease in aconitase 1 (ACO1) in AD. ACO1 is an iron-sulfur enzyme in the citric acid cycle that upon loss of an iron-sulfur cluster converts to iron regulatory protein 1 (IRP1). …”
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Forecast of the outbreak of COVID-19 using artificial neural network: Case study Qatar, Spain, and Italy by Shawaqfah M.

“…The model sensitivity was analyzed using the root mean square error (RMSE), the mean absolute percentage error and the regression coefficient index R2, which yielded highly accurate values of the predicted correlation for the infected and dead cases of 0.99 for the dates considered. …”
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Solar hydrogen production via a samarium oxide-based thermochemical water splitting cycle by Bhosale, Rahul

“…The computational thermodynamic analysis of a samarium oxide-based two-step solar thermochemical water splitting cycle is reported. …”
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The Impact of Multiple Autoclave Cycles on the Surface Roughness of Thermally Treated Nickel-Titanium Endodontic Files by Ba-Hattab, Raidan

“…Overall, 60 thermally treated files were sourced (i.e., 20 TN, 20 ETP, and 20 PTG files), and each group was divided into four equal subgroups of five files (n = 5). …”
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