Antibiotic Prescription Patterns for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections in Outpatient Qatari Population in the Private Sector حسب Butt, Adeel Ajwad

"…The most common prescribers were General/Family physicians (53% of claims; 50% inappropriate), followed by Pediatrics (18.6% of claims; 36% inappropriate) and Internal Medicine (14.1 of claims; 44% inappropriate). Conclusions: There is a high rate of inappropriate antibiotic prescription for acute URIs in the private health care sector in the State of Qatar. …"
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Cold Plasma as Effective Tool for Aluminum Surface Cleaning حسب Popelka, Anton

"…Aluminum (Al) is heavily used to manufacture structural parts in the aeronautic, railway, automotive or naval industries because of its lightness and its corrosion resistance [1]. One of the most popular uses of Al is in the packaging industry. …"
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Modeling of dual-metal Schottky contacts based silicon micro and nano wire solar cells حسب Rabbani, M. Golam

"…The most efficient photovoltaic behavior is found to occur when one metal makes a Schottky contact with the wire, and the other makes an Ohmic contact. …"
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STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL APPROACHES TOWARD ACTIVITY RESTORATION OF NOVEL CYSTATHIONINE BETA-SYNTHASE MUTATIONS حسب AL-SADEQ, DUAA WALID

"…This study investigates the impact of five pathogenic CBS missense mutations [c.1006C>T (p.R336C), c.689T>A (p.L230Q), 215A>T (p.K72I), c.707C>A (p.T236N), and c.457G>A (p.G153R)] identified in homocystinuria patients and appeared to be resistant to pyridoxine treatment on the biochemical and biophysical properties of CBS protein. …"
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Nanoclay compatibilization of phase separated polysulfone/polyimide films for oxygen barrier حسب Ammar, Ali

"…Thermal decomposition (TGA) measurements of PSF/PI films showed a decrease in thermal stability upon adding C30B due to its surfactant modification, while film mechanical tensile modulus properties improved slightly by adding low concentration of C30B (~ 1 mass%), but higher nanoclay loading decreased tensile strength and elongation at break. …"
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Effects of Climate and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Early to Mid-Term Stage Litter Decomposition Across Biomes حسب Kwon, Taeoh

"…In contrast, expected changes in atmospheric N deposition will decrease the mid-term mass loss of high-quality litter by 1.4-2.2% and that of low-quality litter by 0.9-1.5% in the temperate biome. …"
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Calmodulin Mutations Associated with Congenital Cardiac Disease Display Novel Biophysical and Biochemical Characteristics حسب 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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Modification of Pd/CeO2 catalyst by Atomic Layer Deposition of ZrO2 حسب Onn, Tzia Ming

"…Modification of a 1 wt% Pd/CeO2 catalyst by Atomic Layer Deposition of thin ZrO2 films was studied. …"
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Enhancement of mechanical and corrosion resistance properties of electrodeposited NiP-TiC composite coatings حسب Fayyaz O.

"…Vickers microhardness and nanoindentation results demonstrate the increase in the hardness with an increasing amount of TiC particles attaining its terminal value (593HV100) at the concentration of 1.5 g L−1. Further increase in the concentration of TiC particles results in a decrease in hardness, which can be ascribed to their accumulation in the Ni–P matrix. …"
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Origanum Syriacum Inhibits Proliferation, Migration, Invasion and Induces Differentiation of Human Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells حسب AlDisi, Sara

"…A major risk factor of CVDs is atherosclerosis, the hardening of blood vessels caused by decreased diameter and formation of plaque. …"
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Inter-annual variability and distribution of aerosols during winters and aerosol optical thickness over Northeastern Pakistan حسب Shahid, M. Z.

"…ir pollution during winters over north-eastern (NE) Pakistan (71–74.5 E, 28–34 N) is a major challenge that affects human health, climate and daily life. …"
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Effects of soaking, acidity and temperature on cadmium and lead removal from rice حسب Al-Naimi M.

"…Different rice treatments were involved i.e. three soaking times (0, 15, and 30 min), three temperatures (20, 25, and 30 �C) and four concentrations of glacial acetic acid (0.5%, 1%, 2%, and 3%). …"
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Flight Scheduling in the Airspace حسب Msakni, Mohamed Kais

"…The mathematical model has been solved using CPLEX 12.6 and the scatter search has been coded using C language under Microsoft Visual Studio v12 environment. The tests were conducted under a Windows 7 machine with an Intel Core i7 and 8 GB of RAM. …"
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Enzymatic treatment of peanut butter to reduce the concentration of major peanut allergens حسب Yu, Jianmei

"…Treatment of peanut butter with a combination of trypsin and alpha-chymotrypsin resulted in a decrease in IgE-binding, suggesting that enzymatic treatment has the potential to reduce the allergenicity. …"
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Detoxification assays of tunisian tannery wastewater under nonsterile conditions using the filamentous fungus aspergillus Niger حسب Boujelben, Raouia

"…Characterization of effluents also revealed high salt levels (EC > 17 mS/cm) and high organic matter content (25 g/L for the UE and 7.2 g/L for the FE) but a low biodegradability since BOD5 did not exceed 2.5 and 1.25 g/L for the UE and the FE, respectively. …"
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Thermoelectric properties of SbNCa3 and BiNCa3 for thermoelectric devices and alternative energy applications حسب Bilal, M.

"…The maximum values of thermal conductivity are 92×1014 W/m K s and 88×1014 W/m K s for SbNCa3 and BiNCa3 respectively at a temperature of 900 K. The peak values of 5×1020/Ω m s and 5.2×1020/Ω m s are achieved for n-type SbNCa3 and BiNCa3 respectively at a temperature of 300 K. …"
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Assessment of SnO2 nanoparticles' impact on local Pichoclorum atomus growth performance, cell morphology and metabolites content حسب Bounnit, Touria

"…The current study investigates the ecotoxicity of SnO2 nanoparticles on a local marine algae isolate. Five different concentrations (1, 5, 25, 50 and 100mg/L) were tested and the culture was followed for 72h. …"
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Optimizing nutrient removal of moving bed biofilm reactor process using response surface methodology حسب 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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Effect of Hyperglycemia on eNOS function in EPCs حسب Elshiekh, Duaa Ibnomer

"…ROS was assessed using CellROX stain following 1 and 3 days of treatment. Results showed that both acute and chronic hyperglycemia showed a trend towards decrease in phosphorylation of eNOS and Akt. …"
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Assessment of SnO2 nanoparticles' impact on the growth of Picochlorum maculatum algae حسب Bounnit, Touria

"…To determine the effect of SnO2 nanoparticles on Picochlorum maculatum - isolated from a Qatar marine environment, algal growth media are amended with different nanoparticle concentrations (1, 5, 25, 50, and 100 mg L−1) and the culture was observed for 72 h. …"
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