Mechanism of GaAs surface sulfidation by Al Marri, M.J.

“…Furthermore, the intensity of the S - O bond (S 2p at 169.1 eV) decreased with time, presumably due to arsenic sulfate dissolution. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on smoking (waterpipe and cigarette) and participants' BMI across various sociodemographic groups in Arab countries in the Mediterranean Region by Al Sabbah, Haleama

“…RESULTS: Overall, the prevalence rate of smoking decreased significantly during the lockdown from 29.8% to 23.5% (p<0.05). …”
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Ni-P-TiO2 Composite coatings on copper produced by sol-enhanced electroplating by Wang, Yuxin

“…The optimal mechanical properties can be achieved when the sol concentration is 12.5 mL/L. In this case, the microhardness of Ni-P-12.5 mL/L TiO2 composite coatings can reach ~710 HV while the Ni-P is ~520 HV. …”
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Edge-based compression and classification for smart healthcare systems: concept, implementation and evaluation by Awad Abdellatif A.

“…We show the effectiveness of our system and its ability to outperform conventional remote monitoring systems that ignore data processing at the edge by: (i) achieving 98.3% classification accuracy for seizures detection, (ii) extending battery lifetime by 60%, and (iii) decreasing average transmission delay by 90%.…”
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Adaptive thermal comfort in the different buildings of Darjeeling Hills in eastern India – Effect of difference in elevation by Thapa, Samar

“…The yearly mean clothing insulation in S0135 was 0.640 clo, K1420 was 0.722 clo, M1640 was 0.947 clo, S1950 was 1.055 clo and T2565 was 0.907 clo, respectively. …”
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Graph-Guided Regularized Regression of Pacific Ocean Climate Variables to Increase Predictive Skill of Southwestern U.S. Winter Precipitation by Tejedor, Alejandro

“…Recently, promising data-driven approaches have been proposed, but they often suffer from overparameterization and overfitting due to the short observational record, and they often do not account for spatiotemporal dependencies among covariates (i.e., predictors such as sea surface temperatures). …”
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Degraded Arid Soil Reclamation for Cotton Cultivation Using Organic Waste Amendments by Kogbara, Reginald

“…Two abundant organic wastes, industrial biosludge and cow dung compost, were employed as soil amendments at a 3% application rate on a silty loam soil with relatively high salinity (electrical conductivity = 5.60 dS/m) and compared with conventional chemical fertilization. …”
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Determination of the main factors contributing to increases in medicine expenditures for the National Health Insurance Fund in Sudan by Mousnad, M. A.

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Correlation of multiple time-scale and uncertainty modelling for renewable energy-load profiles in wind powered system by Mehrjerdi H.

“…It is demonstrated that 30, 15, and 5-min time-scale reduce the cost about 5, 3, and 0.8%, respectively. …”
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Daily-seasonal operation in net-zero energy building powered by hybrid renewable energies and hydrogen storage systems by Mehrjerdi, H.

“…These issues are investigated at net-zero energy building supported by renewable resources (i.e., solar energy, hydro energy, and fuelcell) and energy storage systems (i.e., hydrogen storage system). …”
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Modeling the risk-based decisions of the microgrid in day-ahead energy and reserve markets considering stochastic dispatching of electrical and thermal energy storages by Bahramara, Salah

“…However, the proposed robust two-stage stochastic model leads to a smaller reduction of the MGO's first-stage decisions in the worst case in comparison with the conventional methods, i.e. deterministic and probabilistic ones. This issue proves the effectiveness of the proposed approach to protect the MGO's decisions against the uncertainties.…”
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Influence of changing casing groove parameters on the performance of centrifugal compressors near stall condition by Halawa, Taher

“…The casing grooves parameters considered are the groove cross section aspect ratio (the groove height to width ratio), groove location, and the number of grooves. Five groove aspect ratios were considered ranging from 0.2 to 1.8. …”
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Impact of trace noble metals on the catalytic performance of LaNiMgO towards methane dry reforming by Mohamed, Assem T.

“…In addition, the presence of noble metals at the Ni surface afforded a high density of adsorbed oxygen species, which enhanced coke gasification and consequently decreased the extent of deactivation of the catalysts by coke formation. …”
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Persistent viral infectivity after 27 days from COVID-19 symptoms onset by Zupin, Luisa

“…The persistence of SARS-CoV- 2 in pharyngeal swabs belonging to patients affected by COVID-19 is not a rare occurrence. …”
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Global, regional, and national stillbirths at 20 weeks' gestation or longer in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2021: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Comfort, Haley

“…The estimated number of stillbirths occurring at 20 weeks' gestation or longer decreased from 5·08 million (95% UI 4·07–6·35) in 1990 to 3·04 million (2·61–3·62) in 2021, corresponding to a 39·8% (31·8–48·0) reduction, which lagged behind a global improvement in neonatal deaths of 45·6% (36·3–53·1) for the same period (down from 4·03 million [3·86–4·22] neonatal deaths in 1990). …”
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A quantitative three-dimensional comparative study of alveolar bone changes and apical root resorption between clear aligners and fixed orthodontic appliances. by Almagrami, Ibtehal

“…The dentoalveolar quantitative changes were analyzed using pre- (T0) and post-treatment (T1) CBCT. The measured parameters included alveolar bone thickness (ABT), alveolar bone height (ABH), root length (OIIRR), and maxillary incisor inclinations. …”
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Mechanical properties and surface characteristics of an AA6060 alloy strained in tension at cryogenic and room temperature by Xu, Zebing

“…When the temperature decreases, the yield strength, the ultimate tensile strength and ductility to fracture are drastically increased from 217.2 MPa, 252.4 MPa, 14.5% to 251.6 MPa, 335.9 Mpa, 21.5% respectively, and the average diameter of dimples decreases from ~8 µm to ~3 µm. …”
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Gas solubility and rheological behavior study of betaine and alanine based natural deep eutectic solvents (NADES) by Altamash T.

“…Natural deep eutectic solvent (NADES) produced herein this work by mixing betaine and alanine with lactic acid and malic acid with 1:1 M mixing ratios. Thermophysical properties including water content, thermal stability, density and gas solubility of CO2 and N2 were experimented at different isotherms for wide pressures range up to 50 bars. …”
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Developing sustainable draw solute for forward osmosis process using poly(amidoamine) dendrimer coated magnetic nanoparticles by Hassanein, Amani

“…The synthesized MNPs had a crystalline structure of a single-phase magnetite, spherical shape with an average size of 11.8 nm for bare MNPs, and 17.1 nm for PAMAM-MNPs. The performance of the synthesized MNPs as draw solute was tested using a bench scale forward osmosis setup. …”
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Plasticization and co-crystallization in LLDPE/wax blends. by Gumede, Thandi P.

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