Mathematical modeling assisted investigation of forward osmosis as pretreatment for microbial desalination cells to achieve continuous water desalination and wastewater treatment by Yuan, Heyang

“…It achieved 70.6% COD removal from a synthetic wastewater and 94.0% conductivity decrease in a salt solution containing 35gL-1 NaCl. …”
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Flow and Fracture Behaviour of Tungsten Fiber Reinforced Superalloy Composites-Effect Of Specimen Geometry by Kandeil, A. Y.

“…The influence of aspect ratio (i.e. width to height ratio) of test specimens on the flow and fracture behaviour of fiber reinforced composites is herein examined. …”
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Trends and Appropriateness of Sodium-glucose Co-transporter 2 Inhibitors Use in Qatar by Zaghloul, Nancy

“…Male gender (odds ratio [OR], 1.692; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.015 to 2.822; P=0.044), patients with a baseline glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) >7% (OR, 3.219; 95% CI, 1.838 to 5.637; P<0.001) and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) (OR, 2.182; 95% CI, 1.053 to 4.523), patients on metformin (OR, 7.556; 95% CI, 4.460 to 12.802; P<0.001), sulfonylureas (OR, 2.301; 95% CI, 1.160 to 4.563; P=0.017), and dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitors (DPP4is) (OR, 3.430; 95% CI, 2.004 to 5.871; P<0.001) were more likely to be prescribed a SGLT2i. …”
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Experimental Investigation on the Flexural Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Beams with Treated Wastewater and Recycled Concrete Aggregates by Abushanab, Abdelrahman

“…In addition, the utilization of FA at a 20% replacement ratio enhanced the flexural strength by 5% to 7%.…”
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A reliable and cost-effective planning framework of rural area hybrid system considering intelligent weather forecasting by Abazari, A.

“…Simulation results illustrate that using photovoltaic panels, wind turbine generators, battery energy storage systems, and diesel engine generators (PV/WTG/BESS/DEG) is the most cost-effective strategy resulting in a 96.13% decrease of CO2 emission compared to DEG system at REPmin=97% and LPSPmax=1%. …”
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Hydrogen Production via Ethanol Decomposition over Bimetallic Catalyst by Ashok, Anchu

“…The amount of precursors was calculated based on the synthesis of 1.5 g product in the output. These precursors were mixed in 75 ml of water and stir continuously for 1 hr to form a homogenous mixture. …”
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Nanomechanical properties of plasma treated polylactic acid by Koumoulos E.P.

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Economic consequences of the covid 19 outbreak by Sidik, Hanan

“…A description of Covid situation and what are the changes, the flight stops and social distance is a must for all the people, must ware mask and gloves all the time in the second part of the report I talked about the economic situation during the covid 19, fall in the international economics and the progress in the national economics. …”
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Effect Of The Apical Ectodermal Ridge On Mitotic Index In Hind Limb Bud Mesenchyme In Bufo Regularis by Abdel Karim, Ahmed E.

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Sea water salinity detection using circular fringes formation based on diffraction of laser light by Ali H.

“…As the NaCl solution concentration increases from 0% to 9% (0 g/l - 90 g/I), the radius of the outer most circular fringe decreases from 16.95 mm to 16.45 mm and the refractive index increases from 1.333 to 1.373. …”
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Physico-mechanical Properties of Sustainable Building Material Based Gypsum and Recycled Polyethylene Waste by Amina, Djoudi

“…Results proved the positive effect of the introducing of PET particles in the matrix of gypsum mortar, the lightening of this material but a decrease of mechanical properties was recorded comparing in to reference without polyethylene particles. …”
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Prophylactic antibiotics for preventing genital tract infection in women undergoing surgical procedures for incomplete abortion: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized... by Islam, Nazmul

“…Pooled estimates showed the risk of GTI following surgical procedures after incomplete abortion was significantly lower among those who had prophylactic antibiotics (RR=0.72; 95%CI 0.58-0.90; I =49%). There was no significant effect of antibiotics in women in low and middle income countries (3 studies, 3,579 participants, RR= 0.90; 95%CI 0.50-1.62; I =63%), while it was clinically and statistically significant among women high income countries (21 studies, 12,599 participants, RR=0.67; 95%CI 0.53-0.84; I =44%), with strong level of evidence as assessed by GRADE. …”
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Ocean Acidification and Carbonate System Geochemistry in the Arabian Gulf by Al-Thani, Jassem A.

“…Normalized NAlk and NDIC were calculated to remove the impact of increasing salinity. NAlk and NDIC decrease corresponding to a CaCO3/OrgC removal ratio of 2/1. …”
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Elaeagnus angustifolia Plant Extract Inhibits Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition and Induces Apoptosis via HER2 Inactivation and JNK Pathway in HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Cells by Jabeen, Ayesha

“…Thus, extract causes a drastic decrease in cell invasion ability of SKBR3 and ZR75-1 cancer cells. …”
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Studying movement reorganization when learning a whole-body action: Example of learning a constrained gait pattern by Majed, Lina

“…Results indicated an immediate reorganization incoordinative patterns (e.g., relative phases and stride frequency) accompanied by a general decrease in the initial movement variability (i.e., standard deviation of many key variables). …”
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DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF VIRTUAL REALITY EXERGAMES FOR UPPER LIMB AMPUTEE REHABILITATION by MAZHAR, NOAMAN

“…User evaluation revealed positive user satisfaction(ratings: 3.8 to 4.5 on a 5-point Likert Scale). Quantitative analysis of the box and block test scores across 10 healthy participants for the motor skills assessment revealed a strong correlation (r = 0.99, P < 0.001) between training sessions and the evaluation scores. …”
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Long-Term Variability of Aerosol Concentrations and Optical Properties over the Indo-Gangetic Plain in South Asia by Shahid, Imran

“…The results show that seasonal MODIS–aerosol optical depth (AOD) during 2000−2020 in Lahore is 0.5, 0.52, 0.92, and 0.71, while in Islamabad 0.25, 0.32, 0.45, and 0.38, in Delhi 0.68, 0.6, 1.0, and 0.77, and in Dhaka 0.79, 0.75, 0.78 and 0.55 values are observed during different seasons, i.e., winter, spring, summer, and autumn, respectively. …”
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Evaluation of different personalized ventilation air terminal devices: Inhalation vs. clothing-mediated exposures by Al Assaad, Douaa

“…Increasing the flow to 10 l/s led to reductions of 89% in exposure and 56.5% in deposition. A VDG delivering 5 l/s reduced exposure by 33% while deposition reduction was negligible at 3%. …”
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Evaluation of pretreatment and membrane configuration for pressure-retarded osmosis application to produced water from the petroleum industry by Dardor, Dareen

“…When minimally pretreated PW (10-micron cartridge filtration (CF)) was tested in FLS mode, severe membrane fouling occurred and the PRO flux decreased by 60%. In contrast, HF modules showed <1% flux decrease under both minimal and intermediate pretreatment schemes. …”
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Preliminary investigation of elevated collagen and blood-clotting markers as potential noninvasive biomarkers for small cell lung cancer by Thorlacius-Ussing, Jeppe

“…However, we observed a decrease in the degradation of type I collagen following chemotherapy. …”
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