Empirical evaluation of change in crash risk due to lane marking reallocation: A case study in Kochi City, Japan by Hiroaki, Nishiuchi

“…In addition, the results indicate that the PICUD value tends to decrease (i.e., the crash risk tends to increase) with increasing speed of the following vehicle relative to the leading vehicle. …”
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Optimization of design and operation of solar assisted district cooling systems by Alghool, Dana M.

“…Hence, the proposed model aims at finding the optimal system design (i.e., the system's main components along with their optimal capacities) together with the optimal hourly policies for production and storage of hot and cold water while satisfying the expected cooling demand. …”
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Effects of acute and chronic exercise on immunological parameters in the elderly aged: Can physical activity counteract the effects of aging? by Sellami M.

“…Numerous studies on physical activity and immunity, with focus on special populations (i.e., people with diabetes, HIV patients) demonstrate that chronic exercise enhances immunity. …”
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Carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) Prevents Short-Term Memory Deficit Induced by Chronic Stress in Rats by Alzoubi K.H.

“…Carob extract was administered to animals via intraperitoneal (i.p.) route at a daily dose of 50?mg/kg. Radial arm water maze (RAWM) was utilized to test for spatial learning and memory. …”
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Choroidal metastasis as initial presentation of aggressive medullary thyroid carcinoma with widespread mediastinal, brain, pituitary, bone, lung, and liver metastasis: Case report... by S. Al Hassan, Mohamed

“…MTC presenting as ocular symptoms due to choroidal mass is rare with bad prognosis. Presentation of case A 38-year-old Sudanese male presented to Hamad General Hospital, complaining of sudden painless decrease of vision of the right eye of 3 weeks duration. …”
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Driver Drowsiness Detection Study using Heart Rate Variability analysis in Virtual Reality Environment by Chowdhury, Muhammad E.H.

“…Electrocardiogram (ECG) system was used with three Ag/AgCl electrodes attached to a participant's chest. The points of attachment are (i) two electrodes under the right and left collarbone, and (ii) one electrode under the lowest left rib bone of the participant. …”
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Release of colloids in saturated porous media under transient hydro-chemical conditions: A pore-scale study by Nishad, Safna

“…Favorable, medium-favorable and unfavorable colloids (i.e., repulsion absent, repulsion at long-range of separation distances and attraction absent with the micromodel surface, respectively) were deposited in the micromodel and then a series of colloid release experiments were conducted at different conditions including increasing the flow rate, decreasing the ionic strength and increasing the solution pH. …”
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Enhancing desalination and wastewater treatment by coupling microbial desalination cells with forward osmosis by Yuan, Heyang

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Understanding electricity generation in osmotic microbial fuel cells through integrated experimental investigation and mathematical modeling by Qin, Mohan

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Dynamic Imaging of Hydrate Specific Area Evolution during Xenon Hydrate Formation by Jarrar, Zaher

“…During hydrate formation and dissociation, full 3D images are acquired at a time resolution of 45 seconds and a spatial resolution of 5.38 ?…”
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Vertical zonation and functional diversity of fish assemblages revealed by ROV videos at oil platforms in The Gulf by Torquato, F.

“…Several trends were uncovered in the vertical distribution of the fish community; most species were observed between 20 and 50 m depth and fish abundance decreased towards the bottom, with the highest abundances recorded in the upper layers, i.e. down to 40 m depth. …”
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Dispatchable capacity optimization strategy for battery swapping and charging station aggregators to participate in grid operations by Mingze, Zhang

“…Also, the aggregator does not worsen the original power load while meeting the EV swapping demand and can decrease the daily load fluctuations by 0.65% and 12.89%, reduce the peak–valley difference by 5.81% and 7.80%, and increase the load rate by 3.67% and 4.08% in working and non-working day situations through providing the dynamic dispatchable capacity for the grid.…”
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Application of Fe3O4 magnetite nanoparticles grafted in silica (SiO2) for oil recovery from oil in water emulsions by Elmobarak W.F.

“…Demulsification process best fits the combined Langmuir-Freundlich (L-F) isotherm with highest adsorption capacity (Qmax) of 186.0 ± 5 mgoil/gMD compared to 86.0 ± 5 mgoil/gMD for Fe3O4, which is 1.1 folds greater than Qmax reported in the literature for other demulsifiers.…”
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Adaptive effects of seeing green environment on psychophysiological parameters when walking or running by Briki W.

“…Participants were randomly assigned to one of the three experimental conditions: Green, red, or white (neutral) environment. …”
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Dynamic Salmonella Enteritidis biofilms development under different flow conditions and their removal using nanoencapsulated thymol by Yammine, Jina

“…ML nanocapsules decreased significantly bacterial counts during the first 0.5 h, while LBL nanocapsules eliminated the remaining bacterial cells and ensured a protection from bacterial contamination for up to 5 h by releasing THY in a sustained manner over time due to the thicker shell wall structure.…”
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Highly active, durable and pH-universal hybrid oxide nanocrystals for efficient oxygen evolution by Ahmad, Yahia H.

“…Herein, hybrid Ptx-NiMnO3 nanocrystals (NCs) (x = 0.1, 0.5, and 1.0 mM) were synthesized by a modified citrate-gel approach and utilized as efficient catalysts towards the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). …”
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Bite force changes after surgical correction of mandibular prognathism in subjects with increased vertical dimension: A prospective clinical trial by Tamimi, Zaid Z.

“…Relapse was detected in group 1 where the number of posterior teeth in contact decreased during the observation period (T1–T2). …”
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Synthesis and properties of HA/ZnO/CNT nanocomposite by Ding M.

“…The goal of this study was to examine the tribomechanical properties of hydroxyapatite (HA)/ZnO and HA/ZnO/CNT composite ceramics (carbon nanotubes; with different ratios 0.5 wt%, 1.0 wt%, and 1.5 wt%). The composites were synthesized using the hydrothermal method in an autoclave. …”
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Sestrin2 suppression aggravates oxidative stress and apoptosis in endothelial cells subjected to pharmacologically induced endoplasmic reticulum stress by Fatima, Munazza T

“…Importantly, SESN2 silencing, unlike thapsigargin, caused a dramatic decrease in protein expression and phosphorylation of Akt, a critical pro-survival hub and component of the AMPK/Akt/mTORC1 axis. …”
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Spatially Correlated Time Series and Ecological Niche Analysis of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Afghanistan. by Adegboye, Oyelola A

“…Cutaneous leishmaniasis is one of the most common types of leishmaniasis infectious diseases with up to 1.2 million occurrences of new cases each year worldwide. …”
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