Use and assessment of “e-plastics” as recycled aggregates in cement mortar by Makri, Chrysanthi

“…The obtained results, for all RPs, (especially those of 7.5% and 10%) exhibited an increase in the CS of the specimens by 15.4% and 7.8%, respectively, with the MoE decreased in both cases by 18.1% and 23.8%, respectively. …”
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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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Asymmetric effects of oil price shocks on the demand for money in Algeria by Amirouche, Chelghoum

“…This paper investigates the symmetric and asymmetric effects of real oil prices on real money demand in Algeria over the period 1999:Q1–2020:Q1. Using a linear autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL), and a nonlinear autoregressive distributed lag model (NARDL), we find no evidence of a long-term relationship among the variables. …”
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the HIV Cascade of Care in Botswana – An Interrupted Time Series by Sehurutshi, Alice

“…Globally, Botswana has one of the highest burdens of HIV. This study estimated the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the HIV cascade of care in Sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Profiling of the Differentially Expressed Genes of Inflammation and Angiogenesis of Human Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells Evoked by Cell Injury In-Vitro to Mimic Acute Ischem... by Al Hamed, Fatima Alzahra Mahmoud

“…Acute IS (AIS) injury of PHBMEC is not well characterized in terms of its consequences on cell functions using genomic function profiling. In our study, we aimed to establish a new model of an acute in-vitro ischemic stroke, within a time limit of 2 hrs., with depriving whole nutrients and not just glucose, under hypoxic condition, in a model we created as oxygen nutrients deprivation (OND). …”
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Service Ethnocentrism: A Conceptual Model (An Abstract) by Maher, Amro A.

“…In this model, we have identified factors that lead to an increase in SE and other factors that lead to a decrease in SE. …”
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Optimal virtual network function placement in multi-cloud service function chaining architecture by Bhamare, Deval

“…Greedy approach has already been widely studied in the literature for the VM placement problem. Especially we compare our proposed heuristic with a greedy approach using first-fit decreasing (FFD) method. …”
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Modification of Pd/CeO2 catalyst by Atomic Layer Deposition of ZrO2 by Onn, Tzia Ming

“…Methane-oxidation rates in 0.5% CH4 and 5% O2 were slightly lower on the ZrO2-covered catalyst when both materials were calcined at 673 K but the activity of the ZrO2-modified catalyst did not decrease with catalyst calcination temperature. …”
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Effect of serum lipoproteins on stereoselective halofantrine metabolism by rat hepatocytes by Patel, J. P.

“…Experimental hyperlipidemia has shown to decrease cytochrome P450 3A4 and 2C11 expression and to increase liver concentrations and the plasma protein binding of halofantrine (HF) enantiomers. …”
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Screening the growth inhibition mechanism of sulfate reducing bacteria by chitosan/lignosulfonate nanocomposite (CS@LS) in seawater media by Kashif, Rasool

“…The SRBs spiked with 500 µg/mL CS@LS showed a reduction in cell viability to 1.5 × 106 MPN/mL. …”
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Low levels of Vitamin D during pregnancy associated with gestational diabetes mellitus and low birth weight: results from the MAASTHI birth cohort by Deepa, R.

“…For every one-unit increase in Vitamin D levels, Homeostatic Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) decreased by nearly 18%. …”
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Effect of the length of silicon nano-dot/wire on band gap by Hassan, Walid M.I.

“…We will report on the role of the length of silicon nanowire (SNW) in determining the band gap of a structure. …”
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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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Detoxification assays of tunisian tannery wastewater under nonsterile conditions using the filamentous fungus aspergillus Niger by 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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Study on adaptive thermal comfort in Japanese offices under various operation modes by Takasu, Marina

“…The lower and upper limits of the optimum comfort temperature is approximately 23.5C and 26.6C in mixed-mode. In addition, it is seen that the optimum comfort temperature tends to increase and decrease at very low and high outdoor air temperatures respectively. …”
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Thermal and mechanical stability of microwave sintered cold compact bismuth telluride thermoelectric material by Farheen F., Jaldurgam

“…The compression strength for all the samples had almost a constant value of 64 ± 0.5 MPa. Our fabrication method has the benefits of a low-cost, simple, and quick process paired with better thermal and mechanical properties, making it a good prospect for bismuth telluride thermoelectrics.…”
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Quality, safety and efficiency in practice: Risk assessment and standardisation of anesthesia equipment and supplies in operating theaters of high-volume tertiary-care academic med... by Hammad Y.

“…For each OT, the availability, quantity and time spent to locate and obtain a set of required items were recorded (baseline values). We then developed an OT mapping plan to determine the specific item/s to be stocked in specific locations, and one OT was standardized to this configuration map. …”
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Optimal Energy Dispatch Engine for PV-DG-ESS Hybrid Power Plants Considering Battery Degradation and Carbon Emissions by Kanaan, Laith

“…The test results revealed a 9.2% and 3.5% decrease in daily costs compared to the heuristic and stochastic methods, respectively, and a 29.4% decrease in carbon emission costs.…”
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Recycled Concrete Used in Subbase in Potential Use for Road Base and Cement Bounded Material (CBM) by Ahmad, Hassan Haidar

“…This paper will focus on the fine recycled concrete (FRC) 0-5 mm as a fine aggregate material in the mix design for constructing the base road layers under the Asphalt layers and how using crushed concrete can increase the quality and change the classification of the base aggregate mixes. …”
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Shiitake Culinary-Medicinal Mushroom, Lentinus edodes (Agaricomycetes), Supplementation Alters Gut Microbiome and Corrects Dyslipidemia in Rats. by Anwar, Haseeb

“…Wistar rats were offered a chow maintenance diet (CMD; CON group) or the same CMD ration with cholesterol (1.5% w/w) and cholic acid (0.5% w/w) added to induce hypercholesterolemia (day 1 to day 24). …”
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