Epidemiology of herpes simplex virus type 2 in sub-Saharan Africa: Systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions by Harfouche, Manale

“…Background: Herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) infection is a prevalent, sexually transmitted infection with a sizable disease burden that is highest in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Spatial-temporal pattern of cultivated land productivity based on net primary productivity and analysis of influencing factors in the Songhua River basin by Yang, Shiliang

“…The results showed that: (1) the area of cultivated land in SRB decreased, but NPP of cultivated land area increased, during 2000-2020; (2) spatially, NPP was relatively low in the middle of the basin and gradually increased towards the periphery; (3) The main positive factors were the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), slope, precipitation, evapotranspiration, and total nitrogen, while the main negative factors were temperature, Ratio Vegetation Index, and total phosphorus. …”
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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

“…The highest percentages of obesity among smokers before the lockdown were in Oman (33.3%), followed by Bahrain (28.4%) and Qatar (26.4%), whereas, during the lockdown, the percentage of obese smokers was highest in Bahrain (32.1%) followed by Qatar (31.3%) and Oman (25%). According to the logistic regression model, the odds ratio of smoking increased during the pandemic, whereas the odds ratio of TV watching decreased. …”
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Development and Evaluation of Fibrous Fluid Formulations for Horizontal Gas and Oil Well Cleanout by MAHMOUD, HUSAMELDIN ABDELHAMID

“…The first part (Section 4.1) examines the influence of fibers concentration and aspect ratio, base polymer concentration, and solution temperature on FCFs stability; Fibers of higher aspect ratio showed better stability properties for FCF; formation of fiber's structured network decreases the fiber's sensitivity to destabilization under various conditions. …”
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Divergent changes of the elevational synchronicity in vegetation spring phenology in North China from 2001 to 2017 in connection with variations in chilling by Dai, Junhu

“…Specifically, SE showed a significant (p-value < .05) decreasing trend for the two southernmost mountains, indicating an increasing elevational synchronization in SOS. …”
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Bryophyte cover and richness decline after 18 years of experimental warming in alpine Sweden. by Alatalo, Juha M

“…Experimental warming with open-top chambers (OTCs) was applied for 18 years to a mesic meadow and a dry heath alpine plant community. …”
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Compressive SensingBased Remote Monitoring Systems for IoT applications by Djelouat, Hamza

“…The high energy consumption decreases the sensor's lifespan immensely, hence, a severe degradation in the overall performance of the REMS platform. …”
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Microbial Desalination Cell: An Integrated Approach for Wastewater Treatment and Desalination Systems for Sustainable Water Desalination and Wastewater Treatment by Sevda, Suraj

“…This middle chamber works as a desalination chamber in the MDC (Fig. 1). The cations and anions from the desalination chamber moved to the anodic and the cathodic chambers, respectively, due to the cell potential difference between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode; as a result, salts are removed from the saltwater. …”
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Dynamic workload patterns prediction for proactive auto-scaling of web applications by Iqbal W.

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Utilization of Two Microalgae Species, Synechococcus sp. and Cheatoceros sp., for Aquatic Toxicity Assessments in the Qatari Marine Environmen by Bacha, Sarah

“…The lowest growth rates were observed at the lowest temperatures, while a decreased rate was also observed at the highest temperature. …”
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Mobility Competitiveness and Security: Expatriate Perspectives from Qatar by Ewers, Michael Christopher

“…Attracting the right mix of expatriates and retaining the best ones, however, is a major challenge for economy with a highly ambitious post-oil agenda, located in an unstable region, and where over 90% of workers are both foreign and temporary. …”
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Adaptative Network Topology for Data Centers by Chkirbene, Zina

“…In addition, and thanks to the proposed fault tolerant algorithm, the new architecture shows a great performance even when the failure rate equals to 0.3, which means when about one third of the links failed, the connection failure rate is only 15%. …”
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Food shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic: an exploratory study in four Near Eastern countries by Ben Hassen, Tarek

“…Design/methodology/approach: The research is based on an online survey conducted on 1,456 subjects using a snowball sampling technique. …”
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Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations are inversely associated with body adiposity measurements but the association with bone mass is non-linear in postmenopausal women by Vijay, Ganji

“…Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to increased adiposity and decreased bone density. It is not known if vitamin D is linked to adiposity measures and bone mass in postmenopausal Qatar women. …”
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Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations are inversely associated with body adiposity measurements but the association with bone mass is non-linear in postmenopausal women by Vijay, Ganji

“…Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to increased adiposity and decreased bone density. It is not known if vitamin D is linked to adiposity measures and bone mass in postmenopausal Qatar women. …”
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Pharmacoeconomic Evaluations of Oral Anticancer Agents. Thematic Systematic Review by Alkadour, Ahmad Amer

“…Background: Around 14.1 million new cancer cases and 8.2 million deaths caused by cancer were reported in 2012, expected to rise up to 22 million within the next 2 decades. …”
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Monovalent Anion Interaction on the Electron Flow of Photosystem II in Soyabean Cells by El Shintinawy, Fatma [فاطمة على الشنتناوي]

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Impact of fines type on gas flow using 3D micro-computed tomography by Al-Raoush, Riyadh

“…Therefore, there is a need to model and quantify fines impact on multi-phase flow using 3D reconstruction to better understand gas recovery systems. …”
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Impact of fines type on gas flow using 3D micro-computed tomography by Al-Raoush, Riyadh

“…Therefore, there is a need to model and quantify fines impact on multi-phase flow using 3D reconstruction to better understand gas recovery systems. …”
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Changing Paradigm in The Global LNG Market: Opportunities And Risks For Major Suppliers in The Gulf Region by Sung, Jinsok

“…As a result, spot LNG price went down to one of the lowest levels in modern LNG history. …”
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