Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of chewing tobacco use in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: A systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Diseas... by Kendrick, Parkes J

“…Although global age-standardised prevalence of smoking tobacco use decreased significantly between 1990 and 2019 (annualised rate of change: –1·21% [–1·26 to –1·16]), similar progress was not observed for chewing tobacco (0·46% [0·13 to 0·79]). …”
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Divergent Biochemical Properties and Disparate Impact of Arrhythmogenic Calmodulin Mutations on Zebrafish Cardiac Function by Da'as, Sahar I.

“…In cardiac muscle, CaM modulates directly or indirectly the activity of several proteins that play a key role in excitation-contraction coupling (ECC), such as ryanodine receptor type 2 (RyR2), l-type Ca2+ (Cav1.2), sodium (NaV1.5) and potassium (KV7.1) channels. …”
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Improved flexible, controlled dielectric constant material from recycled LDPE polymer composites by Noorunnisa Khanam, P.

“…In this study, recycled low density polyethylene (RLDPE) is developed with the addition of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) to have new polymer composites. The following wt% were used of the filler (1, 4 and 6 wt%). …”
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Structural influence of chromium substituted magnetite ferrofluids on the optical and antibacterial characteristics by Babukutty, B.

“…A series of chromium substituted magnetite (CrxFe1?xFe2O4) ferrofluids with various concentrations ranging from x = 0-0.8 is reported in this work. …”
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Electrochemical and thermodynamic study on the corrosion performance of API X120 steel in 3.5% NaCl solution by Shahzad, Khuram

“…The overall results revealed that PEI significantly decreases the corrosion rate of API X120 steel with inhibition efficiency of 94% at a concentration of 100 μmol L−1. …”
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Protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) promotes survival of lymphoma cells via activation of WNT/B-catenin and AKT/GSK3B proliferative signaling by Chung, Jihyun

“…We show that PRMT5 stimulates WNT/B-CATENIN signaling through direct epigenetic silencing of pathway antagonists, AXIN2 and WIF1, and indirect activation of AKT/GSK3 signaling.PRMT5 inhibition with either shRNA-mediated knockdown or a specific small molecule PRMT5 inhibitor, CMP-5, not only leads to derepression of WNT antagonists and decreased levels of active phospho-AKT (Thr-450 and Ser-473) and inactive phospho- GSK3B (Ser-9) but also results in decreased transcription of WNT/B-CATENIN target genes, CYCLIN D1, c-MYC, and SURVIVIN, and enhanced lymphoma cell death. …”
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Turning point in COVID-19 severity and fatality during the pandemic: a national cohort study in Qatar by Chemaitelly, Hiam

“…In the pre-omicron phase, first omicron wave, and combined phases, it was 2.01 (95% CI 1.90 to 2.13), 3.70 (95% CI 3.25 to 4.22) and 2.18 (95% CI 2.07 to 2.30) per 1000 person years, respectively. …”
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Towards a Comprehensive Study of Fatigue Deducing Techniques for Evaluating the Quality of Experience of Haptic-Visual Applications by Alja'afreh M.

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Allelopathic Effects of the Invasive Prosopis juliflora (Sw.) DC. on Native Plants: Perspectives toward Agrosystems by Bibi, Shazia

“…The seed germination and radicle length of S. aegyptica and H. perfoliata were significantly decreased at 2 mg mL−1 of extract of P. juliflora. …”
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The simultaneous impact of EV charging and PV inverter reactive power on the hosting distribution system's performance: A case study in kuwait by Abdullah, Heba M.

“…The impact of EV integration for the case study results in two peaks, which show a 6.4% and 17% increase. Varying the inverter to the PV ratio from 1.1 to 2 decreases system losses by 34% to 41%. …”
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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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Synthesis and properties of HA/ZnO/CNT nanocomposite by Ding M.

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Allelopathic effects of the invasive Prosopis juliflora (sw.) Dc. On seed germination of selected Qatari native plant species by Bibi, Shazia

“…Whatman filter paper was used to filter the obtained brownish solution. Dilutions of 2 mgml− 1, 4 mgml− 1, 6 mgml− 1 and 8 mgml− 1 from stock were prepared. …”
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Comparison of seed germination and recovery responses of a salt marsh Halophyte halopeplis perfoliata to osmotic and ionic treatments by Rasool S.G.

“…In order to partition salinity effects, we studied seed germination and recovery responses of a coastal salt marsh halophyte Halopeplis perfoliata to different isotonic treatments (?S: -0.5, -1.0, - 1.5, -2.0 and -2.5, MPa) of various salts and polythylene glycol (PEG) under two light regimes (12-h light photoperiod and 24-h complete darkness). …”
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Conversion of a mixture of date palm wastes to mesoporous activated carbon for efficient dye adsorption by Alharbi, Hattan A.

“…The MAC was found to be mesoporous, with an average pore diameter and BET surface area of 2.61 nm and 641.23 m2 g−1, respectively. The zeta potential and FTIR results demonstrated that the surface of MAC was negatively charged in its natural state and filled with functional groups such as phenyl, secondary amine, alkyne, aldehyde, and hydroxy groups. …”
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Dynamics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae transmission among female sex workers and clients: A mathematical modeling study by Houssein H., Ayoub

“…Increasing asymptomatic treatment coverage among FSWs from 0 % to 50 % decreases prevalence from 8.2 % to 0.4 %, 0.6 % to 0.1 %, and 0.2 % to 0.0 %, respectively, with very low prevalence when coverage exceeds 50 %. …”
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Electrochemical oxidation of ammonia (NH4+/NH3) ON synthesized nickel-cobalt oxide catalyst by Almomani F.

“…The reported Pgen were 0.55, 0.85, 1.1 and 0.0.93 mW/cm2 for Ni–C, Co10/Ni–C, Co20/Ni–C and Co40/Ni–C. …”
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A novel index based on planktonic copepod reproductive traits as a tool for marine ecotoxicology studies by Mohamed Bakr, Hussain

“…However, the response to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) such as pentachlorophenol (PCP) and 1,2-dichlorobenzene (DCB) differs. In E. affinis, EPR increases with DCB, but HS falls to <1%. …”
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Bioremediation and nutrient removal from wastewater by Chlorella vulgaris by Znad H.

“…Over a 13-day period the highest biomass concentration Xmax of 1.6 g L−1 was attained for PWW with corresponding values of 1.2 d−1, 80% and 100% for μ, and TN and TP RE respectively. μ decreased to 0.75 d−1 for a 75%:25% blend of PWW with MLA and to 0.54 d−1 on further decreasing the blend ratio to 25:75 PWW: MLA, with corresponding TN removal efficiencies of 85% and 76% respectively; 100% removal of TP was obtained throughout. …”
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Sensitization to common food and inhalant allergens in children attending Allergy and Asthma Pediatric Clinic in Doha, Qatar by Kerkadi, Abdelhamid

“…The prevalence of sensitization to FA decreased as age increases (35% at 0-2 years vs. 32.5% at the age 6-10 years). …”
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