Quantifying variations in ecosystem services in altitude-associated vegetation types in a tropical region of China by Fang, Zhou

“…This is leading to a decrease in ESs provision, so measures are urgently needed to protect natural vegetation. …”
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SIRT1 may play a crucial role in overload-induced hypertrophy of skeletal muscle by Koltai, Erika

“…Two weeks of muscle ablation resulted in a 40% increase in muscle mass, which was associated with a significant increase in silent mating type information regulation 2 homologue 1 (SIRT1) content and activity (P < 0.001). …”
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Environment Degradation and Economic Growth in the Qatar Economy: Evidence from a Markov Switching Equilibrium Correction Model by Charfeddine, Lanouar

“…From the economic perspective, this means that initially economic growth increases environment degradation and then declines it after a threshold point of income per capita. …”
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A LASSO-BASED DEA FOR ECO-EFFICIENCY PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT FOR THE GLOBAL FOOD AND BEVERAGES INDUSTRY by SALAMEH, DOA'A MOHAMMAD FUAD

“…Recently, food supply chains of global industries are encountering economic and environmental challenges, resulting in a significant decrease in their eco-efficiency performance. …”
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Preparation and characterization of chemically synthesized polyaniline–polystyrene blends as a carbon dioxide gas sensor by J., Bhadra

“…The SEM results of the above polymerized blends reflect the formation of spherical nanoparticles with diameter ranging from 50nm to 90nm with a decrease in PS concentration that facilitates the formation of clusters. …”
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Changing Trends in the Referral and Timing of Treatment for Congenital Cryptorchidism: A Single-Center Experience from Bosnia and Herzegovina. by Zvizdic, Zlatan

“…The analysis of the observed two periods (2008-2010 and 2015-2017) showed a statistically significant decrease in the mean referral age and the mean age at surgery over the last 5 years (2015-2017) (p = 0.007 and p = 0.003, respectively). …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexually transmitted infection testing and diagnosis in Lebanon: A retrospective chart review by Sunji, Nadine

“…ResultsMen who have sex with men (MSM) comprised 35 % and 40 % of attendees pre- and post- COVID-19 onset, respectively. Post-COVID-19 onset, a total of 1350 VCT services and 406 medical consultations were provided, an overall 45 % decrease compared with pre-COVID-19 onset. …”
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Optimized intake manifold designs and their effects on the operation and emissions of a gas-to-liquid diesel engine by Abdellatif, Y. M.

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Solar hydrogen production via a samarium oxide-based thermochemical water splitting cycle by Bhosale, Rahul

“…The computational thermodynamic analysis of a samarium oxide-based two-step solar thermochemical water splitting cycle is reported. …”
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Control of the Speed of a Light-Induced Spin Transition through Mesoscale Core-Shell Architecture by Slimani, Ahmed

“…A series of photomagnetic coordination polymer core-shell heterostructures, based on the light-switchable RbaCob[Fe(CN)6]c·mH2O (RbCoFe-PBA) as core with the isostructural KjNik[Cr(CN)6]l·nH2O (KNiCr-PBA) as shell, are studied using temperature-dependent powder X-ray diffraction and SQUID magnetometry. …”
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Regional Difference in the Association between the Trajectory of Selenium Intake and Hypertension: A 20-Year Cohort Study. by Xie, Changxiao

“…The incidence of hypertension was 30.1, 30.5, 30.6, and 31.2 per 1000 person-years among participants with cumulative average selenium intake of 21.0 ± 5.1, 33.2 ± 2.8, 43.8 ± 3.6, and 68.3 ± 25.2 µg/day, respectively. …”
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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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Aquaculture sediments amended with biochar improved soil health and plant growth in a degraded soil by Sajid, Mehmood

“…However, the same treatment significantly decreased proline content by 74.9 %, Malondialdehyde by 65.6 %, H2O2 by 65.1 %, and Cr concentration in spinach root and shoot tissues. …”
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Food groups and the risk of colorectal cancer: results from a Jordanian case-control study by Abu-Mweis, Suhad S.

“…In a comparison of the highest with the lowest weekly frequency of consumption, there was a direct association between the risk of CRC and the frequency of consumption of chicken (OR=2.52, 95% CI: 1.33-4.77). …”
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Treatment and desalination of domestic wastewater for water reuse in a four-chamber microbial desalination cell by Lu, Yaobin

“…This SMDC could achieve a desalination rate of 12.2–31.5 mg L−1 h−1 and remove more than 90 % of the organics and 75 % of NH4 +-N; the pH imbalance between the anode and cathode chambers was also reduced. …”
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Estimating the production and mortality of fine roots using minirhizotrons in a Pinus densiflora forest in Gwangneung, Korea by Han, Seung Hyun

“…FP and FM were estimated using conversion factors from March 26, 2013 to March 2, 2014. The annual FP and FM values at the 0–30 cm soil depth were 3200.2 and 2271.5 kg ha−1 yr −1, respectively. …”
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A Deep Learning Approach for Vital Signs Compression and Energy Efficient Delivery in mhealth Systems by Said, A.

“…Results indicate that: 1) the proposed adaptive single modality compression scheme outperforms conventional compression methods by 13.24% and 43.75% reductions in distortion and processing time, respectively; 2) the proposed adaptive multiple modality compression further decreases the distortion by 3.71% and 72.37% when compared with the proposed single modality scheme and conventional methods through leveraging inter-modality correlations; and 3) adaptive multiple modality compression demonstrates its efficiency in terms of energy consumption, computational complexity, and responding to different network states. …”
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THE ROLE OF QATAR COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS IN DEPRESSION CARE: A SURVEY OF ATTITUDES, PRACTICES AND PERCEIVED BARRIERS by SHAMI, RULA

“…However, the extent of pharmacists’ involvement in depression care was very low. Out of a possible score of 5, pharmacists’ practices had a mean score of 2.64 and a standard deviation of 0.26. …”
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Orthodontic camouflage versus orthodontic-orthognathic surgical treatment in borderline class III malocclusion: a systematic review. by Alhammadi, Maged S

“…Regarding the vertical jaw relation, one study reported a significant decrease in mandibular plane inclination in OC and a significant increase in OOS. …”
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Preemptive Dose Adjustment Effect on the Quality of Anticoagulation Management in Warfarin Patients With Drug Interactions: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Fahmi, Amr Mohamed

“…The main objective of this study is to compare preemptive to nonpreemptive strategy and their impact on the quality of anticoagulation management. This is a retrospective cohort study performed at the pharmacist-managed anticoagulation clinic in a tertiary hospital in the State of Qatar. …”
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