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

“…RESULTS: Overall, the prevalence rate of smoking decreased significantly during the lockdown from 29.8% to 23.5% (p<0.05). …”
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Hot and Hypoxic environments inhibit simulated soccer performance and exacerbate performance decrements when combined by Aldous, Jeffrey

“…Sprint distance covered was unchanged (p>0.05) in HOT and HYP and only decreased in HH (−8%) compared with CON. Body mass (−2%), temperatures (+2–5%), and TS (+18%) were altered in HOT. …”
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The Effect of Experimental Recuperative and Appetitive Post-lunch Nap Opportunities, With or Without Caffeine, on Mood and Reaction Time in Highly Trained Athletes by Romdhani, Mohamed

“…Purpose: To investigate the effects of placebo (PLA), 20 min nap opportunity (N20), 5mg·kg−1 of caffeine (CAF), and their combination (CAF+N20) on sleepiness, mood and reaction-time after partial sleep deprivation (PSD; 04h30 of time in bed; study 1) or after normal sleep night (NSN; 08h30 of time in bed; study 2). …”
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Comparing Methods for Induction of Insulin Resistance in Mouse 3T3-L1 Cells. by Al-Jaber, Hend

“…These factors included 2.5nM tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFα), 20 ng/ml interleukin-6 (IL-6), 10 micromole 4-hydroxynonenal (4HNE), and high insulin (HI) at a concentration of 100nM. …”
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Driver Drowsiness Detection Study using Heart Rate Variability analysis in Virtual Reality Environment by Chowdhury, Muhammad E.H.

“…The LF/HF ratio reflects the differences between awake and drowsy states while the ratio was decreasing gradually from the awake state to drowsy state [5-6].Method A portable wireless BioRadio (Fig.2 A) (Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies, Inc.) …”
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Molecular and Peritoneal Microvascular Changes Cause Peritoneal Membrane Dysfunction by Uremia-Related Mechanisms by Zakaria, El-Rasheid

“…A subset of uremic animals exhibited very high net ultrafiltration which seems to correlate with a phenotype of extensive angiogenesis and uremia-induced hypertension. …”
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Shear wave propagation in layered composites with degraded matrices at locations of imperfect bonding. by Andrianov, Igor V.

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Facile Electrochemical Synthesis of Highly Efficient Copper-Cobalt Oxide Nanostructures for Oxygen Evolution Reactions by Nath, Narayan Chandra Deb

“…An optimized nanopetal structure of CuxCo3-xO4 (x = 0.95, annealed at 200 °C) shows a considerably high Faradaic efficiency (∼93%) with a remarkably low overpotential (∼230 mV) at a benchmark current density (J) of 10 mA cm-2; at the same J in an alkaline solution (1 M KOH) for OER, it also exhibits high durability (up to 100 h). …”
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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. We find that the band gap decreases with SNW length for the same diameter and approaches the band gap for an ideal infinitely long SNW. …”
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Emerging clay-aryl-gold nanohybrids for efficient electrocatalytic proton reduction by Jlassi, Khouloud

“…Both nanohybrids showed efficient electrochemical activity for HER in acidic condition (0.1 M H2SO4) with high current density up to −25 mA.cm−2 at −1 V and 0.148 mV onset. Negligible decreasing in current density and slight shift in onset was observed after 1000 cycles. …”
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Experimental determination and computational fluid dynamics predictions of pressure loss in close-coupled elbows (RP-1682) by Salehi, Mohammad

“…The results of this study showed that the loss coefficient increased as a function of separation distance between the elbows in a Z-configuration and decreased in a U-configuration. …”
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Developing sustainable draw solute for forward osmosis process using poly(amidoamine) dendrimer coated magnetic nanoparticles by Hassanein, Amani

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Salinity inhibits seed germination of perennial halophytes Limonium stocksii and Suaeda fruticosa by reducing water uptake and ascorbate dependent antioxidant system by Hameed, Abdul

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Oxygen passivation as effective technique for tailoring the nature of band gap of silicon nanowires by Hassan, Walid M.I.

“…Surprisingly, extensive oxidation dramatically decreases the silicon nanowire band gap down to 0.26 eV. …”
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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. A concentration of Co higher than 40% decreased cell potential (Vcell) and reduced the percentage removal of ammonia (%REAmm). …”
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Novel electroless deposited corrosion — resistant and anti-bacterial NiP–TiNi nanocomposite coatings by Fayyad E.M.

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Bioremediation and nutrient removal from wastewater by Chlorella vulgaris by Znad H.

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Simulation and experimental study of underwater dissimilar friction-stir welding between aluminium and steel by Eyvazian, Arameh

“…Theeffects of processing parameters on the formation of intermetallic compounds (IMCs) atthe Al/St interface, microstructural characteristics, and mechanical property of dissimilarweldments were studied and addressed. By decreasing tool rotational speed (w), increas-ing traverse velocity (v), and employing cooling medium, peak temperature continuouslyreduced (down to ?…”
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Long-Distance Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Arabic: Influences of Intervening Consonant Pharyngealization and Length by Ahmed, Sarah

“…Speakers of Egyptian Arabic were recorded saying sentences containing nonsense sequences of the form /baɁabaCV:/, where C was chosen from {/t/, /tˤ/, /t:/, /tˤ:/} and V was a long vowel /i:/, /a:/ or /u:/. Analysis of the first and second formants of the recorded vowels revealed that (a) vowel-to-vowel coarticulatory effects could sometimes extend to a distance of three vowels before the context vowel; (b) the consonant-to-vowel effects associated with pharyngealization were consistently seen at similar distances, while also decreasing in magnitude at greater distances from the triggering consonant; and (c) effects related to intervening consonant length were idiosyncratic, and in particular did not lead to consistent blocking of vowel-to-vowel effects. …”
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Do unemployment benefits affect the choice of debt source? by Ben-Nasr, Hamdi

“…Finally, we find that debt maturity (security) decreases (increases) when UI benefits increase. - 2019 Elsevier B.V.…”
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