The Structure of the Free Volume in Poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) from Positron Lifetime and Pressure Volume Temperature (PVT) Experiments by Dlubek, Gunter

“…The mean hole volume, vh, varies in PS between 105 Å3 (27 °C) and 220 Å3 (190 °C), and shows a systematic decrease with increasing AN content, at Tg from 121 Å3 for PS to 102 (±2) Å3 for SAN50. …”
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Unveiling into Genetic Architecture of Transgenerational Stress Memory via Promoting Drought Tolerance in Barley by Alqudah, Ahmad M.

“…Interestingly, E3s participate in dehydration-responsive element-binding protein 2 A (DREB2A) that mediates stress signaling, including drought. …”
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Anti-Neoplastic Effects of Annonacin against Renal Cell Carcinoma by Munusamy, Shankar

“…Results: hour annonacin treatment caused a significant and dose-dependent decrease in the viability of CaKi-2 cells, i.e., 42% in 0.5 ?…”
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Reduced graphene oxide impregnated gelma hydrogel promotes angiogenic activity in chick embryo model by Rehman, Syed Raza ur

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Pilot-scale petroleum refinery wastewaters treatment systems: performance and microbial communities' analysis by Karray, Fatma

“…Decreasing HRT to 5 and 2.5 days led to a decrease in the efficiency of the process and a decrease in biomass concentration was also observed (<1000 mg/l). …”
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Radiofrequency Ablation Versus Antiarrhythmic Drug Therapy for Atrial Fibrillation: Meta-analysis of Safety and Efficacy by Yi F.

“…BACKGROUND: Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) and antiarrhythmic drugs (AADs) are the main treatments used for atrial fibrillation (AF). In recent years, a number of articles comparing the 2 treatments have begun to emerge. …”
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Climatology and variability of wind speeds along the southwest coast of India derived from Climate Forecast System Reanalysis winds by Abdulla, Cheriyeri Poyil

“…The study reveals significant decreasing trends in annual mean wind speeds, of the order of −2.0 to −2.5 cm·s−1·year−1, for the period 1979–2019. …”
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Understanding the mechanisms mediating cardio-renal benefit of empagliflozin in type 2 diabetes mellitus by Dimitrios, Patoulias

“…They have demonstrated1 that empagliflozin treatment resulted in a significant decrease in pulse pressure (PP), mean arterial pressure (MAP) and cardiac workload, compared with placebo; at week 12, placebo-adjusted mean changes from baseline were − 2.5 mmHg for PP, − 2.2 mmHg for MAP and − 315 mmHg x beats per minute (bpm) for cardiac workload (p < 0.0001 for all). …”
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Inter-annual variability and distribution of aerosols during winters and aerosol optical thickness over Northeastern Pakistan by Shahid, M. Z.

“…ir pollution during winters over north-eastern (NE) Pakistan (71–74.5 E, 28–34 N) is a major challenge that affects human health, climate and daily life. …”
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The burden of ischemic heart disease and the epidemiologic transition in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: 1990-2019 by Sadeghi, Masoumeh

“…The age-standardized prevalence of IHD in the EMR increased from 5.0% to 5.5% between 1990 and 2019, while it decreased at the global level. …”
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The Interference of Notch1 target Hes1 affects cell growth, differentiation and invasiveness of glioblastoma stem cells through modulation of multiple oncogenic targets by Cenciarelli, Carlo

“…Depletion of Hes1 protein induces major changes in cell morphology, cell growth rate and in the invasive ability of shHes1-CSC in response to growth factor EGF. shHes1-CSC show a decrease of the stemness marker Nestin concurrently to a marked increase of neuronal marker MAP2 compared to pLKO.1-CSC. …”
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Could Vagus nerve stimulation influence bone remodeling? by Tamimi, Ahmad

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Improvement of both lipid and biomass productivities of Qatar Chlorocystis isolate for biodiesel production and food security by Saadaoui, Imen

“…QUCCCM14, which was not previously known as a promising strain. Indeed, culturing QUCCCM14 using f/2 medium with 10× NaH2PO4 (0.15 g L−1 NaNO3 and 5.6 mg L−1 NaH2PO4) resulted in an improvement of 3.178 folds the lipid productivity reaching 56.121 mg L−1 day−1 and enhanced the biomass productivity reaching 141.363 mg L−1 day−1, simultaneously. …”
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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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Contrasting effects of necrotrophic and biotrophic plant pathogens on the aphid Aphis fabae by Al-Naemi, F.

“…However, sequential plant infection (pathogens applied 5 days apart) led to a 70% decrease in fecundity and 50% reduction in intrinsic rate of increase. …”
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Forecast of the outbreak of COVID-19 using artificial neural network: Case study Qatar, Spain, and Italy by Shawaqfah M.

“…The model sensitivity was analyzed using the root mean square error (RMSE), the mean absolute percentage error and the regression coefficient index R2, which yielded highly accurate values of the predicted correlation for the infected and dead cases of 0.99 for the dates considered. …”
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Effect of mobile text messages on antiretroviral medication adherence and patient retention in early HIV care: An open-label, randomized, single center study in south Florida by Sherman, Elizabeth M.

“…A significant increase in CD4 cell count and a decrease in HIV RNA were found at study end, with no differences between the two groups. …”
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Trends in prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms and effects of sociodemographic variables before and after the first wave of COVID-19 in Qatar by Khaled, Salma M.

“…The data for 2020/21 showed a 35.1% and 29.2% decrease in depression and anxiety symptoms scores compared to pre-pandemic years (2017/2018) after adjusting for sociodemographic factors. …”
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Modeling of dual-metal Schottky contacts based silicon micro and nano wire solar cells by Rabbani, M. Golam

“…We study solar cell properties of single silicon wires connected at their ends to two dissimilar metals of different work functions. …”
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Evacuated tube heat pipe solar collector for Encontech engine-driven reverse osmosis solar desalination by Takalkar, Gorakshnath

“…Both energetic and exergetic efficiencies exhibit upper values at A co/A abs ratio up to 1. Further increment in this ratio up to 3 resulted in a decrease in the efficiency of the ETHPSC.…”
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