Caffeine use or napping to enhance repeated sprint performance after partial sleep deprivation: Why not both? by Romdhani, Mohamed

“…Purpose: To compare the effect of a 20-minute nap opportunity (N20), a moderate dose of caffeine (CAF; 5 mg·kg-1), or a moderate dose of caffeine before N20 (CAF+N) as possible countermeasures to the decreased performance and the partial sleep deprivation-induced muscle damage. …”
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Experimental study on effective placement of PCM packets in cooling vest to improve performance in warm environment by Itani, Mariam

“…The used PCM melting temperature is 28 °C with a coverage area of 642 cm2 and total weight of the vest of 1.19 kg including 8 PCM packets (87.5 grams each). …”
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The Visibility of Disabilities within Pharmacy Program Recruitment Material. by Hussain, Farhat Naz

“…Targeted recruitment of students with disabilities is a novel area in pharmacy education and may help to attract qualified students in light of decreasing applicant numbers. …”
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Tailoring of the thermal, mechanical and dielectric properties of the polypropylene foams using gamma-irradiation by Mrl�k, Miroslav

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Assessment of SnO2 nanoparticles' impact on local Pichoclorum atomus growth performance, cell morphology and metabolites content by Bounnit, Touria

“…The current study investigates the ecotoxicity of SnO2 nanoparticles on a local marine algae isolate. Five different concentrations (1, 5, 25, 50 and 100mg/L) were tested and the culture was followed for 72h. …”
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Mechanical and microstructure characterization of hard nanostructured N-bearing thin coating by Cabibbo, M.

“…The main problem with steel, is that it exhibits a relatively low hardness (below 10GPa) which strongly decreases upon annealing above about 600K. …”
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Prevalence of vincristine induced-peripheral neuropathy among Sudanese cancer patients by Imam, Ethar Abdelmageed

“…Healthcare professionals need some understanding regarding medical management that may decrease occurrence of neuropathy and a better planning and implementing special care for patients at risk.…”
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Superior photocatalytic activity of Cu doped NiWO4 for efficient degradation of benzene in air even under visible radiation by Tri N.L.M.

“…This was because Cu effectively acted as novel dopant, which not only affected valence band (VB) top and conduction band (CB) bottom of NiWO4 but also formed a medium energy level between CB and VB of the NiWO4 to decrease its energy band gap and electron-hole recombination rate. …”
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Hypospadias Reconstruction Training: Development of an Ex-Vivo Model for Objective Evaluation of Surgical Skills by Abbas, Tariq

“…However, EMG measurements showed significant reductions in average EMG power, total time, dominant frequency, and cumulative muscle workload after training. Additionally, the mean power spectral density of the EMG signal decreased notably post-training. …”
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Roadmap toward energy-positive upfront nitrogen removal process in baseload LNG plant by Mkacher, Hajer

“…The results show that UNrem of 87.5% from the NG feed can reduce the total power requirements by 0.24%, increase the production flow rate by 4.4%, and decrease the exergy losses by 0.23% compared with the base case. …”
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Recycled Polypropylene Fibres for Reinforcing Cement Mortar under Arid Conditions by Bendjillali, Khadra

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Short-term greenhouse emission lowering effect of biochars from solid organic municipal wastes by Rehrah D.

“…A significant decrease in CO2 emission was observed in vials with soil–biochar mixtures, especially for biochars produced at 500 °C compared the corresponding raw materials which exhibited an exponential increase in the CO2 emission. …”
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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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Influence of shelf-life duration on mechanical, thermal and shape recovery motion derivatives of shape memory polyurethane by Vasavi, Boggarapu

“…In addition, Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)exhibited a decrease in glass transition temperature (Tg) from S1 to S10, resulting in a corresponding reduction in the rate of shape restoration. …”
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Modeling of dual-metal Schottky contacts based silicon micro and nano wire solar cells by Rabbani, M. Golam

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Electrospun polylactic acid/date palm polyphenol extract nanofibres for tissue engineering applications by Khadija M., Zadeh

“…Increasing the polyphenol concentration caused the tensile strength and Young’s modulus to decrease. The SEM graphs indicated a decrease in fibre diameter with increasing DP content. …”
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Green Revolution dwarfing Rht genes negatively affected wheat floral traits related to cross-pollination efficiency by Schierenbeck, Matías

“…Anthers extrusion decreased from 40% (rht) to 20% (Rht1 and Rht2), 11% (Rht3), 8.3% (Rht1 + 2), and 6.5% (Rht2 + 3). …”
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Effect of the support on physicochemical properties and catalytic performance of cobalt based nano-catalysts in Fischer-Tropsch reaction by Ali, Sardar

“…Fischer-Tropsch reaction (FTS) was carried out in a fixed-bed microreactor (220 �C and 1 atm and with H2/CO = 2 v/v, SV of 12 L/g h). …”
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Undrained interface shear strength of fine-grained soils for near-shore marine pipelines by Eid, Hisham T.

“…The peak and residual interface shear strengths for a variety of normally consolidated soils were measured using a torsional ring shear apparatus modified to suit soil and interface testing under the undrained condition, which is usually prevalent at soil-marine pipeline interfaces. …”
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Novel voltage balancing algorithm for single-phase cascaded multilevel inverter for post-module failure operation in solar photovoltaic applications by Rahman S.

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