25-Hydroxyvitamin D serum levels inversely correlate to disease severity and serum C-reactive protein levels in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa حسب Moltrasio, Chiara

"…Subsequently, Guillet et al.5 described an association between vitamin D deficiency and HS severity, also reporting a significant decrease of the inflammatory nodules in patients supplemented with vitamin D. …"
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Comparison of fosfomycin against fluoroquinolones for transrectal prostate biopsy prophylaxis: an individual patient-data meta-analysis حسب Roberts M.J.

"…Purpose: Rectal culture screening for fluoroquinolone (FQ)-resistant Enterobacteriaceae before transrectal ultrasound guided prostate (TRUSPB) biopsy and targeted antibiotic prophylaxis (TAP) may decrease post-TRUSPB infection rates compared to empiric (EAP) regimens. …"
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Investigating the utilization of healthcare services to manage respiratory tract infections (RTIs) among Qatari patients attended selected primary healthcare centers in Qatar حسب Islam, Nazmul

"…The large seasonal variation indicates additional likelihoods to decrease healthcare service use. After the bi-variate analysis of individual patient-level data of selected 4 healthcare services across age-categories, gender and various comorbidity status, healthcare services varied significantly across age-categories and whether patients had one of the five comorbidities. …"
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Molecular dynamics of CH4/CO2 on calcite for enhancing gas recovery حسب Carchini, Giuliano

"…These results highlight how the CO2 geometry of adsorption is well defined and characterized by strong interaction, while methane adsorption is quite loose and depicts a very dynamic picture. Focusing on the effect of pressure, RDF peaks intensities increase, although this effect is limited to the 1-5 MPa range. …"
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Performance assessment of inductive power transfer for railway applications حسب Almuhannadi, D.

"…The practical implementation has been conducted at a rated voltage of 100V DC at 50kHz and input power of 80W. …"
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Smoking cessation counseling in Qatar: Community pharmacists' attitudes, role perceptions and practices حسب El Hajj, Maguy Saffouh

"…Main outcome measures: Qatar community pharmacists' smoking cessation practices, their attitudes toward tobacco use, smoking cessation and smoking cessation counseling and their perceived barriers for smoking cessation counseling. Results: Over 5 months, we collected 127 surveys (40 % response rate). …"
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Thermo-economic assessment of forward osmosis as pretreatment to boost the performance and sustainability of multi-effect distillation for seawater desalination حسب Ortega-Delgado, B.

"…If high-performing and cost-effective membranes are used, the product cost could be reduced 33 % (5.1 $/m3).…"
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Tobacco control in the Eastern Mediterranean region: implementation progress and persisting challenges حسب Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M E

"…Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable mortality worldwide, projected to claim 1 billion lives in the twenty-first century.1 Tobacco prevalence rates are expected to decrease across all the WHO regions by 2025 as a result of tobacco control efforts. …"
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Mechanical and microstructure characterization of hard nanostructured N-bearing thin coating حسب Cabibbo, M.

"…All the coatings were deposited on a S600 tool steels. The coatings were subjected to two different thermal cycling tests: one for 100 thermal cycles consisting of 60 s dwelling time, respectively at the high- (573 to 1173 K) and at the room-temperature, a second for 100 thermal cycles consisting of 115s dwelling time, at same temperatures of the first test, followed by 5s dwelling at room-temperature. …"
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Degradation of 4-chlorophenol through cooperative reductive and oxidative processes in an electrochemical system حسب Yang, Kaichao

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Enhanced quality factor of polyvinyl formal (PVF) based nanocomposites filled with zinc oxide and carbon black nanoparticles for wireless sensing applications حسب Mohanapriya, M.K.

"…The incorporation of ZnO at 10% decreases Q-factor to 36.1. Incorporation of CBNP at 5% and ZnO at 5% further reduces the Q-factor to 13.7. …"
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Cultivating microalgae in desert conditions: Evaluation of the effect of light‐temperature summer conditions on the growth and metabolism of nannochloropsis qu130 حسب Jabri, Hareb Al

"…The application of temperature cycles under constant light led to a 13.6% increase in biomass productivity, while a 45% decrease was observed under light and temperature regimes due to the combined stress. …"
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Salicylic acid restricts mercury translocation by activating strong antioxidant defense mechanisms in sweet pepper (Capsicum annum L.) حسب Khalid, Muhammad Fasih

"…Spraying of 100 μM SA at three different Hg levels, i.e., 0 μM, 50 μM, 100 μM, and 150 μM. The maximum decrease in photosynthetic machinery, plant growth attributes (shoot length, root length, no. of leaves, fresh and dry biomass (shoot and root)), and more accumulation of Hg in leaves, roots, and fruits of sweet pepper. …"
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Understanding the progress and challenges in the fields of thermo-catalysis and electro-catalysis for the CO2 conversion to fuels حسب Yadav, V. S. K.

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Application of magnetic nanoparticles for the removal of oil from oil-in-water emulsion: Regeneration/reuse of spent particles حسب Elmobarak W.F.

"…The observed %Roil at a pH of 4 and Csur of 0.05 g/L was observed to be > 90 ± 0.1% and decreased by either rising the pH to 7 or increasing the Csur to 0.1 g/L. …"
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Effect of concentration of DOC loaded TiO 2 nanotubes on the corrosion behavior of smart coatings حسب Ubaid F.

"…Various contents of the encapsulated TiO2 nanotubes (1, 3 and 5 wt%) were thoroughly dispersed into the epoxy matrix and the resulting composites were then applied on a cleaned steel substrate using doctor blade technique to develop smart coatings. …"
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Acute and chronic toxicity assessments of 17β-estradiol (E2) and 17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2) on the calanoid copepod Acartia clausi: Effects on survival, development, sex-ratio and... حسب Emna, Djebbi

"…Embryos showed non-monotonic dose-response and hatching success was significantly reduced at low realistic concentrations of E2 (0.005, 0.5, and 5 μg L-1) and EE2 (0.05 and 5 μg L-1).Survival, development and sex ratio of A. clausi to EE2 exposure at 1 and 100 μg L-1 were also determined during a life cycle experiment. …"
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Association between Insulin and Nitric Oxide in Human Retinal Microvascular Endothelial Cells in vitro حسب Rizk, Nasser Moustafa

"…In conclusion, this study demonstrated that Hyperglycemia causes an increase in ROS/oxidative stress and apoptosis, while insulin promotes a significant decrease in ROS and apoptosis, eNOS mediated NO production increases with hyperglycemia but remarkably decreases with insulin treatment after 1 hour, 2 hours and 4 hours, insulin could counteract the hyperglycemic effect on AKT/pI3 kinase which mediates NO production and VEGF-A, decreased adhesion molecules p-selectin involved in barrier disorder of retinal endothelial cells. …"
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Synthesis and characterization of stir casted Cu-ZrO2-Graphite hybrid metal matrix composites for thermal management structures حسب Mittal, Prateek

"…ZrO2 and Graphite reinforcements were added (0.5–0.5, 1.0–1.0, 1.5–1.5 and 2.0–2.0 wt %) in the four composite samples prepared via stir casting. …"
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Influenza prevalence and vaccine efficacy among diabetic patients in Qatar حسب Swapna, Thomas

"…Among the typed IVA-positive cases, 33.4% were H1N1, and 7.7% were H3N2. A significant decrease in influenza infections was reported in vaccinated DM patients (14.5%) when compared to non-vaccinated patients (18.9%) (p-value = 0.006). …"
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