Changes in air quality during the first-level response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai Municipality, China by Bai, Yang

“…The most frequently reported negative impact is a deterioration in urban air quality. In this study, we performed a comprehensive assessment of the effects of the city lockdown policy in response to Covid-19 on air quality in Shanghai Municipality, China, and sought to identify a balance point between human activities and improving air quality. …”
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Plasma volume variations in response to high intensity interval training in obese women: The influential role of menopausal status and age by Jabbour, Georges

“…Multiple linear regression analysis revealed that age was a significant contributor to the decreases in plasma volume (PV) observed both after warm-up and following the supramaximal cycling test - SCT (r = 0.44 and r = 0.57). …”
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Scalable Containerized Pipeline for Real-time Big Data Analytics by Aurangzaib, Rana

“…The proposed solution yields a x 1.31 to x 2.4 increase in throughput, and x 32 to x 80 decreased latency compared to the commonly used static resource allocation strategy for data pipelines. 2022 IEEE.…”
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Genetic Algorithm based SHE-PWM for 1- ø and 3- ø Voltage Source Inverters by Kumari, M.

“…In medium voltage high power application of voltage source inverter (VSI), low switching frequency pulse width modulation (LSPWM) techniques offer better efficiency and better thermal management as the switching loss decreases drastically. The number of switching transitions are very limited, hence getting a good quality output waveform is a drawback in LSFPWM. …”
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Timetabling hub-and-spoke parcel distribution inter-facility network by Ben-Ayed, Omar

“…The resolving of the problem highly depends on the ability of the analyst to develop intelligent ways to limit the values of decision variables. The model applied to a real-world case is entered in a spreadsheet where the objective function is evaluated for the possible decision variable values; the timetable generated for a newly designed hub-and-spoke network decreased shipping time by around 30% as compared to the timetable of the existing design.…”
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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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Dynamic Caching for Files With Rapidly-Varying Features and Content by Amir, Mohamed

“…Fast-changing file features, such as fast-changing file popularities and fast-changing file contents (data freshness), represent a challenge for proactive caching if cache content update is much slower, which decreases the efficiency and usability of caching. …”
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Does Securitisation Make Monetary Policy Less Effective? by Qanas, Jalal

“…Our findings indicate that a contractionary monetary policy shock immediately increases securitisation activities and decreases the growth rate of traditional (non-securitised) loans. …”
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Development of an Air-Cooled Induction Manifold for Diesel Engines in Hot and Humid Climate by Elrentisy, Mohamed H.

“…Furthermore, the smoke emission has decreased by 40% at the engine full load. It was also proved that using the air-conditioning system of a vehicle to cool the intake air temperature is visible, as the net gained the power of the engine has increased by 14.5% when running at 20 °C compared with 45 °C.…”
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Recycled Waste Tires Management in Constructions by Hamid, Salma Mohamed

“…The reuse of rubber is therefore inevitable. This study conducts a life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) to compare the cost-effectiveness of a conventional concrete mix (RC1) with a rubberized concrete mix (RC2). …”
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Algal-algal bioflocculation enhances the recovery efficiency of Picochlorum sp. QUCCCM130 with low auto-settling capacity by Saadaoui, I.

“…Results showed that self-settlement capacity increased with cell size and can be indirectly related to a decreased zeta potential of larger cells which enhances the Van der Waals attractive forces. …”
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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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The Separation of Emulsified Water/Oil Mixtures through Adsorption on Plasma-Treated Polyethylene Powder by Abdulkareem, Asma

“…Powdered low-density polyethylene (LDPE) was modified by radio-frequency plasma discharge and then used as a medium for the treatment of emulsified diesel oil/water mixtures in the concentration range from 75 ppm to 200 ppm. …”
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Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) co-treatment alleviates antidiabetic drug, rosiglitazone associated deterioration of bone remodeling by Ibrahim, Khadega

“…Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by hyperglycemia due to decreased insulin secretion, defective action or both. …”
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Electrocatalytic cogeneration of reactive oxygen species for synergistic water treatment by Yang S.Y.

“…Regardless of the purging gas, a stepwise increase in ESS enhances the OH generation and phenol decomposition, yet inversely decreases the current efficiency of OH (max. ∼30%), owing to competitive O2 evolution. …”
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Numerical and wind tunnel investigation of Hot Air Recirculation across Liquefied Natural Gas Air Cooled Heat Exchangers by Ghani S.

“…Three dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) studies were utilized to simulate the airflow around a full scale LNG plant. The simulations clearly captured HAR between parallel ACHE banks (Cross-HAR) and within a single ACHE unit (Self-HAR). …”
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Magneto-Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Nd-Fe-B-Epoxy-Bonded Composite Materials by Grujić, Aleksandar

“…Polymer-bonded magnets are a class of composite material that combines the magnetic properties of metal particles and the molding possibility of a polymeric matrix. …”
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Why Construction Projects are delayed in PWA: Problems and Solutions by Al Marri, Dana Ahmad

“…Changes and variations are inherently part of many construction projects, which require serious efforts to overcome. Project delay is a construction problem resulting in contractual claims, increased project cost, and decreased end-user satisfaction. …”
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VANET-Based smart navigation for vehicle crowds: FIFA world cup 2022 case study by Elbery, Ahmed

“…This paper utilizes VANETs to build a vehicular crowd management system that utilizes system-optimum stochastic routing. …”
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Enhancing compressive, tensile, thermal and damping response of pure Al using BN nanoparticles by Penchal Reddy M.

“…Mechanical analysis indicates that the compression, hardness and tensile strength of Al-BN nanocomposites increases with increasing amount of BN content. Particularly, a significant improvement in the tensile strength (?…”
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