Food shopping, preparation and consumption practices in times of COVID-19: case of Lebanon حسب Ben Hassen, Tarek

"…Indeed, the study outcomes suggested (1) a move toward healthier diets; (2) a rise in the consumption of domestic products due to food safety concerns; (3) a change in the grocery shopping behaviors (with a rise in online shopping); (4) a surge of food stockpiling; and (5) a decrease in household food wastage. …"
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Influence of anionic surface modifiers on the thermal stability and mechanical properties of layered double hydroxide/polypropylene nanocomposites حسب Yang, J.H.

"…Organo-layered double hydroxide/polypropylene (LDH/PP) nanocomposites were successfully synthesized via a solution blending method. As an attempt to improve the compatibility with hydrophobic PP, the LDH surface was modified by the incorporation of various anionic surfactants via electrostatic interaction with LDH cationic layers. …"
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Failure mode analysis for single-phase Multi-level qZSI interfacing PV system to utility grid حسب Rahman, Syed

"…The power deficit due to a failure of the module is reflected as a decrease in the grid current reference. …"
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Enzymatic treatment of peanut butter to reduce the concentration of major peanut allergens حسب Yu, Jianmei

"…Treatment of peanut butter with a combination of trypsin and alpha-chymotrypsin resulted in a decrease in IgE-binding, suggesting that enzymatic treatment has the potential to reduce the allergenicity. …"
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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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Tailoring of the thermal, mechanical and dielectric properties of the polypropylene foams using gamma-irradiation حسب Mrl�k, Miroslav

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Heat stress impairs proprioception but not running mechanics حسب Mtibaa K.

"…Step frequency decreased (−2.5 ± 3.6%) and step length increased (+2.6 ± 3.8%) over time (p < 0.05), independently of condition. …"
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The Influence of Urbanization on Natural Overland Flow Paths حسب Al-Sayed, Amna Mohammed

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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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Assessment of SnO2 nanoparticles' impact on local Pichoclorum atomus growth performance, cell morphology and metabolites content حسب 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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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN INSULIN RESISTANCE AND NITRIC OXIDE IN HUMAN RETINAL MICROVASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CELLS IN VITRO حسب Bushra, Sumbul

"…In the current study in order to examine the effect of insulin on NO production, HRECs cells were cultured and grown in high glucose (30mM) and normal (5mM) glucose for 24 hours. Subsequently, the cells were treated with 100nM insulin for 10 minutes, 1, 2, and 4 hours. …"
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Superior photocatalytic activity of Cu doped NiWO4 for efficient degradation of benzene in air even under visible radiation حسب 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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Influence of shelf-life duration on mechanical, thermal and shape recovery motion derivatives of shape memory polyurethane حسب 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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Short-term greenhouse emission lowering effect of biochars from solid organic municipal wastes حسب 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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Novel fluorinated surfactants for enhanced oil recovery in carbonate reservoirs حسب Al-Amodi, Adel O.

"…A decrease in oil/water interfacial tension (IFT) of almost one order of magnitude was observed when adding surfactant‐A. …"
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Prevalence of vincristine induced-peripheral neuropathy among Sudanese cancer patients حسب 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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Improvement of both lipid and biomass productivities of Qatar Chlorocystis isolate for biodiesel production and food security حسب 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 Polypropylene Fibres for Reinforcing Cement Mortar under Arid Conditions حسب Bendjillali, Khadra

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Mechanical and microstructure characterization of hard nanostructured N-bearing thin coating حسب 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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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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