Shear Behavior of Green Concrete Beams Reinforced with Basalt FRP Bars and Stirrups. by Elahtem, Ayman Ahmed

“…The parameters investigated in this study are span to depth ratio (i.e. a/d =2.5 and 3.5), reinforcement ratio , stirrups spacing effect (i.e. 250 mm and 350 mm) and stirrups type (Steel and Basalt). …”
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Association between Insulin and Nitric Oxide in Human Retinal Microvascular Endothelial Cells in vitro by Rizk, Nasser Moustafa

“…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. …”
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Epidemiology of herpes simplex virus type 2 in the Middle East and North Africa: Systematic review, meta-analyses, and meta-regressions by Harfouche, Manale

“…Compared to Fertile Crescent countries, seroprevalence was 3.39-fold (95% CI: 1.86–6.20) and 3.90-fold (95% CI: 1.78–8.57) higher in Maghreb and Horn of Africa countries, respectively. …”
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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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Effect of outdoor temperature on the power-conversion efficiency of newly synthesized organic photosensitizer based dye-sensitized solar cells by Mehmood U.

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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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Measuring influenza hemagglutinin (HA) stem-specific antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) in human sera using novel stabilized stem nanoparticle probes by Smatti, Maria K.

“…Using equimolar amounts, the multivalent presentation of HA SS on np induced significantly higher ADCC activity compared to the monovalent (trimer) SS probes (2–6 fold increase). Further, ADCC activity was similarly reported against different group 1 influenza subtypes: H1, H2, and H5. …”
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Upper Versus Lower Gastrointestinal Delivery for Transplantation of Fecal Microbiota in Recurrent or Refractory Clostridium difficile Infection: A Collaborative Analysis of Individ... by Furuya-Kanamori, Luis

“…A time-varying analysis suggested a 3-fold increase in hazard of clinical failure for UGI delivery (hazard ratio, 3.43; 95% confidence interval, 1.32-8.93) in the period after 30 days. …”
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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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Numerical investigation of steady air injection flow to control rotating stall in centrifugal compressors by Halawa, Taher

“…Numerical model was built to simulate high speed transonic centrifugal compressor working at an operating point close to surge. Air was injected at 12 locations at the vaneless region between the impeller and the diffuser at shroud surface with 5 different injection angles and 3 different injection mass flow rates. …”
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Analysis of Serum Advanced Glycation Endproducts Reveals Methylglyoxal-Derived Advanced Glycation MG-H1 Free Adduct Is a Risk Marker in Non-Diabetic and Diabetic Chronic Kidney Dis... by Rabbani, Naila

“…MG-H1 Glomerular filtration flux was increased 5-fold in diabetes, likely reflecting increased methylglyoxal glycation status. …”
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Thermal and mechanical characterization of injection moulded high density polyethylene/paraffin wax blends as phase change materials by Sotomayor, M.E.

“…Elongation at break decreased as paraffin wax content increased, and Young's modulus decreased with wax content but in the case of blends with a 30vol. % of wax and more, brittle rupture occurred and no yield point was observed.…”
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The stabilizing effect of expanded graphite on the artificial aging of shape stabilized phase change materials by Sobol?iak P.

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Conceptualization of Artificial Intelligence in Airway Management by Dhananchey, Ramkumar

“…The incidence of difficult intubation could be as high as 12% while failed intubation is around 0.5%. 1 Disaster and mass casualty management may increase this risk multi-fold due to the paucity of airway-trained medical personnel. 2 Automation of the entire procedure could potentially save lives particularly in situations where mass casualties could happen without the immediate availability of skilled airway specialists. …”
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Nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria as a potential resource for efficient biodiesel production by Nagappan, S.

“…MCC41 could grow under mixotrophic conditions revealing the potential towards an organic carbon-rich wastewater treatment. At 0.5% glucose, the Nostoc sp. MCC41 exhibited nearly five-fold increase in biomass productivity when compared to the phototrophic conditions. …”
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Fabrication of Selective Sensors for Hg2+ Traces in Water Using Graphene Decorated with Metal Nanoclusters by Ayesh, Ahmad I.

“…Two batches of sensors were tested in this work: i) sensors based on graphene only, and ii) sensors based on graphene and percolating films of Au nanoclusters, each has a thickness of 5 nm. For nanocluster deposition, each graphene sample was fixed on a cryostat finger. …”
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68 Ga-PSMA PET/CT tumour intensity pre-operatively predicts adverse pathological outcomes and progression-free survival in localised prostate cancer by Roberts, Matthew J.

“…Cox-regression adjusted survival analysis predicted a 5.48-fold increase in hazard for Gleason score ≤ 3 + 4 patients with high (SUVmax > 8) compared with low (SUVmax < 8) PSMA intensity. …”
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Monovalent Anion Interaction on the Electron Flow of Photosystem II in Soyabean Cells by El Shintinawy, Fatma [فاطمة على الشنتناوي]

“…Steady state of electron transport measurements from water to DMQ (2, 5 - dimethyl - P- benzoquinone) show a maximum bicarbonate effect (about four fold stimulation) following the addition of 5 mM HCO"3 to the previously 25 mM (formate or nitrate) treated cells at pH 6.7. …”
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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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Modification of Pd/CeO2 catalyst by Atomic Layer Deposition of ZrO2 by Onn, Tzia Ming

“…Methane-oxidation rates in 0.5% CH4 and 5% O2 were slightly lower on the ZrO2-covered catalyst when both materials were calcined at 673 K but the activity of the ZrO2-modified catalyst did not decrease with catalyst calcination temperature. …”
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