A Prospective Association of Nut Consumption with Cognitive Function in Chinese Adults aged 55+ _ China Health and Nutrition Survey. by Li, M

“…We aimed to investigate the association of nut intake with cognitive function in Chinese adults aged 55 and over. This was a prospective open cohort study with repeated measurements of diet and cognition scores. …”
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Study of Magnetic Properties and Lattice Dynamics of the Cdx Co1-x Ferrite System by MossbauerEffect by Eissa, N. A. [نبيل عيسى]

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Perspectives of clinical pharmacists on the provision of pharmaceutical care through telepharmacy services during COVID-19 pandemic in Qatar: A focus group by Alhmoud, Eman

“…Recruitment continued until a saturation point was achieved. Results We conducted five focus groups that included 23 CPs and led to seven themes. …”
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Influence of Fines on the Compressibility of Surface Sands in Kuwait by Al-Abdulmuhsen, Shaikhah A. N.

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Effects of the addition of a high energy density fuel, adamantane to diesel on its cetane number, sooting propensity, and soot nanostructural properties by Al Zaabi, Alanood

“…The addition of up to 6.75 wt% of adamantane in diesel significantly increased the smoke point of diesel from 18 to 29 mm (and threshold sooting index decreased by 44%), indicating a drastic drop in fuel sooting tendency. …”
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Numerical and experimental investigation on corrugation geometry for metallic tubes under lateral loading by Eyvazian A.

“…Our results showed that using vertical elliptical corrugation decrease the densification point. Moreover, there is a gradual enhancement of mean crushing load by moving from the horizontal elliptical corrugations to the vertical ones. …”
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Pulpal blood flow changes and pain scores related to using superelastic 0.018-inch nickel titanium as the first orthodontic alignment archwire: A prospective clinical trial by Alhaija, Elham S.Abu

“…Pain scores were recorded using a visual analogue scale (VAS). A repeated measures ANOVA and a post-hoc Bonferroni comparison tests were conducted to examine differences at the different time points before and during orthodontic alignment. …”
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Sulfobetaine-based polydisulfides with tunable upper critical solution temperature (UCST) in water alcohols mixture, depolymerization kinetics and surface wettability by Abdulkareem, A.

“…Tunable surface wettability were shown on the grafted polymers. Findings: Decreasing polarity and/or increasing alcohol percentage in the water mixtures induced an increase in the cloud points of the polymers in the solutions. …”
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Seasonal Variations of Acoustic Properties in Ropme Sea Area by El Gindy, A. A. H. [احمد عبد الحميد الجندي]

“…The horizontal distributions of the anomaly of the vertically averaged sound speed from 1500 m/s showed a minimum deviation (5-10 m/s) in the area delineated by 22-24°N and 60-62°E, i.e., in Gulf of Oman where the depths exceed 2000 meters. …”
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Lipid-lowering therapies for atherosclerosis: Statins, fibrates, ezetimibe and pcsk9 monoclonal antibodies by Ali, A.H.

“…Recent evidence classifies atherosclerosis as a latent disease affecting all-sized arteries with a predilection for arterial branching points of decreased or absent blood supply. …”
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Comprehensive thermoeconomic, exergoeconomic, and optimization analyses of direct oxy-combustion supercritical CO2 intercooled and reheated cycles under design and off-design condi... by Al-Ammari, Wahib A.

“…Therefore, from an economic point of view, the ICC is recommended as the best power block for a sCO2 power cycle driven by oxy-combustor at moderate TITs. …”
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The relationship between heavy metal concentration and soil mycoflora in the Gizan region, Saudi Arabia by Falih, A. M. [عبد الله مساعد خلف الفالح]

“…There was a marked decrease in bacterial counts, as well as a significant decline in numbers of actinomycetes, nitrifying bacteria and fungi. …”
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Overconfident results with the bivariate random effects model for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies by Furuya-Kanamori, Luis

“…Techniques specifically developed to combine independent studies of diagnostic accuracy and provide pooled estimates for sensitivity (Se), specificity (Sp), positive (pLR) and negative (nLR) likelihood ratios are relatively new. In 2001, Rutter and Gatsonis proposed the hierarchical summary receiver operating characteristic (HSROC) model,1 and in 2004 Macaskill described an empirical Bayes approach.2 Soon after, in 2005, Reitsma et al. proposed the bivariate random effects model,3 which has been widely adopted and is the most commonly used method for diagnostic meta-analysis.4 However, as pointed out by Diaz,5 the statistical performance of the bivariate model has not been scrutinized. …”
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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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High-sensitive detection and quantitation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) from capillary/fingerstick and venepuncture whole-blood using fluorescence-based rapid lateral flow i... by Samar, Shurbaji

“…These key performance indicators were slightly decreased when fingerstick whole-blood samples were used: sensitivity [85.7 %(63.7–97)], specificity [90.0 %,(81.5–96)], good agreement (Cohen's Kappa = 0.7) and very strong correlation (r = 0.9, p < 0.0001) with cobas® e 601. …”
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High-sensitive detection and quantitation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) from capillary/fingerstick and venepuncture whole-blood using fluorescence-based rapid lateral flow i... by Samar, Shurbaji

“…These key performance indicators were slightly decreased when fingerstick whole-blood samples were used: sensitivity [85.7 %(63.7–97)], specificity [90.0 %,(81.5–96)], good agreement (Cohen's Kappa = 0.7) and very strong correlation (r = 0.9, p < 0.0001) with cobas® e 601. …”
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Correlation between delta-endotoxin and proteolytic activities produced by Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki growing in an economic production medium by Ennouri, Karim

“…Maximal protease activity (540-2468 UI) obtained by BUPM5-1 and BUPM5-2 was 2.34-fold and 10.7-fold, respectively, more than that obtained by the wild strain BUPM5 with a drastic decrease of their delta-endotoxin production. …”
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Analysis of dopant diffusion in molten germanium induced by pulsed nd : yag laser by Mousa, Ali M. [علي مطشر موسى]

“…A monotonic decrease in the sheet rcsostance with increasing energy density for all values of E > 10 J/cm2. …”
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Corporate governance and cost of debt financing: Empirical evidence from Canada by Ghouma, Hatem

“…Our empirical findings point to a decrease in the bond spreads for an improvement of the overall quality of the corporate governance index. …”
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Backfilling Shaft Surround Using Recycled Concrete Waste Material by Brown, John

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