Effect of Magnetic Baffles and Magnetic Nanofluid on Thermo-Hydraulic Characteristics of Dimple Mini Channel for Thermal Energy Applications by Souayeh, Basma

“…The increment changed to 1.82%, 8.16%, and 22.31% for a pitch = 5 mm and 1.01%, 5.96%, and 21.38% for a pitch = 2.5 mm. …”
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Effects of Climate and Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on Early to Mid-Term Stage Litter Decomposition Across Biomes by Kwon, Taeoh

“…We assessed how macroclimate and atmospheric inorganic N deposition under current and predicted scenarios (RCP 2.6, RCP 8.5) might affect litter mass loss measured after 3 and 12 months. …”
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Glycine and Folate Ameliorate Models of Congenital Sideroblastic Anemia by Fernández-Murray1, J. Pedro

“…While neither glycine nor 5-Ala could ameliorate SLC25A38 congenital sideroblastic anemia in a zebrafish model, we determined that the addition of folate with glycine was able to restore hemoglobin levels. …”
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Hydrogen Production via Ethanol Decomposition over Bimetallic Catalyst by Ashok, Anchu

“…The amount of precursors was calculated based on the synthesis of 1.5 g product in the output. These precursors were mixed in 75 ml of water and stir continuously for 1 hr to form a homogenous mixture. …”
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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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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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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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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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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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Effect of serum lipoproteins on stereoselective halofantrine metabolism by rat hepatocytes by Patel, J. P.

“…Experimental hyperlipidemia has shown to decrease cytochrome P450 3A4 and 2C11 expression and to increase liver concentrations and the plasma protein binding of halofantrine (HF) enantiomers. …”
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Detoxification assays of tunisian tannery wastewater under nonsterile conditions using the filamentous fungus aspergillus Niger by Boujelben, Raouia

“…Characterization of effluents also revealed high salt levels (EC > 17 mS/cm) and high organic matter content (25 g/L for the UE and 7.2 g/L for the FE) but a low biodegradability since BOD5 did not exceed 2.5 and 1.25 g/L for the UE and the FE, respectively. …”
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Study on adaptive thermal comfort in Japanese offices under various operation modes by Takasu, Marina

“…The lower and upper limits of the optimum comfort temperature is approximately 23.5C and 26.6C in mixed-mode. In addition, it is seen that the optimum comfort temperature tends to increase and decrease at very low and high outdoor air temperatures respectively. …”
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Optimal Energy Dispatch Engine for PV-DG-ESS Hybrid Power Plants Considering Battery Degradation and Carbon Emissions by Kanaan, Laith

“…The test results revealed a 9.2% and 3.5% decrease in daily costs compared to the heuristic and stochastic methods, respectively, and a 29.4% decrease in carbon emission costs.…”
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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 by Islam, Nazmul

“…We have found no difference in the month-to-month rates of RTI-related GP visits (per 1000 total visits) over the study period (non-significant decreasing trend). …”
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Environmental Factors Affecting the Growth and Enzymatic Activity of Ceratocystis Radicicolathe Causal Agent of Black Scorch Disease on Date Palm by Al-Naemi, Fatima

“…To optimize the fungus growth, pH media was adjusted at different levels (5.5, 6, 6.5, 7, 7.5 and 8). In addition, standard Czapek broth media was used as a control. …”
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Recycled Concrete Used in Subbase in Potential Use for Road Base and Cement Bounded Material (CBM) by Ahmad, Hassan Haidar

“…This paper will focus on the fine recycled concrete (FRC) 0-5 mm as a fine aggregate material in the mix design for constructing the base road layers under the Asphalt layers and how using crushed concrete can increase the quality and change the classification of the base aggregate mixes. …”
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Structural influence of chromium substituted magnetite ferrofluids on the optical and antibacterial characteristics by Babukutty, B.

“…As the composition of Cr increases from x = 0.2 to x = 0.8, the crystalline size decreases reaching a minimum value of 9 nm. At the same time, the magnetic moment also becomes 1.3 +- 0.08 at a saturation point of 33 +- 0.13 emu/g at the highest Cr composition. …”
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Optimizing nutrient removal of moving bed biofilm reactor process using response surface methodology by Almomani F.

“…Reactors demonstrated stable biofilm characteristics except for a slight decrease in biofilm thickness due to flow-shear stress. …”
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