The impact of using produced water for plant irrigation and its effects on plants and soil characteristics by Atia, Fathy Atia Mohamed

“…The results showed that all plants could not survive except Medicago sativa which tolerated up to 10% produced water with a decrease in intensity, length and biomass. Salsola baryosma tolerated up to20% produced water without any significance differences on the morphological characteristics. …”
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Carob (Ceratonia siliqua L.) Prevents Short-Term Memory Deficit Induced by Chronic Stress in Rats by Alzoubi K.H.

“…Carob extract was administered to animals via intraperitoneal (i.p.) route at a daily dose of 50?mg/kg. Radial arm water maze (RAWM) was utilized to test for spatial learning and memory. …”
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AMPK Activation Attenuates Albumin-induced Alterations in Renal Tubular Cells In Vitro by Allouch, Soumaya

“…Notably, metformin also prevented albumin-induced EMT; this was marked by a 50% decrease in a-SMA and a 60% increase in E-cadherin expression. …”
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Development of pH-Controlled Aluminum-Based Polymeric Gel for Conformance Control in Sour Gas Reservoirs by Shamlooh M.

“…PAM/AlAc system has a gelation time of around 50 min at 75 °C making it suitable for near-wellbore treatments, while the gelation time increased to 80 min upon increasing the pH of the system from 4.1 to 4.6. …”
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Overconfident results with the bivariate random effects model for meta-analysis of diagnostic accuracy studies by Furuya-Kanamori, Luis

“…Diaz found that the performance of the bivariate model deteriorates when between-study heterogeneity increases and the number of studies decrease.5 Our simulation studies found similar results—with moderate levels of heterogeneity (tau2 = 1), the coverage probabilities of Se, Sp, and the diagnostic odds ratio (DOR) with the bivariate model dropped below the nominal level.6 Diagnostic accuracy studies usually favor sensitivity over specificity, or vice versa leading to diagnostic 2 × 2 tables with one or more of the cells with low frequency or zero counts. …”
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Bond durability of sand coated and ribbed basalt FRP bars embedded in high-strength concrete by Al-Hamrani, Abathar

“…However, specimens with high-strength concrete achieved most of or above their maximum bond strength after the descending stage, while those with normal-strength concrete showed a decrease in bond strength to an approximately constant value with continuous slip. …”
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The burden of ischemic heart disease and the epidemiologic transition in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: 1990-2019 by Sadeghi, Masoumeh

“…Bahrain exhibited the highest decrease in age-standardized prevalence (-3.7%), mortality (-65.0%), and DALYs (-69.1%) rates among the EMR countries. …”
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Extraction and characterization of biofunctional lignocellulosic fibers from Pulicaria undulata plant and the effect of alkali treatment on their bio-physicochemical properties by Mohammed, Alsafran

“…In contrast, alkali-treated fibers showed a significant decrease in radical scavenging activity (almost 7–8 fold) and reducing power potential (6-fold) and exhibited no antifungal activity, potentially due to the loss of bioactive components such as lignin and essential oils. …”
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Salicylic acid restricts mercury translocation by activating strong antioxidant defense mechanisms in sweet pepper (Capsicum annum L.) by Khalid, Muhammad Fasih

“…Spraying of 100 μM SA at three different Hg levels, i.e., 0 μM, 50 μM, 100 μM, and 150 μM. The maximum decrease in photosynthetic machinery, plant growth attributes (shoot length, root length, no. of leaves, fresh and dry biomass (shoot and root)), and more accumulation of Hg in leaves, roots, and fruits of sweet pepper. …”
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Utilization of Emergency Services by Children with Asthma in Qatar by Arafah, Dima

“…Background: Asthma is a leading chronic disease in children worldwide, which if left untreated or poorly controlled, can lead to altered lung function and poor quality of life. 1 Early detection and improved control of asthma are recommended to decrease utilization of emergency services and hospitalizations. …”
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Association between Insulin and Nitric Oxide in Human Retinal Microvascular Endothelial Cells in vitro by 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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Anaerobic and aerobic contributions to repeated supramaximal cycling exercises and their adaptation to high-intensity interval training in obese perimenopausal and postmenopausal w... by Jabbour, Georges

“…Methods Nineteen perimenopausal women and 21 postmenopausal women with an average age of 50.1 years participated in the 6-week HIIT intervention. …”
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25-Hydroxyvitamin D serum levels inversely correlate to disease severity and serum C-reactive protein levels in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa by Moltrasio, Chiara

“…Vitamin D exerts functions in skin physiology by modulating keratinocyte proliferation and different immunoregulatory processes.1 In several dermatoses, vitamin D correlates to disease severity and is significantly lower if compared to healthy subjects.2 Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by painful suppurating lesions mainly localized in the folds.3 Kelly et al.4 conducted the first study assessing vitamin D status in HS, concluding that 75% of patients had vitamin D levels of less than 50 nmol/L compared to 40% of the general population. …”
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Application of magnetic nanoparticles for the removal of oil from oil-in-water emulsion: Regeneration/reuse of spent particles by Elmobarak W.F.

“…The observed %Roil at a pH of 4 and Csur of 0.05 g/L was observed to be > 90 ± 0.1% and decreased by either rising the pH to 7 or increasing the Csur to 0.1 g/L. …”
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Reinforcement of polyacrylamide-co-tert-butyl acrylate base gel using nanosilica for conformance control at low and high reservoir temperatures by Shamlooh M.

“…Therefore, this study introduces a new polymeric formulation that serves as a water shut-off agent for reservoirs at low and high temperatures. …”
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Age-Related Differences of the Athlete`s Heart by Kneffel, Zsuzsanna

“…In the 36-55 yr. age range physically active persons showed a higher E/A quotient than passive persons (1.574 ± 0.186 vs. 1.383 ± 0.069, p = 0.0327). …”
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Reducing the number of rebooking of urgent in-person visits in general paediatric ambulatory clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic by Hassan, Manasik

“…Standardization reduces wastes in processes (Figure 1) and decreases variations that may lead to overutilization of the limited resources and negatively affects patient care. …”
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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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Extraction and characterization of biofunctional lignocellulosic fibers from Pulicaria undulata plant and the effect of alkali treatment on their bio-physicochemical properties by Mohammed, Alsafran

“…In contrast, alkali-treated fibers showed a significant decrease in radical scavenging activity (almost 7–8 fold) and reducing power potential (6-fold) and exhibited no antifungal activity, potentially due to the loss of bioactive components such as lignin and essential oils. …”
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Flight Scheduling in the Airspace by Msakni, Mohamed Kais

“…The tests were conducted under a Windows 7 machine with an Intel Core i7 and 8 GB of RAM. The model was tested on each instance with 1 hour time limit. …”
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