Environmental Impact Assessment of Desalination Plants in the Gulf Region by Soliman, Mariam N.

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Topiramate monotherapy for weight reduction in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Paravattil, Bridget

“…Results: Of the 284 studies identified, 5 studies fulfilled the inclusion criteria. Topiramate decreased weight by a mean difference of 3.4 kg (95% CI, -3.79 to -3.04) compared to placebo. …”
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Urology Residents' Perspectives on the In-House On-Call Systems: A Study in an Accredited Academic Center by Khalil, Ibrahim A. and Ibrahim, Tarek and Aldeeb, Maya and Mohamed, Ahmed and Ben Salah, Rym and Aboumarzouk, Omar M. and Al-Naimi, Abdulla

“…Quality of life and education: We adopted a validated survey based on a 5-point Likert scale to assess the residents' perception of the transition to a 12-hour on-call system on their quality of life and education. …”
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Impact of composition and salinity on swelling and gel strength of poly (acrylamide-co-acrylic acid) preformed particle gel by Ben Ali, Ahmed

“…The effects of various material compositions and reservoir environments on the ultimate strength and swelling kinetics of a commercial preformed particle gel (PPG) have been investigated. …”
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Changes in air quality during the first-level response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Shanghai Municipality, China by Bai, Yang

“…The results showed that air quality improved significantly During-FLR compared with Pre-FLR, with the concentrations of PM2.5, PM10, SO2, NO2, and CO all decreasing significantly. …”
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Natural aging of shape stabilized phase change materials based on paraffin wax by Krupa, Igor

“…The addition of 15 wt% of EG to shape stabilized phase change materials (SSPCMs) containing 50 wt% of wax caused a decreasing in the leakage of wax by 50% over 210 days of natural aging. …”
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Regional Difference in the Association between the Trajectory of Selenium Intake and Hypertension: A 20-Year Cohort Study. by Xie, Changxiao

“…The effect of selenium on hypertension is inconclusive. We aimed to study the relationship between selenium intake and incident hypertension. …”
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Clinical characteristics and outcome of children with acute cryptorchid testicular torsion: A single-center, retrospective case series study by Zvizdic, Zlatan

“…Results We found eight patients with unilateral acute cryptorchid TT with a prevalence of 8.9% (8/90) among all TT cases. …”
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Shiitake Culinary-Medicinal Mushroom, Lentinus edodes (Agaricomycetes), Supplementation Alters Gut Microbiome and Corrects Dyslipidemia in Rats. by Anwar, Haseeb

“…Wistar rats were offered a chow maintenance diet (CMD; CON group) or the same CMD ration with cholesterol (1.5% w/w) and cholic acid (0.5% w/w) added to induce hypercholesterolemia (day 1 to day 24). …”
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Driver Drowsiness Detection Study using Heart Rate Variability analysis in Virtual Reality Environment by Chowdhury, Muhammad E.H.

“…The LF/HF ratio reflects the differences between awake and drowsy states while the ratio was decreasing gradually from the awake state to drowsy state [5-6].Method A portable wireless BioRadio (Fig.2 A) (Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies, Inc.) …”
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Evaluation of the inhibition performance of piperazine-based polyurea towards mild steel corrosion: The role of keto-enol tautomerization by Abdulazeez, Ismail

“…The presence of PUCorr at 100 ppm decreases the corrosion current density from 30.3 to 3.05 μA/cm2 in 0.5 M NaCl at room temperature, exhibiting a remarkable inhibition efficiency of 94.5%. …”
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Mechanical and physical behavior of newly developed functionally graded materials and composites of stainless steel 316L with calcium silicate and hydroxyapatite by Ataollahi Oshkour, Azim

“…Compressive mechanical properties of SS-316L/HA decreased sharply with increasing of HA content up to 20. wt% and gradually with CS content up to 50. wt% for SS-316L/CS composites. …”
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Novel thiazolones for the simultaneous modulation of PPARγ, COX-2 and 15-LOX to address metabolic disease-associated portal inflammation by Mai S., El-Shoukrofy

“…Compound 2a activated PPARγ with an EC50 value of 3.4 μM in a Gal4-hybrid reporter gene assay, indicating partial agonistic action. …”
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Privacy-preserving federated learning cyber-threat detection for intelligent transport systems with blockchain-based security by Moulahi, Tarek

“…Furthermore, we conducted an experimental study to measure the effectiveness of the proposed prototype. …”
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Improving mechanical, thermal and damping properties of niti (Nitinol) reinforced aluminum nanocomposites by Matli, Penchal R.

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Biodegradable thermoplastic polyurethane composites as potential plating systems in pediatric facial fractures by ALANI, AYA AHMED

“…Due to the rapid growth of facial bone in the pediatric age group, the use of metallic plates would require a second surgical intervention to remove it. The alternative is biodegradable plating systems which are safe but not without complications, including learning curve, decreased stability, cost, and infection. …”
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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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Hot and Hypoxic environments inhibit simulated soccer performance and exacerbate performance decrements when combined by Aldous, Jeffrey

“…Twelve male University soccer players completed three familiarization sessions and four randomized crossover experimental trials of the intermittent Soccer Performance Test (iSPT)in normoxic- temperate(CON:18◦C50%rH),HOT(30◦C;50%rH),HYP(1000m;18◦C50%rH),and HH(1000m;30◦C;50%rH).Physical performance and its performance decrements, bodytemperatures(rectal,skin,and estimated muscle temperature), heartrate(HR), arterial blood oxygen saturation(SaO2), perceived exertion, thermal sensation(TS), body mass changes, blood lactate, and plasma volume were all measured. …”
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Ni-P-TiO2 Composite coatings on copper produced by sol-enhanced electroplating by Wang, Yuxin

“…Ni-P-TiO2 composite coatings were prepared on copper substrate by TiO2 sol-enhanced electroplating. A systematic study of Ni-P-X coatings with different sol concentrations (TiO2 concentration X from 0 to 50 mL/L) has been conducted in order to understand the effect of TiO2 sol addition and the strengthening mechanism. …”
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