The status of forward osmosis technology implementation by Awad, Abdelrahman M.

“…The outcomes of 15 studies conducted at pilot scale revealed the energy associated with the draw solution (DS) recovery to present a significant barrier to implementation of the technology, with a 40–50% decrease in energy consumption required for the DS recovery step for the process to successfully compete with classical reverse osmosis (RO) based processes. …”
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Low levels of Vitamin D during pregnancy associated with gestational diabetes mellitus and low birth weight: results from the MAASTHI birth cohort by Deepa, R.

“…For every one-unit increase in Vitamin D levels, Homeostatic Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) decreased by nearly 18%. …”
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Pilot-scale petroleum refinery wastewaters treatment systems: performance and microbial communities' analysis by Karray, Fatma

“…The reduction of the COD, BOD5, phenols, and the total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) reached 82.10%, 85.87%, 91.63%, and 81.11%, respectively at high hydraulic residence time (HRT = 10 days). Decreasing HRT to 5 and 2.5 days led to a decrease in the efficiency of the process and a decrease in biomass concentration was also observed (<1000 mg/l). …”
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Mercury pollution in doha (Qatar) coastal environment by Al-Madfa, H.

“…m sediment fraction. There is a general trend for all Hg species determined in water and sediments to decrease seaward. …”
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Influence of the heteroatom on the optoelectronic properties and transistor performance of soluble thiophene-, selenophene- and tellurophene-vinylene copolymers by Al-Hashimi, Mohammed

“…The optical band gap of the polymers is shown to systematically decrease as the size of the heteroatom is increased, mainly as a result of a stabilization of the LUMO energy, resulting in a small band gap of 1.4 eV for P3TeV. …”
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Salvia fruticosa Induces Vasorelaxation in Rat Isolated Thoracic Aorta: Role of the PI3K/Akt/eNOS/NO/cGMP Signaling Pathway by Anwar, M. Akhtar

“…Prior exposure to PI3K inhibitors, wortmannin (0.1 µM) or LY294002 (10 µM), decreased cGMP accumulation and attenuated the SF-induced vasorelaxation by approximately 50% (Rmax). …”
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Comparative Investigation of the Physicochemical Properties of Chars Produced by Hydrothermal Carbonization, Pyrolysis, and Microwave-Induced Pyrolysis of Food Waste by Khan, Moonis Ali

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Mechanism and kinetics of electrochemical degradation of uric acid using conductive-diamond anodes by Dbira, Sondos

“…Results show that the increase of current density from 20 to 60 mA cm–2 leads to a decrease in the efficiency of the electrochemical process. …”
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Ethanolic extract of Origanum syriacum L. leaves exhibits potent anti-breast cancer potential and robust antioxidant properties by Mesmar, Joelle

“…Non-cytotoxic concentrations of OSEE attenuated cell proliferation and induced G0/G1 cell cycle arrest, which was associated with phosphorylation of p38 MAPK, an increase in the levels of tumor suppressor protein p21, and a decrease of proliferation marker protein Ki67. …”
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Combustion-Free Synthesis of Lithium Manganese Oxide Composites with CNTs/GNPs by Chemical Coprecipitation for Energy Storage Devices by Tariq, Hanan Abdurehman

“…Characteristic spectra of spinel structure and a peak of CNTs & GNPs obtained using X-ray powder diffraction (XRD). …”
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Heat transfer measurements of Polyalpha-Olefin- boron nitride nanofluids for thermal management and lubrication applications by Sleiti, Ahmad K.

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Associations of Recreational and Nonrecreational Physical Activity and Body Weight Change on Cardiovascular Disease Mortality During the Obesogenic Transition in the United States:... by Cheema, Birinder S.

“…RESULTS: Compared with the "moderate-vigorous stable" group (reference), individuals who remained inactive ("inactive stable") or reduced their participation in physical activity ("active to inactive") experienced the highest mortality, with a 50% to 176% and 22% to 222% relative increased hazard ratios for nonrecreational and recreational physical activity, respectively, across all models adjusted for covariates. …”
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Development and in Vitro Testing of a Nitric Oxide Nanoparticle Carrier for Acute Lung Injury by Kordi, Haya

“…Also NO secretion was shown to decrease stiffness in various tissue types which can aid as a treatment of conditions like ARDS.One issue with using NO is that the life-time is too short so the treatment is not very effective. …”
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A resource provisioning framework for bioinformatics applications in multi-cloud environments by Senturk, Izzet F.

“…We discuss the architecture and components of BIOCLOUD and present the scheduling algorithm employed in BIOCLOUD. …”
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An improved asymmetrical multilevel inverter topology with reduced semiconductor device count by Sarwer, Zeeshan

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Investigating the effect of polymer-modified graphene oxide coating on RO membrane fouling by Ashfaq, Mohammad Y.

“…The membrane surface characterization showed a decrease in membrane surface roughness from 74.7 nm to 69.0 nm and an increase in membrane hydrophilicity as the contact angle decreased from 41.7 ± 4.50 to 22.0 ± 1.10. …”
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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

“…Subsequently, Guillet et al.5 described an association between vitamin D deficiency and HS severity, also reporting a significant decrease of the inflammatory nodules in patients supplemented with vitamin D. …”
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In vitro effects of hydrogen peroxide on rat uterine contraction before and during pregnancy by AlanaziR.

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Assessment strategies of different molten salts for heat transfer in tri-generation systems by Klaimi, Rachid

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Thermally conductive polyethylene/expanded graphite composites as heat transfer surface: Mechanical, thermo-physical and surface behavior by Sobolčiak, Patrik

“…This enhanced surface wettability was retained over a long time with only a 9% and 18% decrease in RF and corona plasma-treated samples' surface energy after two months. …”
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