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Land surface temperature responses to land use dynamics in urban areas of Doha, Qatar
Published 2024“…This study investigates the impact of land use and land cover changes on summer and winter LSTs in Doha and Al Dayeen municipalities of Qatar, spanning from the years 2000 to 2023, using remote sensing techniques and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). …”
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Improvement of heat sink performance using paraffin/graphite/hydrogel phase change composite coating
Published 2022“…Phase-change materials offer high latent heat and are widely used for energy storage applications. Paraffin wax is usually used as a phase-change material. …”
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Electric vehicles charging management using deep reinforcement learning considering vehicle-to-grid operation and battery degradation
Published 2023“…EVs are becoming more popular and widely used worldwide due to their environmentally friendliness as part of the world efforts to decrease the effects of climate change. …”
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Design and analysis of PV fed high-voltage gain DC-DC converter using PI and NN controllers
Published 2022“…The entire globe is now focused on generating power using solar photovoltaic (SPV) cells. The SPV is generating the DC power, by using power converters to satisfy the load requirement. …”
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Monitoring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the Northeast Aegean Sea using Posidonia oceanica seagrass and synthetic passive samplers
Published 2014“…Levels of high molecular weight PAHs assessed using passive samplers confirmed the decreasing gradient of pollution away from Alexandroupolis Port. …”
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Studying coral reef patterns in UAE waters using panel data analysis and multinomial logit and probit models
Published 2020“…To understand some of these patterns; coral cover data, satellite-derived and in-situ water quality parameters from nine key reef environments in the UAE from 2011 to 2014 to model coral patterns were used. The objectives were to model coral patterns and realistically predict coral damage intensity with changing environmental variables. …”
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Methane production enhancement from Tetraselmis biomass co-digestion using frying oil residue as co-substrate and ultrasonication as pretreatment
Published 2023“…Interestingly, compared to untreated Tetraselmis biomass, sonication pretreatment using specific energy of 1.6 kJ/g VS significantly improved specific methane production by 60.5%. …”
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Modeling the influence of daily temperature and precipitation extreme indices on vegetation dynamics in Katsina State using statistical downscaling model (SDM)
Published 2023“…All the scenarios present increasing minimum and maximum temperatures and decreasing precipitation, except for RCP8.5, which predicted a more adverse trend. …”
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Multilayer Reversible Data Hiding Based on the Difference Expansion Method Using Multilevel Thresholding of Host Images Based on the Slime Mould Algorithm
Published 2022“…Moreover, the image pixels in different and more similar areas of the image are located next to one another in a group and classified using the specified thresholds. As a result, the embedding capacity in each class can increase by reducing the value of the difference between two consecutive pixels, and the distortion of the marked image can decrease after inserting the personal data using the DE method. …”
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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...
Published 2023“…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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Dynamics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae transmission among female sex workers and clients: A mathematical modeling study
Published 2024“…Interventions substantially reduce incidence. Increasing condom use from 10 % to 50 % lowers NG prevalence among FSWs, clients, and their spouses from 12.2 % to 6.4 %, 1.2 % to 0.5 %, and 0.4 % to 0.2 %, respectively. …”
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Excess pCO2 and carbonate system geochemistry in surface seawater of the exclusive economic zone of Qatar (Arabian Gulf)
Published 2022“…CO2 is lost from the Gulf due to gas exchange, decreasing DIC, and reducing pCO2 to 464 μatm, similar to that observed. …”
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Visitors off the trail: Impacts on the dominant plant, bryophyte and lichen species in alpine heath vegetation in sub-arctic Sweden
Published 2021“…This study investigated the effect of human trampling on the dominant species of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens along an infrequently used hiking trail in an alpine ecosystem in sub-arctic Sweden. …”
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Tranexamic Acid for Traumatic Injury in the Emergency Setting: A Systematic Review and Bias-Adjusted Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
Published 2024“…This meta-analysis indicated an 11% decrease in the death risk at 1 month after TXA use (odds ratio [OR] 0.89, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.84 to 0.95) with a number needed to treat of 61 to avoid 1 additional death. …”
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An Improved Genghis Khan Optimizer based on Enhanced Solution Quality Strategy for Global Optimization and Feature Selection Problems
Published 2024“…Feature selection (FS) is the activity of defining the most contributing feature subset among all used features to improve the superiority of datasets with a large number of dimensions by selecting significant features and eliminating redundant and irrelevant ones. …”
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Empirical evaluation of change in crash risk due to lane marking reallocation: A case study in Kochi City, Japan
Published 2023“…Based on the video data, PICUD (Possibility Index for Collision with Urgent Deceleration), a surrogate safety index used to estimate collision risk, was estimated for lane changes and conflicts between leading and following vehicles in the through lane. …”
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Influence of shelf-life duration on mechanical, thermal and shape recovery motion derivatives of shape memory polyurethane
Published 2024“…Shape memory polymer is widely used in bio-medical applications such as stents, sutures, drug delivery etc., However, the shape recovery behavior and mechanical properties in these applications are crucial and may be affected during shelf storage. …”
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Energy saving potential analysis applying factory scale energy audit – A case study of food production
Published 2023“…This has allowed a reduction in energy use of up to 18%. The CO2 harmful emissions were also decreased. …”
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High flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) in the treatment of COVID-19 infection of adult patients from – An emergency perspective: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Published 2023“…In such cases of severe illness, high flow nasal oxygen (HFNO) has been used to provide oxygenation to COVID-19 patients. …”
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Human health risks associated with the consumption of groundwater in the Gaza Strip
Published 2023“…On the other hand, nitrate (NO3) decreased by 30 %, due to expansion of the sewer network and decrease in the number and distribution of septic tanks. …”
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