Inter-annual variability and distribution of aerosols during winters and aerosol optical thickness over Northeastern Pakistan by Shahid, M. Z.

“…ir pollution during winters over north-eastern (NE) Pakistan (71–74.5 E, 28–34 N) is a major challenge that affects human health, climate and daily life. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Use of Electrical Resistivity Tomography to Study the Impact of Long-Term Application of Sewage Sludge: Case Study of Oued Souhil Experimental Station, Nabeul (Tunisia) by Hechmi, Sarra

“…Wenner array was applied using 16 electrodes and 0.2 m electrode spacing, which corresponds to approximately 0.6 m depth of investigation. Laboratory analyses were conducted on soil samples taken in the middle of the treated plots at four depths (0–20 cm), (20–40 cm), and (40–60 cm) for a comparison with the ERT survey result. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Prevalence of vincristine induced-peripheral neuropathy among Sudanese cancer patients by Imam, Ethar Abdelmageed

“…Healthcare professionals need some understanding regarding medical management that may decrease occurrence of neuropathy and a better planning and implementing special care for patients at risk.…”
Get full text
Get full text

Thermo-economic assessment of forward osmosis as pretreatment to boost the performance and sustainability of multi-effect distillation for seawater desalination by Ortega-Delgado, B.

“…Finally, the levelized cost of water of the FO-MED is higher (7.6 $/m3) than the standalone MED process (4.6 $/m3). …”
Get full text
Get full text

High-Rate Anaerobic Digestion of Waste Activated Sludge by Integration of Electro-Fenton Process by Feki, Emna

“…Production of biogas was also found to improve during semi-continuous fermentation of EF-pretreated sludge conducted in a lab-scale reactor. In comparison to raw sludge, EF-pretreated sludge produced the highest biogas yield (0.81 L biogas/g VS) with a high COD removal rate, reaching 96.6% at an organic loading rate (OLR) of 2.5 g VS/L. d. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Assessment of Urban Heat Islands Based on the Relationship Between Land Surface Temperature and Land Use/Land Cover in Greater Doha by Siddiqui, Simil Amir

“…Furthermore %LULC of built up, vegetation, barren land, marsh land and water body were 29%, 4.5%, 58.6%, 2.8% and 5% in 2000 and 56.5 %, 8.2%, 33.2 %, 0% and 2.1% in 2019 respectively. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Calmodulin Mutations Associated with Congenital Cardiac Disease Display Novel Biophysical and Biochemical Characteristics by Nomikos, Michail

“…In contrast, in the presence of Ca2+, there was a significant decrease in the stability of the five proteins following the order CaMWT> CaMN98I > CaMD132E > CaMQ136P > CaMD134H. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Fecal Carriage and Molecular Characterization of Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacterales in the Pediatric Population in Qatar by Pérez-López, Andrés

“…All 9 blaOXA-48-type-gene-containing E. coli sequence type 38 (ST38) strains were isolated from patients without international travel history. The mean quarterly incidence of fecal carriage decreased more than 6-fold after the implementation of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related international travel restrictions in Qatar in mid-March 2020. …”
Get full text
Get full text
Get full text

Tobacco control in the Eastern Mediterranean region: implementation progress and persisting challenges by Abu-Rmeileh, Niveen M E

“…Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable mortality worldwide, projected to claim 1 billion lives in the twenty-first century.1 Tobacco prevalence rates are expected to decrease across all the WHO regions by 2025 as a result of tobacco control efforts. …”
Get full text
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Computational approach to unravel the impact of missense mutations of proteins (D2HGDH and IDH2) causing D-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria 2. by Thirumal Kumar, D

“…In the case of D2HGDH protein, the mutations I147S and V444A that are positioned in the beta sheet region exhibited higher Root Mean Square Deviation (RMSD), decrease in compactness and number of intramolecular hydrogen bonds compared to the mutations N439D and D375Y that are positioned in the turn and loop region, respectively. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Short-term greenhouse emission lowering effect of biochars from solid organic municipal wastes by Rehrah D.

“…A significant decrease in CO2 emission was observed in vials with soil–biochar mixtures, especially for biochars produced at 500 °C compared the corresponding raw materials which exhibited an exponential increase in the CO2 emission. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Phenolic contents-based assessment of therapeutic potential of Syzygium cumini leaves extract by Ahmed, Rashid

“…The leaf extract also demonstrated an analgesic effect in rabbits as indicated by the decrease in writhing (12.2 ± 1.7 control vs. 3.7 ± 0.6 treated) and anti-inflammatory activity in rabbits paw with a protection against inflammation of 64.1 ± 2.4%. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Forecast of the outbreak of COVID-19 using artificial neural network: Case study Qatar, Spain, and Italy by Shawaqfah M.

“…The model sensitivity was analyzed using the root mean square error (RMSE), the mean absolute percentage error and the regression coefficient index R2, which yielded highly accurate values of the predicted correlation for the infected and dead cases of 0.99 for the dates considered. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Yerba Maté (Illex Paraguariensis) ingestion augments fat oxidation and energy expenditure during exercise at various submaximal intensities by Alkhatib, Ahmad

“…These changes were combined with a trend towards a decrease in BLC (P = 0.066), and without a significant difference inV˙O2peak, peak power, peak RER, or peak BLC. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Production and investigation of flexible nanofibers of sPEEK/PVP loaded with RuO2 nanoparticles by Chamakh, Mariem

“…The samples were synthesized with different concentrations of hydrous ruthenium chloride of 2 wt%, 5 wt%, and 10 wt%, and then annealed at a temperature of 300 �C for 4 h to form the ruthenium oxide nanoparticles. …”
Get full text
Get full text

The Structure of the Free Volume in Poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) from Positron Lifetime and Pressure Volume Temperature (PVT) Experiments by Dlubek, Gunter

“…The mean hole volume, vh, varies in PS between 105 Å3 (27 °C) and 220 Å3 (190 °C), and shows a systematic decrease with increasing AN content, at Tg from 121 Å3 for PS to 102 (±2) Å3 for SAN50. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Alveolar bone changes following bi-maxillary vertical molars' movements using clear aligners by Al-Warafi, Leena Ali

Get full text
Get full text

Higher egg consumption associated with increased risk of diabetes in Chinese adults - China Health and Nutrition Survey. by Wang, Yue

“…Egg consumption at each survey was assessed by a 3-d 24-h recall and weighed food record methods. …”
Get full text
Get full text