Instruments of energy subsidy reforms in Arab countries — The case of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries by Al-Saidi, Mohammad

“…© 2019 Energy subsidies can account for a large share of government expenditures in some GCC countries. …”
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Computational Analysis for Bioconvection of Microorganisms in Prandtl Nanofluid Darcy-Forchheimer Flow across an Inclined Sheet by Wang, Jianfeng

“…The two-dimensional boundary layer flow of a Prandtl nanofluid was explored in the presence of an aligned magnetic field over an inclined stretching/shrinking sheet in a non-Darcy permeable medium. …”
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Bioremediation of Crude Oil Contaminated Desert Soil: Effect of Biostimulation, Bioaugmentation and Bioavailability in Biopile Treatment Systems by Benyahia, Farid

“…The bioaugmented biopile system led to a total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) reduction of 77% over 156 days while the system with polyoxyethylene (20) sorbitan monooleate (Tween 80) gave a 56% decrease in TPH. …”
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Parcel distribution timetabling problem with incomplete hub network by Ben-Ayed, Omar

“…The developed model is illustrated through a real-world case. The obtained solution includes a decrease in the average time spent by the parcels (from pickup to delivery) by 19% in comparison to the existing practiced parcel schedule.…”
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Conjugation of CTGF with Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanoparticles for the development of wound healing hydrogel patch by Syed, Raza ur Rehman

“…Multiple evidences have shown that CTGF and reduced graphene oxide possesses angiogenic property and promote wound healing by promoting proliferation and migration of fibroblasts and keratinocytes cells.Conjugation of rGO with CTGF using EDC-NHS chemistry is a novel approach to accelerate the wound healing process. …”
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Fabrication of titanium dioxide nanomaterial for implantable highly flexible composite bioelectrode for biosensing applications by Mohamed O.

“…Implantable and stretchable electrodes have managed to progress the medical field from a medical diagnosis aspect to a patient treatment level. …”
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Solvent Uptake of Liquid Rubber Toughened Epoxy/Clay Nanocomposites by Vijayan, P. P.

“…With a further increase of CTBN, the diffusion coefficient was found to decrease. …”
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Changes of perceived unevenness caused by in-track vibration countermeasures in slab track by Verachtert, R.

“…It is shown that in-track vibration countermeasures always introduce a change in perceived unevenness, which may turn out to be an increase or decrease and, consequently, result in a change of the performance of vibration countermeasures. …”
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Graphene Oxide Loaded Hydrogel for Enhanced Wound Healing in Diabetic Patients by Ur Rehman S.R.

“…The decrease in the proliferation and migration of cells such as keratinocytes and fibroblasts is the major reason for the development of such chronic wounds in a diabetic patient. …”
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Individual and Synergic Effects of Phosphorus and Gibberellic Acid on Organic Acids Exudation Pattern, Ultra-Structure of Chloroplast and Stress Response Gene Expression in Cu-Stre... by Alatawi, Aishah

“…Results revealed that C. capsularis tolerated up to 200 mg kg−1 Cu concentration without a significant (P < 0.05) decrease in biomass, plant height and root length but further increase in Cu concentration from 400 mg kg−1 exhibited a significant reduction in plant height, root length, stem fresh weight, stem dry weight, plant fresh weight and plant dry weight. …”
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Surface Behavior of Polyamide 6 Modified by Barrier Plasma in Oxygen and Nitrogen by Novak, I.

“…A significant increase in O/C and N/C ratios of plasma-modified PA 6 using XPS analysis was found. …”
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Theoretical insight into effect of cation–anion pairs on CO2 reduction on bismuth electrocatalysts by Sun Hee, Yoon

“…The adsorption energy (Eads) and work function (Wf) of the anions increases with decreasing anion size (i.e., Cl− > Br− > I−). On the other hand, the larger the cation size is, the higher is the Eads (i.e., Li+ < K+ < Cs+) but the lower is the Wf (i.e., Cs+ < K+ < Li+). …”
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Spectrofluorometric investigations on the solvent effects on the photocyclization reaction of diclofenac by Abdulilah Dawoud, Bani-Yaseen

“…The solvent effects were qualitatively and quantitatively assessed employing various solvatochromic models, including multi-parameter linear regression analysis (MLRA). Interestingly, the MLRA results (R = 0.99) revealed that the photoconversion rate increases with increasing solvent polarizability (π*) and H-bond donor capability (α), whereas the rate decreases with increasing hydrogen-bond acceptor capability (β). …”
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MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION OF DISTRICT COOLING SYSTEM by ISMAEN, RABAH

“…The mathematical model is developed as a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) problem. …”
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Investigation of optimal charging locations for electric vehicles in Istanbul by Atilgan, B.

“…Electric vehicles have a great potential to decrease the adverse effects of transportation, especially in metropolitan cities. …”
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Asymmetric determinants of Bitcoin's wild price movements by Benlagha, Noureddine

“…In the long run, negative policy uncertainty shocks increase the PB while in the short run, negative shocks decrease it. Originality/value: The authors give credence to the best ways of understanding the existence of asymmetries in the link between the PB and a number of influential macro-finance variables to improve the appropriate asset allocation and portfolio management.…”
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EVALUATING SHARED PARKING ARRANGEMENTS IN THE CBD OF DOHA by ALSALAMAH, FREH MAHMOUD ALI

“…The findings from the model gave crucial information regarding the optimal scenario and placement of shared parking facilities in the area where scenario 3 was shown to be the most effective with a reduction in traffic volume by 31% in major collectors, 27% in minor collectors, and 25% in turn lanes, alongside a decrease in average travel time by 29% in major collectors, 45% in minor collectors and 23% in turn lanes. …”
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Location privacy preservation in secure crowdsourcing-based cooperative spectrum sensing by Zina, Chkirbene

“…The existing solutions present a high level of complexity which decreases the performance of the systems. …”
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Effect of temperature and erosion on pitting corrosion of X100 steel in aqueous silica slurries containing bicarbonate and chloride content by Mahdi, E.

“…Tests were performed at two temperatures with the help of open circuit potential (OCP), potentiodynamic polarization scan and electrochemical frequency modulation. A heating plate was used to change and maintain the temperature of electrolyte during electrochemical tests. …”
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Minimizing energy consumption of IoT devices for O-RAN based IoT systems by Wang, Liping

“…Although the traditional edge network architecture has been extensively employed, it continues to pose challenges in terms of synchronizing the integration of global and local information for the design of an optimal offloading strategy in edge servers, thus hindering the reduction of latency and energy consumption in IoT devices. In an effort to decrease the latency and energy consumption of IoT devices (IoTDs), we propose a computation offloading problem and employs the Successive Convex Approximation (SCA) algorithm to convert the non-convex problem into a convex problem. …”
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