Experimental results and modelling of corrosion-damaged concrete beams strengthened with externally-bonded composites by Elghazy M.

“…The FE models were able to capture the non-linear behavior of the strengthened beams. The interfacial bond stress-slip models at the fabric/matrix and composite/concrete interfaces and the number of composite layers had the most significant impact on the predicted response of the strengthened beams whereas the corrosion level, modeled as a reduction in the steel reinforcement cross-section, showed a slight effect on their performance. …”
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Locations of Temporary Distribution Facilities for Emergency Response Planning by Pradhananga, Rojee

“…Resource planning in emergency response phase is challenging primarily because the resources have to be delivered to the affected regions in a timely manner and in right quantities. Disasters such as the hurricanes, epidemics and chemical explosions in general impact large regions and emergency supplies are needed for several days. …”
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Towards secure private and trustworthy human-centric embedded machine learning: An emotion-aware facial recognition case study by Butt, Muhammad Atif

“…We find that input quantization partially degrades the efficacy of adversarial and backdoor attacks at the cost of a slight decrease in accuracy over clean inputs. …”
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Sex Differences in Healthy Eating: Investigating the Moderating Effect of Self-Efficacy by Razaz, Jalaledin Mirzay

“…Conclusions and Implications: Eating behavior self-efficacy had a significantly decreasing moderating effect on sex differences in the adoption of a healthy diet. …”
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Burden of diabetes mellitus attributable to demographic levels in Qatar: An emerging public health problem by Bener, Abdulbari

“…YLL for men and women was fluctuating across the years with a decrease in 2011 (18%) from 2007 (35%). Men and women in the age group 30-44 years had the highest peak across the years.Conclusion The study findings revealed that diabetes disease burden was considerably high in Qatar, particularly in the working age group. …”
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Insights Into the Role of CircRNAs: Biogenesis, Characterization, Functional, and Clinical Impact in Human Malignancies by Nisar, Sabah

“…Because of the structural stability, high expression, availability of microRNA (miRNA) binding sites and tissue-specific expression, circRNAs have become hot topic of research in RNA biology. Compared to the linear RNA, circRNAs are produced differentially by backsplicing exons or lariat introns from a pre-messenger RNA (mRNA) forming a covalently closed loop structure missing 3′ poly-(A) tail or 5′ cap, rendering them immune to exonuclease-mediated degradation. …”
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Transport impacts in Germany and State of Qatar: An assessment during the first wave of COVID-19 by Birgit, Jaekel

“…Further, the traffic volumes showed a statistically significant inverse linear relationship with the stringency index for both countries during weekdays as well as weekends. …”
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Production Of Size-selected Copper Nanoclusters For Petroleum Refinery Applications by Ayesh, Ahmad

“…The results show that as the inert gas flow rate increases, the nanocluster size decreases. These results could be understood as a result of nanocluster production by three-body collision mechanism. …”
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Delay-Aware Flow Scheduling in Low Latency Enterprise Datacenter Networks: Modeling and Performance Analysis by Khabbaz, Maurice

“…., Web search, social networking, and so on) appear in the form of a large number of mini requests and responses flowing over the datacenters' networks. …”
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Relationship between Asymmetry Indices, Anthropometric Parameters, and Physical Fitness in Obese and Non-Obese High School Students by Haddad, Monoem

“…Grouping participants based on body fat percentage had a significant effect on the AIs (p < 0.05) of the CMJ and YBT. …”
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Downlink Interference Analysis of UAV-Based mmWave Fronthaul for Small Cell Networks by Dabiri, Mohammad Taghi

“…The results show that, in the presence of UAV's fluctuations, optimizing radiation pattern shape requires balancing an inherent tradeoff between increasing pattern gain to reduce the interference as well as to compensate large path loss at mmWave frequencies and decreasing it to alleviate the adverse effect of a UAV's vibrations.…”
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Influence of temperature on tire-pavement noise in hot climates: Qatar case by Okan, Sirin

“…The On-Board Sound Intensity (OBSI) noise measurements technique was used to collect the noise data at different temperatures ranging from 25 °C to 43 °C. A linear regression analysis was performed to verify the relationship between noise and temperature. …”
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Influence of temperature on tire-pavement noise in hot climates: Qatar case by Okan, Sirin

“…The On-Board Sound Intensity (OBSI) noise measurements technique was used to collect the noise data at different temperatures ranging from 25 °C to 43 °C. A linear regression analysis was performed to verify the relationship between noise and temperature. …”
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The influence of environmental and core temperature on cyclooxygenase and PGE2 in healthy humans by Esh, Christopher J.

“…The data suggests a thermogenic response of the COX/PGE2 pathway insufficient to defend Tc in cold. …”
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Associations between Bone Mineral Density and WOMAC Scores in Healthy Individuals: Insights from the Qatar Biobank by Al-Hamdani, Mohammed

“…However, BMD measures significantly contributed to predicting stiffness after controlling for sociodemographic variables (R2 = 0.065, ΔF(7, 1724) = 3.34, p = 0.002), with a higher total body BMD associated with increased stiffness and a higher trunk BMD associated with decreased stiffness. …”
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The Role of Key Impurity Elements on the Performance of Aluminium Electrolysis - Current Efficiency and Metal Quality by Al-Mejali, Jassim Ali

“…Phosphorus showed to have a much longer retention time in the bath than silicon. …”
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Dynamic workload patterns prediction for proactive auto-scaling of web applications by Iqbal W.

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Electrochemical behavior of mild and corrosion resistant concrete reinforcing steels by Sohail, Muazzam G.

“…The linear polarization resistance (LPR), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and Tafel plot techniques were employed to assess the corrosion rates on the rebar surfaces. …”
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Phytoplankton size changes and diversity loss in the southwestern Mediterranean Sea in relation to long-term hydrographic variability by Ramírez-Romero, Eduardo

“…This novel study shows an overall rise in the proportion of small phytoplankton cells and a decreasing trend in phytoplankton diversity in the southern Mediterranean area. …”
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Differential oxidative stress responses to methanol in intraperitoneally exposed rats: Ameliorative effects of Opuntia vulgaris fruit extract by Saoudi, Mongi

“…The animals were exposed to methanol at a dose of 2.37 g/kg body weight intraperitoneally for 30 days. …”
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