Vertical zonation and functional diversity of fish assemblages revealed by ROV videos at oil platforms in The Gulf by Ben-Hamadou, Radhouan

“…Although their primary purpose is not related to enrichment of biodiversity, gas and oil platforms can act as large and complex artificial marine habitats for a wide range of marine organisms, including sessile invertebrates and fishes. …”
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Recycled Waste Tires Management in Constructions by Hamid, Salma Mohamed

“…The reuse of rubber is therefore inevitable. This study conducts a life cycle cost analysis (LCCA) to compare the cost-effectiveness of a conventional concrete mix (RC1) with a rubberized concrete mix (RC2). …”
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Unanswered issues on decarbonizing the aviation industry through the development of sustainable aviation fuel from microalgae by Rony, Zahidul Islam

“…Microalgae can grow in saltwater or wastewater, capture CO2 from the atmosphere and produce lipids without requiring a large amount of land. As a result, the production of oil from microalgae poses no threat to food availability. …”
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Graph-Guided Regularized Regression of Pacific Ocean Climate Variables to Increase Predictive Skill of Southwestern U.S. Winter Precipitation by Tejedor, Alejandro

“…We use large ensemble simulations from a climate model to construct this regularizer, reducing the structural uncertainty in the estimation. …”
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Combined effects of treated domestic wastewater, fly ash, and calcium nitrite toward concrete sustainability by Abushanab, Abdelrahman

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Bryophyte cover and richness decline after 18 years of experimental warming in alpine Sweden. by Alatalo, Juha M

“…Experimental warming with open-top chambers (OTCs) was applied for 18 years to a mesic meadow and a dry heath alpine plant community. …”
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Privacy-preserving federated learning cyber-threat detection for intelligent transport systems with blockchain-based security by Moulahi, Tarek

“…Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques implemented at a large scale in intelligent transport systems (ITS), have considerably enhanced the vehicles' autonomous behaviour in making independent decisions about cyber threats, attacks, and faults. …”
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Changes in plant composition and diversity in an alpine heath and meadow after 18 years of experimental warming by Alatalo, Juha M.

“…The meadow community was more negatively affected in terms of species and phylogenetic diversity than the heath community. A potential driver for the changes in the meadow may be decreased soil moisture caused by long-term warming.…”
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Shiitake Culinary-Medicinal Mushroom, Lentinus edodes (Agaricomycetes), Supplementation Alters Gut Microbiome and Corrects Dyslipidemia in Rats. by Anwar, Haseeb

“…Wistar rats were offered a chow maintenance diet (CMD; CON group) or the same CMD ration with cholesterol (1.5% w/w) and cholic acid (0.5% w/w) added to induce hypercholesterolemia (day 1 to day 24). …”
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Conversion of Organic Municipal Wastes into Biochars and their Effect on Fertility Parameters of Normal and Sabkha Soils of Qatar by Ahmedna, Mohamed

“…Box-Behnken experimental design was used instead of the full factorial to decrease the number of treatments to a manageable level (126 treatments) with three replications at the center. …”
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Fluctuations in cardiac stroke volume during rowing by Sejersen, Casper

“…Eight nationally competitive oarsmen (mean ± standard deviation: age 21 ± 2 years, height 190 ± 9 cm, and weight 90 ± 10 kg) rowed on an ergometer at a targeted heart rate of 130 and 160 beats per minute. …”
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Effect of Fluid Viscosity and Fiber Length on the Performance of Fibrous Fluid in Horizontal Well Cleanout by Mendez, Michael

“…The purpose of this study is to evaluate the cleanout performance of fibrous fluids in horizontal wells using a large-scale flow loop. Thus, flow loop experiments were conducted to assess the impact of fiber on equilibrium bed height. …”
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Soluble ACE2 and Angiotensin II levels Modulated in Hypertensive COVID-19 Patients treated with different Antihypertension Drugs by Yalcin, Huseyin C.

“…Hypertension is a major risk factor and common comorbidity among severe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. …”
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The Influence of Qatari Dust on the Element Composition of Marine Plankton by Yigiterhan, Oguz

“…The excess concentrations relative to average dust from Qatar for most elements (except Cd) decreased with distance from shore. This may be due to contamination or uncertainties with the lithogenic correction or due to our sampling locations in a marginal sea, dominated by dust input. …”
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Glycine and Folate Ameliorate Models of Congenital Sideroblastic Anemia by Fernández-Murray1, J. Pedro

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Intermediate ozonation to enhance biogas production in batch and continuous systems using animal dung and agricultural waste by Almomani, F.

“…Increasing the OLR increased the accumulation of volatile fatty acids in the system and resulted in decreased methane production. Two-stage AD with an intermediate ozonation process showed a significant increase in CMP and %ADefficiency compared with single-stage AD. …”
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Method to prepare ternary methanol electro-oxidation catalysts for direct methanol fuel cell applications by Yousaf, Ammar Bin

“…In this work ternary methanol electro-oxidation catalysts based on mesoporous carbon (MC) were prepared by a novel approach for direct methanol fuel cell applications. …”
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Pore networks to characterize formation damage due to fines at varied confinement and sand shape by Hannun, J.

“…During gas production in a sandy hydrate reservoir, two phase flow and changes in confinement takes place. …”
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Fibrillar form of α-synuclein-specific scFv antibody inhibits α-synuclein seeds induced aggregation and toxicity by Gupta, Vijay

“…In vitro studies indicated scFvs inhibit the seeding of α-syn aggregation in a time-dependent manner, decreased α-syn seed-induced toxicity in a cell model of PD, and reduced the production of insoluble α-syn phosphorylated at Ser-129 (pS129-α-syn). …”
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The association between serum cortisol, thyroid profile, paraoxonase activity, arylesterase activity and anthropometric parameters of undergraduate students under examination stres... by Anjum, Armghan

“…The results showed that overall cortisol level was increased at pre-examination and during examination time intervals as compared to the post examination time interval while PON-1 and ARE were significantly (p < 0.05) decreased. With regards to T4 and TSH, a non-significant (p < 0.05) difference was observed in pre and post examination time interval. …”
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