The Influence of Loneliness and Living Alone on the Quality of Life of the Elderly: Evidence from Europe by Ammari, Lora

“…This research indicates a positive correlation between living alone and loneliness, with a greater effect on males, and identifies loneliness as an independent factor decreasing QoL. …”
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Fabrication of Selective Sensors for Hg2+ Traces in Water Using Graphene Decorated with Metal Nanoclusters by Ayesh, Ahmad I.

“…Nanocluster deposition rate was initially measured using a quartz crystal monitor (QCM) facing nanocluster beam and was fixed on a motorized linear translator. …”
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Unveiling into Genetic Architecture of Transgenerational Stress Memory via Promoting Drought Tolerance in Barley by Alqudah, Ahmad M.

“…During the seed germination test, it was observed that all genotypes exhibited a decrease in both germination percentage (G%) and germination pace (GP) when comparing seeds from Non-Stressed Plants (NP) to seeds from Stressed Plants (SP). …”
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Symbiotic dinoflagellates associated with corals in Qatar: characterization and physiological response to environmental change by Eldos, Haneen Ibrahim

“…Coral bleaching events witnessed during the last decades in the Arabian Gulf are believed to be the result of the effect of heat events occurring more frequently in the region as a result of the global ocean warming. When corals are under thermal stress, their symbiotic zooxanthellae are affected, and their photosynthetic activity decreases until the stress disappears or until the zooxanthellae are expelled from the coral. …”
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Multivariate Mixed EWMA-CUSUM Control Chart for Monitoring the Process Variance-Covariance Matrix by Muhammad

“…The dispersion control charts monitor the variability of a process that may increase or decrease. An increase in dispersion parameter implies deterioration in the process for an assignable cause, while a decrease in dispersion indicates an improvement in the process. …”
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Effect of statins on abdominal aortic aneurysm by Azar, Hosseini

“…Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a prevalent condition which causes progressive growth and rupture of aortic wall with a high death rate. …”
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Flocculation and viscoelastic behavior of industrial papermaking suspensions by Nasser, Mustafa S.

“…The effects of the surface charge type and density C496, C492 and A130LMW polyacrylamides (PAMs) on the rheological behavior of real industrial papermaking suspensions were quantitatively related to the degree of flocculation for the same industrial papermaking suspensions. …”
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Long-Distance Vowel-to-Vowel Coarticulation in Arabic: Influences of Intervening Consonant Pharyngealization and Length by Ahmed, Sarah

“…Speakers of Egyptian Arabic were recorded saying sentences containing nonsense sequences of the form /baɁabaCV:/, where C was chosen from {/t/, /tˤ/, /t:/, /tˤ:/} and V was a long vowel /i:/, /a:/ or /u:/. Analysis of the first and second formants of the recorded vowels revealed that (a) vowel-to-vowel coarticulatory effects could sometimes extend to a distance of three vowels before the context vowel; (b) the consonant-to-vowel effects associated with pharyngealization were consistently seen at similar distances, while also decreasing in magnitude at greater distances from the triggering consonant; and (c) effects related to intervening consonant length were idiosyncratic, and in particular did not lead to consistent blocking of vowel-to-vowel effects. …”
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Effect of Magnetic Baffles and Magnetic Nanofluid on Thermo-Hydraulic Characteristics of Dimple Mini Channel for Thermal Energy Applications by Souayeh, Basma

“…Hence, with the increase in the magnetic field, there is a decrease in pressure drop for both the cases and the pitches. …”
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Energy optimization for bidirectional multimedia communication in unsynchronized TDD systems by Zorba, Nizar

“…While this allocation can be done on each cell independently, the result is that adjacent cells would have a different compensation value, thus generating cross interference, which decreases the system performance, mainly on the cell-edge users. …”
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Effect Of The Apical Ectodermal Ridge On Mitotic Index In Hind Limb Bud Mesenchyme In Bufo Regularis by Abdel Karim, Ahmed E.

“…The operated bud (80% of cases) showed a decrease in its volume and there was no significant difference in mesenchyme MI. …”
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Experimental investigation on the compressibility of Al/Al2O3 nanocomposites by Wagih, Ahmed

“…The results showed that the grain size of milled powders was about 43 nm with a noticeable presence of agglomerates at 10 wt.% of Al2O3. …”
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Vegetation Changes in the Long Abandoned Farms in Qatar by Ahmed, Abdulla Ahmed

“…It was found out that following total farm abandonment, the vegetation communities start to recover in a rather slow process. This recovery process is caused and at the same time paralleled by a steady decrease in soil salinity, as salts are washed away by rain water. …”
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DSA-based energy efficient cellular networks: Integration with the smart grid by Hassan, Hany Kamal

“…We formulate the trade-off situation of the operators as a reward function. The objective is to maximize the reward while decreasing the energy consumption. …”
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The Impact of COVID-19 on the HIV Cascade of Care in Botswana – An Interrupted Time Series by Sehurutshi, Alice

“…In multivariable Poisson interrupted time series regression, the COVID-19 lockdown was associated with a 27% decrease in the monthly numbers of HIV tests (IRR 0.73, 95%CI 0.72–0.73), a 25% decrease in HIV positive tests (IRR 0.75, 95%CI 0.71–0.79), and a 43% reduction in ART initiations (IRR 0.57, 95%CI 0.55–0.60). …”
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Inner sphere oxidation of N,N′-ethylenebis(isonitrosoacetyleacetoneimine)copper(II) by N-bromosuccinimide in aqueous weakly acidic solutions by Salih, Isam M.

“…Plots of In (AA) versus time where A and A are absorbance values of the Cu(III) product at time t and infinity, respectively, showed marked deviations from linearity. …”
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Hemoglobin Oxidation in Stored Blood Accelerates Hemolysis and Oxidative Injury to Red Blood Cells. by Mustafa, Ibrahim

“…There was 0.85% RBC lysis, an approximately 20% decrease in percentage oxyhemoglobin, and a 14% increase in methemoglobin formation, which shows hemoglobin oxidation on day 28.  …”
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Concentrated solar power driven water splitting cycle using Zn-ferrite based thermochemical redox reactions by Bhosale, Rahul R.

“…A Zn-ferrite based water splitting (ZFWS) cycle is thermodynamically scrutinized by utilizing the data obtained from the HSC Chemistry software. …”
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Trilemma of life cycle carbon, employment, and costs of trucking industry's shift toward automation and electrification by Mandouri, Jafar

“…Autonomy and electrification combined could lead to a 50% decrease in emissions and 46% savings in life cycle costs. …”
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The effects of knee joint kinematics on anterior cruciate ligament injury and articular cartilage damage by Orsi, Alexander D.

“…The results from this investigation agreed well with other experimental and analytical investigations. This study provides a greater understanding of the various knee joint motion combinations leading to ACL injury and articular cartilage damage.…”
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