The Photocatalytic Degradation of 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin in the Presence of Silver–Titanium Based Catalysts حسب Samara, Fatin

"…Byproducts of degradation were evaluated using Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC–MS), resulting in 2,3,7-trichlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, a lower chlorinated congener and less toxic, as the main degradation product. Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) was used to evaluate the relative toxicity of the degradation byproducts were a decrease in optical density indicated that some products of degradation could be potentially more toxic than the parent TCDD. …"
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Testing and Evaluation of a Smart Irrigation System Towards Smart Landscaping in UAE حسب Al Sulaimani, Fatma

"…In the GCC region, water is becoming a threat to the impact of climate change and the lack of water resources. The main source of water is mostly desalination plants. …"
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Is board compensation excessive? حسب Dah, Mustafa A.

"…For companies that overpay, the average excess compensation is greater than $60,000 per director, while directors that are underpaid receive about $33,000 less than predicted. …"
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Solar water heating in Lebanon حسب Houri, Ahmad

"…Simplified initial estimates indicate a payback period of 4–5 years while advanced mathematical models (RETScreen) indicate that the most advanced evacuated tube technology has a payback period of less than 9 years at current market prices. With decreasing cost per square meter of installed collectors, payback periods are expected to rapidly decrease. …"
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Testing and Evaluation of a Smart Irrigation System towards Smart landscaping in UAE حسب ALSULAIMANI, FATMA

"…In the GCC region, water is becoming a threat with the impact of climate change and the lack of water resources. The main source of water is mostly desalination plants. …"
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Evidence-based safety education and training for traffic injury prevention حسب Abbas Motevalian (338825)

"…Bicycle skill training for children and youth may increase their safety knowledge, but not necessarily improve their behavior or decrease their injury rates. …"

Reliability of high strain ionomeric polymer transducers fabricated using the direct assembly process حسب Akle, Barbar

"…Ionic liquid based transducers are demonstrated to operate in air for over 400 000 cycles with little loss in performance, and are reliable up to 1 million cycles with a performance loss of less than 43%. The main source of degradation is the adhesion of the conductive surface to the high surface area electrode. …"
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Catalytic Transformation Of C-7-C9 Methyl Benzenes Over USY-Based FCC Zeolite Catalyst حسب Al-Khattaf, S

"…The sequence of reactivity of the three alkyl benzenes was found to decrease as the number of methyl group per benzene ring decreases, as follows: 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene > m-xylene > toluene. …"
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Design and analysis of PV fed high-voltage gain DC-DC converter using PI and NN controllers حسب Madisa V.G., Varaprasad

"…In this article, a modified High-Voltage DC-DC converter was explained. The main intention of the modified converter is to decrease the reverse recovery currents and voltage stress across the switch, similarly, it generates high voltage at the converter output. …"
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"Development of Authentic Annual and Seasonal Lightning Thunderstorms Day Maps for Saudi Arabia" حسب Shwehdi, M. H.

"…Annual thunderstorms are most frequent over the southwestern parts of the country, and generally decrease towards the west and east. Due to its low latitude and less temporal change, the west coast of the Red Sea recorded the lowest Td/yr. …"
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"Thunderstorm distribution and frequency in Saudi Arabia" حسب Shwehdi, M. H.

"…Annual thunderstorms are most frequent over the southwestern parts of the country, and generally decrease towards the west and east. Due to its low latitude and less temporal change, the west coast of the Red Sea recorded the lowest Td/yr. …"
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Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in labor housing in Dubai and its impact on ccupants' health حسب Nazzal, Saja Bassam

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Effects of natural organic matter on aggregation kinetics of boron nanoparticles in monovalent and divalent electrolytes حسب Liu, Xuyang

"…However, the attachment efficiency kept increasing in the presence of CaCl2 and alginate with the increase in the electrolyte concentration and was greater than unity at >4 mM CaCl2. …"
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The role of objectively recorded smartphone usage and personality traits in sleep quality حسب Aftab Alam (5158601)

"…<h3>Purpose</h3><p dir="ltr">The proliferation of smartphones, accompanied by internet facilities, has contributed to a decrease in sleep quality over the last decades. It has been revealed that excessive internet usage impacts the physical and mental health of smartphone users, while personality traits (PT) could play a role in developing internet addictions and preventing their negative effects. …"

Urban Geometry: The Effect of Height Diversity and Buildings Configuration on Thermal Performance and Cooling Load at Urban Scale. A Case Study in Dubai / UAE حسب SHAREEF, SUNDUS LUAY

"…The reduction of 1.9 ͦ C in outdoor air temperature, and 4.9 % in cooling load is achieved by increasing the H/W ratio of the main canyons from 0.96 to 1.2. …"
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Trade Flow and Nation Brand Distance: A Structural Gravity Model Approach حسب AL BESHER, HUDA ISMAIL

"…Overall, the results supported most of the study expectations and found evidence that less nation brand distance between two trading partners will have a positive moderation impact export volume mainly and import volume to some extent. …"
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Tabu search based circuit optimization حسب Sait, Sadiq M.

"…Such a strategy leads to sizable circuit speed improvement with minimum increase in the overall circuit capacitance. Compared to earlier approaches, the presented technique produces circuits with remarkable increase in speed (greater than 20%) for very small increase in overall circuit capacitance (less than 3%)…"
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Effectiveness of Positron Emission Tomography for Predicting Chemotherapy Response in Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastases حسب Glazer, Evan

"…Transcutaneous ultrasonography is even less invasive but often less accurate.9 Finally, positron emission tomography (PET) using fluorine-18–labeled deoxyglucose detects increased metabolic activity (uptake). …"
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A Comprehensive Method of Ion Exchange Resins Regeneration and Its Optimization for Water Treatment حسب Al-Asheh, Sameer

"…The strong acidic cation polymeric exchanger resin is commercially called MERCK 104765 cation exchanger IV with capacity greater than 3.2 mmol/ml, while the strong basic anion polymeric exchanger resin is commercially called MERCK 104767 anion exchanger III with capacities greater than 1.0 mmol/ml. …"
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Alterations in Beta Cell Identity in Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes حسب Abu Saleh Md Moin (6189512)

"…In diabetes, (1) endocrine identity recapitulates the less mature/less-differentiated fetal/neonatal cell type, possibly representing an adaptive mechanism; (2) residual β cells may be altered in their subtype proportions or other molecular features; (3) in humans, “altered identity” is a preferable term to dedifferentiation as their cellular fate (differentiated cells losing identity or progenitors becoming more differentiated) is unclear as yet.…"