Resveratrol-Elicited PKC Inhibition Counteracts NOX-Mediated Endothelial to Mesenchymal Transition in Human Retinal Endothelial Cells Exposed to High Glucose by Roberta Giordo (299595)

“…Intracellular ROS levels were measured with carboxy-DCFDA, while NOX-associated ROS levels were evaluated using the NADPH-specific redox biosensor p47-roGFP. …”

Novel thiazolones for the simultaneous modulation of PPARγ, COX-2 and 15-LOX to address metabolic disease-associated portal inflammation by Mai S. El-Shoukrofy (19646815)

“…Interesting binding interactions with targets of interest were identified by molecular docking studies. As well, the expression levels of 20-HETE, Il-1β and TNF-α were decreased in LPS-challenged RAW264.7 macrophages upon treatment with compound <b>2a</b>. …”

Screening for antiretroviral drug resistance among treatment-naive human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected individuals in Lebanon by Mokhbat, Jacques M.

“…Introduction: Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been successful at decreasing the morbidity and mortality associated with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. …”
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Acute pain management and assessment by Zeitoun, Abeer A.

“…Institutional Review Board approvals were obtained from each hospital. Results  Results from 582 participants revealed that 50% of initial pain assessment intensity scores were based on the assumptions of health care professionals. …”
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Novel polysulfone ultrafiltration membranes incorporating polydopamine functionalized graphene oxide with enhanced flux and fouling resistance by Abedalkader Alkhouzaam (15842647)

“…Pristine PSF, PSF/GO, and PSF/rGO-PDA MMMs were then prepared using the phase inversion technique and analysed using FTIR, SEM, AFM, and contact angle (CA). …”

Functionalization of reverse osmosis membrane with graphene oxide to reduce both membrane scaling and biofouling by Mohammad Y. Ashfaq (14152290)

“…After functionalization, the membrane surface properties were improved as the water contact angle was reduced from 41.7 ± 4.5⁰ to 26.9 ± 0.9⁰ demonstrating improvement in hydrophilic properties besides decreasing membrane surface roughness. …”

Sulfobetaine-based polydisulfides with tunable upper critical solution temperature (UCST) in water alcohols mixture, depolymerization kinetics and surface wettability by Jozef Kollár (8121347)

“…Tunable surface wettability were shown on the grafted polymers. Findings: Decreasing polarity and/or increasing alcohol percentage in the water mixtures induced an increase in the cloud points of the polymers in the solutions. …”

Application of Low-Fermenting Yeast Lachancea thermotolerans for the Control of Toxigenic Fungi Aspergillus parasiticus, Penicillium verrucosum and Fusarium graminearum and Their M... by Randa Zeidan (14778388)

“…In this study, low fermenting yeast (<i>Lachancea thermotolerans</i>) and its derivatives were applied against toxigenic fungi and their mycotoxins. …”

Exogenous Contrast Agents in Photoacoustic Imaging: An In Vivo Review for Tumor Imaging by Farooq, Afifa

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Exogenous Contrast Agents in Photoacoustic Imaging: An In Vivo Review for Tumor Imaging by Farooq, Afifa

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Refugees under international law. (c2004) by Abichedid, Darina Saliba

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Prediction of critical total drawdown in sand production from gas wells: Machine learning approach by Fahd Saeed Alakbari (10701871)

“…The CTD is a strong function of the total vertical depth, cohesive strength, effective overburden vertical stress, and transit time with correlation coefficients (<i>R</i>) of 0.968, 0.963, 0.918, and −0.813. …”

Application of Enhanced Self-Adaptive Virtual Inertia Control for Efficient Frequency Control of Renewable Energy-Based Microgrid System Integrated with Electric Vehicles by Sonalika Mishra (22393114)

“…It is noticed that with the SAEVIC approach, the overshoot (OS)-11.40%, undershoot (US)- 46.46%, settling time (ST)-98.6% and fitness value-10.27% are decreased as compared to conventional enhanced VI approach under Stochastic variations of wind, PV, and multi-step load disturbance of MG system.…”

FLACON: A Deep Federated Transfer Learning-Enabled Transient Stability Assessment During Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Grid Faults by Mohamed Massaoudi (16888710)

“…To avoid the constant adjustment of hyperparameters, the FLACON employs an inductive transfer learning approach for hyperparameter tuning of the pre-trained model, markedly decreasing training time. Extensive experiments on datasets from the IEEE 39-bus system and the IEEE 68-bus system demonstrate FLACON's exceptional accuracy of 98.98% compared to some competitive alternatives.…”

The Immunophenotyping Changes of Peripheral CD4+ T Lymphocytes and Inflammatory Markers of Class III Obesity Subjects After Laparoscopic Gastric Sleeve Surgery – A Follow-Up Study... by Nasser M Rizk (18810328)

“…Fasting blood samples were collected at admission to LGS for weight loss and after 12 weeks of LGS. …”

Investigation of infiltration rates under different experimental conditions by Maani, Mariam S.

“…The infiltration results of FH and CH showed that the initial moisture content highly affects the magnitude of the final IR as the infiltration capacity of the tested soils decreases for AI cases. CH final IRs observed were much higher than their FH analogues. …”
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Reversal of Insulin Resistance in Overweight and Obese Subjects by trans-Resveratrol and Hesperetin Combination—Link to Dysglycemia, Blood Pressure, Dyslipidemia, and Low-Grade Inf... by Naila Rabbani (291722)

“…Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα) correlated positively with change in fasting plasma glucose (r = 0.70, p < 0.001) and negatively with change in insulin sensitivity (r = −0.68, p < 0.01). These correlations were not present with placebo. tRES-HESP decreased low-grade inflammation, characterized by decreased expression of CCL2, COX-2, IL-8, and RAGE. …”

Assessment of treatment burden and its impact on quality of life in dialysis-dependent and pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease patients by Asmaa Al-mansouri (16931739)

“…Pre-dialysis and hemodialysis (HD) CKD patients who had regular follow-up appointments at Fahad Bin Jassim Kidney Center in Qatar were enrolled. Data were analyzed descriptively and inferentially using SPSS version-24.…”

Immunoprofile of childhood diabetes by Meritxell Espino-Guarch (15430868)

“…Associated with these findings, anti-inflammatory Treg cytokines including IL-10 were decreased in T2D patients and elevated plasma levels of IL-17, which contributes to the insulin resistance and inflammation were observed.…”

Assessment of soil washing for Zn contaminated soils using various washing solutions by Moon, Deok Hyun

“…Bench-scale soil washing experiments were conducted to remove Zn from contaminated soils. …”
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