Caffeine use or napping to enhance repeated sprint performance after partial sleep deprivation: Why not both? حسب Romdhani, Mohamed

"…Purpose: To compare the effect of a 20-minute nap opportunity (N20), a moderate dose of caffeine (CAF; 5 mg·kg-1), or a moderate dose of caffeine before N20 (CAF+N) as possible countermeasures to the decreased performance and the partial sleep deprivation-induced muscle damage. …"
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Environmental Factors Affecting the Growth and Enzymatic Activity of Ceratocystis Radicicolathe Causal Agent of Black Scorch Disease on Date Palm حسب Al-Naemi, Fatima

"…To optimize the fungus growth, pH media was adjusted at different levels (5.5, 6, 6.5, 7, 7.5 and 8). In addition, standard Czapek broth media was used as a control. …"
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Methane production enhancement from Tetraselmis biomass co-digestion using frying oil residue as co-substrate and ultrasonication as pretreatment حسب Firas, Feki

"…Interestingly, compared to untreated Tetraselmis biomass, sonication pretreatment using specific energy of 1.6 kJ/g VS significantly improved specific methane production by 60.5%. However, increasing specific energy sonication to 3.2 kJ/g VS decreased the positive energy balance of whole process from 8.6 to 5.5 ± 0.3 kJ/g VS. …"
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Methane production enhancement from Tetraselmis biomass co-digestion using frying oil residue as co-substrate and ultrasonication as pretreatment حسب Firas, Feki

"…Interestingly, compared to untreated Tetraselmis biomass, sonication pretreatment using specific energy of 1.6 kJ/g VS significantly improved specific methane production by 60.5%. However, increasing specific energy sonication to 3.2 kJ/g VS decreased the positive energy balance of whole process from 8.6 to 5.5 ± 0.3 kJ/g VS. …"
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Experimental study on effective placement of PCM packets in cooling vest to improve performance in warm environment حسب Itani, Mariam

"…The used PCM melting temperature is 28 °C with a coverage area of 642 cm2 and total weight of the vest of 1.19 kg including 8 PCM packets (87.5 grams each). …"
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Long-Term Variability of Aerosol Concentrations and Optical Properties over the Indo-Gangetic Plain in South Asia حسب Shahid, Imran

"…In contrast, AOD values decreased during spring by −5%, −12%, and −5 over Islamabad, Lahore, and Delhi, respectively. …"
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Application of Fe3O4 magnetite nanoparticles grafted in silica (SiO2) for oil recovery from oil in water emulsions حسب Elmobarak W.F.

"…Using an MDdose as low as 10 mg/L attained a %ηdem in the range of 93%–94.3% for O/W mixtures with Coil < 2000 mg/L, which slightly decreased to ∼90% for higher concentrations. …"
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Thermodynamic analysis of solar-driven chemical looping steam methane reforming over Cr2O3/Cr redox pair حسب Bhosale, Rahul

"…The total solar energy required to drive the CS process (Q-solar-CS) rises by 1498.8 kW as the CH4/Cr2O3 molar ratio upsurges from 0.5 to 3. In case of the CSH process, when the TL increases from 500 to 1400 K, the Q solar CSH decreases by 54.5 kW and further surge in the TL from 1400 to 2050 K yields into upturn in the Q-solar-CSH by 108.5 kW. …"
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Effect of graphene loading on thermomechanical properties of poly(vinyl alcohol)/starch blend حسب Jose, J.

"…Polymer nanocomposites based on poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA)/starch blend and graphene were prepared by solution mixing and casting. Glycerol was used as a plasticizer and added in the starch dispersion. …"
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Role of TiO2 and carbon nanotubes on polyethylene, and effect of accelerated weathering on photo oxidation and mechanical properties حسب Zagho M.M.

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Repositioning for pressure injury prevention in adults. حسب Gillespie, Brigid M

"…We identified five additional trials and one economic substudy in this update, resulting in the inclusion of a total of eight trials involving 3941 participants from acute and long-term care settings and two economic substudies in the review. …"
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Evaluation of the Mechanical Properties of AA 6063 Processed by Severe Plastic Deformation حسب Jafarlou, Davoud Mashhadi

"…HA of AA6063 increased the fatigue and fretting fatigue lives of SPD + HT-processed samples at low cycle by 15.5 and 18.4 pct respectively; however, at high cycle, HA had reverse effects, whereby the fatigue and fretting fatigue lives of SPD + HT-processed samples decreased by 16.7 and 30 pct, respectively.…"
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Prospects Of Amino Acids And Ionic Liquids As Natural Gas Hydrate Inhibitors For Offshore Flow Assurance حسب Qureshi, M. Fahed Aziz

"…The results show that the selected amino acids and ionic liquids exhibit dual functional behaviour by providing the temperature shift of around 1.5-2.3 oC and delaying the hydrate formation time from 0.5-1.5 hr. …"
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Thermal properties of smart microencapsulated paraffin/plaster composites for the thermal regulation of buildings حسب Karkri M.

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Characterizing Biaxially Stretched Polypropylene / Graphene Nanoplatelet Composites حسب Mayoral, B.

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DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF VIRTUAL REALITY EXERGAMES FOR UPPER LIMB AMPUTEE REHABILITATION حسب MAZHAR, NOAMAN

"…User evaluation revealed positive user satisfaction(ratings: 3.8 to 4.5 on a 5-point Likert Scale). Quantitative analysis of the box and block test scores across 10 healthy participants for the motor skills assessment revealed a strong correlation (r = 0.99, P < 0.001) between training sessions and the evaluation scores. …"
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Oxygen passivation as effective technique for tailoring the nature of band gap of silicon nanowires حسب Hassan, Walid M.I.

"…Surprisingly, extensive oxidation dramatically decreases the silicon nanowire band gap down to 0.26 eV. …"
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Centrifugal Compressor Spiral Dry Gas Seal Simulation Working at Reverse Rotation حسب Ibrahim, Shahin

"…Unidirectional dry gas seal may experiences reverse rotation when equipped in a centrifugal compressor. This paper describes how the reverse rotation effects on the spiral unidirectional dry gas seal performance and pressure distribution inside the gas film, also an investigation of using a different herringbone shape grooves configurations has been done using ANSYS FLUENT 14.5 CFD simulation. …"
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Experimental Investigation of Foam drilling fluid using Visualization Technique حسب Barooah, Abinash

"…The experiments were conducted in a 6.16 m long horizontal pipe with 2.5 in. inner diameter and 4.5 in. outer diameter and annular diameter ratio of 1.8. …"
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Numerical and wind tunnel investigation of Hot Air Recirculation across Liquefied Natural Gas Air Cooled Heat Exchangers حسب Ghani S.

"…Horizontal winglets were shown to be more effective than vertical winglets as they decreased intake and exhaust air temperatures by about 5�C and 8�C respectively and increased exhaust air velocity by 1.2 m/s. …"
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