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The Use of Recovery Strategies in Professional Soccer: A Worldwide Survey
( Human Kinetics Publishers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Purpose: To survey soccer practitioners’ recovery strategy: (1) use, (2) perceived effectiveness, and (3) factors influencing their implementation in professional soccer. Methods: A cross-sectional convenience sample of ... -
Use of rice husk as an effective sorbent for the removal of cerium ions from aqueous solution: Kinetic, equilibrium and thermodynamic studies
( Desalination Publications , 2019 , Article)In this research, the sportive removal of cerium ions (Ce (IV) from aqueous solution by rice husk (RH) has been studied in batch mode at ambient temperature. The effect of operational parameters such as contact time, amount ... -
Use of situational judgment tests for assessing non-cognitive attributes of final year dental students
( Wiley , 2022 , Article)Objective Situational judgment tests (SJT) have been previously used in the admission process of medical and dental undergraduate programs, but their utilization as an assessment tool is fairly new. The objective of this ... -
Use of solar photovoltaic with active solar still to improve distillate output: A review
( Elsevier B.V. , 2020 , Article Review)Solar energy is a need of the hour and very important source for the all living organisms. Due to increment in global warming as well as pollution, solar energy utilization is required and it is replaced by the conventional ... -
Use Of Spreadsheets For Rainfall-Runoff Calculations
( Qatar University , 1996 , Article)The nature of rainfall-runoff calculations necessitates the use of different equations for calculating losses and several response functions to route the effective rainfall hyetograph through the catchment. The ... -
Use of the Delphi technique in pharmacy practice research
( Elsevier Inc. , 2022 , Article)Consensus research methods are used in health services research to generate evidence through systematic means of measuring collective agreement and developing consensus from experts of a subject matter. Delphi technique ... -
Use of the job demands-resource model to understand community pharmacists’ burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)BackgroundCommunity pharmacists are one of the most accessible healthcare providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Whilst playing a vital role in medication supply and patient education, exposure to the pandemic demands and ... -
The use of theory in the development and evaluation of behaviour change interventions to improve antimicrobial prescribing: a systematic review.
(2020 , Article)This systematic review (SR) reviews the evidence on use of theory in developing and evaluating behaviour change interventions (BCIs) to improve clinicians' antimicrobial prescribing (AP). The SR protocol was registered ... -
Use of two bacteria for biological control of bayoud disease caused by Fusarium oxysporum in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L) seedlings
( Elsevier Masson SAS , 2012 , Article)The Bayoud, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. albedinis (Foa), is the most destructive disease of date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L) in Morocco and Algeria, with no effective control strategy yet available. In this work, ... -
Use of waste marble powder for the synthesis of novel calcium-rich biochar: Characterization and application for phosphorus recovery in continuous stirring tank reactors
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)This study investigates—for the first time—the synthesis of a novel Ca-rich biochar (N–Ca–B) and its potential use for phosphorus (P) recovery from both synthetic solutions (SS) and treated urban wastewater (TUW) in a ... -
Use of water in aiding olefin/paraffin (liquid + liquid) extraction via complexation with a silver bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide salt
( Academic Press , 2014 , Article)This paper describes the extraction of C5-C8 linear -olefins from olefin/paraffin mixtures of the same carbon number via a reversible complexation with a silver salt (silver bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl) imide, Ag[Tf2N]) ... -
Use of β-cyclodextrin as enhancer of ascorbic acid rejection in permselective films for amperometric biosensor applications
( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)Interference rejection in amperometric biosensors can be more effective introducing some modifiers during electro-deposition of permselective film. Addition of β-cyclodextrin (βCD), a cyclic oligosaccharide composed of ... -
Usefulness of COMT gene polymorphisms in North African populations
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)The COMT gene encodes for catechol-O-methyl-transferase, an enzyme playing a major role in regulation of synaptic catecholamine neurotransmitters. Investigating 4 markers of the COMT gene (rs2020917, rs4818, rs4680, ... -
Usefulness of In-Situ Synchrotron Study on Scale Formation during CO2 Corrosion of Mild Steel: A Review
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)Despite the availability of the detailed knowledge about the chemical, electrochemical and transport processes associated with the formation of ferrous carbonate during CO2- corrosion of mild steel, information available ... -
User cooperation schemes in the soft handover regions
( IEEE , 2009 , Conference Paper)This paper examines the effect of relay-assisted soft handover on the performance of the uplink communication in the third generation mobile networks. We focus on users which are traveling over two cell boundaries in a ... -
User privacy and data trustworthiness in mobile crowd sensing
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)Smartphones and other trendy mobile wearable devices are rapidly becoming the dominant sensing, computing and communication devices in peoples' daily lives. Mobile crowd sensing is an emerging technology based on the sensing ... -
User satisfaction and energy use behavior in offices in Qatar
( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2018 , Article)The occupant behavior significantly contributes to the total energy use in buildings and its understanding is greatly needed in energy analysis/simulation studies. Uncertainties about the occupant behavior adversely affect ... -
User Scheduling in Federated Learning over Energy Harvesting Wireless Networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)In this paper, the deployment of federated learning (FL) is investigated in an energy harvesting wireless network in which the base station (BS) is equipped with a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system and ... -
User-centric network selection in multi-RAT systems
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)Rising numbers of mobile devices and wireless access technologies motivate network operators to leverage spectrum across multiple radio access networks, in order to significantly enhance quality of service as well as network ... -
User-Centric Networks Selection with Adaptive Data Compression for Smart Health
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Article)The increasing demand for intelligent and sustainable healthcare services has prompted the development of smart health systems. Rapid advances in wireless access technologies and in-network data reduction techniques can ...