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Climate change vulnerability and adaptation strategies for smallholder farmers in Yangi Qala District, Takhar, Afghanistan
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Smallholder farmers in Afghanistan are already facing various risks in agricultural production due to past continuous insurgencies. Climate change is likely to amplify the risk and make them even more ... -
Climate Warming Consistently Reduces Grassland Ecosystem Productivity
( Advanced Earth And Science , 2021 , Article)Future climate may profoundly impact the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. However, we do not know well how the functioning of different types of grassland ecosystems is associated with variation in temperature and ... -
Climate, trends and variability of extreme winds along the southwest coast of India
( Wiley , 2023 , Article)The extreme wind climate and its trends and variability of the southwest coast of India, particularly the Kerala coast, are investigated using hourly reanalysis wind speeds for the period 1979–2021. The observed maximum ... -
Climatic Aridity Gradient Modulates the Diversity of the Rhizosphere and Endosphere Bacterial Microbiomes of Opuntia ficus-indica
( Frontiers Media , 2020 , Article)© Copyright © 2020 Karray, Gargouri, Chebaane, Mhiri, Mliki and Sayadi. Recent microbiome research has shown that soil fertility, plant-associated microbiome, and crop production can be affected by abiotic environmental ... -
Climatic drivers and ecological implications of variation in the time interval between leaf-out and flowering
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Leaf-out and flowering in any given species have evolved to occur in a predetermined sequence, with the inter-stage time interval optimized to maximize plant fitness. Although warming-induced advances of both leaf-out and ... -
Climatology and variability of wind speeds along the southwest coast of India derived from Climate Forecast System Reanalysis winds
( Wiley , 2022 , Article)Wind climate along the southwest coast of India (Kerala coast) has been analysed using 41 years of Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) winds to delineate long-term trends and variability. The study reveals significant ... -
Clinical and molecular characterization of hidradenitis suppurativa: a practical framework for novel therapeutic targets.
( Karger Publishers , 2023 , Report)Background: The pathophysiological picture underlying hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) and its syndromic forms is still patchy, thus presenting a great challenge for dermatologists and researchers since just by better ... -
Clinical manifestations associated with acute viral gastroenteritis pathogens among pediatric patients in Qatar.
( Wiley , 2021 , Article)Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) remains a significant cause of diarrhea that affects children worldwide. It is usually caused by viral agents, including rotavirus (RV), norovirus (NoV), adenovirus (AdV), astrovirus (AstV), and ... -
Clinical reappraisal of the composite international diagnostic interview version 3.3 in Qatar's National Mental Health Study
( Wiley , 2024 , Article)Objectives: Lifetime DSM-5 diagnoses generated by the lay-administered Composite International Diagnostic Interview for DSM-5 (CIDI) in the World Mental Health Qatar (WMHQ) study were compared to diagnoses based on blinded ... -
Clogging vs. fouling in immersed membrane bioreactors
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)Whilst the fouling of MBR membrane surfaces has been very extensively explored by the academic community, there is an increasingly widespread recognition by practitioners of the issue of clogging of membrane channels with ... -
CloudFlow: A data-aware programming model for cloud workflow applications on modern HPC systems
( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)Traditional High-Performance Computing (HPC) based big-data applications are usually constrained by having to move large amount of data to compute facilities for real-time processing purpose. Modern HPC systems, represented ... -
CloudSafe: A tool for an automated security analysis for cloud computing
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)Cloud computing has been adopted widely, providing on-demand computing resources to improve performance and reduce operational costs. However, these new functionalities also bring new ways to exploit the cloud computing ... -
CO, CO2, and SO2 detection based on functionalized graphene nanoribbons: First principles study
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)In this study, density functional theory (DFT) has been used to build armchair graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) gas sensor and study its capacity to detect carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO2), and sulfur dioxide (SO2) ... -
Co-Incidence of Epstein-Barr Virus and High-Risk Human Papillomaviruses in Cervical Cancer of Syrian Women.
( Frontiers Media , 2018 , Article)Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been recently shown to be co-present with high-risk human papillomaviruses (HPVs) in human cervical cancer; thus, these oncoviruses play an important role in the initiation and/or progression ... -
Co-incidence of Human Papillomaviruses and Epstein-Barr Virus Is Associated With High to Intermediate Tumor Grade in Human Head and Neck Cancer in Syria.
( Frontiers Media , 2020 , Article)High-risk human papillomaviruses (high-risk HPVs) have been recently reported to be co-present with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in different types of human cancers including head and neck (HN), where they can cooperate in the ... -
Co-occurrence of antibiotic and metal resistance in long-term sewage sludge-amended soils: influence of application rates and pedo-climatic conditions
( Springer , 2023 , Article)Urban sewage sludge (USS) is increasingly being used as an alternative organic amendment in agriculture. Because USS originates mostly from human excreta, partially metabolized pharmaceuticals have also been considered in ... -
Co-presence of human papillomaviruses and Epstein-Barr virus is linked with advanced tumor stage: a tissue microarray study in head and neck cancer patients.
( BMC , 2020 , Article)Human papillomaviruses (HPVs) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), known oncoviruses, can be co-present and cooperate in the initiation and/or progression of human carcinomas, including head and neck. Based on this fact, we ... -
Co-prevalence of Epstein-Barr virus and high-risk human papillomaviruses in Syrian women with breast cancer.
( Taylor & Francis , 2016 , Article)ABSTRAT We recently performed 2 studies viewing the presence of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and high-risk human papillomaviruses (HPVs) types 16, 18, 31, 33 and 35 in human breast cancer in the Syrian population. Herein, we ... -
CO2 Absorption Capacity and its Enthalpy of Absorption in Aqueous Blend of MDEA/Piperazine/Arginine
( Institute of Physics Publishing , 2020 , Conference Paper)In this work, the solubility data of CO2 in aqueous blends of N-Methyldiethanolamine, Piperazine and Arginine (MDEA/PZ/ARG) of a total concentration of two moles is presented. CO2partial pressure was varied from 9 to 99 ... -
CO2 capture and ions removal through reaction with potassium hydroxide in desalination reject brine: Statistical optimization
( Elsevier B.V. , 2022 , Article)Previous studies have investigated the overall performance of the modified Solvay process based on a new alkaline compound, namely, KOH. Preliminary results have confirmed its high reactivity and effectiveness in capturing ...