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A regional review of marine and coastal impacts of climate change on the ROPME sea area
( MDPI , 2021 , Article Review)The Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment (ROPME) Sea Area (RSA) in the northern Indian Ocean, which comprises the Gulf, the Gulf of Oman and the northern Arabian Sea, already experiences ... -
Regional stratigraphy, facies distribution, and hydrocarbons potential of the Oligocene strata across the Arabian Plate and Western Iran
( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Article)Major global events during the Oligocene epoch included a climatic change from warm “greenhouse” to a cooler “icehouse” that was accompanied by the onset of Antarctic glaciation. These events led to decline in water ... -
Regional Well-to-Wheel Carbon, Energy, and Water Footprint Analysis of Electric Vehicles
( Atlantis Press , 2018 , Conference Paper)Adoption of alternative vehicle technologies such as electric vehicles (EVs), plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) have the potential of reducing some of the environmental impacts ... -
Regionalism in Crisis: GCC Integration without Democracy
( Taylor & Francis , 2020 , Article)At the core of “disembedded regionalism” in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is an incapacity to foster more representative forms of politics that are responsive to citizens. Instead, elite-to-elite relations are a salient ... -
Regiospecific Photochemical Synthesis of Methylchrysenes
( MDPI , 2023 , Article)Methylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are suspected to be some of the toxic compounds in crude oil towards marine life and are needed as single compounds for environmental studies. 1-, 3- and 6-methylchrysene ... -
Regression equations for stature reconstruction from the lower limb bones of contemporary White South Africans
( Taylor & Francis , 2023 , Article)In 2008, Dayal and colleagues generated regression equations to estimate the total skeletal height (TSH) of White South Africans. However, the validity of these equations has been questioned. The magnetic resonance imaging ... -
Regression estimator under inverse sampling to estimate arsenic contamination
( John Wiley & Sons, Ltd , 2011 , Article)The fate of arsenic introduced to the environment as a result of the natural and human activities is an important issue. Surveys of arsenic typically involve sampling from a large area. Measuring arsenic concentrations in ... -
Regression models for performance prediction of counter flow dew point evaporative cooling systems
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)Practitioners take more interest in the output conditions of cooling systems than the details of the processes. In this study, regression models are developed that relate input parameters, including operational and geometrical ... -
Regression-type estimators for adaptive two-stage sequential sampling
( Springer , 2013 , Article)Adaptive two-stage sequential sampling (ATSSS) design was developed to observe more rare units and gain higher efficiency, in the sense of having a smaller variance estimator, than conventional sampling designs with equal ... -
Regular, Intense Exercise Training as a Healthy Aging Lifestyle Strategy: Preventing DNA Damage, Telomere Shortening and Adverse DNA Methylation Changes Over a Lifetime.
( Frontiers Media , 2021 , Article)Exercise training is one of the few therapeutic interventions that improves health span by delaying the onset of age-related diseases and preventing early death. The length of telomeres, the 5'-TTAGGG -3' tandem repeats ... -
Regulating land rights in late nineteenth-century salt: The limits of legal pluralism in Ottoman property law
( Indiana University Press , 2016 , Book chapter)This article examines the relationship between different district-level decision-making bodies in the late nineteenth-century Ottoman context. Using Sharia court records and property registers produced in the rural Syrian ... -
Regulating payments for M-Content: The positive impact of the deregulation
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2014 , Article)This paper analyses the regulatory regime potentially applicable to the prepaid m-payments for m-content before and after the introduction of the Electronic Money Directive (2009) and the Payment Services Directive (2009). ... -
Regulating Sovereign Wealth Funds to Avoid Investment Protectionism
( Oxford Academic , 2015 , Article)Chinese and Emirati purchases of US companies have collapsed because of suspicions that their Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) status is a disguise for political ambitions. SWFs have grown in size and number, drawing the attention ... -
Regulation of Autophagy via Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism in Cancer
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)Metabolic changes are an important component of tumor cell progression. Tumor cells adapt to environmental stresses via changes to carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. Autophagy, a physiological process in mammalian cells ... -
Regulation of Autophagy via Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism in Cancer
( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)Metabolic changes are an important component of tumor cell progression. Tumor cells adapt to environmental stresses via changes to carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. Autophagy, a physiological process in mammalian cells ... -
The Regulation of BRN3B in Adipocytes by Glucose and Insulin
(2014 , Master Thesis)Obesity is the inappropriate accumulation of excess fat stored in the adipocytes of the adipose tissue. Understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate the process of the preadipocyte to adipocyte conversion, adipogenesis, ... -
Regulation of NKG2D by RKIP: Implications on NK-mediated cytotoxicity and cytokine production
( Elsevier , 2021 , Book chapter)RKIP (Raf kinase inhibitory protein) is a metastatic suppressor and a chemo-immuno-sensitizer. The deficiency or loss of RKIP has been linked with different cancer types, resulting in the activation of the MAPK pathway, ... -
Regulation of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor in cancer and cancer stem cells of gynecological malignancies: An update on signaling pathways
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article Review)Gynecological malignancies are a female type of cancers that affects the reproductive system. Cancer metastasis or recurrence mediated by cellular invasiveness occurs at advanced stages of cancer progression. Cancer Stem ... -
Regulation reform process and perception in the Palestinian water sector
( Taylor & Francis , 2018 , Article)The study analyzes the regulation reform process of the Palestinian urban water sector. It introduces the holistic reform agenda and examines the water supply sector’s performance and regulation challenges. The study also ... -
Regulation reform process and perception in the Palestinian water sector
( Routledge , 2018 , Article)The study analyzes the regulation reform process of the Palestinian urban water sector. It introduces the holistic reform agenda and examines the water supply sector?s performance and regulation challenges. The study also ...