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    • Children’s and adolescents’ rising animal-source food intakes in 1990–2018 were impacted by age, region, parental education and urbanicity 

      Miller, Victoria; Webb, Patrick; Cudhea, Frederick; Zhang, Jianyi; Reedy, Julia; ... more authors ( Springer Nature , 2023 , Article)
      Animal-source foods (ASF) provide nutrition for children and adolescents’ physical and cognitive development. Here, we use data from the Global Dietary Database and Bayesian hierarchical models to quantify global, regional ...

    • Chili Intake Is Inversely Associated With Chronic Kidney Disease Among Adults: A Population-Based Study 

      Shi, Zumin; Zhang, Ming; Liu, Jianghong ( MDPI , 2019 , Article)
      We aimed to assess the association between chili consumption and kidney function and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Data from 8429 adults attending the China Health and Nutrition Survey were used. Chili intake was assessed ...

    • Chimera state in a two-dimensional network of coupled genetic oscillators 

      Liu, Yongjian; Khalaf, Abdul Jalil M.; Jafari, Sajad; Hussain, Iqtadar ( Institute of Physics Publishing , 2019 , Article)
      Due to the interaction of the cells, cellular communications are carried out with emergent collective behaviors, such as synchronization. In this paper, a network of coupled genetic oscillators is studied by considering a ...

    • Chimera states in a multi-weighted neuronal network 

      Iqtadar, Hussain; Jafari, Sajad; Perc, Matjaž; Ghosh, Dibakar ( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)
      There are multiple types of interactions among neurons, each of which has a remarkable effect on the neurons' behavior. Due to the significance of chimeras in neural processes, in this paper, we study the impact of different ...

    • China in the Middle East: Foreign Direct Investment, Economic Transformation, and Regional, Development 

      Lim, Guanie; Yagci, Mustafa ( Gulf Studies center - College of Arts & Sciences - Qatar University , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      This paper unpacks the complicated manners in which Chinese investment has taken shape in the Middle East, especially the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Rather than focusing on highly emotive (but ...

    • China's ecological civilization program-Implementing ecological redline policy 

      Jiang , Bo; Bai, Yang; Wong , Christina P.; Xu, Xibao; Alatalo, Juha M. ( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)
      China is one of the first countries to explicitly attempt to institute coordinated, ecosystem-based management across local, regional, and national scales. Chinese scientists have been urging policymakers to manage landscapes ...

    • China's economic and political presence in the Middle East and South Asia 

      Haghirian, Mehran; Zaccara, Luciano ( Routledge , 2022 , Book)
      This book explores a range of key issues connected to China's relations with countries in the Middle East and South Asia. It discusses economic and political connections, and projects which have arisen as part of China's ...

    • China-Iran agreement and implications on the Gulf 

      ( Qatar University , 2021 , Video)

    • Chinese business students’ changes in beliefs and strategy use in a constructively aligned PBL course 

      Zhao, Ke; Zhang, Jie; Du, Xiangyun ( Routledge , 2017 , Article)
      This study adopted a longitudinal retrospective case study approach to investigate Chinese business students' transitional learning experience in a problem-based learning (PBL) course with innovative assessment practices. ...

    • Chinese Famine and the diabetes mellitus epidemic. 

      Zimmet, Paul; Shi, Zumin; El-Osta, Assam; Ji, Linong ( Nature Research , 2019 , Article)
      We thank Li et al. (The effect of the Chinese Famine on type 2 diabetes mellitus epidemics. Nat. Rev. Endocrinol. 15, 313–314 (2019))1 for their interest in our paper and agree that some studies on the association between ...

    • The Chinily Kiosk (China Pavilion ) built by Mohammad II in 1466 

    • Chip-Level Modulated BPPM Fiber-Optic Code Division Multiple Access 

      Khattab, T.; Elkashlan, M.; Alnuweiri, H. ( IEEE , 2009 , Conference Paper)
      Chip-Level Modulated Binary Pulse Position Modulation (CLM-BPPM) is proposed as a modulation scheme for Fiber-Optic Code Division Multiple Access (FO-CDMA) systems using Optical Orthogonal Code (OOC) for time domain signal ...

    • Chiral Tartaric Acid Improves Fracture Toughness of Bioactive Brushite-Collagen Bone Cements 

      Sarrigiannidis S.O.; Moussa H.; Dobre O.; Dalby M.J.; Tamimi F.; ... more authors ( American Chemical Society , 2020 , Article)
      Brushite cements are promising bone regeneration materials with limited biological and mechanical properties. Here, we engineer a mechanically improved brushite-collagen type I cement with enhanced biological properties ...

    • Chitosan and Oregano Oil Treatments, Individually or in Combination, Used To Increase the Shelf Life of Vacuum-Packaged, Refrigerated European Eel () Fillets. 

      Lambrianidi, Louiza; Savvaidis, Ioannis N; Tsiraki, Maria I; El-Obeid, Tahra ( International Association for Food Protection , 2019 , Article)
      We investigated the impact of chitosan and oregano essential oil (EO) individually or in combination on the quality of eel fillets in vacuum packaging (VP) and stored under refrigeration (4°C). Treatments studied were (i) ...

    • Chitosan as natural coagulant in hybrid coagulation-nanofiltration membrane process for water treatment 

      Anga, W.L.; Mohammad, W.; Benamor, A.; Hilald, N. ( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)
      Water treatment industries are exploring the possibility to use environmental friendly chemicals and to discover the potential of advanced treatment technology in order to achieve sustainable development. Hybrid ...

    • Chitosan gold nanoparticles for detection of amplified nucleic acids isolated from sputum 

      Tammam, Salma N.; Khalil, Mahmoud A.F.; Gawad, Eman Abdul; Althani, Asma; Zaghloul, Hosam; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2017 , Article)
      A platform for nucleic acid detection employing chitosan and chitosan coated gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) was developed. Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) was used as a model target. MTB DNA was extracted from sputum using ...

    • Chitosan nanoparticles with essential oils in food preservation 

      Karam, Layal; Yammine, Jina ( Elsevier , 2023 , Book chapter)
      Recently, chitosan nanoparticles (NPs) have received tremendous interest as being one of the best natural nanomaterials used for the encapsulation of essential oils (EOs) in food applications. Due to their various ...

    • Chitosan-based electrospun nanofibers for diabetic foot ulcer management; recent advances 

      Mirbagheri, Mahnaz Sadat; Akhavan-Mahdavi, Sahar; Hasan, Anwarul; Kharazmi, Mohammad Saeed; Jafari, Seid Mahdi ( Elsevier , 2023 , Article Review)
      Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) healing has long been a major medical challenge. The type of dressing is an essential factor in wound healing, prevention of local infection, and scar formation. Today, smart wound dressings or ...

    • Chitosan-derived hydrothermally carbonized materials and its applications: A review of recent literature 

      Ababneh, Hani; Hameed, B.H. ( Elsevier B.V. , 2021 , Article Review)
      Chitosan (CS) is a linear polysaccharide biopolymer, one of the most abundant biowastes in the environment. This makes chitosan a potential material for a wide range of applications. To improve CS's properties, chitosan ...

    • Chitosan/lignosulfonate nanospheres as "green" biocide for controlling the microbiologically influenced corrosion of carbon steel 

      Rasheed, Pathath Abdul; Pandey, Ravi P.; Jabbar, Khadeeja A.; Samara, Ayman; Abdullah, Aboubakr M.; ... more authors ( MDPI AG , 2020 , Article)
      In this work, uniform cross-linked chitosan/lignosulfonate (CS/LS) nanospheres with an average diameter of 150-200 nm have been successfully used as a novel, environmentally friendly biocide for the inhibition of mixed ...