Seyed Mohammad Nazari, Mohsen Naseri, Azarakhsh Mokri, Ali Davati, Mohammad Kamalinejad,
Hab-o Shefa is a natural traditional Iranian medicine (TIM) product that many centuries used as a replacement for opium addiction ... controlled, clinical trial the effect of Hab-o Shefa was studied in the treatment of opiates addiction. ... randomly divided into the three groups. Hab-o Shefa was administered to the first group: 3 g/ ... of withdrawal symptoms and depression in Hab-o Shefa group was better than the other groups (P<0.05). Key words: Hab-o Shefa, acute detoxification, opiates addiction, traditional Iranian medicine, withdrawal ...
Tópico(s): Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
2013 - Academic Journals | Journal of Medicinal Plants Research
Peizhen Zhang, B. C. Burchfiel, Shefa Chen, Qidong Deng,
... works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Shefa Chen; Shefa Chen 2Wuhan Geological College, Wuhan, China Search for ... Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Shefa Chen 2Wuhan Geological College, Wuhan, China Qidong Deng ... Search Site Citation Peizhen Zhang, B. C. Burchfiel, Shefa Chen, Qidong Deng; Extinction of pull-apart basins. ...
Tópico(s): earthquake and tectonic studies
1989 - Geological Society of America | Geology
Abdolali Moosavyzadeh, Azarakhsh Mokri, Farzaneh Ghaffari, Soghrat Faghihzadeh, Hossein Azizi, Razieh Jafari Hajati, Mohsen Naseri,
... expanding. Considering the significant effect of Hab-o Shefa in detoxification phase, this clinical trial has explored ... detoxification, participants were assigned randomly to Hab-o Shefa (n = 41) and placebo (n = 40). Outcome measures ... opioid use were significantly lower in Hab-o Shefa group (f = 8.41, p = 0.001). Hab-o Shefa also indicated a significant superiority over placebo in ... significantly different. Conclusion: Results indicated that Hab-o Shefa could be useful for opioid maintenance treatment, and ...
Tópico(s): Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
2020 - Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
Caroline Godfrey, Lourdes R. Desviat, Bård Smedsrød, France Piétri‐Rouxel, Michela A. Denti, Petra Disterer, Stéphanie Lorain, Gisela Nogales‐Gadea, Valentina Sardone, Anwar Rayan, Samir EL Andaloussi, Taavi Lehto, Bernard Khoo, Camilla Brolin, Willeke M. C. van Roon‐Mom, Aurélie Goyenvalle, Annemieke Aartsma‐Rus, Virginia Arechavala‐Gomeza,
... Development Laboratory, Institute of Applied Research, Galilee Society, Shefa-Amr, Israel Search for more papers by this ... Development Laboratory, Institute of Applied Research, Galilee Society, Shefa-Amr, Israel Search for more papers by this ... Development Laboratory, Institute of Applied Research, Galilee Society, Shefa-Amr, Israel 11Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute, ...
Tópico(s): Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
2017 - Springer Nature | EMBO Molecular Medicine
Hampus Eriksson, Joelle Albert, Simon Albert, R. Scott Warren, K. Pakoa, Neil Andrew,
... men and women groups at ten sites across Shefa, Tafea, Malampa and Sanma provinces in Vanuatu. The ... grounds in Malampa province. Communities in Malampa and Shefa provinces also noted a crown-of-thorns outbreak ...
Tópico(s): Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
2017 - Elsevier BV | Environmental Science & Policy
Zeinab Rezaee, Mohammad Marandi, Hojjatallah Alaei, Fahimeh Esfarjani,
Introduction: Parkinson's disease is a common neurodegenerative disorder.In this disease, mitochondrial defects and oxidative s tress lead to the enhancement of the free radicals and the death of dopamine neurons in the Sabs tantia nigra.The clinical symptoms of this disease are including tremor, muscle s tiffness, and inability to walk as well as cognition, memory and learning deficits.Aging increases the severity of Parkinson's disease.Conclusion: Any therapeutic s trategy which can modulate antioxidant ...
Tópico(s): Nerve injury and regeneration
2019 - Shefa Neuroscience Research Center | The Neuroscience Journal of Shefaye Khatam
Fahimeh Zavvari, Fariba Karimzadeh,
Introduction: Memory is a fundamental mental process and without memory we are capable of nothing, except simple reflexes and stereotype behaviors. The memory deficits followed by head injury, stroke, psychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases are common. Learning and memory is one of the main subjects that have been studied in the field of neuroscience. Considering ethical issues, humans can rarely be used as experimental model in medical researches. Thus, different kind of experimental tests have ...
Tópico(s): Biochemical effects in animals
2017 - Shefa Neuroscience Research Center | The Neuroscience Journal of Shefaye Khatam
Moein Safarkhani, Amirhossein Ojaghi, Shefa Mirani Nezhad, Hossein Daneshgar, Ana Cláudia Paiva‐Santos, Fatemeh Radmanesh, Mojtaba Bagherzadeh, Ehsan Nazarzadeh Zare, Navid Rabiee, Pooyan Makvandi,
Abstract The present study proposed an innovative nanocomposite aimed at enhancing gene and drug delivery for cancer treatment. The nanocomposite was composed of amine-functionalized metal–organic frameworks, (NH 2 )-MIL-125(Ti), conjugated to poly(aniline- co -para-phenylenediamine), and coated on manganese ferrite nanoparticles that were utilized to co-deliver the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin (DOX) and plasmid CRISPR (pCRISPR) to cancer cells. The investigation focused on whether surface modification ...
Tópico(s): RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
2024 - Springer Science+Business Media | Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials
Mohiedin Boroujerdian, Saeed Rahimi, Shefa Mirani Nezhad, Seied Ali Pourmousavi, Ehsan Nazarzadeh Zare, Fatemeh Salimi, Fatemeh Amirahmadi, Hossein Daneshgar,
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) offered excellent catalytic activity due to their superior porosity, and high densities of catalytic sites in remarkable specific surfaces. In this research, we prepared a magnetic nanocomposite based on MOF-5 which is one of the prominent and practical structures that have been reported in many applications, and investigated the advantages of it as a catalyst. The multi-functional catalyst was prepared in five steps including (1) preparation of cobalt ferrite nanoparticles ( ...
Tópico(s): Microwave-Assisted Synthesis and Applications
2023 - Elsevier BV | Environmental Research
Md Doulotuzzaman Xames, Jannatul Shefa,
This position paper explores the potential opportunities and challenges in the adoption of OpenAI's ChatGPT for scholarly research and publication. ChatGPT was launched in November 2022 for public use, and it has already garnered enormous attention for a variety of applications in academia. Researchers are adopting ChatGPT at different stages of research including idea generation, summarizing literature, and manuscript preparation. A few research articles have already listed ChatGPT as a co-author ...
Tópico(s): Machine Learning in Healthcare
2023 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Md Doulotuzzaman Xames, Jannatul Shefa,
This position paper explores the potential opportunities and challenges in the adoption of OpenAI's ChatGPT for scholarly research and publication. ChatGPT was launched in November 2022 for public use, and it has already garnered enormous attention for a variety of applications in academia. Researchers are adopting ChatGPT at different stages of research including idea generation, summarizing literature, and manuscript preparation. Notably, several research articles have even attributed authorship ...
Tópico(s): Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
2023 - Canadian Philosophy of Education Society | Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching
Giovanni Soldi, Domenico Gaglione, Simone Raponi, Nicola Forti, Enrica d’Afflisio, Paweł Kowalski, Leonardo M. Millefiori, Dimitris Zissis, Paolo Braca, Peter Willett, Alain Maguer, Sandro Carniel, G. Sembenini, Catherine Warner,
... explosions, the cutoff of the underwater communication cable SHEFA-2 connecting the Shetland Islands and the U. ...
Tópico(s): Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
2023 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine
Gita A. Pathak, Juha Karjalainen, Christine Stevens, Benjamin M. Neale, Mark J. Daly, Andrea Ganna, Shea J. Andrews, Masahiro Kanai, Mattia Cordioli, Renato Polimanti, Nadia V. Harerimana, Matti Pirinen, Rachel G. Liao, Karolina Chwiałkowska, Amy Trankiem, Mary K. Balaconis, Huy Nguyen, Matthew Solomonson, Kumar Veerapen, Brooke N. Wolford, Genevieve Roberts, Daniel J. Park, Catherine A. Ball, Marie V. Coignet, Shannon McCurdy, Spencer C. Knight, Raghavendran Partha, Brooke Rhead, Miao Zhang, Nathan Berkowitz, Michael Gaddis, Keith Noto, Luong Ruiz, Miloš Pavlović, Eurie L. Hong, Kristin A. Rand, Ahna R. Girshick, Harendra Guturu, Asher Haug Baltzell, Mari Niemi, Souad Rahmouni, Julien Guntz, Y Beguin, Mattia Cordioli, Sara Pigazzini, Lindokuhle Nkambule, Michel Georges, Michel Moutschen, Benoît Misset, Gilles Darcis, Julien Guiot, Samira Azarzar, Stéphanie Gofflot, Sabine Claassen, Olivier Malaise, Pascale Huynen, Christelle Meuris, Marie Thys, Jessica Jacques, Philippe Léonard, Frédéric Frippiat, Jean‐Baptiste Giot, Anne-Sophie Sauvage, Christian Von Frenckell, Yasmine Belhaj, Bernard Lambermont, Tomoko Nakanishi, David Morrison, Vincent Mooser, J. Brent Richards, Guillaume Butler‐Laporte, Vincenzo Forgetta, Rui Li, Biswarup Ghosh, Lætitia Laurent, Alexandre Bélisle, Danielle Henry, Tala Abdullah, Olumide Adeleye, Noor Mamlouk, Nofar Kimchi, Zaman Afrasiabi, Nardin Rezk, Branka Vulesevic, Meriem Bouab, Charlotte Guzman, Louis Petitjean, Chris Tselios, Xiaoqing Xue, Jonathan Afilalo, Marc Afilalo, Maureen Oliveira, Bluma Brenner, Nathalie Brassard, Madéleine Durand, Erwin Schurr, Pierre Lepage, Jiannis Ragoussis, Daniel Auld, Michaël Chassé, Daniel E. Kaufmann, G. Mark Lathrop, Darin Adra, Caroline Hayward, Joseph Glessner, Douglas M. Shaw, Archie Campbell, Marcela Morris, Hákon Hákonarson, David J. Porteous, Jennifer E. Below, Anne Richmond, Xiao Chang, Hannah Polikowski, Petty E. Lauren, Hung‐Hsin Chen, Wanying Zhu, Chloe Fawns‐Ritchie, Kari E. North, Joseph B. McCormick, Xiao Chang, Joseph R. Glessner, Hákon Hákonarson, Christopher R. Gignoux, Stephen J. Wicks, Kristy Crooks, Kathleen C. Barnes, Michelle Daya, Jonathan Shortt, Nicholas Rafaels, Amr Sameer, Paul R. H. J. Timmers, James F. Wilson, Albert Tenesa, Shona M. Kerr, Kenton D’Mellow, Doaa Shahin, Yasser M. El‐Sherbiny, Kathrin Aprile von Hohenstaufen, Ali Sobh, Madonna M. Eltoukhy, Lindokuhle Nkambul, Tamer Elhadidy, Mohamed S. Abd Elghafar, Jehan J. El‐Jawhari, Attia A. S. Mohamed, Marwa H. Elnagdy, Amr Samir, Mahmoud Abdel-Aziz, Walid T. Khafaga, Walaa M. El-Lawaty, Mohamed Torky, Mohamed El‐Shanshory, Amr M. Yassen, Mohamed Hegazy, Kamal Okasha, Mohammed Eid, Hanteera S. Moahmed, Carolina Medina‐Gómez, M. Arfan Ikram, André G. Uitterlinden, Reedik Mägi, Lili Milani, Andres Metspalu, Triin Laisk, Kristi Läll, Maarja Lepamets, Tõnu Esko, Ene Reimann, Paul Naaber, Edward Laane, Jaana Pesukova, Pärt Peterson, Kai Kisand, Jekaterina Tabri, Raili Allos, Kati Hensen, Joel Starkopf, Inge Ringmets, Anu Tamm, Anne Kallaste, Helene Alavere, Kristjan Metsalu, Mairo Puusepp, Chiara Batini, Martin D. Tobin, Laura D. Venn, Paul H. Lee, Nick Shrine, Alexander T. Williams, Anna L. Guyatt, Catherine John, Richard Packer, Altaf Ali, Robert C. Free, Xueyang Wang, Louise V. Wain, Edward J. Hollox, Catherine Bee, Emma L. Adams, Aarno Palotie, Samuli Ripatti, Sanni Ruotsalainen, Kati Kristiansson, Sami Koskelainen, Markus Perola, Kati Donner, Katja Kivinen, Aarno Palotie, Mari Kaunisto, Carlo Rivolta, Pierre-Yves Bochud, Stéphanie Bibert, Noémie Boillat‐Blanco, Semira Gonseth, Werner C. Albrich, Mathieu Quinodoz, Dhryata Kamdar, Noémie Suh, Dionysios Neofytos, Véronique Erard, Cathy Voide, Pierre-Yves Bochud, Carlo Rivolta, Stéphanie Bibert, Mathieu Quinodoz, Dhryata Kamdar, Dionysios Neofytos, Véronique Erard, Cathy Voide, R. Friolet, Péter Vollenweider, Jl Pagani, Mauro Oddo, Friederike Meyer zu Bentrup, A. Conen, Olivier Clerc, Oscar Marchetti, A. Guillet, C. Guyat-Jacques, S. Foucras, M. Rime, J. Chassot, M. Jaquet, R. Merlet Viollet, Y. Lannepoudenx, L. Portopena, Pierre-Yves Bochud, Péter Vollenweider, Jl Pagani, F. Desgranges, Paraskevas Filippidis, Benoît Guéry, David Haefliger, Eleftheria Kampouri, Oriol Manuel, Aline Munting, Matthaios Papadimitriou‐Olivgeris, Jean Regina, L. Rochat-Stettler, V. Suttels, Eliana Tadini, J Tschopp, Mathias Van Singer, Benjamin Viala, Noémie Boillat‐Blanco, T. Brahier, Olivier Hügli, J. Y. Meuwly, O. Pantet, Semira Gonseth, Pierre‐Yves Bochud, Valérie D’Acremont, S. Estoppey Younes, Werner C. Albrich, Noémie Suh, A. Cerny, L. O’Mahony, C. von Mering, Pierre-Yves Bochud, Mirjam Frischknecht, G-R. Kleger, M. Filipovic, C. R. Kahlert, Hannah Wozniak, Tommaso Rochat Negro, J. Pugin, Konstantinos Bouras, C. Knapp, Thomas Egger, A. Perret, P. Montillier, C. di Bartolomeo, Beatrice Barda, Rafael de Cid, Anna Carreras,
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Jingqiang Tan, Chenger Hu, Qiao Lyu, Gan Feng, Shefa Chen,
With the widely use of hydraulic fracturing technique, large volumes of fracturing fluids are injected into shale reservoirs. The physical and chemical reactions between fracturing fluids and shale will change the surface roughness of shale fractures, which further impacts the production efficiency of hydrocarbons. To quantify the impacts of fracturing fluids on shale fracture roughness, a series of imbibition tests were conducted on shale samples soaked in different fracturing fluids (acid (pH = 6), ...
Tópico(s): Drilling and Well Engineering
2022 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
Sumaya Tarannum Nipa, Nawrin Rahman Shefa, Shahanaz Parvin, Most Afroza Khatun, Md Jahangir Alam, Sujan Chowdhury, M. Azizur R. Khan, Sk Md Ali Zaker Shawon, Biplob Kumar Biswas, Md. Wasikur Rahman,
Rapid population growth and industrial expansion lead us to be habitat of a polluted planet. One of the major pollutants that badly affect the ecosystem being organic dyes released from various chemical industries where cleaner production concept is straightway adopted. Papaya (Carica papaya) bark fiber (PBF) is a natural product used for Methylene Blue (MB) dye removal as a cost–effective adsorbent from aqueous solution by batch method. Several parameters as the effect of pH, initial dye concentration, ...
Tópico(s): Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions
2022 - Elsevier BV | Results in Engineering
Shefa Mirani Nezhad, Ehsan Nazarzadeh Zare, Azimeh Davarpanah, Seied Ali Pourmousavi, Milad Ashrafizadeh, Alan Prem Kumar,
Antibacterial materials have obtained much attention in recent years due to the presence of hazardous agents causing oxidative stress and observation of pathogens. However, materials with antioxidant and antibacterial activities can cause toxicity due to their low biocompatibility and safety profile, urging scientists to follow new ways in the synthesis of such materials. Ionic liquids have been employed as a green and environmentally solvent for the fabrication of electrically conductive polymers. ...
Tópico(s): Chemical Synthesis and Reactions
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Molecules
Ali Al-Saegh, Shefa A. Dawwd, Jassim M. Abdul-Jabbar,
The non-invasive electroencephalogram (EEG) signals enable humans to communicate with devices and have control over them, this process requires precise classification and identification of those signals. The recent revolution of deep learning has empowered both feature extraction and classification in a joint manner of different data types. However, deep learning is a data learning approach that demands a large number of training samples. Whilst, the EEG research field lacks a large amount of data ...
Tópico(s): Blind Source Separation Techniques
2021 - Elsevier BV | Neural Networks
Md. Wasikur Rahman, Nawrin Rahman Shefa,
Nature is blessed with self-healing properties. Mimicking nature is a traditional practice to innovate new classes of materials for researchers. In this practice, researchers made a revolutionary approach to innovate self-healing polymer (SHP) that can be used to treat damage-related losses. Different SHPs with various properties have been developed for a wide range of applications. SHPs unlocked the key to the taste of real life through their application and versatility in the sectors close to our ...
Tópico(s): Antimicrobial agents and applications
2021 - Wiley | Advances in Polymer Technology
Rui Li, Shefa Alomari, Timur İslamoğlu, Omar K. Farha, Sujan Fernando, Selma Mededovic Thagard, Thomas M. Holsen, Mario Wriedt,
Harmful per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are ubiquitously detected in aquatic environments, but their remediation remains challenging. Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) have been recently identified as an advanced material class for the efficient removal of PFAS, but little is known about the fundamentals of the PFAS@MOF adsorption process. To address this knowledge gap, we evaluated the performance of 3 different MOFs for the removal of 8 PFAS classes from aqueous film-forming foam-impacted ...
Tópico(s): Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
2021 - American Chemical Society | Environmental Science & Technology
Mari Niemi, Juha Karjalainen, Rachel G. Liao, Benjamin M. Neale, Mark J. Daly, Andrea Ganna, Gita A. Pathak, Shea J. Andrews, Masahiro Kanai, Kumar Veerapen, Israel Fernández‐Cadenas, Eva C. Schulte, Pasquale Striano, M. Marttila, Camelia C. Minică, Eirini Marouli, Mohd Anisul Karim, Frank R. Wendt, Jeanne E. Savage, Laura Sloofman, Guillaume Butler‐Laporte, Han‐Na Kim, Stavroula Kanoni, Yukinori Okada, Jinyoung Byun, Younghun Han, Mohammed Jashim Uddin, George Davey Smith, Cristen J. Willer, Joseph D. Buxbaum, Juha Mehtonen, Hilary K. Finucane, Mattia Cordioli, Alicia R. Martin, Wei Zhou, Bogdan Paşaniuc, Hanna Julienne, Hugues Aschard, Huwenbo Shi, Loïc Yengo, Renato Polimanti, Maya Ghoussaini, Jeremy Schwartzentruber, Ian Dunham, Karolina Chwiałkowska, Margherita Francescatto, Amy Trankiem, Mary K. Balaconis, Lea K. Davis, Sulggi A. Lee, James R. Priest, Alessandra Renieri, Vijay G. Sankaran, David A. van Heel, Patrick Deelen, J. Brent Richards, Tomoko Nakanishi, Les Biesecker, V. Eric Kerchberger, J. Kenneth Baillie, Francesca Mari, Anna Bernasconi, J. Kenneth Baillie, Arif Canakoglu, Brooke N. Wolford, Annika Faucon, Atanu Kumar Dutta, Claudia Schurmann, Emi N. Harry, Ewan Birney, Huy Nguyen, Jamal Nasir, Mari Kaunisto, Matthew Solomonson, Nicole Dueker, Nirmal Vadgama, Sophie Limou, Souad Rahmouni, Hamdi Mbarek, Dima Darwish, Md Mesbah Uddin, Raquel Albertos, Jordi Pérez‐Tur, Ruolin Li, Lasse Folkersen, Ida Moltke, Nils Koelling, Alexander Teumer, Athanasios Kousathanas, Alicia Utrilla, Ricardo A. Verdugo, Ruth Zárate, Carolina Medina‐Gómez, David Gómez-Cabrero, Elena Carnero‐Montoro, Carmen L. Cadilla, Andrés Moreno‐Estrada, Adriana Garmendia, Leire Moya, Bahareh Sedaghati-khayat, Palwendé Romuald Boua, Marie-Julie Favé, Laurent C. Francioli, Audrey Lemaçon, Isabelle Migeotte, Sanjay Patel, Réka Várnai, József Szentpéteri, Csilla Sipeky, Francesca Colombo, Kathrin von Hohenstaufen, Píetro Lió, Costanza L. Vallerga, Qingbo Wang, Yosuke Tanigawa, Hogune Im, Chulho Han, Han Song, Jiwoo Lim, Y.‐A. Lee, Sugyeong Kim, Sangyoon Im, Biljana Atanasovska, Hajar Fauzan Ahmad, Cindy G. Boer, Philip R. Jansen, Lude Franke, Elżbieta Kaja, Dorota Pasko, Ingrid Kennis-Szilagyi, Sergey A. Kornilov, Vid Prijatelj, Ivana Nedeljković, Ilangkumaran Sivanadhan, Sarala Perumal, Sahar Esmaeeli, Nathaniel M. Pearson, Adam Auton, Janie F. Shelton, Anjali J. Shastri, Teresa Filshtein-Sonmez, Daniella Coker, Antony Symons, Jorge Esparza-Gordillo, Stella Aslibekyan, Jared O’Connell, Chelsea Ye, Catherine H. Weldon, Minoli A. Perera, Kevin J. O’Leary, Matthew Tuck, Travis J. O’Brien, David Meltzer, Peter H. O’Donnell, Edith A. Nutescu, Guang Yang, Cristina Alarcón, Stefanie Herrmann, Sophia Mazurek, Jeff Banagan, Zacharia Hamidi, April Barbour, Noora Raffat, Diana Moreno, Paula N. Friedman, Bart Ferwerda, Diederik van de Beek, Matthijs C. Brouwer, Alexander P. J. Vlaar, W. Joost Wiersinga, Daniëlle Posthuma, Elleke Tissink, A. H. Koos Zwinderman, Emil Uffelmann, Michiel A. van Agtmael, Anne Geke Algera, Frank van Baarle, Diane Bax, Martijn Beudel, Harm Jan Bogaard, Marije K. Bomers, Peter I. Bonta, Lieuwe D. J. Bos, Michela Botta, Justin de Brabander, Godelieve de Bree, Sanne de Bruin, Marianna Bugiani, Esther Bulle, Osoul Chouchane, Alex Cloherty, Dave A. Dongelmans, Paul Elbers, Lucas M. Fleuren, Suzanne E. Geerlings, Bart F. Geerts, Teunis B. H. Geijtenbeek, Armand R. J. Girbes, Abraham Goorhuis, Martin P. Grobusch, Florianne Hafkamp, Laura A. Hagens, Jörg Hamann, Vanessa Harris, Robert Hemke, Sabine Hermans, Leo Heunks, Markus W. Hollmann, Janneke Horn, Joppe W. Hovius, Menno D. de Jong, Rutger Koning, Niels van Mourik, Jeannine F. Nellen, Esther J. Nossent, Frederique Paulus, Edgar Peters, Tom van der Poll, Bennedikt Preckel, Jan M. Prins, Jorinde Raasveld, Tom D. Y. Reijnders, Michiel Schinkel, Marcus J. Schultz, Alex R. Schuurman, Kim Sigaloff, Marry R. Smit, Cornelis Stijnis, Willemke Stilma, Charlotte E. Teunissen, Patrick Thoral, Anissa M. Tsonas, Marc van der Valk, Denise P. Veelo, Heder de Vries, Michèle van Vugt, Dorien Wouters, René Minnaar, Adrie Kromhout, Kees W. J. van Uffelen, Ruud A. Wolterman, Genevieve Roberts, Daniel J. Park, Catherine A. Ball, Marie V. Coignet, Shannon McCurdy, Spencer C. Knight, Raghavendran Partha, Brooke Rhead, Miao Zhang, Nathan Berkowitz, Michael Gaddis, Keith Noto, Luong Ruiz, Miloš Pavlović, Eurie L. Hong, Kristin A. Rand, Ahna R. Girshick, Harendra Guturu, Asher Haug Baltzell, Souad Rahmouni, Julien Guntz, Y Beguin, Sara Pigazzini, Lindokuhle Nkambule, Youssef Bouysran, Adeline Busson, Xavier Peyrassol, Françoise Wilkin, Bruno Pichon, Guillaume Smits, Isabelle Vandernoot, Jean‐Christophe Goffard, Michel Georges, Michel Moutschen, Benoît Misset, Gilles Darcis, Julien Guiot, Laurent Jadot, Samira Azarzar, Patricia Dellot, Stéphanie Gofflot, Sabine Claassen, Axelle Bertrand, Gilles Parzibut, Mathilde Clarinval, Catherine Moermans, Olivier Malaise, Kamilia El Kandoussi, Raphaël Thonon, Pascale Huynen, Alyssia Mesdagh, Sofia Ferreira Melo, Nicolas Jacques, Emmanuel Di Valentin, François Giroule,
The genetic make-up of an individual contributes to the susceptibility and response to viral infection. Although environmental, clinical and social factors have a role in the chance of exposure to SARS-CoV-2 and the severity of COVID-191,2, host genetics may also be important. Identifying host-specific genetic factors may reveal biological mechanisms of therapeutic relevance and clarify causal relationships of modifiable environmental risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection and outcomes. We formed ...
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Sara Klein, Shefa Watted, Michal Zion,
This study focuses on the impact of an intergenerational sustainability leadership project on the development of students' environmental literacy. The project involved high-school students and older adults in the community who learned and worked together on environmental issues developing original initiatives over a period of three years. The study examines environmental literacy development among the students by conducting interviews and analyzing students' written reports and recorded conversations. ...
Tópico(s): Children's Rights and Participation
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Environmental Education Research
Rui Li, Shefa Alomari, Robert V. Stanton, Megan C. Wasson, Timur İslamoğlu, Omar K. Farha, Thomas M. Holsen, Selma Mededovic Thagard, Dhara J. Trivedi, Mario Wriedt,
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are an emerging class of contaminants raising increased levels of concern due to their toxic, bioaccumulative, and persistent nature. Current solutions for removing PFAS from contaminated water rely on adsorption-based methods where commonly used sorbents, for example, activated carbons and ion-exchange resins, exhibit low adsorption capacity and a long equilibration time. Motivated by the generally deficient performance of these current materials, this ...
Tópico(s): Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies
2021 - American Chemical Society | Chemistry of Materials
Li Shu, Chao Hu, Meng Xu, Jianglong Yu, He He, Jie Lin, Hongying Sha, Bin Lü, Simone Engelender, Min‐Xin Guan, Zhiyin Song,
... and lipids in cells (Filomeni et al, 2015; Shefa et al, 2019). Although mtDNA is vulnerable to ...
Tópico(s): Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
2021 - Springer Nature | The EMBO Journal
Alamgir Kabir, Md Mahbubur Rashid, Kamal Hossain, Arifuzzaman Khan, Shegufta Shefa Sikder, Heather F. Gidding,
Abstract Background The burden of maternal undernutrition and low birth weight (LBW) incurs enormous economic costs due to their adverse consequences. Women’s empowerment is believed to be one of the key factors for attaining maternal and child health and nutritional goals. Our objective was to investigate the association of women’s empowerment with maternal undernutrition and LBW. Methods We used nationally representative data from the Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey for 2011 and 2014. We analysed ...
Tópico(s): Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
2020 - BioMed Central | BMC Women s Health
Ali Al-Saegh, Shefa A. Dawwd, Jassim M. Abdul-Jabbar,
The availability of large and varied Electroencephalogram (EEG) datasets, rapidly advances and inventions in deep learning techniques, and highly powerful and diversified computing systems have all permitted to easily analyzing those datasets and discovering vital information within. However, the classification process of EEG signals and discovering vital information should be robust, automatic, and with high accuracy. Motor Imagery (MI) EEG has attracted us due to its significant applications in ...
Tópico(s): Blind Source Separation Techniques
2020 - Elsevier BV | Biomedical Signal Processing and Control
Shefa M. Tawalbeh, Wilfredo Marin, Gabrielle Morgan, Utkarsh J. Dang, Yetrib Hathout, Lauren M. Pachman,
Abstract Background Blood accessible biomarkers to assess disease activity and their response to therapies in Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM) are urgently needed. This pilot study aims to identify serum protein biomarkers associated with clinical disease activity in untreated JDM and their response to medical therapy. Methods SomaScan® technology screened JDM patients for 1305 proteins at three points: 1) before start of treatment, 2) while on therapy, and 3) after treatment tapering when patients ...
Tópico(s): Eosinophilic Disorders and Syndromes
2020 - BioMed Central | BMC Rheumatology
Junyang Jung, Youngbuhm Huh, Ulfuara Shefa, NaYoung Jeong, InOk Song, Hyung-Joo Chung, Dokyoung Kim,
Mitophagy is activated by a number of stimuli, including hypoxia, energy stress, and increased oxidative phosphorylation activity. Mitophagy is associated with oxidative stress conditions and central neurodegenerative diseases. Proper regulation of mitophagy is crucial for maintaining homeostasis; conversely, inadequate removal of mitochondria through mitophagy leads to the generation of oxidative species, including reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species, resulting in various neurodegenerative ...
Tópico(s): Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Research
2019 - Medknow | Neural Regeneration Research
Anha Afrin Shefa, Tamanna Sultana, Myeong Ki Park, Sun Young Lee, Jaegyoung Gwon, Byong‐Taek Lee,
Incorporation of curcumin (Cur) into a hydrogel system is an interesting approach to treat full-thickness skin wounds because Cur can potentiate healing by affecting different stages of the wound healing. Due to its hydrophobicity, Cur solubilization is a great challenge. Thus, Cur solubilization by pluronic F-127, gelation capacity of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) and porosity enhancement by TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nanofiber (TOCN) can inaugurate a biocompatible and biodegradable hydrogel system for Cur ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Cellulose Research Studies
2019 - Elsevier BV | Materials & Design
Yetrib Hathout, Liang Chen, Michael Ogundele, Ganggang Xu, Shefa M. Tawalbeh, Utkarsh J. Dang, Eric P. Hoffman, Heather Gordish‐Dressman, Laurie S. Conklin, John N. van den Anker, Paula R. Clemens, Jean K. Mah, Erik Henricson, Craig M. McDonald,
Extensive biomarker discoveries for DMD have occurred in the past 7 years, and a vast array of these biomarkers were confirmed in independent cohorts and across different laboratories. In these previous studies, glucocorticoids and age were two major confounding variables. In this new study, using SomaScan technology and focusing on a subset of young DMD patients who were not yet treated with glucocorticoids, we identified 108 elevated and 70 decreased proteins in DMD relative to age matched healthy ...
Tópico(s): Genetic Neurodegenerative Diseases
2019 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Anha Afrin Shefa, Mirana Taz, Monir Hossain, Yong Sik Kim, Sun‐Young Lee, Byong‐Taek Lee,
Lethal bleeding due to street accidents, natural calamities, orthopedic/dental surgeries, organ transplantation and household injuries, is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality. In the current study, zinc oxide (ZnO) was incorporated in TEMPO-oxidized cellulose nanofiber (TOCN) and polyethylene glycol (PEG) polymer system for hemorrhage control by freeze drying method. SEM and XRD data showed the presence of ZnO in the porous structure. FT-IR analysis showed that, successful conjugation occurs ...
Tópico(s): Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
2018 - Elsevier BV | International Journal of Biological Macromolecules