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Applied Phycology, 2021 Animals cannot produce β-carotene, and therefore they exclusively depend on its dietary availability. We previously showed that a 9-cis β-carotene-enriched diet, provided as Dunaliella powder, has a beneficial effect on atherosclerosis and diabetes ...
Shahar Delman +7 more
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Marine Drugs, 2022 Vitamin A and provitamin A carotenoids are involved in the regulation of adipose tissue metabolism and inflammation. We examined the effect of dietary supplementation using all-trans and 9-cis β-carotene-rich Dunaliella bardawil alga as the sole source ...
Nir Melnikov +7 more
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Instructional Design Framework for Construction Materials Training
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2022 The construction industry is suffering, in part, from a lack of training programs offered to the construction workforce. Unfortunately, most construction training and education research focuses on university student education.
Hazem Jadallah +5 more
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Educational Theory-Integrated Construction Industry Training: State-of-the-Art Review
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2021 Workforce training is needed throughout the construction industry to create and maintain competent workers; unfortunately, most construction training and education research focuses on university student education.
Hazem Jadallah +5 more
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Construction Industry Training Assessment Framework
Frontiers in Built Environment, 2021 The construction industry suffers from a lack of structured assessment methods to consistently gauge the efficacy of workforce training programs. To address this issue, this study presents a framework for construction industry training assessment that ...
Hazem Jadallah +5 more
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Journal of Road Engineering, 2023 Microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation is a promising technology for self-healing concrete due to its capability to seal microcracks. The main goal of this study was to evaluate the effects of adding hydrogel-encapsulated bacteria on the ...
Ricardo Hungria +2 more
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Seasonal variation of aerosol water uptake and its impact on the direct radiative effect at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2014 In this study we investigated the impact of water uptake by aerosol particles in ambient atmosphere on their optical properties and their direct radiative effect (ADRE, W m−2) in the Arctic at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard, during 2008.
N. Rastak +10 more
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Importance of aerosol composition and mixing state for cloud droplet activation over the Arctic pack ice in summer [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2015 Concentrations of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) were measured throughout an expedition by icebreaker around the central Arctic Ocean, including a 3 week ice drift operation at 87° N, from 3 August to 9 September 2008.
C. Leck, E. Svensson
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Multi-mode deep auto-encoder recommendation model for fusion of text information
Xi'an Gongcheng Daxue xuebao, 2021 A new recommendation model is proposed to solve the problems of data sparsity and deep semantic information learning when using score information as auxiliary recommendation.
Jinguang CHEN, Xinyi XU, Ganglong FAN
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Catchment-scale dissolved carbon concentrations and export estimates across six subarctic streams in northern Sweden [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2014 Climatic change is currently enhancing permafrost thawing and the flow of water through the landscape in subarctic and arctic catchments, with major consequences for the carbon export to aquatic ecosystems.
R. Giesler +7 more
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