Assessing indigenous community’s perspectives and attitudes toward tourism development impacts in the northwestern Himalayas, India - Mohd Saleem Wani; M. Sultan Bhat; Akhtar Alam; Sajad Ahmad Mir (Socio-Ecological Practice Research, 2023)

Magnetic Signature of Gold Deposits: Example from Um Garayat Region, South Eastern Desert, Egypt - Mohamed Mostafa Gobashy; Mahmoud M. Mekkawi; Sultan Awad Sultan Araffa; Moahmed M. Ezz Eldin; Mohamed Hassan Khalil (Pure and Applied Geophysics, 2023)
Magnetic methods of exploration have proved to be efficient and have potential in the gold mineralization industry. New magnetic processing technologies aid in improving the process of interpretation and gold opportunity identification. In this work, we show the possible application of combined digital magnetic filters to explore new gold mineralization localities with application to a well-known Au mineralization zone. Um Garayat (UG) region, southeastern desert, Egypt, is an ancient example of a potential area for gold mining. Modern analysis showed that other types of mineral concentrations are present. So, exploiting the magnetic signature of the area for future investment is of great interest. The old UG gold mine is characterized by volcanic and tectonic features such as faulting and folding that affect the arc sedimentary rock sequence of repeated deformation stages. A thorough geophysical effort has been carried out around the old gold mine in the UG area to explore the extension of mineralized ore deposits. A detailed geophysical survey using magnetics was carried out in this study together with the available aeromagnetic data. Field data sets on appropriate sites were measured, processed, and evaluated by suitable software. High magnetic anomalies were detected based on grid filter analysis and contact occurrence maps as marked as possible ore deposits after satisfying the geologic conditions for gold formation. An integrated understanding of attained results revealed that the new possible ore deposits are related directly to fault and fracture zones in the shape of lenses of variable thickness in this zone. Results show that newly detected mineral occurrences in the UG area are also controlled by major faults and hydrothermal solution enrichment along fault zones at a depth ranging from 20 to 70 m. Favorable fault/joint mineralized places were located. The relationship between the Au-quartz vein's strike direction compared with magnetic anomaly lineament analysis was studied. Search for new sources of Au and other mineral deposits in addition to quartz veins is needed as pockets of accumulated mineral-rich rock fragments are deposited in drainage wadis and fault/joint zones because of hydrothermal solution enrichment.

Improving urban seismic risk estimates for Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, through incorporating recently gained geological knowledge of hazards - Ruth M. J. Amey; John R. Elliott; C. Scott Watson; Richard Walker; Marco Pagani; Vitor Silva; Ekbal Hussain; Kanatbek E. Abdrakhmatov; Sultan Baikulov; Gulkaiyr Tilek Kyzy (Natural Hazards, 2023)
Many cities are built on or near active faults, which pose seismic hazard and risk to the urban population. This risk is exacerbated by city expansion, which may obscure signs of active faulting. Here, we estimate the risk to Bishkek city, Kyrgyzstan, due to realistic earthquake scenarios based on historic earthquakes in the region and an improved knowledge of the active fault sources. We use previous literature and fault mapping, combined with new high-resolution digital elevation models to identify and characterise faults that pose a risk to Bishkek. We then estimate the hazard (ground shaking), damage to residential buildings and distribution of losses (economical cost and fatalities) using the Global Earthquake Model OpenQuake engine. We model historical events and hypothetical events on a variety of faults that could plausibly host significant earthquakes. This includes proximal, recognised, faults as well as a fault under folding in the north of the city that we identify using satellite DEMs. We find that potential earthquakes on faults nearest to Bishkek—Issyk Ata, Shamsi Tunduk, Chonkurchak and the northern fault—would cause the most damage to the city. An Mw 7.5 earthquake on the Issyk Ata fault could potentially cause 7900 ± 2600 completely damaged buildings, a further 16,400 ± 2000 damaged buildings and 2400 ± 1500 fatalities. It is vital to properly identify, characterise and model active faults near cities to reduce uncertainty as modelling the northern fault as a Mw 6.5 instead of Mw 6.0 would result in 37% more completely damaged buildings and 48% more fatalities.

Estimation of soil erosion in indo-gangetic region using revised universal soil loss equation (RUSLE) model and geospatial technology - Sunil Kumar; Dharmendra Singh; Amit Kumar; Mukesh Kumar; Kushal Giri; Kushala Devi; Sultan Singh (Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 2023)

Promising biomarkers and therapeutic targets for the management of Parkinson's disease: recent advancements and contemporary research - Mohammad Ahmed Khan; Nafis Haider; Tanveer Singh; Ritam Bandopadhyay; Mohammed M. Ghoneim; Sultan Alshehri; Murtada Taha; Javed Ahmad; Awanish Mishra (Metabolic Brain Disease, 2023)

Recent advances in boron species removal and recovery using layered double hydroxides - Sultan Akdağ; Ramazan Keyikoğlu; Ahmet Karagunduz; Bulent Keskinler; Alireza Khataee; Yeojoon Yoon (Applied Clay Science, 2023)

Emerging mercury and methylmercury contamination from new artisanal and small-scale gold mining along the Nile Valley, Egypt - Ahmed Abdelaal; Mohamed Sultan; Abotalib Z. Abotalib; Mohamed Bedair; R. V. Krishnamurthy; Mohamed Elhebiry (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)
The past decade witnessed the initiation and boom of the Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) activities in the hyper-arid southern Egypt. The ores are mined in the Eastern Desert and then transported to the densely populated farming communities in the Nile Valley, where the river provides the water resources needed for ore processing. In search for economic benefits, the poorly educated farmers with limited technical resources transformed their cultivated lands into ASGM operations, exposing themselves, their families, the residents, and the Nile ecosystems to several environmental and occupational health problems. Using integrated remote sensing, field, geochemical, and isotopic analyses, we report the first inventory of ASGM-related total mercury (THg) and methylmercury (MeHg) levels in tailings, amalgamation-tailing ponds, and surface and groundwater with emphasis on the Edfu city and its surroundings. The field and remote sensing-based mapping of ASGM activities reveals clustering around the Nile waterways and suggests interaction of Hg contamination sources with their surrounding receptors. Common ASGM practices include release of contaminated water from unlined amalgamation-tailing ponds into irrigation and drainage canals, and spreading of tailings over cultivated soils. In a short period (10 years), the released Hg contaminated multiple media, including the surface water, the shallow and deep aquifers, and possibly the soil, crops, and livestock. THg levels in amalgamation-tailing ponds (1200–8470 ng/L) are fourfold higher than US EPA and eightfold the WHO thresholds. The contaminated waters released from amalgamation-tailing ponds raised THg levels in surface water (irrigation canals: 50–100 ng/L; drainage canals: THg: > 200 ng/L) and groundwater (shallow and deep aquifers: 80–500 ng/L). Our findings highlight the need to extend the adopted approach to cover the entire length of the Nile River and its valley and the importance of conducting awareness campaigns to educate residents and health care providers about potential ASGM-related environmental and health hazards. Graphical Abstract

Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Modulates Anticipatory Postural Adjustments in Healthy Adults - Haian Mao; Wenwu Xiao; Zengming Hao; Shengjun Wen; Huaichun Yang; Fahad Sultan; Chuhuai Wang (The Cerebellum, 2023)
During forward swinging of the arm, the central nervous system must anticipate the effect of upraising upon the body. Little is known about the cerebellar network that coordinates these anticipatory postural adjustments (APAs). Stimulating different cerebellar regions with transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and with different polarities modulated the APAs. We used surface electromyography (sEMG) to measure muscle activities in a bilateral rapid shoulder flexion task. The onset of APAs was altered after tDCS over the vermis, while the postural stability and the kinematics of arm raising were not affected. To our knowledge, this is the first human cerebellar-tDCS (c-tDCS) study to separate cerebellar involvement in core muscle APAs in bilateral rapid shoulder flexion. These data contribute to our understanding of the cerebellar network supporting APAs in healthy adults. Modulated APAs of the erector spinae by tDCS on the vermis may be related to altered cerebellar brain inhibition (CBI), suggesting the importance of the vermal-cerebral connections in APAs regulation.

Assessing the Self-reported After Events Following Immunization of COVID-19 Vaccines in Turkey and Bangladesh - Arifa Sultana; Sabiha Rahman Mim; Ananya Saha; Fahmida Yesmin; Md. Rafat Tahsin; Nasiba Binte Bahar; Kazi Rubiya Fatema; Saimon Shahriar; Kazi Milenur Rahman Prattay; Fazle Rabbi; Fabiha Noushin; Mithun Samodder; et al. (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2023)

RETRACTED: >Microplastics in different fish and shellfish species in the mangrove estuary of Bangladesh and evaluation of human exposure - Maisha Binte Sultan; Md. Mostafizur Rahman; Mst. Afifa Khatun; Md. Shahjalal; Md. Ahedul Akbor; Md. Abu Bakar Siddique; Roksana Huque; Guilherme Malafaia (Science of The Total Environment, 2023)

Effects of alginates on the growth, haematological, immunity, antioxidant and pro-inflammatory responses of rabbits under high temperature - Sultan A.M. Saghir; Amir M. Al Hroob; Kamlah A. Majrashi; Fatima A. Jaber; Maisa S. Abduh; Naif Al-Gabri; Najah M. Albaqami; Sameh A. Abdelnour; Abdulmohsen H. Alqhtani; Mohamed E. Abd El-Hack; Ayman A. Swelum; Jesus Simal-Gandara (Research in Veterinary Science, 2023)

A vortex-induced vibration-based self-tunable airfoil-shaped piezoelectric energy harvester for remote sensing applications in water - Muhammad Hafizh; Asan G.A. Muthalif; Jamil Renno; M.R. Paurobally; Mohamed Sultan Mohamed Ali (Ocean Engineering, 2023)

Soil to plant transfer of 226Ra, 232Th and 137Cs to some medicinal and aromatic plants growing in Bitlis (Turkey) - Sultan Şahin Bal; Murat Kurşat; Muhammed Fatih Kuluöztürk; Şule Karatepe Çelik; Engin Yılmaz (Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2023)

Application of metal organic frameworks for the inhibition of CO2 hydrates in gas dominated pipelines - Tinku Saikia; Jaber Al-Jaberi; Jafar Sadeq Al Hamad; Aasif Helal; Abdullah Sultan (Gas Science and Engineering, 2023)

Active packaging of chitosan film modified with basil oil encapsulated in silica nanoparticles as an alternate for plastic packaging materials - Maha Sultan; A.A. Abdelhakim; Mona Nassar; Youssef R. Hassan (Food Bioscience, 2023)

Ambient ultrafine particle (PM0.1): Sources, characteristics, measurements and exposure implications on human health - Sultan F.I. Abdillah; Ya-Fen Wang (Environmental Research, 2023)

Microplastics and adsorbed micropollutants as emerging contaminants in landfill: A mini review - Md. Mostafizur Rahman; Maisha Binte Sultan; Mahbub Alam (Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 2023)

Highly charged solar evaporator toward sustainable energy transition for in-situ freshwater & power generation - Muhammad Sultan Irshad; Yabin Hao; Naila Arshad; Muneerah Alomar; Liangyou Lin; Xiuqiang Li; Swelm. Wageh; Omar A. Al-Hartomy; Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi; Van-Duong Dao; Hao Wang; Xianbao Wang; et al. (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023)

Hydrological extremes and climatic controls on streamflow in Jhelum basin, NW Himalaya - Shafkat Ahsan; M. Sultan Bhat; Akhtar Alam; Hilal Ahmed Sheikh; Hakim Farooq (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2023)

Clinical pharmacokinetics of terbutaline in humans: a systematic review - Khadeeja Sultan; Ammara Zamir; Waseem Ashraf; Imran Imran; Hamid Saeed; Anees ur Rehman; Abdul Majeed; Muhammad Fawad Rasool (Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, 2023)

Sustainable maize production and climatic change in Nepal: robust role of climatic and non-climatic factors in the long-run and short-run - Abbas Ali Chandio; Waqar Akram; Uzma Bashir; Fayyaz Ahmad; Sultan Adeel; Yuansheng Jiang (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2023)

Factorial analysis for the impact on filtration properties of water-based drilling fluid after the addition of graphene oxide, pure-bore, and sodium alginate - Shaine Mohammadali Lalji; Syed Imran Ali; Muhammad Mohsin Yousufi; Muhammad Arsalan Sultan; Khizra Fatima; Abdur Rahman Misbah (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2023)

A Novel Approach for the Availability and Ocular Delivery of Tenoxicam Potassium: Synthesis, Characterization, and In Vivo Application - Shaaban K. Osman; Taher M. Yassin; Ahmed M. Mohammed; Abdallah M. Alfayomy; Ahmed A. Abdellatif; Wael A. Mahdi; Sultan Alshehri; Mohamed A. El Hamd; Hatem Sarhan; Mohammed A. Ibrahim (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2023)

Distribution, characteristics, and risk assessments analysis of microplastics in shore sediments and surface water of Moheshkhali channel of Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh - Sultan Al Nahian; Md. Refat Jahan Rakib; Rakesh Kumar; Sayeed Mahmood Belal Haider; Prabhakar Sharma; Abubakr M. Idris (Science of The Total Environment, 2023)

Profiling of phthalates, brominated, and organophosphate flame retardants in COVID-19 lockdown house dust; implication on the human health - Nadeem Ali; Muhammad Imtiaz Rashid; Nabil A. Alhakamy; Sultan Hassan Alamri; Syed Ali Musstjab Akber Shah Eqani (Science of The Total Environment, 2023)

Land use, management and climate effects on runoff and soil loss responses in the highlands of Ethiopia - Kindiye Ebabu; Gebeyehu Taye; Atsushi Tsunekawa; Nigussie Haregeweyn; Enyew Adgo; Mitsuru Tsubo; Ayele Almaw Fenta; Derege Tsegaye Meshesha; Dagnenet Sultan; Dagnachew Aklog; Teshager Admasu; Bas van Wesemael; et al. (Journal of Environmental Management, 2023)

A comparative study of two embodiments of the limaçon rotary compressor based on theoretical modelling of apex seal dynamics and leakage - Kui Lu; Ibrahim A. Sultan; Truong H. Phung (International Journal of Refrigeration, 2023)

Intercropping and species interactions on physiological and light use characteristics of forage cereals-legumes combinations in semi-arid regions - M.R. Umesh; Sangu Angadi; Sultan Begna; Prasanna Gowda; Leonard Lauriault; Robert Hagevoort; Murali Darapuneni (Field Crops Research, 2023)

Flexible thermotolerant Zn-ion hybrid supercapacitors enabled by heat-resistant polymer electrolyte - Jianghe Liu; Sultan Ahmed; Ting Wang; Shenhua Song (Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023)

Recent Advances and Treatment of Emerging Contaminants Through the Bio-assisted Method: A Comprehensive Review - Abdul Sattar Jatoi; Jawad Ahmed; Faheem Akhter; Syed Haseeb Sultan; Ghulam Sever Chandio; Shoaib Ahmed; Zubair Hashmi; Muhammad Azam Usto; Muhammad Shuaib Shaikh; Muhammad Siddique; Ghulamullah Maitlo (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2023)

Biochemical Characterization and Potential of Bacillus safensis Strain SCAL1 to Mitigate Heat Stress in Solanum lycopersicum L. - Tehmeena Mukhtar; Fawad Ali; Mazhar Rafique; Javed Ali; Muhammad Siddique Afridi; Donald Smith; Shehzad Mehmood; Amna; Alfred Souleimanov; Ghulam Jellani; Tariq Sultan; Farooq Hussain Munis; et al. (Journal of Plant Growth Regulation, 2023)

Crop classification by using dual-pol SAR vegetation indices derived from Sentinel-1 SAR-C data - Deeksha Mishra; Gunjan Pathak; Bhanu Pratap Singh; Mohit; Parveen Sihag; Rajeev; Kalyan Singh; Sultan Singh (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2023)

Complementary use of multi-model climate ensemble and Bayesian model averaging for projecting river hydrology in the Himalaya - Shafkat Ahsan; Mohammad Sultan Bhat; Akhtar Alam; Hakim Farooq; Hilal Ahmad Shiekh (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Innovative polygon trend analysis of monthly precipitation (1952–2015) in the Hindukush‐Karakoram‐Himalaya river basins of Pakistan - Naveed Ahmed; Haishen Lu; Martijn J. Booij; Genxu Wang; Hero Marhaento; Mohd Sultan Bhat; Shahzada Adnan (International Journal of Climatology, 2022)
The Hindukush‐Karakoram‐Himalayas (HKH) mountainous range supplies water to 10 river basins serving eight countries. The present study focuses on the river basins located within the HKH region in Pakistan. The modified Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT+) was used to split the research region into 13 sub‐basins. The Mann–Kendall, Sen's slope, innovative polygon trend analysis (IPTA), and innovative trend analysis (ITA) methods were used for the monthly precipitation time series. The Shyok sub‐basin (central Karakoram) experienced rising trends for all seasons, while the southwestern Karakoram (Hunza) showed a rising trend only for the winter. The Hindukush Mountain Range feeds five sub‐basins (Gilgit, Chitral, Swat, Kabul, and Kurram). The Gilgit and Kurram sub‐basins observed an upward trend for all seasons. A falling trend in spring and transition from spring (falling) to summer (rising) was observed for the Swat and Kabul sub‐basins. The Chitral sub‐basin received rising precipitation in spring, summer, and autumn, whereas no trend was observed during winter. In the southern Himalayas (Kanshi and Jhelum), no trend was observed in winter and autumn and a falling trend in spring and summer. The Kunhar sub‐basin (southern Himalaya) showed rising trends in winter, spring, and autumn. In contrast, the Soan sub‐basin (eastern Himalaya) has no trend in spring, and other seasons show rising trends. The sub‐basin Upper Indus experienced a rising trend for autumn, winter, and summer, while a downward trend was observed in spring. The IPTA and ITA approaches are much more sensitive than the Mann–Kendall method in detecting trends. Although the innovative methods are mostly compatible with each other (90%), the IPTA presents additional information about trend transitions between successive parts of the time series. The results presented in this study are an advancement in the investigations made so far in this region and will help to understand the climate and hydrology of this region.

Micro-viscoelastic Characterization of Compressed Oral Solid Dosage Forms with Ultrasonic Wave Dispersion Analysis - Tipu Sultan; Shubhajit Paul; Enamul Hasan Rozin; Yin-Chao Tseng; Michael C. F. Bazzocchi; Cetin Cetinkaya (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2022)

Antifungal and antibiofilm activities of bee venom loaded on chitosan nanoparticles: a novel approach for combating fungal human pathogens - Samia E. El-Didamony; Mohamed H. Kalaba; Esmail M. El-Fakharany; Mahmoud H. Sultan; Mohamed H. Sharaf (World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2022)
The prevalence of opportunistic human fungal pathogens is increasing worldwide, and antimicrobial resistance is one of the greatest medical challenges the world faces. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a novel agent to control fungal pathogens. The honeybee products (honey, royal jelly, propolis, bee bread, and bee venom) were screened against unicellular fungal (UCF) pathogens ( Cryptococcus neoformans , Kodamaea ohmeri , and Candida albicans ) and the bee venom was only exhibited an inhibitory effect against them. The protein contents of crude bee venom were separated using the gel filtration technique into eight fractions which were visualized on sodium dodecyl sulfate–polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS–PAGE) to confirm the presence of five bands with molecular weights of 65, 43, 21, 15, and 3 KDa. Bee venom (BV) of Apis mellifera loaded chitosan nanoparticles were prepared by the ionotropic gelation method. The encapsulation efficiency%, average size, zeta potentials, and surface appearance by Transmission electron microscope (TEM) were evaluated for the prepared nanoparticles. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of crude BV and BV loaded chitosan nanoparticles (BV-CNPs) was evaluated against the offer mentioned UCF where the MIC values of crude BV were 6.25, 3.12 & 6.25 while MIC values in the case of BV-CNPs were decreased to 3.12, 3.12 & 1.56 mg/ml against C. neoformans , K. ohmeri and C. albicans , respectively. Also, the results showed that BV-CNPs suppressed the biofilm formation as well as yeast to hyphal transition formed by the examined UCF. These results revealed that BV-CNPs are a promising natural compound for fungal pathogens treatment. Graphical abstract

Developing landslide hazard scenario using the historical events for the Kashmir Himalaya - Bilquis Shah; M. Sultan Bhat; Akhtar Alam; Hilal Ahmad Sheikh; Noureen Ali (Natural Hazards, 2022)

Producing sustainable modified reactive powder concrete using locally available materials - Hussein Kareem Sultan; Othman Hameed Zinkaah; Ahmed A. Rasheed; Zainab Alridha; Musab Alhawat (Innovative Infrastructure Solutions, 2022)

Genetic diversity and population structure assessed through simple sequence repeat markers in Saccharum spp. hybrids from Pakistan and Sri Lanka - Sundas Shahzad; Muhammad Saeed; Shagufta Perveen; Muhammad Azeem; Iqra Sajjad; Shazia Saeed; Muhammad Naeem; Alia Javed; Iqra Sultan; Ukasha Faria; Sana Maryam; Muhammad Zaid Yousaf (Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 2022)

Acute and sub-chronic toxicological evaluation of Averrhoa carambola leaves in Sprague Dawley rats - Sultan A. M. Saghir; Mahfoudh A. M. Abdulghani; Reem S. Alruhaimi; Ahmad F. Ahmeda; Naif A. Al-Gabri; Saleh A. M. A. Alomaisi; Amirin Sadikun; Vikneswaran Murugaiyah; Ayman M. Mahmoud (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Evaluating the thermal-cooling induced effects on the Ambela granite properties (from Pakistan) using experimental and image processing techniques - Naseer Muhammad Khan; Liqiang Ma; Kewang Cao; Sajjad Hussain; Asghar Ali; Wei Liu; Saad S. Alarifi; Kausar Sultan shah; Sajid Khan; Yang Xiaoxu; Yujun Xu (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2022)

Day time-restricted feeding shows differential synchronizing effects on age-related changes of serotonin metabolism in SCN and the pineal gland in male Wistar rats - V. D. K. Reddy; Minurani Dalai; M. Sultan Khan; Anita Jagota (Biogerontology, 2022)

Bioethanol Production from Oil Palm Trunk Fibers Using Activated Immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae SC90 Under Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation - Arnon Wilaithup; Imrana Niaz Sultan; Afrasiab Khan Tareen; Nicom Laemsak; Sarote Sirisansaneeyakul; Wirat Vanichsriratana; Pramuk Parakulsuksatid (BioEnergy Research, 2022)

Assessing the groundwater spring potential of Sindh basin in the Kashmir Himalaya - Hilal Ahmad Sheikh; Mohammad Sultan Bhat; Akhtar Alam; Shafkat Ahsan; Bilquis Shah (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022)

Screening for agroactive and bioactive metabolites production by actinobacteria isolated from rhizospheric soils - Hüseyin Evlat; Sultan K. Toker; Ali Koçyiğit (Biologia, 2022)

Using historical data for developing a hazard and disaster profile of the Kashmir valley for the period 1900–2020 - Noureen Ali; Akhtar Alam; M. Sultan Bhat; Bilquis Shah (Natural Hazards, 2022)

Quantification of Rock Mass Condition Based on Fracture Frequency Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Survey for Slope Stability Assessment - Muhammad Junaid; Rini Asnida Abdullah; Radzuan Sa’ari; Hafeezur Rehman; Kausar Sultan Shah; Rafi Ullah; Mohd Nur Asmawisham Alel; Ir. Zuraini Zainal; Nurul Eilmy Zainuddin (Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing, 2022)

Quantitative estimation of essential/toxic elemental levels in the serum of esophagus cancer patients in relation to controls - Muhammad Abdul Qayyum; Muhammad Habib Sultan; Zahid Farooq; Khawaja Muddassir; Tahir Farooq; Ahmad Irfan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

A comparative analysis of renewable and non-renewable energy generation to relegate CO2 emissions and general costs in household systems - Mudassar Hussain; Manzoor Sultan; Faiza Uzma; Cheng Longsheng; Muhammad Yousaf Malik; Abdul Rahman Butt; Aqsa Sajjad; Ijaz Younis; Muhammad Imran (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Post‐introduction evolution of a rapid life‐history strategy in a newly invasive plant - Ellen C. Woods; Sonia E. Sultan (Ecology, 2022)
A central question in invasion biology is whether adaptive trait evolution following species introduction promotes invasiveness. A growing number of common‐garden experiments document phenotypic differences between native‐ and introduced‐range plants, suggesting that adaptive evolution in the new range may indeed contribute to the success of invasive plants. However, these studies are often subject to methodological pitfalls, resulting in weak evidence for post‐introduction adaptive trait evolution and leaving its role in the invasion process uncertain. In a common‐garden glasshouse study, we compared the growth, life‐history, and reproductive traits of 35 native‐ and introduced‐range Polygonum cespitosum populations. We used complementary approaches including climate‐matching, standardizing parental conditions, selection analysis, and testing for trait–environment relationships to determine whether traits that increase invasiveness adaptively evolved in the species' new range. We found that the majority of introduced‐range populations exhibited a novel trait syndrome consisting of a fast‐paced life history and concomitant sparse, reduced growth form. Selection analysis confirmed that this trait syndrome led to markedly higher fitness (propagule production) over a limited growing season that was characteristic of regions within the introduced range. Additionally, several growth and reproductive traits showed temperature‐based clines consistent with adaptive evolution in the new range. Combined, these results indicate that, subsequent to its introduction to North America over 100 generations ago, P. cespitosum has evolved key traits that maximize propagule production. These changes may in part explain the species' recent transition to invasiveness, illustrating how post‐introduction evolution may contribute to the invasion process.

Correction to: Formulation of Gelucire®-Based Solid Dispersions of Atorvastatin Calcium: In Vitro Dissolution and In Vivo Bioavailability Study - Basmah N. Aldosari; Alanood S. Almurshedi; Iman M. Alfagih; Bushra T. AlQuadeib; Mohammad A. Altamimi; Syed Sarim Imam; Afzal Hussain; Faleh Alqahtani; Ehab Elzayat; Sultan Alshehri (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2022)

Green growth and environmental quality in top polluted economies: the evolving role of financial institutions and markets - Xiaomeng Deng; Juan Yang; Zahoor Ahmed; Muhammad Hafeez; Sultan Salem (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Robust segmentation of underwater fish based on multi-level feature accumulation - Adnan Haider; Muhammad Arsalan; Jiho Choi; Haseeb Sultan; Kang Ryoung Park (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022)
Because fish are vital to marine ecosystems, monitoring and accurate detection are crucial for assessing the potential for fisheries in these environments. Conventionally, fish-related assessment is conducted manually, which makes it labor-intensive and time-consuming. In addition, the assessments are challenging owing to underwater visibility limitations, which leads to poor detection accuracy. To overcome these problems, we propose two novel architectures for the automatic and high-performance segmentation of fish populations. In this study, the efficient fish segmentation network (EFS-Net) and multi-level feature accumulation-based segmentation network (MFAS-Net) are the base and final networks, respectively. In deep convolutional neural networks, the initial layers usually contain potential spatial information. Therefore, the EFS-Net employs a series of convolution layers in the early stage of the network for optimal feature extraction. To boost segmentation accuracy, the MFAS-Net uses an initial feature refinement and transfer block to refine potential low-level information and subsequently transfers it to the deep stages of the network. Moreover, the MFAS-Net employs multi-level feature accumulation that improves pixel-wise prediction for fish that are indistinct. The proposed networks are evaluated using two publicly available datasets, namely DeepFish and semantic segmentation of underwater imagery (SUIM), both of which contain challenging underwater fish segmentation images. The experimental results reveal that mean intersection-over-unions of 76.42% and 92.0% are attained by the proposed method for the DeepFish and SUIM datasets, respectively; these values are higher than those by the state-of-the-art methods such as A-LCFCN+PM and DPANet. In addition, high segmentation performance is achieved without compromising the computational efficiency of the networks. The MFAS-Net requires only 3.57 million trainable parameters to be fully trained. The proposed model and the complete code will be made available 1 .

Millet and sorghum yield simulations under climate change scenarios in Senegal - Adama Faye; Ibrahima Camara; Mbaye Diop; Amadou OuryDiallo; Bassirou Sine; Mélinda Noblet; Babacar Faye; Dimitri Defrance; Benjamin Sultan; Ndeye Yacine Badiane Ndour (Regional Environmental Change, 2022)

Sepsis triggered oxidative stress-inflammatory axis: the pathobiology of reprogramming in the normal sleep–wake cycle - Waleed Hassan Almalki; Mohammed M. Ghoneim; Sultan Alshehri; Syed Sarim Imam; Imran Kazmi; Gaurav Gupta (Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2022)

ET2Spatial – software for georeferencing of eye movement data - Minha Noor Sultan; Stanislav Popelka; Josef Strobl (Earth Science Informatics, 2022)

Active Surveillance and Genetic Characterization of Prevalent Velogenic Newcastle Disease and Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N8 Viruses Among Migratory Wild Birds in Southern Egypt During 2015–2018 - Serageldeen Sultan; Nahla Mohamed Ibrahim Eldamarany; Mohmed Wael Abdelazeem; Hanan Ali Fahmy (Food and Environmental Virology, 2022)

Docking simulation and ADMET prediction based investigation on the phytochemical constituents of Noni (Morinda citrifolia) fruit as a potential anticancer drug - Kaliraj Chandran; Drose Ignatious Shane; Azar Zochedh; Asath Bahadur Sultan; Thandavarayan Kathiresan (In Silico Pharmacology, 2022)

Correction: Demineralized Dentin Matrix for Dental and Alveolar Bone Tissues Regeneration: An Innovative Scope Review - Mohammed E. Grawish; Lamyaa M. Grawish; Hala M. Grawish; Mahmoud M. Grawish; Ahmed A. Holiel; Nessma Sultan; Salwa A. El-Negoly (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 2022)

Demineralized Dentin Matrix for Dental and Alveolar Bone Tissues Regeneration: An Innovative Scope Review - Mohammed E. Grawish; Lamyaa M. Grawish; Hala M. Grawish; Mahmoud M. Grawish; Ahmed A. Holiel; Nessma Sultan; Salwa A. El-Negoly (Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 2022)
Background: Dentin is a permeable tubular composite and complex structure, and in weight, it is composed of 20% organic matrix, 10% water, and 70% hydroxyapatite crystalline matrix. Demineralization of dentin with gradient concentrations of ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid, 0.6 N hydrochloric acid, or 2% nitric acid removes a major part of the crystalline apatite and maintains a majority of collagen type I and non-collagenous proteins, which creates an osteoinductive scaffold containing numerous matrix elements and growth factors. Therefore, demineralized dentin should be considered as an excellent naturally-derived bioactive material to enhance dental and alveolar bone tissues regeneration. Method: The PubMed and Midline databases were searched in October 2021 for the relevant articles on treated dentin matrix (TDM)/demineralized dentin matrix (DDM) and their potential roles in tissue regeneration. Results: Several studies with different study designs evaluating the effect of TDM/DDM on dental and bone tissues regeneration were found. TDM/DDM was obtained from human or animal sources and processed in different forms (particles, liquid extract, hydrogel, and paste) and different shapes (sheets, slices, disc-shaped, root-shaped, and barrier membranes), with variable sizes measured in micrometers or millimeters, demineralized with different protocols regarding the concentration of demineralizing agents and exposure time, and then sterilized and preserved with different techniques. In the act of biomimetic acellular material, TDM/DDM was used for the regeneration of the dentin-pulp complex through direct pulp capping technique, and it was found to possess the ability to activate the odontogenic differentiation of stem cells resident in the pulp tissues and induce reparative dentin formation. TDM/DDM was also considered for alveolar ridge and maxillary sinus floor augmentations, socket preservation, furcation perforation repair, guided bone, and bioroot regenerations as well as bone and cartilage healing. Conclusion: To our knowledge, there are no standard procedures to adopt a specific form for a specific purpose; therefore, future studies are required to come up with a well-characterized TDM/DDM for each specific application. Likely as decellularized dermal matrix and prospectively, if the TDM/DDM is supplied in proper consistency, forms, and in different sizes with good biological properties, it can be used efficiently instead of some widely-used regenerative biomaterials.

Development of Synergy-Based Combination of Methanolic Extract of Andrographis paniculata and Berberis aristata Against E. coli and S. aureus - Sageer Abass; Sultan Zahiruddin; Asghar Ali; Mohammad Irfan; Bisma Jan; Qazi Mohd Rizwanul Haq; Syed Akhtar Husain; Sayeed Ahmad (Current Microbiology, 2022)

Assessment of potential groundwater contamination under unlined landfills in Jordan - Assal Haddad; Shadi Moqbel; Tamer El-Jufout; Sultan Tarawneh (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022)

Potential use of alkali activated clay from common deposit for removal of methylene blue dye - Faten Al-Slaty; Khalil Ibrahim; Sultan Fayez; Enas N. Mahmoud (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022)

Triggering mechanisms of Gayari avalanche, Pakistan - Bilal Saif; Mohammad Tahir; Amir Sultan; Muhammad Tahir Iqbal; Talat Iqbal; Muhammad Ali Shah; Samia Gurmani (Natural Hazards, 2022)

Combined efficacy of Cinnamomum zeylanicum and doxorubicin against leukemia through regulation of TRAIL and NF-kappa B pathways in rat model - Sidra Bukhari; Muhammad Hamid Siddique; Anum Naeem; InamUllah Khan; Zain Ali; Asiya Essa; Falak Fazal; Riffat Aysha Anis; Lukas Moran; Aneesa Sultan; Iram Murtaza; Petr Vanhara; et al. (Molecular Biology Reports, 2022)

Prediction of Type 2 Diabetes at Pre-diabetes Stage by Mass Spectrometry: A Preliminary Study - Saria Tariq; Munazza Raza Mirza; Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary; Rabia Sultan; Muneeza Zafar (International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics, 2022)

Molecular identification and phylogenetic analysis of spider mites (Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) of Turkey - Emre İnak; Sultan Çobanoğlu; Philippe Auger; Alain Migeon (Experimental and Applied Acarology, 2022)

Non-adoption decision of biogas in rural Pakistan: use of multinomial logit model - Iram Yasmin; Waqar Akram; Sultan Adeel; Abbas Ali Chandio (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Water-saturated zone recognition using integrated 2D electrical resistivity tomography, borehole, and aerial photogrammetry in granite deposit, Malaysia - Muhammad Junaid; Rini Asnida Abdullah; Radzuan Sa’ari; Wahid Ali; Hafeezur Rehman; kausar Sultan Shah; Mahmut Sari (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022)

Heavy metal remediation and resistance mechanism of Aeromonas , Bacillus , and Pseudomonas : A review - Ali Fakhar; Bushra Gul; Ali Raza Gurmani; Shah Masaud Khan; Shafaqat Ali; Tariq Sultan; Hassan Javed Chaudhary; Mazhar Rafique; Muhammad Rizwan (Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2022)

Diversity of bacterial pathogens and their antimicrobial resistance profile among commensal rodents in Qatar - Md Mazharul Islam; Elmoubashar Farag; Mohammad Mahmudul Hassan; Khalid A. Enan; K. V. Mohammad Sabeel; Maryam Mohammed Alhaddad; Maria K. Smatti; Abdulla Mohammad Al-Marri; Abdul Azia Al-Zeyara; Hamad Al-Romaihi; Hadi M. Yassine; Ali A. Sultan; et al. (Veterinary Research Communications, 2022)

Effect of land use land cover changes on land surface temperature during 1984–2020: a case study of Baghdad city using landsat image - Bassim Mohammed Hashim; Ali Al Maliki; Maitham A. Sultan; Shamsuddin Shahid; Zaher Mundher Yaseen (Natural Hazards, 2022)

Characterization of functional genes GS3 and GW2 and their effect on the grain size of various landraces of rice (Oryza sativa) - Haroon Rasheed; Sajid Fiaz; Muhammad Abid Khan; Sultan Mehmood; Faizan Ullah; Sumbul Saeed; Shahid Ullah Khan; Tabassam Yaseen; Reem M. Hussain; Abdul Qayyum (Molecular Biology Reports, 2022)

Long-Term Grazing Mediates Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics by Reorienting Enzyme Activities and Elemental Stoichiometry in Semi-arid Tropical Inceptisol - Avijit Ghosh; S. K. Mahanta; M. C. Manna; Sultan Singh; Ranjan Bhattacharyya; V. C. Tyagi; J. B. Singh; S. N. Ram; R. Srinivasan; A. K. Singh; Ajita Gupta; Prabhu Govindasamy; et al. (Journal of Soil Science and Plant Nutrition, 2022)

Reflections: Lessons Learned from the Recent AACE-Sponsored Scientific Writing Workshop - Saleh A. Alessy; Anas Almatrafi; Sultan Al Balushi (Journal of Cancer Education, 2022)

The role of forest and agriculture towards environmental fortification: designing a sustainable policy framework for top forested countries - Kashif Raza Abbasi; Festus Fatai Adedoyin; Magdalena Radulescu; Khadim Hussain; Sultan Salem (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2022)

Polycentric urban growth and identification of urban hot spots in Faridabad, the million-plus metropolitan city of Haryana, India: a zonal assessment using spatial metrics and GIS - Sunil Kumar; Swagata Ghosh; Sultan Singh (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2022)

Collaborative-trust approach toward malicious node detection in vehicular ad hoc networks - Shahid Sultan; Qaisar Javaid; Arif Jamal Malik; Fadi Al-Turjman; Muhammad Attique (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2022)

Elemental Analysis of Basella alba, Spinacia oleracea, Abelmoschus esculentus (L.), Ipomoea aquatica, Colocasia esculenta, Amaranthus dubius, and Raphanus sativus Vegetables Using the PIXE Technique in a Saline Region of Bangladesh, Rampal Area - Shirin Akter; S. M. Fahad; Shah Sultan Ashrafi; M. J. Abedin; Y. N. Jolly; M. J. Kabir; M. Safiur Rahman; Bilkis A. Begum; K. M. Mamun; Md. Hazrat Ali (Biological Trace Element Research, 2022)

Computational analysis of three lamp close conduit water disinfection UV reactor - T. Sultan; Z. Ahmad; K. Hayat; I. A. Chaudhry (International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2022)

Imaging of rupture process of 2005 Mw 7.6 Kashmir earthquake using back projection techniques - Mahmood Sultan; Farhan Javed; Muhammad Fahad Mahmood; Muhammad Ali Shah; Khawar Ashfaq Ahmed; Talat Iqbal (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022)

Cryopreservation and genetic stability assessment of regenerants of the critically endangered medicinal plant Dioscorea deltoidea Wall. ex Griseb. for cryobanking of germplasm - Neelam Sharma; Era Vaidya Malhotra; Ramesh Chandra; Ravi Gowthami; Sheikh Mohammad Sultan; Sangita Bansal; Muthusamy Shankar; Anuradha Agrawal (In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, 2022)

3-Dimensional membrane capsules: Synthesis modulations for the remediation of environmental pollutants – A critical review - Imran Ali; Juying Li; Changsheng Peng; Muhammad Qasim; Zahid M. Khan; Iffat Naz; Muhammad Sultan; Muhammad Rauf; Waheed Iqbal; Hafiz Muhammad Adeel Sharif (Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, 2022)

Reference evapotranspiration prediction using high-order response surface method - Behrooz Keshtegar; Shafika Sultan Abdullah; Yuk Feng Huang; Mandeep Kaur Saggi; Khaled Mohamed Khedher; Zaher Mundher Yaseen (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2022)

Analysis of core risk factors and potential policy options for sustainable supply chain: an MCDM analysis of Saudi Arabia’s manufacturing industry - Sultan Mohammed A Alshehri; Wang Xue Jun; Syed Ahsan Ali Shah; Yasir Ahmed Solangi (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Changes in monthly streamflow in the Hindukush–Karakoram–Himalaya Region of Pakistan using innovative polygon trend analysis - Naveed Ahmed; Genxu Wang; Martijn J. Booij; Gokmen Ceribasi; Mohd Sultan Bhat; Ahmet Iyad Ceyhunlu; Adeel Ahmed (Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 2022)

Redefining homogeneous climate regions in Bangladesh using multivariate clustering approaches - Sultan Mahmud; Ferdausi Mahojabin Sumana; Md Mohsin; Md. Hasinur Rahaman Khan (Natural Hazards, 2022)

Nanocrystals: Characterization Overview, Applications in Drug Delivery, and Their Toxicity Concerns - Mohammed Asadullah Jahangir; Syed Sarim Imam; Abdul Muheem; Ananda Chettupalli; Fahad A. Al-Abbasi; Muhammad Shahid Nadeem; Imran Kazmi; Muhammad Afzal; Sultan Alshehri (Journal of Pharmaceutical Innovation, 2022)

Genetic dissection of grain yield traits in a large collection of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) germplasm - Sultan Habibullah Khan; Muhammad Sajjad; Saima Gulnaz; Sundas Waqar; Munawar Shahzad; Saima Mir Arain (Journal of Crop Science and Biotechnology, 2022)

Outbreak of foodborne botulism in Alexandria, Egypt: modulating indications for administration of heptavalent botulinum antitoxin - Sara A. Ghitani; Maha A. Ghanem; Eman A. Sultan; Maram Atef; Maii F. Henaidy (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Evaluating the impact of climate change on extreme temperature and precipitation events over the Kashmir Himalaya - Shafkat Ahsan; M. Sultan Bhat; Akhtar Alam; Hakim Farooq; Hilal Ahmad Shiekh (Climate Dynamics, 2022)
The frequency and severity of climatic extremes is expected to escalate in the future primarily because of the increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. This study aims to assess the impact of climate change on the extreme temperature and precipitation scenarios using climate indices in the Kashmir Himalaya. The analysis has been carried out for the twenty-first century under different representative concentration pathways (RCPs) through the Statistical Downscaling Model (SDSM) and ClimPACT2. The simulation reveals that the climate in the region will get progressively warmer in the future by increments of 0.36–1.48 °C and 0.65–1.07 °C in mean maximum and minimum temperatures respectively, during 2080s (2071–2100) relative to 1980–2010 under RCP8.5. The annual precipitation is likely to decrease by a maximum of 2.09–6.61% (2080s) under RCP8.5. The seasonal distribution of precipitation is expected to alter significantly with winter, spring, and summer seasons marking reductions of 9%, 5.7%, and 1.7%, respectively during 2080s under RCP8.5. The results of extreme climate evaluation show significant increasing trends for warm temperature-based indices and decreasing trends for cold temperature-based indices. Precipitation indices on the other hand show weaker and spatially incoherent trends with a general tendency towards dry regimes. The projected scenarios of extreme climate indices may result in large-scale adverse impacts on the environment and ecological resource base of the Kashmir Himalaya.

Mapping sequences and mineral deposits in poorly exposed lithologies of inaccessible regions in Azad Jammu and Kashmir using SVM with ASTER satellite data - Muhammad Imran; Sultan Ahmad; Amir Sattar; Aqil Tariq (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2022)

Formulation of Apigenin-Cyclodextrin-Chitosan Ternary Complex: Physicochemical Characterization, In Vitro and In Vivo Studies - Mohammed Jafar; Mohammed Saifuddin Khalid; Hajer Alghamdi; Mohd Amir; Sarah Aon Al Makki; Ohud Saud Alotaibi; Afnan Ali Al Rmais; Syed Sarim Imam; Sultan Alshehri; Sadaf Jamal Gilani (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2022)

Modelling spillover effects of a marine protected area in the Western Indian Ocean - Riad M. A. Sultan (Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science, 2022)
This study estimated the abundance gradient of fishes in the waters surrounding a marine protected area (MPA) and used this information as evidence of spillover from the MPA. Fish landing data were collected from trap fishermen over a 12-month period from the Blue Bay Marine Park on the west coast of Mauritius in the Western Indian Ocean. Two indicators of abundance were used: catch per trap, and number of fish per trap. A Generalised Linear Model was used to standardise the catch data by removing the effects of individual fishermen’s productivity from the abundance measurements while the negative-binomial distribution was used for the number of fish. The study found a slight declining gradient of catch beyond the MPA up to a distance of 4 km. The study also established that the individuals belonging to key species caught near the MPA were larger thanthose of the same species caught more than 4 km away. The negative gradient reinforces the evidence of spillover occurring from the MPA.

Anti-Huntington’s Effect of Butin in 3-Nitropropionic Acid-Treated Rats: Possible Mechanism of Action - Sultan Alshehri; Fahad A. Al-Abbasi; Mohammed M. Ghoneim; Syed Sarim Imam; Muhammad Afzal; Khalid Saad Alharbi; Muhammad Shahid Nadeem; Nadeem Sayyed; Imran Kazmi (Neurotoxicity Research, 2022)

Characterization of new COBRA like (COBL) genes in wheat (Triticum aestivum) and their expression analysis under drought stress - Muhammad Zaheer; Shoaib Ur Rehman; Sultan Habibullah Khan; Shahmeer Shahid; Awais Rasheed; Rabia Naz; Muhammad Sajjad (Molecular Biology Reports, 2022)

Rapid release of heavy metals and anions from polyethylene laminated paper cups into hot water - Abdullah Akhdhar; Deia Abd El-Hady; Mohammed Almutairi; Khulood K. Alnabati; Abdullah Alowaifeer; Sultan Alhayyani; Hassan M. Albishri; Abdullah S. Al‐Bogami (Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2022)

New antimicrobial and cytotoxic benzofuran glucoside from Senecio glaucus L - Ahmed M. Zaher; Raoof Sultan; Taha Ramadan; Ahmed Amro (Natural Product Research, 2022)

Update of the fractions of cardiovascular diseases and mental disorders attributable to psychosocial work factors in Europe - Isabelle Niedhammer; Hélène Sultan-Taïeb; Agnès Parent-Thirion; Jean-François Chastang (International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2022)
Objectives The objectives of this study were to provide the fractions of cardiovascular diseases and mental disorders attributable to five psychosocial work exposures, i.e. job strain, effort-reward imbalance, job insecurity, long working hours, and bullying in Europe (35 countries, including 28 European Union countries), for each one and all countries together, in 2015. Methods The prevalences of exposure were estimated using the sample of 35,571 employees from the 2015 European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) for all countries together and each country separately. Relative risks (RR) were obtained via literature reviews and meta-analyses already published. The studied outcomes were: coronary/ischemic heart diseases (CHD), stroke, atrial fibrillation, peripheral artery disease, venous thromboembolism, and depression. Attributable fractions (AF) for each exposure and overall AFs for all exposures together were calculated. Results The AFs of depression were all significant: job strain (17%), job insecurity (9%), bullying (7%), and effort-reward imbalance (6%). Most of the AFs of cardiovascular diseases were significant and lower than 11%. Differences in AFs were observed between countries for depression and for long working hours. Differences between genders were found for long working hours, with higher AFs observed among men than among women for all outcomes. Overall AFs taking all exposures into account ranged between 17 and 35% for depression and between 5 and 11% for CHD. Conclusion The overall burden of depression and cardiovascular diseases attributable to psychosocial work exposures was noticeable. As these exposures are modifiable, preventive policies may be useful to reduce the burden of disease associated with the psychosocial work environment.

Intravenous lidocaine vs. NSAIDs for migraine attack in the ED: a prospective, randomized, double-blind study - Sultan Tuna Akgol Gur; Elif Oral Ahiskalioglu; Muhammed Enes Aydin; Abdullah Osman Kocak; Pelin Aydin; Ali Ahiskalioglu (European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2022)

Fate and impact of maghemite (γ-Fe2O3) and magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) - Huseyin Tombuloglu; Norah Albenayyan; Yassine Slimani; Sultan Akhtar; Guzin Tombuloglu; Munirah Almessiere; Abdulhadi Baykal; Ismail Ercan; Hussein Sabit; Ayyar Manikandan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2022)

Investigations on the Geometric Quality of AVHRR Level 1B Imagery Aboard MetOp-A - Sila Bas; Vincent Debaecker; Sultan Kocaman; Sebastien Saunier; Kevin Garcia; Dieter Just (PFG – Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science, 2021)

Application of Land Magnetic and Geoelectrical Techniques for Delineating Groundwater Aquifer: Case Study in East Oweinat, Western Desert, Egypt - Sultan Awad Sultan Araffa; Sayed Bedair (Natural Resources Research, 2021)

Metadherin (MTDH) overexpression significantly correlates with advanced tumor grade and stages among colorectal cancer patients - Aimen Sultan; Namood-E Sahar; Syeda Kiran Riaz; Javeria Qadir; Shahzad Hussain Waqar; Farhan Haq; Tanwir Khaliq; Muhammad Faraz Arshad Malik (Molecular Biology Reports, 2021)

Correction to: Identification and evaluation of natural organosulfur compounds as potential dual inhibitors of α-amylase and α-glucosidase activity: an in-silico and in-vitro approach - Parvej Ahmad; Sahir Sultan Alvi; Johar Iqbal; M. Salman Khan (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2021)

Identification and evaluation of natural organosulfur compounds as potential dual inhibitors of α-amylase and α-glucosidase activity: an in-silico and in-vitro approach - Parvej Ahmad; Sahir Sultan Alvi; Johar Iqbal; M. Salman Khan (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2021)

The correlation between single nucleotide polymorphisms of the thymic stromal lymphopoietin receptor and breast cancer in a cohort of female patients in Saudi Arabia - Abdelhabib Semlali; Mikhlid H. Almutairi; Sultan N. Alharbi; Abdullah M. Alamri; Abdulwahed F. Alrefaei; Bader O. Almutairi; Mahmoud Rouabhia (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Does digitalization matter in green preferences in nexus of output volatility and environmental quality? - Carlos Samuel Ramos-Meza; Rinat Zhanbayev; Hazrat Bilal; Mubbashra Sultan; Zehra Betül Pekergin; Hafiz Muhammad Arslan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

The radon concentrations of some waters in Bitlis (Turkey) and their dose estimates - Sultan Şahin Bal; Erkan Tanrıverdi; Sezai Yalçın; Mahmut Doğru; Fahrettin Özbey (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2021)

Evaluation of petroleum system using 1D modeling technique of well Atgram-1X, Zakiganj, Bengal Basin - Debashish Mondal; Konika Sarkar; Md. Sultan-Ul-Islam; Shuxun Sang; Golam Mostafa (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

Radiation hazards in selected areas in the Adham Governorate, southwest of Saudi Arabia - Helmy S. O. Abuelnaga; Essam Aboud; Faisal A. Alqahtani; Murad Abdulfarraj; Sultan Almalki; Othman Abdurrahman Fallatah; Maher M. T. Qutub (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

Transgenerational effects of parent plant competition on offspring development in contrasting conditions - Robin Waterman; Sonia E. Sultan (Ecology, 2021)
Conditions during a parent’s lifetime can induce phenotypic changes in offspring, providing a potentially important source of variation in natural populations. Yet, to date, biotic factors have seldom been tested as sources of transgenerational effects in plants. In a greenhouse experiment with the generalist annual Polygonum persicaria , we tested for effects of parental competition on offspring by growing isogenic parent plants either individually or in competitive arrays and comparing their seedling progeny in contrasting growth environments. Offspring of competing vs. non‐competing parents showed significantly altered development, resulting in greater biomass and total leaf area, but only when growing in neighbor or simulated canopy shade, rather than sunny dry conditions. A follow‐up experiment in which parent plants instead competed in dry soil found that offspring in dry soil had slightly reduced growth, both with and without competitors. In neither experiment were effects of parental competition explained by changes in seed provisioning, suggesting a more complex mode of regulatory inheritance. We hypothesize that parental competition in moist soil (i.e., primarily for light) confers specific developmental effects that are beneficial for light‐limited offspring, while parental competition in dry soil (i.e., primarily for belowground resources) produces offspring of slightly lower overall quality. Together, these results indicate that competitive conditions during the parental generation can contribute significantly to offspring variation, but these transgenerational effects will depend on the abiotic resources available to both parents and progeny.

Can labour migration help households adapt to climate change? Evidence from four river basins in South Asia - Amina Maharjan; Sabarnee Tuladhar; Abid Hussain; Arabinda Mishra; Suruchi Bhadwal; Sultan Ishaq; Basharat Ahmed Saeed; Ishani Sachdeva; Bashir Ahmad; Jannatul Ferdous; S. M. Tanvir Hassan (Climate and Development, 2021)

Implication of Remote Sensing Data under GIS Environment for Appraisal of Irrigation System Performance - Sultan Ahmad Rizvi; Afeef Ahmad; Muhammad Latif; Abdul Sattar Shakir; Aftab Ahmad Khan; Waqas Naseem; Muhammad Riaz Gondal (Water Resources Management, 2021)

Revisit to the synthesis of 1,2,3,4-tetrasubstituted pyrrole derivatives in lactic acid media as a green solvent and catalyst - Dilek Akbaslar; E. Sultan Giray; Oztekin Algul (Molecular Diversity, 2021)

Outbreak of foodborne botulism in Alexandria, Egypt: modulating indications for administration of heptavalent botulinum antitoxin - Sara A. Ghitani; Maha A. Ghanem; Eman A. Sultan; Maram Atef; Maii F. Henaidy (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Experimental and comparative study of Chinese commercial improved coal-fired cooking and space-heating stoves - Riaz Ahmad; Adnan Abbas; Wang Jufei; Li Hua; Muhammad Sultan; Bohong Li; Samuel M Nyambura; Pan Xingjia (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Impact of varying housing systems on egg quality characteristics, fatty acid profile, and cholesterol content of Rhode Island Red × Fyoumi laying hens - Ziaul Islam; Asad Sultan; Sarzamin Khan; Ibrahim A. Alhidary; Mutassim M. Abdelrahman; Rifat Ullah Khan (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2021)

Molecular characterization of Toll-like receptor type-3 in mallard duck and its response to Newcastle disease virus infection - Wael K. Elfeil; Reham R. Abouelmaatti; Shaimaa Talat; Mohamed Fawzy; Mohamed Rady; Mohamed Diab; Saad Alkahtani; Hesham Sultan; Changjiang Sun; Liancheng Lei; Wenyu Han; Mahmoud Sedeik; et al. (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Assessment of trends in climatic extremes from observational data in the Kashmir basin, NW Himalaya - Shafkat Ahsan; M. Sultan Bhat; Akhtar Alam; Naveed Ahmed; Hakim Farooq; Bashir Ahmad (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2021)

Integration of geophysical techniques to detect geotechnical hazards: a case study in Mokattam, Cairo, Egypt - Sultan Awad Sultan Araffa; Mohamed Mostafa Gobashy; Mohamed H. Khalil; Ahmed Abdelaal (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2021)

Diesel degradation efficiency of Enterobacter sp., Acinetobacter sp., and Cedecea sp. isolated from petroleum waste dumping site: a bioremediation view point - Israt Jerin; Md. Sifat Rahi; Tanjia Sultan; Md. Shihabul Islam; Salek Ahmed Sajib; Kazi Md. Faisal Hoque; Md Abu Reza (Archives of Microbiology, 2021)

Investigation of landfill leachate pollution impact on shallow aquifers using numerical simulation - Amjad Aliewi; Khaled Hadi; Harish Bhandary; Habib Al-Qallaf; Tareq Rashed; Ahmed Abdulhadi; Sultan Majed Al-Salem (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

Saponin with antibacterial activity from the roots of Albizia adianthifolia - Gaiëlle Sonfack; Cedric Fossi Tchinda; Ingrid Konga Simo; Gabin Thierry M. Bitchagno; Blaise Kemajou Nganou; İlhami Çelik; Mathieu Tene; Sultan Funda Görkem; Till Opatz; Veronique Penlap Beng; Victor Kuete; Pierre Tane (Natural Product Research, 2021)

In-silico evidence for enhancement of avian influenza virus H9N2 virulence by modulation of its hemagglutinin (HA) antigen function and stability during co-infection with infectious bronchitis virus in chickens - Mohammed A. AboElkhair; Mohamed E. Hasan; Ahmed Mousa; Ibrahim Moharam; Hesham Sultan; Yashpal Malik; Moustafa A. Sakr (VirusDisease, 2021)

Phytochemical and spectral analysis of the methanolic extracts of leaves of Murraya koenigii of Jazan, Saudi Arabia - Sivakumar Sivagurunthan Moni; Muhammad Hadi Sultan; Hafiz A. Makeen; Aamena Jabeen; Syeda Sanobar; Rahimullah Siddiqui; Zia ur Rehman; Md Shamsher Alam; Sarfaraz Ahmad; Mohamed Eltaib Elmobark; Remesh Moochikkal (Natural Product Research, 2021)

Approaches for prevention and environmental management of novel COVID-19 - Mohammad Tabish; Aisha Khatoon; Saad Alkahtani; Abdullah Alkahtane; Jawahir Alghamdi; Syed Anees Ahmed; Snober S Mir; Gadah Albasher; Rafa Almeer; Nouf K. Al-Sultan; Nada H. Aljarba; Wedad Saeed Al-Qahtani; et al. (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Protective Effect of Sodium Selenite on 4-Nonylphenol-Induced Hepatotoxicity and Nephrotoxicity in Rats - Murat Boyacioglu; Ozay Gules; Hande Sultan Sahiner (Biological Trace Element Research, 2021)

Nonlinear postural control paradigm for larger perturbations in the presence of neural delays - Nadia Sultan; Muhammad Najam ul Islam; Asif Mahmood Mughal (Biological Cybernetics, 2021)

Evaluating sustainability of the surimi supply chain in India: a life cycle assessment approach - Farook Abdullah Sultan; Srikanta Routroy; Maitri Thakur (The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 2021)

Needs for Cancer Education In Oman Based on the Breast Cancer Screening Program - Sultan Al Balushi; Yuthar Al Rawahi; Wahid Al Kharusi; Bassim Al Bahrani; Khalid Al Baimani; Jane Meza; Marilyn A. Roubidoux; Robert M. Chamberlain; Amr S. Soliman (Journal of Cancer Education, 2021)

Soil quality of simulated landfill exposure to plastics in context of heavy metal analysis - Sultan Majed Al-Salem (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Experimental Solubility of Ketoconazole, Validation Models, and In vivo Prediction in Human Based on GastroPlus - Afzal Hussain; Mohammad A. Altamimi; Sultan Alshehri; Syed Sarim Imam; Usamah Abdulrahman Alnemer; Md. Wasimul Haque (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2021)

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Fluvastatin-Loaded Emulsomes Exhibit Improved Cytotoxic and Apoptosis in Prostate Cancer Cells - Nabil A. Alhakamy; Shaimaa M. Badr-Eldin; Hibah M. Aldawsari; Anas Alfarsi; Thikryat Neamatallah; Solomon Z. Okbazghi; Usama A. Fahmy; Osama A.A. Ahmad; Basma G. Eid; Wael Ali Mahdi; Adel F. Alghaith; Sultan Alshehri; et al. (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2021)

Proximate composition of orange peel, pea peel and rice husk wastes and their potential use as antimicrobial agents and antioxidants - Syeda Andleeb Zahra Naqvi; Ali Irfan; Saima Zaheer; Aeysha Sultan; Shanavas Shajahan; Syeda Laila Rubab; QuratUl Ain; Roberto Acevedo (Vegetos, 2021)

Derivation of earthquake-induced landslide distribution using aerial photogrammetry: the January 24, 2020, Elazig (Turkey) earthquake - Gizem Karakas; Hakan A. Nefeslioglu; Sultan Kocaman; Mehmet Buyukdemircioglu; Tekin Yurur; Candan Gokceoglu (Landslides, 2021)

Comparative toxicity of transgenic cotton CEM-33, Bt-906 varieties, and Annona squamosa L., seed extract against biotic potential of Spodoptera litura (Fab.) - Qurban Ali Arain; Muhammad Farhanullah Khan; Habibullah Rana; Amjad Sultan; Zubair Ahmed; Hakim Ali Sahito; Muhammad Asif Farooq; Muhammad Faheem Akbar; Tasneem Kousar (International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 2021)

Enhancing socioeconomic resilience and climate adaptation through value chain development of mountain products in Hindu Kush Himalayas - Saranjam M. Baig; Aftab A. Khan; Amjad Ali; Muhammad Zafar Khan; Sultan Ahmed; Ghulam M. Shah; Ghulam Ali (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2021)

Correction to: TCA cycle metabolic compromise due to an aberrant S‑nitrosoproteome in HIV‑associated neurocognitive disorder with methamphetamine use - Paschalis‑Thomas Doulias; Tomohiro Nakamura; Henry Scott; Scott R. McKercher; Abdullah Sultan; Amanda Deal; Matthew Albertolle; Harry Ischiropoulos; Stuart A. Lipton (Journal of NeuroVirology, 2021)

TCA cycle metabolic compromise due to an aberrant S-nitrosoproteome in HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder with methamphetamine use - Paschalis-Thomas Doulias; Tomohiro Nakamura; Henry Scott; Scott R. McKercher; Abdullah Sultan; Amanda Deal; Matthew Albertolle; Harry Ischiropoulos; Stuart A. Lipton (Journal of NeuroVirology, 2021)

Formulation of Gelucire®-Based Solid Dispersions of Atorvastatin Calcium: In Vitro Dissolution and In Vivo Bioavailability Study - Basmah N. Aldosari; Alanood S. Almurshedi; Iman M. Alfagih; Bushra T. AlQuadeib; Mohammad A. Altamimi; Syed Sarim Imam; Afzal Hussain; Faleh Alqahtani; Ehab Elzayat; Sultan Alshehri (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2021)

Micro-morphological response of some native dicotyledonous species to particulate pollutants emitted from stone crushing activities - Iftikhar Ahmad; Lubaba Shamsi; Mansoor Hameed; Sana Fatima; Farooq Ahmad; Muhammad Sajid Aqeel Ahmad; Muhammad Ashraf; Anum Javaid; Muhammad Asim Sultan (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Arabidopsis nonhost resistance gene PENETRATION 2 is involved in disruption of cushion formation by Rhizoctonia solani during early infection process - D. Parween; E. Sultan; K. Dalei; B. B. Sahu (Australasian Plant Pathology, 2021)

Solvent extraction, spectral analysis and antibacterial activity of the bioactive crystals of Sargassum aquifolium (Turner) C.Agardh from Red Sea - Sivakumar Sivagurunathan Moni; Mohammad Firoz Alam; Hafiz A. Makeen; Hassan A. Alhazmi; Muhammad Sultan; Rahimullah Siddiqui; Aamena Jabeen; Syeda Sanobar; Md Shamsher Alam; Zia Ur Rehman; Mohamed Eltyep Elmobark; Osama Madkhali; et al. (Natural Product Research, 2021)

Melatonin abated Bisphenol A–induced neurotoxicity via p53/PUMA/Drp-1 signaling - Ayesha Ishtiaq; Tahir Ali; Attia Bakhtiar; Robina Bibi; Kinza Bibi; Iram Mushtaq; Shupeng Li; Wajiha Khan; Uzma Khan; Riffat Aysha Anis; Mariam Anees; Aneesa Sultan; et al. (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Use of multisensor and multitemporal geospatial datasets to extract the foundation characteristics of a large building: a case study - Candan Gokceoglu; Sultan Kocaman; Hakan A. Nefeslioglu; Ali Ozgun Ok (Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 2021)

Integrated geophysical approach in exploration of iron ore deposits in the North-eastern Aswan-Egypt: a case study - Mahmoud Mohamed. Mekkawi; Ahmed ElKotb. ElEmam; Ayman Ismail. Taha; Mohamed AbdelSabour. Al Deep; Sultan Awad Sultan. Araffa; Usama Saad. Massoud; Abbas Mohamed. Abbas (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2021)

Experimental Solubility, Thermodynamic/Computational Validations, and GastroPlus-Based In Silico Prediction for Subcutaneous Delivery of Rifampicin - Wael A. Mahdi; Afzal Hussain; Mohammad A. Altamimi; Sultan Alshehri; Sarah I. Bukhari; Mohd Neyaz Ahsan (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2021)

Potential of Natural Bioactive Compounds in Management of Diabetes: Review of Preclinical and Clinical Evidence - Ameeduzzafar Zafar; Nabil K. Alruwaili; Dibya Sundar Panda; Syed Sarim Imam; Khalid Saad Alharbi; Muhammad Afzal; Khaled Shalaby; Imran Kazmi; Sultan Alshehri (Current Pharmacology Reports, 2021)

Effect of humate supplementation to feed and/or litter on performance, intestinal viscosity, litter quality, and occurrence of footpad dermatitis in broilers fed barley-based diets - Ömer Sevim; Onur Tatlı; Eren Kuter; Umair Ahsan; Ehsan Karimiyan Khamseh; Artun Reman; Özge Sayın Özdemir; Mehmet Kaya; Hande Sultan Şahiner; Bekir Hakan Köksal; Özcan Cengiz (Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2021)

Palaeoclimate estimates based on the late Miocene to early Pleistocene wood flora of the Bengal Basin: an insight into the climatic evolution of southern Asia - Ruby Ghosh; Anwesha Biswas; Angela A. Bruch; Torsten Utescher; Illora Sen; Dipak Kumar Paruya; Anupam Guha; Sultan-Ul-Islam; Subir Bera (Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments, 2021)

Bacterial Strains Isolated from Heavy Metals Contaminated Soil and Wastewater with Potential to Oxidize Arsenite - Shahid Sher; Abdul Ghani; Sikandar Sultan; Abdul Rehman (Environmental Processes, 2021)

Bismuth oxide nanoparticles induce oxidative stress and apoptosis in human breast cancer cells - Ali Alamer; Daoud Ali; Saud Alarifi; Abdullah Alkahtane; Mohammed AL-Zharani; Mohamed M. Abdel-Daim; Gadah Albasher; Rafa Almeer; Nouf K. Al-Sultan; Abdulaziz Almalik; Ali H Alhasan; Christos Stournaras; et al. (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)

Use of Geophysical and Radar Interferometric Techniques to Monitor Land Deformation Associated with the Jazan Salt Diapir, Jazan city, Saudi Arabia - Hannah G. Pankratz; Mohamed Sultan; Karem Abdelmohsen; William A. Sauck; Saleh Alsefry; Hassan Alharbi; Mustafa K. Emil; Esayas Gebremichael; Ali Asaeidi; Fahad Alshehri; Hisham I. Hashim; Haitham A. Al-Shamrani; et al. (Surveys in Geophysics, 2021)
Using integrated Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) datasets (Envisat: 2003–2009; Sentinel-1: 2014–2018), local gravity surveys, and passive seismic data, we investigated the environmental hazards associated with the rise of the Miocene Jazan salt diapir (JZD; ~ 2 km 2 ) within Jazan city, Saudi Arabia, and identified areas at risk in its immediate surroundings. Our findings include (1) the JZD outcrop and its northern, southern and western bordering areas have been undergoing substantial uplift (up to 4.7 mm/yr), whereas the sabkhas to the east are witnessing subsidence (up to − 7.5 mm/yr); (2) a low Bouguer anomaly (7.5 mGal) was observed over the JZD relative to its surroundings (8.5–12 mGal) with the steepest gradient along its eastern side; (3) strong and clear horizontal/vertical (H/V) spectral ratio peak and high frequency (5–10 Hz) over the JZD outcrop and areas proximal to its western margin, but areas to the east have a weak H/V peak and low frequency (1.5-3 Hz); (4) drilling confirmed presence of a shallow (4 m) salt bedrock layer west of the JZD and the absence of this layer to its east (up to depths of 60 m); (5) uplift patterns along the diapir margins are indicative of near-vertical contact along the JZD eastern margin and less steep contacts along the remaining margins; and (6) additional near-surface diapirs could potentially be identified in the vicinity of the JZD using our integrated approach.

The clinical and educational outcomes of an inter-professional student-led medication review team, a pilot study - Michael O. Reumerman; Milan C. Richir; Philippe M. Domela Nieuwenhuis; Rowan Sultan; Hester E. M. Daelmans; Hans Springer; Majon Muller; Michiel A. van Agtmael; Jelle Tichelaar (European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2021)
Aims The involvement of an inter-professional healthcare student team in the review of medications used by geriatric patients could not only provide patients with optimized therapy but also provide students with a valuable inter-professional learning experience. We describe and evaluate the clinical and learning outcomes of an inter-professional student-run mediation review program (ISP). Subject and method A variable team consisting of students in medicine, pharmacy, master advanced nursing practice, and master physician assistant reviewed the medication lists of patients attending a specialized geriatric outpatient clinic. Results During 32 outpatient visits, 188 medications were reviewed. The students identified 14 medication-related problems, of which 4 were not recognized by healthcare professionals. The ISP team advised 95 medication changes, of which 68 (71.6%) were directly implemented. Students evaluated this pilot program positively and considered it educational (median score 4 out of 5) and thought it would contribute to their future inter-professional relationships. Conclusion An inter-professional team of healthcare students is an innovative healthcare improvement for (academic) hospitals to increase medication safety. Most formulated advices were directly incorporated in daily practice and could prevent future medication-related harm. The ISP also offers students a first opportunity to work in an inter-professional manner and get insight into the perspectives and qualities of their future colleagues.

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in contaminated coastal marine waters of the Saudi Arabian Red Sea: a baseline study - Aasim M. Ali; Christopher P. Higgins; Walied M. Alarif; Sultan S. Al-Lihaibi; Mohammed Ghandourah; Roland Kallenborn (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2021)
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are today considered important constituents of the continuously growing substance group of persistent contaminants of emerging environmental concern (PCEC). Here, we report for the first time the concentrations of 12 relevant PFASs in 28 marine water samples from the Saudi Arabian coastal waters of the Red Sea. The sum levels of 12 PFASs (Σ 12 PFAS) in surface seawater ranged from <LOQ to 956 ngL −1 . For the reference background site of this study, Σ 12 PFAS levels ranged from <LOQ to 10.9 ng/L. The highest PFAS levels have been found in Al-Arbaeen and Al-Shabab, two lagoons continuously receiving treated sewage effluents. PFHxA, PFHxS, and 6:2 FTS were the most prevalent PFASs with relatively high concentrations. Discharge of municipal and industrial wastewaters is considered an important source of PFASs. The pattern of PFASs observed here suggests that the usage of PFAS-containing aqueous film-forming foams (AFFFs) is a potential additional source for these compounds in Al-Arbaeen and Al-Shabab lagoons. However, a systematic elucidation of local PFASs sources is needed. Contamination of the Red Sea waters with PFASs poses a potential imminent risk to the marine environment of the Red Sea and ultimately may even affect the health of human consumers through the consumption of local seafood.

North Atlantic centers of action and seasonal to subseasonal temperature variability in Europe and eastern North America - Mahmoud Osman; Benjamin Zaitchik; Hamada Badr; Sultan Hameed (International Journal of Climatology, 2021)
The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is one of the most prominent patterns of atmospheric circulation variability in the Northern Hemisphere. Its climate impacts have been identified for regions extending from North America to northern Asia and the Middle East, with implications for sub‐seasonal variability and, in some cases, meteorological trends over multiple years to decades. The NAO itself, however, is the combined expression of two pressure centers: the Icelandic Low and the Azores High. Previous work has shown that when these “centers of action” (CoA) are separated out and studied they can often provide better insight and explanatory power than the NAO does on its own. Here, we analyse the influence that the CoA have on daily minimum air temperature in winter and daily maximum temperature in summer in eastern North America and Europe. The paper has two goals: (a) to characterize CoA associations with temperature on a range of timescales, including sub‐seasonal analyses that reflect short‐term dynamics of the CoA and that are frequently ignored in NAO teleconnection studies, and (b) to evaluate NAO and CoA influence on temperature across seasons (winter and summer) and in upstream and downstream regions (eastern North America and Europe) using a consistent combination of datasets and methods, in order to contextualize results from prior studies that targeted a single region or season. We find that associations with summertime daily maximum and wintertime daily minimum temperatures are strongest for seasonal averages, but select CoA indices inform explanation of temperature variability at subseasonal timescales. The strength of the Icelandic Low and the location of both CoA show strong associations in winter, while in summer the locations of the CoA show temperature associations that are distinct from and sometimes stronger than those found for CoA strength or NAO indices.

Arabidopsis MAPK signaling pathways and their cross talks in abiotic stress response - Kundan Kumar; Susheel Kumar Raina; Sheikh M. Sultan (Journal of Plant Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 2020)

Assessment of Relative Tectonics Activity Zones in Masila Oil Field, Yemen - Mohammed Sultan Alshayef; Akram Javed (Journal of Geovisualization and Spatial Analysis, 2020)

Landslides assessment using geophysical and passive radon exhalation detection techniques in Murree Hills, northern Pakistan: Implication for environmental hazard assessment - Khawar Ashfaq Ahmed; Sarfraz Khan; Mahmood Sultan; Umair Bin Nisar; Muhammad Rizwan Mughal; Shahid Nadeem Qureshi (Journal of Earth System Science, 2020)

Assessment of subsidence phenomena for the Thatta, Jamshoro Districts, Southern Pakistan - Mahmood Sultan; Farhan Javed; Fahad Mahmood; Khawar Ishfaq Ahmad; Tahir Javed (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

Impact of the Icelandic Low on British climate in winter - Sultan Hameed; Syed M.F. Riaz (International Journal of Climatology, 2020)
Correlations of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) with climate variables in continental Europe are strong but weak over Britain. This article presents evidence that interannual variations of British climate are explained more successfully by variations of the Icelandic Low (IL), the northern component of the NAO. The IL changes continuously in intensity as well as position, and these variations are not represented in the NAO. Monthly values of intensity and latitude and longitude positions for the IL are estimated from gridded sea level pressure data. These are used to analyse their impact on interannual variations of winter precipitation and temperature over Britain for the period 1981–2014. It is found that the primary influence on the interannual variations of winter precipitation over Britain are the pressure and the longitude position of the IL. When the IL is deeper or situated east of its mean location, there is above normal precipitation over Britain. The primary influence on air temperature is the meridional migration of the IL; it is warmer when the IL is situated north of its mean position. The impact of the IL on precipitation and air temperature are evaluated also for Scotland, North England and South England separately.

Mechanistic Approaches of Internalization, Subcellular Trafficking, and Cytotoxicity of Nanoparticles for Targeting the Small Intestine - Asadullah Madni; Sadia Rehman; Humaira Sultan; Muhammad Muzamil Khan; Faiz Ahmad; M. Rafi Raza; Nadia Rai; Farzana Parveen (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2020)

Identification of Edible Fish Species of Pakistan Through DNA Barcoding - Muhammad Zubair Ghouri; Muhammad Ismail; Muhammad Asif Javed; Sultan Habibullah Khan; Nayla Munawar; Abdullah Bin Umar; Mehr-un-Nisa; Syed Ovais Aftab; Shazia Amin; Zulqurnain Khan; Aftab Ahmad (Frontiers in Marine Science, 2020)

Correction to: Fractions of cardiovascular diseases and mental disorders attributable to psychosocial work factors in 31 countries in Europe - Isabelle Niedhammer; Hélène Sultan-Taïeb; Jean-François Chastang; Greet Vermeylen; Agnès Parent-Thirion (International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2020)

Chemical constituents of the aerial parts of Salvia judaica Boiss. from Jordan - Mahmoud A. Al-Qudah; Hasan I. Tashtoush; Ethar F. Khlaifat; Sahar O. Ibrahim; Ayman M. Saleh; Hala I. Al-Jaber; Musa H. Abu Zarga; Sultan T. Abu Orabi (Natural Product Research, 2020)

The clinical impact of implementing GenMark ePlex blood culture panels for around-the-clock blood culture identification; a prospective observational study - Anders Krifors; Gunilla Rådberg; Sultan Golbob; Zhino Omar; Camilla Svensson; Daniel Heimer; Christina Carlander (Infectious Diseases, 2020)

A hierarchical cosimulation algorithm integrated with an acceptance–rejection method for the geostatistical modeling of variables with inequality constraints - Nasser Madani; Sultan Abulkhair (Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment, 2020)
This work addresses the problem of the cosimulation of cross-correlated variables with inequality constraints. A hierarchical sequential Gaussian cosimulation algorithm is proposed to address this problem, based on establishing a multicollocated cokriging paradigm; the integration of this algorithm with the acceptance–rejection sampling technique entails that the simulated values first reproduce the bivariate inequality constraint between the variables and then reproduce the original statistical parameters, such as the global distribution and variogram. In addition, a robust regression analysis is developed to derive the coefficients of the linear function that introduces the desired inequality constraint. The proposed algorithm is applied to cosimulate Silica and Iron in an Iron deposit, where the two variables exhibit different marginal distributions and a sharp inequality constraint in the bivariate relation. To investigate the benefits of the proposed approach, the Silica and Iron are cosimulated by other cosimulation algorithms, and the results are compared. It is shown that conventional cosimulation approaches are not able to take into account and reproduce the linearity constraint characteristics, which are part of the nature of the dataset. In contrast, the proposed hierarchical cosimulation algorithm perfectly reproduces these complex characteristics and is more suited to the actual dataset.

The potential of Allium sativum and Cannabis sativa extracts for anti-tick activities against Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus - Nasreen Nasreen; Sadaf Niaz; Adil Khan; Muhammad Arfan Zaman; Sultan Ayaz; Huma Naeem; Nasrullah Khan; Abdallah M. Elgorban (Experimental and Applied Acarology, 2020)

Analysis of coal-related energy consumption in Pakistan: an alternative energy resource to fuel economic development - Muhammad Yousaf Raza; Muhammad Tauqir Sultan Shah (Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2020)

Worldwide contamination of food-crops with mycotoxins: Validity of the widely cited ‘FAO estimate’ of 25% - Mari Eskola; Gregor Kos; Christopher T. Elliott; Jana Hajšlová; Sultan Mayar; Rudolf Krska (Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition, 2020)

Estimation of Total Dissolved Solids in Water Bodies by Spectral Indices Case Study: Shatt al-Arab River - Ali A. A. Maliki; Ali Chabuk; Maitham A. Sultan; Bassim M. Hashim; Hussain M. Hussain; Nadhir Al-Ansari (Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2020)
In recent years, the problem of rising salinity levels in the Shatt al-Arab river in southern Iraq has been repeated, which has directly affected the living and health situation and the agricultural activity of these areas. Six sampling stations were selected along Shatt al-Arab to estimate the concentration of total dissolved solids (TDS) in the river; these stations included the following: Qurna, Labani, City Centre, Kateban, Corniche, and Sihan. In addition, three Landsat-8 satellite images which were taken at the same time as collected samples also used for detecting the salinity in the river. After processing of atmospheric correction and inserted remote sensing indices, the reflectance of water extracted from satellite images was used to express the spectral characteristics of different TDS concentrations. Correlation and regression were used to obtain accurate models for detecting the salinity depending on the spectral reflectance of Landsat 8 operational land image OLI. The results presented Pearson correlation ( r ) value of 0.70, 0.97, and 0.71, and correlation coefficient ( R 2 ) of 0.56, 0.94, and 0.85 between field data with spectral data of salinity index 2 (SI-2) derived from the green and blue bands of Landsat obtained in 2015, 2017, and 2018 respectively. In conclusion, remote sensing and GIS technologies coupled with spectral modeling are useful tools for providing a solution of future water resources planning and management, and also offer great undertaking as a means to improve knowledge of water quality and support water decision making.

The seropervelance of infectious hepatitis viruses (HBV, HCV and HEV) among blood donors and their correlation to risk factors in Qena governorate, Upper Egypt - Azza Masoud Abdelbaky Ahmed; Hanan Abdelftah Temerk; Hamdi Ramdan Galal; Shamardan Ezzeldin S. Bazeed; Serageldeen Sultan (VirusDisease, 2020)

Pistacia integerrima alleviated Bisphenol A induced toxicity through Ubc13/p53 signalling - Ayesha Ishtiaq; Attia Bakhtiar; Erica Silas; Javeria Saeed; Sidra Ajmal; Iram Mushtaq; Tahir Ali; Hussain M. Wahedi; Wajiha Khan; Uzma Khan; Mariam Anees; Aneesa Sultan; et al. (Molecular Biology Reports, 2020)

Portable, wireless, and effective internet of things-based sensors for precision agriculture - K. R. Gsangaya; S. S. H. Hajjaj; M. T. H. Sultan; L. S. Hua (International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2020)

Optimal sizing of hybrid solar/wind/hydroelectric pumped storage energy system in Egypt based on different meta-heuristic techniques - Ahmed A. Zaki Diab; Hamdy M. Sultan; Oleg N. Kuznetsov (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

The roles of TRAF3 mutation in the oncogenic progression and drug response of multiple myeloma - Sultan Abda Neja (Genome Instability & Disease, 2020)

Lymphocyte cytosolic protein 1 (LCP1) is a novel TRAF3 dysregulation biomarker with potential prognostic value in multiple myeloma - Eun Myoung Shin; Sultan Abda Neja; Kerem Fidan; Joelle Yi Heng Chua; Tae-Hoon Chung; Nicolas Bertin; Vinay Tergaonkar; Wee-Joo Chng; Melissa Gaik-Ming Ooi (Genome Instability & Disease, 2020)

Integrated geophysical investigation for mapping of manganese-iron deposits at Wadi Al Sahu area, Sinai, Egypt—a case study - Sultan Awad Sultan Araffa; Taha Tawfik Taha Rabeh; Salah El-Deen Abdel Wahab Mousa; Sami Hamed Abdel Nabi; Mohamed Al Deep (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

Effects of a Coflowing Air on the Characteristics of an Electrospray - Farhan Sultan; Elyar Allaf-Akbari; Nasser Ashgriz (Aerosol Science and Engineering, 2020)

Farnesol attenuates oxidative stress and liver injury and modulates fatty acid synthase and acetyl-CoA carboxylase in high cholesterol-fed rats - Mohammad H. Abukhalil; Omnia E. Hussein; May Bin-Jumah; Sultan A. M. Saghir; Mousa O. Germoush; Hassan A. Elgebaly; Nermeen M. Mosa; Ismail Hamad; Moath M. Qarmush; Emad M. Hassanein; Emadeldin M. Kamel; Rene Hernandez-Bautista; et al. (Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2020)

Valuing biodiversity attributes: a choice experiment design - Mohammad Younus Bhat; Mohd Sultan Bhatt; Arfat Ahmad Sofi (Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2020)

Effect of particle morphology on mechanical behavior of rock mass - Kausar Sultan Shah; Mohd Hazizan bin Mohd Hashim; Muhammad Zaka Emad; Kamar Shah bin Ariffin; Muhammad Junaid; Naseer Muhammad Khan (Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 2020)

Restless legs syndrome and arterial stiffness in pre-dialysis chronic kidney disease - Ibrahım Guney; Zeynep Biyik; Vedat Gencer; Yacuz Sultan Selim Akgül (Sleep and Biological Rhythms, 2020)

Formulation of Chitosan Polymeric Vesicles of Ciprofloxacin for Ocular Delivery: Box-Behnken Optimization, In Vitro Characterization, HET-CAM Irritation, and Antimicrobial Assessment - Ameeduzzafar; Nabil K Alruwaili; Syed Sarim Imam; Nasser Hadal Alotaibi; Nabil A. Alhakamy; Khalid Saad Alharbi; Sultan Alshehri; Muhammad Afzal; Sattam Khulaif Alenezi; Syed Nasir Abbas Bukhari (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2020)

Stimulatory Effects of Soluplus® on Flufenamic Acid β-Cyclodextrin Supramolecular Complex: Physicochemical Characterization and Pre-clinical Anti-inflammatory Assessment - Sultan Alshehri; Syed Sarim Imam; Mohammad A. Altamimi; Afzal Hussain; Faiyaz Shakeel; Abdulhakeem Alshehri (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2020)

ACTUAL WATER USE OF YOUNG DATE PALM TREES AS AFFECTED BY AMINOLEVULINIC ACID APPLICATION AND DIFFERENT IRRIGATION WATER SALINITIES - A.W. Abdelhadi; A.A. Salih; K. Sultan; A. Alsafi; F. Tashtoush (Irrigation and Drainage, 2020)
The Arabian Gulf countries are facing unprecedented water management challenges owing to limited water resources and salinization of the soil. Date palm trees represent a crucial socio‐economic asset in the region. Improving water productivity and tolerance to salinity are the most viable options. A split plot experiment was conducted on 4‐year‐old date palm trees in concrete lysimeters. The objective was to study the effects of aminolevulinic acid (ALA) and different irrigation water salinities (EC) on actual water use (ET) and irrigation efficiency (IE). Low:

Paleozoic glaciation in NE Africa: field and remote sensing-based evidence from the South Eastern Desert of Egypt - Mohamed S. Elhebiry; Mohamed Sultan; Ibrahim Abu El-Leil; Alan E. Kehew; Mahmoud H. Bekiet; Islam Abdel Shahid; Nehal M. A. Soliman; Abotalib Z. Abotalib; Mustafa Emil (International Geology Review, 2020)

The Combined Usage of β-Cyclodextrin and Milk Proteins in Microencapsulation of Bifidobacterium bifidum BB-12 - Sultan Arslan-Tontul (Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins, 2020)

Synthesis and biological screening of a novel enaminone-grafted trithiocarbonate: a potential anticancer and antimicrobial agent - Yahia Nasser Mabkhot; Jamal M. A. Khaled; Mujeeb A. S. Sultan; Naiyf S. H. A. Alharbi; Hazem A. Ghabbour; Fahd A. Nasr; Abdulrhman Alsayari; Abdullatif Bin Muhsinah; Hamed Algarni; Yahya I. Asiri (Medicinal Chemistry Research, 2020)

Salivary Proteomic Analysis of Betel Nut (Areca catechu) Consumers by Mass Spectrometry Revealed Primary Indication of Oral Malignancies - Rabia Sultan; Munazza Raza Mirza; Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary; Mehtab Alam; Ikram-ul Haque (International Journal of Peptide Research and Therapeutics, 2020)

Molecular characterization of phytoseiid mites in Turkey based on the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, with a new record for the country - Emre İnak; Sultan Çobanoğlu; Elif Sade; Marie-Stéphane Tixier (Experimental and Applied Acarology, 2020)

Molecular and biological characterization of the immunological potency of Newcastle disease virus oil emulsion–inactivated vaccines prepared from field isolate obtained from vaccinated chickens outbreak - Mohammed Ismail Hassan; Mohamed Wael Abd El-Azeem; Abdullah Selim; Serageldeen Sultan (Brazilian Journal of Microbiology, 2020)

Analysis of rainfall occurrence in consecutive days using Markov models with covariate dependence in selected regions of Bangladesh - Sultan Mahmud; M. Ataharul Islam; Syed Shahadat Hossain (Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2020)

Clinically relevant pharmacogenetic markers in Tatars and Balkars - Shokhrukh Pardaboevich Abdullaev; Karin Badavievich Mirzaev; Irina Sergeevna Burashnikova; Anastasia Alekseevna Shikaleva; Anastasia Alekseevna Kachanova; Sherzod Pardaboevich Abdullaev; Kristina Anatolevna Akmalova; Zhannet Alimonva Sozaeva; Elena Anatolevna Grishina; Maryam Sultan-Hamitovna Sozaeva; Eric Igorevich Rytkin; Dmitry Alekseevich Sychev (Molecular Biology Reports, 2020)

Genome-wide characterization and analysis of microsatellite sequences in camelid species - Manee M. Manee; Abdulmalek T. Algarni; Sultan N. Alharbi; Badr M. Al-Shomrani; Mohanad A. Ibrahim; Sarah A. Binghadir; Mohamed B. Al-Fageeh (Mammal Research, 2020)
Microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are among the genetic markers most widely utilized in research. This includes applications in numerous fields such as genetic conservation, paternity testing, and molecular breeding. Though ordered draft genome assemblies of camels have been announced, including for the Arabian camel, systemic analysis of camel SSRs is still limited. The identification and development of informative and robust molecular SSR markers are essential for marker assisted breeding programs and paternity testing. Here we searched and compared perfect SSRs with 1–6 bp nucleotide motifs to characterize microsatellites for draft genome sequences of the Camelidae. We analyzed and compared the occurrence, relative abundance, relative density, and guanine-cytosine (GC) content in four taxonomically different camelid species: Camelus dromedarius , C. bactrianus , C. ferus , and Vicugna pacos . A total of 546762, 544494, 547974, and 437815 SSRs were mined, respectively. Mononucleotide SSRs were the most frequent in the four genomes, followed in descending order by di-, tetra-, tri-, penta-, and hexanucleotide SSRs. GC content was highest in dinucleotide SSRs and lowest in mononucleotide SSRs. Our results provide further evidence that SSRs are more abundant in noncoding regions than in coding regions. Similar distributions of microsatellites were found in all four species, which indicates that the pattern of microsatellites is conserved in family Camelidae.

The emergence of an unassigned complex recombinant form in a Pakistani HIV-infected individual - Uroosa Tariq; Ayesha Iftikhar; Dilsha Zahid; Faisal Sultan; Syed Faisal Mahmood; Sadaf Naeem; Syed Ali; Syed Hani Abidi (Archives of Virology, 2020)

Testing the effect of different insecticides on Myzus persicae (Homoptera: Aphididae) in field mustard (Brassicae campestris L.) Czern for possible consideration in an IPM strategy - Muhammad Shahbaz Khan; Muhammad Faheem Akbar; Amjad Sultan; Muhammad Shoaib Saleem; Chand Gul (International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 2020)

Migration and Household Adaptation in Climate-Sensitive Hotspots in South Asia - Amina Maharjan; Ricardo Safra de Campos; Chandni Singh; Shouvik Das; Arjun Srinivas; Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan; Sultan Ishaq; Muhammad Awais Umar; Tanzina Dilshad; Krity Shrestha; Suruchi Bhadwal; Tuhin Ghosh; et al. (Current Climate Change Reports, 2020)
Purpose of Review South Asia is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, owing to the high dependency on climate-sensitive livelihoods and recurrent extreme events. Consequently, an increasing number of households are adopting labour migration as a livelihood strategy to diversify incomes, spread risks, and meet aspirations. Under the Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia (CARIAA) initiative, four research consortia have investigated migration patterns and their inherent linkages to adaptation to climate change in climate hotspots. This article synthesizes key findings in regional context of South Asia. Recent Findings The synthesis suggests that in climate-sensitive hotspots, migration is an important livelihood diversification strategy and a response to various risks, including climate change. Typically, one or more household members, often young men, migrated internally or internationally to work in predominantly informal sectors. Remittances helped spatially diversify household income, spread risks, and insure against external stressors. The outcomes of migration are often influenced by who moves, where to, and what capacities they possess. Summary Migration was found to help improve household adaptive capacity, albeit in a limited capacity. Migration was mainly used as a response to risk and uncertainty, but with potential to have positive adaptation co-benefits.

Pollen performance modelling with an artificial neural network on commercial stone fruit cultivars - Sultan Filiz Güçlü; Ziya Öncü; Fatma Koyuncu (Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology, 2020)