Showing papers in "Journal of King Saud University - Science in 2021"

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of nano-particle seed priming on the overall germination, physiology and growth of maize thriving under salinity stress was analyzed. And the experiment was carried out in sand as a growth medium with 60-ppm TiO2 priming.

TL;DR: AuNPs have shown outstanding applications for diagnostic and therapeutic uses, including biosensor applications, tumor-targeting capability (Anticancer Activity) for cancer therapy, and precise drug delivery of nano-vehicles to diseased tissues.

TL;DR: In this article, the structural properties of hydroxychloroquine and sulfate were analyzed using topological analysis AIM, ELF and the reduced gradient of the density of density.

TL;DR: Chloroquine and the chloroquine phosphate molecules have been proposed as potential antiviral for the treatment of COVID-19 diseases combining DFT and molecular docking calculations and good agreement between the theoretical and the experimental geometrical parameters is found.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the types of plastics on the basis of thermal and biodegradable nature, degradation and bioremediation types, types of degradable plastics, characterization of biodegradation, and factors affecting biodegrading are presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the shape of OJIP transients changed due to salt stress in both salt-sensitive and salt-tolerant barley genotypes indicating a disturbance in structural stability at various points of PSII.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined five previously synthesized compounds and checked their binding affinity towards the SARS-CoV-2 main protease by molecular docking study, and compared the data with three FDA approved drugs, i.e., Remdesivir, Ivermectine and Hydroxychlorochine.

TL;DR: Self-reported acute mental health disorders were common within the academic community during the COVID-19 lockdown and strength of family bonding as a coping mechanism was instrumental in preserving mental well-being, especially in females.

TL;DR: The biosynthesized AuNPs showed a dose dependent inhibitory effect on the growth of colon cancer cells, and the maximum inhibition of the cell death was obtained when treating 25 µg/mL.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors elucidated the effect of sewage drain on groundwater contamination as including different contaminants, microbes, and pathogens, which deteriorating the groundwater by poor infiltration and seepage.

TL;DR: Environmental pollutants, PM2.5, CO and O3 have a positive association with an increased number of SARS-CoV-2 daily cases and daily deaths in London, UK.

TL;DR: In this article, the fly ash (FA) is used to remove hazardous contaminants, organic and inorganic chemicals, and dyes from wastewater, and investigations revealed that FA has promising potential beneficial usage in the construction industry, particularly in cement and concrete production.

TL;DR: In this paper, cost effective nitrogen doped carbon quantum dots (N-CQDs) anchored in cobalt oxide (Co3O4) nanocomposite was fabricated through a simple hydrothermal method.

TL;DR: In this paper, the exact solutions of the resonant non-linear Schrodinger's equation (R-NLSE) with the Kerr law nonlinearity with the assistance of the new extended direct algebraic technique are anatomized.

TL;DR: The current results have confirmed the strong genetic association between T2DM cases and controls in the Saudi population with rs13266634 polymorphisms of the SLC30A8 gene.

TL;DR: In this article, a meshless approach for approximating the nonlinear fractional fourth-order diffusion model described in the Riemann-Liouville sense is proposed, where a second-order difference technique is applied to discretize temporal derivatives, while the radial basis function meshless generated the finite difference scheme approximates the spatial derivatives.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the potency of a natural medicinal product, Sulawesi propolis compounds produced by Tetragonula sapiens, inhibiting angiotensin-converting activity enzyme-2 (ACE-2), a receptor of SARS-CoV-2 in the human body.

TL;DR: In this article, a mathematical model is formulated in light of fuzzy and weighted goal programming using membership function to quantify the achievement level towards vision 2030; hence aims to bridge the existing literature gap.

TL;DR: In this paper, the (5α,6α)-7,8-didehydro-4,5-epoxy-17-methylmorphinan-3,6-diol (morphine)molecule has been studied using the density functional theory and molecular docking methods and non-covalent interactions.

TL;DR: Most microorganisms are used as a foundation of bioplastic production and also used for the decomposition of plastics Although bioplastics production is considered expensive than artificial plastic, it has many advantages over them.

TL;DR: Two compounds, namely glyasperin A and broussoflavonol F, are potential drug candidates for COVID-19 based on their binding affinity and ability to interact with His41 and Cys145 as catalytic sites and displayed favorable interaction profiles with SARS-CoV-2 main protease.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a reduce, reuse and recycle strategy to control elevated CO2 levels by preventing deforestation, using renewable energy as an alternative for fossil fuels and reusing the atmospheric CO2.

TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical scheme based on the orthogonal basis functions including the shifted Legendre polynomials (SLPs) is proposed for PT-FIDEs with non-singular and non-local kernel.

TL;DR: In this article, a numerical scheme including discretization of the Riemann-Liouville derivative was used to depict the phase portraits of the fractional-order chaotic system when the order of the used fractionalorder derivative takes different values.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss several bio-fuel induced patterns of land managements, and generations of biofuel resources practices, cultivation of bioenergy crops environmental implications, and prospective techniques for establishing ecologically friendly biomass energy programmes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the synthesis, characterization and antimicrobial activity of Ixora brachypoda DC, which can be used as broad-spectrum antimicrobials against multi-drug resistant microbial pathogens.

TL;DR: In this paper, the steady flow and heat transfer over a moving wedge in Al2O3-Cu/water nanofluid with convective boundary condition was examined and the stability analysis was performed to identify which solution is physically stable.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used response surface methodology (RSM) and artificial neural network (ANN) to augment the biogas production from flower waste through optimization and pretreatment techniques.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used three climate models to estimate the future distribution of SHBs in Africa and South Europe, considering the lowest and the highest limits of the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (126 and 585).

TL;DR: In this article, the isolation and identification of Exopolysaccharide (EPS) producing bacteria from polluted soil samples and its in vitro antioxidant activities were investigated using 16-s rDNA genome sequencing method.