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Identification of Important Sea Turtle Areas (ITAs) for hawksbill turtles in the Arabian Region
Published 2014“…Overall, Gulf turtles spent 68% of the time in foraging ground with home ranges of 40–60km2 and small core areas of 6km2. Adult female turtles from Oman were significantly larger than Gulf turtles by ~11cm x¯=81.4CCL and spent 83% of their time foraging in smaller home ranges with even smaller core areas (~3km2), likely due to better habitat quality and food availability. …”
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Dynamic Performance Investigation of Solar‐Driven Vapor Absorption Cooling System for Urban Areas
Published 2025“…<p dir="ltr">Solar energy in urban areas due to excessive air conditioning usage in buildings may significantly reduce the consumption of fossil fuels. …”
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Intention to stay of nurses in current posts in difficult-to-staff areas of Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon and Qatar
Published 2013“…Conclusions Studies of nurses working in these areas can help national policymakers and local nursing directors better manage the sparse nursing workforce in these localities and to provide them with appropriate incentives and support to encourage them to stay.…”
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Internet Searches for Medical Symptoms Before Seeking Information on 12-Step Addiction Treatment Programs: A Web-Search Log Analysis
Published 2019“…Specifically, symptom queries were first determined to be significantly predictive of subsequent 12-step queries if the probability of querying a medical symptom by those who later sought information about the 12-step program exceeded the probability of that same query being made by a comparison group of all other Bing users in the United States. …”
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Prevalence and genetic diversity of Blastocystis sp. among autochthonous and immigrant patients in Italy
Published 2023“…These results provide baseline data to better investigate a potential interaction between Blastocystis sp. and other risk factors in patients with gastrointestinal symptoms.…”
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A novel hybrid methodology for fault diagnosis of wind energy conversion systems
Published 2023“…Feature selection pre-processing is an important step to increase the accuracy of the classification algorithm and decrease the dimensionality of a dataset. …”
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“Assessment of Malnutrition Care Practices and Knowledge in Lebanese Hospitals
Published 2020“…Results showed that private hospitals scored better than governmental hospitals for the malnutrition practice questionnaire (80.4% of private hospitals scored in the “Good Practice” category versus 37.5% for governmental hospitals: P-value= 0.009) and that the presence of a documented malnutrition care protocol was significantly associated with this practice score (P-value = 0.045). …”
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A GRASP Approach for Solving Large-Scale Electric Bus Scheduling Problems
Published 2021“…The results of the conducted computational experiments indicate that an increase in infrastructure investment through high speed chargers can significantly decrease the size of the necessary fleets. …”
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Outdoor Air Pollution and Human Health
Published 2022“…<p dir="ltr">“Outdoor Air Pollution and Human Health” addresses one of the most critical areas of concern in society. Air pollution exposure is well known to cause several diseases and pose a greater risk to human health, and most significantly contributes to cardiopulmonary diseases, stroke, lung cancer, and communicable diseases, such as pneumonia. …”
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W-Transformers : A Wavelet-based Transformer Framework for Univariate Time Series Forecasting
Published 2022“…Evaluating our framework on several publicly available benchmark time series datasets from various domains and with diverse characteristics, we demonstrate that it performs, on average, significantly better than the baseline forecasters for short-term and long-term forecasting, even for datasets that consist of only a few hundred training samples.…”
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A decision support system for automating document retrieval and citation screening
Published 2021“…The proposed DSS is effective and can substantially decrease the document retrieval and citation screening steps' workload and error rate.…”
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SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH FOR WHOLE LIFE CYCLE COST MODELLING OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDING PROJECTS IN UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Published 2020“…In addition, modelling project's cash flow is the most helpful approach to apply stochastic area method (easy-to-apply) analysis. Multiple scenarios provide better understanding of future events. …”
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Food safety and handling knowledge and practices of Lebanese university students
Published 2014“…Health-related majors scored significantly (p ≤ 0.001) better on both practices and knowledge questions. …”
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Comparing the effectiveness of concept-based curricula and video-based curricula in ESL primary classrooms
Published 2022“…Outcomes: The findings from this study demonstrate that the students who studied using video-based learning as a learning approach, accompanied by discussion, performed significantly better than those who studied with concept-based learning in understanding English language grammar. …”
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Initial risk assessment for pulmonary hypertension in patients with COPD
Published 2012“…Diffusion capacity was lower but did not reach statistical significance (P = 0.07). In multivariate analysis, statistically significant independent variables were >3% decrease in exercise oxyhemoglobin saturation and decline in prebronchodilator FEV1 (P = 0.01 and P = 0.04, respectively). …”
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Use of Ultrasound and Ionic Liquids to Enhance the Extractive Desulfurization of Oils
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Risk-Management Framework and Information-Security Systems for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs): A Meta-Analysis Approach
Published 2023“…To evaluate this, we conducted a systematic literature review spanning 2016 to 2021, focusing on IT risk-management research in various application areas. This study revealed that, while established frameworks like NIST have their benefits, they need to be better suited to the unique needs of SMEs due to their high degree of abstractness, vague guidelines, and lack of adaptability to technological advancements. …”