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Policy Brief: Addressing Barriers and Empowering Entrepreneurs in Lebanon.
Published 2025“…This policy brief examines the key factors influencing entrepreneurial success in Lebanon, focusing on gender dynamics, socio-cultural barriers, and systemic challenges. Entrepreneurship plays a critical role in Lebanon’s economic growth, innovation, and job creation, yet local entrepreneurs face significant obstacles. …”
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Barriers of Adopting Artificial Intelligence Tools in Engineering Construction Projects
Published 2023“…Engineering construction projects using AI technologies create obstacles. Barriers prevent AI integration in construction. Insufficient knowledge and understanding of AI, data management and integration issues, legal and regulatory hurdles, financial considerations, reluctance to change, and interoperability issues all hinder AI system adoption and implementation. …”
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Breast cancer screening in Lebanon: Understanding knowledge, attitudes and barriers
Published 2024“…Furthermore, 38.5 % encountered obstacles to mammography screening. Education significantly affected BC knowledge. Interestingly, increased knowledge of BC reduced barriers to mammographic screening. …”
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The Environmental Barriers to Active School Travel Among Private School Students in Dubai
Published 2021“…Among built environment features, street connectivity and traffic calming measures are significant factors. Since most of the private school students in Dubai are living beyond the walking distance threshold, it may be concluded that distance between home and school is the main barrier to AST.…”
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Policy Brief on Entrepreneurship in Lebanon Unlocking Potentials: Addressing Barriers and Empowering Entrepreneurs in Lebanon
Published 2024“…The socio-cultural context presents unique barriers for women entrepreneurs, who face gender norms and structural inequalities. …”
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Predictors, barriers, and facilitators to refugee women’s employment and economic inclusion: A mixed methods systematic review
Published 2024“…The qualitative synthesis uncovers three key themes: the meaning and significance of employment; barriers to employment; and facilitators and coping for employment. …”
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Policy Brief on Entrepreneurship in UAE Fostering Inclusive Growth for Nascent Entrepreneurs in the UAE: Addressing Gender and Cultural Barriers
Published 2024“…This paper highlights the significant progress the UAE has made in developing its entrepreneurial landscape while emphasizing persistent challenges faced by women. …”
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Attitudes, motivators, and barriers toward influenza vaccination for children: a study from a conflict-ridden country
Published 2024“…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">Despite the increased recommendations for influenza vaccination, particularly among high-risk groups such as young children, Yemen lacks an influenza vaccination program, and the influenza vaccine is not included in the national immunization regime. …”
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12/15-Lipoxygenase-Derived Lipid Metabolites Induce Retinal Endothelial Cell Barrier Dysfunction: Contribution of NADPH Oxidase
Published 2013“…ROS generation and NOX2 expression were also measured in mice retinas. 12- and 15- HETE significantly increased permeability and reduced TER and ZO-1expression in REC. …”
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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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Compliance and barriers to the use of infection prevention and control measures among health care workers during COVID‐19 pandemic in Qatar: A national survey
Published 2021“…Participants reported a significant increase in the median self-rated compliance scores during the pandemic compared with before it (<em>p</em> < .001). …”
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Developing a Sustainable Procurement Action Plan for Public Sector in Ajman
Published 2011“…Depletion of natural resources, affecting biodiversity and increasing poverty are common challenges faced by many communities all around the world. …”
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Impact of Using Recycled Materials in the Construction Industry of the United Arab Emirates
Published 2015“…The main barrier to the achievement of sustainability relates to the increasing levels of wastes generated in the industry. …”
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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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Microbial Dysbiosis Tunes the Immune Response Towards Allergic Disease Outcomes
Published 2022“…<p>The hygiene hypothesis has been popularized as an explanation for the rapid increase in allergic disease observed over the past 50 years. …”
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Dextran Sodium Sulfate-Induced Impairment of Protein Trafficking and Alterations in Membrane Composition in Intestinal Caco-2 Cell Line
Published 2020“…DSS treatment significantly reduced the transepithelial electric resistance (TEER) and increased the epithelial permeability of Caco-2 cells, without affecting their viability. …”
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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. …”
