Thermal challenges in lithium-ion battery technology: Investigating performance and thermal stability by Kenza Maher (22803425)

“…However, ensuring the safety and reliability of these batteries in desert environments presents significant challenges due to high temperatures, pervasive dust, and limited cooling mechanisms. …”

Addressing Challenges of Distance Learning in the Pandemic with Edge Intelligence Enabled Multicast and Caching Solution by Kashif Bilal (16896357)

Mirizzi Syndrome: Mastering the Challenge, Characterization and Management Outcomes in a Retrospective Study of 60 Cases by Yousef Yahia (19756989)

“…Liver enzyme and bilirubin levels were significantly higher in the advanced types. Preoperative diagnosis was achieved in 70% of patients, with MRCP and ERCP being the most effective diagnostic tools. …”

Visitors off the trail: Impacts on the dominant plant, bryophyte and lichen species in alpine heath vegetation in sub-arctic Sweden by Monika, Rawat

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Salvia libanotica improves glycemia and serum lipid profile in rats fed a high fat diet by Bassil, Maya

“…Group III also had better glucose tolerance following intraperitoneal glucose challenges. Additionally, the plant extract intake produced a significant improvement in serum HDL (34.4 ± 2.4 in GIII vs. 27.2 ± 1.9 mg/dl in controls) and HDL/LDL cholesterol ratio (2.79 ± 0.32 in GII and 3.02 ± 0.31 in GIII vs. 1.74 ± 0.18 in controls), as well as a decrease in abdominal fat. …”
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IS security menace by Balozian, Puzant

“…Nevertheless, this manuscript challenges that notion and advances a stream of research that suggests increasing security measures may lead to decrease in user productivity, increased user mistrust in the IT department, increased user frustration, increased user technology avoidance, increased non-malicious volitional security violations and overall may lead to increased security risk, instead of decreasing it. …”
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The downsides of information systems security policy compliance efforts by Balozian, Puzant

“…Nevertheless, this dissertation challenges that notion and advances a stream of research that suggests increasing security measures may lead to decrease in user productivity, increased user mistrust toward the IT department, increased user frustration, increased user technology avoidance, increased non-malicious volitional security violations and overall may lead to increased security risk, instead of decreasing it. …”
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Nurses’ work environment and intent to leave in Lebanese hospitals by Dimassi, Hani

“…Findings show that hospital characteristics (size, accreditation status and presence of a recruitment and retention strategy) were significantly associated with NWI-R subscales. Conclusions Participation, control and career development were key work environment challenges contributing to the attrition on nurses from Lebanese hospitals. …”
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School children growth monitoring program in the state of Qatar: Observations from two survey rounds in 2016–17 and 2019–20 by Mohammed H. Al‐Thani (21406742)

“…Statistically significant shifts in BMI‐z‐score categories were noted for students of different age groups, gender, and nationality.…”

Competition vs cooperation: An agent based model for sustainable tomatoes’ import system by Sarah Namany (17268922)

“…Based on the research findings, a competitive global market can bring economic benefits to Qatar as an importing nation, but this approach also entails substantial <u>water consumption</u> and results in significant environmental emissions. Conversely, collaboration among exporting countries demonstrates a potential 20% reduction in water usage and a 15% decrease in environmental emissions compared to the competitive scenario, offering enhanced environmental performance albeit at<u> higher economic costs</u>. …”

Towards secure private and trustworthy human-centric embedded machine learning: An emotion-aware facial recognition case study by Muhammad Atif Butt (10849980)

“…However, despite the significant impact of AI design on human interests, the security and trustworthiness of edge AI applications are not foolproof and ethicalneither foolproof nor ethical; Moreover, social norms are often ignored duringin the design, implementation, and deployment of edge AI systems. …”

Hydrogen energy systems: Technologies, trends, and future prospects by Abdellatif M. Sadeq (16931841)

“…Adoption at scale could decrease global <i>CO</i>_<em>2</em>emissions by up to 830 million tonnes annually. …”

Reinforced steering Evolutionary Markov Chain for high-dimensional feature selection by Atiq ur Rehman (3044409)

“…(v) The effective size of successful agents is reduced recursively while progressing through different states to further facilitate the speed of convergence and decrease the number of features. (vi) The performance comparison with state-of-the-art feature selection methods shows a significant improvement and promise of the proposed method over the existing methods.…”

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexually transmitted infection testing and diagnosis in Lebanon: A retrospective chart review by Sunji, Nadine

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Accelerating Care: Enhancing Patient Satisfaction through a Quality Initiative in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Emergency Department at Al Wakra Hospital, Qatar by Lolwa Al Ansari (18466227)

“…<h3>Background</h3><p dir="ltr">Al Wakra Hospital's Obstetrics and Gynaecology Emergency Department (OB ED) faced challenges of overcrowding, and prolonged wait times. …”

A clustering metaheuristic for large orienteering problems by Almiqdad Elzein (13141038)

“…The Orienteering Problem is a challenging NP-hard problem, such that obtaining optimal or near optimal solutions usually requires a significant amount of computation for large and even moderately large instances. …”

High-Performance Acetic Acid Sensing Using Cerium-MoS₂ Composite for Beverages and Food Processing Industry by E. Safamariyam (22330186)

“…<p dir="ltr">Acetic acid plays a central role in numerous industrial processes, chemical reactions, and food products, highlighting its broad significance and diverse applications. Developing advanced sensing technologies capable of real-time, sensitive detection of acetic acid is crucial for addressing analytical challenges and meeting the growing demand for efficient monitoring solutions across various industries. …”

Unsustainability in emergent systems by Haddad, Marc

“…These challenges are already significant enough to seriously hamper the network's ability to deliver an acceptable level of service within reasonable norms for environmental, health and safety impacts, especially in and around the country's major urban centers. …”
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Multilayer Reversible Data Hiding Based on the Difference Expansion Method Using Multilevel Thresholding of Host Images Based on the Slime Mould Algorithm by Abu Zitar, Raed

“…In the DE-based RDH method, finding spaces that create less distortion in the marked image is a significant challenge, and has a high insertion capacity. …”
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Phase II National Study: Job Satisfaction and Workplace Environment Among Community Pharmacists in Lebanon: Pre and Post Economic Crisis by Salaheddin, Amira Talaat

“…In Lebanon, pharmacists face unique challenges stemming from an ongoing economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a shifting healthcare landscape. …”
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