Country of birth affects blood pressure in the French hypertensive diabetic population حسب Bahous, Sola Aoun

"…Increased body mass index (BMI), waist-hip ratio (WHR), and deprivation scores, but not increased plasma lipids or glycemia, were consistently associated with the African-born population. …"
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Orthodontic camouflage versus orthodontic-orthognathic surgical treatment in borderline class III malocclusion: a systematic review حسب Maged S. Alhammadi (14150757)

"…The results are presented as pre- and post-treatment values or mean changes in both groups. Two studies reported significant retrusion of the maxillary and mandibular bases in OC, in contrast to significant maxillary protrusion and mandibular retrusion with increased ANB angle in OOS. …"

Tranexamic acid for the prevention of blood loss after cesarean section: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials حسب Huzaifa Ahmad Cheema (16328980)

"…TXA reduced the risk of blood loss >1000 mL, mean total blood loss, and the need for blood transfusion in both low- and high-risk patients. …"

The Assessment of Wind Power for Electricity Generation in Lebanon حسب Elkhoury, Michel

"…Implementing such wind farms would greatly decrease the harmful emission of greenhouse gases produced by the energy sector devoted to electricity generation by fuel (El-Fadel et al., 2003). …"
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Investigation of positive education implementation and its impact on students' wellbeing and academic self-efficacy in K-12 private schools in Dubai حسب KHREIBI, RIMA ABOU

"…The findings revealed the following: 1) in recent years there has been increasing positive education implementation grounding in the recent international, national, local, and educational authority policies and initiatives. 2) absence of standardised local and school policy related to positive education implementation has led to the need for adaptability of positive education implementation across school. 3) there has been strong engagement of the internal school community (teachers, school leaders and students) with external school community (parents). 4) significant changes in the overall level DSWC indicators associated with social emotional wellbeing, life satisfaction, perseverance, feeling safe, and belonging to school. 5) insignificant changes associated with DSWC indicators associated with emotional regulation, happiness, optimism, academic self-concept, cognitive engagement, engagement (flow), peer belonging and school climate. 6) PASS assessment factors show increase in wellbeing, motivation and self-efficacy for regulation and decrease in academic self-efficacy. 7) significant increase in emotional, social wellbeing and academic self-efficacy among students due to positive education implementation as perceived by teachers, parents, and students.…"
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Breast cancer cells and bone marrow mesenchymal stromal cells حسب Faour, Wissam H.

"…Co-cultures with either MG-63 cells or MSCs induced OPG and MMP-2 in both tumor cell lines. Interestingly, conditioned medium from co-cultures of MSCs and MDA-MB-231 cells significantly decreased the proliferation of activated T lymphocytes which was reversed by addition of anti-OPG antibodies to the co-cultures. …"
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Intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) treatment of retinal angiomatous proliferation حسب Ghazi, Nicola G.

"…Results: Twelve eyes (92.3%) had stable or improved BCVA, and 8 eyes (61.5%) had at least 2 lines of vision improvement. The average BCVA improved from 20/203 at baseline to 20/113 at 12 weeks (P = 0.001). …"
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PSA-activated proaerolysin as a prostate specific cancer therapy حسب Abi-Habib, Ralph

"…Activity toward proaerolysin was decreased 10-100 fold for each of the proteases tested except PSA, which showed a 4-fold increase in activity against the modified protein. …"
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The mechanism of action of kefir and its effect on the motility of breast and colorectal cancer cells. (c2013) حسب Khoury, Nathalie El

"…In this study, we aim to determine a possible mechanism of action of kefir and to study its effect on the motility of colorectal and breast cancer cell lines. Results from the reverse-transcription PCR experiment have shown that kefir decreases the expression of TGF-α and TGF-β1 in HT-29 cells in a dose dependent manner. …"
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Transfer function analysis between arterial pressure and renal sympathetic nerve activity at cardiac pacing frequencies in the rat حسب Kanbar, Roy

"…Cardiac pacing slightly increased mean AP (0.8 ± 0.2 mmHg/Hz) and decreased pulse pressure (−3.6 ± 0.3 mmHg/Hz) while leaving the mean level of RSNA essentially unaltered (P = 0.680, repeated-measures ANOVA). …"
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FiLM-SimVP: Scalable Uncertainty Quantification in Spatiotemporal Forecasting حسب Shehel Yoosuf (23073535)

"…The model achieves an improvement of 1.1% in Mean Absolute Error and 6% in Mean Squared Error compared to baseline approaches with only slightly increased parameters and computations. …"

Calibration of building model based on indoor temperature for overheating assessment using genetic algorithm: Methodology, evaluation criteria, and case study حسب Mutasim Baba, Fuad

"…With the increased severity, intensity, and frequency of “heatwaves” due to climate change, it has become imperative to study the overheating risks in existing buildings. …"
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Between a rock and a hard place حسب Itani, Omar S.

"…The major aim of this paper is to examine how frontline employees — investment account managers — deal with the ongoing increase in customer demandingness. To address this, we draw on adaptability performance theory to test the facilitating effect of frontline employees' post-transaction service behaviors (SBs) — diligence, inducements, information communication, sportsmanship, and empathy — as a means of adaptation to higher levels of customer demand. …"
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Psychological and Coping Strategies Related to Home Isolation and Social Distancing in Children and Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-sectional Study حسب Abduljaleel Abdullatif Zainel (18055382)

"…The mean score varied little with increasing reported vulnerability to the virus. …"

High phosphorus diet mitigates impairments in lipid and glucose metabolism associated with diet-induced obesity in male sprague dawley rats حسب Bassil, Maya

"…Thirty Sprague-Dawley adult male rats (mean weight = 201±3g) were allocated into 3 equal groups receiving either a balanced diet (control), high fat diet with regular P concentration of 0.3% (HF) or high fat, high P (0.9%) diet (HFHP). …"
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Factors behind the fragmentation of the Lebanese Maronites after the 1975 Civil War حسب Rowayheb, Marwan George

"…Third, to what extent would divergences of opinion about the meaning and outcomes of defeat contribute to loss of cohesion? …"
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Conceptual Skills in Leading Change: A Competence Approach to Public Sector Leadership حسب JASIM, ARIF FADHEL AHMED

"…The highest level of leaders makes fewer conceptual errors, and these errors increase as the levels decrease. Furthermore, just as there are essential conceptual skills to lead change, there are also misconceptions. …"
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Association between sources of sexuality education, sexual beliefs and behaviours in Lebanese young adults حسب Bouclaous, Carmel H.

"…This study assessed the association between sources of sexuality education, sexual beliefs and behaviour among Lebanese youth. 451 unmarried students at a private university, mean age 20.25 (±1.41) years, participated in the study. …"
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Determinants of Disordered Eating Patterns among an LGTBQ Community in Lebanon حسب Harb, Hana

"…Generally, the LBGTQ population in this study scored higher than cisgender and heterosexual individuals for the mean and global scores of the EDE-Q, indicating an increased risk for disordered eating behaviors and attitudes. …"
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Patterns of pain medication use in older individuals with cardiovascular disease حسب Kabbara, Wissam K.

"…Among the admitted patients, 64.2% of the females received at least one pain medication, as compared to 49% of the males (p = 0.002). Participants had a mean age of 76.34 ± 7.43 years, and received a mean of 1.81 ± 0.83 pain medications. …"
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