Prevalence, correlates and management of hyperglycemia in diabetic non-critically Ill patients at a tertiary care center in Lebanon by El Khoury, Ghada

“…Therefore, prevention of hyperglycemia is critical to decrease the length of hospital stay and to reduce complications and readmissions. …”
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Data-Efficient Wheat Disease Detection Using Shifted Window Transformer: Enhancing Accuracy, Sustainability, and Global Food Security by Muhammad Khubaib (22927822)

“…<p dir="ltr">Wheat is an essential crop that plays a vital role in global food security, but is susceptible to a variety of diseases, which have the potential to drastically decrease crop productivity. Detection of disease at an early stage and in an accurate manner is crucial to minimize crop losses. …”

Evaluation of pretreatment and membrane configuration for pressure-retarded osmosis application to produced water from the petroleum industry by Dareen Dardor (17052381)

“…When minimally pretreated PW (10-micron cartridge filtration (CF)) was tested in FLS mode, severe membrane fouling occurred and the PRO flux decreased by 60%. In contrast, HF modules showed <1% flux decrease under both minimal and intermediate pretreatment schemes. …”

Crumpled MXene nanosheets for sensing of ascorbic acid in food, biological fluids, and erythrocytes in-vitro microenvironment by Shabi Abbas Zaidi (4234354)

“…The sensor also demonstrated excellent reproducibility (~1 % RSD for five repetitive assays) and a shelf life of nearly one month with a negligible decrease in response. Furthermore, it lost only 10 % of its response for the next ten days. …”

Proteome analysis of Candida albicans cell wall mutants. (c2011) by Koussa, Joseph Wissam

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Improving the Performance Measurement Using Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) in Borouge by ALMUTAWA, MUBARAK

“…Moreover, breakdown losses were 2.2% for first extruder and 6.06% for second extruder, and decreased quality losses were 1.28% for first extruder and 2.8% for second extruder for the study of six significant losses (which became three big losses due to speed losses and set up/adjustment do not exist).…”
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Turkronicles: diachronic resources for the fast evolving Turkish language by Togay Yazar (22828175)

“…Specifically, we show that vocabulary divergence increases over time, as expected. Due to such significant vocabulary change in Turkish over time, similarity between the periods 1920–1929 and 2010–2019 is 57%. …”

Role of family in supporting children with mental disorders in Qatar by Abdulnaser A. Fakhrou (16855155)

“…In addition, the study will examine the importance of family rehabilitation and integration of people with mental disorders into society.</p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">The study adopts the descriptive-analytical method and uses a questionnaire to gather data from the participants. …”

Sex differences on quality of life and mental health outcomes when using a brief cognitive-behavioral skill building intervention with adolescent Syrian refugees: a secondary analy... by Kazandjian, Chant

“…Males demonstrated a significant decrease in anxiety scores compared to females. Among males only, significant decreases in depression and anxiety scores were observed with significant improvement in total QOL.…”
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Glycemic Index of commonly consumed Lebanese mixed meals and desserts by Daher, C. F.

“…The determination of the Glycemic Index (GI) and Load (GL) for mixed meals serves as a dietetic tool in meal planning to reinforce the benefits of low GI meals and decrease the physiological effects of high GI meals. …”
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Do near-bedtime usage of smartphones and problematic internet usage really impact sleep? A study based on objectively recorded usage data by Aftab Alam (5158601)

“…This paper aims to study the associations of objectively collected smartphone near-bedtime usage and problematic internet usage (PIU) with parameters of sleep quality. </p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">The dataset had 269 (55% Female, 55.13% Adults) participants. …”

Pleiotropic functions of the tumor- and metastasis-suppressing matrix metalloproteinase-8 in mammary cancer in MMTV-PyMT transgenic mice by Julie Decock (44558)

“…Using quantitative real-time RT-PCR, we tracked the expression of the entire Mmp and Timp gene families, observing a significant decrease in Mmp3 expression in Mmp8-null tumors compared to wild-type and heterozygotes throughout the time course of the model, which was confirmed at the protein level. …”

The effect of Ramadan focused education on patients with type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Hoda Gad (6470522)

“…</p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">Literature search was done in PubMed, Embase (Ovid), and the Cochrane Library. …”

Boron doped silver-copper alloy nanoparticle targeting intracellular S. aureus in bone cells by Tahir Abdulrehman (8697696)

“…</p><h3>Methods</h3><p dir="ltr">ACB nanoparticles were synthesized and conjugated to the Cadherin-11 antibody (OBAb). …”

Intelligent route to design efficient CO₂ reduction electrocatalysts using ANFIS optimized by GA and PSO by Majedeh Gheytanzadeh (17541927)

“…Considering the high cost and time-consuming experimental investigations, computational methods, particularly machine learning algorithms, can be the appropriate approach for efficiently screening the metal alloys as the electrocatalysts. …”

Retinal imaging based glaucoma detection using modified pelican optimization based extreme learning machine by Debendra Muduli (20748758)

“…This method is entitled extracting curve-like features and creating a feature set. …”

Initial risk assessment for pulmonary hypertension in patients with COPD by Yammine, Joe

“…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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Effective removal of phenol from wastewater using a hybrid process of graphene oxide adsorption and UV-irradiation by Mohammad A. Al-Ghouti (8882054)

“…The GO1 and GO2 were prepared using (H₂SO₄ and H₃PO₄) and (H₂SO₄, H₃PO₄, and HNO₃), respectively. …”

Thermo-economic analysis of an integrated solar power generation system using nanofluids by Alashkar, Adnan

“…After comparing the three modes of operation, it is established that the existence of a storage system leads to a higher power generation, and a lower LEC; however, the efficiency of the cycle drops. …”
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Reliability of high strain ionomeric polymer transducers fabricated using the direct assembly process by Akle, Barbar

“…Large voltage and large strain are proven to decrease the life of the transducer. Formamide based samples are stable for 3 days under a 1 V actuation signal, while they are only reliable for 3–4 h under a 2 V actuation signal. …”
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