Debt arrears as a signal of sovereign defaults by Zeaiter, Hussein

“…The accuracy of the inference about the risk of default is very important to the potential creditors in their lending decisions. …”
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State of the Art in Separation Processes for Alternative Working Fluids in Clean and Efficient Power Generation by Odi Fawwaz Alrebei (18288904)

“…On the other hand, despite those efforts, the high demand for energy produced by fossil-fueled gas turbines in power plants has resulted in dramatic increases in anthropogenic CO₂ and NOx emitted by gas combustors. …”

An assessment of the impact of sticky floors and glass ceilings in Lebanon by Dah, Abdallah

“…In fact, discrimination against females could occur at different stages of their career path. The wage gap is apparent at the top (glass ceiling) as well as at the bottom (sticky floors) of wage distribution. …”
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Properties of simulated annealing and genetic algorithms for mapping data to multicomputers by Mansour, Nashat

“…These properties of flexibility and general applicability, which are lacking in other heuristic algorithms, make the GA and SA attractive for automatic parallelization systems.…”
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Throughput of ARQ protocols over Rician, Nakagami and MIMO block fading channels by Zummo, Salam A.

“…Abstract Block fading is a popular channel model that approximates the behavior of different wireless communication systems. Automatic-repeat request (ARQ) protocols are used to provide reliable communication in wireless networks. …”
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Comparative Study of Deep Learning Models for Unimodal & Multimodal Disaster Data for Effective Disaster Management by MOHAMED, DENA AHMED

“…In this study, a multimodal deep learning system for automatic classification of disaster tweets was developed. …”
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Global User-Level Perception of COVID-19 Contact Tracing Applications: Data-Driven Approach Using Natural Language Processing by Kashif Ahmad (12592762)

“…</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">We used 8 different methods on 3 different tasks, achieving up to an average F1 score of 94.8%, indicating the feasibility of the proposed solution. …”

Fiber-matrix interfacial area reduction in fiber reinforced cements and concretes at moderate to high fiber volume fractions by Karam, Gebran N.

“…Fiber-fiber interaction and overlap of fibers with fibers, voids and aggregates can dramatically decrease the efficiency of the reinforcement by reducing this interfacial area. …”
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ON OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION OF ARABIC TEXT by Zidouri1, Abdelmalek

“…We give a brief survey of the state of the art in Arabic Character Recognition and different methods and approaches to this problem. We show that recognition can be achieved by simple matching to prebuilt prototypes of all the Arabic Character set. …”
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An energy-aware retransmission model for multimedia communications over wireless networks. (c2010) by Abdallah, Deema Abed Al-Rahman

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Deep Learning Speech-Text Chatbot for High School Advising by Assayed, Suha Khalil

“…Additionally, automatic speech recognition (ASR) is incorporated to convert spoken inquiries into text, allowing the chatbot to generate effective responses. …”
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Recognition of Off-line printed Arabic text Using Hidden Markov Models by Al-Muhtaseb, Husni A.

“…This paper describes a technique for automatic recognition of off-line printed Arabic text using Hidden Markov Models. …”
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Extensible user-based XML grammar matching by Tekli, Joe

“…XML grammar matching has found considerable interest recently due to the growing number of heterogeneous XML documents on the web and the increasing need to integrate, and consequently search and retrieve XML data originated from different data sources. In this paper, we provide an approach for automatic XML grammar matching and comparison aiming to minimize the amount of user effort required to perform the match task. …”
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Multiple Proposals for Continuous Arabic Sign Language Recognition by Hassan, Mohamed

“…This work presents a comprehensive comparison between two different recognition techniques for continuous ArSLR, namely a Modified k-Nearest Neighbor (MKNN) which is suitable for sequential data and Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) techniques based on two different toolkits. …”
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Unsupervised Extractive Text Summarization Using Frequency-Based Sentence Clustering by Hajjar, Ali

“…Large texts are not always entirely meaningful: they might include repetitions and useless details, and might not be easy to interpret by humans. Automatic text summarization aims to simplify text by making it shorter and (possibly) more informative. …”
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Continuous Arabic Sign Language Recognition in User Dependent Mode by Assaleh, Khaled

“…Previous attempts at automatic visionbased recognition of Arabic Sign Language mainly focused on finger spelling and recognizing isolated gestures. …”
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LPPDA: A Light-Weight Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation Protocol for Smart Grids by Naheel Faisal Kamal (17983783)

“…Smart meters allow for automatic electricity consumption reporting to energy providers to facilitate billing and demand-based power generation. …”

Demographics and Epidemiology of Hepatitis B in the State of Qatar: A Five-Year Surveillance-Based Incidence Study by Hamad E. Al Romaihi (18112765)

“…Rates of hepatitis B cases declined dramatically in 2014, in both Qataris and non-Qataris, as compared to the previous years.…”

Rapid climate changes and human dynamics during the holocene in the eastern mediterranean (Lower Strymon Valley, northern Greece) by Glais, Arthur

“…The later periods are characterized by dramatic climatic change around 3.2–3 ka cal BP, at the end of Late Bronze Age, and increasing impacts of agro-pastoral activities and forest clearing starting at the beginning of Antiquity, around 2.8 ka cal BP (Thracian period). …”
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A Deep Learning Approach for Real-Time Analysis of Attendees’ Engagement in Public Events by Samuel Mathew, Sujith

“…Such model can be leveraged for the automatic analysis of attendees’ engagement level in events. …”
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