Should the Outsiders be Left Out? Director Stock Options, Expectations and Earnings Management حسب Boumosleh, Anwar

"…A comparison of director and CEO stock options reveals that CEO options only increase the likelihood of lowering overly optimistic expectations; we find no evidence consistent with CEO options increasing the likelihood of walking up pessimistic expectations. …"
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Finite Element Analysis of Machining Lightweight Syntactic Foams حسب Thomas, Kevin Koshy

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Novel paclitaxel formulations solubilized by parenteral nutrition nanoemulsions for application against glioma cell lines حسب Najlah, Mohammad

"…The zeta potential of linoleic had a greater negative value than that of Intralipid.Loading efficiencies for paclitaxel were 70.4–80.2% and 44.2–57.4% for Clinoleic and Intralipid formulations, respectively. …"
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What drives cryptocurrency pump and dump schemes: Coin versus market factors? حسب Lanouar Charfeddine (10705000)

"…These include lower market capitalization, lower trading volume, greater social media popularity, increased developer activity, and fewer exchanges trading them. …"

Coping mechanisms among Lebanese first-time college students حسب Doumit, Rita

"…As the usage of withdrawal coping strategies, being exposed to stress related to self and uncertainty increased, the well-being of Lebanese first-time college students decreased. …"
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Towards secure private and trustworthy human-centric embedded machine learning: An emotion-aware facial recognition case study حسب Muhammad Atif Butt (10849980)

"…<p dir="ltr">The use of artificial intelligence (AI) at the edge is transforming every aspect of the lives of human beings from scheduling daily activities to personalized shopping recommendations. …"

Driving and hypoglycemia حسب Stephen Beer (5480411)

"…Hypoglycemia has been associated with cardiac arrhythmia, a decreased ability to drive and driving mishap. Recent meta-analysis of 15 studies showed a risk road traffic collisions (RTC) of 12-19% greater than general populations. …"

SynergyGrids: blockchain-supported distributed microgrid energy trading حسب Moayad Aloqaily (14158932)

"…The trading system shows 17.8% decrease in energy cost for consumers and 76.4% decrease in load over utility grids when compared with its counterparts.…"

Performance of Different Concrete Types Exposed to Elevated Temperatures: A Review حسب Alhamad, Amjad

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Distribution and predictors of emergency department charges حسب Dimassi, Hani

"…Results: Findings revealed that the professional fee (40.9 %) followed by facility fee (26.1 %) accounted for the majority of the ED charges. While greater than 80 % of visit charges went to physician and facility fee for low acuity cases, these contributed to only 52 and 54 % of the high acuity presentations where ancillary services and solutions’ contribution to the total charges increased. …"
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Effects of selenium in comparison to exendin-4 on the expression of GLP-1R, IRS-1 and preproinsulin in the pancreas of diabetic rats حسب Rizk, Sandra

"…Results obtained indicate that GLP-1R and IRS-1 levels decreased while the level of preproinsulin mRNA increased in the pancreas of diabetic untreated rats, as compared to control rats. …"
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Clinical correlates of white-matter abnormalities on head magnetic resonance imaging حسب Dimassi, Hani

"…Children with white-matter abnormalities and increased tone had a greater frequency of increased reflexes and tended to have more signal abnormalities than the other groups. …"
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Combined bronchodilators (tiotropium plus olodaterol) for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease حسب Ramadan, Wijdan H.

"…The combination of olodaterol and tiotropium provided additional improvements in lung function greater than monotherapy with each drug alone. Several well-designed randomized trials confirmed that the synergistic effect of both drugs in combination was able to improve lung function and health-related quality of life without a significant increase in adverse effects. …"
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Evaluating impact of electrified vehicles on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions reduction in Lebanese driving conditions using onboard GPS survey حسب Mansour, Charbel

"…This growth is mainly attributed to the raise of daily passenger trips and the increase of car ownership. Moreover, this increase in mobility demand results in severe congestion, mostly in Greater Beirut Area (GBA), which leads to chaotic traffic conditions. …"
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Context-Tailored Food-Based Nutrition Education and Counseling for Pregnant Women to Improve Birth Outcomes: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Malawi حسب Kamudoni, Penjani Rhoda

"…Intervention infants had greater birth length (P = 0.043) and abdominal circumference (P = 0.007) compared to controls, whereas other birth outcomes did not differ significantly. …"
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Civil Unrest and the Poaching of Rhinos in the Kaziranga National Park, India حسب Lopes, Adrian

"…This paper accounts for a period of civil unrest in Assam, India, which saw a marked increase in rhino poaching. Census data on the greater one-horned rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis) in the Kaziranga National Park in Assam are used to estimate a population growth function. …"
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Impact of Plant Life on Formaldehyde Levels in an Existing Office Setting In the UAE حسب AbuZayed, Isra Ibrahim

"…Recommendations for future research: 1) Conduct the research in a more controlled environment for optimized results. 2) Increase to plant / space ratio in order to achieve greater results.…"
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Evaluation of pretreatment and membrane configuration for pressure-retarded osmosis application to produced water from the petroleum industry حسب Dareen Dardor (17052381)

"…PRO is typically considered with seawater/river water pairings however greater energy can be recovered from hypersaline solutions including produced water (PW) from the petroleum industry. …"

Vitamin D Association With Macrophage-Derived Cytokines in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: An Enhanced Risk of COVID-19 Infection? حسب Abu Saleh Md Moin (6189512)

"…</p><h3>Conclusion</h3><p dir="ltr">Basal macrophage activation was higher in PCOS with macrophage changes related with increased infection risk associating with vitamin D; all changes were BMI dependent, suggesting that obese PCOS with vitamin D deficiency may be at greater risk of more severe COVID-19 infection, but that it is obesity-related rather than an independent PCOS factor.…"

High-level synthesis from purely behavioral descriptions حسب Youssef, H.

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