Associating learning technology to sustain the environment through green mobile applications by Haraty, Ramzi A.

“…With “quality education” a major issue for the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, it is a must that we loop together the “quality education” with education per se. It is imperative that we engage the youth in attaining this objective, for it is not enough that we empower them with the tools, we must encourage them to look at the current issues outside the box, through a worldwide view, where the focus nowadays is on the environment, be it in reducing fuel usage, decreasing air and water pollution, and recycling, in brief, being environment friendly. …”
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Acute pain management and assessment by Zeitoun, Abeer A.

“…Appropriateness of pain management was determined as per World Health Organization guidelines. Institutional Review Board approvals were obtained from each hospital. …”
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Reply to Comments by Kakkar and Dahiya by Chahine, Elias B.

“…TO THE EDITOR: Chahine, Karaoui, and Mansour1 reviewed the efficacy and safety of bedaquiline in the treatment of adults with pulmonary multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and generally agree with the comments made by Kakkar and Dahiya.2 Bedaquiline was approved by the Food and Drug Administration based largely on results from phase 2 studies using sputum conversion as a surrogate marker for efficacy rather than long-term mortality data.2 Bedaquiline was shown to be associated with an unfavorable side effect profile, including an unexplained increased risk of mortality, QT prolongation, and elevated liver function tests.2 However, it is important to acknowledge that bedaquiline is the first novel drug to be approved for the treatment of TB in more than 4 decades and the communities devastated by MDR-TB are in desperate need for more options to manage their patients. …”
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In Vitro and In Vivo Effects of Lebanese Cannabis Oil Against Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) by Lteif, Anthony

“…WEHI-3 cells were treated with increasing concentrations of COE to determine the IC50 after 24, 48 and 72-hours post treatment. …”
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Towards electric digital twin grid: Technology and framework review by Md. Mhamud Hussen Sifat (17337913)

“…Thus, the power grid transmission loss and location of the overheated line and power connection missing can be detected in addition decision-making and self-healing can possible. …”

Effects of paternal and chronological age on BEGAIN methylation and its possible role in autism by Ramya Potabattula (4401160)

“…<p dir="ltr">Children from old fathers carry an increased risk for autism spectrum (ASD) and other neurodevelopmental disorders, which may at least partially be mediated by paternal age effects on the sperm epigenome. …”

Dexamethasone Promotes a Stem-Like Phenotype in Human Melanoma Cells <i>via</i> Tryptophan 2,3 Dioxygenase by Marta Cecchi (21363581)

“…Moreover, dex stimulates spherogenesis of both cell lines, which is mediated by TDO, evident by its suppression with 680C91, a TDO inhibitor. …”

Assessment of Brain Function After 240 Days Confinement Using Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy by Yahya, Fares

“…The FCN shows a significant decrease in most of the right frontal areas. Five different machine learning classifiers are employed to differentiate between two levels of stress resulting in impressive classification accuracy rates: 96.44% with-nearest neighbor (KNN), 95.52% with linear discriminant analysis (LDA), 88.71% with Naïve Bayes (NB), 87.41 with decision trees (DT) and 96.48% with Support Vector Machine (SVM). …”
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Mortality and socio-economic outcomes among patients hospitalized for stroke and diabetes in the US: a recent analysis from the National Inpatient Sample by Aya Tabbalat (14150019)

“…In those patients, the mean (SD) age slightly decreased from 70 (13) years to 69 (13) years (p-trend < 0.001). …”

The effect of StarD13 on colorectal cancer proliferation and invasion. (c2013) by Nasrallah, Anita I.

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ROS-Mediated Autophagic Death in Glioblastoma Cells Upon Treatment by Human Recombinant Arginase I (Co)- PEG5000 [HuArgI (Co)-PEG5000] by Abdel Khalek, Maya

“…In this study, we examine the mechanism of HuArgI (Co)-PEG5000-induced cell death in both partially and completely auxotrophic GBM cell lines. Our results first showed a significant increase in HuArgI (Co)-PEG5000 treated cells for both U251 and A172 in autophagosome formation; suggesting activation of autophagy in response to arginine deprivation. …”
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The Extent to Which Schools with Mechanistic Structures and their Job Characteristics are Likely to Generate Teachers’ Organisational Commitment: Study Conducted in a Private Schoo... by Mansour, Hadi

“…Staff are motivated due to their perception of the importance of their roles however an increase in autonomy and authority in decision making as well as diversifying the job skills used during teaching could further increase motivation. …”
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Expanding the donor pool by Ramos, Emilio

“…In 1990, one-year graft survival rates were about 70%; by 2000, they were greater than 90% (United States Renal Data System, 2001). …”
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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

“…Average weekly working hours decreased from 59.2 hours in Phase 1 to 49.8 hours in Phase II. …”
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Driving and hypoglycemia by 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. …”

A Case Study to Identify the Hindrances to Widespread Adoption of Electric Vehicles in Qatar by Amith Khandakar (14151981)

“…<p dir="ltr">The adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) have proven to be a crucial factor to decreasing the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) into the atmosphere. …”

Effect of phosphorus supplementation on weight gain and waist circumference of overweight/obese adults by Bassil, MS

“…Methods: This is a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of 63 adults aged 18–45 years with a body mass index (BMI) of greater than or equal to25 kg m−2 and normal kidney function at the American University of Beirut. …”
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Influence of natural gas composition on adsorption in calcite Nanopores: A DFT study by Elkhansa Elbashier (14152815)

“…Additionally, in all cases, CO₂ has a greater affinity to the surface than CH₄; thus, it is more affected by the surface curvature and energy. …”

Fluorescein angiography versus superimposed OCT-guided macular laser photocoagulation by Kozak, Igor

“…The area of dye leakage on FA and increased retinal thickness on OCT on the same eye was measured using Heidelberg Explorer software. …”
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DNA methylation signature in peripheral blood reveals distinct characteristics of human X chromosome numerical aberrations by El Maarri, Osman

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