Decreased Analgesic Requirements in Super Morbidly Versus Morbidly Obese Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy by Hamed Elgendy (14148846)

Deep learning-based modeling of land use/land cover changes impact on land surface temperature in Greater Amman Municipality, Jordan (1980–2030) by Khaled F. Alkaraki (22051967)

“…This study aimed to model past, present, and future LULCC on Land Surface Temperatures in the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) in Jordan between 1980 and 2030. …”

Challenges for road safety in fast developing societies: We need a vision zero to permanently reduce accidents and save life and health by facing fast increasing traffic by Kurt Bodewig (19794543)

Assessment of strategic management practice in private nonprofit hospitals in Greater Beirut. (c1996) by Baltagi, Dima Abdallah

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Intelligent Rapidly-Exploring Random Tree Star Algorithm by Ahmed, Khidir Galal Eldin Khidir

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Increasing efficiency of Atriums in Hot Arid Zones by Vethanayagam, Vijayantha

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Giving cancer patients the support they need by Nature Research (16552612)

Emergency ultrasound training needs review by Nature Research (16552612)

“…Also, as their level of confidence in their diagnoses increased, their accuracy was found to improve.</p><p>“These points along with the different thresholds for accuracy between right upper quadrant and abdominal aorta [scans] show that the number of scans needed to reach competency may be variable dependent on the specific ultrasound application,” write the researchers. …”

Estimating Economic and Environmental Benefits of Urban Trees in Desert Regions by Rima J. Isaifan (8350056)

“…In addition, trees have other benefits including increasing property value, intercepting storm water runoff and saving energy needed for cooling of buildings in hot seasons. …”

An Efficient Network-on-Chip Architecture Based on the Fat-Tree (FT) Topology by Bouhraoua, A.

“…The adopted topology increases performance without a substantial increase in the routing cost. …”
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DIFFERENT BRANCHES OF THE SAME TREE: INVESTIGATING THE IMPORTANCE OF BRANCH CAMPUSES OF RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES by Ezzeddine, Lama

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Activism, Change and Sectarianism in the Free Patriotic Movement in Lebanon by Helou, Joseph P.

“…This book explores the thirty-year trajectory of the Free Patriotic Movement that aimed to achieve the freedom, sovereignty and independence of Lebanon from the Lebanese political elite and Syrian hegemony. …”
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A 'cloud-free' security model for cloud computing by Yunis, Manal M.

“…The 'cloud-free' security model symbolises a computing model with a low level of uncertainty regarding security concerns. …”
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Customers' need for uniqueness theory versus brand congruence theory by Abosag, Ibrahim

“…Social media brands may experience a lack of competitiveness and attraction due to the silent negative increase of customers' need for uniqueness (NFU). This is the result of a tension between the theory of brand congruence, that most brands endeavor to establish with their customers, and the theory of consumers' NFU, that many consumers aim to fulfill, that has not been previously examined. …”
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Meeting the need for online learning at the HCT: Investigating alternatives to BBVista by Al Mansoori, Aamna Esmaeel

“…This implies the need for flexibility, allowing for individual preferences and experience with ICT, but also the need for a set of overarching values, to respond to the changing role of the institution as a provider of information and the shift, for educators, from sources of knowledge to facilitators of collaborative information management. …”
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Distributed Tree-Based Machine Learning for Short-Term Load Forecasting With Apache Spark by Ameema Zainab (16864263)

“…However, with the huge increase in data size, sophisticated models have to be created which require big data platforms. …”

Adaptation Effectiveness and Free-Riding Incentives in International Environmental Agreements by Benchekroun, Hassan

“…While an international agreement over the reduction of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions proves to be elusive, there is a large and growing support for investment in developing more effective technologies to adapt to climate change. We show that an increase in effectiveness of adaptation will diminish the incentive of individual countries to free-ride on a global agreement over emissions. …”
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Potential of horizontal louvers in increased energy savings in a commercial building in Dubai by BORDAWEKAR, SANIYA

“…Building façade contributes to a major share of energy expenditure in residential as well as commercial buildings. There is a need to look for alternate options of façade design, in order to replace the glazing option contributing to greenhouse gases and global warming. …”
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Video surveillance using deep transfer learning and deep domain adaptation: Towards better generalization by Yassine Himeur (14158821)

“…However, they might not perform as expected, take much time in training, or not have enough input data to generalize well. To that end, deep transfer learning (DTL) and deep domain adaptation (DDA) have recently been proposed as promising solutions to alleviate these issues. …”

GFRP-Reinforced Concrete Columns: State-of-the-Art, Behavior, and Research Needs by Elkafrawy, Mohamed

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