Benefit and risk analysis of an automatic meter reading system for electricité du Liban by Ghajar, Raymond F.

“…A cost/benefit analysis of the modernized system shows that the system has a payback period of 3.05 years. Like all economic evaluations, there are uncertainties associated with the estimated costs and benefits which could increase the value of the payback period. …”
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An experimental and numerical study of the effect of cryogenic cooling on the surface integrity of drilled holes in AZ31B Mg alloy by Ammouri, A. H.

“…Surface hardness values were also estimated from a Hall–Petch-like relation. Cryogenic cooling was found to have a pronounced effect in increasing surface hardness. …”
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Development, Characterization and In Vitro Evaluation of Cannabidiol Loaded Zeolite Nanoparticles by Abboud, Celine

“…Our findings support the potential of zeolites as an effective oral drug delivery system for enhancing the bioavailability of challenging drugs like CBD.…”
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Digital technology management and educational innovation by Beyrouti, Nouri

“…The internet provides a vital link to information like never before. As the number of internet users has increased, universities have begun to rely more heavily on technology in the delivery of course content and instruction. …”
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Sucrose solution intake and its schedule of access affect the response to chronic variable stress in mice by Zeeni, Nadine

“…We studied the effects of 2-hour intermittent access to sucrose-sweetened water (SSW, 12.3%, soda-like) and its schedule of administration on the response to chronic variable stress in mice fed a high-fat, high-sugar diet. …”
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Detection of Real-Time Malicious Intrusions and Attacks in IoT Empowered Cybersecurity Infrastructures by Irfan Ali Kandhro (17541876)

“…Traditional intrusion detection systems struggle with issues like poor accuracy, ineffective detection, a high percentage of false positives, and an inability to handle new types of intrusions. …”

Establishing Autonomous AUS-Quadrotor by Al Younes, Younes

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A Real-Time Energy Management System Across Diverse Energy Sectors in Smart Cities by Alshamsi, Aisha Rashid

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Burden of thyroid cancer in North Africa and Middle East 1990–2019 by Seyed Aria Nejadghaderi (11651651)

“…In 1990–2019, the overall change in thyroid cancer incident cases was a 396% increase which was mostly driven by the increase in disease-specific incidence rate (256.8%).…”

Waterpipe Tobacco Smoke Nicotine Mediates Resilience to Chronic Stress by Activating BDNF Signaling by Khalifeh, Mohamad Rabieh

“…Even though initially, WTS decreased anxiety-like behaviors it was found that prolonged exposure after the completion of CSDS significantly induced anxiety-like behaviors. …”
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Nicotine induces resilience to chronic social defeat stress in a mouse model of water pipe tobacco exposure by activating BDNF signaling by Khalifeh, Mohamad

“…Even though WTS initially decreased anxiety-like behaviors, prolonged exposure after the completion of CSDS significantly induced anxiety-like behaviors. …”
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RFX3 is essential for the generation of functional human pancreatic islets from stem cells by Bushra Memon (4792767)

“…Despite a significant reduction in the expression levels of pancreatic islet hormones, the pan-endocrine marker chromogranin A remained unchanged at both EP and islet stages, likely due to an increase in the abundance of enterochromaffin cells (ECs). …”

Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 by Joan B Soriano (6458528)

“…However, when accounting for ageing and population growth, declines were observed in age-standardised prevalence (14·3% decrease), age-standardised death rates (42·6%), and age-standardised DALY rates (38·2%). …”

Stress induced immunomodulation and the risk of infections during major sporting events: Implications for the FIFA World Cup 2022 by Muna T. Abed Alah (17863853)

“…Having such chronic diseases with immunosuppressing characteristics might further increase the susceptibility of patients to stress induced immunosuppression. …”

Transfer Learning and Sentiment Analysis of Lebanese Dialect Data using a Multilingual Deep Learning Approach by Chehade, Mira

“…With the exponential growth in digitally created content and the surge in internet users, the challenges of handling and analyzing large volumes of data have increased, particularly in the context of textual data for sentiment classification. …”
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A Stackelberg Game Inspired Model of Real-Time Economic Dispatch with Demand Response by Shakrina, Youssef

“…Especially with the variety of electrical loads and their applications like the residential and industrial consumers and their different sensitivity to prices. …”
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Seasonal variations of trace metal chemical forms in bed sediments of a karstic river in Lebanon by Korfali, Samira Ibrahim

“…Sediment was derived from catchment soils and limestone. Total sediment Fe increased in winter at all sites following deposition of eroded soil from upstream. …”
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The E-learning evolution education & business. (c2004) by Wahoud, Reem

“…In the 21st century the world is rapidly changing into the Information Technology; global communication through new technology like computers has been increasing drastically. The Internet, in partirular, has emerged as a prominent new technology that has pervaded all aspects of educational, business, economic and social sectors of the present world. …”
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Proteomic analyses of the cell walls of candida albicans PGA1 and PIR32 null mutants. (c2017) by Khoury, Pamela Milad El

“…Major virulence proteins like Hsp70 and Mp65 were not detected in the pga1 null strain. …”
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Road safety and traffic medicine in Iran: Achievements and challenges by A. Motevalian (19807242)

“…The reduction in number of deaths happened despite a four-fold increase in number of motor vehicles. Some of the interventions that might be contributing to this achievement include the following: a) the new traffic law passed in 2010 that replaced the previous one dating back to 1968. …”