Efficiency of commercial banks in Lebanon by Djoundourian, Salpie

“…The stochastic production and cost function estimates show that bank level inefficiency effects decreases with time and increases with number of branches, employees per branch, and ratio of staff to operating expenses.…”
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CEO gender and managerial entrenchment by Dah, Mustafa A.

“…We find that the presence of female CEO decreases the turnover-performance sensitivity, increases the E-index, and inflates CEO compensation. …”
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The Effect of Auditor Characteristics on the Quality of Segment Disclosures of Diversified Firms by Elkelani, Sarah Ahmed

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The role of job description as a motivational tool. (c2000) by Nahfawi, Ghina

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Unveiling the unreal: Comprehensive imaging review of hepatic pseudolesions by Subramaniyan Ramanathan (14158842)

“…Because of the recent advances in CT and MRI technology, they are being increasingly encountered in daily practice. Broadly they can be categorised in to (1) Focal parenchymal abnormalities like focal fatty change, focal fat sparing, focal confluent fibrosis, segmental hypertrophy and regenerative nodules, (2) Perfusion abnormalities which include transient hepatic parenchymal enhancement in portal vein obstruction, third inflow, intrahepatic shunts, hepatic arterial occlusion and hepatic venous obstruction, (3) Imaging pitfalls like parenchymal compression, unenhanced vessels and pseudolipoma. …”

Precision meets repurposing: Innovative approaches in human papillomavirus and Epstein-Barr virus-driven cancer therapy by Queenie Fernandes (14557388)

“…HPV and EBV are known to be increasingly involved in the pathogenesis of various classes of cancers like cervical, head and neck, colorectal, breast, oral and anogenitial. …”

Characterization of the Escherichia coli YedU protein as a molecular chaperone by Malki, Abderrahim

“…The purified protein shows a single band at 31 kDa on SDS–polyacrylamide gels and forms dimers in solution. Like other chaperones, YedU interacts with unfolded and denatured proteins. …”
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The Effects of Social Determinants of Health on Cardiovascular Outcomes in Lebanese with Type 2 Diabetes by Saadé, Rita

“…Background: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in Lebanon and is known to increase the risks of cardio-metabolic events. Diabetes self-management is essential for glycemic control and prevention of cardiovascular complications. …”
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Integrated transcriptional‐phenotypic analysis captures systemic immunomodulation following antiangiogenic therapy in renal cell carcinoma patients by Darawan Rinchai (742366)

“…These changes were paired with an increase of the expression of transcripts reflecting activation of immune-effector functions. …”

Law enforcement role in reducing road crashes by Jamil Mujahed (19807251)

“…Law enforcement agencies like the traffic police come up with strategies including use of penalties to ensure road rules are obeyed and compliance improves. …”

How FIFA World Cup 2022™ can meet the carbon neutral commitments and the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development?: Reflections from the tree nursery project in Qatar... by Ioannis Spanos (2086933)

“…It was also found that the amount of carbon footprint reduction after the FIFA World Cup 2022 is expected to increase steadily during the average life expectancy of the trees assessed, which were evaluated to be circa 135 years. …”

Improving performance of collaborative question answering systems by using semantic resources by Javed, Muhammad Arshad

“…A document may comprise a collection of text, like a web page or an article. Information Retrieval system efforts to gratify the user's requirements effectively. …”
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Dynamic Cyber Resilience of Interdependent Critical Information Infrastructures by JUMA, MAZEN GHAZI

“…The CIIs have to deal with sophisticated cyber risks resulting from cyber vulnerabilities of their scale-free topology targeted by different cyber threats like concurrent and consecutive cyberattacks to the expected failure cause of the single hub nodes in their decentralized structures lead to cascading and escalating cyber failures that interrupt the vital services and considerable losses in modern societies with vast negative impacts on the economy and national security. …”
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Evaluating the authenticity of ChatGPT responses: a study on text-matching capabilities by Ahmed M. Elkhatat (14152314)

“…With the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots, like ChatGPT, potential risks related to cheating and plagiarism have increased. …”

Critical Evaluation of Psychological Adaptation as a Factor for Determining Thermal Comfort in Public Outdoor Spaces in Dubai by Tehrani, Maryam Behzadi

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The global, regional, and national burden of oesophageal cancer and its attributable risk factors in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global... by Farin Kamangar (63964)

“…Oesophageal cancer caused 9·78 million (9·53–10·03) DALYs, with an age-standardised rate of 120 (117–123) per 100 000 population. Between 1990 and 2017, age-standardised incidence decreased by 22·0% (18·6–25·2), mortality decreased by 29·0% (25·8–32·0), and DALYs decreased by 33·4% (30·4–36·1) globally. …”

Factors behind the fragmentation of the Lebanese Maronites after the 1975 Civil War by Rowayheb, Marwan George

“…I studied political fragmentation within the Maronite community in the light of the following general research questions: First, to what extent does a threatening situation increase leadership problems? Second, does quest for foreign assistance increase the gap between the group leaders? …”
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The Colonial impacts on French trade patterns by El Kallab, Tania

“…Controlling for the main gravity model factors, our results suggest that higher French settlement increase the French imports and exports of all goods except the imports of agricultural raw materials which increase with less settlement meaning that “Extractivist” policies do not need to settle. …”
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The burden of unintentional drowning: global, regional and national estimates of mortality from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Study by Richard Charles Franklin (9154052)

“…Global age-standardised mortality rates decreased 57.4%, from 9.3 (8.5 to 10.0) in 1990 to 4.0 (3.8 to 4.1) per 100 000 per annum in 2017. …”

An Overview of Membrane Based NO_x Removal Technologies and Dinitrification Fitlers by Ahmed T. Yasir (17302753)

“…<p dir="ltr">Air pollution has emerged as a significant global issue, largely due to the increasing demand for energy and industrial processes that release harmful gases into the atmosphere. …”