Social Media Use and Body Checking Among Lebanese Adults by Korkomaz, Aya

“…Background: The recent increase in social media use has been associated with body checking and body image dissatisfaction. This association has been attributed to the high prevalence of unrealistic images of beauty or masculinity on these platforms. …”
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Social Comparison Theory by Hamdan, Sahar

“…The participants answered questions that inform us about their frequency of Instagram use and fitspiration content consumption, their intention to exercise based on the Exercise Motivation Index (EMI2, Markland & Psychol, 1999), their tendency to compare their appearance, and self-esteem using the State Appearance Self-Esteem Scale (SSES, Heatherton & Polivy, 1991), their levels of body satisfaction using the Body Image State Scale (BISS, Cash et al. 2002). …”
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Dual-stage segmentation and classification framework for skin lesion analysis using deep neural network by Khadija Manzoor (22565369)

“…For SLICE-3D, we evaluated both tabular-only and image + metadata fusion approaches using XGBoost classifier and ResNet-based classifier, respectively.…”

A Comprehensive Analysis of Healthcare Big Data Management, Analytics and Scientific Programming by Shah Nazir (14779162)

Ultraliser: a framework for creating multiscale, high-fidelity and geometrically realistic 3D models for <i>in silico</i> neuroscience by Marwan Abdellah (4435360)

Simultaneous Multi-Adulterant Detection in Milk Using an In-house Developed Multiplexed Microfluidic Paper-Based Analytical Device (M-µPAD) by Jannat Ahsan (22466530)

“…<p dir="ltr">Milk adulteration poses a significant challenge in developing countries, impacting food safety and public health. …”

A novel virtual patient approach for cross-patient multimodal fusion in enhanced breast cancer detection by Younes Akbari (16303286)

“…<p>Multimodal medical imaging combining conventional imaging modalities such as mammography, ultrasound, and histopathology has shown significant promise for improving breast cancer detection accuracy. …”

Application of TiO₂-loaded fly ash-based geopolymer in adsorption of methylene blue from water: Waste-to-value approach by Johaina Alahmad (19205965)

“…Scanning electron microscopy images exhibited a porous morphology. Furthermore,<u> transmission electron microscopy</u> images revealed a nanostructured shape, with <u>nanoparticles</u> clumping together to form small channels suitable for MB adsorption. …”

Deep Learning for the Accurate Prediction of Triggered Drug Delivery by Husseini, Ghaleb

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Collaborative Federated Learning for Healthcare: Multi-Modal COVID-19 Diagnosis at the Edge by Adnan Qayyum (16875936)

“…<p dir="ltr">Despite significant improvements over the last few years, cloud-based healthcare applications continue to suffer from poor adoption due to their limitations in meeting stringent security, privacy, and quality of service requirements (such as low latency). …”

Enhanced coronary artery segmentation and stenosis detection: Leveraging novel deep learning techniques by Abu Jaffor Morshedul Abedin (22803884)

Deep Models for Stroke Segmentation: Do Complex Architectures Always Perform Better? by Ahmed Soliman (4591621)

“…While conventional manual techniques are time-consuming and prone to errors, advanced deep learning models have shown promising results in medical image segmentation. Recently, several complex architectures, such as vision Transformers and attention-based convolutional neural networks (CNNs), have been introduced for this task. …”

Optimisation of PV Cleaning Practices: Comparison Between Performance Based and Periodic Based Approaches by ALHAJERI, RASHED ABDULLA

“…Solar energy has the largest untapped reserve in energy and is one of the fastest emerging energy markets. …”
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Effect of consanguinity on birth weight for gestational age in a developing country by Wakim, Gerard

“…No significant difference was observed in the decrease in birth weight between the first- and second-cousin marriages. …”
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β-2-himachalen-6-ol protects against skin cancer development in vitro and in vivo by Daaboul, Hamid E.

“…Also, there was a significant decrease in p-Erk and p-Akt protein levels. …”
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Renewable Energy, Coal as a Baseload Power Source, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Evidence from U.S. State-Level Data by Squalli, Jay

“…After controlling for other sources of emissions, U.S. states that produce a larger share of renewable energy are found to have lower GHG emissions. …”
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Pore-scale simulation of fine particles migration in porous media using coupled CFD-DEM by Ahmed Elrahmani (17128837)

“…The time required to develop bridging and subsequent clogging of the pore space that lead to permeability reduction decreases as the flow velocity increases. The size of the fine particles has a significant impact on permeability reduction where the reduction in permeability increases as the size of particles increases. …”

Effects of habitat complexity on the abundance, species richness and size of darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae) in artificial vegetation by Bartholomew, Aaron

“…Increasing complexity appeared to lead to decreasing beetle widths. 9 beetle species were relatively rare in, or absent from, the higher complexity treatments, including 5 of the 6 largest species. 2 rare, small beetle species were only found in higher complexity treatments. …”
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Kinship recognition from faces using deep learning with imbalanced data by Hadid, Abdenour

“…In this work, We propose a novel pattern analysis technique for kinship verification based on a new deep learning-based approach. More specifically, given a pair of face images, we first use Resnet50 to extract deep features from each image. …”
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Stemming cardiovascular diseases in Qatar by Nature Research (16552612)

“…“Both Qatari nationals and expatriates should adopt healthier lifestyles to reduce the prevalence of these risk factors,” says Christos. Diabetes was the largest preventable risk factor to decrease heart attacks and strokes.…”