The Relationship between Smoking Cessation and Health Insurance Coverage: An Analysis of Cost Saving and Health Outcomes by Al Farhan, Nasser

“…The findings have important implications for policymakers and health insurers in promoting healthy behaviors and increasing access to smoking cessation programs that could have significant benefits for both individuals and society.…”
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Differential water quality in confined and free-flowing water bodies, Lebanon by Korfali, Samira Ibrahim

“…Statistical analysis of the data revealed significant differences in water quality. The differences could be attributed to the fact that whereas the Qaraaoun reservoir is receiving domestic waste discharges that lead to an increase in the CO2 content and a pH decrease, the Nahr-Ibrahim River is influenced by agricultural runoffs and industrial discharges that increase the pH values. …”
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Brain Connectivity Analysis Under Semantic Vigilance and Enhanced Mental States by Yahya, Fares

“…BRMUS factors, such as fatigue, depression, and anger, significantly decrease in the enhancement group compared to vigilance group. …”
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Simultaneous EEG-fMRI: Evaluating the Effect of the EEG Cap-Cabling Configuration on the Gradient Artifact by Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury (14150526)

“…Previous work has shown that the ribbon cable, used to connect the EEG cap and amplifier, makes a significant contribution to the GA, since the cable geometry produces large effective wire-loop areas. …”

Frugal innovation for sustainable rural development by Mokter Hossain (14634969)

“…This study, therefore, aims to address this gap by examining how frugal innovation can contribute to sustainable development in rural areas. …”

Evaluating the impact of the Minimization of Aggression and Violence (MoAV) intervention on mechanical restraint use in Qatar's acute mental health setting by Ananth Nazarene (21239912)

“…The percentage of restrained patients decreased from 25 % to 4 %, p = (<0.001). The mean duration of restraint incidents slightly increased from 59.1 min in 2016 to 61.3 min in 2021, though this change was not statistically significant. …”

Acoustically activated release of estrone-targeted liposomes used for breast cancer treatment by Mohammad, Najla

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Prediction of EV Charging Behavior Using Machine Learning by Shahriar, Sakib

“…As a key pillar of smart transportation in smart city applications, electric vehicles (EVs) are becoming increasingly popular for their contribution in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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Optimizing pre-copy live virtual machine migration in cloud computing using machine learning-based prediction model by Raseena M. Haris (17773470)

“…Transferring these dirty pages during pre-copy migration prolongs the overall migration time. If there are large numbers of remaining memory pages after a predefined iteration of page transfer, the stop-and-copy phase is initiated, which significantly increases downtime and negatively impacts service availability. …”

Challenges and opportunities in biogas conversion to microbial protein: A pathway for sustainable resource recovery from organic waste by Hafiz Muhammad Aamir Shahzad (6687767)

“…Concurrently, urban expansion significantly increases organic waste, undermining both economic and environmental sustainability. …”

The Effect of Ultrasound on the Drug Delivery of RGD-Targeted Liposomes by Mahmoud, Mohamad

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An Evaluation of Short-Term Effects of Different Soil Management Systems on Soil Physical, Structural and Hydraulic Properties and an Estimation and Optimization of Water Infiltrat... by Merheb, Caroline

“…In both soils, tillage application decreased the densities, the aggregate mean weight diameter, the residual moisture content, and the fine pore volumes while increased the organic matter content, the porosity, the saturated hydraulic conductivity, and the amount of large pores of undisturbed soil. …”
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Hypospadias Reconstruction Training: Development of an Ex-Vivo Model for Objective Evaluation of Surgical Skills by Tariq Abbas (368053)

“…Additionally, the mean power spectral density of the EMG signal decreased notably post-training. …”

An investigation into links between UAE STI Policy and the Federal Universities STEM Majors’ Enrolments, Graduates and Research Development: an evidence-based exploration of the im... by Khreibi, Rima Abou

“…HCT STEM majors’ graduates showed no significant differences from AY 2010 to the AY 2017; the latter shows that although STEM enrolments have increased in HCT, graduates of STEM are consistent and unchanged, meaning that somewhere during their tertiary education, students are not continuing their studies in STEM majors. …”
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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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Comparative cost assessment of sustainable energy carriers produced from natural gas accounting for boil-off gas and social cost of carbon by Mohammed Al-Breiki (14152476)

“…<p dir="ltr">As a result of particular locations of large-scale energy producers and increases in energy demand, transporting energy has become one of the key challenges of energy supply. …”

Dynamic Change in Insulin Resistance Induced by Free Fatty Acids Is Unchanged Though Insulin Sensitivity Improves Following Endurance Exercise in PCOS by Myint Myint Aye (6404327)

“…Skewed data were log transformed and expressed as mean ± SEM.</p><h3>Results</h3><p dir="ltr">Before exercise, women with PCOS had a higher HOMA-IR and lower VO2 max than controls. …”

Efficient multi-objective neural architecture search framework via policy gradient algorithm by Bo Lyu (16522643)

“…While the multi-objective NAS research addresses these challenges, the individual training required for each candidate architecture demands significant computational resources. To bridge this gap, this work combines the efficiency of the differentiable NAS with metrics compatibility in multi-objective NAS. …”

Changes in Blood microRNA Expression and Early Metabolic Responsiveness 21 Days Following Bariatric Surgery by Stephen L. Atkin (6684368)

“…MicroRNA expression was determined by quantitative polymerase chain reaction and tested for significant changes after surgery.</p><p dir="ltr"><br></p><h3>Results: </h3><p dir="ltr">BMI decreased by 3.8 kg/m² 21 days postoperatively. …”

Knowledge-based virtual outdoor weather event simulator using unity 3D by Noueihed, Hamza

“…During the past two decades, 3D simulation models have gained importance in the development of software solutions that aim to mimic real-world events and phenomena with increasing levels of accuracy and detail. In this context, knowledge representation and processing have recently shown a significant contribution to the simulation modeling domain, where knowledge graphs have been used in different fields to build knowledge representations for multiple purposes. …”
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