: Breast cancer (BC) is a health problem that is reported to have the highest incidence and mortality rates of cancer among females worldwide and in Lebanon. Moreover, BC heterogeneity renders it from being diagnosed or ...
Background and aims: hypertension is a key risk factor in many cardiovascular diseases like heart failure, kidney failure and vascular hypertrophy. Mechanical stretch-hypertension, promotes vascular smooth muscle cells ...
The objective of this research is to assemble and instrument an accelerated pavement tester (APT) that can reliably be used in asphalt mixtures evaluation. Several applications were conducted on the APT. The APT used in ...
Given increasing demand for health services and increasing costs of such services, health care units are under high pressure to increase throughput in order to meet the demand while ensuring high quality and low cost of ...
Water infrastructure impacts on climate change are increasing with the shortage of resources all over the world. Dams are considered a major contributor to these impacts. Taking El Azzounieh dam (Lebanon) as a case study, ...
Workforce Diversity is receiving a lot of attention these days. This is because the correct handling of diversity at workplace seems to affect worker retention, efficiency and productivity in companies. The research aims ...
The serological and pathological investigation of a broiler flock with a respiratory complex revealed an exposure to Marek's virus associated with lesions and humoral antibody-level raise specific to infectious bursal ...
Research examining group dynamics and reactions towards typical and atypical in-group members has often focused on the Black Sheep Effect. The Black Sheep Effect refers to the derogation of in-group members violating an ...
Drosophila melanogaster lacks adaptive immunity and only possesses innate immune responses to fight pathogens, which makes it a good model to study innate immunity independently of adaptive immunity responses. Interestingly, ...
Drosophila melanogaster is an efficient genetic model to study immunity, and by understanding the fly’s innate immunity we can draw similarities and figure out the homologies in humans, which will help us understand our ...
Background: The mobilized colistin resistance, mcr genes, have attracted global attention, as they confer resistance to polymyxins, one of the last-resort antimicrobials’ family for the treatment of critical infections ...
It was found that students studying science in Arabic had significantly more positive attitudes toward science than students studying science in French or English. Students learning science when teachers used lectures had ...