Children's obesity is increasingly recognized as a global public health issue. The worldwide increase in the prevalence of pediatric obesity is documented as early as the preschool years. Identifying modifiable lifestyle ...
Ambient air pollution represents worldwide an environmental risk factor to cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Previous studies have reported an association between exposure to ambient air pollution and CVDs in Lebanon. However, ...
Heat stress sets an upper limit to maximizing wheat yields in many irrigated, low-altitude, tropical environments. Terminal heat stress also reduces wheat yields in certain Mediterranean environments in West Asia and North ...
Background: BPA (Bisphenol-A) is an estrogen-like plastic monomer found ubiquitously in our environment. It can enter our body through different routes (oral, pulmonary and dermal) and from different sources. Very few ...
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic autoimmune neurologic condition that affects adults in the prime of their youth, and it is the leading cause of non-traumatic neurological disability in young and middle-aged adults. ...
Background Smoking is one of the preventable leading causes of diseases and premature death worldwide. In Lebanon, smoking is a main public concern as it scored one of the highest smoking rate in the Eastern Mediterranean ...
Background: Breast cancer ranks the first leading cause of cancer worldwide in 2020 as declared by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). Breast cancer development and progression involve a wide range of ...
Non-communicable diseases (NCD) notably cardiovascular diseases (CVD),are dramatically growing in prevalence worldwide, and becoming a main cause of mortality in developed and developing countries. The lifestyle shift ...
Background: Mental health is a serious public health issue with the most common mental health disorders being depression and anxiety. Several factors play a role in the etiology and pathophysiology of depression and anxiety, ...
As firms are starting to move to selling through both online and offline channels, customers are getting the chance to explore products, touch and feel them, and identify diverse attributes before making a purchase. Such ...
The automaton iteratively evolves from one configuration to another using local transition rules based on the neighborhood of each cell. The aim of this project is to study the notions of ergodicity and uniform ergodicity ...
One of the outstanding characteristics of the 19th century was the creation of national education systems worldwide. The Ottomans declared in the Tanzimat Edict of 1839 that education was one of the duties of the state. ...
The purpose of this study is to investigate elementary and middle school teachers' perceptions of factors which contribute to placing students at-risk, and the teachers' personal reflections on the effectiveness and use ...
Retailers have long understood the importance of store environment in enhancing the shopping experience, and past research has examined the main effects of many stimuli such as music, lighting, and colour. In fact, ...
Dystopia as a genre has gained the attention of literary scholars as many dystopian works have been analyzed for the elements, reflections, and sociopolitical critiques they carry. 1984 is a popular dystopia, written by ...