• Outlooks on using a mobile health intervention for supportive pain management for children and adolescents with cancer: a qualitative study 

  Madi, Dina; Doumit, Myrna A.A.; Hallal, Mohamad M.; Moubarak, Maya M. (BioMed Central Ltd, 2023)

  Background: Considerable improvements in the prognosis of pediatric cancer patients have been achieved over recent decades due to advances in treatment. Nevertheless, as the most common and distressing health issue for ...
• Longitudinal study on the effect of surgical weight loss on beat-to-beat blood pressure variability in patients undergoing bariatric surgery: A study protocol 

  Fares, Souha A.; Bakkar, Nour Mounira Z.; Alami, Ramzi S.; Lakkis, Issam A.; Badr, Kamal F. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2021)

  Introduction Alterations in linear and non-linear parameters of beat-to-beat blood pressure variability (BPV) have been shown to predict disease prognosis and distinguish between risk categories in various pathological ...
• Designing a simulation center: an experiential guide 

  Dleikan, Carla Talal; Lakissian, Zavi; Hani, Selim; Sharara-Chami, Rana I. (Emerald Group Holdings Ltd., 2020)

  Purpose: Health-care simulation has evolved rapidly in the past few decades; it has become an integral component of education and training to improve the efficacy of both individuals and teams. Designing an optimal ...
• Finite element analysis of stresses on adjacent teeth during the traction of palatally impacted canines 

  Zeno, Kinan G.; El-Mohtar, Samah J.; Mustapha, Samir A.; Ghafari, Joseph George (Allen Press Inc., 2019)

  Objective: To evaluate stresses on maxillary teeth during alignment of a palatally impacted canine (PIC) under different loading conditions with forces applied in vertical and buccal directions. Materials and Methods: A ...
• Effect of force direction and tooth angulation during traction of palatally impacted canines: A finite element analysis 

  Zeno, Kinan G.; Mustapha, Samir A.; Ayoub, Georges A.; Ghafari, Joseph George (Mosby Inc., 2020)

  Introduction: Treatment of a palatally impacted canine (PIC) is associated with demanding anchorage control, increased treatment duration, and undesirable side effects. Accurate PIC localization and force application impact ...
• Two distalization methods compared in a novel patient-specific finite element analysis 

  Ammoury, Makram J.; Mustapha, Samir A.; Dechow, Paul C.; Ghafari, Joseph George (Mosby Inc., 2019)

  Introduction: Orthodontic mini-implants aid in the correction of distocclusions via direct anchorage (pull from mini-implant to teeth) and indirect anchorage (teeth pulled against other teeth anchored by the mini-implant). ...
• A speckle-tracking strain-based artificial neural network model to differentiate cardiomyopathy type 

  Walsh, Jason Leo; AlJaroudi, Wael A.; Lamaa, Nader; Abou-Hassan, Ossama K.; Jalkh, Khalil S.; Elhajj, Imad H.; Sakr, George E.; Isma’eel, Hussain A. (Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2020)

  Objectives. In heart failure, invasive angiography is often employed to differentiate ischaemic from non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy. We aim to examine the predictive value of echocardiographic strain features alone and in ...
• A Comparison of Artificial Intelligence-based Algorithms for the Identification of Patients with Depressed right Ventricular Function from 2-Dimentional Echocardiography Parameters and Clinical Features 

  Ahmad, Ali; Ibrahim, Zahi; Sakr, George E.; El-Bizri, Abdallah; Masri, Lara; Elhajj, Imad H.; El Hachem, Nehme; Isma’eel, Hussain A. (AME Publishing Company, 2020)

  Background: Recognizing low right ventricular (RV) function from 2-dimentiontial echocardiography (2D-ECHO) is challenging when parameters are contradictory. We aim to develop a model to predict low RV function integrating ...
• Daily Ten-ST-GEE: An open access and fully automated 10-m LST downscaling system 

  Mhawej, Mario; Abunnasr, Yaser (Elsevier Ltd, 2022)

  In remote sensing applications, data fusion is a combination of satellite images from different sources, aimed to improve the spatial and/or temporal resolution of the final output. This process also named spatial sharpening ...
• Biocultural conservation systems in the Mediterranean region: the role of values, rules, and knowledge 

  Plieninger, Tobias; Abunnasr, Yaser; D’Ambrosio, Ugo; Guo, Tianyu; Kizos, Thanasis; Kmoch, Laura; Topp, Emmeline N.; Varela, Elsa (Springer, 2023)

  The Mediterranean Basin is a global biodiversity hotspot, but formal conservation approaches have not been wholly effective to halt species and ecosystem losses in this world region. There is wide agreement that maintaining ...
• Water features as the main SUHI hindering factor across 50 global cities 

  Mhawej, Mario; Abunnasr, Yaser; Al Bitar, Ahmad (Elsevier B.V., 2023)

  We propose a cloud-based, open-source, user-friendly, highly-customizable, and globally-available 30-m system, named SUHI-GEE. This system can conduct stepwise regressions of 20+ different literature-based factors to derive ...
• Fully automated land surface temperature downscaling based on RGB very high spatial resolution images 

  Abunnasr, Yaser; Mhawej, Mario (Elsevier B.V., 2023)

  Downscaling is a particularly needed process in many environmental, social and governance applications at the fine scale. The need for an automated and reliable very high spatial resolution downscaling approach is then ...
• How to transform urban institutional green spaces into Ancillary Botanic Gardens to expand informal botanical learning opportunities in cities 

  Melhem, Maya; Forrest, Alan; Abunnasr, Yaser; Abi Ali, R.; Talhouk, S. N. (Nature Research, 2023)

  Since many cities lack botanical gardens, we introduced the concept of Ancillary Botanic Gardens (ABG), which builds on the premise that organizations can expand informal botanical learning by adding a secondary function ...
• From silk to concrete: exploring the socio-spatial aspects of the Agrarian question(s) in Mount Lebanon 

  Thomson, William; Gharios, Cynthia; Zurayk, Rami A. (Routledge, 2023)

  Research on the Southwest Asia North Africa region often focuses on turbulent upheaval and landscape change in urban areas, and less on the rural and agrarian spaces left behind. In this paper, we look at the varying ...
• Assessing deeper levels of participation in nature-based solutions in urban landscapes – A literature review of real-world cases 

  Puskás, Nikolett; Abunnasr, Yaser; Nalbandian, Salpy (Elsevier B.V., 2021)

  It is evident that climate change and unanticipated natural events pose new challenges for humanity and the environment. Already over half of the global population resides in cities, making the urban landscape a crucial ...
• Towards a combined Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 for 10-m land surface temperature products: The Google Earth Engine monthly Ten-ST-GEE system 

  Abunnasr, Yaser; Mhawej, Mario (Elsevier Ltd, 2022)

  Efforts to combine satellite images from different sources are particularly needed in Land Surface Temperature-based (LST) studies. This research proposes for the first time, to our knowledge, a Google Earth Engine-based ...
• Digitalization for sustainable agri-food systems: Potential, status, and risks for the Mena region 

  Bahn, Rachel A.; Yehya, Abed Al Kareem; Zurayk, Rami A. (MDPI AG, 2021)

  Digital technologies offer a potential solution to improve sustainability—economic, social, and environmental—of agri-food systems around the globe. While developed countries have led the innovation and adoption of digital ...
• Monthly 10-m evapotranspiration rates retrieved by SEBALI with Sentinel-2 and MODIS LST data 

  Allam, Mona; Mhawej, Mario; Meng, Qingyan; Faour, Ghaleb; Abunnasr, Yaser; Fadel, Ali; Hu, Xinli (Elsevier B.V., 2021)

  Actual and potential evapotranspiration (ET) are important variables for regional and global environmental modelling. These elements provide better understanding and management of the hydrological cycle, particularly in ...
• Vertical gardening and Syrian women refugees in Lebanon: an exploratory study on motivation for gardening and depression relief 

  Talhouk, S. N.; Chalak, Ali; Kamareddine, Z.; Fabian, Monika; Itani, Moustapha; Ferguson, N. (Routledge, 2021)

  Refugees and the displaced experience challenges which can lead to mental health illnesses, including depression. In this study, the effectiveness of gardening in reducing depression and improving the lives of displaced ...
• Pervious area change as surrogate to diverse climatic variables trends in the CONUS: A county-scale assessment 

  Abunnasr, Yaser; Mhawej, Mario (Elsevier B.V., 2021)

  The increase in worldwide population is putting much pressure on the existent urban management plans. In this context, strategies and policies should be updated to conserve natural resources, but more importantly, to improve ...

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