Background: The coronavirus 2019 (COVID 19) is a novel virus that led to a global public health emergency. Several case reports highlighted the severity of infection in pregnant women given their immunocompromised state. ...
The aim of this study is to investigate the occupational exposure of battery recyclers to
heavy metals and the resulting environmental pollution caused by these recycling
facilities in Lebanon. The study utilized soil ...
Local governments have increasingly become recognized as key players in the climate discourse. Yet, in the context of weak decentralization, their jurisdiction and influence are undermined. In Lebanon, the existing gap ...
Delirium is a neuropsychiatric disorder that is highly prevalent in older adult population. This preventable disorder is often unrecognized which poses significant challenges in patient care. Registered nurses serve as an ...
In the last two decades, the penetration of Social Networking Sites and Social
Media (SNS/SM) platforms has risen to include more than one-third of the global
population. However, the use of SNS/SM has produced both ...
As global climate patterns continue to evolve, the complex relation between land use, hydrology, and nutrient dynamics in watersheds becomes increasingly complex. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) has emerged as a ...
Background: Cancer pain is prevalent and often inadequately managed, leading to compromised quality of life and increased healthcare costs. Non-pharmacological approaches, such as complementary and alternative medicine ...
This thesis explores Syrian refugees’ settlement in a middle-class area in Beirut. It takes for case study a group of large-scale modern buildings, located in Ras Beirut and fully occupied by Syrian refugees. The thesis ...
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is comprised of two disorders, Ulcerative Colitis and Chron’s disease; both result in chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract accompanied by repetitive acute inflammatory flare ...
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to gain importance in the field of cybersecurity [1], it is being used in a variety of areas such as intrusion detection [2], securing industrial networks [3], and improving ...
In the realm of data exploration, the persistent challenges of data disconnection
and inconsistency often hinder the efficiency of data analysts, especially in terms of
data enrichment and aggregation. This thesis ...
Data-based or data-driven decision-making in schools has been associated with improved quality of teaching and learning and with school improvement at different levels. Opportunities for data use in schools have become ...
As agroecology gains prominence globally, its meaning is increasingly fragmented and de-politicized. There are repercussions to the global development complex adopting the term and disseminating it into local contexts. The ...
Arabic dialogue generation presents unique challenges due to the language's rich
morphology and the scarcity of data resources. Recent advances have employed metalearning to facilitate fast adaptation of language models ...
Despite the rise in global environmental action in the past decades, CO₂ emissions are expected to progressively continue uphill with deforestation swiping millions of hectares annually, hence destroying a major CO₂ sink. ...
In this study, a CdAl LDH precursor synthesized by RDF was impregnated with
calcium nitrate and calcinated to obtain Ca/CdAl oxide. This was used as a heterogeneous base catalyst in the transesterification of corn oil ...
Heavy Metals (HMs) pollution in agricultural soils has become of great concern in Lebanon. Detailed and accurate spatial soil information became essential for environmental risk assessment. Hyperspectral remote sensing for ...
The purpose of this quantitative descriptive correlational study was to assess the perceived quality of school life (QSL) of Lebanese high school students in Greater Beirut, compare the QSL of males and females and between ...
The aim of this thesis is to analyze how the spatial aspects and imagined realities of
different cultural productions highlight their characters’ developments. The primary
sources analyzed are Oualid Mouaness’s film 1982 ...
Computer-aided diagnosis systems are invaluable tools for healthcare providers given the overwhelming volume of medical data at their disposal. However, a significant challenge of these systems is the existence of bias in ...