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 ...
Introduction: Home-based primary care (HBPC) emerged as a significant solution to meet the complex health needs of patients who are unable to receive the “clinic-based” model of primary health care (PHC) service delivery. ...
Heavy metal contamination in agricultural soils poses serious environmental and health problems. Intensive efforts are employed to improve existing quantification methods of heavy metals in contaminated environments. ...
Rapid response teams are initiatives created to enhance the safety of hospitalized patients experiencing rapid deterioration in their condition. These initiatives involve the identification of at-risk patients, immediate ...
Gifted and talented students may face difficulties and confusion when deciding about their careers. Different factors could affect their decision-making process, like perfectionism, multipotentiality, and underachievement. ...
Advancements in hydraulic fracturing stimulation, and lateral drilling lead to a commercial-scale exploitation of unconventional tight reservoirs. When the production of shale oil and gas took off, concerns addressing the ...
Background: Radiation nephropathy remains a challenging complication for cancer patients who receive abdominal or genitourinary radiation therapy (RT). The kidneys are highly radiosensitive organs that impose an ablative ...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) pose a growing global health challenge, with Lebanon experiencing a high NCD-related mortality rate of 83%. The pivotal role of diet, such as excessive intakes of energy, fats, salt, and ...
Negotiation is a fundamental aspect of human interaction, involving a dynamic
exchange of communication between two or more parties to reach mutually agreeable
outcomes. With recent advancements in chatbots, leveraging ...
The effect of feeding lactobacillus plantarum RS5 probiotic and its products on gut health and immune status in laying hens under heat stress were assessed in this study. A total of 192 twenty-week-old pullets of an Isa ...
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 in December 2019 marked the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to widespread global health crises and necessitating unprecedented measures, including lockdowns and restrictions. This paper ...
Automatic personality detection from text has gained interest since researchers discovered that linguistic style can be an indicator of personality. However, accurate personality classification remains a challenging task, ...
When given the choice, some highly educated mothers of minor children prefer to stay at home to care for the family and the house, while others prefer to work outside the house in addition to caring for the children. Past ...
This thesis introduces a novel approach for automatic timeline generation for news data, an essential task in Information Retrieval. Our work addresses the challenge of generating timelines and multilingual scalability ...
The presence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in urban areas due to human activities poses a significant risk to human health. A comparative study of three representative sites (AUB, BCD, and NSMU) in Beirut ...
Inflammation is a frequent occurrence in individuals suffering from chronic heart failure (CHF) and baseline inflammation can start as early as stage A heart failure. In response to heart failure, compensatory neurohormones ...
Structures, ranging from bridges to pipelines, frequently encounter various impact events that can jeopardize their integrity. For example, a pipeline might experience impacts from falling debris during a construction ...
For the better part of the past century, streets have been designed with the private vehicle in mind. It is not until relatively recently that a surge in design ideas putting humans and their social and physical health as ...
Sexual harassment and workplace sexual harassment remain a major problem despite the
increasing awareness and legal sanctions put in place. The literature is becoming richer
in articles describing primary research that ...