Compassion is an essential element of the nursing profession and its utilization contributes to patient satisfaction and aids in a faster recovery. However, healthcare practices continue to fall short of meeting patients’ ...
Improving the thermal behavior of old buildings’ external envelope to meet current standards is a subject that every country needs to tackle when talking about eco-efficient building design. In cities, buildings constructed ...
One of the most fundamental contemporary issues in the construction industry is the improvement of labor productivity. Among the factors affecting labor productivity is the learning curve which proved to be a major contributor ...
Introduction: DNA demethylation, an epigenetic mechanism mediated by Tet proteins, is commonly known to modulate gene expression. Tet proteins in mammals are involved in the development and differentiation of various cells, ...
Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a complex metabolic disease characterized by chronic elevated blood glucose levels. Globally, the number of patients with diabetes is on the rise. According to the International Diabetes Federation, ...
Discharge planning, is an accreditation required process, developed to improve the quality of care and solve the post discharge health problems that may arise due to poor self-care management.
Between 2015 and 2021, ...
Astral Flight is the concept of metaphysical, out-of-body travel by or with the help of the soul. The concept has a rich history in spiritual thought and narrative fiction. This thesis investigates astral travel in connection ...
Suicide deaths rates are among the top twenty leading causes of death worldwide resulting in more than 700,000 deaths every year (WHO, 2019). In Lebanon, it is estimated that someone dies by suicide every 2.1 days, and ...
Economic development in Lebanon has prioritized urbanization and shifted national priorities away from environmental and biodiversity protection, jeopardizing wildlife and increasing pollution, alongside the exacerbation ...
Vocal control and learning are dependent on auditory feedback in both songbirds and humans, rendering songbirds as an excellent model to study the neural mechanisms of complex learned behavior. The telencephalic nucleus ...
Natural hazards and human-made threats are pressing issues in many urban areas. In general, natural and manmade disasters can be categorized into two main categories based on their lead warning times. The first type is a ...
This study investigated the contributions of adolescents and parents’ sociodemographic characteristics, family environment and adolescents’ stressors to emotional and behavioral problems in adolescents from Bab Al Tebbeneh, ...
Mindfulness meditation has been recommended as a helpful practice for improving one's overall well-being, with influence that is likely to be reflected in the electrical activity in the brain. In this thesis, we address ...
The following thesis tackles Afghan women's safe access to the public sphere in general and dignified employment in particular after the Taliban's insurgency. Using frameworks of Islamic feminism to challenge the Taliban's ...
Background: Breastfeeding is associated with a reduction in infant and maternal morbidity and mortality. Despite the well-established recommendations to exclusively breastfeed infants for at least six months, the rate of ...
The Koras--Russell cubic threefold is a complex-affine manifold that is diffeomorphic to the three-dimensional complex-Euclidean space, but not algebraically isomorphic to the three-dimensional complex-affine space as an ...
Dams are considered to be temples of modernity. During the past century, dams projects were spreading through the whole world accompanied by the development policies adopted worldwide. Under the current circumstances of ...
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive, genetically complex and highly heterogeneous hematological malignancy. Despite increased understanding of the genetic and epigenetic aspects of AML, it still associates with ...
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a genetically complex and highly
heterogeneous hematological malignancy. Despite the increasingly garnered molecular
knowledge, AML still associates with poor prognosis, high relapse rates, ...
Over the past years, several tools and methods have been developed to address performance-related designs and provide designers with integrative platforms to estimate building energy consumption and mitigate its impact. ...