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Exploring and Conceptualizing Brownout among Nurses: A Sequential Qualitative Study Using Grounded Theory and Cognitive Interviewing

Shehadeh, Roula (2025-05-23)

Title: Exploring and Conceptualizing Brownout Among Nurses: A Sequential Qualitative Study Using Grounded Theory and Cognitive Interviewing In recent years, a less-known form of work-related stress has been recognized ...
Exploring the Development of Reflective Practice for School-Based Improvement in the Context of the Arab Region: The Case of the TAMAM Project in Light of Korthagen’s Model

Lotfi, Sara (2025-05-23)

Reflective practice is essential to teachers at every stage of their career. The search conducted for this study revealed that there is an abundance of reflection models in the literature. The majority of the reflection ...
One Query is All You Need: A Dynamic Approach to Jailbreaking LLMs

Baassiri, Ghina (2025-05-23)

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has introduced signif- icant challenges in ensuring model safety, particularly in the face of adversarial attacks such as jailbreaks and prompt injections. While prior ...
Influence of the Socioeconomic Position and Health Literacy of Men on the Maternal and Child Health Outcomes of Households in Nigeria

Idokoko, Abraham Braimah (2025-05-23)

The advancement of the highest possible wellbeing for women and children remains a foremost global health goal. Nigeria accounts for a significant proportion of the persisting burden of preventable maternal and child ...
Assessing the Adoption of Alternative Renewable Energy in Zambia: Policy and Institutional Analysis

Bwalya, Thresa Njavwa (2025-05-23)

Zambia's energy sector is predominantly reliant on hydropower, which accounts for 80.8% of the nation's electricity supply. However, hydropower's vulnerability to climate change-induced variability, such as irregular ...
Erasure at Sea: The Rhosus Ship and Violence in Lebanon

Al Achkar, Georges Philippe (2025-05-23)

This thesis interweaves analytical elements from the disciplines of international affairs, law, and relations, as well as political anthropology and public policy to understand the case of the 2020 Beirut Port explosion. ...
International Organizations: Their Role and Impact on Local Politics

Othman, Sarah (2025-05-22)

This research focuses on the role of local and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs and INGOs) in Lebanon’s electoral process. It analyzes their impact on electoral reforms, political participation, and ...
Readiness and Perceptions of High School Teachers towards AI in Education: A Case Study in Jeddah Private Schools

El Bsat, Reem (2025-05-22)

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in any field is gaining traction, including the education sector (Celik, 2022). However, the potential of AI in education has not been fully realized yet (Luckin et al., 2022; ...
Heavy-Tailed K-Means, Linear Regression and PCA

Sayde, Mario (2025-05-22)

Traditional machine learning algorithms are formulated with the implicit assumption that the empirical data is ``well-behaved". However, this assumption fails when dealing with heavy-tailed data, where the underlying ...
Parallel Bidirectional A* Search for GPU-Accelerated Pathfinding

Al Khansa, Hadi (2025-05-22)

Pathfinding algorithms, such as A*, are fundamental in solving graph traversal problems efficiently. A* is a point-to-point shortest path finding algorithm meaning, given a weighted graph, a source node and a goal node, ...
Integrating Microplastic and Marine Litter into Sustainable Construction Materials

Ali, Zhalyan (2025-05-22)

Due to the alarming increase of plastics, especially marine litter, global concern is raised, and attempts are made to repurpose the wastes collected to improve the waste management system. This is because unlike organic ...
Gut Diversity Atlas: Comparative Analysis of Healthy Gut Microbiota in the Lebanese Population

Yassine, Fayez (2025-05-22)

Introduction: The gut microbiota is a complex community of microorganisms residing primarily in the intestines. It functions as a pseudo-endocrine organ and plays a major role in both health and disease. To better understand ...
Blue-Green Infrastructure Approach to Urban Riverfronts Revitalization: The Case of Berdawni River in Zahle

Bou Dagher, Emile (2025-05-22)

Zahle, a city long defined by its deep cultural roots and iconic Berdawni River, has witnessed a growing disconnect between its people, its landscape, and its natural watercourse. Once a symbol of vitality and identity, ...
Prevalence of Carbapenem-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria in Shouf-Aley Area

Salman, Yehya (2025-05-19)

Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant global health threat, rendering standard treatments ineffective and leading to persistent infections, increased transmission, and elevated mortality rates. In ...
The (Re)Construction of Refugeedom: Narrating Refugee Agency in Alameddine and El Akkad

El Gharib, Taleen (2025-05-19)

Where mass media falls short, contemporary refugee literature intervenes in its attempt to negotiate a genuine and faithful literary representation of the refugee. The purpose of this study is to show how refugee literature ...
Deep Learning for Malware Captioning: Explainable AI in Cybersecurity

Saab, Ali (2025-05-19)

Static malware detection using machine learning has achieved high accuracy, but the resulting models often operate as black boxes, limiting their practical utility. This thesis addresses a key challenge in this domain, the ...
Assessing the Predictive Value of qSOFA in Early Detection of Sepsis/Septic Shock in Adult Medical Surgical Unit Patients

Moubarak, Mohamad (2025-05-19)

Background: Sepsis and septic shock are significant causes of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients, particularly in medical-surgical units. Timely recognition of sepsis is crucial for improving outcomes, but ...
Developing a Peritoneal Dialysis (Pd) Clinic At AUBMC: A Focus on Clinical Functions

Hout, Hend (2025-05-16)

Introduction and Background: This project outlines the development of a Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) clinic at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC), with a focused emphasis on clinical functions. As the ...
The Impact of Connexin 43 Modulation on the Metastatic Potential of Triple Negative MDA-MB-231 Breast Cancer Cells to the Bone

Jardaly, Hala (2025-05-16)

Background: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer, and a leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women. As TNBC progresses, the cancerous cells detach from the breast and ...
Safeguarding Electoral Integrity in Lebanon: Revisiting the Role of the Supervisory Commission for Elections in Mitigating Online Disinformation

Hani, Jad (2025-05-16)

In an era marked by the rapid acceleration of information flows, disinformation has emerged as a significant threat to democratic processes worldwide. This project explores the legal and institutional readiness of ...

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