Integration of flexible and soft materials into electric circuits has enabled a new generation of bio-medical and wearable devices for continuous health monitoring and health diagnosis. Such circuits are attractive due to ...
Background: Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized by the Philadelphia chromosome, a reciprocal t (9;22) chromosomal translocation leading to the fusion of the BCR gene on chromosome ...
In network semi-supervised learning problems, only a subset of the network nodes is able to access the data labeling. This thesis formulates a decentralized optimization problem where agents represent classifiers that may ...
Ablution is an important aspect in the everyday lives of Muslims. It is a required process to attain purity in order to perform necessary prayers. As many prayers occur during the day, when people are at work, there was a ...
Introduction: A disaster is an occurrence that disrupts the normal conditions of existence and causes a level of suffering that is beyond the capacity of adjustment of the affected population of community (WH0, 2022) on ...
Chronic pain has a major impact on quality of life. Treatment options for chronic pain include device-based electrical stimulation or pharmaceutical solutions. The challenges of these treatment options include safety of ...
Animals, objects, food, plants, and other non-human terms are commonly used as a source of metaphors to describe females, in formal and slang language. Comparing women to non-human items not only reflects cultural views ...
Body-adapted radio frequency systems and antennas offer a bundle of possibilities in enabling lightweight, low-cost, accurate, reliable, and portable wireless sensing devices. The integration of these devices into wearable ...
The Ambivalent Sexism theory divides sexism into two-dimensional ideologies: benevolent sexism and hostile sexism. Hostile sexism has been associated with short-term harmful impacts, and benevolent sexism has been proven ...
Due to increased competition in today’s market, catering to diverse customer needs and
preferences became a top priority for successful firms. A critical task in the early stages
of product development (PD) is determining ...
This thesis explores the notion of elderly care, how it materializes in an institutionalized setting, and what it means for bodies to grow old. It delves into themes of aging, kinship, intimacy, trust, care, and their ...
Implantable, bioresorbable, and flexible bioelectronics are leading the evolution towards non-invasive, high fidelity next-generation implanted devices, especially for recording acute/chronic neurophysiological signals ...
Background: Non-Convulsive status epilepticus (NCSE) consists of prolonged seizures without tonic muscle stiffening or clonic rhythmic activity. In a clinical setting, NCSE is often underdiagnosed due to difficulties in ...
Dialogue generation is the automatic generation of a text response, given a post by a user. The advancements in deep learning models have made developing conversational systems not only possible, but also effective and ...
Medicine, as many other fields, underwent a major transformation in the 19th century. At the turn of the century, there were four modern medical schools in the Ottoman Empire, two of which were in the Ottoman provincial ...
Several clinical cases have reported that urinary tract infections (UTI) cause cognitive deficits mainly in elderly patients increasing the chances of developing neuropsychiatric disorders. A study has shown that UTIs ...
Ciprofloxacin (CPFX), a broad-spectrum antibiotic in the fluoroquinolone class, is one
of the most widely prescribed agents for uncomplicated cases of urinary tract infections
(UTI). However, over the past decade, the ...
The Mu‘allaqa of the poet Labīd is one of the most analyzed poems of the massive pre- modern Arabic corpus in modern times. It comes as no surprise that the poem is also one of the most translated into foreign languages, ...
This conducted research focused on the alignment between one of the TIMSS large-scale assessment frameworks and the Lebanese curriculum. Particularly, the purpose of this study was to investigate the alignment between the ...
Lebanese women remain underrepresented in politics in Lebanon in all parliament, cabinets and senior public administration. In Lebanon, the government has not achieved a gender quota policy in high level public administration ...