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Aula Abbara, Adam Coutts, Fouad M Fouad, Sharif A Ismail, Miriam Orcutt; the Syria Public Health Network National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial Co...

*Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals, Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, †Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, and ‡Department of Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon Reprint Address: Barry Brenner, MD, PHD, Professor o...

1Department of Hematology, Spirito Santo Hospital, Pescara, Italy; 2Center of Excellence on Aging, G. D’Annunzio University Foundation, Chieti, Italy; 3Department of Biomedical Sciences, University G. D’Annunzio, Chieti, Italy; 4Department of Pharmacology, Catholic University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy; 5Department of Biochemistry, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; 6Departmen...

implement the model. AMEL is applied to a real case study, a district of the city of Beirut, Lebanon, which potentially could be stricken by a M7 earthquake. The objective of the model is to reproduce real life mobility behaviours that have been gathered through a survey in Beirut and to test different future scenarios, which may help the local authorities to target information campaigns.

UNLABELLED This is the report of an open label clinical trial to evaluate the effects of nabilone, an endocannabinoid receptor agonist, on treatment-resistant nightmares in patients diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). METHODS Charts of 47 patients diagnosed with PTSD and having continuing nightmares in spite of conventional antidepressants and hypnotics were reviewed after ad...

Background: Research on the association between nightmares and anxiety has reached conflicting results. Further, the Arabic studies in this domain are scarce. Objective: This study sought to investigate the relation between reported nightmares and trait anxiety among a large sample of Arab students. Methods: A convenience sample of non-clinical 8,218 school and university Arab students took par...

Placing a certain number of sinks at appropriate locations in WSNs reduces the number of hops between a sensor and its sink resulting in less exchanged messages between nodes and consequently less energy consumption. Since finding the optimal number of the sinks to be added and their locations is an NP Hard problem, we propose in this paper, a topological level solution that uses a meta-heurist...