Rapid population growth, worsening of the climate, and severity of freshwater scarcity are global challenges. In Arab world countries, where water resources are becoming increasingly scarce, the recycling of industrial wastewater could improve the efficiency of freshwater use. The benchmarking of scientific output of industrial wastewater research in the Arab world is an initiative that could s...

BACKGROUND There is a dearth of information on the clinicopathological differences, including the molecular subtypes, of breast carcinomas from immigrant Arab women in Europe. Therefore, the aim of our study was to examine and compare these features in immigrant Arab/Moroccan patients with those of European women. METHODS Included in this study were 441 cases of breast cancer: 91 Arab/Morocca...

Introduction: Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is characterized by an apparent geographical distribution in incidence, being more common in North Africa than other parts of the world. Despite the rapid growth of immigrants to the United States from Arab nations, little is known about disease patterns among Arab Americans because a racial category is rarely considered for this group. The aim of ...

BACKGROUND Recruitment and retention of a diverse ethnic workforce in healthcare settings contribute to the provision of culturally competent care in multicultural contexts. Nevertheless, the work experiences of ethnic minority nurses, which impact the attractiveness of the occupation, job burnout and turnover intentions, are not well understood. The present exploratory research seeks to examin...

Introduction: Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is characterized by an apparent geographical distribution in incidence, being more common in North Africa than other parts of the world. Despite the rapid growth of immigrants to the United States from Arab nations, little is known about disease patterns among Arab Americans because a racial category is rarely considered for this group. The aim of ...

OBJECTIVES To characterize and describe the prevalence of restless leg syndrome (RLS) in hospitalized psychiatric patients and to investigate the correlations between patient profile and RLS. METHODS Demographic information, psychiatric diagnoses, psychotropic medication use, and history of substance use were collected from hospitalized psychiatric patients at the American University of Beiru...

Query DAGs Adnan Darwiche Department of Mathematics American University of Beirut PO Box 11 236 Beirut, Lebanon [email protected] Gregory Provan Department of Diagnostics Rockwell Science Center 1049 Camino Dos Rios Thousand Oaks, Ca 91360 [email protected] Abstract This paper proposes a novel, algorithmindependent approach to optimizing belief network inference. Rather than designing ...

The use of nutritional supplements among exercisers in gyms has been never investigated in the Middle East. The aim of the current study was to assess the prevalence intake of nutritional supplements and the potential influencing factors among people exercising in gyms in Beirut city. In this cross-sectional study, 512 exercisers, aged between 20 and 50 years, were randomly selected from gyms. ...

with chalcogens Ikurou Umezu, Jeffrey M. Warrender, Supakit Charnvanichborikarn, Atsushi Kohno, James S. Williams, Malek Tabbal, Dimitris G. Papazoglou, Xi-Cheng Zhang, and Michael J. Aziz Department of Physics, Konan University, Kobe 658-8501, Japan U.S. Army ARDEC–Ben et Laboratories, Watervliet, New York 12189, USA Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National Universit...

In this paper we consider the appropriateness of education, compared to occupation and income, as a measure of social class for use in health-related studies in developing societies in transition. Three evaluation criteria were used, namely, the feasibility of constructing the measure, its sensitivity in reflecting relevant social class life conditions, and its ability to produce a family-level...