The practice of pesticide application in agriculture done in Lebanon deviate from standard agricultural disciplines, raising awareness of their contamination of soil and vegetables as well as their repercussions on microbial ...
Chlorpyrifos poses a danger to the environment as a result of its toxicity and endurance in soil and water. Bioremediation of pesticide-polluted soils is one of the most promising approaches for removing contaminants from ...
Phthalate esters (PAEs) are plasticizers associated with multiple toxicities; however, no strict regulations have been implemented to restrict their use in medical applications in Lebanon. Our study aimed at assessing the ...
The extensive use of methomyl as a pesticide contributed to its pervasive existence as a pollutant of soil and water resources. In this study, bacteria were isolated from polluted agricultural soils and identified as ...
Photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT) is an emerging strategy for targeted cancer therapy. Strained Ru complexes with pseudo-octahedral geometry may undergo photo-induced ligand dissociation, forming aquated photoproducts ...
Khalil, Christian; Chahine, Joe Braham; Haykal, Tony; Al Hageh, Cynthia; Rizk, Sandra; Khnayzer, Rony S.(2023-01-16)
In this study, the acute toxicological impacts associated with electronic cigarettes consumption were determined using a novel dynamic exposure methodology. The methodology was deployed to test various e-cigarette generated ...
The photoactivatable Ru (II) complex 1 [Ru(bipy)2(dpphen)]Cl2 (where bipy = 2,2′-bipyridine and dpphen = 2,9-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline) has been shown to possess promising anticancer activity against triple negative ...
Visible light has long been recognized as a treatment for many diseases and an essential component of photo-induced chemotherapy. While previous data proved its inherent cytotoxicity, this study is the first to explore the ...
Ruthenium complexes have been recently reported as potential chemotherapeutic agents that offer tumor selectivity and low tumor resistance. This study investigates the photochemistry and the effect of four strained ...
Al Hageh, Cynthia; Rahy, Ryan; Khazen, Georges; Brial, Francois; Khnayzer, Rony S.; Gauguier, Dominique; Zalloua, Pierre A.(2023-01-12)
Aortic valve stenosis (AVS) is a prevalent condition among the elderly population that eventually requires aortic valve replacement. The lack of reliable biomarkers for AVS poses a challenge for its early diagnosis and the ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate how nicotine in the context of water pipe tobacco smoking (WTS) affects depression and anxiety-like behaviors associated with chronic social defeat stress (CSDS). Male C57BL/6 ...
Research on Ru anti-cancer drugs is on the rise with many complexes in clinical trials. Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) has been the standard technique for bioanalytical studies on Ru and Pt complexes ...
Curcumin-based novel colloidal nanocapsules were prepared from amphiphilic poly(ethylene oxide)-b/ock-poly(propylene oxide)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) (F108). These colloidal nanocapsules appeared as spherical particles ...
Gasoline is an essential petroleum-derived product powering the automotive economy worldwide. This research focused on the Volatile Organic Component (VOC) cocktail resulting from gasoline evaporation. Petroleum fugitive ...
Gasoline exposure has been widely reported in the literature as being toxic to human health. However, the exact underlying molecular mechanisms triggered by its inhalation have not been thoroughly investigated. We herein ...
One of the major challenges in wireless networks is to quantify and evaluate the user quality of experience (QoE). Hence, network operators are continuously working towards identifying the factors that most affect the user ...
The curricular structure and the complexity of the prerequisite dependencies in a curriculum are essential factors that impact student progression, and ultimately graduation rates. However, we are not aware of any closed-form ...
Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as a new technology to enhance many services and applications including the industrial sector; thus, enabling the Industry 4.0 among many others. IoT created many challenges as the ...
Due to the rapid advancement of technologies including the tremendous growth of multimedia content, cloud computing and mobile usage, conventional networks are not able to meet the demands. Software-Defined Networks (SDN) ...
Abbas, Nadine Fawaz(American University of Beirut, 2017-04-21)
Demand for mobile applications is increasing at an exponential rate which
is loading existing wireless networks. The research community is currently actively involved in the design of new technologies that can enable ...