• Monitoring of Pesticide Residues in Lebanese Vegetables and Agricultural Soils and Their Impact on Soil Microbiological Properties 

  Omeiri, Mohamad H.; Khnayzer, Rony S.; Yusef, Hoda H. (2023-01-18)

  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 ...
• Biodegradation of chlorpyrifos by bacterial strains isolated from Lebanese soil and its association with plant growth improvement 

  Omeiri, Mohamad; Khnayzer, Rony; Yusef, Hoda; Tokajian, Sima; Salloum, Tamara (2023-01-18)

  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 ...
• Risk Assessment of Phthalates and Their Metabolites in Hospitalized Patients: A Focus on Di- and Mono-(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalates Exposure from Intravenous Plastic Bags 

  Saab, Yolande; Oueis, Emilia; Mehanna, Stephanie; Nakad, Zahi; Stephan, Rita; Khnayzer, Rony S. (2023-01-18)

  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 ...
• Bacillus spp. isolated from soil in Lebanon can simultaneously degrade methomyl in contaminated soils and enhance plant growth 

  Omeiri, Mohamad; Khnayzer, Rony; Yusef, Hoda; Tokajian, Sima; Salloum, Tamara; Mokh, Samia (2023-01-18)

  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 ...
• A photoactivatable chemotherapeutic Ru(II) complex bearing bathocuproine ligand efficiently induces cell death in human malignant melanoma cells through a multi-mechanistic pathway 

  Elias, Maria George; Mehanna, Stephanie; Elias, Elias; Khnayzer, Rony S.; Daher, Costantine F. (2023-01-16)

  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 ...
• E-cigarette aerosol induced cytotoxicity, DNA damages and late apoptosis in dynamically exposed A549 cells 

  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 ...
• A photoactivatable Ru (II) complex bearing 2,9-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline 

  Mansour, Najwa; Bodman-Smith, Kiki; Khnayzer, Rony S.; Daher, Costantine F. (2023-01-13)

  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 ...
• Drug-free phototherapy of superficial tumors 

  Mehanna, Stephanie; Mansour, Najwa; Daher, Costantine F.; Elias, Maria George; Dagher, Carole; Khnayzer, Rony S. (2023-01-13)

  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 ...
• The anti-cancer effect of series of strained photoactivatable Ru(II) polypyridyl complexes on non-small-cell lung cancer and triple negative breast cancer cells 

  Fayad, Christelle; Audi, Hassib; Khnayzer, Rony S.; Daher, Costantine F. (2023-01-13)

  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 ...
• Plasma and urine metabolomic analyses in aortic valve stenosis reveal shared and biofluid-specific changes in metabolite levels 

  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 ...
• Nicotine induces resilience to chronic social defeat stress in a mouse model of water pipe tobacco exposure by activating BDNF signaling 

  Khalifeh, Mohamad; Hobeika, Rouba; El Hayek, Lauretta; Saad, Joelle; Eid, Fadi; El-Khoury, Reine; Ghayad, Litsa-Maria; Jabre, Vanessa; Nasrallah, Patrick; Barmo, Nour; Stephan, Joseph S.; Khnayzer, Rony; Christian, Khalil; Sleiman, Sama F. (2023-01-12)

  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 ...
• Rapid quantification of ruthenium(II) polypyridyl anti-cancer drugs using a selective ligand dissociation LC-MS/MS method 

  Mehanna, Stephanie; Bodman-Smith, Kikki; Daher, Costantine F.; Khnayzer, Rony S. (2023-01-11)

  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 encapsulated colloidal amphiphilic block co-polymeric nanocapsules 

  Bechnak, Linda; Khalil, Christian; El Kurdi, Riham; Khnayzer, Rony S.; Patra, Digambara (2023-01-11)

  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 ...
• Acute cytotoxicity, genotoxicity, and apoptosis induced by petroleum VOC emissions in A549 cell line 

  Sayyed, Katia; Nour-Eldine, Wared; Rufka, Anthony; Mehanna, Stephanie; Khnayzer, Rony S.; Abi-Gerges, Aniella; Khalil, Christian (2023-01-09)

  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 fume inhalation induces apoptosis, inflammation, and favors Th2 polarization in C57BL/6 mice 

  Nour-Eldine, Wared; Sayyed, Katia; Harhous, Zeina; Dagher-Hamalian, Carole; Mehanna, Stephanie; Achkouti, Donna; ElKazzaz, Hanan; Khnayzer, Rony S.; Kobeissy, Firas; Khalil, Christian; Abi-Gerges, Aniella (2023-01-09)

  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 ...
• Video features with impact on user quality of experience 

  Abbas, Nadine; Taleb, Sirine; Hajj, Hazem (IEEE, 2023-01-05)

  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 ...
• A Markov Decision Processes Modeling for Curricular Analytics 

  Slim, Ahmad; Al Yusuf, Husain; Abbas, Nadine; Abdallah, Chaouki T.; Heileman, Gregory L.; Slim, Ameer (IEEE, 2023-01-05)

  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 ...
• Minimum UAV fog servers with maximum IoT devices association using genetic algorithms 

  Abbas, Nadine; Abusrewil, Rayan; Najjar, Amir; Sharafeddine, Sanaa (IEEE, 2023-01-05)

  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 ...
• Attack-Specific Feature Selection for Anomaly Detection in Software-Defined Networks 

  Abbas, Nadine; Nasser, Youssef; Shehab, Maryam; Sharafeddine, Sanaa (IEEE, 2023-01-04)

  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) ...
• User-centric strategies for resource management in heterogeneous wireless networks with QoS considerations 

  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 ...

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