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  1. Book ; Online: Connecting Neural Response measurements & Computational Models of language

    Abdou, Mostafa

    a non-comprehensive guide

    2022  

    Abstract: Understanding the neural basis of language comprehension in the brain has been a long-standing goal of various scientific research programs. Recent advances in language modelling and in neuroimaging methodology promise potential improvements in both the ... ...

    Abstract Understanding the neural basis of language comprehension in the brain has been a long-standing goal of various scientific research programs. Recent advances in language modelling and in neuroimaging methodology promise potential improvements in both the investigation of language's neurobiology and in the building of better and more human-like language models. This survey traces a line from early research linking Event Related Potentials and complexity measures derived from simple language models to contemporary studies employing Artificial Neural Network models trained on large corpora in combination with neural response recordings from multiple modalities using naturalistic stimuli.
    Keywords Computer Science - Computation and Language
    Publishing date 2022-03-10
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
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  2. Article ; Online: SDC-Net: End-to-End Multitask Self-Driving Car Camera Cocoon IoT-Based System.

    Abdou, Mohammed / Kamal, Hanan Ahmed

    Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

    2022  Volume 22, Issue 23

    Abstract: Currently, deep learning and IoT collaboration is heavily invading automotive applications especially in autonomous driving throughout successful assistance functionalities. Crash avoidance, path planning, and automatic emergency braking are essential ... ...

    Abstract Currently, deep learning and IoT collaboration is heavily invading automotive applications especially in autonomous driving throughout successful assistance functionalities. Crash avoidance, path planning, and automatic emergency braking are essential functionalities for autonomous driving. Trigger-action-based IoT platforms are widely used due to its simplicity and ability of doing receptive tasks accurately. In this work, we propose SDC-Net system: an end-to-end deep learning IoT hybrid system in which a multitask neural network is trained based on different input representations from a camera-cocoon setup installed in CARLA simulator. We build our benchmark dataset covering different scenarios and corner cases that the vehicle may expose in order to navigate safely and robustly while testing. The proposed system aims to output relevant control actions for crash avoidance, path planning and automatic emergency braking. Multitask learning with a bird's eye view input representation outperforms the nearest representation in precision, recall, f1-score, accuracy, and average MSE by more than 11.62%, 9.43%, 10.53%, 6%, and 25.84%, respectively.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-11-24
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2052857-7
    ISSN 1424-8220 ; 1424-8220
    ISSN (online) 1424-8220
    ISSN 1424-8220
    DOI 10.3390/s22239108
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  3. Article ; Online: Melanizing Medicine: Addressing Educational and Melanoma Disparities.

    Abdelwahab, Rewan / Abdou, Maya

    Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges

    2022  Volume 98, Issue 5, Page(s) 538–539

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Melanoma ; Educational Status ; Medicine ; Healthcare Disparities ; Health Status Disparities
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-10-18
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 96192-9
    ISSN 1938-808X ; 1040-2446
    ISSN (online) 1938-808X
    ISSN 1040-2446
    DOI 10.1097/ACM.0000000000005034
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  4. Article ; Online: Prevalence and determinants of health literacy among the adult population of Qatar.

    Ahmed, Salma / Kehyayan, Vahe / Abdou, Mariam / Bougmiza, Iheb

    Frontiers in public health

    2023  Volume 11, Page(s) 1278614

    Abstract: Introduction: Health literacy (HL) is both a direct determinant and a mediator of health outcomes. Research on the prevalence and determinants of HL in terms of its functional, communicative, and critical domains is scarce in the state of Qatar and its ... ...

    Abstract Introduction: Health literacy (HL) is both a direct determinant and a mediator of health outcomes. Research on the prevalence and determinants of HL in terms of its functional, communicative, and critical domains is scarce in the state of Qatar and its surrounding regions. Thus, this study aims to fill the knowledge gap in this area, estimate the levels of functional, communicative, and critical health literacy among the general adult population, and identify its determinants in the state of Qatar.
    Methods: An analytical cross-sectional study with a disproportionate stratified random sampling technique was conducted in 2022. A representative sample of phone numbers was obtained from the Cerner database at Hamad Medical Corporation and approached via well-trained data collectors. A socio-demographic and health-relevant factor questionnaire and the validated All Aspects of Health Literacy scale (AAHLS) were used to collect the data on functional, communicative, and critical HL and their determinants. Descriptive analysis, independent sample
    Results: A total of 770 participants were included. The study found that 41.5%, 29.3%, and 29.2% of them have adequate, high, and low overall HL levels consecutively. People who participated in the study are older adult, are of Arabic ethnicity, are of Qatari ethnicity, have a lower level of education, have close relatives with a lower level of education, have a lower income, are non-migrants, are not living within a family, sought medical care within the last week, and who do not know if they have a chronic disease or do not have lower overall HL levels compared to the other groups. After linear regression analysis, only the participant's level of education and "last time sought medical care within last week" variable predict the overall HL score.
    Conclusion: Almost half of Qatar's adult population has an adequate HL level, comparable to the HL levels in other regions, despite the limitation in comparison due to variation in context and the HL measurement tools used. The possible determinants are amenable factors to focus on while designing HL interventions and providing healthcare.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Aged ; Health Literacy ; Qatar/epidemiology ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Prevalence ; Educational Status
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-11-16
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2711781-9
    ISSN 2296-2565 ; 2296-2565
    ISSN (online) 2296-2565
    ISSN 2296-2565
    DOI 10.3389/fpubh.2023.1278614
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  5. Article: Novel analytical techniques for HIV-1 infection of CD4 + T cells on fractional order in mathematical biology.

    Abdou, M A / Ouahid, L / Al Shahrani, J S / Owyed, S

    Indian journal of physics and proceedings of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (2004)

    2023  Volume 97, Issue 8, Page(s) 2319–2325

    Abstract: In this research, we present an analytical analysis of HIV-1 infection of CD4 + T cells with a conformable derivative model (CDM) in biology. An ... ...

    Abstract In this research, we present an analytical analysis of HIV-1 infection of CD4 + T cells with a conformable derivative model (CDM) in biology. An improved
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-04-21
    Publishing country India
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 0973-1458
    ISSN 0973-1458
    DOI 10.1007/s12648-022-02559-x
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  6. Article ; Online: Piloting a Community Education Skin Cancer Program Coordinated by Medical Students.

    Abdelwahab, Rewan / Abdou, Maya / Newman, Catherine

    JMIR dermatology

    2022  Volume 5, Issue 3, Page(s) e36793

    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-08-11
    Publishing country Canada
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2562-0959
    ISSN (online) 2562-0959
    DOI 10.2196/36793
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  7. Article ; Online: New insights into trace metal speciation and interaction with phytoplankton in estuarine coastal waters.

    Abdou, Melina / Tercier-Waeber, Mary-Lou

    Marine pollution bulletin

    2022  Volume 181, Page(s) 113845

    Abstract: In coastal productive zones, phytoplankton activity may influence trace metal speciation and partitioning at short temporal scale. We coupled hourly in situ voltammetry quantification of the lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and copper (Cu) potentially ... ...

    Abstract In coastal productive zones, phytoplankton activity may influence trace metal speciation and partitioning at short temporal scale. We coupled hourly in situ voltammetry quantification of the lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and copper (Cu) potentially bioavailable fractions, using an innovative submersible sensing probe (the TracMetal), to surface water sampling for the quantification of the targeted trace metals in the dissolved <0.2 μm and <0.02 μm fractions, suspended particles, and phytoplankton nets in the Gironde Estuary mouth. The in situ TracMetal monitoring reflected real-time dynamic Cd and Cu regeneration related to algal cells under post-bloom conditions as well as Pb remobilization due to photoreduction of colloids. The potentially bioavailable fraction consisted in 30, 30-50 and <10 % of the total dissolved fraction for Pb, Cd, and Cu, respectively, representing crucial ecotoxicological information. Metal bioconcentration factors using the dynamic fraction concentrations showed levels up to 10
    MeSH term(s) Cadmium/analysis ; Environmental Monitoring ; Lead ; Metals, Heavy/analysis ; Phytoplankton ; Trace Elements ; Water Pollutants, Chemical/analysis
    Chemical Substances Metals, Heavy ; Trace Elements ; Water Pollutants, Chemical ; Cadmium (00BH33GNGH) ; Lead (2P299V784P)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-30
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2001296-2
    ISSN 1879-3363 ; 0025-326X
    ISSN (online) 1879-3363
    ISSN 0025-326X
    DOI 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113845
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  8. Article ; Online: New insights into trace metal speciation and interaction with phytoplankton in estuarine coastal waters

    Abdou, Melina / Tercier-Waeber, Mary-Lou

    Marine Pollution Bulletin. 2022 Aug., v. 181 p.113845-

    2022  

    Abstract: In coastal productive zones, phytoplankton activity may influence trace metal speciation and partitioning at short temporal scale. We coupled hourly in situ voltammetry quantification of the lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and copper (Cu) potentially ... ...

    Abstract In coastal productive zones, phytoplankton activity may influence trace metal speciation and partitioning at short temporal scale. We coupled hourly in situ voltammetry quantification of the lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and copper (Cu) potentially bioavailable fractions, using an innovative submersible sensing probe (the TracMetal), to surface water sampling for the quantification of the targeted trace metals in the dissolved <0.2 μm and <0.02 μm fractions, suspended particles, and phytoplankton nets in the Gironde Estuary mouth. The in situ TracMetal monitoring reflected real-time dynamic Cd and Cu regeneration related to algal cells under post-bloom conditions as well as Pb remobilization due to photoreduction of colloids. The potentially bioavailable fraction consisted in 30, 30–50 and <10 % of the total dissolved fraction for Pb, Cd, and Cu, respectively, representing crucial ecotoxicological information. Metal bioconcentration factors using the dynamic fraction concentrations showed levels up to 10⁷ for Cu in phytoplankton.
    Keywords algae ; bioaccumulation ; bioavailability ; cadmium ; copper ; ecotoxicology ; estuaries ; lead ; marine pollution ; photoreduction ; phytoplankton ; surface water ; temporal variation ; voltammetry ; In situ autonomous monitoring ; Primary production
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-08
    Publishing place Elsevier Ltd
    Document type Article ; Online
    ZDB-ID 2001296-2
    ISSN 1879-3363 ; 0025-326X
    ISSN (online) 1879-3363
    ISSN 0025-326X
    DOI 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.113845
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  9. Book ; Online: Promoting sustainable forestry resource use and improved livelihoods in refugee settings

    Ojong, M. / Awono, A. / Tshilombo, C. / Abdou, M. / Ada, H.N.

    A CIFOR-ICRAF-UNHCR partnership to support communities affected by displacement in Cameroon

    2023  

    Abstract: Sub-Saharan Africa hosts 6.3 million refugees, more than 26 percent of the world’s refugee population. This represents an increase of 186 percent over the last decade compared to the previous figure of 2.2 million. As one of the most stable countries in ... ...

    Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa hosts 6.3 million refugees, more than 26 percent of the world’s refugee population. This represents an increase of 186 percent over the last decade compared to the previous figure of 2.2 million. As one of the most stable countries in the Central Africa region, Cameroon hosted about 2,190,106 forcibly displaced persons spread across the country as of 31 May 2023. This comprised 469,281 registered refugees, 8,825 asylum seekers, 1,066,254 internally displaced persons (IDPs), and 645,746 returnees arriving mainly from Central Africa Republic and Nigeria.
    Keywords refugees ; livelihoods ; environmental impacts
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-12-19T03:17:27Z
    Publisher CIFOR-ICRAF
    Publishing country fr
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  10. Article ; Online: Prevalence and resistance profile of bacteria isolated from wound infections among a group of patients in upper Egypt

    Eman Farouk Ahmed / Asia Helmi Rasmi / Abdou M. A. Darwish / Gamal Fadl Mahmoud Gad

    BMC Research Notes, Vol 16, Iss 1, Pp 1-

    a descriptive cross-sectional study

    2023  Volume 11

    Abstract: Abstract Aim This cross-sectional survey aimed to identify aerobic bacteria, antimicrobial resistance, and multi-drug resistance profiles of bacteria isolated from different wound infections among a group of Egyptian patients. Results Of 120 positive ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Aim This cross-sectional survey aimed to identify aerobic bacteria, antimicrobial resistance, and multi-drug resistance profiles of bacteria isolated from different wound infections among a group of Egyptian patients. Results Of 120 positive samples, 170 isolates were identified. Polymicrobial infections were determined in 55% of samples. The dominant Gram-positive isolated strains were Staphylococcus aureus, especially from wound infections because of accidents (71.8%). Piperacillin, methicillin, ampicillin/sulbactam, and amoxicillin/clavulanic acid were all highly resistant to S. aureus and Coagulase-negative Staphylococci. The prevalence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus in wound infections was 89.9%. S. aureus showed superior sensitivity to vancomycin (85.3%) and linezolid (81.3%). The highest prevalence of Gram-negative isolates was for Pseudomonas aeruginosa (40%), which was highly sensitive to ciprofloxacin (79.2%) and highly resistant to levofloxacin (83.3%). Several isolates revealed a multi-drug resistance profile (52.4%). The overall MDR rate of Gram-positive and Gram-negative isolates were 50% and 54.9%, respectively. Conclusion The prevalence of MRSA isolated from various wound infections and MDR is a warning issue in Upper Egypt. It should implement a health education strategy and hygiene measures to prevent the spread of wound infection-causing organisms in the community.
    Keywords Egypt ; Prevalence ; Wound infection ; S. aureus ; P. aeruginosa ; MRSA ; Medicine ; R ; Biology (General) ; QH301-705.5 ; Science (General) ; Q1-390
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher BMC
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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