Rafik Hariri University

When Creative Destruction and Industry Renewal Fail to Emerge: A Longitudinal Study of Lebanon’s Banking Sector

Financial crises are often expected to trigger industry renewal through processes of creative destruction; however, this outcome is not automatic. This study examines why the mechanisms associated with creative destruction failed to emerge in Lebanon’s banking sector during the c...

Hybrid deep learning approaches for photovoltaic fault detection: From supervised CNNs to self-supervised masked autoencoders

Photovoltaic (PV) fault diagnosis is challenged by severe class imbalance and the limited availability of labeled fault data. However, existing studies typically evaluate individual learning paradigms under different experimental protocols, making direct comparison difficult. Thi...

Steam-activated/H 3 PO 4 functionalized biochars from grape wastes for drug adsorption

Grape waste was used to produce steam-activated biochars functionalized with H3PO4 (BAP-CWR) for drug uptake from aqueous media. The BAP-CWR exhibited favorable adsorption properties, enabling distinct interactions with diclofenac potassium (DCF) and ivermectin (IVM). The experim...