Graduate Studies News

This study aimed to estimate spiritual well-being, psychological well-being, and quality of life among patients undergoing hemodialysis sessions in the West Bank. This descriptive study examined a random sample of 413 Palestinian patients receiving hemodialysis sessions in eleven centers operating in the West Bank. The questionnaire tool was distributed and the data was collected using the psychological well-being scale, the spiritual well-being scale, and the World Health Organization Quality of Life scale - BREF during the period between March 28 and August 10, 2023.

During the conference, master’s students and researchers from the Department of Natural, Engineering, and Technological Sciences at the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the Arab American University presented research papers in the fields of data science and cybersecurity. Recently, all accepted papers were listed in the IEEE Xplore digital library. The research papers are entitled as follows:

The thesis presented a research in the field of manual graphics-based image retrieval (SBIR) to find similar images from big databases by entering sketches into a model composed of a generative unit and a retrieval unit. This model aims to develop the ability to view and retrieve images from big databases, and to solve the problem of linking manual drawings to groups of images that are seen during training and that fail to generalize to groups that are not visible.

The tour included an exploration of the contested geopolitical structures in Jerusalem, a visit to the Old City to understand the social and historical context and learn about the impact of the Jewish settlement on the Old City and on the Muslim and Christian Neighborhoods.