Ziad Ahmad

ORCID: 0000-0001-5716-0134
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Research Areas
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
  • Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Cooperative Communication and Network Coding
  • Wireless Communication Security Techniques
  • Molecular Spectroscopy and Structure
  • Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
  • Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Advanced Wireless Network Optimization
  • Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
  • Wireless Communication Networks Research
  • Full-Duplex Wireless Communications
  • Dietary Effects on Health
  • Alkaloids: synthesis and pharmacology
  • Diffusion and Search Dynamics
  • Diet and metabolism studies
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
  • Laser Design and Applications
  • Culinary Culture and Tourism
  • Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study

Motorola (United States)
2017-2018

Purdue University West Lafayette
2014-2016

American University of Beirut
2009

Early adulthood represents the transition to independent living which is a period when changes in diet and body weight are likely occur. This presents an ideal time for health interventions reduce effect of problems risk factors chronic disease later life. As young adults high users mobile devices, that use this technology may improve engagement. The Connecting Health Technology study aimed evaluate effectiveness tailored dietary feedback weekly text messaging intake fruit, vegetables junk...

10.1186/s12966-016-0376-8 article EN cc-by International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 2016-04-21

The mobile Food Record (mFR) is an image-based dietary assessment method for devices. study primary aim was to test the accuracy of mFR by comparing reported energy intake (rEI) total expenditure (TEE) using doubly labeled water (DLW) method. Usability assessed questionnaires before and after study. Participants were 45 community dwelling men women, 21–65 years. They provided pack-out meals snacks encouraged supplement with usual foods beverages not provided. After being dosed DLW,...

10.3390/nu9030312 article EN Nutrients 2017-03-22

Accurately assessing the diets of children and adolescents can be problematic. Use technologies, such as mobile apps designed to capture food beverages consumed at eating occasions with images taken using device-embedded cameras, may address many barriers gathering accurate dietary intake data from adolescents.The objectives this study were assess willingness take their a novel record (mFR) evaluate usability user confirmation component mFR app, referred "review process."Mixed methods...

10.2196/mhealth.4087 article EN cc-by JMIR mhealth and uhealth 2015-05-29

This paper presents an integrated dietary assessment system based on food image analysis that uses mobile devices or smartphones. We describe two components of our system: a application and image-based nutrient database is connected to the application. An easy-to-use user interface described was designed preferences as well requirements methods. The validated by feedback collected from several studies. Food databases are also which facilitates enable dietitians other healthcare professionals...

10.1145/2986035.2986038 article EN 2016-10-12

The world-wide rise in obesity parallels growing concerns of global warming and depleting natural resources. These issues are often considered separately but there may be considerable benefit to raising awareness the impact dietary behaviours practices on food supply. Australians have diets inconsistent with recommendations, typically low fruit vegetables high energy-dense nutrient-poor foods beverages (EDNP). EDNP highly processed packaged, negatively influencing both health environment....

10.3390/nu7075226 article EN Nutrients 2015-07-03

Children's readiness to use technology supports the idea of children using mobile applications for dietary assessment. Our goal was determine if 3-10 years could successfully food record (mFR) capture a usable image pair or pairs. Children in Sample 1 were tasked mFR an one eating occasion while attending summer camp. For 2, all occasions two consecutive days at time periods that four weeks apart. Trained analysts evaluated images. In 1, 90% (57/63) captured pair. All (63/63) returned...

10.3390/nu7064403 article EN Nutrients 2015-06-02

Many chronic diseases, including obesity and cancer, are related to diet. Such diseases may be prevented and/or successfully treated by accurately monitoring assessing food beverage intakes. Existing dietary assessment methods such as the 24-hour recall frequency questionnaire, burdensome not generally accurate. In this paper, we present a user interface for mobile telephone record that relies on taking images, using built-in camera, primary method of recording. We describe design...

10.1117/12.2041334 article EN Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE 2014-02-18

Network-coded (NC) automatic repeat request (ARQ) systems have been shown to provide significant throughput improvements over basic ARQ in multiuser wireless systems. These extended NC hybrid-ARQ (HARQ) show further enhancements by allowing receivers use previous retransmissions. However, prior results were derived under the assumption of perfect feedback channels. In practical systems, channels are not perfect, and therefore it is crucial study effect noise this paper, we consider case...

10.1109/tvt.2018.2869911 article EN publisher-specific-oa IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 2018-09-28

Linear coding schemes have been the main choice of for additive white Gaussian noise broadcast channel (AWGN-BC) with noiseless feedback in literature. The achievable rate regions these go well beyond capacity region AWGN-BC without feedback. In this paper, a concatenating design $K$-user noisy is proposed that relies on linear to achieve tuples outside no-feedback region. Specifically, code used as an inner creates effective single-user from transmitter each receivers, and then open-loop...

10.1109/tcomm.2015.2480713 article EN IEEE Transactions on Communications 2015-09-23

In Wyner-Ziv Video Coding (WZVC) (a special form of distributed video coding) the heavy work motion estimation is shifted to decoder. Unlike conventional systems, such a scheme allowed for new emerging technologies that require low-complexity encoders. A key factor performance WZVC quality Side Information (SI) present at decoder which heavily depends on frame separation. For this reason, Group Of Pictures (GOP) size plays significant role in coding efficiency system. paper, we focus control...

10.1109/isspit.2009.5407539 article EN 2009-12-01
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