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  • Friction and film thickness in heavily loaded circular contacts operating under thermal elastohydrodynamic regime 
    Habchi, Wassim; Eyheramendy, Dominique; Vergne, Philippe; Morales, Guillermo (2017-08-22)
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  • Friction reduction by thin-layer thermal insulation in elastohydrodynamic contacts 
    Björling, Marcus; Habchi, Wassim; Bair, Scott; Larsson, Roland (2019-02-07)
  • Friction Reduction in Elastohydrodynamic Contacts by Thin Layer Thermal Insulation 
    Björling, M.; Habchi, W.; Bair, S.; Larsson, L.; Marklund, P. (2015-09-21)
    Reducing friction is of utmost importance to improve efficiency and lifetime of many products used in our daily lives. Thin hard coatings like diamond-like carbon (DLC) have been shown to reduce friction in full-film-lubricated ...
  • From Amazon.com to Amazon.love 
    Ramadan, Zahy; Farah, Maya F.; El Essrawi, Lea (2021-01-05)
    The trend of incorporating assistive conversational agents into people's lives has followed the unprecedented expansion in the usage of artificial intelligence (AI). Amazon, in particular, has been a key trendsetter in ...
  • From black bile to the bipolar spectrum 
    Grey, Ian E.; Thomas, J. (2019-03-13)
  • From Chiapas to Palestine 
    King, Gretchen (2023-02-20)
    Critical scholarship investigating media and the Arab uprisings has called for “a return to history.” This article argues that researching the contemporary constraints and opportunities of social movement media in the Arab ...
  • From cognition to action 
    Alnakhli, Hayam; Singh, Rakesh; Agnihotri, Raj; Itani, Omar S. (2020-12-01)
    Purpose This study aims to investigate salespersons’ self-monitoring and its effect on adaptive selling behavior. As salespeople are constantly facing different customers with various needs and want and engaging in a ...
  • From indoor to outdoor play: how forest kindergarten impacts social and emotional development of young children in Lebanon 
    Assaf, Fatima; El Agha Kasbah, Raya Al Hasnaa (2023-05-09)
    It has been shown that outdoor play is an important tool for fostering kids' social and emotional growth. The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship that exists between children's outdoor play and social-emotional ...
  • From Kurdishness to Turkishness. (c2018) 
    Avdanian, Hrag Toros (Lebanese American University, 2019-04-23)
    This thesis aims to contribute to the literature on ethnic identity. Despite many attempts by Turkey’s ruling party and most local and international media outlets to confine the newly established Peoples’ Democratic Party ...
  • From Michel Chiha to Rafik Hariri. (c2012) 
    Kobaissi, Riad (Lebanese American University, 2012-05-28)
    This thesis tries to trace the effect of Michel Chiha’s ideas about Lebanon in Rafik Hariri’s discourse. Chiha is arguably the founder of the 1926 constitution, the architect of the Lebanese economy, and the theorist of ...
  • From model-driven specification to design-level set-based analysis of XACML policies 
    Mourad, Azzam; Tout, Hanine; Talhi, Chamseddine; Otrok, Hadi; Yahyaoui, Hamdi (2017-02-06)
    With lot of hype surrounding policy-based computing, XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language) has become the widely used de facto standard for managing access to open and distributed service-based environments ...
  • From physical model to proof for understanding via DGS 
    Osta, Iman M. (2018-10-11)
    The widespread use of dynamic geometry software (DGS) is gathering many interesting questions and discussing the necessity and meaning of proof in school mathematics. With these questions in mind, a didactical sequence on ...
  • From rain to grain 
    Houri, A. (2018-01-31)
    Integrated water management in the Middle East is becoming extremely important due to water scarcity. A demonstration project has been undertaken to use water in the most efficient and economical way. The main purpose ...
  • From Sectarian Socialization to Violent Socialization 
    Nooruddin, Fatema (Lebanese American University, 2020-05-23)
    In the last two decades, academic work published on sectarianism in the Middle East has focused on the Sunni-Shi‘a conflict in either states with heterogeneous Muslim populations, such as Lebanon and Iraq, or postwar states, ...
  • From student to global citizen 
    Zakka, Janine Saba; Ghattas, Renee Sabbagh (2016-05-24)
    The 21st century witnessed the development of the knowledge-based-economy due to globalization and the advancement of technology. Creation of wealth in this type of economy is through knowledge that equips the future ...
  • From Victimization to Empowerment 
    Sammour, Lara (Lebanese American University, 2023-05-10)
    This academic work aims to examine the issue of violence against trans women sex workers in Lebanon. The majority of sex work research to date has focused on cisgender individuals, with little attention paid to transwomen’s ...
  • From Whistles to Harassment 
    Geagea, Tatiana (Lebanese American University, 2023-05-16)
    Street harassment refers to unwanted and unsolicited comments, whistles, and stares directed mostly at women in public spaces. It is a product of power dynamics where men intrude on a woman’s attention, invade her personal ...
  • Front dynamics and entrainment of finite circular gravity currents on an unbounded uniform slope 
    Zgheib, N.; Ooi, A.; Balachandar, S. (2019-11-18)
    We report on the dynamics of circular finite-release Boussinesq gravity currents on a uniform slope. The study comprises a series of highly resolved direct numerical simulations for a range of slope angles between 5 and ...
  • Front dynamics of elliptical gravity currents on a uniform slope 
    Zhu, S. J.; Zgheib, N.; Balachandar, S. (2019-11-18)
    In the present investigation, we report data from direct numerical simulations of elliptical, finite release, Boussinesq gravity currents propagating down a uniform slope. The study comprises a series of simulations of ...
  • Frost Growth on Vertical Surfaces with Varying Wettability 
    El Cheikh, Amne; Jacobi, Anthony M. (Purdue University, 2021-11-02)
    Frosting occurs on heat exchangers in heat pumping and refrigeration applications when the surface temperature of the heat exchanger is below the freezing point of water. The accumulation of frost on the heat transfer ...