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  • Podosome organization drives osteoclast-mediated bone resorption 
    Georgess, Dan; Machuca-Gayet, Irma; Blangy, Anne; Jurdic, Pierre (2019-04-04)
    Osteoclasts are the cells responsible for physiological bone resorption. A specific organization of their most prominent cytoskeletal structures, podosomes, is crucial for the degradation of mineralized bone matrix. Each ...
  • Podosome rings generate forces that drive saltatory osteoclast migration 
    Dan, Georgess; Hu, Shiqiong; Planus, Emmanuelle; Place, Christophe; Wang, Xianghui; Alibiges-Rizo, Corinne; Jurdic, Pierre; Geminard, Jean-Christophe; Mogliner, Alexander (2019-04-04)
    Podosomes are dynamic, actin-containing adhesion structures that collectively self-organize as rings. In this study, we first show by observing osteoclasts plated on bead-seeded soft substrates that podosome assemblies, ...
  • The Pokémonisation of the first moment of truth 
    Ramadan, Zahy B.; Farah, Maya F. (2018-03-15)
    The gamification of retail, helped essentially by the development of augmented reality, is hailed today as being the reverser of declining retail sales trends. With the rapid expansion and adoption of the Pokémon Go augmented ...
  • The polemics of idendity. (c2013) 
    Ghamlouche, Sarah (Lebanese American University, 2013-08-22)
    This thesis aims at understanding the means through which identity is constructed interns of religion and ethnicity. A survey of some of the most polemic primary sources produced during the period of the crusades is conducted ...
  • Policing in divided societies. (2013) 
    Yafawi, Amr Khaled (Lebanese American University, 2013-12-20)
    This thesis compares models of policing in divided societies as applied in Lebanon and Northern Ireland and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of each. This is particularly significant due to the fact that both ...
  • Policy coherence for improved nutrition in Switzerland 
    Bouclaous, Carmel (2020-06-29)
    In Switzerland, the direct and indirect medical costs from non-communicable diseases are estimated at 51.7 billion Swiss francs per year. This essay describes the challenges faced by the Confederation in its efforts to ...
  • Policy overcomes confessional hurdles: a policy strategy tackles challenges in the segmented society and state of Lebanon 
    Helou, Joseph P. (2024-04-24)
    I flesh out an analysis of how Lebanese Zu'ama or political elite manipulate various aspects of politics in Lebanon to maintain a firm grip of the confessional communities they represent. The political order resulting from ...
  • Policy-based hybrid hierarchical optical networks 
    Fawaz, W.; Daheb, B.; Audouin, O.; Berde, B.; Chen, K.; Pujolle, G. (IEEE, 2017-05-05)
    This document presents provisioning strategies for emerging hybrid optical networks. The idea is to make use of policy-based management that guides the behavior of a network through high-level declarative directives. In ...
  • Policy-based provisioning in hybrid photonic networks 
    Fawaz, W.; Daheb, B.; Audouin, O.; Berde, B.; Chen, K.; Pujolle, G. (IEEE, 2017-05-05)
    The aim of this work is to present provisioning strategies for GMPLS-enabled Hybrid Photonic Networks (HPN). Contributing to network flexibility, the paper presents extensions to the management system of these transparent ...
  • Policy-based service provisioning architecture for hybrid photonic networks 
    Fawaz, Wissam; Chen, Ken; Pujolle, Guy; Daheb, Belkacem (IEEE, 2017-05-05)
    Optical networks are becoming an inevitable technology in the next generation Internet. Optical WDM networks require a control network for automatic and rapid configuration. A control plane is under standardization by the ...
  • Political and Socio-Cultural Factors in Foreign Language Education 
    Diab, Rula (2015-12-09)
    This paper examines the importance of political and sociocultural factors in foreign language education, focusing on English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learning in Lebanon. It begins with a historical review of foreign ...
  • Political change and the outbreak of civil war 
    Rowayheb, Marwan (2016-01-18)
    Although the Lebanon of post 2005 is similar in many respects to the Lebanon of the 1950s and 1970s, this article demonstrates that between 2005 and 2011 the country was in less danger of the outbreak of civil war than in ...
  • Political discourse analysis of news reports. (c2016) 
    Itani, Layla Yussef (Lebanese American University, 2016-09-27)
    Politics has proven itself to be a linguistic activity that utilizes emotional appeals that mold people’s beliefs and thoughts. This study is an exploration of the language of politics in two Lebanese newspapers - which ...
  • The political economic pre-requisites of the 2011 Arab uprising. (c2015) 
    Dagher, Khalil F. (Lebanese American University, 2015-08-21)
    Popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt launched the Arab Spring in 2011. Many experts have tried to explain the root causes of these uprisings and predict their democratization prospects. This thesis claims that the economic ...
  • The Political Economy of Inflation and Currency Depreciation in Lebanon, 1984-92 
    Dibeh, Ghassan (2016-05-17)
  • The Political Economy of Monetary Policy in Resource-Rich Arab Economies 
    Dibeh, Ghassan (The Economic research Forum, 2017-08-29)
    This paper investigates the role of political institutions and interests in shaping monetary policy in the resource-rich Arab economies. The paper first reviews the literature on the political economy of monetary policy, ...
  • The Political Economy of Patronage in Lebanon - The Case of the Council of Development and Reconstruction 
    Sweid, Karen (2021-05-31)
    The Council for Development and Reconstruction has been formed as an alternative to the ministry of general planning. The main purpose of its formation was avoiding bureaucratic ineffiencies and developing a rigid ...
  • The political economy of postwar reconstruction in Lebanon 
    Unknown author (UNU/WIDER, 2017-08-30)
  • The political economy of postwar reconstruction in Lebanon. (c2011) 
    Hariri, Hayat Mostafa (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-17)
    Postwar reconstruction has attracted the attention of many scholars in the last few decades. Different theories offer alternative routes to postwar reconstruction. Some theories suggest that postwar reconstruction entails ...
  • Political identity formation in postwar Lebanon. (c2011) 
    Daoud, Mona (Lebanese American University, 2012-03-28)
    This thesis examines how the discourse of two political leaders in Lebanon, Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hizbullah, a Shiite based party and Samir Geagea, the leader of the Lebanese Forces, a Marnoite ...