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  • Oral contraceptive pills and possible adverse effects 
    Stone, Rebecca H,; Rafie, Sally; El-Ibiary, Shareen Y.; Karaoui, Lamis R.; Shealy, Kayce M.; Vernon, Veronica P. (2016-09-30)
    Oral contraceptive pills (OCPs) containing estrogen and progestin or progestin only were introduced as a contraceptive option for women in 1960. Since their introduction to the market, there have been significant changes ...
  • Orbital osteoma arising adjacent to a foreign body 
    Ma'luf, Riad N.; Ghazi, Nicola G.; Zein, Wahid M.; Gedeon, Gisele A.; Hadi, Usama M. (2019-06-14)
    A 27-year-old man sustained a blast injury to the face in April 1996, with a resultant foreign body at the right medial orbital wall. He refused to undergo surgical removal of the foreign body at that time and was discharged ...
  • Organ targeted prenatal gene therapy—how far are we? 
    Abi Nader, Khalil; Mehta, Vedanta; Waddington, Simon; David, Anna L. (2016-06-08)
    Prenatal gene therapy aims to deliver genes to cells and tissues early in prenatal life, allowing correction of a genetic defect, before long-term tissue damage has occurred. In contrast to postnatal gene therapy, ...
  • Organic micropollutants in aerobic and anaerobic membrane bioreactors: Changes in microbial communities and gene expression 
    Harb, Moustapha; Wei, Chun-Hai; Wang, Nan; Amy, Gary; Hong, Pei-Ying (2019-03-08)
    Organic micro-pollutants (OMPs) are contaminants of emerging concern in wastewater treatment due to the risk of their proliferation into the environment, but their impact on the biological treatment process is not well ...
  • Organization of national reinsurance company in Lebanon. (c1984) 
    Labban, Ghassan E. (2011-04-13)
  • Organizational characteristics fostering intellectual capital in Canada and the Middle East 
    Manassian, Armond; Nazari, Jamal A.; Herremans, Irene M.; Isaac, Robert G.; Kline, Theresa J. (2017-11-01)
    Purpose – This study sets out to examine how organizational characteristics are related to intellectual capital and how these variables are different between Canadian and Middle East contexts. Design/methodology/approach ...
  • Organizational climate and its effect on strategic leadership within a learning organization 
    El-Kassar, Abdul-Nasser; Messarra, Leila (University of Riverside, 2017-04-06)
  • Organizational climate and its effects on the employees commitment 
    El-Kassar, Abdul-Nasser; Karkoulian, Silva; Chams, Nour (2017-04-27)
    This study investigates the effects of the seven dimensions of organizational climate (Structure, Responsibility, Risk, Reward, Warmth and Support, Conflict, and Expect Approval) on the three types of organizational ...
  • Organizational commitment recall in times of crisis 
    Karkoulian, Silva K.; Messarra, Leila (2016-05-11)
    After a crisis, employees' organizational commitment may be affected. This research examined the effect of a war crisis on the commitment of employees using Meyer and Allen (1997) three component model of commitment that ...
  • Organizational culture, climate and IC 
    Manassian, Armond; Nazari, Jamal A.; Herremans, Irene M.; Isaac, Robert G.; Kline, Theresa J.B. (2017-11-01)
    Purpose – This study aims to empirically investigate the role of organizational culture and climate in supporting intellectual capital (IC) management systems. Specifically, it seeks to investigate the relationship between ...
  • Organizing politics in the Arab world 
    Saloukh, Bassel Fawzi (McGill University, 2018-09-25)
    Why do some regimes enjoy more autonomy than others when taking foreign policy and alignment choices? How does the organization of state-society relations constrain or enable a regime's freedom to take foreign policy and ...
  • Organizing through empathy 
    Pavlovich, Kathryn; Krahnke, Keiko (Routledge, 2019-12-03)
  • Origin and evolution of European community-acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus 
    Tokajian, Sima; Stegger, Marc; Wirth, Thierry; Andersen, Paal S. (2018-06-25)
    Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) was recognized in Europe and worldwide in the late 1990s. Within a decade, several genetically and geographically distinct CA-MRSA lineages carrying ...
  • Origin and history of the IVS-I-110 and codon 39 [beta]-thalassemia mutations in the Lebanese population 
    Zahed, Laila; Demont, Jocelyne; Bouhass, Rachid; Trabuchet, Guy; Hanni, Catherine; Zalloua, Pierre; Perrin, Pascale (2019-07-19)
    Using restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) and sequence haplotype analysis, we studied the chromosomal background of the β-globin gene in 31 unrelated Lebanese IVS-I-110 or codon 39 (Cd39) subjects, and five ...
  • Origin of arrhythmias in a heart model 
    Sheheitli, Hiba; Rand, Richard (2017-09-28)
    An investigation of the nonlinear dynamics of a heart model is presented. The model compartmentalizes the heart into one part that beats autonomously (the x oscillator), representing the pacemaker or SA node, and a second ...
  • Original composition of songs and dances for children in the elementary school. (c1958) 
    Saab, Nabila (Lebanese American University, 2012-11-26)
  • Origins of Arabic theatre. (c2017) 
    Teeny, Mira (Lebanese American University, 2017-11-08)
    This comparative study explores the origin of Arabic theatre and its development vis-àvis European theatre. Chapter 1, the Introduction, states the problem and reviews the literature. Chapter 2 observes the contradictory ...
  • Oritavancin 
    Karaoui, Lamis R.; El-Lababidi, Rania; Chahine, Elias B. (2016-09-30)
    Purpose The pharmacology, unique pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic profile, and potential future role of oritavancin in combating multidrug-resistant infections are reviewed, with an emphasis on efficacy data from Phase II ...
  • Orofacial Clefts 
    El Baba, Nada (Lebanese American University, 2021-05-09)
    During embryogenesis, orofacial development takes place whereby cells migrate to their intended destinations to form the face of the fetus. Sometimes, cells of the palatal shelves and the lip buds do not properly migrate, ...
  • Orthogonal space-time block codes for binary pulse position modulation 
    Abou-Rjeily, Chadi (2016-02-16)
    In this paper, we propose orthogonal Space-Time (ST) codes for binary Pulse Position Modulations (PPM). Unlike the well known orthogonal ST codes, the proposed schemes verify the additional constraint of achieving a full ...