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  • Nehme, Rita (Lebanese American University, 2011-09-22)
    The adoption of the Taif Agreement in 1990 drew the end of a fifteen year period of civil war in Lebanon. This agreement (officially, the Document of National Accord) has introduced various modifications in all sectors; ...
  • Karaman, Nadia Izzat (Lebanese American University, 2012-11-05)
  • Na'was, Tarek; Fawaz, Adam; Rteil, Ali; Itani, Malek (2018-06-27)
    Staphylococcus aureus isa gram positive coccus thathas long been associated with many serious infections amongst which foodborne illnesses are common. The enteric pathogenicity of this bacterium is mediated mainly by its ...
  • El-Sitt, Sally; El-Sibai, Mirvat (2015-12-17)
    RhoGTPases are defined as a family of 20 small G proteins playing important roles in almost every cellular process. RhoGTPases are guanine nucleotide-binding proteins existing in two forms: the active form which is GTP ...
  • Saab, Sahar S. (Lebanese American University, 2018-10-01)
    Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed solid organ tumor and one of the main leading causes of death – due to cancerous tumors- among men in the world. Malignancy of a tumor is characterized by the rapid and ...
  • StarD13 
    Jaafar, Leila; Chamseddine, Zeinab; El-Sibai, Mirvat (2020-05-01)
    StarD13 is a tumor suppressor and a GTPase activating protein (GAP) for Rho GTPases. Thus, StarD13 regulates cell survival pathways and induces apoptosis in a p53-dependent and independent manners. In tumors, StarD13 is ...
  • Hanna, Samer; Khalil, Bassem; Nasrallah, Anita; Saykali, Bechara A.; Sobh, Rania; Nasser, Selim; El-Sibai, Mirvat (2015-12-18)
    Breast cancer is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers in women around the world. In general, the more aggressive the tumor, the more rapidly it grows and the more likely it metastasizes. Members of the Rho subfamily ...
  • Helou, Joseph P. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022-01)
    This chapter contributes to an understanding of the role of Lebanese political elites in molding state institutions and distorting Lebanon’s public finances, which severely skew Lebanese citizens’ attitude toward informal ...
  • Nour, C.; Stern, R.J. (2018-04-17)
    We generalize, to the bilateral case (that is, with variable initial and end points), the main results of Nour and Stern [C. Nour, R.J. Stern, Regularity of the state constrained minimal time function, Nonlinear Anal. 66 ...
  • Helou, Mariana; Abi Rizk, Grace (2019-06-03)
    Background: Many difficulties are encountered in family medicine practice and were subject to multinational studies. To date, no study was conducted in Lebanon to assess the challenges that family physicians face. This ...
  • Molaeb, Karoline (Lebanese American University, 2018-06-05)
    Being a citizen of a state is an inevitable right. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees approximates that there are around twelve million stateless people around the globe. The problem of statelessness stands ...
  • Dally, Farah (Lebanese American University, 2011-03-08)
    The issue of border control and human rights has become one of the main political agendas when addressing global issues and has raised concern amongst a great number of scholars on an international level. This has the ...
  • Burke, Peter G. R.; Kanbar, Roy; Basting, Tyler M.; Hodges, Walter M.; Viar, Kenneth E.; Stornetta, Ruth L.; Guyenet, Patrice G. (2016-10-11)
    Breathing has different characteristics during quiet wake, non-REM or REM sleep, including variable dependence on PCO2 . We investigated whether the retrotrapezoid nucleus (RTN), a proton-sensitive structure that mediates ...
  • Matar, T.; Chehade, F. Hage; Harb, J.; Rahhal, M.; Abdel Massih, D. Youssef; Abdallah, C.; Ibrahim, E.; Khalaf-Keyrouz, L.; Nasr, G.; Abou-Jaoude, G.; Sursock, A. (National Technical University of Athens, 2022-06-16)
    The slope of Dahr El Baidar located on the central mountain of Lebanon hosts a section of the Arab Highway that is under construction to connect Beirut to neighboring Arab countries. This slope has experienced several ...
  • Briaud, Jean-Louis; Nasr, George; Ballouz, Marc (2016-02-23)
    Three bored piles were built and tested at the National Geotechnical Experimentation Sites, at Texas A&M University, to gather data on the reliability of large-strain dynamic methods to predict the static capacity of bored ...
  • Drislane, Frank W.; Kaplan, Peter W. (Springer, 2022-07-18)
    The management of convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) consists of simultaneous termination of the status epilepticus (SE) and determination and management of the underlying etiology. The operational definition of CSE is ...
  • Ayyash-Abdo, Huda (2015-11-27)
    The purpose of this study was to examine the status of female teachers in nine Middle Eastern and North African countries. The results indicated that ineffective pre-service and in-service training, teachers' educational ...
  • Chaaban, Maram (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-30)
    This thesis examines the relationship between the global human rights regime and the post-Arab Spring constitutional transition, taking Egypt and Tunisia as a comparative case study. First, it assesses hypothetical claim ...
  • Yammine, K.; Al Adham, H. (2019-07-03)
    Research exploring the status of serum vitamin D levels in the populations of countries bordering the Arabian Gulf shows a high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency/insufficiency. These reports were usually drawn from small ...