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  • A maladaptive role for EP4 receptors in podocytes 
    Faour, Wissam; Stitt-Cavanagh, Erin; Takami, Kaede; Carter, Anthony; Vaderhyden, Barbara; Ghan, Youfei; Schendeir, Andre; Breyer, Mathieu; Kennedy, Christopher (2015-10-23)
    Inhibition of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and cyclooxygenase-2 reduces albuminuria in models of chronic kidney disease marked by podocyte injury. Previously, we identified a feedback loop in podocytes whereby an ...
  • An (A)Political Education? UNRWA, Humanitarian Governance, and Education for Palestinian Refugees During the First Intifada (1987–1993) 
    Kelcey, Jo (2022-09-12)
    For millions of people living in humanitarian crisis, education can confer physical and psychological protection and offer a path to a brighter future. Overshadowing this promise, however, are the unavoidable politics of ...
  • AACC's Society for Young Clinical Laboratorians (SYCL) celebrates 10-year anniversary with t-shirt design contest 
    El-Khoury, Joe; Lima-Oliveira, Gabriel; Cotten, Steven (2016-06-14)
  • ABCB1 (P-glycoprotein) and blood-brain barrier 
    Milane, Aline; Vautier, S.; Fernandez, C. (2017-12-20)
    ABCB1 (MDR1/P-glycoprotein) is an ATP-dependant transmenbrane protein widely expressed in human organs, protecting them against xenobiotics. ABCB1 is involved in drug pharmacokinetics: at the blood-brain barrier level, due ...
  • Abdulkader Arnaout : designing as visual poetry : a pioneer of graphic design in Syria 
    Taan, Yasmine Nachabe (Khatt Books, 2018-10-02)
    Abdulkader Arnaout is a graphic designer and a pioneer of graphic design in Syria. He has was one of the first graphic design practitioners, and was renown in his native Syria as a modernist designer and artist. Arnaout ...
  • Aberrant methylation of p16 and MGMT genes in lebanese smokers. (c2005) 
    Daoud, Carol (Lebanese American University, 2011-10-17)
    Recent studies have demonstrated that aberrant methylation of p16 (tumor suppressor gene) and / or MGMT gene (DNA repair enzyme) is detected in DNA samples from sputum in 100% of patients with squamous cell carcinoma ...
  • Abjad 
    Haraty, Ramzi Ahmed; El-Zabadani, Hicham (University of Qatar, Department of Computer Science, 2018-01-25)
  • Abjad Hawwaz 
    Haraty, R. A.; El-Zabadani, H. M. (2017-02-01)
    The authors present a system for the recognition of handwritten Arabic text using neural networks. This work builds upon previous work that dealt with the vertical segmentation of the written text. However, faced with some ...
  • Abjad= أبجد. (c2002) 
    Zabadani, Hisham (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-16)
    In this work we present a system for the recognition of handwritten Arabic text using neural networks. This work builds upon previous work done by [Hamid 2001]. That part dealt with the vertical segmentation of the written ...
  • Ablative micro-fractional resurfacing 
    Tannous, Zeina; Altshuler, Gregory; Yaroslavsky, Ilya; Childs, James; Cohen, Richard; Tabatadze, David (2017-11-10)
  • Abrupt change in the energy gap of superconducting Ba1−𝑥�K𝑥�Fe2As2 single crystals with hole doping 
    Malaeb, W.; Shimojima, T.; Ishida, Y.; Okazaki, K.; Ota, Y.; Ohgushi, K.; Kihou, K.; Saito, T.; Lee, C. H. (2012-10-10)
    We performed a laser angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) study on a wide doping range of Ba1−𝑥K𝑥Fe2As2 (BaK) and precisely determined the doping evolution of the superconducting gaps in this compound. The ...
  • Absence of cardiac siderosis by MRI T2* despite transfusion burden, hepatic and serum iron overload in Lebanese patients with sickle cell disease 
    Inati, Adlette; Musallam, Khaled M.; Wood, John C.; Sheikh-Taha, Marwan; Daou, Linda; Taher, Ali T. (2016-06-02)
    Background:  The use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to detect organ-specific iron overload is becoming increasingly common. Although hepatic iron overload has been recognized in patients with sickle cell disease (SCD), ...
  • Absence of Congenital Prethrombotic Disorders in Children With Legg-Perthes Disease 
    El Hayek, Toni; Sirvent, Nicolas; Fisher, Florence; Appert, Annie; Giudicelli, Henri; Griffet, Jacques (2016-09-20)
    Resistance to activated protein C (RPCA) and other congenital prethrombotic disorders have been recently reported to be strongly associated with Legg-Perthes disease. RPCA and deficiencies of protein C. protein S. and ...
  • Abstracts of Three Introductory Studies to Bibliography of Works Written by Women Since 1960 
    Aghacy, Samira (2016-11-14)
    This study deals with the short story as a genre that has attracted a surprisingly large number of women writers since the 1960's. Even though women writers wrote without strong orientations and direction, the stories, on ...
  • Academic networking. (c2012) 
    Jammal, Belal (Lebanese American University, 2012-06-01)
    This study chooses to take an approach that recognizes that children of the 21st century are exceptionally well advanced in modern day technologies, and possess technological literacy that is superior to that of the ...
  • Academic writing in a multilingual context 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola (2016-12-01)
    Although the importance of the writing skill in university course work in comparison with the other skills is sometimes rated differently by students and faculty depending upon varying needs (Johns, 1981; Zughol, 1985; ...
  • Accelerated dissolution testing for controlled release microspheres using the flow-through dissolution apparatus 
    Capomacchia, A.C.; Collier, Jarrod W.; Thakare, Mohan; Ahmed, Hisham; Graner, Solomon T.; Israel, Bridgette; Granade, Saundra (2017-10-17)
    Theophylline controlled release capsules (THEO-24 CR) were used as a model system to evaluate accelerated dissolution tests for process and quality control and formulation development of controlled release formulations. ...
  • Accelerating embedded Java for mobile devices 
    Debbabi, Mourad; Mourad, Azzam; Talhi, Chamseddine; Yahyaoui, Hamdi (2015-09-15)
    With the proliferation of wireless devices, networks, and systems, the deployment of efficient embedded Java virtual machines is becoming a challenging and important research area. Accordingly, a plethora of acceleration ...
  • The accessory peroneal (fibular) muscles 
    Yammine, Kaissar (2019-06-28)
    The denomination of “accessory peroneal muscle” (APM) refers usually to two muscles: the peroneus quartus (PQua) and the peroneus digit quinti (PQui) which were believed to be variants of a same muscle. Their morphology ...
  • Accountants' Behaviour, Performance Evaluation and Educational System 
    Nehme, Rabih; Kozah, Alcheikh Edmond; Sadaka, Sami; Michael, Amir (2023)
    Purpose: Retaining competent and qualified public accountants has become a challenge for most audit firms. Accordingly, some universities and audit firms are combining their efforts to attract accounting students by ...