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  • Board gender diversity and firms’ equity risk 
    Jizi, Mohammad Issam; Nehme, Rabih (2020-12-03)
    Purpose There is a growing attention toward the importance of women’s participation on corporate boards in enhancing board governance and decision-making quality. The literature lacks sufficient empirical evidence on the ...
  • Board independance and the efficiency of internal capital markets 
    Dah, Mustafa A.; Al Dah, Bilal; Zantout, Mohammad Hani (2018-03-16)
    The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and exchange listing requirements led to an increase in the percentage of independent members on company boards. The literature offers mixed evidence on the effect of board independence on ...
  • Board independence and managerial authority 
    Dah, Mustafa; Jizi, Mohammad; Sbeity, Sadim (2018-03-16)
    Purpose The imposition of the Sarbanes Oxley Act and the NYSE/NASDAQ regulations boosted the proportion of independent directors serving on corporate boards. For certain firms, increasing the number of independent directors ...
  • Board independence and the efficacy of social reporting 
    Dah, Mustafa A.; Jizi, Mohammad I. (2018-07-30)
    The recent decade of scandals, financial crisis, and loss in moral values questioned the soundness of firms' governance structure and held them more accountable to their societies. This put corporate boards under increased ...
  • Board independence and the efficiency of internal capital markets. (c2015) 
    Zantout, Mohammad Hani (2016-03-30)
    This paper focuses on the effect of increased board independence on the efficiency of internal capital markets in diversified firms. We find that the increase in board independence post-SOX may have moved firms away from ...
  • Board monitoring and audit fees 
    Jizi, Mohammad; Nehme, Rabih (2020-12-03)
    Purpose This paper aims to examine whether CEO/chair dual roles influence board monitoring-audit fees nexus. The impact of corporate governance on audit fees literature is lacking in the banking sector, which is subject ...
  • Body image, self-esteem and academic achievement of 8th and 11th grades Male and female Lebanese students (c2011) 
    Itani, Diala (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-29)
    The purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between body image, self-esteem and academic achievements of 8th and 11th grades male and female Lebanese students. A survey was administered on a sample of 120 ...
  • Body shop flexibility 
    El-Khalil, Raed; Taraman, K.; Taraman, S. (2018-03-26)
  • Body surface area and body weight predict total liver volume in Western adults 
    Abdalla, Eddie; Vauthey, Nicolas; Doherty, Dorota; Gertsch, Philippe; Fenstermacher, Marc; Loyer, Evelyne; Leurt, Jan; Materne, Roland; Wang, Xuemei; Encarnacion, Arthur; Herron, Delise; Mathey, Christian; Ferrari, Giovanni; Charnsangavej, Chusilp; Do, Kim-Anh; Denys, Alban (2015-11-10)
    Computed tomography (CT) is used increasingly to measure liver volume in patients undergoing evaluation for transplantation or resection. This study is designed to determine a formula predicting total liver volume (TLV) ...
  • Bone-targeted therapies in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer 
    El-Amm, Joelle; Freeman, Ashley; Patel, Nihar; Aragon-Ching, Jeanny B. (2017-09-22)
    Majority of patients with metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) develop bone metastases which results in significant morbidity and mortality as a result of skeletal-related events (SREs). Several bone-targeted ...
  • Book launch 
    Saab, Nada; Myers, Robert (2019-03-01)
    LAU’s New York Headquarters & Academic Center is hosting a book launch of Modern and Contemporary Political Theater from the Levant: A Critical Anthology (published by Brill) and Sentence to Hope: A Sa’dallah Wannous Reader ...
  • Book launch 
    Unknown author (2019-05-08)
    The Department of Humanities, in collaboration with the Department of English and the Centre for Arts and Humanities at the American University of Beirut, invites you to the book launch of two critical anthologies of ...
  • Borderline behavior for 2 x 2 iterative systems 
    Habre, Samer S.; McDill, Jean-Marie (2016-05-16)
    The study of 2 × 2 linear iterative systems leads naturally to an analysis of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the corresponding system matrix. The phase portraits for such systems have been previously examined and ...
  • Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer 
    Katz, Matthew; Pisters, Peter; Evans, Douglas; Sun, Charlotte; Lee, Jeffrey; Fleming, Jason; Vauthey, Jean-Nicolas; Abdalla, Eddie; Crane, Christopher (2015-11-17)
    Background Patients with borderline resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PA) include those with localized disease who have tumor or patient characteristics that preclude immediate surgery. There is no optimal treatment ...
  • Boron-neutron capture on activated carbon for hydrogen storage 
    Romanos, Jimmy; Beckner, Matthew; Prosniewski, Matthew; Rash, Tyler; LEe, Mark; Robertson, J.David; Firlej, Lucyna; Kutcha, Bogdan; Pfeifer, Peter (2019-10-10)
    This work investigates the effects of neutron irradiation on nitrogen and hydrogen adsorption in boron-doped activated carbon. Boron-neutron capture generates an energetic lithium nucleus, helium nucleus, and gamma photons, ...
  • Botnet detection 
    Al Ebri, Noura; Otrok, Hadi; Mourad, Azzam; Al-Hammadi, Yousof (IEEE, 2017-03-10)
    In this paper, we address the problem of botnet detection by correlating information from trusted hosts and network. Botnets are groups of compromised computers controlled by a botmaster through a command and control (C&C) ...
  • A bottom-up outcome-based learning assessment process for accrediting computing programs 
    Harmanani, Haidar M. (Proquest, 2018-04-27)
    The push for a culture of evidence that guides improvement in higher-education has made outcome-based assessment a necessity. Furthermore, the recent move by ABET's CAC into more rigorous assessment has caused anxiety among ...
  • The boundary dispute between Kuwait and Iraq. (c2011) 
    Alkenaee, Maha (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-29)
    This thesis attempts three related tasks. First, it surveys the historic record which provides uncontestable evidence that Kuwait was never part of the Ottoman Empire and thus never formed a single administrative or political ...
  • A bounded search tree algorithm for parameterized 
    Abu-Khzam, Faisal N.; Fernau, Henning; Langston, Micheal A. (2015-12-07)
    The parameterized complexity of the face cover problem is considered. The input to this problem is a plane graph G with n vertices. The question asked is whether, for a given parameter value k, there exists a set of k or ...
  • Bourdieu in Beirut 
    Tabar, Paul; Egan, Martyn (2016-12-06)
    This article uses Pierre Bourdieu’s theory to analyze the relation between the Lebanese state and the reproduction of unequal power relations, in particular through the phenomenon of wasta (an Arabic word referring to the ...