• The Politics of Economic Development: How the U.S. Constrains the Work of International Financial Institutions in Egypt and Jordan 

  Kadissi, Dalia

  This Senior Study examines the political aspect of the international assistance provided by the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The Marxist argument is presented to explain the hierarchical nature of these ...
• The Relationship Between a State’s Domestic Factors and Its Implementation of Economic Sanctions: A Study of the Obama Administration’s Economic Sanctions On Iran, 2009-2012 

  Abi Akl, Chana

  Coercive diplomacy is one of the foreign policy strategies used by states to solve problems peacefully. Negative economic sanctions are a policy within coercive diplomacy that has been newly used by states to impair the ...
• 3D deployment of UAVs in wireless networks for traffic offloading and edge computing. (c2019) 

  Islambouli, Rania (Lebanese American University, )

  Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently emerged as enablers for mul- titude use cases in 5G networks leading to interesting industrial and business applications. 5G networks envision a multi-service network promoting ...
• LP-SBA-XACML. (c2019) 

  Chehab, Mohamad A. (Lebanese American University, )

  The wide applicability of Internet of Things (IoT) would truly enable the pervasiveness of smart devices for sensing data. IoT coupled with machine learning would enter us in an era of smart and personalized, services. ...
• Teachers' perceptions of the effect of leadership on school climate. (c2019) 

  Ibrahim, Zeina Amal (Lebanese American University, )

  This mixed methods research examines the relationship between principal leadership and school climate. A sample of 63 elementary teachers evaluated their school climate and leadership through the OCDQ-RE and the MLQ-5X and ...
• Investigating pre-service teachers' self efficacy beliefs in STEM fields. (c2019) 

  Shehab, Hanan (Lebanese American University, )

  The subject of self-efficacy beliefs has been studied for over four decades now. The purpose of this study was to explore pre-service self-efficacy beliefs in Math and Science (STEM fields) in the context of Pedagogical ...
• The effect of utilizing danielson framework for teaching on teachers' perceptions of effective teaching. (c2019) 

  Shehab, Usama (Lebanese American University, )

  Inconsistent definitions of effective teachers and teaching among teachers and diverse classroom observation tools that supervisors of instructions use can have a negative impact on the instructional supervision process. ...
• Influence maximization in social networks. (c2019) 

  Bou Matar, Ghinwa (Lebanese American University, )

  The main challenge in viral marketing, that is powered by social networks, is to minimize the seed set that will initiate the diffusion process and maximize the total influence at its termination. The aim of this thesis ...
• Explaining the downfall of Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi. (c2019) 

  El Esrawi, Mouataz (Lebanese American University, )

  This is a study on Egypt’s brief interlude of civilian rule that lasted for just over a year between June 2012 and July 2013. In June 2012, Mohamed Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), ascended to the ...
• Women's rural-urban migration in Lebanon. (c2019) 

  Youssef, Sally N. (Lebanese American University, )

  Women’s sole internal migration has been mostly ignored in migration studies, and the concentration on migrant women has been almost exclusively on low-income women within the household framework. This study focuses on ...
• Living in a limbo between two homes. (c2019) 

  Khafaji, Lana (Lebanese American University, )

  As a result of the Syrian crisis which began in 2011, Lebanon has been a main country of refuge for a large number of Syrian refugees. According to the annual report from the Danish Refugee Council (2016), 25% of Lebanon’s ...
• Language as a tool for marginalization of disadvantaged students in Lebanon. (c2019) 

  Chatila, Samira N. (Lebanese American University, )

  With the influx of Syrian refugees to Lebanon, the attention of research has focused on the marginalization and vulnerability of these children including their access to school. A lot of the discussion in this field has ...
• Game theoretical models for cloud federations. (2019) 

  Hammoud, Ahmad Tarek (Lebanese American University, )

  Cloud federation is an architecture that allows cloud providers to make use of their unallocated virtual machines, by combining their resources to serve a pool of cloud consumers whose requests cannot be handled by any ...
• Nature of science for social justice 

  Yacoubian, Hagop A.; Hansson, Lena (Springer, )

  This edited volume brings closer two contemporary science education research areas: Nature of Science (NOS) and Social Justice (SJ). It starts a dialogue on the characteristics of NOS for SJ with the purpose of advancing ...
• Supporting Local Lebanese Products 

  Issa, Maria

  Lebanon is facing an immense economic crisis and severe actions should be taken to save the country from a total financial collapse. Industries are striving to survive with the US shortage and the new banking rules. One ...
• The Case of Wildlife Trafficking in Lebanon 

  Itani, Rawane; Hreiby, Ghaidaa

  This project is about wildlife trafficking, a problem that is often left unaddressed by the media, citizens and even policy-makers in many countries including Lebanon. Secondary research was conducted to get more information ...
• The Lebanese Youth’s Perception of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon 

  Ali, Ameena

  After the Israeli occupation in 1948, Palestinians found refuge in Lebanon. They have been denied basic human rights because of Lebanese government’s opposition to their permanent residency. A lot of factors such as how ...
• Lebanese Educational System: An Impairment 

  Khafaja, Nour; Zoghby, Kinda; Barakat, Jana

  The main purpose of this project is to shed light on the problems of the Lebanese curriculum, which affect the learning process in public and private schools, specifically when it comes to online learning and special ...
• Use of the portage curriculum to impact child and parent outcome in an early intervention program in Lebanon 

  Sarouphim, Ketty M.; Kassem, Sara

  The purpose of this study, that took place in Lebanon, is to investigate the effectiveness of Portage, a home-based early intervention program for children with special needs. The sample consisted of 16 children (eight ...
• Model-Driven Specification and Design-Level Analysis of XACML Policies 

  Tout, Hanine; Mourad, Azzam; Talhi, Chamseddine; Otrok, Hadi; Yahyaoui, Hamdi

  Throughout the recent years, Web services security has been the target of many researchers. Particularly, by integrating policies and rules to govern the Web services behaviors at runtime, researchers have been able to ...

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