• Cytotoxicity of [HuArgI (co)-PEG5000]-induced arginine deprivation to ovarian Cancer cells is autophagy dependent 

  Nasreddine, Ghenwa; El-Sibai, Mirvat; Abi-Habib, Ralph

  In this study, we assess arginine auxotrophy in ovarian cancer cells and attempt to target them using arginine deprivation induced by a pegylated recombinant human Arginase I cobalt [HuArgI (Co)-PEG5000]. Ovarian cancer ...
• UAV Trajectory Planning for Data Collection from Time-Constrained IoT Devices 

  Samir, Moataz; Sharafeddine, Sanaa; Assi, Chadi; Nguyen, Tri; Ghrayeb, Ali

  The global evolution of wireless technologies and intelligent sensing devices are transforming the realization of smart cities. Among the myriad of use cases, there is a need to support applications whereby low-resource ...
• Trajectory Planning and Resource Allocation of Multiple UAVs for Data Delivery in Vehicular Networks 

  Samir, Moataz; Sharafeddine, Sanaa; Assi, Chadi; Nguyen, Tri Minh; Ghrayeb, Ali

  This letter jointly investigates the trajectory and radio resource optimization for multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to fully deliver critical data in vehicular networks during disaster situations. We aim to minimize ...
• Latency and Reliability-Aware Workload Assignment in IoT Networks with Mobile Edge Clouds 

  Kherraf, Nouha; Sharafeddine, Sanaa; Assi, Chadi; Ghrayeb, Ali

  Along with the dramatic increase in the number of IoT devices, different IoT services with heterogeneous QoS requirements are evolving with the aim of making the current society smarter and more connected. In order to ...
• Joint Location and Beamforming Design for Cooperative UAVs with Limited Storage Capacity 

  Dinh, Phuc; Nguyen, Tri Minh; Sharafeddine, Sanaa; Assi, Chadi

  In this paper, we investigate downlink transmissions in a wireless communication system enabled by a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) which are spatially dispatched to cooperatively deliver requested contents to ...
• Characterization and cytotoxicity assessment of nargile smoke using dynamic exposure 

  Khalil, Christian; Chahine, Joe Braham; Chahla, Brenda; Hobeika, Tamara; Khnayzer, Rony S.

  Objectives: Nargile (waterpipe) smoking has gained popularity in the Middle East and throughout the world. In this research, a new dynamic methodology was conceived. This methodology was deployed for direct in vitro ...
• The dissemination of antimicrobial resistance determinants in the environment through horizontal gene transfer. (c2019) 

  Moussa, Jennifer J. (Lebanese American University, )

  The extensive use of antibiotics led to the rise and dissemination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. One of the most important factors facilitating the spread of resistance determinants is mobile genetic elements. Understanding ...
• Whole-genome sequencing based molecular characterization of multi-drug resistant isolates of Enterobacter spp. and Klebsiella aerogenes in Lebanon. (c2019) 

  Merhi, Georgi S. (Lebanese American University, )

  Enterobacter cloacae complex (ECC) members and Klebsiella aerogenes belong to the family Enterobacteriaceae and are known as Gram-negative, rod-shaped, opportunistic pathogens. They are commonly notorious for causing ...
• The vitamin E derivative gamma tocotrienol promotes anti-tumor effects in acute myeloid leukemia cell lines. (c2019) 

  Mohamad, Maya Riad (Lebanese American University, )

  Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is a type of cancer characterized by the formation of faulty myelogenous cells with morphological heterogeneity and cytogenic aberrations leading to a total loss of their function. In the midst ...
• Rupture et continuité dans le discours technique arabe d’Internet 

  Affeich, Andrée (École doctorale Lettres, langues, linguistique, arts (Lyon), )

  Ce travail de recherche mené sur un corpus qui rassemble onze pays arabes, vise à soulever une problématique liée à la rupture et à la continuité au sein de la terminologie arabe d’Internet, terminologie créée dans le monde ...
• Etude des reformulations dans les discours techno-scientifiques arabes le domaine d'internet pris comme exemple 

  Affeich, Andrée
• Du „too big to fail” au „too big to believe”. Quand l’emprunt trace sa voie dans la terminologie française de la crise budgétaire américaine 

  Affeich, Andrée

  Through online economic texts published in 2013 by the French press following the American Congress failure to pass a budget for 2014, we examine how loan terms have made their way in the French terminology of the American ...
• L'emprunt dans le vocabulaire arabe de specialité 

  Affeich, Andrée
• Le sens en terminologie 

  Affeich, Andrée; Abi-Ghanem, Carine
• Implementing an interprofessional education programme in Lebanon 

  Farra, Anna; Zeenny, Rony; Nasser, Soumana; Asmar, Nadia; Milane, Aline; Bassil, Maya; Haidar, Mona; Habre, Maha; Zeeni, Nadine; Hoffart, Nancy

  Background: The Lebanese American University has a well-functioning inter-professional education (IPE) programme; this is a fundamental pedagogical approach in healthcare education in which students from different professions ...
• Magnetic properties of high-surface-area carbons and their effect on adsorbed hydrogen 

  Romanos, Jimmy; Beckner, Matthew; Kraus, Micheal; Burress, Jacob; Pfeifer, Peter (American Physical Society, )

  We report the discovery that a large number of nanoporous carbon samples, made from corn cob and exhibiting high hydrogen storage capacities (Pfeifer et al, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 1041 R02-02 (2008)), show unexpected ...
• Ultrananopores in carbons by boron-neutron capture and their effect on hydrogen storage 

  Romanos, J.; Robertson, D.; Beckner, M.; Kraus, M.; Kuchta, B.; Firlej, L.; Pfeifer, P. (American Physical Society, )

  The Alliance for Collaborative Research in Alternative Fuel Technology (ALL-CRAFT) has been optimizing high surface area activated carbon nanospaces for high capacity hydrogen storage. Boron doped samples have been prepared ...
• Record methane storage in monolithic and powdered activated carbons 

  Yuchoong, Soo; Nordwald, E.; Hester, B.; Romanos, J.; Isaacson, B.; Stalla, D.; Moore, D.; Kraus, M.; Burress, J.; Dohnke, E.; Pfeifer, P. (American Physical Society, )

  The Alliance for Collaborative Research in Alternative Fuel Technology (ALL-CRAFT) has developed activated carbons from corn cob as adsorbent materials for methane gas storage by physisorption at low pressures. KOH activated ...
• Record hydrogen storage capacities in advanced carbon storage materials 

  Wexler, C.; Beckner, M.; Romanos, J.; Burress, J.; Kraus, J.; Oslen, R.; Dohnke, E.; Carter, S.; Casteel, G.; Kuchta, B.; Firle, L.; Leimkuehler, E.; Tekeei, A.; Suppes, G.; Pfeifer, P. (American Physical Society, )

  Carbons can be engineered to achieve exceptional storage capacities: the ALL-CRAFT (www.all-craft.missouri.edu) nanoporous carbon achieves gravimetric excess adsorption of 0.073 kg H2/kg C, gravimetric storage capacity of ...
• Isosteric heats of adsorption for activated carbons made from corn cob 

  Beckner, M.; Oslen, R.; Romanos, J.; Burress, J.; Dohnke, E.; Carter, S.; Casteel, G.; Wexler, C.; Pfeifer, P. (American Physical Society, )

  Activated carbons made from corn cob show promise as materials for high-capacity hydrogen storage. As part of our characterization of these materials, we are interested in learning how different production methods affect ...

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