• Maneuvering Entrenched Structures of Arab Education Systems 

  Melki, Jad; Maaliki, Lubna
• Block Her Entry, Keep Her Down and Push Her Out 

  Melki, Jad P.; Mallat, Sarah E.

  This study examines why female journalists in an Arab country continue to be marginalized. It hypothesized that a set of interrelated factors, pertaining to gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and the lack of a legally ...
• Media dependency, selective exposure and trust during war 

  Melki, Jad; Kozman, Claudia

  Using the Syrian war as a case study, this article examines the theoretical frameworks of media dependency and selective exposure during the war. Through a survey of 2,192 Syrians living in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and ...
• The domestic tethering of Lebanese and Arab women journalists and news managers 

  Melki, Jad; Hitti, Eveline

  The study examined gender-based discrimination facing Arab women journalists and news managers, especially in their pursuit of leadership positions. It assessed how domestic pressures, gender norms, and corporate policies ...
• WAF - Test2 

  Unknown author

  This study explored the perceived role of academic deans in three private universities in Lebanon. The inquiry, based on four research questions, focused on the academic deans, department chairpersons, and faculty members’ ...
• On Leveraging the Computational Potential of Fog-Enabled Vehicular Networks 

  Sorkhoh, Ibrahim; Ebarhimi, Dariush; Sharafeddine, Sanaa; Assi, Chadi (ACM, )

  The advent of autonomous vehicles demands powerful processing capabilities of on-board units to handle the dramatic increase of sensor data used to make safe self-driving decisions. Those com- putational resources, being ...
• Joint User Pairing and Power Control for C-NOMA with Full-Duplex Device-to-Device Relaying 

  Dinh, Phuc; Arfaoui, Mohamed Amine; Sharafeddine, Sanaa; Assi, Chadi; Ghrayeb, Ali

  This paper investigates the performance of cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (C-NOMA) in cellular downlink systems. The system model consists of a base station (BS) that needs to serve multiple users within a ...
• Phenotypic and cell wall proteomic characterization of a DDR48 mutant candida albicans strain 

  El Khoury, Pamela; Salameh, Carell; Younes, Samer; Awad, Andy; Said, Yana; Khalaf, Roy A.

  Candida albicans is an opportunistic fungus possessing multiple virulence factors controlling pathogenicity. Cell wall proteins are the most important among these factors, being the first elements contacting the host. Ddr48 ...
• Autonomous 3D Deployment of Aerial Base Stations in Wireless Networks with User Mobility 

  Islambouli, Rania; Sharafeddine, Sanaa
• Cost and energy aware dynamic splitting of video traffic in heterogeneous networks 

  Abbas, Nadine; Sharafeddine, Sanaa; Hajj, Hazem; Dawy, Zaher
• Writing assignments in a complex analysis course 

  Habre, Samer

  A growing body of research supports writing as a means to learn mathematics. Although introductory courses have benefited the most from the spread of this mode of learning, writing may be promoted in advanced courses. This ...
• Blog and intercultural grouping effect on learners' perceptions of intercultural communication projects 

  Awada, Ghada; Diab, Nuwar Mawlawi

  This study investigated the effect of integrating Blog Assisted Language Learning(BALL) and small culturally -mixed group work on improving the perceptions of intercultural communication and writing research projects of ...
• Cytotoxicity of [HuArgI (co)-PEG5000]-induced arginine deprivation to ovarian Cancer cells is autophagy dependent 

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

  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 ...
• The multiple roles and therapeutic potential of molecular chaperones in prostate cancer 

  Hoter, Abdullah; Rizk, Sandra; Naim, Hassan Y.

  Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most common cancer types in men worldwide. Heat shock proteins (HSPs) are molecular chaperones that are widely implicated in the pathogenesis, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of many ...
• Identity development among Lebanese youth 

  Kaddoura, Nadya; Sarouphim, Ketty S.

  The purpose of this study was to investigate Marcia's ego identity paradigm in a sample of Lebanese youth. Another purpose was to examine correlates to identity statuses, namely gender and academic achievement. The sample ...
• Measuring the economic impact of universities operating in unstable environments 

  Nauffal, Diane I.

  This paper evaluates the economic impact of a university in a country characterised by the scarcity of significant data and quantitative information. It uses an input–output model that permits the use of gross domestic ...
• Tandem mass spectrometric cell wall proteome profiling of a candida albicans hwp2 mutant strain 

  Awad, Andy; El Khoury, Pamela; Wex, Brigitte; Khalaf, Roy A.; Khalaf, Roy A.

  Background: Candida albicans is present as part of the normal gut flora and detected in the oral cavities and GI tracts of around fifty percent of adults. Benign colonization can turn pathogenic causing a variety of mild ...
• Genotypic and phenotypic characterization of Candida albicans Lebanese hospital isolates resistant and sensitive to caspofungin 

  Toutounji, Maggie; Tokajian, Sima; Khalaf, Roy A.

  The fungus Candida albicans is both a commensal and an opportunistic human pathogen, present as part of the normal human microflora causing serious mucosal, and systemic life threatening infections. The antifungal drug ...
• Synergistic effect of epigenetic inhibitors decitabine and suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid on colorectal cancer in vitro 

  Rizk, Sandra; Abou Najem, Sonia; Hodroj, Mohammad Hassan; Khawaja, Ghada

  Colorectal cancer (CRC) is major public health burden and a common cause of oncological deaths worldwide. Alterations of the epigenetic landscape are a well-documented hallmark of CRC phenotype. Accumulation of aberrant ...
• Andrographolide potentiates the antitumor effect of topotecan in acute myeloid leukemia cells through an intrinsic apoptotic pathway 

  Hodroj, Mohammad Hassan; Jardaly, Achraf; Abi Raad, Sarah; Zouein, Annalise; Rizk, Sandra

  Background Topotecan (TP) is an anticancer drug acting as topoisomerase I inhibitor that is used in the treatment of many types of cancers including leukemia, but it has significant side effects. Andrographolide, a compound ...

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