Browsing School of Arts and Sciences by Title
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Haraty, Ramzi A.; Khatib, Samer A.
(2017-01-31)
Stemming has a large effect on Arabic
information indexing and retrieval, at least partially due
to the highly inflected nature of the language. Our work
demonstrates the process of improving other stemmers,
mainly ...
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Diab, Kamal M.
(Lebanese American University, 2011-04-11)
We present a Tabu Search algorithm for mapping data to multicomputer nodes,
assuming certain computation and multicomputer models. The experimental results
show that the Tabu algorithm offers both reasonable solution ...
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Halkort, Monika
(Queen's University Belfast, 2017-11-07)
This thesis discusses the computer databases and Geographic Information Systems (G IS) as political technologies in the reconstruction of Nahr el Bared, a Palestinian Refugee Camp in North Lebanon. The camp has been ...
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Awad, Andy; El Khoury, Pamela; Wex, Brigitte; Khalaf, Roy A.; Khalaf, Roy A.
(2019-12-03)
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 ...
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Awad, Andy M.
(Lebanese American University, 2018-07-09)
Candida albicans, often recognized as a harmless opportunistic yeast, is ordinarily present as part of the normal gut flora and detected in the oral cavities as well as the GI tracts of around forty to sixty percent of ...
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Elaridi, Jomana; Whelan, Amanda N.; Harte, Michael; Smith, Suzanne V.; Jackson, W. Roy; Robinson, Andrea J.
(2015-12-22)
Dicarba cyclic peptide analogues of the cyclic peptide octreotide have been synthesised in good yields using a single pot, on resin, tandem homogeneous metal-catalysed metathesis–hydrogenation sequence.
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Fakhoury, Tamirace
(2018-08-07)
In the wake of the Arab uprisings, the EU has been confronted with governance and humanitarian dilemmas stemming from the need to control migration flows from its southern neighbours. Focusing on the EU approach to migration ...
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El Maarri, Osman; Hilger, Alina C.; Halbritter, Jan; Pennimpede, Tracie; Sarma, Georgia; Braun, Daniela A.; Kohl, Stefan
(2017-09-15)
The VATER/VACTERL association describes the combination of congenital anomalies including vertebral defects, anorectal malformations, cardiac defects, tracheoesophageal fistula with or without esophageal atresia, renal ...
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Azar, Daniel Fadi
(Lebanese American University, 2016-04-06)
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a class of hematopoietic malignancies that is characterized by the accumulation of abnormally differentiated myeloid cells and their infiltration into the bone marrow, blood and other tissues. ...
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Khalil, Nathalie
(Lebanese American University, 2017-11-01)
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is a highly aggressive solid malignancy with no efficient
therapy. It is one of the deadliest cancer types since its mortality rate per year is nearly
equal to its incidence rate. Therefore, there’s ...
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Tanios, Rita Farid
(Lebanese American University, 2015-02-10)
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common leukemia in adults. With current chemotherapy protocols, patients have poor prognosis and more than 10,000 patients die yearly of AML. Therefore new treatment to improve ...
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Khalil, Fatima; Zeaiter, Mohammad
(2021-12-20)
The creation of completely new agents that target the electron transport chain, the tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle, apoptotic pathways, reactive oxygen species (ROS) in recent decades demonstrates the acknowledgement of ...
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Khoury, Oula
(Lebanese American University, 2013-09-04)
Gliobastoma (Grade IV Astrocytoma) is an aggressive, malignant brain neoplasm and is the most recurrent malignant tumor in adult humans. Existing therapies for glioblastoma (GBM) include, among others, neurosurgery, ...
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Farhat, Stephanie Roy
(Lebanese American University, 2016-12-08)
Cancer incidence has been increasing worldwide in the last few decades. Solid tumors are hard to treat, primarily due to drug resistance as well as to the struggle in delivering the drugs specifically to the tumor. Various ...
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Al-Dimassi, Saleh; Salloum, Gilbert; Saykali, Bechara; Khoury, Oula; Liu, Shihui; Leppla, Stephen H.; Abi-Habib, Ralph; El-Sibai, Mirvat
(2016-12-14)
Malignant astrocytomas are highly invasive into adjacent and distant regions of the normal brain. Understanding and targeting cancer cell invasion is an important therapeutic approach. Cell invasion is a complex process ...
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Kassab, Elias
(Lebanese American University, 2013-09-03)
In this study, we attempt to target the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells using a recombinant anthrax lethal toxin (LeTx). Around 15,000 new case of Acute Myeloid Leukemia ...
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Daoud, Hiba
(Lebanese American University, 2011-03-22)
Most students find speaking a second language such as English difficult and challenging. Their problem is that they cannot speak English fluently and correctly. This problem can be strongly related to the facts that teachers ...
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Mohsen, Raed; Haraty, Nabelah
(2015-10-30)
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Adada, Lamis
(Lebanese American University, 2023-05-16)
Teacher agency in the context of a curriculum change pertains to teachers' ability to make autonomous decisions, adapt and implement new curricular policies, and draw upon their beliefs, values, and professional knowledge ...
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Baalbaki, Hiba Imad
(Lebanese American University, 2017-03-08)
The pressure of being a teacher of students with special needs could eventually drive
teachers to burnout, a phenomenon that manifests itself in emotional exhaustion,
depersonalization and feeling incapable of personal ...