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  • Final exams scheduling for univeristies. (c2001) 
    Timany, Mazen Nuhad (Lebanese American University, 2011-10-14)
    Scheduling final exams for large numbers of courses and students in universities, such as the Lebanese American University (LAU), is an intractable problem. In order to solve this problem, the approach must be efficient, ...
  • Financial Aid at private Universities in the Middle East 
    Nasser, Ramzi; Nauffal, Diane; Romanowski, Micheal (2016-03-29)
    Many private universities around the world sustain their growth and retain students through a system of ‘cost-sharing’ where fees and tuition are channelled back to students in form of financial aid. Not all students are ...
  • Financial and energy impacts of compact fluorescent light bulbs in a rural setting 
    Houri, Ahmad; El Khoury, Pierre (2016-03-14)
    Within the context of a national campaign to replace GLS with CFLs, a pilot study was undertaken in Niha, Lebanon to replace around 1000 light bulbs. This paper reports on the detailed savings actually obtained by this ...
  • Financial burden of cancer drug treatment in lebanon 
    Zalloua, Pierre; Elias, Fadia; Khuri, Fadlo R.; Adib, Salim M.; Karam, Rita; Harb, Hilda; Awar, May; Ammar, Walid (2016-12-07)
    Elias, F., Khuri, F. R., Adib, S. M., Karam, R., Harb, H., Awar, M., ... & Ammar, W. (2016). Financial Burden of Cancer Drug Treatment in Lebanon. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 17(7), 3173-3177.
  • Finding a STAR in a Vehicular Cloud 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Artail, Hassan (2024-02-28)
    The strong capabilities that exist in a Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) has given birth to the concept of Vehicular Clouds, in which cloud computing services are hosted by vehicles that have sufficient resources to act ...
  • Finding fulfillment in all the wrong places. (c2009) 
    Daouk, Hala Adnan (Lebanese American University, 2011-10-24)
    This study deals with Nadine Gordimer's 2001 The Pickup, Laura Esquivel's 1989 Like Water for Chocolate and Hanan al-Shaykh 1980 Hikayat Zahra. All three works are fundamentally different in terms of language, culture ...
  • Finite volume central schemes for three-dimensional ideal MHD 
    Touma, R.; Arminjon, P. (Springer, 2018-09-12)
    We present second-order accurate central finite volume methods adapted here to three-dimensional problems in ideal magnetohydrodynamics. These methods alternate between two staggered grids, thus leading to Riemann solver-free ...
  • First report of an Escherichia coli from Lebanon carrying an OXA-181 carbapenemase resistance determinant 
    Tokajian, Sima; Bitar, Ibrahim; Dagher, Christel; Salloum, Tamara; Araj, George (2018-06-27)
    The class D carbapenemase OXA-48 was first detected in 2001 from a carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolate in Istanbul, Turkey [1]. The variant OXA-181, which differs from OXA-48 by four amino acids, was isolated ...
  • Fixed-parameter algorithms for hitting set problems. (c2006) 
    Masri, Rola El. (Lebanese American University, 2011-09-27)
    The Hitting Set problem received a great deal of attention lately due to its plethora of applications in scientific domains. Many Algorithms have been developed to solve this problem by targeting the reduction of the ...
  • A fluid-structure interaction model of the cell membrane deformation 
    El Khatib, N. (2016-12-06)
    In this paper we present a fluid-structure interaction model of neuron’s membrane deformation. The membrane-actin is considered as an elastic solid layer, while the cytoplasm is considered as a viscous fluid one. The ...
  • FoGMatch 
    Arisdakessian, Sarhad (Lebanese American University, 2019-12-02)
    Cloud computing has long been the main backbone that IoT devices rely on to accommodate their storage and analytical needs. However, the fact that cloud systems are often deployed in locations that are quite far from the ...
  • Food and religion in the Middle East. (c1955) 
    Low, Deen (Lebanese American University, 2012-11-01)
  • Food insecurity and child health, maternal mental health, and coping mechanisms 
    Al-Madhoun, Layal; Al-Dorzi, Hiba; Al-Khatib, Nour (2021-12-20)
    Background: Household food insecurity is among the leading causes of malnutrition due to the lack of availability, access, and utilization of food resources. Since the year 2020, with the rise of covid 19 and the economic ...
  • Food safety and handling knowledge and practices of Lebanese university students 
    Hassan, Hussein F.; Dimassi, Hani (2017-01-19)
    The aim of this study was to assess the level of food safety handling knowledge and practices among 1172 Lebanese university students (mean age 20.0 ± 1.6 SD) and to explore the association between their knowledge/practices ...
  • “For They Are Merely Property” 
    Barazi, Janda (Lebanese American University, 2023-05-18)
    On 3 August 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched an attack on the area of Sinjar in Northern Iraq. With Sinjar being home to thousands of Yazidis, the attack by the Islamic State marked the beginning ...
  • Forbidden subgraph characterization of (P3-free, K3-free)-colourable cographs 
    Abu-Khzam, Faisal N.; Feghali, Carl; Muller, Haiko (2018-04-26)
    A (P3-free, K3-free)-colouring of a graph G = (V, E) is a partition of V = A ∪ B such that G[A] is P3-free and G[B] is K3-free. This problem is known to be NP-complete even when restricted to planar graphs and perfect ...
  • Foreign direct investment as a tool in the development of Lebanon. (c2002) 
    Mneimne, Talal (Lebanese American University, 2011-04-20)
  • Foreign Language Education in Lebanon 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola; Bahous, Rima (2015-10-28)
    Knowing more than one or two languages has always been a natural consequence of cultural exchange. Thus educational institutions the world over have placed teaching/learning of languages high on their agendas as they find ...
  • The foreign policies of Arab states 
    Korany, Bahgat; Dessouki, Ali E. Hillal (American University in Cairo Press, 2018-08-24)
  • Foreign policy battles in post-Syria Lebanon. (2013) 
    Khanafer, Sawsan (Lebanese American University, 2013-12-20)
    This thesis examines the overlapping domestic and external battles involved in the making of foreign policy in Lebanon. It contends that domestic actors bandwagon with external regional or international allies to contest ...

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