The determination of the Glycemic Index (GI) and Load (GL) for mixed meals serves as a dietetic tool in meal planning to reinforce the benefits of low GI meals and decrease the physiological effects of high GI meals. In ...

This partly biographical narrative recounts its narrator’s first-hand, ground-zero experience of the Beirut Port explosion, one of the largest and most destructive in living memory. As the narrator recollects her mother’s ...

This article discusses how the Lebanese state has responded to displacement from Syria (2011–17), and how the resulting policy formulation processes and discourses have constructed the relationship between the hosting state ...

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the consequent ‘war on terror’ and the American and British invasion and occupation of Iraq, has magnified the threat posed by Muslim immigrant communities residing in Europe. ...

Today's technologies have an economic and cultural impact on industries and businesses as well as on consumers. Tasks are being automated and data is being organized in standard formats. In other words, the evolution of ...

Globally, educational institutes of all levels face challenges in equitable education delivery due to the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic forcing institutions online. A particular entity in the establishment of ...

Mapping data to parallel computers aims at minimizing the execution time of the associated application. However, it can take an unacceptable amount of time in comparison with the execution time of the application if the ...

The current escalation in usage and complexity of modern digital systems, and the emergence of Very-Large Scale Integration (VLSI) has led to a huge design productivity gap in the chip design industry. It is well established ...

Let T be a set of n distinct positive integers, x1, x2, ..., xn. The n×n matrix [T] having (xi , xj), the greatest common divisor of xi and xj , as its (i,j)-entry is called the greatest common divisor (GCD) matrix ...