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  • Helping shy children through play. (c2012) 
    El-Chafei, Manal Mohine (Lebanese American University, 2012-09-26)
    The aim of this project was to investigate the effectiveness of integrating social skills training into group play therapy, specifically in a group of young shy children. This intervention program was applied for an ...
  • Helping Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Overcome Academic and Psychosocial Challenges 
    Al Samhoury, Ola (Lebanese American University, 2020-12-04)
    This study explores educational challenges that Syrian refugee children face, and support programs offered to them by an NGO for non-formal early childhood education. It is guided by the theory of care and education in ...
  • Hepatoprotective activity of the wild carrot chloroform-based fraction against CCl4-induced liver toxicity in mice 
    Shebaby, W.; El-Sibai, M.; Mroueh, M.; Bodman-Smith, K.; Taleb, R.; Daher, C. (2018-04-19)
    The liver plays a major role in detoxifying and clearing xenobiotics that may lead to liver damage and hepatic dysfunction. The present study was carried out to evaluate the hepatoprotective activities of the chloroform-based ...
  • Hepatoprotective, Antioxidant, and Anticancer Effects of the Tragopogon porrifolius Methanolic Extract 
    Tenkerian, Clara; El-Sibai, Mirvat; Daher, Costantine F.; Mroueh, Mohamad (2015-12-16)
    Tragopogon porrifolius (Asteraceae), commonly referred to as white salsify, is an edible herb used in Lebanese folk medicine to treat cancer and liver dysfunction. In this study, we investigated the antioxidant activity ...
  • HER2+ Breast Cancer Targeted Therapy: Neoadjuvant Therapy and New Drugs 
    Maadarani, Rola Jr (2021-06-19)
    5-20 % of breast cancer patients are diagnosed with overexpression of the HER2 (human epidermal receptor type 2) gene. This amplification is associated with an aggressive type of cancer, poor prognosis, and bad clinical ...
  • Herbal Products and Dietary Supplements 
    El Khoury, Ghada; Ramadan, Wijdan; Zeeni, Nadine (2016-09-29)
    There has been a marked increase in use of herbal products and dietary supplements (HP/DS) in many developed and developing countries. However, data about consumption patterns and awareness about these products in the ...
  • Herbert man's pilgrimage unto death and beyond 
    Marroum, Marianne E. (American University of Beirut, 2018-05-03)
    Man lives in time: the self is inseparable from the concept of time as it develops in time. Because the movement of time is an irreversible movement towards death, the prospect of death enters as an integral and ineradicable ...
  • Heteroepitaxial growth of colloidal nanocrystals onto substrate films via hot-injection routes 
    Acharya, Krishna P.; Khon, Elena; O'Conner, Timothy; Nemitz, Ian; Klinkova, Anna; Khnayzer, Rony S. (2017-11-03)
    Hot-injection synthesis of colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) in a substrate-bound form is demonstrated. We show that polycrystalline films submerged into hot organic solvents can nucleate the heteroepitaxial growth of semiconductor ...
  • Heterozygous large deletions of Factor 8 gene in females identified by multiplex PCR-LC 
    El Maarri, O.; Pavlova, A.; Forster, T.; Delev, D.; Muller-Reible, C.; Oldenburg, J. (2017-09-13)
    Haemophilia A is the most common X-linked recessive bleeding disorder. In 5% of severely affected patients the mutations responsible for the disease are large deletions encompassing from one exon to the complete Factor 8 ...
  • Heuristic approaches for optimizing the performance of rule-based classifiers 
    Harmanani, Haidar; Azar, Danielle (IEEE, 2017-03-29)
    Rule-based classifiers are supervised learning techniques that are extensively used in various domains. This type of classifiers is popular because of its nature which makes it modular and easy to interpret and also because ...
  • Heuristics for graph decomposition 
    Mansour, N.; Dana, T.; Tabbara, H. (IEEE Xplore, 2018-05-23)
    The problem addressed in this paper is that of decomposing a weighted graph into a specified number of subgraphs such that these subgraphs have balanced sums of vertex weights and minimal sums of edge weights. To find a ...
  • Heuristics. (c2006) 
    Kallab, Chadi (Lebanese American University, 2011-10-27)
    This thesis focuses on the NP-Hard problem of finding an optimal tree topology where leaves represent biological sequences. The problem consists of minimizing the number of changes between given and/or derived sequences. ...
  • Hezbollah. (c2017) 
    Wahab, Hadi (Lebanese American University, 2017-12-08)
    This thesis examines what kind of label as a non-state actor does Hezbollah fit. Can it be described as an autonomous non-state actor or, alternatively, a proxy one? To explain this puzzle, the thesis focuses on specific ...
  • Hezbollah: A Proletarian Party with an Islamic Manifesto – A Sociopolitical Analysis of Islamist Populism in Lebanon and the Middle East 
    Salamey, Imad; Pearson, Frederic (2016-05-06)
    This article examines the rising contention between a global foreign policy promoting liberal democracy in the Middle East and Islamist rejectionism. It provides a sociopolitical analysis of the phenomena of radical Islamist ...
  • Hezbollah’s Growing Influence on Lebanon’s Foreign Policy 
    Mokdad, Diana (Lebanese American University, 2022-12-04)
    Lebanon’s foreign policy has been subjected to a variety of internal and external influences that continue to shape its focus and orientation. Among the internal influences on that policy come from Hezbollah, an armed ...
  • High phosphorus diet mitigates impairments in lipid and glucose metabolism associated with diet-induced obesity in male sprague dawley rats 
    Bassil, Maya; Zeeni, Nadine; Farran, Natalie; Obeid, Omar (2018-05-10)
    Phosphorus (P) nutrition status was found to be inversely related to obesity and metabolic syndrome in observational studies and this is thought to be mediated through an effect of P on liver metabolism (Obeid, 2013). This ...
  • High schoolers’ views on academic integrity. 
    Bacha, Nahla Nola; Bahous, Rima; Nabhani, Mona (2015-10-28)
    The issue of academic integrity in cheating on exams and plagiarising in writing is not a new one. All schools need to address this problem and some more than others. In the L2 context, the issues become more complex as ...
  • A high volume, high throughput volumetric sorption analyzer 
    Soo, Y.C.; Beckner, M.; Romanos, J.; Wexler, C.; Pfeifer, P.; Buckley, P.; Clement, J. (American Physical Society, 2019-10-11)
    In this talk we will present an overview of our new Hydrogen Test Fixture (HTF) constructed by the Midwest Research Institute for The Alliance for Collaborative Research in Alternative Fuel Technology to test activated ...
  • A high-level aspect-oriented based language for software security hardening 
    Mourad, Azzam; Laverdiere, Marc-André; Debbabi, Mourad (2018-08-17)
    In this paper, we propose an aspect-oriented language, called SHL (Security Hardening Language), for specifying systematically the security hardening solutions. This language constitutes our new achievement towards developing ...
  • A High-level Aspect-oriented-based Framework for Software Security Hardening 
    Mourad, Azzam; Laverdiere, Marc-André; Debbabi, Mourad (2015-11-25)
    In this paper, we present an aspect-oriented approach and propose a high-level language called SHL (Security Hardening Language) for the systematic security hardening of software. The primary contribution of this proposition ...

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