Cloud federation is an architecture that allows cloud providers to make use of their unallocated virtual machines, by combining their resources to serve a pool of cloud consumers whose requests cannot be handled by any ...

The Lebanese political landscape has long been dominated by an underlying confessional balance of power. In 2019 and 2020, however, the October 17 Revolution emerged to challenge the status quo, exerting pressure on the ...

This study examines three issues related to gender bias in Lebanese teachers in their classrooms: teachers' awareness of gender bias, their pre/misconceptions of females' and males' abilities in the different areas and the ...

Teenage students, who are enrolled in the intermediate classes, are mostly alert of the changes of their bodies. They are sexually aware of the differences between boys and girls physically and mentally and the different ...

Following the September 11 2001 attacks on the United States, terrorism has evolved to a point where it became crucial for countries to move from exclusively military counter-terrorism approaches towards rights-based and ...

The optimal retesting problem is that of determining the minimum number of test cases needed for revalidating modified software in the maintenance phase. We present a genetic algorithm (GA) for solving this problem, ...

Natural killer (NK) cells are crucial effectors of the immune system response being fundamental in defenses against tumor growth and certain cytopathic viruses. The first identified receptors are a group of human leukocyte ...

Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative organism associated with a broad range of severe nosocomial infections and linked to prolonged hospital stay of immunocompromised patients. We used whole-genome sequencing (WGS) ...

The rising prevalence of multidrug resistant (MDR) Staphylococcus aureus is a worldwide threat. S. aureus is a Gram-positive bacterium that asymptomatically colonizes the nasal passages and the skin in 30% of the individuals. ...