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 ...

This thesis examines people’s perceptions of gender in Lebanon across three university campuses and the factors that shaped these perceptions through an intersectional lens. Utilizing Foucault’s theories on knowledge and ...

Women's civil society and non-governmental organizations in Lebanon constantly advocate for the enactment of gender-responsive legislations, specifically those pertaining to personal status, gender quota, and nationality ...

This study investigates the intergenerational transmission of gender beliefs and norms in Lebanon, focusing on potential shifts across three distinct generational groups. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the research ...

The problem of regrouping service sites into a smaller number of service centers, such that a number of criteria are satisfied, is a realistic problem. Each service center then serves several customer-sites (e.g. towns) ...

Staphylococcus aureus, one of the most significant human pathogens, causes different infections ranging in severity from mild superficial skin infections to life threatening bacteremia and endocarditis. The occurrence and ...

Type 2 diabetes is a major risk factor for coronary artery disease (CAD). Diabetic patients are three times more likely to develop CAD than non-diabetic individuals. Many genes have been studied to test for an association ...