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  • A Novel Role of Dlc2 in Regulating Macropinocytosis Through the Cdc42/Rac Pathway in Ovarian Cancer Cells 
    Maassarani, Tala (Lebanese American University, 2023-05-17)
    Ovarian carcinoma is eighth most common leading cause of death among all mortality causes globally. It is among the most common gynecological cancers. Diagnosis of this type of cancer is very challenging due to frequently ...
  • Healthcare Sector’s Response to the Syrian Refugees Amid Lebanon’s Multi-Layered Crisis 
    Fakhry, Yasmine (Lebanese American University, 2023-01-03)
    Despite the Lebanese healthcare system showing resilience throughout its critical history, the multidimensional crisis including the Syrian refugee crisis turned this system into a very fragile and vulnerable one. The aim ...
  • A Multi-Omic Characterization of Multiple Oncogenic Interactions and its Therapeutics in Invasive Breast Carcinoma applying Bioinformatics Tools 
    Bou Daher, Sarkis (Lebanese American University, 2022-12-19)
    Invasive Breast Carcinoma is a complex heterogeneous disease in terms of diagnosis, clinical course, and pathology categorization. The World Health Organization (WHO) categorization does include more than a dozen variants, ...
  • The Elyssar Project in Lebanon 
    Fakhry, Sandy (Lebanese American University, 2022-11-17)
    Following the Taif Agreement in 1989 and the establishment of the Rafic Hariri-led governments from 1992 to 1998, reconstruction became a key word in the Lebanese political discourse. This reconstruction was depicted as a ...
  • Social Comparison Theory 
    Hamdan, Sahar (Lebanese American University, 2023-01-18)
    This study uses social comparison theory and concepts of self-evaluation to study the relation between Instagram’s “fitspiration” posts and viewers’ motivation to improve their lifestyle or to exercise and viewer’s self-esteem ...
  • A Graph Heuristic Approach for the Data Path Allocation Problem 
    Makhoul, Racha (Lebanese American University, 2022-12-21)
    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 ...
  • Durable Solutions’ Dilemma In The International Refugee Regime 
    Srour, Lama (Lebanese American University, 2022-11-29)
    The International Refugee Regime (IRR) offers three durable solutions for the plight of refugees: (1) local integration in the first country of asylum, (2) voluntary repatriation, and (3) resettlement in third party-states. ...
  • The Role of the Armenian Apostolic Church in the Lebanese-Armenian Identity Formation 
    Kendirjian, Karnie (Lebanese American University, 2022-11-24)
    Research on migration studies has been mostly aimed to understand diasporic communities and their identity. Abundant research has been conducted to explore the various factors contributing to the Armenian identity preservation ...
  • The Contribution of Syrian Workers to Lebanon’s Agricultural Sector 
    El-Kadiri, Inass (Lebanese American University, 2022-01-04)
    This research seeks to look into a different public perception of the large community of Syrian agricultural laborers in a northeastern Beqaa village, away from the populist perception. Too often issues of migration, ...
  • Phenotypic and Genotypic Characteristics of Clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa Isolates 
    Timane, Hind (Lebanese American University, 2022-11-30)
    Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen associated with human nosocomial infections. It causes chronic infections in pulmonary passages, as in cystic fibrosis patients, urinary tract infections, ...
  • Can Geneva Survive Astana? 
    Tutkal, Ferhat (Lebanese American University, 2022-12-16)
    Despite 12 years of violence and numerous attempts to end the conflict, the Syrian conflict stands among the largest humanitarian crises of the twenty-first century. Currently, there are two peacemaking interventions: the ...
  • What are the Impacts of Art on Syrian Refugee Youth in Lebanon? 
    Fatemah, Haidar (Lebanese American University, 2022-12-02)
    Since 2011, a huge number of Syrian refugees have been forced to leave their country due to one of the world‘s bloodiest civil wars. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR 2022), Lebanon hosts ...
  • Implementing Sustainable Development in Postwar Lebanon 
    Kassab, Danielle (Lebanese American University, 2022-11-29)
    Sustainable development has been a topic of global interest for the past few decades. In 2015, the United Nations launched 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in order to improve the quality of life of this generation ...
  • UAV-assisted Multi-tier Computing Framework for IoT Networks 
    Tout, Abeer (Lebanese American University, 2022-08-26)
    Next-generation wireless networks are expected to support a massive amount of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in delivering a wide range of novel resource intensive applications. IoT devices, despite their enhanced ...
  • The radical pedagogy of community radio and the case of radio al-balad 92.4 fm 
    King, Gretchen (McGill University, 2023-03-03)
    Community radio remains an understudied form of media in the Arab region despite new interest in studying social change communications. Because theories of community media remain largely developed in Western contexts, the ...
  • User-centric strategies for resource management in heterogeneous wireless networks with QoS considerations 
    Abbas, Nadine Fawaz (American University of Beirut, 2017-04-21)
    Demand for mobile applications is increasing at an exponential rate which is loading existing wireless networks. The research community is currently actively involved in the design of new technologies that can enable ...
  • Advanced WiMAX simulator with optimal downlink bursts construction 
    Abbas, Nadine Fawaz (American University of Beirut, 2011)
    As technology is advancing, and the internet becoming more vital, the need for faster means of communication is becoming a must. WiMAX networks are being studied to achieve different efficiency objectives. As in any ...
  • I Am Not Naked 
    El Hajj, Sleiman (University of Gloucestershire, 2016-10)
    This thesis mainly consists of two artifacts: a creative text followed by literary criticism. The research draws on the theoretical intervention of the flâneuse I have posited as a way of reading home in fiction. Not ...
  • Of victims and victimizers in Truman Capote's In cold blood 
    El Hajj, Sleiman (American University of Beirut, 2008)
    Capote arguably deploys a particular gay or oppositional vision through his non- fiction novel as a subversive counter-narrative. Given the fierce anti-queer sen timent consuming mid-century America and the subsequent ...
  • Lebanon's financial crisis and the International Monetary Fund 
    Hamadeh, Hawraa (Lebanese American University, 2022-05-26)
    This study addresses the reasons behind the failure of the Hassan Diab Government in Lebanon (January 2020-September 2021) to present a comprehensive and credible package of reforms to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). ...

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