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  • White lies telling in lebanese discourse. (c2011) 
    Nakkouzi, Rania (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-17)
    Western research on white lies-telling had mainly focused on the conceptualization of the notion of white lies by children and teenagers. Research dedicated to the analysis of white lies-telling in adult discourse is ...
  • Measuring ripple effect for object-oriented programs. (c2004) 
    Salem, Hani Hassan (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-17)
    Ripple effect is a measure of structural complexity of a source code upon changing a method or a class. Ripple effect measures the amount by which this method / class may affect other methods or classes within a program, ...
  • Effect of technology integration in teaching quadratic functions .... (c2011) 
    Jiryes, Hala Adib (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-17)
    Technology is being integrated in education at large and in mathematics teaching and learning in particular. This study is an action research conducted in math classes in Lebanon. The purpose of this thesis is to study ...
  • Maximal clique enumeration. (c2007) 
    Barghout, Hamed (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-17)
    Maximal clique enumeration is one of the most important tools for solving problems in a wide variety of application domains. Classical enumeration techniques suffer from being too slow on large scale data. New techniques, ...
  • Views of stakeholders. (c2011) 
    Katerji, Alaa H. (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-17)
    School rules and policies are a major concern for educators, administrative personnel, teachers, and even students. Rules contribute to improve school effectiveness. This study elicited the views of stakeholders about ...
  • Writing center effectiveness. (c2011) 
    Abu-Teen, Leen (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-17)
    This study was conducted at a writing center at an English medium university in Lebanon in attempt to examine students‘ and tutors‘ perceptions about the effectiveness of the center in terms of improving student writing. ...
  • The political economy of postwar reconstruction in Lebanon. (c2011) 
    Hariri, Hayat Mostafa (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-17)
    Postwar reconstruction has attracted the attention of many scholars in the last few decades. Different theories offer alternative routes to postwar reconstruction. Some theories suggest that postwar reconstruction entails ...
  • Model-based distributed object computing. (c2002) 
    Hage, Antoine F. (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-17)
    Four trends are shaping the future of commercial software development. First, the software industry is moving away from programming applications from scratch to integrating applications using reusable components. Second, ...
  • Improved search-tree algorithms for the cluster edit problem. (c2011) 
    Ghrayeb, Ali Kassem (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-17)
    In the Cluster Edit problem, we are asked to transform a given graph into a transitive graph, via edge deletion or addition operations, to make sure that the vertices are partitioned into a disjoint union of cliques. ...
  • Effectiveness of the LiPS program on phonological awareness of bilingual children. (c2011) 
    Ghattas, Nathalie A. (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-17)
    The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the LiPS program in improving phonological awareness skills of bilingual grade1 students having poor phonological awareness knowledge in Arabic and English ...
  • Test case generation for path coverage. (c2000) 
    Salame, Miran (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-16)
    Simulated Annealing (SA) and Genetic Algorithms (GA) have been proposed for generating integer-value test cases for path coverage. In this work, we suggest significant improvements to these algorithms and present empirical ...
  • Parallel graph algorithms. (c2000) 
    Itani, Wissam (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-16)
    One way the early use of parallel computers has resembled the early use of sequential computers has been the emphasis on numerical algorithms. However, as the field of parallel algorithms matures, the emphasis can be ...
  • Abjad= أبجد. (c2002) 
    Zabadani, Hisham (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-16)
    In this work we present a system for the recognition of handwritten Arabic text using neural networks. This work builds upon previous work done by [Hamid 2001]. That part dealt with the vertical segmentation of the written ...
  • The Diplomacy of Hezbollah. (c1999) 
    Tamsen, Timothy (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-16)
  • Isolation and study of Lipase activity of an olive oil degrading Thermoactionomyces SP. (c2002) 
    Al Khudary, Rami (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-16)
    A ftlamentous, Gram-Positive, spore forming filamentous bacterium was isolated from soil (AI Koura - Lebanon) on rhodamine agar plates at 60°C. The isolate, HRK-l produced large quantities of an extra cellular thermostable ...
  • Software quality improvement model for small organizations. (c2000) 
    Zeineddine, Rabih N. (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-15)
    Many researchers believed that Software Process Quality improvement will certainly lead to Product Quality improvement but this certainty is not proved yet. Quality improvement process remains incomplete if it is not ...
  • Mahmoud Mohamad Taha, an eccentric vision of islam. (c2006) 
    Kassm, Kinda (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-15)
    In a period characterized by Islamic revivalism, the thought of reformist Islamic thinkers like Mahmoud Mohamed Taha enriches Islam and allows it to answer fundamentalism and meet modem world challenges. What differentiates ...
  • Aerobic and anaerobic biotreatment of olive oil mill waste water. (c2006) 
    Mhanna, Elias Youssef (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-14)
    Olive oil Mill Wastewater (OMW) or Zibar is one of the two by-products obtained during olive oil extraction. OMW represents a serious environmental pollution problem especially for underground and surface water. Aerobic ...
  • The domestic challenges facing Saudi Arabia. (c2007) 
    Barrage, Rada Soubra (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-14)
    Saudi Arabia is going through political, social and economic internal changes that might constitute quite a challenge to the Kingdom's stability and to the ruling family's continuity. This research alms at studying these ...
  • Confessions of the mad wife in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea & Assad Fouladkar's Lama Hikyit Maryam. (c2006) 
    Hodeib, Dana (Lebanese American University, 2011-11-14)
    Confessions of the Mad Wife deals with Jean Rhys's 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea and Assad Fouladkar's 2001 feature film Lama Hikyit Maryam. Although the two works are different in many respects, they share a curiously ...

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