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  • Representations and Proportional Reasoning in a Problem Solving Context. (c2015) 
    Aboul Hosn, Rana (Lebanese American University, 2016-01-28)
    Research and experience show that a successful problem-solving teaching and learning model needs to include a construction of visual schematic representations that show spatial relationships between the different components ...
  • The U.S. mediator role in the Israeli Palestinian conflict. (c2015) 
    Gonzalez, Ailyn (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-30)
    This thesis aims to examine the distinct U.S. administration policies in reference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the creation of the latter. It details how successive administrations have helped, or not helped ...
  • Auto-indexing Arabic texts based on association rule data mining. (c2015) 
    Rouba G. Nasrallah (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-30)
    In this work, we propose a new model to enhance auto-indexing Arabic texts. Our model denotes extracting new relevant words by relating those chosen by the previous classical methods, to new words using data mining rules. ...
  • Information warfare. (c2015) 
    Sai, Mohamed El (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-30)
    The age of Internet Technology that we are in has introduced new types of attacks to new assets that didn’t exist before. Databases that represent Information assets are subject to attacks that have malicious intentions ...
  • Scatter search metaheuristic for homology based protein structure prediction. (c2015) 
    Stamboulian, Mouses Hrag (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-30)
    Determining a protein’s structure is a challenging goal in structural bioinformatics, offering important insight towards understanding the function of a protein. Homology modeling is an effective technique in protein ...
  • Discourse evolution. (c2015) 
    Karam, Maryse (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-30)
    Songs communicate. Whether used in a story telling setting or as part of an artistic exhibition, songs describe cultural patterns and speak of yearnings and realities, both bitter and sweet. This study uses songs as an ...
  • The status of human rights in post-Arab Spring. (c2015) 
    Chaaban, Maram (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-30)
    This thesis examines the relationship between the global human rights regime and the post-Arab Spring constitutional transition, taking Egypt and Tunisia as a comparative case study. First, it assesses hypothetical claim ...
  • The influence of think tanks on United States foreign policy. (c2012) 
    Bougebrayel, Tania Nassim (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-18)
    In an attempt to help bridge the gap between policy research and policy outputs, this thesis examines the role of research institutions, or think tanks, as domestic factors of influence on United States foreign policy. A ...
  • Power resistance, and change in the fiction of Roy and Al-Shaykh. (c2014) 
    Tobby, Amal Hussein (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-18)
    The aim of this thesis is to study the interplay of power relations, subjectivity, and resistance in The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997) and in two Lebanese novels, The Story of Zahra (1980) and The Locust and ...
  • Effect of Slc35b4 knockdown on total and O-glycosylated cellular proteins in HepG2 cell line. (c2012) 
    Antonios, Gregory (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-18)
    Diabetes is considered a Non-Communicable Disease (NCD). Type II diabetes is caused by the lack of insulin production from liver beta cells in the aftermath of insulin resistance. Slc35b4 encodes a protein that transports ...
  • Context-aware and model-driven approach for embedding and verifying security into composed web services. (c2013) 
    Tout, Hanine Ahmad (Lebanese American University, 2016-03-07)
    Today's process-oriented composition languages such as BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) offer a high level of abstraction and sophistication to Web services composition. However, such languages suffer serious ...
  • Social media and uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. (c2015) 
    Ghazzaoui, Sariah Mosbah (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-09)
    The year 2010 witnessed a major breakthrough in the Arab world, demonstrations unexpectedly filled the streets of Tunisia followed by Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya and Syria. In fact, many other countries of the Middle East ...
  • Literary women and literal causes. (c2015) 
    Kazzaz, Mona Omar (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-09)
    The analogue of land (ard) and women (aard) has always assumed different poetic and political hues. However, this analogue may often be dehumanizing to women because it dispossesses them of ‘self’ and constructs them in a ...
  • Women in the Arab Spring. (c2015) 
    Kabbout, Lara Said (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-09)
    What are the root causes of gender inequality in the Arab region? Are corrupt and incompetent regimes responsible for the historic subjugation of Arab women? The Arab Spring appears to have presented an opportunity to end ...
  • Virtual topologies for massively parallel computations. (c2015) 
    Jahed, Karim A. (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-09)
    In their essence, recursive search tree algorithms are nothing but mere enumeration of the solution space. Most of the time is spent generating new search tree nodes with very little computation performed at each tree node. ...
  • Perspectives of senior pre-service English teachers of a university toward Engish as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in Lebanon. (c2015) 
    Lee, Eunsil (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-09)
    In the contemporary era of glocalization, the English language is being demanded to achieve the ‘unity’ through ‘diversity’ of the world as an international linguistic medium. For the newly emerged mission of the English ...
  • Reading strategies in science literacy. (c2015) 
    Diab, Yasmine Zakaria (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-09)
    The present study examined the difference between two educational programs (i.e. Lebanese Baccalaureate and American programs) in the Lebanese system and how each program integrates reading literacy with the science ...
  • Protecting Syrian refugee children in Lebanon. (c2015) 
    Noureddine, Mona Fadi (Lebanese American University, 2016-05-06)
    The question of refugees in Lebanon is now considered a major obstacle to the development of the country. Syrian refugees constitute the largest number of refugees that have ever come to Lebanon. Among them, children are ...
  • Comparative analysis between the Egyptian 2011 revolution and 1989 Polish revolution. (c2015) 
    Yassin, Khalil Hussein (Lebanese American University, 2016-05-06)
    Starting with the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia, then moving to Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen, different revolutions for similar goals have recently occurred. While some of these countries, such as Tunisia and ...
  • Turkish-Iranian Rivalry over Iraq and Syria. (c2015) 
    Khairallah, Sandra (Lebanese American University, 2015-09-08)
    This thesis examines Turkish-Iranian rivalry over Iraq and Syria after the 2003 United States led invasion and the 2011 popular Arab uprisings. It examines the viability of Realism in explaining sectarian-laden regional ...

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