• Mapping evapotranspiration across Lebanon throughout 2006-2016 using landsat imagery and local weather data - 

  Awada, Hassan Jadallah, (2017)

  Reference and actual evapotranspiration are two important variables in hydrologic analyses, agricultural crop production, determining irrigation water requirements, and irrigation management. Weather parameters that enable ...
• Development of the Rapid Plate Load Test (RPLT) and its application to the assessment of stone columns - 

  Touma, John Fahd, (2017)

  The introduction of new and more reliable tools for testing shallow and deep foundations has always been intrinsic to the advancement of geotechnical engineering practice. This thesis aims to introduce a novel testing ...
• Scalable distributed lifelong multi-task reinforcement learning - 

  El Zini, Julia, (2017)

  Multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) suffers from scalability issues when the number of tasks or trajectories per task grows-large. One of the main reasons behind this limitation is the reliance on centralized solutions. ...
• “A door open to full sun” the politics of linguistic, national, and gender identities in Leila Ahmed’s and Asia Djebar’s autobiographical narratives - 

  Zaraket, Fatima Mohammad, (2018)

  This thesis investigates identity manifestations in the autobiographical narratives of Leila Ahmed and Asia Djebar. The object of my research in the broadest sense is to study the language-identity-ideology link in ...
• Synthesis of novel heterocycles as anticancer agents - 

  Jabotian, Nayri Awedis, (2018)

  Cancer is as old as mankind and its treatment history reveals slow progression, but it has peaked in the 20th century due to modern technology and ongoing research worldwide, and has been progressing ever since. Chemotherapy ...

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