• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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. ...
• BDS, a critical appraisal - 

  Haidar, Nadim Mustapha, (2018)

  The following pages conduct a critical discursive analysis of the BDS movement by placing it in juxtaposition to Robert Meister’s recent articulation of the “Human Rights Discourse” (HRD) as described in his book, After ...
• Synthesis of carbon integration networks coupled with hydrate suppression and moisture removal options - 

  Klaimi, Rachid Alim, (2018)

  The excessive increase in carbon dioxide emissions through the past several decades has raised global climate change concerns. As such, environmental policy makers have been looking into the implementation of efficient ...

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