With no clear blueprints available to build clusters, policy makers struggle for tools, processes and mechanisms to build the clusters that provide competitive and comparative advantages for their economies. This paper ...
This article attempts to demonstrate how the university system and the system of social knowledge production greatly influence elite formation in the Arab East (in Egypt, Syria, the Palestinian territory, Jordan and Lebanon) ...
American University in Beirut's (AUB) website fell for the common mistake of academic websites where a website's form follows its organization structure. This research evaluates the usability of AUB's website for a redesign, ...
The topic of the learning organization has recently commanded a great deal of attention. In seeking to release the potential that exists inside the organizati on in order to respond effectively to change, the contention ...
Surveillance missions entail visiting defined sites of interest in an environment to perform a desired task. The core of the decision making lies in planning the path and trajectory to achieve the goals assigned with the ...
The rise of social media platforms has witnessed a disturbing increase in online abusive behavior, causing psychological harm, especially among children. This study focuses on detecting implicit abusive language, often ...
Introduction: The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been extensively studied for its association with autoimmune diseases and various malignancies. Research has demonstrated that EBV is capable of infecting neurons directly ...
Introduction: Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) is a member of the herpesvirus family that is also known as Human herpes virus 4 (HHV-4). EBV infects around 90% of the world population. It establishes latency, and hence indefinite ...
Background: Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative neoplasm characterized by the Philadelphia chromosome, a reciprocal t (9;22) chromosomal translocation leading to the fusion of the BCR gene on chromosome ...
This thesis explores the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in the Near East (UNRWA) institutional response to the dramatic decision by the United States of America in 2018 to eliminate all funding to the organization, ...
The unsteady dynamics of a low Reynolds number jet impinging on a moving flat plate will be investigated. The objective is to present a physical explanation of the dynamics of low-frequency jet oscillations observed in ...
This thesis presents numerical analysis of transient heat transfer in an equivalent coolant - fuel rod cell of a typical gas cooled, fast nuclear reactor core. The transient performance is assumed to follow a complete ...
We develop a new central finite volume scheme on unstructured triangular grids to approximate the solution of general two-dimensional hyperbolic systems of conservation laws. Based on the two-dimensional staggered ...
Deep Learning has risen recently as the de-facto machine learning approach for
complex and rich-data domains. However, this has been established so far mostly
in the setting of supervised learning. Supervised learning ...
Water is the most fundamental element of life. However, the boost in economic development, industrialization, and uncontrolled population growth are causing a severe threat to fresh water finite resources that are naturally ...
This thesis investigates the complex task of gender detection in text analysis, focusing on identifying an author's gender through linguistic and stylistic analysis. The study emphasizes the role of gender detection in ...
In 2019, Lebanon witnessed a pivotal moment in its history as a series of protests erupted in the name of reform, expressing widespread discontent with corruption, economic instability, and sectarianism, and eventually led ...