Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world in many unprecedented ways, inter alia, threatening the food and nutrition security of vulnerable populations, particularly those living in low-to-middle-income ...
Sports and religion both operate as opiums where they have been historically known
to distract people and prevent them from political activism. They share common social implications. They both indoctrinate and are strong ...
American University of Beirut. Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies(2010)
International Relations, the study of the Middle East, and indeed all social sciences are characterized by seemingly irreconcilable debates. Whether knowledge of the Middle East is a matter of scientific theory or of more ...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which inquiry is used in various elementary science textbooks used in Lebanese schools. Specifically, this study aims to investigate whether or not inquiry is present ...
The present double-folded study aimed to assess the quantity, style and nutritional value of foods advertised during local children's television (TV) programs, and compare them to dietary recommendations It also aimed to ...
The study aimed at investigating the content of stereotypes attributed to the six largest sects in Lebanon by a sample of 203 undergraduate students at the American University of Beirut, as well as the sources from which ...
With the advances in the computer and communication technology, multimedia communication has gradually become a key field. These advanced technologies deal with heterogeneous data, which is generally grouped into two broad ...
This thesis exposes the way in which Koolaids, through its fragmented style of narration and its employment of other literary techniques (polyvocality, generic multiplicity, and non-linearity) allows for venues of articulation ...
Gap junctions (GJ) are pivotal for the maintenance of cellular homeostasis, and for the modulation of a variety of developmental events. Deregulation of GJs and connexins (Cxs), the GJ forming proteins, is considered a ...
Humanoid robots are among the most recognizable robotic systems in exploration, industrial applications, and personal assistance. However, like all bipedal systems, the main challenge that faces humanoid locomotion is ...
This project tackles the implementation of the community policing model. It focuses on the importance of relevance to the social context in implementing this model. The project takes the Lebanese state security institutions ...
A major issue in achieving automated emotion recognition systems that perform well outside the lab is the use of real-world data that reflects the occurrence of emotions in everyday life. Furthermore, situational context ...
Technological advances in the past decade have driven a significant evolution of various technologies towards Internet of Things (IoT) in domains such as sensing, communications, and computing. In particular, today's smart ...
Information Security has become a crucial part of any organizational success. As more and more organizations try to protect their own data, their customers’ data and their online services, hackers, internal or external, ...