Heavy metals (HMs) contamination in soil and food crops constitutes a major
threat to human health. In Lebanon, few studies have assessed the levels of heavy metal
contamination in food crops and were limited to specific ...
The direct discharge of metal-rich wastewaters into surface waters is detrimental to the receiving environment. Thus, the protection of water resources from such toxic compounds is essential. Traditionally, heavy metals ...
We define modular forms of nonnegative weight k on the full modular group Gamma and give some of their properties. We proceed to show the behavior of Hecke ope rators on modular forms. Then we discuss the multiplicative ...
This project examines the relationship linking Hedge funds' performance to its t heoretical determinants. For this to be possible, we made use of several econome trics techniques using a yearly panel dataset ranging from ...
In his Aesthetics» Hegel thinks of poetry as the most spiritual mode of representation of the romantic art type. The content is ideas, emotions, experiences and reflections. But as the mind of a poet gives rise to a ...
The AUB- Tubingen excavations (1995-1997) on site BEY 020 yielded a substantial quantity of 1 lellenistic ceramics uncovered in stratigraphically safe contexts. The collected material studied in this thesis has been ...
This thesis consists of three different studies. In one study, the photoelectrochemical effects of order vs disorder was investigated at monodispersed disordered inverse opal and ordered inverse opals with and without ...
Introduction: Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a complication to diabetes mellitus that
cause 85% of all amputations worldwide and pose an annual economic burden of $15
billion. The wound healing process is altered in DFU ...
Scientific evidence showed that copper deficiency can worsen the hyperlipidemia seen with chronic high fructose intake. The detrimental effects of high fructose intake and copper deficiency have been emphasized in several ...
The safety and efficacy of two intermediate IBDV vaccines. Bursine plus and Extra, were tested on two broiler farms. Birds vaccinated with Extra, a monoclonal vaccine, showed higher IBDV titers (P0.05): this increase, ...
Man lives in time: the self is inseparable from the concept of time as it develops in time. Because the movement of time is an irreversible movement towards death, the prospect of death enters as an integral and ineradicable ...
A field experiment was conducted inside a greenhouse at the greenhouse experimental area of the American University of Beirut during the period of July 1987 to May 1988 to apply herbicides through a trickle irrigation ...