This conducted research focused on the alignment between one of the TIMSS large-scale assessment frameworks and the Lebanese curriculum. Particularly, the purpose of this study was to investigate the alignment between the ...
Title: Investigating the Anticancer Potential of Novel Therapeutics Using 3D Model
Systems of Colon Cancer
Background:
Chemotherapy for colorectal cancer (CRC), the second leading disease of cancer-related
mortality, has ...
Prostate cancer (PCa) is currently a challenging medical health issue worldwide. For the last 30+ years, PCa has been the most common cancer among men. Mortality due to metastatic castration-resistant PCa (CRPC) becomes ...
Prostate cancer, the most common non-cutaneous cancer among men worldwide, remains the second leading cause of death among male cancer patients. Despite its curability with castration, radiation and hormonal therapy, some ...
Laminopathies comprise a heterogeneous group of disorders arising from mutations or altered post translational processing of nuclear envelope (NE)-lamina proteins. The majority of these disorders are caused by inherited ...
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is comprised of two disorders, Ulcerative Colitis and Chron’s disease; both result in chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract accompanied by repetitive acute inflammatory flare ...
The construction industry regularly suffers from delays, cost overruns and less delivered value leading eventually to clients’ and end users’ dissatisfaction. Failure to meet the project’s basic objectives is highly ...
High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is a non-invasive therapeutic modality that allows the ablation of unwanted tissues inside the body. In recent years, HIFU gained significant attention for its potential applications ...
Pre-project planning has a major impact on the success chances of any project. In particular, industrial owners have acknowledged this fact and applied pre-project planning in their projects starting a few decades ago. The ...
The opening of the Suez Canal led to the influx of marine organisms from the Indo-Pacific to the Mediterranean Sea (Lessepsian migration). A significant number of Lessepsian species have already established large populations ...
The tectonic setting of Lebanon in the eastern Mediterranean region is a restraining bend along the Dead Sea Transform Fault, which is the plate boundary between Arabia and Africa. Within the Lebanese Restraining Bend, the ...
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the influence of home literacy practices in middle SES households in North Lebanon governorate on grade one students’ early reading acquisition in Arabic in different ...
Tahini-based products are common food items throughout the Middle East while gaining popularity around the world. Consumption of such products both locally and internationally requires that they meet food safety standards ...
Background and aims: There is considerable evidence supporting the role of Ang II and the obesity-associated adipokine leptin, in the pathogenesis of vascular hypertrophy and remodeling. Both proteins appear to mediate the ...
Educational systems and educators are still searching for new ways to improve student learning and eliminate achievement gaps. Of particular interest are the relationships between teachers' mindsets, instructional practices, ...
This study aims at developing a rational model to predict the thermal axial forces in shear tab connections with composite beams subjected to transient-state fire temperatures. Shear tab connections are one of the most ...
: Breast cancer (BC) is a health problem that is reported to have the highest incidence and mortality rates of cancer among females worldwide and in Lebanon. Moreover, BC heterogeneity renders it from being diagnosed or ...
Background and aims: hypertension is a key risk factor in many cardiovascular diseases like heart failure, kidney failure and vascular hypertrophy. Mechanical stretch-hypertension, promotes vascular smooth muscle cells ...
The objective of this research is to assemble and instrument an accelerated pavement tester (APT) that can reliably be used in asphalt mixtures evaluation. Several applications were conducted on the APT. The APT used in ...