Recently, there has been a growing interest in reflective practice. Teacher deve lopment is dependent on teachers' ability to think about their actual practice a nd take decisions that are meaningful to them and beneficial ...
Silicon Carbide (SiC) is a group IV semiconductor material that can function under extreme conditions such as high-operating temperature, high power, high switching frequency and high breakdown voltage. The wide band gap ...
This thesis deals with local governance, that is the workings of and the politic s behind local government and administration, in the city of Beirut. It analyzes the most crucial problems of the status quo as well as recent ...
For nearly 70 years Palestinian refugees have resided in Lebanon and experienced increasing levels of legal discrimination, poverty, and restrictive government policies regarding their rights. Similar to other cases of ...
This thesis explores Syrian refugees’ settlement in a middle-class area in Beirut. It takes for case study a group of large-scale modern buildings, located in Ras Beirut and fully occupied by Syrian refugees. The thesis ...
Between 1975 and 1990, war-led decentralization instigated the relocation of business and entertainment activities to Beirut’s suburban expansions and peripheral coastal towns. Kaslik strongly emerged as an exclusive ...
Air quality is an issue of increasing concern in many countries, due to the range of impacts. In Lebanon, air quality in major urban and industrial areas continues to suffer more degradation, primarily due to increased ...
In this thesis the adsorption of copolymers at liquid interfaces is studied. General background on the subject is given. Then two different models, the continuum and lattice, are introduced. The two models are compared and ...
An analogue of the regularity theorem for Schwartz distributions is proven in the case the coupling between the space and its dual is done via the Gaussian measure. The result is then studied in infinite dimensions and a ...
With the continuous scaling of semiconductor technologies, new challenges are
in
icted on the circuit design yield and reliability. With millions of devices on
chip, very tight fail probability requirements are necessary ...
The economic and financial crisis in Lebanon that started in 2019 has exacerbated the shortfalls of the Lebanese energy sector. This is due to the emerging inability to continue funding the imports of fuel oil, the main ...