After the financial globalization, concerns rose over the dynamics of current account balance and its relationship with capital investments in developed and developing countries. Understanding the factors behind persistent ...
Social dilemmas are situations in which individual and common interests are in conflict. In such situations, while individuals have an incentive to pursue their own short-term self-interests, individual payoffs are greater ...
Through the study of the discourse surrounding NFTs, the infrastructure enabling its
proliferation, as well as the systems of belief it builds around it, this thesis aims to
understand the user experience of NFTs and ...
Encompassing physiognomic, philosophical and poetic anecdotes, adab literature is characterized by its informative and entertaining appeal on sexual pleasures and sexual health matters, with ample Arabo-Islamic anthologies ...
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Management is a great challenge facing countries worldwide. While landfilling has been considered the cheapest and most efficient approach for dealing with MSW, it proved to have many environmental, ...
Microplastics are anthropogenic contaminants that have been accumulating in surface water bodies for the past several decades. Little is known on the presence of microplastics in drinking water in the Middle East region ...
Qualitative studies have enriched the mathematics education field over the past 40 years across various topics. In spite of the fact that the number of these studies is increasing and the quality of qualitative research ...
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 ...
Over the last decade, there has been a growing debate in social psychology on whether inter-group contact and collective action are compatible models of social change. Research on these two models has led to a recognition ...
Engineers and geoscientists work within an asset team on defining well type, well control, well placement and facility design towards optimizing the development planning of oil and gas fields. Well placement optimization ...
This pilot study addresses the challenges to water treatment and provision of safe
domestic water supply, mostly for developing countries. In this regard, the study
investigates simple, effective water treatment methods ...
English and Arabic share similar sounds but certain phonemes, such as English /p/, /v/, and /ɡ/, exist in English but not in Arabic. Many factors can affect perception of these non-native phonemes by Lebanese speakers, and ...
For decades, Lebanon has suffered from daily power outages, as the state utility Électricité du Liban (EDL) only covers 63 per cent of electricity demand. Recently, the situation has deteriorated further. The project employs ...
This thesis explores the Lebanese film industry through the perspectives of its laborers and analyzes these perspectives through Janet Wolff’s neo-Marxist analysis on artistic production which positions laborers and ...
In the context of the 2008 global food crisis, the Moroccan government launched the Plan Maroc Vert (PMV), the country’s rural strategy for the next decade ambitioning to make agriculture a key sector for economic growth ...
Nowadays, there are growing preoccupations for determining suitable routes for the disposal of pharmaceutical wastes (PW). This study reports the results of an experimental investigation on the influence of Diclofenac (Df) ...
The importance of renewable energy applications is rising increasingly every day in a
world dominated by pollution and climate change. Finding alternatives to the use of
fossil fuels is vital for the decrease in greenhouse ...
As a country hosting the highest refugee population per capita and per square kilometer in the world, Lebanon’s refugee crisis is aggravating the already deteriorating infrastructure. Amidst political, economic, and ...
This study explores the intimate worlds of families and their queer kin in, and around,
Beirut. Worlds, which despite being framed by legal and social homophobia have
fostered the emergence of supportive family members. ...
Background: Mental health disorders are a growing public health priority; with the most common being depression and anxiety. These conditions also present high and complex comorbidity with diabetes; however, the exact ...