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Post-Consumer Food Waste Generation in Restaurants within Beirut

Zeineddine, Myra (1/12/2021)

Food loss and waste occur along the food supply chain, negatively impacting the environment and the global economy. Additionally, these losses and wastes impact the global food and nutrition security, as one in eight people ...
On the Necessity of the Causal Principle. A Critique of Hume's Analysis of Causation from the Perspective of the Conceivability Principle.

Bazzy, Mohamed (1/12/2021)

In this thesis I will be discussing Hume’s critique of the causal principle. I will explain his strategy in basing the argument on the conceivability principle. I will thoroughly elucidate the principle and provide its ...
Sustainable cooling system for Kuwait hot climate combining diurnal radiative cooling and indirect evaporative cooling system

Al Jebaei, Hussein (1/12/2021)

This study investigates the performance of a hybrid passive cooling system that combines a hydronic radiative cooling (RC) panel integrated with a cross-flow dew-point indirect evaporative cooler DPIEC equipped with a ...
The Role of Grievances, Adversarial Attributions, and Negative Emotions in Motivating the October 17th Lebanese Uprising: A Social Psychological Content Analysis of Protesters’ Speech in Live TV Coverage

Barbary, Rajaa (1/12/2022)

Lebanon is a religiously diverse country that has witnessed multiple political upheavals revolving around disputes within and regarding the power-sharing sectarian system of its governance. Several social movements have ...
Explainable Models for Emotion Recognition

Jaber, Dalia (1/14/2021)

Despite significant advancements in artificial intelligence (AI), most machine learning (ML) solutions remain black boxes with little to no explanation of how decisions are made. To build trust in AI applications in health ...
An Information Theoretic Analysis of Time-Limited Signaling

Jaffal, Youssef (1/15/2021)

Practical communication systems use finite duration transmissions and signaling. As the time-limited signals have infinite bandwidth, they lose some of their energy when passed through a band-limited channel. In 1948, ...
On the Analysis and Optimization of Massive Machine to Machine Communication Systems

Alkhansa, Rasha (1/15/2021)

Machine to Machine (M2M) Communication Systems play a critical role in providing ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) within the emerging 5G technologies, and the realization of M2M is now possible due to the advances in ...
Analysis of The Hydrogeological Conditions Affecting Fault Response To Nearby Hydraulic Fracturing

Yassine, Dima (1/15/2022)

The response of critically stressed dormant faults to fluid perturbation, by oil and gas production activities, has been a major public concern because of its link to induced seismicity (IS). In this paper, we study the ...
The Role of Gender, Overexcitabilities and ADHD in Predicting Creativity in Lebanese Highschool Students

Sleiman, Eliana (1/16/2023)

The relationship between overexcitabilities (OE) and creativity remains inconclusive based on the few available empirical studies in the literature. Similarly, while some claim that children with attention deficit hyperactivity ...
Counterrevolutionary Imaginaries: Neoliberal Co-optation in Lebanon's New Opposition

El Kak, Nadim (1/16/2023)

Despite its scale, revolutionary fervor, and temporarily creating a new field of possibilities, Lebanon’s 2019 uprising did not manage to overthrow the country's neoliberal-sectarian regime due to a range of counterrevolutionary ...
Low-quality protein modulates inflammatory markers and the response to lipopolysaccharide insult: The case of lysine

El Mallah, Carla (1/17/2023)

The relationship between non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and eating behavior has long been an area of interest. The literature largely attributes the association between NCDs and nutrition to a surplus of food and energy. ...
ELECTROSPUN PVC/MOFS-AG NANOCOMPOSITES AS EFFICIENT ANTIBACTERIAL MEMBRANES

Hashem, Mohammad Al-Hadi (1/17/2023)

In this study, electrospinning is employed to prepare composite membranes of polyvinylchloride (PVC) embedded with nanocrystals of post-metalated metal organic frameworks (MOFs), UiO-66(COOH)2-Ag, and ZIF-8-Ag. The composites ...
Development and Evaluation of Dynamic Intelligent Vehicle Evacuation Alert System (IVEAS) in Congested Urban Settings: A Case Study of Beirut

Sari El Dine, Jad (1/18/2023)

Natural and man-made disasters shed light on the importance of advanced intelligent and emergency evacuation planning and protocols. In congested urban settings, evacuation under emerging scenarios becomes more challenging. ...
UNDERGROUND NETFLIX IN LEBANON

Akiki, Habib (1/18/2023)

Since its first operations and launching of its services, Netflix aimed to create its digital community to become the ultimate, largest and global subscription video-on-demand service (SVOD). In fact, Netflix once through ...
POTENTIAL HYPOCHOLESTEROLEMIC EFFECT OF MORINGA OLEIFERA LEAVES’ EXTRACT

Hassanie, Haifa (1/19/2021)

Cholesterol is a lipid component of membrane structure and a precursor of many biomolecules. Disturbance in serum cholesterol homeostasis leads to an increase in cholesterol level, that underlie cardiovascular diseases and ...
Rbm20 and Arhgap25 Expression Alteration and Roles in Breast Cancer in Vitro Models

Hilal, Rahme (1/19/2021)

Breast cancer is the second leading type of cancer occurrence and mortality in women worldwide and studies are constantly attempting to find new treatment strategies, as well as better understand the mechanisms and pathways ...
A Reinforcement Learning and Time Series Forest Based Model Selection for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Techniques in Time Series Electricity Consumption

Ghanim, Jihan (1/19/2023)

Anomaly Detection (AD) in time series applications is vital given the wide usage of time series data in the real-world setting. Usually, real-world anomalies are found in a variety of forms making them more difficult to ...
MISMANAGEMENT AND POOR STRATEGIES, THE ROOT OF CORRUPTION. A WAY OUT OF THE CRISIS

El Khoury, Caren (1/19/2023)

Over the years, Lebanon did not live up to its expectations and descriptions. Since the 1990’s, corruption, branched in diverse ways, like mismanagement of policies, government resources, expenditures, and possible revenues ...
A Techno-economic Assessment for the Integration of a Sustainable Regeneration Cycle in Carbon Capture Processes.

El Masri, Mona (1/19/2023)

Carbon capture by chemical absorption is one of the recognized and viable options for mitigating global warming and climate change. In these processes, the acid gas is typically contacted with a solvent in an absorber ...
A Circularly Polarized Millimetre-Wave Phased Array for 5G Systems

Jabri, Ahmad (1/20/2022)

With the rise of 5G technology, communication systems are required to support high data rates with wide-band operational frequencies within the millimetre wave regime. Current deployed systems that operate at lower microwave ...

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