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A 3D playground for t-SNE with explainable classification

Anbtawi, Wedad (2019)

In this thesis, we build a web-based and interactive dimensionality reduction and visualization tool based on t-SNE. Our tool strives to run in the web browser at the client-side in real-time. In addition, we propose a new ...
A city ground to a halt : policymaking in Tripoli and the reality of promises

Takriti, Obeida (2019)

While exploring the city of Tripoli, one would immediately notice that the city is occupied by huge “monuments” of past glory yet modern failures like the International Fair, the Oil Refinery, and the old Souk. The failure ...
A comparison of political landscapes : from the Oslo Accords to the ‘deal of the century’.

Saleh, Farah Yousef (2019)

This dissertation aims to make a link between a historical point in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to a more contemporary point. By making the link between the failure of Oslo Accords, and what will be the failure of the ...
A cosmological solution to mimetic dark matter -

Saadi, Hassan (2015)

An introductory analysis to general relativity, cosmology, and mimetic dark matter is provided. In chapter 3 where cosmology is discussed, the need of an inflationary theory is motivated. Inflation is showed to ...
A critical analysis of some common animal idioms in two English-Arabic idiom dictionaries

Altarbaq, Haifa Ali (2020)

The present study aims to examine some common animal idioms in English and their counterparts in Arabic in two selected idioms dictionaries (Al-Mawrid: A Dictionary of Idiomatic Expressions and A Dictionary of Common English ...
A Dreamy Adventure with the Fruits

Tarraf, Samah (American University of Beirut, 2021)
A general solution to mimetic dust with astrophysical and cosmological applications -

Zeineddine, Ali El Hadi Adnan (2015)

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate solutions for the recently proposed model of dark matter, mimetic dark matter. The model, proposed by Chamseddine and Mukhanov in 2013[15], suggests a reformulation of Einstein’s ...
A method for verifying choreographies and their implementations.

Khalil, Al-Abbass Adham (2019)

A global choreography defines a communication pattern over a set of ports. The ports are partitioned into subsets, each subset being the ports that belong to a given process. From a choreography and an interaction architecture, ...
A model of international trade betwixt a small country on a strict gold standard and countries utilising fiat currencies.

Suidan, Namir Makram (2019)

We model a scenario of international trade betwixt a small country on a strict gold standard, in which all domestic market goods are purchased using solid gold currency, under simplifying assumptions. Then we apply to the ...
A study of the degree of alignment between grades 1-3 TESOL PreK-12 international standards, English language teaching and learning materials, and the national English language curriculum in Lebanon

Zreim, Sarah Mohamad (2020)

The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the degree of alignment between the English language textbooks, workbooks, and teachers’ guides of grades 1-3 and the English Lebanese official curriculum and TESOL PreK-12 ...
A survey of social classes : a study of Hugo’s Les Misérables and Disraeli’s Sybil.

Kanaan, Maria Milad (2019)

Set between 1798 and 1848, Les Misérables and Sybil recount the narratives of typical French and English characters of that time, influenced by the significant historical moments that occurred in France and England ...
The Absent Leviathan: The Fate of Power Sharing in Lebanon

Baaklini, May (2023-09-11)

This thesis critically examines the underlying reasons behind the failure of Lebanon's political system in regulating internal conflicts and assesses if the current political framework is salvageable. Furthermore, it ...
Academic procrastination and its correlates among candidates of the Lebanese baccalaureate program : academic self-efficacy and academic achievement.

Itani, Siline Wissam (2019)

Academic procrastination is a widespread dysfunctional behavior among students, invariably affecting their academic achievement and psychological wellbeing. This quantitative study investigated the relationships between ...
Accelerating Genome Analysis using Processing-in-Memory

Diab, Safaa (5/16/2022)

Data movement between memory and the CPU is a bottleneck in data-intensive applications. The cause of this problem is the need for the computing unit to access data frequently in memory through a limited-bandwidth and ...
Accumulation by Dispossession in Palestine : The New Imperialism and Land Tenure Under the British Mandate

Avanzato, Michael (2020)

David Harvey coined the phrase “accumulation by dispossession” in reference to the American invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq. Having written his piece immediately following the invasion in 2003, it is unsurprising ...
Action video game play and cognitive flexibility in late adolescence and early adulthood -

Nakhle, Sinine Samir (2014)

The industry of video games has substantially grown over the past decades, placing players in increasingly complex virtual scenarios in which cognitive flexibility is essential for rapid and accurate reactions to visual ...
Adaptation and validation of Conners-3 teacher and parent rating scales on Lebanese children.

Haidar, Zainab Ahmad (2019)

Conners-3 rating scale is primarily used in the assessment of ADHD and it has been found to be instrumental in variety of areas such as screening, assessment, and treatment monitoring. Most, if not all, rating scales are ...
Admissible representations of GL(2,Qp), the Kirillov model and application to local new vectors.

Krayem, Janane Moussa (2019)

Jacquet and Langlands (1970) showed that every infinite dimensional, irreducible, admissible representation of GL(2,Qp) has a unique Kirillov model, i.e. is isomorphic to a representation (π,K), where the space K consists ...
ADVANCING ARAB WOMEN’S POLITICAL PARTICIPATION: EXPERIENCES AND JOURNEYS OF WOMEN POLITICIANS FROM LEBANON AND SYRIA

Al Dani, Layan (5/19/2021)

Women in the MENA region are still fighting for their political agency in a patriarchal society which obscures their own right to participate and be politically influential. Women’s participation in the public sector and ...
Advocating for the right to space through media and communication in Lebanon.

Houbeish, Houda Mohammad (2018)

Many people in Lebanon are deprived of their basic rights, including the right to housing due to market driven housing policies. The violation of the right to housing in Lebanon leads to displacement and marginalization ...

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