This study attributes contemporary Lebanese Shi'ite politicization to factors other than the Shi'ite religio-political heritage, which conventional Western wisdom has held solely accountable for Shi'ite radicalism. Although ...
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 ...
Under Ugandan Vision 2030 and the rural sustainable development goals, the Ugandan Government considers livestock production as an essential economic activity that can be used to promote food security and reduce poverty. ...
Semi-natural habitats in the coastal zone are considered as the most threatened in Lebanon due to the fast and uncontrolled urban expansion. This zone was therefore selected for a study project in an attempt to generate ...
The long-term objective of the UNDP-GEF agro-biodiversity project Conservation and sustainable use of dry-land agro-biodiversity in Lebanon is to ensure a continuous availability of agro-biodiversity. The latter is ...
This study examined the variation in the use of the voiceless uvular stop [q] in the speech of Lebanese Druze of the Shouf region. It investigated age and gende r related differences in the use of [q] and its variant [?] ...
Wolbachia is a known endosymbiont of many insects including the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster and the disease vectors Culex pipiens and Aedes albopictus. It is present in the gonads and induces cytoplasmic incompatibility; ...