The importance of the role of instructional supervisors in every education system in general, and in teachers’ instructional practices in particular, cannot be overemphasised. As the staff that have direct contact with the ...
Background and aims: Hypertension poses major risks for cardiovascular diseases. Vascular remodeling in hypertension plays a crucial role in precipitating these complications and in maintaining the elevated blood pressure. ...
Ichthyosis (“fish scales”) and ichthyosiform disorders are inherited skin disorders for which no ideal therapy exists. These disorders are mainly caused by disturbances in epidermal differentiation and can present either ...
Various research was conducted on parental involvement and children's academic achievement at school. Studies have found that parental involvement plays an important role in young children’s academic success (Durand, 2011). ...
The problem of both overweight and obesity is becoming globally spread and it is one of the main health issues nowadays. Even though genetics certainly plays a role, weight gain is eventually the result of a failure in the ...
Energy Expenditure (EE) is the sum of resting metabolic rate (RMR), diet-induced thermogenesis (DIT) and energy expended on physical activity. Diet-induced thermogenesis is the increase that takes place in EE after ingestion ...
Diet induced thermogenesis is the increase in postprandial energy expenditure above the basal metabolic rate divided by the energy content of the food consumed during the meal, and it is usually expressed as a percentage ...
This paper is a study on the role of the Human Resources Department in fostering an ethical work culture in medium and large sized companies in Lebanon. Ethics has always been a topic for discussion; and with the transformation ...
Construction projects require the combined effort of professionals from different firms and different backgrounds in order to achieve success. This, in turn, is hard to materialize without the efforts and skills of project ...
The Rural Urban Continuum has no clear boundary, both geographically and conceptually. The following research provides a methodology for properly defining the Rural Urban Continuum (RUC). The approach was applied to Northern ...
This thesis attempts to answer the following question: what were the causes behind the resettlement of Mount Lebanon’s Druze to Hawran during the 19th century? Scholars have already proposed answers, and in doing so, ...
Bergson’s work is generally oriented towards time, intuition and metaphysics. But, to elaborate on these topics, Bergson cannot avoid clarifying the concepts of space, intelligence and technology as the more familiar topics ...
Alterations in hepatocytes’ volume contribute to the pathophysiology of several hepatic disorders including liver insufficiency, diabetic ketoacidosis, hyper-catabolism and infection. The Na+-K+ ATPase is a key regulator ...
Three main assumptions prevail when the subject of how women who lost their loved ones: their sons, fathers and husbands or husbands-to- be fighting with Hezbollah, deal with their pain of grief, is brought into discussion. ...
In a turbulent, global and postmodern Middle East, religion stands as a persistent, potent and salient social force. Men of religion, its keepers, propagators and leaders, are pivot figures of its modern reality. This ...
The Lebanese scene has witnessed important developments over the course of the last two years (2015-2017), particularly in the development of ‘alternative’ realms of collective action and organization. With the onset of ...
The Eurozone’s reaction to the economic crisis beginning in late 2008 involved both efforts to mitigate the arbitrarily destructive effects of markets and vigorous pursuit of policies aimed at austerity and deflation. In ...
This thesis analyses the case of Lebanon, a country that has suffered the most from the spillover effects of the Syrian War. It aims to elucidate how the political, social and economic repercussions of the Syrian War has ...
This thesis develops a critical perspective on the dynamics of preservation of and accessibility to the Télé Liban’s archive. The national Lebanese television’s archive has nearly 60 years of Lebanese political, cultural, ...