This study explored the concept of effective school leadership from the perspectives of Lebanese practitioners mainly principals and teachers. The study has a three-fold purpose: (a) to develop a grounded, context-based ...
According to the literature, more than a hundred plant species in Lebanon are reported as having medicinal properties. This study aimed at investigating the medicinal properties of selected wild plants. Five species were ...
Natural products have been invaluable as a basis for the development of front-li ne drugs. For thousands of years, medicine and natural products have been intim ately coupled due to the use of traditional herbs and natural ...
Some larvae of the cedar web-spinning sawfly Cephalcia tannourinensis Che vin, collected from the tannourine-Hadeth el Jebbe forest, were found infected w ith a white fungus, later indentified as Baeuveria sp. Isolates of ...
Background: Mutations in the gene encoding the RNA-binding protein (RBM20) have recently been identified to segregate with aggressive forms of familial dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). RBM20 has been shown to regulate splicing ...
Title: Identification of Anti- Epstein-Barr Virus Compounds in Extracts from Soil-dwelling Microorganisms
Introduction: Epstein-Barr virus infects more than 90% of the human population and establishes latency in resting ...
Strong correlation between plants and health has been responsible for the discov ery of many plant-derived pharmaceuticals used for the treatment, prevention and diagnosis of diseases. Despite the fact that nearly 50percent ...
Nascent polysaccharides, namely pectin and glucuronoarabinoxylan GAX, are synthesized in vitro by membrane bound enzymes obtained 1T0m pea epicotyls using radioactive precursors. These polymers bind to xyloglucan (X G) in ...
The use of data analysis cooperatively with partial differential equations is a successful technique to estimate the main parameters of diverse phenomena in many fields (medicine, biology, ecology,...). In the area of ...
Regression analysis of the magnitude estimates of 9 manual and 7 oral attributes was utilized to identify' the key textural traits of Arabic bread. The best average coefficient of determination (R ) of the triplets predicting ...
Stone fruits and grapevines are the major fruit crops grown in Lebanoa A new disease of almond, has lead to the death of thousands of trees in coastal areas and up to an elevation of 1200m. The disease was found to be ...
Deep-frying is a common food preparation method, where the fried food acquires c ertain desirable and unique sensory characteristics. The frying oil becomes part of the food being fried and, thus, the frying oil is a major ...
The cedar bud beetle, Ernobius sp. (Coleoptera: Anobiidae) is considered an impo rtant pest in the Tannourine-Hadath El-Jebbeh cedar forest because of its relati ve abundance and specific colonization and consumption of ...
Background: Wars have been a great burden on humanity for a long period of time. The high medical costs of wars particularly those incurred in treating patients with multi-drug resistant infections is probably one of its ...