There is a thriving comedic scene in Lebanon where online and standup comedians have used their skills in humor both to entertain and to critique their social, political, and cultural experiences. In this thesis, however, ...
Self-healing is the ability of a material to regain its performance after damage. Self-healing polymers are an important advancement as they improve the service life, reduce wastage, and decrease the environmental impact ...
Change detection is a sub-field of remote sensing that aims to detect surface differences between two images taken at different times. It plays a significant part in detecting disaster damage and planning rescue operations. ...
Background: Endometriosis is the growth of endometrial tissue outside the uterine cavity usually in the ovaries, fallopian tube, and the pelvic cavity. It affects 1 in 10 women which is approximately 176 million women ...
This research explores the phenomenon of code-switching in Lebanon, and more specifically, between Arabic (and its varieties), English, and French on Lebanese television talk shows. The research employed observations of ...
Background: Nursing and medical students experience high stress levels which increase their risk for depression. Literature has shown that dispositional mindfulness and resilience are protective factors against depression, ...
Nature of Science (NOS) and transfer of scientific knowledge across contexts are two remarkable topics in science education. NOS is considered a basic component of students’ epistemologies in science and students’ scientific ...
This work explores how urban spaces are experienced in relation to exposed infrastructure. It examines how exposed infrastructure is utilized by residents of Dahieh to mitigate being technologically marginalized. The thesis ...
The widespread use of e-cigarettes has attracted significant attention among scientific research communities due to the health risks and toxicity of the e-liquid constituents. Propylene Glycol (PG), which is a key e-liquid ...
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Airway obstruction, particularly when chronic, has been shown to lead to dento-facial dysmorphogenesis such as the long-face syndrome also known as “adenoid facies”. Despite the available evidence highlighting ...
Given the social implications of autonomous systems in high-stake areas, recent years have witnessed an outpouring of research on designing explainable and fair AI models. In this work, we consider the intersection of ...
After the financial globalization, concerns rose over the dynamics of current account balance and its relationship with capital investments in developed and developing countries. Understanding the factors behind persistent ...
Social dilemmas are situations in which individual and common interests are in conflict. In such situations, while individuals have an incentive to pursue their own short-term self-interests, individual payoffs are greater ...
Through the study of the discourse surrounding NFTs, the infrastructure enabling its
proliferation, as well as the systems of belief it builds around it, this thesis aims to
understand the user experience of NFTs and ...
Encompassing physiognomic, philosophical and poetic anecdotes, adab literature is characterized by its informative and entertaining appeal on sexual pleasures and sexual health matters, with ample Arabo-Islamic anthologies ...
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Management is a great challenge facing countries worldwide. While landfilling has been considered the cheapest and most efficient approach for dealing with MSW, it proved to have many environmental, ...
Microplastics are anthropogenic contaminants that have been accumulating in surface water bodies for the past several decades. Little is known on the presence of microplastics in drinking water in the Middle East region ...
Qualitative studies have enriched the mathematics education field over the past 40 years across various topics. In spite of the fact that the number of these studies is increasing and the quality of qualitative research ...
The opening of the Suez Canal led to the influx of marine organisms from the Indo-Pacific to the Mediterranean Sea (Lessepsian migration). A significant number of Lessepsian species have already established large populations ...
Over the last decade, there has been a growing debate in social psychology on whether inter-group contact and collective action are compatible models of social change. Research on these two models has led to a recognition ...