Engineers and geoscientists work within an asset team on defining well type, well control, well placement and facility design towards optimizing the development planning of oil and gas fields. Well placement optimization ...
This pilot study addresses the challenges to water treatment and provision of safe
domestic water supply, mostly for developing countries. In this regard, the study
investigates simple, effective water treatment methods ...
Nowadays, there are growing preoccupations for determining suitable routes for the disposal of pharmaceutical wastes (PW). This study reports the results of an experimental investigation on the influence of Diclofenac (Df) ...
English and Arabic share similar sounds but certain phonemes, such as English /p/, /v/, and /ɡ/, exist in English but not in Arabic. Many factors can affect perception of these non-native phonemes by Lebanese speakers, and ...
For decades, Lebanon has suffered from daily power outages, as the state utility Électricité du Liban (EDL) only covers 63 per cent of electricity demand. Recently, the situation has deteriorated further. The project employs ...
This thesis explores the Lebanese film industry through the perspectives of its laborers and analyzes these perspectives through Janet Wolff’s neo-Marxist analysis on artistic production which positions laborers and ...
In the context of the 2008 global food crisis, the Moroccan government launched the Plan Maroc Vert (PMV), the country’s rural strategy for the next decade ambitioning to make agriculture a key sector for economic growth ...
The importance of renewable energy applications is rising increasingly every day in a
world dominated by pollution and climate change. Finding alternatives to the use of
fossil fuels is vital for the decrease in greenhouse ...
As a country hosting the highest refugee population per capita and per square kilometer in the world, Lebanon’s refugee crisis is aggravating the already deteriorating infrastructure. Amidst political, economic, and ...
This study explores the intimate worlds of families and their queer kin in, and around,
Beirut. Worlds, which despite being framed by legal and social homophobia have
fostered the emergence of supportive family members. ...
Background: Mental health disorders are a growing public health priority; with the most common being depression and anxiety. These conditions also present high and complex comorbidity with diabetes; however, the exact ...
Background and Objective: Despite the importance of adequate breastfeeding during
early life, its rates in Lebanon remain low. This study aims to examine the association
of maternal exposure, knowledge, attitude, and ...
Children's eating behavior is one of the main pillars of a healthy life. Recent studies show that eating unhealthy food is highly associated with many chronic diseases including diabetes, obesity, and cancer. Such dietary ...
The impressive properties of composite materials have allowed their integration in various structural and light weight applications. This large dependence on composites has resulted in multiple situations where bonding ...
The expanding potential of multi-agent systems (MASs) in different robotic applications requires high-level performance, which can be achieved by maintaining
satisfactory collaboration between robots. Such collaboration ...
People with spinal cord injury (SCI) are prone to thermal strain (i.e. unsafe elevation in body core temperature) at hot conditions and/or high metabolic rates resulting in various levels of thermal discomfort based on ...
Transfer learning enabled machine learning tasks with scarce data to achieve superhuman performance in multiple domains like computer vision and natural language processing. However, knowledge transfer's success was mostly ...
The question of what makes individuals mobilize to achieve social change has long been a subject of interest in the social sciences. While a considerable body of literature is dedicated to exploring the stages of social ...
Lamb waves are highly used in Structural Health Monitoring systems and are commonly studied to investigate the mechanical properties and integrity of different structures. The reflections from the boundaries of any studied ...
The global energy demand is dramatically increasing, and the dependence is on petroleum fossil fuels. Liquid biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, are considered great alternatives to fossil fuels in the transportation ...