The Relationship between Financial development and Economic growth is intrinsic. It has been shown in Literature that Economic growth leads to financial development and vice versa, however, a more interesting relation that ...
This study aims at investigating the effect of bolt hole-making processes on the post-fire behavior of S235 steel plates. To address this issue, a total of nine steel plates with a
single bolt hole are tested in this ...
The Bidoon are a stateless and marginalized community in Kuwait, their status owing to Kuwaiti law that restricts the granting of citizenship only to those born to Kuwaiti fathers. While the Bidoon have consistently fought ...
Background: The management of waste is a global concern and a responsibility of each individual. There are several types of waste: solid waste, industrial waste, agricultural waste, and hazardous waste. Solid waste (SW) ...
Some studies have shown that Lebanese students tend to perform poorly in science which was evident in their low achievement in science when compared to international standards. Other studies, although limited, have shown ...
With growing applications in Machine Learning, Game Theory, and the training of Generative Adversarial Networks GANs, solving min-max problems and establishing their convergence properties have experienced significant ...
CMT type 1A is the most prevalent form of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and is characterized by a duplication of the PMP22 gene, leading to peripheral demyelination and ultimate sensorimotor loss. Pathological alterations ...
The application of electromagnetic radio frequency waves extends beyond the purpose of communication, to reach out to medical implementations in different forms. Such implementations vary from sensing to treatment. For ...
The high vocal center (HVC) is the avian analogue of the premotor cortex in the songbird brain. It represents a central component of an interconnected circuit of brain nuclei known as ‘the song system’ and constitutes a ...
Environmental and cost-saving advantages derived from the use of composites attract the aerospace and automotive industries as these materials offer significant structural and aerodynamic advantages over traditional metal ...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a form of acquired brain injury that poses a significant threat to
public health. Mild to severe TBI is rapidly being classified as a chronic disease, given that
evidence indicates that ...
This is a thesis about housing in Beirut: It inquires specifically about the characteristics of the housing stock produced in Municipal Beirut during the post-civil war era, and how these characteristics were influenced ...
Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut has for more than 30 years been subject to speculative investments in land, where housing’s value has been severely tipped to acting as an asset, rather than a stable unit of dwelling for ...
Open public spaces are a valuable asset for cities as research has shown they improve people’s quality of life through social, economic, health, and ecological benefits. Increased financialization, densification, and ...
Since the military phase of the Lebanese civil war ended, no collective memory has been established, only sectarian narratives. This lack of a proper representation of the atrocities of the war left the victims with no ...
With the advent of deep learning technology, Natural Language Processing (NLP) has made remarkable progress. Deep learning models have improved the performance of many NLP tasks such as text summarization, translation, and ...
The rapid urban growth is reshaping the Lebanese coastal cities and their surrounding hinterlands, by, introducing major challenges for the preservation and conservation of open/green landscapes. Besides, "Political ...
This thesis is a qualitative study of the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music (LNHCM) and the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) where key stakeholders of the LNHCM and LPO were interviewed in order to ...
Remote controlling robots without any automated help is difficult due to various limitations. Autocomplete enhances teleoperation by recognizing operator intentions from the input of the user and automating motions when ...