In light of the compounded crises Lebanon has been going through since 2019, food security concerns have increasingly grown amongst Lebanese people who have resorted to an array of coping strategies. The economic downfall ...
Offshore pipelines transport hydrocarbons under high pressure and high temperature conditions in order to improve/control their flowability. These pipelines are usually thermally insulated to maintain an elevated temperature ...
Temporal order of information processing in the brain is an important code in many acoustic signals including speech, music, and animal vocalizations. Despite its significance, very little is known about its underlying ...
As a journalist from Beirut covering Lebanon and Syria, I have moved between mainstream institutions including the Washington Post and the Telegraph, to lesser known local media sites such as Daraj media and Megaphone. All ...
Procedural Content Generation (PCG) are algorithms that can generate game content or levels with little to no human intervention. As discussed by PCGML, datasets, and benchmarks in the field of game generation are very ...
Cancer affects not only the physical health of patients, but also their mental health. The sudden change in everyday life, long hospital admission, frequent treatment, pain, and society’s perception of cancer patients ...
Food safety is of a huge concern globally and in developing countries particularly since foodborne illnesses continue to pose a threat to human and animal life, thereby affecting their quality of life. Massive research has ...
A recent research was conducted at AUB to evaluate the structural properties of a sustainable concrete material produced by replacing a suitable percentage of Portland cement with a hybrid ceramic/slag binder. The research ...
Lebanon is at a high risk of both natural and manmade disasters. Unfortunately, the lack of preparedness to face a disaster and the lack of an adequate emergency relief plan are causing Lebanon to suffer more and more with ...
Avocado is known to be a climacteric fruit that must be harvested during the suitable physiological maturity stage to achieve the best edible characteristics and reach the required export standards. It is very hard to ...
Marx’s critique of epistemology consists in revealing the social conditions that presuppose epistemology. The problem of epistemology for Marx is the question of the objectivity of our thinking. But this question for him ...
Mass transportation consists of optimizing the cost of transport of “goods” from a source to its target. First, it was stated by Monge in 1781 for a pile of sand, but the applications of this problem appear in different ...
Concrete incorporating ceramic hybrid binders is a sustainable material prepared by partial replacement of Portland cement with a proper dosage of ceramic powder and mineral admixtures or pozzolanic materials. This research ...
Luxury brands have often been hesitant to embrace social media to a full extent,
however, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted many to adopt digital strategies.
Designers and their teams reinvented fashion show presentations ...
Introduction: Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is considered a complex heterogeneous
autoimmune disease. It occurs due to the destruction of insulin-producing beta cells of
the islets of Langerhans of the pancreas. Risk factors of ...
Several studies have investigated the major role that oxidative stress plays in the pathogenesis of traumatic brain injury (TBI). In fact, reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation, one major constituent of the secondary ...
Given the fact that English is a global language and that cultivating a good command of the language is essential for academic success, comprehending authentic English texts has become a priority for EFL learners. Hence, ...
Bacterial extracts possess many therapeutic attributes such as antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, antioxidant, and anticancer activities. Streptomyces is the largest genus of Actinobacteria that provides various compounds ...
Background: Sustained chronic liver injury originating from several factors including viral infection, alcohol consumption, and hepatitis may lead to hepatic fibrosis characterized by an imbalance between extracellular ...
Lebanon, like many other developing countries, suffers from the toll of emerging foodborne pathogens and antibiotic resistance within its food systems. Very little data is collected on the presence of foodborne pathogens ...