In this thesis an analysis of the public settings and interactions of coffeehouses enable a reassessment of the social and political histories of three cities. I connect, in other words, London, Paris and Cairo in a story ...
It has been established that smoking is highly associated with the development of serious medical problems. Clinical research has become essential to study not only exposure to toxicants but also to establish new products’ ...
Teleoperation has become a common feature in most systems and is now integrated into the control of collaborative robots’ swarms from a remote area. This thesis presents the design and development of a real time operator-based ...
F108 is a water-soluble non-ionic triblock copolymer. It belongs to the class of block copolymers, so called pluronics or poloxamers. These copolymers have dual character: hydrophilic and hydrophobic which establishes these ...
Expression of λ delayed-early genes requires overcoming transcription terminators through an antitermination process initiated by an arginine-rich motif (ARM) binding a regulatory RNA in a λ N ARM-boxB interaction. HK022 ...
Since the outbreak of the war in Syria in 2011, over one million refugees have entered Lebanon. In the absence of an official national response strategy, refugees have gradually settled across the country, concentrated ...
Chapter I provides an introduction into the thesis topic and enlists the major aims, and Chapter II provides a literature review. Curcumin (CUR) is a natural polyphenol present in the rhizomes of Curcuma longa and possesses ...
The bandwidth and data rate gains achieved by carrier aggregation led to its evolution through LTE releases R10 (LTE-Advanced) to R15 (5G NR). However, the aggregation of multiple OFDM and SC-FDMA signals suffer from high ...
We report the synthesis and characterization of a series of isoindigo-based and naphtalene diimide (NDI)-based organic materials as promising building blocks for different fields of organic electronics including organic ...
The consumption of poultry meat has increasingly become popular worldwide. The poultry industry in Lebanon is considered more developed than other animal farming practices and a source that generates a vital economic profit ...
The Lebanese demography is facing an unprecedented change towards a rapidly growing aging population. Older adults, currently constituting 9percent of the population, are expected to reach 25.7percent by 2050; these form ...
In this study we analyzed fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle models to identify the optimal size combination of fuel cells and batterie. This was in order to attain the lowest hydrogen consumption per trip. To achieve this ...
The increased reliance of modern societies on electricity urges the need for a reliable power system that provides uninterrupted power at a reasonable cost. Lebanon’s power sector has been suffering since the civil war ...
This thesis is a historical study of tourism during the time of French mandate rule. Based on an analysis of various sources, including organizational papers, governmental and contemporary press records, it analyzes the ...
Frequency estimation is a very important step to correctly detect a signal components. Nowadays, frequency estimation is required in many applications such biomedical signals, spectrum sensing, and military systems. ...
This study aimed to determine the optimal time interval between the vaccination with a live Mycoplasma gallisepticum vaccine AviPro® MGF and the administration of the antibiotic Pulmotil® AC (PAC) to broiler breeder pullets ...
Thirty-two Lebanese composite dishes were prepared according to procedures commonly followed in the Middle East and their contents of extractable polyphenols (EPP) were quantified by the Folin-Ciocalteu procedure on the ...
The longstanding quality and quantity problems in many Lebanese water resources are nothing new. Literature shows that approaches to solving these issues is normally under the terms set by funding bodies and international ...
The question that this thesis studies is the following: how can Lebanon improve its forest fire management policies? In order to explore this question, the thesis analyses the current forest fire risk handling approach and ...
Ancillary Botanic Gardens (ABGs) are proposed as a new category of botanical learning venues to mitigate decreasing financial and spatial opportunities for the establishment of formal botanic gardens. ABGs are established ...