The Arab Spring was conceived in Tunisia on December 17, 2010, when a street vendor, Mohammed Bouazizi self-immolated. On January 14, 2011, the Arab Spring was born under the name of the Jasmine revolution that echoed ...
After an earthquake, an urgent visual inspection is required to assess structural
damages. Previous research has relied on the use of advanced technologies such as
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Augmented Reality (AR) ...
The level at which Food Security should be governed has been largely debated in the literature: some argue that food security should involve the government only while others see that every actor from farm to fork should ...
Although the agricultural sector has always been a catalyst for economic growth in countries such as the ones situated in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, young people are still succumbing to the stigma ...
To honor the Paris Agreement in decreasing greenhouse gas emissions, this thesis looks
into carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration as an unavoidable path to lower these emissions
and limit rising global temperatures. After ...
From the late 1960s through the 1970s, researchers worldwide have shown interest in the
exploration of gender representation in children’s literature, including books, stories, and
educational materials. A significant ...
For thousands of years, farmers, especially in developing countries, have suffered debt. A phenomenon that has affected farmers’ livelihoods in one way or another. The purpose of this paper is to discover the reason behind ...
The continuously increasing anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions into the
atmosphere are causing profound impacts on human livability and ecosystems. The latest
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, ...
The tectonic setting of Lebanon in the eastern Mediterranean region is a restraining bend along the Dead Sea Transform Fault, which is the plate boundary between Arabia and Africa. Within the Lebanese Restraining Bend, the ...
Widely used and studied, the transport equation is a partial differential equation
that describes how a mass is transported (or translated) through time and space.
The goal of this thesis is to recover the initial state ...
We used 3D time seismic reflection data from the northern Levant basin offshore Lebanon to map the Messinian salt layer, understand its tectonic behavior, and recognize its effect on the formation of the offshore structures. ...
Street food, defined as Ready to eat food and beverages sold on the streets, plays a vital
role in providing employment, and nutritious food for less fortunate individuals and
reflects the country's cultural cuisine. ...
Antimicrobial resistance is an emerging global problem and particularly in Lebanon and other countries in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Of notable concern is the contamination of fresh produce with ...
With the advent of technology, RRAM-based non-volatile SRAM cells are becoming
a promising element for state-of-the-art IoT processor design. They allow fast parallel
store/restore mechanisms, low store/restore energy ...
Construction project equipment are subject to several types of breakdowns throughout the project duration. As a result, contractors and equipment operators are keen to establish and adopt effective equipment maintenance ...
Adult neurogenesis (AN) is an ongoing process in two neurogenic niches inside the adult mammalian brain: the adult subventricular zone (aSVZ) and the sub-granular zone (SGZ) of the dentate gyrus. This process generates a ...
In interpersonal communication, the speaker is always trying to convey an intention. Recent studies have highlighted the importance of prosody and the role it plays in the way communicative intentions are conveyed (Papafragou, ...
Accurate forecasting of field production is an essential ingredient for effective planning, management, and control of construction resources. Traditional forecasting methods often rely on historical data and on the ...
Background: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common type of cancer in incidence and mortality among women both worldwide and in Lebanon, which renders it a major health problem. Despite extensive research in this field, ...
People’s movement across borders has become increasingly regulated over the past few decades. Migration went from being a normal phenomenon that is often discussed in the political field to more and more being debated in ...