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  • Low energy atomic field bremsstrahlung from thin rare gas targets 
    Semaan, M.E.; PHD; SAS; 199690260; Natural Sciences; msemaan@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Texas Christian University, )
    A relative measurement of the doubly-differential cross-section for electron atomic field bremsstrahling, differential in photon energy and angle is reported. Data for (d/sup 2/sigma)/(dk dO/sub k/) have been taken for ...
  • Impact of an integrated seismic data processing approach 
    Semaan, Mars E.; Murhantoro, Eddy; Achmad Bermawi, Maryanto; Subianto, Budi; Santoso, Hari
    Results from an integrated seismic data processing approach are presented. The following five industry known techniques are used: The first is pre-stack processing and imaging that resulted in properly placed structures ...
  • Implementation of the optical stack method 
    Semaan, Mars E.; Arnold, Richard H.; SAS; 199690260; Natural Sciences; msemaan@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
  • Lebanon’s greening imagination 
    Marroum, Marianne; SAS; 201005175; Social Sciences; maria-jose.sanchez-ruiz@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
    This paper examines the narratives of a group of Lebanese authors and artists on nature in Lebanon, collected in an anthology entitled The Lost Space: The Views of Lebanese Authors and Artists on Nature (2009) published ...
  • Herbert man's pilgrimage unto death and beyond 
    Marroum, Marianne E. (American University of Beirut, )
    Man lives in time: the self is inseparable from the concept of time as it develops in time. Because the movement of time is an irreversible movement towards death, the prospect of death enters as an integral and ineradicable ...
  • Developments in trait emotional intelligence research 
    Sanchez-Ruiz, Maria-Jose; Furnham, Adrian; Mavroveli, Stella; Mikolajczak, Moira; Petrides, K.V.
    Trait emotional intelligence (“trait EI”) concerns our perceptions of our emotional abilities, that is, how good we believe we are in terms of understanding, regulating, and expressing emotions in order to adapt to our ...
  • Individual and social correlates of aggressive behavior in Lebanese undergraduates 
    Sanchez-Ruiz, Maria-Jose; Baaklini, Amal
    This study investigates the relationship between Aggressive Behavior and individual factors, namely trait Emotional Intelligence, personality dimensions, emotion regulation and self-worth, as well as social factors, namely ...
  • Predictors of disordered eating in young males 
    Doumit, R.; Sanchez-Ruiz, M. J.; Zeeni, N.; Abi Kharma, J.
    Recent findings suggest that disordered eating (DE) symptomatology may be underestimated in the male population. The present study examined depressive symptomatology as a potential mediator of the relationships between ...
  • Creativity and personality across domains 
    Sanchez-Ruiz, M. Jose; Alfonso-Benlliure, Vicente; Romo, Manuela
    The aim of this paper is to provide an update of the literature on the relationship between creativity and personality. Personality traits from Three Giants and Big Five (FFM) models show complex relationships with creativity. ...
  • Personality, emotion-related variables, and media pressure predict eating disorders via disordered eating in Lebanese university students 
    Sanchez-Ruiz, Maria-Jose
    Purpose Disordered eating behaviors are on the rise among youth. The present study investigates psychosocial and weight-related variables as predictors of eating disorders (ED) through disordered eating (DE) dimensions ...
  • Aggressive behavior in Lebanese University students 
    Sanchez-Ruiz, M.J.
    Aggressive behavior (AB) among youth is a complex phenomenon that negatively affects individuals, families, and societies around the world. This study investigates the relationship between aggressive behavior (AB) and ...
  • Non-cognitive skills and factors in educational attainment 
    SAS; 201005175; Social Sciences; Sanchez-Ruiz, Maria-Jose; El Khoury, Jamil; Saade, George; Salkhanian, Miriam; maria-jose.sanchez-ruiz@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University (Springer, )
  • The child creativity test (TCI) 
    Sanchez-Ruiz, Maria-Jose; Alfonso-Benlliure, Vincente; Romo, Manuela
    Divergent thinking tests do not generally address the complex nature of creativity but rather focus on the final product or solution of a problem, overlooking the previous stages of the creative process such as the discovery ...
  • The impact of political alliances on voter prejudice in post conflict countries 
    Ouaiss, Makram E. (George Mason University, )
    Scholars of conflict resolution have studied ways to reduce prejudice in society for years, believing that prejudice leads to or increases the likelihood of conflict. The primary focus has been on schools, universities and ...
  • Ex-combatants working for peace and the lebanese civil society 
    Ouaiss, Makram; Rowayheb, Marwan
    This article investigates the factors that made few Lebanese ex-combatants, who fought each other during the Lebanese civil war of 1975 and who believed they were fighting for a just cause, able to work together to establish ...
  • Misuse of Islam in El-Saadawi’s God dies by the Nile from a socialist feminist perspective 
    Balaa, Luma
    This essay argues that El-Saadawi, in her novel God Dies by the Nile, does not oppose Islam and does not claim that it is Islam that oppresses women, but rather that it is the abuse of Islam and the melange of Islam, ...
  • Exile, return, and nationalism in a goodland 
    Balaa, Luma; SAS; 200402871; English; luma.balaa@lau.edu.lb; Lebanese American University
  • Syrine Hout. post-war anglophone lebanese fiction 
    Balaa, Luma
  • Why insanity is not subversive in Hanan Al-Shaykh's short story ‘season of madness’ 
    Balaa, Luma
    Dalya Abudi maintains that in many female Arab texts ‘madness serves as a metaphor for female victimisation on the one hand and for female resistance on the other’. This paper contends that the representation of women as ...
  • Source localization in cluttered acoustic waveguides 
    Issa, Leila (Houston, Tex.Rice University, )
    Mode coupling due to scattering by weak random inhomogeneities leads to the loss of coherence in the wave field measured a long distances of propagation. This in turn leads to the deterioration of coherent source localization ...

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