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  • Predictors of Subjective Well-Being Among College Youth in Lebanon 
    Ayyash-Abdo, Huda; Alamuddin, Rayane; SAS; 199429020; Social Sciences; habdo@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-27)
    The authors investigated the prevalence and predictors of subjective well-being (SWB) in a particular Middle Eastern culture: that of Lebanon. The authors examined personality constructs of self-esteem, optimism, and ...
  • Individualism and collectivism 
    Ayyash-Abdo, Huda; SAS; 199429020; Social Sciences; habdo@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-27)
    This study focused on whether people with different individualistic and collectivistic (I-C) tendencies speak different languages, belong to different religious groups and are of different gender. These three independent ...
  • Adolescent suicide 
    Ayyash-Abdo, Huda; SAS; 199429020; Social Sciences; habdo@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-27)
    Adolescent suicide, which has been ranked among the top 10 causes of death in the world, is an issue of increasing concern to school psychologists, educators, and parents. Here an ecological approach is proposed to enhance ...
  • School Counseling in Lebanon 
    Ayyash-Abdo, Huda; Alamuddin, Rayane; Mukallid, Samar; SAS; 199429020; Social Sciences; habdo@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-27)
    This article examines the status of school counseling in Lebanon. An overview that points out some weakness in the educational system, such as high dropout and repetition rates, is presented. Calls for counseling have been ...
  • Subjective Well-Being during Political Violence and Uncertainty 
    Ayyash-Abdo, Huda; SAS; 199429020; Social Sciences; habdo@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-27)
    The present research seeks to compare the subjective well-being (SWB) of Lebanese college youth between a sample assessed in 2003, during peace time, and a comparable one assessed in 2007 during politically violent and ...
  • Subjective wellbeing and its relationship with academic achievement and multilinguality among Lebanese university students 
    Ayyash-Abdo, Huda; Sanchez-Ruiz, Maria-José; SAS; 201402971; 201005175; Social Sciences; habdo@lau.edu.lb; maria-jose.sanchez-ruiz@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-27)
    The study investigated three subjective wellbeing (SWB) components, namely positive affect (PA), negative affect (NA), and life satisfaction (LS), along with optimism and self-esteem and their association with academic ...
  • A general model for minimum curvature quasi-Newton methods 
    Obeid, Samir; Moghrabi, I.A.R.; SAS; 197929220; Natural Sciences; sobeid@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-27)
  • A new family of multi-step quasi-Newton algorithms for unconstrained optimization 
    Obeid, Samir; Moghrabi, I.A.R.; SAS; 19799220; Natural Sciences (2015-11-27)
    This work aims at ensuring smoothness of interpolation in both the iterate and the gradient spaces in the so-called multi-step quasi-Newton methods. It concentrates on deriving a variable-metric family of minimum curvature ...
  • Curvature-based multistep quasi-Newton method for unconstrained optimization 
    Obeid, Samir; Moghrabi, I.A.R.; SAS; 197929220; Natural Sciences; sobeid@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-27)
    Multi-step methods derived in [1–3] have proven to be serious contenders in practice by outperforming traditional quasi-Newton methods based on the linear Secant Equation. Minimum curvature methods that aim at tuning the ...
  • To Veil or Not to Veil 
    Dabbous-Sensering, Dima; SAS; 198300930; Communication Arts; dima.sensenig@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-26)
    This article uses critical discourse analysis (CDA) in order to analyse the discussion of the Muslim dress code (commonly referred to as the hijab) on Al Jazeera’s religious talk show A-Shari’a wal Hayat. Between 1998 ...
  • Reputation-Based Cooperative Detection Model of Selfish Nodes in Cluster-Based QoS-OLSR Protocol 
    Moati, Nadia; Otrok, Hadi; Mourad, Azzam; Robert, Jean-Marc; SAS; 200904853; Computer Science and Mathematics; azzam.mourad@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-25)
    The QOLSR is a multimedia protocol that was designed on top of the optimized link state routing (OLSR) protocol for mobile ad hoc network. It considers the quality of service (QoS) of the nodes during the selection of the ...
  • Security Hardening of Open Source Software 
    Mourad, Azzam; Debbabi, Mourad; Laverdiere, Marc-André; SAS; 200904853; Computer Science and Mathematics; azzam.mourad@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-25)
    In this paper, we define the concept of software security hardening, which will allow the developers and maintainers to deploy and harden security features and remedy present vulnerabilities and threats into existing ...
  • Accelerating embedded Java for mobile devices 
    Mourad, Azzam; Debbabi, Mourad; Talhi, Chamseddine; Yahyaoui, Hamdi; SAS; 200904853; Computer Science and Mathematics; azzam.mourad@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-25)
    With the proliferation of wireless devices, networks, and systems, the deployment of efficient embedded Java virtual machines is becoming a challenging and important research area. Accordingly, a plethora of acceleration ...
  • A selective dynamic compiler for embedded Java virtual machines targeting ARM processors 
    Mourad, Azzam; Debbabi, Mourad; Gherbi, Abdelouahed; Yahyaoui, Hamdi; SAS; 200904853; Computer Science and Mathematics; azzam.mourad@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-25)
    This paper presents a new selective dynamic compilation technique targeting ARM 16/32-bit embedded system processors. This compiler is built inside the J2ME/CLDC (Java 2 Micro Edition for Connected Limited Device Configuration) ...
  • A High-level Aspect-oriented-based Framework for Software Security Hardening 
    Mourad, Azzam; Laverdiere, Marc-André; Debbabi, Mourad; SAS; 200904853; Computer Science and Mathematics; azzam.mourad@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-25)
    In this paper, we present an aspect-oriented approach and propose a high-level language called SHL (Security Hardening Language) for the systematic security hardening of software. The primary contribution of this proposition ...
  • An aspect-oriented approach for the systematic security hardening of code 
    Mourad, Azzam; Laverdiere, Marc-André; Debbabi, Mourad; SAS; 200904853; Computer Science and Mathematics; azzam.mourad@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-25)
    In this paper, we present an aspect-oriented approach for the systematic security hardening of source code. It aims at allowing developers to perform software security hardening by providing an abstraction over the actions ...
  • Nouveaux points de coupure et primitives pour les préoccupations de renforcement de sécurité 
    Mourad, Azzam; Laverdiere, Marc-André; Soeanu, Andrei; Debbabi, Mourad; SAS; 200904853; Computer Science and Mathematics; azzam.mourad@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-25)
    In this pauper, we present two new pointcuts and two new primitives to Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) languages that are needed for systematic hardening of security concerns. The two proposed pointcuts allow to identify ...
  • The Potential Role of Daucus carota Aqueous and Methanolic Extracts on Inflammation and Gastric Ulcers in Rats 
    Mroueh, Mohamad; Daher, Costantine F.; Wehbe, Katia; SOP; SAS; 199590020; 199190130; Pharmaceutical Sciences Department; mmroueh@lau.edu.lb; cdaher@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-25)
    Daucus carota (DC) is among commonly used plants in folk medicine in Lebanon and the region. The present investigation was undertaken to examine the effects of the aqueous and extracts of Daucus carota umbels against acute ...
  • New aspect-oriented constructs for security hardening concerns 
    Mourad, Azzam; Soeanu, Andrei; Laverdiere, Marc-André; Debbabi, Mourad; SAS; 200904853; Computer Science and Mathematics; azzam.mourad@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-25)
    In this paper, we present new pointcuts and primitives to Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) languages that are needed for systematic hardening of security concerns. The two proposed pointcuts allow to identify particular ...
  • New Approach Targeting Security Patterns Development and Deployment 
    Mourad, Azzam; Otrok, Hadi; Baajour, Lama; SAS; 200904853; Computer Science and Mathematics; azzam.mourad@lau.edu.lb (2015-11-25)
    In this paper, we address the problems related to the applicability and usability of security patterns. In this context, we propose a new approach based on aspect-oriented programming (AOP) for security patterns development, ...

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