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  • Genome-wide analysis of Streptococcus pyogenes associated with pharyngitis and skin infections. (c2015) 
    Ibrahim, Joe P.; MS in Molecular Biology; SAS; 200903533; Khazen, Georges; Nawas, Tarek; Natural Sciences; Tokajian, Sima (2016-01-29)
    Streptococcus pyogenes is a very important human pathogen, commonly isolated from the skin or throat of individuals. Belonging to the Group A Streptococcus (GAS), S. pyogenes is responsible for a myriad of infections ...
  • The European Union's role in tackling the root causes of migration in Tunisia and Libya. (c2015) 
    Yaacoub, Rayane; MA in International Affairs; SAS; 200701496; Baroudi, Sami; Ouaiss, Makram; Social Sciences; Ouaiss, Jennifer Skulte (2015-11-27)
    The European Union (EU) has long been one of the most desired destinations for immigrants coming from North Africa and the Mediterranean countries. However, the recent trend of increased emigration from Southern Mediterranean ...
  • Teaching writing in secondary schools. (c2015) 
    Moufarrij, Najla-Maria Riad; MA in Education; SAS; 200701098; Diab, Rula; Nabhani, Mona; Education; Bahous, Rima (2015-11-27)
    The English teaching of writing at the Secondary level in Second Language classrooms is a prominent issue of research nowadays since learners have found themselves unable to express themselves freely with the academic ...
  • Pedagogy of the oppressed within the Arab Spring era. (c2015) 
    Kanaan, Hawraa; MA in International Affairs; SAS; 201103390; Baroudi, Sami; Salamey, Imad; Social Sciences; Ouaiss, Jennifer Skulte (2015-11-27)
    Like all great upheavals, the Arab spring was caused by various intertwined causes. In their analysis, academics focused mainly on the economic and political factors to explain the reasons behind the uprisings. However, ...
  • Teaching and Learning limits at the Secondary Level in Lebanon. (c2015) 
    Thabet, Najwa Riad; MA in Education; SAS; 199204410; Nabhani, Mona; Hamdan, May; Education; Osta., Iman (2015-11-27)
    The concept of “limit of a function” plays a fundamental key role in comprehending basic calculus notions and its application is also essential in other disciplines. This makes it necessary for students to develop a firm ...
  • Sentiment analysis for Arabizi in social media. (c2015) 
    Tobaili, Taha; MS in Computer Science; SAS; 201204908; Hajj, Hazem; Tarhini, Abbas; Computer Science and Mathematics; Sharafeddine, Sanaa (2015-11-27)
    With the vast increase of social media users over the past few years, millions of product reviews are discussed and posted in online forums and social media such as Facebook and Twitter. There are many applications for ...
  • Teachers’ Perception of Students with Disruptive Behavior and Poor Working Memory. (c2015) 
    Jrab, Mirna; MA in Education; SAS; 199003060; Bahous, Rima; Nabhani, Mona; Education; Kaloustian, Garene (2015-11-27)
    The present study investigated how teachers perceive children with poor working memory who exhibit disruptive behavior and whether disruptive behavior is associated with poor working memory. Four schools participated from ...
  • Problem Posing. (c2015) 
    ElAjouz, Lina I.; MA in Education; SAS; 200802860; Samarji, Ahmad; Bahous, Rima; Education; Osta, Iman (2015-11-27)
    Researchers argue that one of the main aims of mathematics education is to develop students’ abilities to solve a wide range of complex problems. Thus, advocates of the reformed movements in mathematics education constantly ...
  • Representations and Proportional Reasoning in a Problem Solving Context. (c2015) 
    Aboul Hosn, Rana; MA in Education; SAS; 200801282; Nabhani, Mona; Samarji, Ahmad; Education; Osta, Iman (2015-11-27)
    Research and experience show that a successful problem-solving teaching and learning model needs to include a construction of visual schematic representations that show spatial relationships between the different components ...
  • The U.S. mediator role in the Israeli Palestinian conflict. (c2015) 
    Gonzalez, Ailyn; MA in International Affairs; SAS; 200904905; Baroudi, Sami; Rowayheb, Marwan; International Affairs; Ouaiss, Jennifer Skulte (2015-09-30)
    This thesis aims to examine the distinct U.S. administration policies in reference to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the creation of the latter. It details how successive administrations have helped, or not helped ...
  • Auto-indexing Arabic texts based on association rule data mining. (c2015) 
    Rouba G. Nasrallah; MS in Computer Science; SAS; 201104357; Touma, Rony; Kouatli, Issam; Computer Science; Haraty, Ramzi A. (2015-09-30)
    In this work, we propose a new model to enhance auto-indexing Arabic texts. Our model denotes extracting new relevant words by relating those chosen by the previous classical methods, to new words using data mining rules. ...
  • Information warfare. (c2015) 
    Sai, Mohamed El; MS in Computer Science; SAS; 201105271; Samer, Habre; Mourad, Azzam; Computer Science; Haraty, Ramzi A. (2015-09-30)
    The age of Internet Technology that we are in has introduced new types of attacks to new assets that didn’t exist before. Databases that represent Information assets are subject to attacks that have malicious intentions ...
  • Scatter search metaheuristic for homology based protein structure prediction. (c2015) 
    Stamboulian, Mouses Hrag; MS in Computer Science; SAS; 201206167; Haraty, Ramzi; Tokajian, Sima; Computer Science; Mansour, Nashat (2015-09-30)
    Determining a protein’s structure is a challenging goal in structural bioinformatics, offering important insight towards understanding the function of a protein. Homology modeling is an effective technique in protein ...
  • Discourse evolution. (c2015) 
    Karam, Maryse; MA in Education; SAS; 201104994; Nabhani, Mona; Assaf, Nadra; Education; Bahous, Rima (2015-09-30)
    Songs communicate. Whether used in a story telling setting or as part of an artistic exhibition, songs describe cultural patterns and speak of yearnings and realities, both bitter and sweet. This study uses songs as an ...
  • The status of human rights in post-Arab Spring. (c2015) 
    Chaaban, Maram; MA in International Affairs; SAS; 200601663; Rowayheb, Marwan; Baroudi, Sami; International Affairs; Salamey, Imad (2015-09-30)
    This thesis examines the relationship between the global human rights regime and the post-Arab Spring constitutional transition, taking Egypt and Tunisia as a comparative case study. First, it assesses hypothetical claim ...
  • The influence of think tanks on United States foreign policy. (c2012) 
    Bougebrayel, Tania Nassim; MA in International Affairs; SAS; 1987-04-22; 201005147; Moubarak, Walid; Rowayheb, Marwan; International Affairs; Ouaiss, Makram (2015-09-18)
    In an attempt to help bridge the gap between policy research and policy outputs, this thesis examines the role of research institutions, or think tanks, as domestic factors of influence on United States foreign policy. A ...
  • Power resistance, and change in the fiction of Roy and Al-Shaykh. (c2014) 
    Tobby, Amal Hussein; MA in Comparative Literature; SAS; 1965-04-17; 201004839; Saab, Nada; Sadaka, George; Comparative Literature; Aghacy, Samira (2015-09-18)
    The aim of this thesis is to study the interplay of power relations, subjectivity, and resistance in The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997) and in two Lebanese novels, The Story of Zahra (1980) and The Locust and ...
  • Effect of Slc35b4 knockdown on total and O-glycosylated cellular proteins in HepG2 cell line. (c2012) 
    Antonios, Gregory; MS in Molecular Biology; SAS; 1987-03-31; 200904351; Yazbek, Soha; Tokajian, Sima; Biology; Wex, Brigitte (2015-09-18)
    Diabetes is considered a Non-Communicable Disease (NCD). Type II diabetes is caused by the lack of insulin production from liver beta cells in the aftermath of insulin resistance. Slc35b4 encodes a protein that transports ...
  • Context-aware and model-driven approach for embedding and verifying security into composed web services. (c2013) 
    Tout, Hanine Ahmad; MS in Computer Science; SAS; 1990-07-17; 201005231; Mansour, Nashat; Sharafeddine, Sanaa; Computer Science; Mourad, Azzam (2015-09-14)
    Today's process-oriented composition languages such as BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) offer a high level of abstraction and sophistication to Web services composition. However, such languages suffer serious ...
  • Social media and uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. (c2015) 
    Ghazzaoui, Sariah Mosbah; MA in International Affairs; SAS; 1990-10-13; 201105287; Salloukh, Bassel; Ammar, Diala; International Affairs; Ouaiss, Jennifer Skulte (2015-09-09)
    The year 2010 witnessed a major breakthrough in the Arab world, demonstrations unexpectedly filled the streets of Tunisia followed by Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya and Syria. In fact, many other countries of the Middle East ...

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