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The effect of StarD13 on lung cancer proliferation, motility, and invasion. (c2018)

Rif, Rayane E. El (Lebanese American University, )

Lung cancer is the second most commonly occurring cancer among both men and women, leading to 26% of all cancer-related deaths. Smoking is the, by far, the leading cause of lung cancer, and cessation is the most effective ...

Cdc42 regulates migration, invadopodia formatio and invasion in glioblastoma cells. (c2018)

Masri, Zeinab S El (Lebanese American University, )

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is one of the most aggressive human cancers. It’s associated with poor prognosis and high mortality rate. Migration and invasion of glioblastoma multiforme into critical areas of the brain is ...

Epidemiological investigation of a foodborne outbreak in Lebanon caused by vibrio parahaemolyticus. (c2018)

Fattel, Leila F. (Lebanese American University, )

Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a halophilic, Gram-negative, marine bacterium. It is found inhabiting as part of the microbiota in aquatic animals, especially shellfish, and is non-pathogenic but can cause acute hepatopancreatic ...

Molecular characterization of carbapenem resistant klebsiella pneumoniae and klebsiella quasipneumoniae isolated from Lebanon. (c2018)

Arabaghian, Harout K. (Lebanese American University, )

Klebsiella pneumoniae is a Gram-negative rod, mostly known for causing nosocomial infections in the immunocompromised, the elderly, and the neonates. In the last decade, the emergence and spread of both extensively drug ...

Lactic acid is a novel antidepressant that mediates its effects by modulating the levels and activity of histone deacetylases (HDAC). (c2018)

Karnib, Nabil H. (Lebanese American University, )

Depression is one of the most common psychiatric disorders and a leading cause of disability worldwide. Environmental factors, such as chronic stress, can promote depression in some individuals, but have no effect in others. ...

Genome-scale analysis of s. aureus clinical isolates recovered from Lebanon. (c2018)

Panossian, Tina (Lebanese American University, )

The rising prevalence of multidrug resistant (MDR) Staphylococcus aureus is a worldwide threat. S. aureus is a Gram-positive bacterium that asymptomatically colonizes the nasal passages and the skin in 30% of the individuals. ...

STARD 13 in prostate cancer. (c2018)

Saab, Sahar S. (Lebanese American University, )

Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed solid organ tumor and one of the main leading causes of death – due to cancerous tumors- among men in the world. Malignancy of a tumor is characterized by the rapid and ...

The king and the general

Salloukh, Bassel Fawzi (McGill University, )

This study is a comparative analysis of the survival strategies of two regimes: Jordan''s King Hussein and Lebanon''s Fu''ad Shihab. It is an exploration of the domestic determinants of foreign policy behaviour, and the ...

Organizing politics in the Arab world

Saloukh, Bassel Fawzi (McGill University, )

Why do some regimes enjoy more autonomy than others when taking foreign policy and alignment choices? How does the organization of state-society relations constrain or enable a regime's freedom to take foreign policy and ...

Towards a national puppet centre for the Lebanon

Knio, Mona (University of Leeds, )

The impression that Arabs did not attempt to express themselves through the medium of dramatic arts till recently echoes a simultaneous conviction which prevailed concerning visual arts expression. Early in the second ...

The impact of a constructivist framework on preservice teachers' number sense concepts and their beliefs and attitudes about the teaching and learning of mathematics

Majdalani, Mona C. (Texas A&M University, )

This study was designed to investigate the conceptual understanding of number sense of preservice teachers as it relates to their self-efficacy beliefs and attitudes about the teaching and learning of mathematics within a ...

Personal, family and societal factors associated with Lebanese youth's attitudes toward the roles of women (Doctoral dissertation)

Hammoud, Hassan R.. (Case Western Reserve University, )

The purpose of this study was to investigate Lebanese youth''s attitudes toward the roles of women and to identify the factors associated with them. In view of the growing interest of both national and international ...

Higher education in lebanon: management styles in a system dominated by private institutes

Nauffal, Diane Issa (University of Birmingham, )

The social and economic development of a country and its competitiveness in changing international markets depends on the skills of its people achieved through education, particularly higher education. Institutes of higher ...

Privatization in developing countries a comparative case study of Middle East Airlines and Kenya Airways

Dakakni, Deema Talat (American University of Beirut, )

The aim of the thesis, then, is to discuss privatization as a tool of reform that would augment cost effectiveness, minimize bureaucratic fraudulence and enhance organizational productivity and performance. This thesis ...

The communicative, persuasive, and agitational aspects of revolutionary "terrorism" (Syria; Palestine; Lebanon; Armenia)

Mohsen, R.A. (Bowling Green State University, )

This study analyzes "terrorism" from a communicative perspective. It explores the communicative, persuasive, and agitational aspects of revolutionary "terrorism." Ultimately, it is an attempt to define "terrorism" as ...

Attitudes of Lebanese secondary school English teachers towards English language, English teaching, and American culture

Lufti Diab, Rula (Amercian University of Beirut, )

The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of the English teachers in the private English-medium secondary schools in Beirut towards the English language, English teaching, and (American) English culture. ...

Lebanese students' beliefs about learning English and French

Diab, R.L. (The University of Texas at Austin, )

The purpose of this study was to describe the beliefs about language learning of Lebanese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) university students, to investigate within group variation in these students'' beliefs, and to ...

Rfg1, a protein related to the hypoxic repressor Rox1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is a novel DNA binding repressor of filamentation in the pathogenic yeast, Candida albicans

Khalaf, Roy A. (State University of New York at Albany, )

I have identified a repressor of hyphal growth in the pathogenic yeast Candida albicans. C. albicans is a dimorphic yeast: it can grow as single cell blastopores in rich media, but under stressful environmental conditions ...

Méthodes de volumes finis pour les systèmes d’équations hyperboliques

Touma Rony (University of Montreal, )

Preparation, optimisation and characterisation of sequence selective compounds

Taleb, Robin Ishac (University of Western Sydney, )

DNA is the pharmacological target for most platinum drugs; however, the majority of these drugs show little or no specificity for particular base pairs. Considerable progress has been made in the design of sequence selective ...

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