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  • Abboud, Wissam R. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2018)
    As a classical musician who has played in the styles of twentieth century popular music, I developed an interest in studying and analyzing popular music, particularly Heavy Metal music. This study focuses on Heavy Metal's musical language of the period between the early 1970s and mid-1980s, including bands such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Judas Priest, and Iron Maiden. It covers the historical background of the style, then analyzes extensively the harmonic structures of the genre and examines the form, rhythm, and melodies using statistical data from a corpus selection of Heavy ...
  • Malkoun, Marwan (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2020-09)
    The Dark Ages, a period stretching from 400 thousand years to 400 million years after the big bang, is the least known era in the evolution of our universe, as no visible light was emitted. However, another type of radiation was available, the Hydrogen 21cm. It reaches us at frequencies between 1.5 and 30MHz. The ideal way to detect it, involves antennas placed in a fixed orbit around the dark side of the moon where it is shielded from electromagnetic interference emitted from earth.
  • Hamdan, Ali (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021-03)
    Beirut is a collage of urban styles due to the influence of Memluki, Ottoman, and the French mandate on its urban development. Beirut Digital District (BDD) is a unique cluster of innovation and entrepreneurship dedicated to creating a hub for the digital and creative community in Lebanon. The purpose of this study is to unravel the identity of BDD through a detailed reading and analysis of its multi-layered built environment. Flânerie and military urbanism theories are used to investigate the urban dress of BDD. Using the qualitative research method, in-depth interviews with 27 authors, ...
  • Ghabris, Mohamed K. (Notre Dame University-Louaize., 2019-07-24)
    There has been a cry and a struggle from the Nagas calling for a separate state for over 3 decades now, as it was evident and outlined in several academic articles, different types research, Naga authors and Indian local news1. There is a crisis in the Northeast, in particular, ‘Nagaland’, a crisis that calls for separation, a need for political attention and an expression of poor investments in social and economic infrastructures across Nagaland. Bearing in mind the political corruption that is situated across Nagaland diminishes all aspects or attempts of social, economic, and political ...
  • Keyrouz, Anthony Hany (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2014)
    Purpose: Exploring the perception of the Lebanese experts concerning the need and importance of the renewable energy in Lebanon, with a focus on the Lebanese electricity sector. It aims at assessing the extent to which renewable energy such as wind, solar and hydro power is needed in Lebanon and its impact on alleviating the existing electricity crisis in the country. Design/methodology/approach: This study is an exploratory research. The secondary research was performed and the results are presented in two sections under the literature review chapter, describing several opinions and arguments ...
  • Frem, Francis (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2015)
    Scholars have been increasingly concerned with portrayals of terrorism in mainstream and alternative media outlets. Although terrorism had previously received some scholarly attention, the political and policy ramifications of September 11 and subsequent terrorist threats or attacks on the European Union, the United States and the Middle East have prompted an even more immediate and voluminous response from scholars. Communication researchers have since focused on public response and reaction to terrorist attacks, definitions of terrorism, policy questions, media portrayals of terrorism, and ...
  • Saliba, Charbel (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2022-07)
    This research aims to validate the viability of implementing NFT mechanics in a video game. It discusses the blockchain technology’s limitations, as well as the many restrictions that NFT forces on game developers. Be it their immutable nature, their high minting cost, or their incapacity of holding big data. It also highlights the restrictions that prevent the interoperability of game assets, and finally, the ludicrous Play-to-earn business model. Two games are also developed, Crypto Forgers and Crypto Run, to further validate the findings presented by this research. While these two games are ...
  • Beurklian Kouyoumdjian, Lena (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2016)
    Linguists, grammarians and professors seek to come to an apt and final approach to grammar teaching to Foreign Language learners. Studies about language acquisition investigate the non-referential it in the theoretical framework of the pro-drop parameter and researchers limit the findings that deal with the non-referential it strictly to the English language. The specific problem this study addresses is how to accommodate the needs of implicit or explicit instruction of grammar of established grammatical approaches to the needs of French L2 students learning intermediate level English as a third ...
  • Semaan, Georgio (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021-05)
    In recent times, a new technology – Blockchain was brought forward to the global society. The world is using the term ‘Blockchain technology’ to signify diverse things such as the Bitcoin Blockchain, virtual currencies like Cardano and XRP, and smart contracts. Blockchain-based applications are springing up, covering several fields comprising financial services, reputation system and Internet of Things (IoT), and so on. Generally, Blockchain is implicit to be distributed ledgers that is a list of transactions verified and stored into blocks and shared among a number of computer nodes in a ...
  • Doumit, Jacqueline; Nasser, Ramzi (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017-09-29)
    Purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess nutrient intakes in elderly living in Lebanese nursing homes (NHs). Design/methodology/approach: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 36 long-term care institutions from all over Lebanon. Out of 2,094 residents, 98 (69 women and 29 men) elderly met the inclusion criteria and successfully completed the interview question. Dietary food intake was assessed using the 24-h food recall. The analysis used a Chi-square test and independent samples t-test or Mann–Whitney test, as appropriate. Findings: A high percentage of elderly ...
  • Bedran, Priscilla (Notre Dame University-Louaize., 2019)
    Lebanese bread is a staple food consumed with every meal and great vehicle for a range of nutrients. Nowadays, manufacturers use nutrition and health claims (NHC) to communicate the nutrients contents and benefits of the food while increasing sale and competitiveness. In absence of stringent standards regulations and control, misleading claims could jeopardize consumers’ public health. The aim of this study was to examine pre-packaged Lebanese breads in Mount Lebanon, to assess their compliance with the Lebanese (LIBNOR NL 661:2017) and/or international standard CODEX (CAC/GL 23-1997) to carry ...
  • Doumit, Jacqueline H; Nasser, Ramzi N; Hanna, Dimitri R (BioMed Central, 2014-06-20)
    Background: This study described the differences between elderly men and women living in Lebanese long-term care nursing homes on socio-economic, health and nutritional status. Methods: This study used a cross-sectional design. Field researchers obtained data from 221 residents; 148 (67%) women and 73 (33%) men, living in 36 nursing homes. Data on health conditions; nutritional, psychological, and functional status; socio-demographic characteristics, as well as social relations were collected. The analysis used both chi-square and t-test tests. Results: The majority of elderly had low ...
  • Ibrahim, Maryta (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021)
    Background: Constitutional thinness is characterized by a low body mass index, the absence of signs of under nutrition and is still misdiagnosed as anorexia nervosa. This rare entity was most often described in European countries. Data concerning their nutritional and psychological profile are missing in other populations or cultures, especially in the Middle East. Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the psychological, nutritional, and hormonal status in a group of Lebanese constitutionally thin adults in comparison with a control group. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried ...
  • Doumit, Pamela Badawi (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2013)
    It was Obama's 2008 brilliant campaign that shed light on the meaning and importance of a consistent political marketing campaign. It proved to have significant effects on people's voting behavior and it inspired many individuals including the author of this study who accordingly sought out answers on one main question: How can Lebanese political entities use the political marketing lessons developed from Obama's 2008 campaign and apply them in the Lebanese Context? The author conducted several interviews and examined various literatures to collect the necessary data and then interpreted them ...
  • Maatouk, Samar (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2023-05)
    This thesis examines visual comfort of existing buildings in densely populated residential neighborhoods of Mar Mikhael, in specific those built between 1951 and 1964 (which constitute the largest number). Visual comfort is one of the most overlooked aspects while designing residential buildings, even though it promotes a user’s circadian rhythm (a 24-hour cycle that optimizes a body’s processes) and health. Thus, there is a lot of room for improvement in the design of facades because opening positioning, window to wall ratio, shape, and shading, have a major role to play in occupant ...
  • Khalil, Dalal (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2022)
    In light of the influence of fake news on the Lebanese revolution that was ignited on the 17th of October 2019, this research paper examines how Notre Dame University (NDU) students reacted, assessed and were affected by false information. Four focus groups were conducted with 24 NDU students from different faculties and majors to gather valuable results. To answer this study’s five questions and look deeper into the youth’s behavior, comprehension, and evaluation of fake news spread on social media, the researcher adopted the Uses and Gratifications Theory (UGT) developed by Katz in 1959. The ...
  • Basbous, Nayla Bassil (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2008)
  • Al Rassi, Michel (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2010)
    "Olive Oil" Where does it come from? What is its origin, history, benefits, potential growth etc...? All of these are questions asked and answered within the thesis. We are mainly here to discuss such a topic not only to explain to people about olive oil and give them information or extra data. We are here to expand a small family business, to improve it and try lunching it internationally. In addition, this thesis is to give our small family business all the data needed for expanding such business and will be kept as a reference that must be helping in the near future. More than that, this ...
  • Karam, Rita (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2002)
    This thesis discusses Artificial Economy with applications to Reinforcement Learning. It focuses first on Reinforcement Learning, comparing it to other types of learning such as Supervised Learning. It then covers a historical overview of the field and summarizes the current works. The work described in this thesis has a psychological approach as we focus on reward and punishment. We experiment Artificial Economy with a prototype which solves the Blocks World problem. We then show how the Artificial Economy approach can be integrated with other concepts of Reinforcement Learning techniques.
  • Yazbeck, Khalil Nazih (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2001)
    This thesis deals with the communication network performance of the Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) distributed database system. The Automatic Vehicle Location system is used to real-time track the movement of vehicles, traveling along a large geographical area. The full control of the movement of these vehicles requires the use of many communication systems such as Global Positioning system, Packet switching network and distributed database systems including vehicle position databases. The main goal of this thesis is to minimize the update response time in a real-time fully replicated distributed ...