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  • Technology and the current covid-19 
    Simonian, Roy (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2022)
    The world is witnessing nowadays a virus that spreads in a very fast manner and it has infected a large number of people. Countries rushed to find ways to stop this virus from spreading and to minimize the risks of getting infected. One of these ways was to integrate technology in people’s daily routine to help in containing the virus. In fact, although several countries took a lot of legal measurements and law enforcement to prevent the spread of the virus, such as wearing facial masks, social distancing, using sanitizers and other forms of hygiene supplements, there were always the need to ...
  • Towards a natural ventilation solution for highly contagious respiratory diseases: the case of emergency shelters in Lebanon 
    Kobersi, Lydia (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2021)
    The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic caused by highly contagious respiratory diseases brought about unprecedented crises across the world, and a housing crisis among others. Lebanon in particular, which is the context of this study, was heavily impacted by the pandemic, exacerbated by a pre-existing refugee crisis and by the Beirut Port explosion. This study aims to research the characteristics of an emergency shelter that mitigates the spread of contagious respiratory diseases in Lebanese urban areas as the latter are hubs of infectious diseases. In this context, the study researches the characteristics ...
  • Urban resilience to pandemics : a multi-faceted framework for cities resilience quantification 
    Salameh, Lourdes (Notre Dame University Louaize, 2020)
    The current coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19) affected 218 territories around the world, infected more than 60 million people, and killed more than one million. It is expected that the number of cases will continue to increase unless a vaccine becomes available to all countries. However, the coronavirus outbreak is much more than a health crisis. This pandemic poses numerous challenges on different sectors and exacerbates existing inequalities. COVID-19 exposed major problems with our cities and highlighted their limited resilience. In an ever-more interconnected world (social, environmental, ...