Life skills are the skills that are used in daily life in order for an individual to survive and interact appropriately and productively with the society and the environment. The purpose of this qualitative study is to find out what life skills are needed by low-skill workers in Lebanon in order to compile a list of life skills which can be used as a basis for a life skills curriculum adapted to the Lebanese culture and community for individuals with special needs. In order to achieve its objectives, the study employed a semi-structured interview with low-skill workers in Lebanon. The interview ...

Web services are form of middleware to exchange information between systems over a network. With the advent of the age of mobile devices and their diversity, the importance of web services became all the more apparent. Every web service grants certain functionality and can utilize other web services to gain more functionality and more robustness. Such a service that combines the functionality of other services is called a composite service and the process of designing such a service is called a composition. This thesis studies an on-the-fly algorithm that efficiently checks for the possibility ...

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 ...

Purpose: The Pharmaceutical industry in Lebanon, as in other countries worldwide, has been witnessing an exponential growth rate. Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives, being the backbone of the sales departments of Pharmaceutical firms, have been at the highlight of the critique of this study that is intended to examine the motivation factors that are the most influential to their job satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach: The study targeted Pharmacists working as Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives in Lebanon. With the support of the Syndicate of Pharmacists in Lebanon, electronic copies, ...

Purpose - In the current climate of grass-rooted revolutionary changes in the Middle East, uncontrolled dispersion and oppression of youth is still leading to drastic systematic changes in the world order. Today, youth are not only assets, but also considered as agents of change in the International community. As a result, youth need to be treated as a distinct socio-demographic group targeted by specific national policies. Design/methodology/approach - This work will target the integration of youth through a mixed research methodology which will include a combination of exploratory content ...

Preoccupied with the Arabic language’s complexity, and striving to find one common pointer of educational strength, this thesis, epistemological in its core, deals, manifestly with typographic issues. Nevertheless, it engages in the cultural, psychological, and neurological in order to serve the educational. It builds upon substantiated historical study of the genetic descent of the letters in general and the Arabic alphabet arbitrariness in particular with their respective cross-cultural interpretations along with related criticisms. From the naïve Cuneiform system of writing to the most elaborate ...

Anorexia Nervosa is a severe psychiatric disorder consisting of the maintenance of extremely low weight, restrictive eating habits, purging techniques, an immense fear of gaining weight, and a distorted body image. The feelings of dissatisfaction with bodily image is usually distorted from the ideal image and has a negative connotation. Women with Anorexia Nervosa not only have a distorted self-image but also may suffer from identity crisis/confusion as they live the dilemma of growing old versus staying young, and dependency versus independency as the process of identity formation majorly ...

Purpose - This research attempts to assess the perceived impact communication has on job prospects in Lebanon utilizing the theories of persuasive communication, heuristic-systematic processing, and halo effect. The topic is studied from both the job interviewer and the job interviewee's perspectives, for it focuses on communication during job interviews. Design/methodology/approach - Deductive in nature, this paper uses descriptive and inferential statistical methods. In order to collect data from both parties involved in job interviews, survey questionnaires targeting job interviewees are ...

This thesis explored women stereotyping in Lebanese TV commercials. Stereotyping concept was defined; international stereotypical images of women and global ads, global images were examined as well as the interpretation of Lebanese TV commercials in the literature review. In the theoretical framework, the Cultivation and the Social Expectation theories were drawn from the Mechanistic and Sociological framework of theories to best examine this subject. This thesis adopted the content analysis technique. Data were analyzed to verify the level to which women depicted in these TV commercials were ...

Purpose-Near Field Communication (NFC) is a new emerging technology with an approach to provide users with lots of new options with a simple, easy and fast way and which will make human life easier. This thesis aim to investigate the willingness of City Mall's customers to accept Near Field Communication (NFC) in the grocery store by exploring the key factors that affects their adoption decision. There are critical success factors that determine whether an adoption of such a technology will be in a successful matter. Design/methodology/approach -The research used a questionnaire to examine the ...