The Purpose of this study is to identify the relationship between the factors of alumni engagement and how the level of engagement will affect alumni donations in Notre Dame University Louaize. Thus enabling Lebanese universities, especially Notre Dame University- Louaize to better understand the alumni community, and hence cater to their needs through creating strategies that take the factors into consideration. The research design adopted a quantitative deductive approach and the results obtained, were through the data collected using statistical techniques. The sample was selected using a ...

Adults aged between 15 and 29 years old usually migrate from rural to urban areas because of the educational gap between their villages and the cites (CDR, 2016). This study examines the portrayal of this phenomenon of migration from urban to rural areas in televised series. It compares the empowerment that Carine Rizkallah, writer and lead woman character in “Albi Dak” series, demonstrated in the series to the lives of women in real life, and whether or not that empowerment portrays reality. In order to direct the thesis statement, this study conducts some research on a few subjects: Cultural ...

By 2005, ITec had 51 employees and was on track to make 2$ million in sales for the year with a firm projected forecast for the coming years. ITec margin were on average, 30 percent of sales. The company was well established in Lebanon and had some customers in the Gulf region. ITec main business was ERP Implementation, business consultancy, process reengineering and project management. This type of business is Human capital intensive; resources and experience were the main assets. The company's yearlong development effort has been extremely successful and growth was more than expected. By the ...

This study is a first of its kind attempt to integrate the questions of gender and youth into the debate on good governance in the extractive industries sector in the Middle East. This intersectional and diversity management-based approach is already being applied to other sectors of society as we reach the end of the climactic year 2021. We see this research as a contribution to the improvement of the living conditions for everyone in our crisis-ridden part of the world. The main message of this study remains relevant in particular when it comes to good governance and policies even under ...

Purpose – The purpose of the study is to investigate the differences and similarities that may exist between female and male principals’ leadership styles in Catholic schools in South Lebanon. Design/methodology/approach – This study used the mixed methods design. More specifically, the study adopted the Explanatory Sequential Design and worked with primary data. It started by collecting and analyzing quantitative data through a surveybased questionnaire, then collected and analyzed the qualitative data through two focus groups. In the first phase, the deductive approach, with a ...

Purpose-Telecommunications, today, is considered an essential catalyst for economic growth. It has entered a new age of development and increased competition wi th established players. The purpose of this study is to use a sophisticated model to measure the efficiency and productivity of 16 mobile operators in the Middle East market during 2011. Design/methodology/approach-To measure relative efficiency, the study applies the partial factor productivity (PFP) and three data envelopment analysis (DEA) models, the CCR, BCC, and A&P models. The efficiency scores obtained from the PFP and the DEA ...

This study is focused on the application of the monetary policy instruments in Lebanon throughout the 1993-2002 period and their impact on the Lebanese economy, namely the business cycle. Theoretically, we survey the techniques of monetary control and identify the process whereby these techniques might affect the macroeconomic behavior. Theories of how to conduct the monetary policy view the latter as an economic instrument which uses money supply and interest rates as intermediate objectives to help achieve a healthy business cycle-growth in output, low unemployment and low inflation. ...

The purpose of this study is to prove that social media posts and groups and their usage have a direct effect on men Basketball athletes in Lebanon such as affecting the performance of a player, ruining the image of a player, and bringing to public personal problems and issues so on and so forth. The social media communication will be studied in the perspective of the Uses and Gratification theory in understanding the reasons why people use these platforms. Also, these particular platforms will be investigated in relation to the concept of a Public Sphere theory, since most Lebanese ...

This project presents the study of environmental and economic benefits of recycling dead lead-acid batteries. Its first objective is to examine the impacts of recycling on resource recovery, physical environment and health. The second objective is to examine the impacts of recycling on employment, foreign exchange earnings or savings, price of lead, and profit.

The norm of self-defense in international law is so determinedly an inherent right that its precise meaning and justifications are rarely examined. Whatever the general merits of the norm, its retention seems fairly open to question when one sovereign state appears supremely unsecured facing a threat in terms of actual armed attack or imminent threat. This thesis studies the term and the case of a theoretical defense of the norm within the context of the state's use of force in pre-emptive self-defense - anticipatory self-defense. If a defense can be made when the supreme state's self-preservation ...