Shopping through Instagram has recently become a trend in the Lebanese market lately with hundreds of Instagram pages dedicated to selling goods and having them delivered to consumers' addresses. The purpose of this study is to analyze this new trend and find out if it is taking over the traditional online shopping through regular retail websites. One of the objectives of this thesis is to fill the gap of previous literature that did not provide an in depth investigation of the Instagram shopping trend in Lebanon. The theories that will frame the study are the shopping preference theory, which ...

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 ...

Social media has played a key role in the rise of extremism. Extremists took advantage of these open and free platforms to promote their propaganda. At the same time, this was an opportunity for governments, religious institutions and civil society to create counter extremism narrative. Based on the framing theory, this study examines the way in which Sawab, Al-Azhar Observatory, and Taadudiya Facebook pages present their narratives, with the aim of developing characteristics for each of the narratives. This study adopts a quantitative research methodology through the content analysis of ...

The global Internet has experienced many years of sustained exponential growth doubling in size every nine months or faster [8]. Millions of users at tens of thousands of sites around the world depend on the global Internet as part of their daily work environment. This massive use of the Internet as well as the continuous interconnection of new groups arises many problems such as: packet loss, network congestion, insufficient bandwidth, increase in delay... In this thesis, we focus mainly on the problem of communication delay and bandwidth allocation. Our main goal is to find a way to minimize ...

In this thesis, automatic segmentation of liver veins from ultrasound slices is implemented and further rendered into 3D image to assist the medical doctor to more accurately apply any study intended on the liver. The main part of this study is the texture analysis since it is the hardest problem in common. As a start, 4 different techniques in texture analysis have been introduced, the Spatial Gray-level Dependence Matrices (SGLDM), The Fourier Power Spectrum (FPS), The Gray- Level Difference Statistics (GLD), and Law's Texture Energy Measure (TEM). Each of these methods have been discussed ...

With a shift in the Lebanese music industry with an emphasis on the physical appearance of the artists, the body perceptions and satisfactions of a Lebanese audience are affected by the way the media portray artists in contemporary Lebanese music videos. The past of Arab music was one filled with "art", "enchantment", and "ecstasy"(Hammond, 2005). Female artists or singers were deemed talented for their exceptional vocals and their abilities to grab the audiences' attention. In fact, Racy (2003) expressed how the period of classical Arab music, which lasted between the 50's and 70's, was ...

The banking sector in Lebanon has survived bravely despite the fact that it has been seriously and unexpectedly shaken several times in the past few years. This study identifies and clusters 53 out of 72 Lebanese Commercial Banks into groups containing similar and homogeneous characteristics, and measures the direct and indirect effects of capital and assets/equity ratios on profit for 100 Arab banks. Its purpose is to analyze, design, implement, and establish a consistent framework of analysis of bank data. To reach this purpose, the researcher uses cross-sectional secondary data to answer ...

The study of the relationship between population growth and human development in Lebanon for the period between 1990 and 1997, is divided into two major parts. First, I studied the relationship between population growth and each of the four components of HDI; education, health, revenue, and freedom. The analysis showed that the relationship between population growth and education; mainly adult literacy and school enrollment, for the sample data under study remains inconclusive. According to health; calculated as the average between crude birth rate, infant mortality rate, and crude death rate, ...