This study aims to answer the following question: what is the economic impact of smoking ban in public places on restaurants and bars in Lebanon? This question is answered through analyzing the primary data collected from a survey conducted with a simple random sample of 194 Lebanese citizens above 18 years old. SPSS statistical package was used to conduct a descriptive statistical analysis including cross tabulation. As a conclusion, the main results showed that smoking ban will have a positive economic effect on restaurants and bars (i.e. an increase in their revenues due to the increase in ...

Administration of access control was and still is a crucial, critical and complex aspect of Security Administration. Many models were developed and used to effect this administration such as Mandatory access Control (MAC), Discretionary Access Control (DAC) and Role Base access Control. the latter, RBAC which is a flexible and policy-independent access control, represents a natural structure of an organization where functions are grouped into roles and users are permitted to one or more of these roles. In large organizations with relatively large systems, with hundreds of roles and users and ...

The 2002 presidential decree on technology integration into Cameroonian schools has been poorly implemented because the decision was not guided by clear vision, policy or implementation plan. The twofold purpose of this research was to investigate the degree of readiness of private secondary schools in the North West Region for technology integration and to make recommendations for effective take-off of the innovation. Descriptive survey design was utilized in three purposively sampled schools to investigate the influence of vision and mission statements, professional development and infrastructure ...

This research project deals with foreign direct investment (FDI) trying to identify its antecedents and its consequences. The project starts by a historical review and an examination of past studies to situate the study better. A rather new statistical technique (Recursive System) was used to try and find the statistically significant variables affecting FDI. The researcher reached interesting results in his study by finding that political stability and government incentives together affect positively FDI and both of them affect economic performance independently and via FDI.

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to explore the factors that influence the Lebanese consumers' perception regarding the c-banking services and to segment and profile the users using the retrieved factors. Design/methodology/approach – A post-positivist epistemology and a deductive reasoning approach were adopted in this research. An online survey was administrated and 323 responses were collected. A factor analysis, regression analysis tests, non-parametric tests and a cluster analysis test were performed using Excel, SPSS, and EViews. Findings – The qualitative findings of this ...

The thesis studies the directions, trends, and prospects of trade among the Middle Eastern Arab countries between the years 1990 and 2004. For analytical purposes the Arab region is divided into three sub-regions: the Levant states, the gulf Cooperation Council states, and North African Arab states. Improving economic performance in the Arab countries is seen, at the moment, more critical than ever, since the region faces high population growth rates, rising unemployment, and modest economic growth coupled with increasingly intense competition from emerging markets in Europe, America, and asia. ...

With the beginning of the new millennium and after witnessing the globalization era, we cannot but continuously look and identify opportunities to ensure product continuation. The market is becoming more and more competitive especially that consumers are becoming more knowledgeable about what they purchase and what they consume. Moreover, with all the economic challenges Lebanon is facing, the consumers are becoming demanding regarding each and every product in the market. The purchasing decision for many consumers is not based on the brand name anymore but rather its affordability. the amount ...

In this thesis, we demonstrate how developers can make use of the model driven architecture (MDA) techniques to make the software development process more reliable, robust and less costly. We will focus on discussing a set of transformation techniques that together, transform a PSM (Platform Specific Model) into a code model written in Visual Basic.NET and an ER (Entity Relationship) model developed using SQL (Structured query Language) and targeting the Microsoft SQL Server relational database management system. The source model is assumed to be represented using UML (Unified Modeling Language). ...

Mining association rules has been an important topic in data mining research in recent years from the standpoint of supporting human-centered discovery of knowledge. The present day model of mining association rules suffers from the following shortcomings: (i) lack of user exploration and control, (ii) lack of focus, (iii) huge number of rules technically unreadable. All data mining researchers, have given a high importance on developing fast algorithms for rules discovery, and have applied different types of constraints in different algorithms to prune item sets, that do not occur frequently ...

This study reviews the extent of the fame of the cedars of Lebanon. The cedars are revealed as a natural wealth, their present state and number is brought into view, their bibical fame is exhibited, and their worldwide fame is investigated. Thus, two objectives are pursued: the evaluation of the volume of tourism business in the hotels in the Cedars area, and the appraisal of the extent of the contribution of the fame of the cedars to the hotels in the Cedars area. The tourism business in the hotels in the Cedars area has been, throughout the early 1990s, mainly generated during both, the Winter ...