DSpace at NDU: Recent submissions

  • Dispute settlement process in WTO 
    Bechara, Claire Mansour (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2004)
    The power to settle international disputes with binding authority distinguishes the World Trade Organization from most other intergovernmental institutions. The Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes gives the WTO unprecedented power to resolve trade-related conflicts between nations and assign penalties and compensation to the parties involved. A Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) that consists of the WTO's General Council administers dispute settlement. The DSB has the authority to "establish panels, adopt panel and Appellate Body reports, maintain ...
  • Autonomous sensory meridian response: the phenomenon behind the tingling sensation 
    El Chaar, Antony (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2019)
    This thesis investigates why people watch Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response videos. To study this emerging phenomenon, the uses and gratifications theory was used and the survey method was applied. The questionnaire was posted on the web on ASMR forums and Facebook pages. 132 people participated in the survey - all of them reported to be ASMR experiencers. The questionnaire helped examine the needs for sexual pleasure, intimacy, affective and tension release. Overall, the results showed that most of the people do not watch ASMR videos for sexual pleasure or intimacy purposes but rather for ...
  • Transforming the Web into a database with XML 
    El Daccache, Walid (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2001)
    The World Wide Web is considered by far to be a simple and universal standard for exchanging information. This information that started to be manually composed and human readable, needed to grow more to reach dynamic composition and machine readability. Static web documents starved for a light breeze to release it from data and presentation mixture and lift it to a higher level of data representation and organization. XML "the extensible markup language'' as a standard of data representation on the web offered flexibility and simplicity in representing self describing electronic documents. This ...
  • Factors affecting the geographical distribution of commercial banks in Lebanon: an analysis of the need for further branch banking in Aley 
    Chammas, Ghada (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 1997)
    This research assesses the economic justification for establishing additional commercial bank branches in the Caza of Aley. The study is limited to the top-ten rating commercial banks in the country, which are determined according to specific criteria. The geographical centralization of commercial banks in beirut and its suburbs is evaluated given population and economic activity. Besides, factors encouraging the geographical spreading of economic activity over the Lebanese territory are considered. As to the economic potential of Aley, it is analyzed in light of the return of the displaced and ...
  • Distributed architectures and Web services: using .NET platform for building an e-commerce application 
    Jurascovitch, Elie M. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2002)
    The purpose of this thesis is to study distributed applications in the context of heterogeneous clients (Web browser, mobile) and business-to-business (B2B) integration. Two distributed architectures, leaders of the distributed applications market are presented and compared: Microsoft's .NET, and Sun's Java Enterprise Java Beans (J2EE). After this comparative study, we chose .NET to develop an e- commerce application (Jurasco Style electronic shop) in order to outline the major application architectural issues and solutions offered by .NET technology. Our study also shows how the .NET Jurasco ...
  • International cooperation for road safety 
    Akl, Ziad Mikhael (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2003)
  • "Web Rings" and Tree structures on the web 
    Mouawad, Maurice T. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2001-06)
    The web is a vast source of information. However, due to the divisiveness and unlikeness of web pages' contents, this information is covered in the chaotic structure of the World Wide Web. At the same time, with the spread of web access, search engines are being, if not the sole utility, one of the most mechanisms used by the increasing number of users, to find interesting information. We are interested in identifying how pieces of information represented by URL pages, sharing common topics, are related as they are represented on the web. One such problem is studying patterns of occurrences of ...
  • Globalization and its effects on Lebanon 
    Khoury, Marie Helen (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2002)
    This thesis critically evaluates the impact of globalization on different issue areas in the world. It is intended to present a picture of the outcome of the globalization process from the perspectives of the developed and developing countries. It starts with a historical background on globalization, a definition of globalization, and a discussion of its main features and aspects. These aspects are: economic, financial, and environmental. One major focus of this study is on the latest financial turmoil that hit East Asia in the 1990s. The effects of volatile capital flows and the negative ...
  • Association rule mining using vertical apriori 
    Dhaini, Bassel H. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2004)
    The aim of data mining as a scientific research is developing methods to analyze large amounts of data in order to discover interesting regularities or exceptions. Typical problems, which should be resolved during developing effective data mining algorithms, arise from the large sizes of both: The data sets used in the data mining process and the patterns results sets (for example in rules) which form discovered knowledge. Scientific researchers are oriented to find the most advantageous (i.e. most effective) solutions both during the data preparation stage and exploration and finally post- ...
  • A test-bed for linear time, constant space differencing algorithms 
    Mouawad, Pauline (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2004)
    This thesis is motivated by the latest work related to differential compression algorithms as it appears in the work of Ajtai, et al. - 2002. In particular, we pay special attention to delta encoding algorithms that achieve got compression in linear time and constant space. This is important because previous work in this area uses either quadratic time and constant space or linear time and linear space, which is unacceptable for large inputs. In delta encoding, the algorithm reads two different copies of the same file as input, termed the reference copy and the version copy. The output of the ...
  • Identity based change represented in the three domain model : an efficient system for modelling real world phenomena 
    Wakim, Tony H. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2000)
    Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have gone a great way since it has started as a science. GIS is making headlines in a number of disciplines and, through its advancement, has improved our ability to model our real world. In the past years the need to support the storage and retrieval of dynamic changes, which occur to our data, has increased which consequently led to the interest in spatio-temporal behavior in GIS. These years have also seen the birth of several spatio-temporal data Models, whose aim is to support this spatio-temporal behavior. The main aim behind Spatio-Temporal support is ...
  • On integrating Kalman filters with partial resequencing for real-time tracking systems 
    Yazbeck, Khalil Nazih (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2001)
    This thesis deals with the communication network performance of the Automatic Vehicle Location (AVL) distributed database system. The Automatic Vehicle Location system is used to real-time track the movement of vehicles, traveling along a large geographical area. The full control of the movement of these vehicles requires the use of many communication systems such as Global Positioning system, Packet switching network and distributed database systems including vehicle position databases. The main goal of this thesis is to minimize the update response time in a real-time fully replicated distributed ...
  • A comparison of ATM service categories with a modification of the ABR control scheme 
    Shammas, Shady J. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 1999)
    Over the last few years, LAN technologies have been driven by the need to support an increasing number of users as well as bandwidth intensive applications. As new and existing network applications evolve to embrace high-resolution graphics, video and other rich media types, pressure is growing at the desktop, the server, the hub and the switch for increased bandwidth. All this has led to new network protocols needed to support the amount of information required. In this thesis, we will briefly review conventional networking protocols and internetworking devices. Then we present a table comparing ...
  • The impact of loan diversification on bank performance : evidence from MENA countries commercial banks 
    Aoun, Samer (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2018)
    Purpose – The purpose of this thesis was to investigate empirically whether sectoral and geographical diversification has an impact on bank performance in the MENA region. Design/methodology/approach – Sprouting from a positivist approach, the study encompassed 35 listed commercial banks from 11 countries in the MENA region during 2009-2015. Multiple regression on a balanced panel was used as the parametrical tool to test the impact of diversification on banks' risk and return in the MENA region. The consolidated sample of banks was divided also into 3 sub-samples to achieve homogeneity. ...
  • Application of lean management in Lebanese pharmaceutical companies 
    Baroud, Juliette (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2018)
    Purpose - The purpose of this research is to study the impact that the adoption of Lean manufacturing principles has on operational performance in Lebanese pharmaceutical industries, while taking into account the employees' characteristics that might affect the constructs. Design/methodology/approach - The philosophical position that was adopted in this research is the post-positivist approach. Moreover, the deductive reasoning was used throughout the paper. A quantitative method was implemented using a questionnaire that targeted some Lebanese pharmaceutical companies. Findings - The perception ...
  • Economic feasibility study of recycling empty metallic food containers in Lebanese industry 
    Jabbour, Nadine (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 1996)
  • Reducing power consumption in wireless sensors networks 
    Azar, Edgard (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2004)
    The emerging field of wireless sensor networks combines sensing, computation, and communication into a single tiny device. Through advanced mesh networking protocols, these devices form a sea of connectivity that uses any possible communication path by hopping data from one node to another in search of its destination. While the capabilities of any single device are minimal, the collection of hundreds of sensors offers major new technological possibilities. Examples of usage scenarios for these devices are real-time tracking and security monitoring, issues that will be studied in this thesis. ...
  • End-user satisfaction of EDP in the Lebanese commercial banks 
    El Jamal, Wassim Mohammad Issam (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 1994-11)
  • Optimization of IP Multicast Networks performance 
    Samia, Mireille I. (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2001-06)
    Internet Multicast service extends the Internet point-to-point unicast delivery to a multi-point delivery. Multicasting means that a datagram is sent to multiple sites at more or less the same time. To support real-time multimedia, the minimization of delay without loosing the reliability of the network is required. To achieve this goal, we have proposed to change the architecture of a multicast one-stage network to a multicast hierarchical two-stage network. We have proved that by giving additional functionalities (such as back-up and error correction) to the intermediate sites (i.e. mrouters) ...
  • Syrian refugees' impact on the Lebanese economy : an expert view 
    Issa, Carla Pierre (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2018)
    Purpose: The purpose of the study is to gauge the Lebanese experts' perceptions with regard to the Syrian refugees' impact on the Lebanese economy and to extract accordingly appropriate suggestions for the purpose of managing the expatriates' presence effectively. Design/Methodology/Approach: The research is qualitative and mostly inductive in nature; it uses thirty semi-structured interviews, emerging from the service, public and manufacturing sector and analyzes them in a thematic framework to unfold the Lebanese experts' perception of Syrian refugees' impact on the economy. Findings: Results ...