A minimal amount of research has been conducted on marital commitment and parenting styles. There has barely been any acknowledgment on the importance of one’s relationship on raising a child. Thus, the following study aims to examine the relationship between each of the indicators of commitment in Rusbult’s investment model of commitment (investment size, satisfaction, and quality of alternatives) and the parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive). Participants are married individuals of elementary and middle school aged children in Lebanon who have completed a socio-demographic ...

This article deals with the disabilities-employment nexus. Based on an empirical survey of employability of women with disabilities in the Italian province of South Tyrol in 1993, it provides both significant scientific results on the topic, as well as dealing with the theoretical weaknesses and gaps in social science research at the time in Central Europe. At the end of the 20th century, studies on disabilities largely ignored issues related to gender and sexuality. Inversely, work done in the fields of women’s, men’s and gender studies rarely dealt with the problems facing the ‘handicapped’, ...

There has been a cry and a struggle from the Nagas calling for a separate state for over 3 decades now, as it was evident and outlined in several academic articles, different types research, Naga authors and Indian local news1. There is a crisis in the Northeast, in particular, ‘Nagaland’, a crisis that calls for separation, a need for political attention and an expression of poor investments in social and economic infrastructures across Nagaland. Bearing in mind the political corruption that is situated across Nagaland diminishes all aspects or attempts of social, economic, and political ...

The study examined the impact of digital game based learning on math achievement and attitude in a public school setting in Mount Lebanon. The case study was conducted using a quasi-experimental research design to collect data using inferential and descriptive statistics to determine the effect of digital games based learning (DGBL) in middle school classes. Several research questions were raised about the effect of DGBL on middle school students’ attitude and achievement in mathematics. The study was conducted on 68 students. The Mathematics and Technology Attitude Scale (MTAS) was adapted and ...

With the rise of the Internet, recommender systems are becoming a used solution to solve the information overload problem. These systems are like any other system, subject to noise: malicious noise that is caused by attacks and natural noise that is due to the human error. Many detection algorithms solve the noise problem. However, since natural noise and serendipity overlap in their definition, removing noise results in removing serendipity. Serendipity that is the happy surprise of finding something relevant unexpectedly is important for the issue of over personalization caused by the recommender ...

Purpose -- The purpose of this paper is to explore the structure of switching costs in the Lebanese telecommunication market and investigate its impact on the customer retention taking into consideration the customer attributes that might impact these constructs. Design/methodology/approach -- A post- positivist philosophical position and a deductive reasoning approach were adopted through this research. A mixed method was implemented including a qualitative study using a semi-structured interview technique on one of the two telecommunication operators in Lebanon in order to facilitate a ...

Purpose –The purpose of this thesis is to assess employees’ engagement in the nursing and administrative departments at Albert Haykel Hospital. Design/methodology/approach –Deductive in nature, this thesis uses a questionnaire survey to examine the extent to which the elements of engagement vary with demographic variables of the respondents as well as the existence of a significant linear relationship between them. The analysis of any variation and relationship is manipulated through the use of descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Findings –The results of this study show a variation ...

Big data is an evolved term for large volume of unstructured, semi-structured and structured data having the potential to be used and mined for information in machine learning projects and other advanced analytics applications. Big data is the new driver of the world societal changes and economic. The world’s data collection is reaching a tipping point for major technological changes that can bring different ways in finance, decision-making, cities, managing our health, and education. Latest technological improvements in computing, data handling, data storage, and trading have transformed the ...

Purpose – This research attempts to unveil the plausible relations that may exist between internal strategic openness, perceived alignment, and engagement, as well as scrutinize how each may vary between employees of different demographic characteristics at microlevels of an organization. Design/methodology/approach – Employing a mixture of deductive and inductive reasoning approaches, this study poses six research questions and quantitatively tests twenty four hypotheses using a sample of 216 employees working in core banking functions at Bank of Beirut. Findings – The findings show that ...

The Republic of Korea sought to become an "advanced human rights country" by joining the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees in 1992. In addition, a provision for refugee recognition was established in the Immigration Act in 1993, and the refugee policy was implemented in earnest in 1994. However, contrary to the Korean government's expectation, criticism of the refugee policy continued on the inside and outside of the country, with the birth of the first Korean recognized refugee in 2001. Although the Korean government and the National ...