DSpace Repository
The Notre Dame University-Louaize Institutional Repository, known as DSpace, is a digital archive of the university's intellectual output accessible to others worldwide over the Internet. The institutional Repository contains a collection of research and publications written by academic authors, students, staff, alumni and research groups that have sufficient quality to be collected and preserved by the Library but which are not controlled by commercial publishers.
Notre Dame University members are eligible to engage in self-archiving of their digitally-born materials within the institutional repository. For self-archiving please review the
Guidelines,
Thesis Submission
and the
Submission Guidelines pages.
OR, you can email the publications you would like to add to:
specialcollections@ndu.edu.lb
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Al Khoury, Elise
(Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2023-05)
This thesis examines the influence of governmental incapacity on the rise of environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Lebanon, with a particular focus on the case study of the Lebanon Reforestation Initiative (LRI). The research sheds light on the limitations faced by the government in effectively addressing environmental challenges, and how these limitations have contributed to the emergence and growth of NGOs as crucial actors in the environmental sector.
Through a comprehensive analysis of the powers and capabilities of the Ministry-related governmental bodies, this study ...
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Al Bouna, Jennifer
(Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2023-12)
Pesticides are crucial tools in modern agriculture, contributing to increased crop yields and food security. However, a growing concern worldwide has been drawn due to potential risks associated with pesticide residues found in food commodities. Therefore, it is of paramount importance to understand the occurrence of pesticides in food commodities in the Arab and Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions. This systematic review investigated the presence of pesticide residues in these regions gathering insights from 137 studies done in 22 countries in the Arab and MENA regions. Due to their ...
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Koutia, Sarah
(Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2015)
In an increasingly globalized world, individuals need to be better prepared for the interconnectedness of different cultures. More successful intercultural exchanges call for a developed Intercultural Sensitivity. Intercultural Sensitivity is necessary to understand cultural differences and barriers without assigning them negative values. The purpose of this study was to see if exposure to other cultures affected Intercultural Sensitivity amongst students boarding at the University Housing of a local Catholic university in Keserwen, Lebanon. The groups compared were Lebanese students who studied ...
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Mallah, Najwa
(Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2016)
This research evaluates websites of some of Lebanon's universities
through the lens of usability. Two usability tests, analytical and empirical, were used to explore the usability of websites of nine selected Lebanese universities. The analytical evaluation consisted of a heuristic testing, relying on Nielsen's ten guidelines. The empirical evaluation relied on user testing, using tasks’ performance and questionnaires. The results of the evaluation showed a low usability level on the selected websites. The test results may serve as suggestions and directions for the re-design of university ...
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Abi Nasr, Krystel I.
(Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2008)
Beyond a shadow of a doubt, the most successful economic sector in Lebanon is the banking sector. This latter has proved, over the years, its ability to absorb the economic shocks caused by local and regional disturbance. The Lebanese banks’ capacity is much larger than the internal Lebanese market needs. Consequently, the need for Lebanese banks to expand abroad is becoming more and more an obligation.
As for Byblos Bank sal, it has been introduced to Djibouti for the financing of a water project by one of the bank’s African client Mr. Yves. This memoir is not just a copy of the Bank’s project; ...
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