Lebanese Women Witness to War

Did the post war repatriation of Lebanese physicians drive recent Lebanese medical graduates to emigrate? An observational study

BACKGROUND A significant number of Lebanese medical graduates have emigrated from Lebanon. The objective of this study was to evaluate the hypothesis that the repatriation of Lebanese physicians educated abroad has contributed to the international emigration of recent Lebanese medical graduates. METHODS We analyzed the demographic and educational characteristics and the year of registration o...

Women ’ s Work after War

In the more than 30 years following the all-volunteer force (AVF), the proportion of women serving in the military has increased from 1.8 percent just before the AVF to 14.2 percent in 2008. The majority of women do not stay in the military for a 20-year or longer career; like men, most women only serve a few years before transitioning to the civilian workforce. Although the fraction of the mil...

Lebanese women understanding of their sexuality: A qualitative inquiry

Patterns and determinants of mammography screening in Lebanese women

The associations of ever using and/or repeating a mammography test with psychosocial and socio-demographic factors were surveyed in 2014 among Lebanese women ≥ 40. A sample of 2400 women was selected across Lebanon. Variables with significant bivariate associations with various types of behaviors were entered in multivariate analysis. Of the total, 105 women (4·4%) had never heard of mammograph...

Counterexamples to witness conjectures

Consider the class of exp-log constants, which is constructed from the integers using the field operations, exponentiation and logarithm. Let z be such an exp-log constant and let n be its size as an expression. Witness conjectures attempt to give bounds $(n) for the number of decimal digits which need to be evaluated in order to test whether z equals zero. For this purpose, it is convenient to...