Raymond depardon andthatphotograph, beirut 1978

American University of Beirut

Oracles used for testing graphical user interface (GUI) programs are required to take into consideration complicating factors such as variations in screen resolution or color scheme when comparing observed GUI elements to expected GUI elements. Researchers proposed fuzzy comparison rules and computationally expensive image processing techniques to tame the comparison process since otherwise the...

Raymond Hu

American University of Beirut

Placing a certain number of sinks at appropriate locations in WSNs reduces the number of hops between a sensor and its sink resulting in less exchanged messages between nodes and consequently less energy consumption. Since finding the optimal number of the sinks to be added and their locations is an NP Hard problem, we propose in this paper, a topological level solution that uses a meta-heurist...

The Reconstructions of Beirut

Beirut has successively been seen as the icon of the war-destroyed city, the paradigmatic case of “urbicide” and then as the symbol of a city rebirth through the reconstruction of its city center, praised in real estate journals and sold as a booming touristic destination to natives of the Arabo-Persian Gulf. Both images place Beirut as a city out of compare, out of norm, defining it as a uniqu...

Raymond Edward Ryckman

He studied the ecology of Trypanosoma cruzi, triatomine insects, and the insect hosts throughout the southwestern United States. His career capstone was publication of bibliographies " concerned with the world literature to the Triatominae and Triatominae-borne pathogens and clinical Chagas disease. " Who Is This Person? Decide first. Then turn the page.