Purpose – Recently, classification of Arabic documents is a real problem for juridical centers. In this case, some of the Lebanese official journal documents are classified, and the center has to classify new documents based on these documents. This paper aims to study and explain the useful application of supervised learning method on Arabic texts using N-gram as an indexing method (n1⁄4 3). D...

STUDY POPULATION. Two sets of kindreds were studied. The first set included a 4-year-old boy and a 10-year-old sister born from consanguineous Lebanese parents with phenotypes characterized by recurrent respiratory infections and chronic cryptosporidial gastrointestinal infection and associated chronic cholangitis, biliary fibrosis, and cirrhosis. A second unrelated set included an 8-yearold bo...

Sjögren-Larsson syndrome (SLS) is an autosomal recessive neurocutaneous disorder most commonly seen in the Scandinavian population and characterized by congenital ichthyosis, mental retardation, and spastic diplegia or quadriplegia. We report a case of SLS in an 11-month-old girl of Lebanese and Mexican-Syrian ancestry who presented with ichthyosis, developmental delay, and spasticity. Results ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon President Amin Gemayel’s government scrap­ ped Lebanon’s troop withdrawal pact with Israel yesterday as part of a deal with Syria designed to end the Lebanese civil war. Gemayel held an emergency ses­ sion of his Council o f Ministers to announce abrogation of the U.S.mediated pact signed May 17. “The council has decided to cancel this. . . accord, consider it null and void and ...

This paper introduces an approach illustrating how the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) framework can be used in order to build a franco-lebanese observatory. We present the practical application of SWE services as a source of real-time observation data and the associated technical architecture for making near real-time observations available to end users on the Web....

CONTEXT Pain is a common complaint in oncology patients, and success in its treatment requires accurate assessment. Thus, assessment tools that are practical, culturally sensitive, and psychometrically sound are needed. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties and cultural sensitivity of the Arabic Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) in a Lebanese sample of canc...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of major depression is particularly high in medical students, affecting around one-third of this population. Moreover, online social media, in particular Facebook, is becoming an intrinsic part in the life of a growing proportion of individuals worldwide. OBJECTIVE Our primary objective is to identify the prevalence of depression in medical students at the Lebanese U...