BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to conduct an audit of point-of-sale (POS) tobacco advertising and assess compliance with an advertising ban in a large district of Beirut, Lebanon. METHODS The audit was conducted 3 months following the ban on tobacco advertising. Trained students observed all tobacco retail outlets (n = 100) and entered data into a web-based form using iPad(®) tech...

Symptoms of gastroenteritis compatible with a food-borne outbreak started appearing among employees at the central headquarters of a “Bank” located in Beirut, Lebanon, on the evening of Monday 17 May 2004. Earlier on that day, many employees had had lunch at the bank cafeteria. All of those with signs and symptoms had eaten the main dish of chicken noodles au gratin served at the cafeteria on t...

A vedis Donabedian was born in Beirut, Lebanon on 7 January 1919. As a child he moved to a small town near Jerusalem in Palestine (now Israel) after his family fled the Armenian holocaust. However, in Palestine he experienced the social turmoil of that region. Although a Christian, he had Jewish, Arab, and Christian friends as he was growing up in Palestine. At the interpersonal level he was ab...

A novel method to implement a sub-band adaptive beamforming array (SABA) is proposed. The lower and the higher sub-band signals are generated from the incoming full band signal and both the subband signals are optimised directly instead of decimation or down sampling. After optimisation the outputs of both the sub-bands are combined without interpolation or up sampling to generate the desired s...

Saba Farooqa* , Zainab Ngainia* Adibah Izzati Daudb & Wan M. Khairulca Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysiab Chemical Engineering Perlis, Padang Besar, Malaysiac Marine Environment, Terengganu, Kuala Nerus,

Saba Bank is a large submerged platform (approximately 2200 km(2)), average depth 30 m, located 4 km southwest of Saba Island in Netherlands Antilles, Caribbean Sea. Ships traveling to and from oil terminals on nearby St. Eustatius routinely anchor on the Bank, damaging benthic megafauna. Gorgonian octocorals are vulnerable to anchor damage, and they are common and conspicuous in shallow water ...

Laure Voisin ([email protected]) Catherine Julien ([email protected]) Stéphanie Duhamel ([email protected]) Kailesh Gopalbhai ([email protected]) Isabelle Claveau ([email protected]) Marc K Saba-El-Leil ([email protected]) Ian Gael Rodrigue-Gervais ([email protected]) Louis Gaboury ([email protected]) Daniel...