The development of a low temperature storage cabinet for the preservation of viruses and other infectious agents some years ago (Horsfall, 1940) led to the use of similar solid C02 cabinets in numerous laboratories. The original cabinet has been in continuous operation for more than 11 years, and others more or less like it have been operating for almost as long. Despite the generally satisfact...

Phytochemical Screening and Cytotoxic Activity of Two Extracts from Seeds of Lebanese Annona squamosa L Abbas Sabbah , Mohamad Nasser, Akram Hijazi, Hassan Rammal 1, , Ghassan Nasser 1 Basic Sciences department, Faculty of Agronomy, Lebanese University, Lebanon 2 Doctoral School of Science and Technology, Platform for Research and Analysis in Environmental Sciences (PRASE), Lebanese University,...

This study examines the impact of John Dewey’s democratic educational principles on reforms Lebanese system using data collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews, with open-ended questions, as part case studies designed for this purpose. The participants in are all academics, facilitators, intellectuals and scholars a decent (n=30), undertaking full-time part-time academic posts, inv...

lebanon has been considered a sample of europe in the middle east, and it is surprising to have an islamic resistance against israel in this small modern country. the islamic resistance was, at the beginning, portrayed as having a very different ideology from that of the neighboring countries of the middle east. this resistance was established on the basis of being a resistance model for the fr...

BACKGROUND The dual burden of nursing shortages and poor work environments threatens quality of patient care and places additional pressures on resource-stretched health care systems, particularly in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR). There is a paucity of research in the EMR examining the quality of nurses' work environment and its association to nurses' intent to leave their jobs/countri...

During the period of 2001–2006, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) adopted a market-oriented policy under the Koizumi cabinet. In 2006, following the formation of the first Abe cabinet, the LDP returned to a traditional redistributive policy. We assume that the supporters of the Koizumi cabinet had an expectation of upward income mobility via the market. On this assumption, using data covering ...

This paper aims to assess the healthcare leadership’s role in crisis management, examine, and investigate influencing factors. A quantitative analysis approach with a positivism philosophy is adopted. Primary data are collected using structured questionnaire distributed sample of hospital employees Lebanon. Data used IBM SPSS version 25; whereby descriptive statistics (i.e., frequencies, percen...