England has a language education crisis: fewer people are studying languages at school and university programmes closing. This study analyses data from the Universities Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), UK admissions service for higher education. The quantifies how entry tariff socioeconomic background affect access to degree programmes. results show that (1) number of students offered correl...

Beirut Identity is a humanitarian Competition that was initiated to support the Lebanese community after explosion in port of occurred on August 4th, 2020. Action Design Research (ADR) methodology combined with entrepreneurship education were used as main drivers generate real-life impactful projects for community. This reflects my own ‘out mainstream’ career trajectory and vision create purpos...

The purpose of this research is to explore the effect school closure during economic and health crises on learning loss mathematics concepts secondary students in public private schools Lebanon. This mixed study used concurrent exploratory design involving quantitative data collection through teachers’ questionnaires qualitative a comparison official examinations CERD documents before after cri...

The revival of Lebanon involves regaining trust in its banking system. Starting by highlighting the main sector’s inefficiencies Lebanon, as well bad investment practices that have led to current financial crisis, a full business model could restore confidence Lebanese sector, and increase profitability foreseeable future is proposed. This new structure tackles three areas including, cost reduc...

The Antimicrobial Availability Task Force (AATF) of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has viewed with concern the decreasing investment by major pharmaceutical companies in antimicrobial research and development. Although smaller companies are stepping forward to address this gap, their success is uncertain. The IDSA proposed legislative and other federal solutions to this emerg...

The product temperature in the refrigerated display cabinets is very variable and it influences directly the safety and quality of the food products. This variability is due to the type of display cabinet (vertical, horizontal), the position of the product inside the equipment, the fluctuation of the ambient air temperature in the supermarkets (day/night, opening hours, seasons, air conditionin...

BACKGROUND Infection control is a key issue in podiatry as it is in all forms of clinical practice. Airborne contamination may be particularly important in podiatry due to the generation of particulates during treatment. Consequently, technologies that prevent contamination in podiatry settings may have a useful role. The aims of this investigation were twofold, firstly to determine the ability...

OBJECTIVE "Classic" articles remain an important resource in teaching psychiatry. But, such materials are often buried in a faculty member's filing cabinet, effectively lost in today's world of instant access. We attempt to recover these materials through a marriage of traditional reading lists and contemporary technology. METHOD The authors created a sharable electronic filing cabinet to sto...