a Department of Gynecology, Martin-Luther-University, Halle/Saale, Germany; b Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; c Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia; d Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Gda ’ nsk; Gdansk, Poland; e Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Univers...

Lebanon's higher education is the oldest in the region. It goes back to 1866 when the American University of Beirut (AUB) was founded under the name of the Syrian Evangelical College, followed by the University of Saint Joseph (USJ) in 1875, then by the Lebanese American University (LAU) in 1947 as a Beirut College for Women. The Lebanese University (LU) which is the only public university in t...

source arising from the viscous dissipation. This result has been noted by Lamb5 (p. 646). The error in equation (7) can thus be considered as arising from neglecting the heat produced by viscous dissipation of the kinetic energy. 1 Margules, M., Met. Z., 23, 481 (1906). 2 Bjerknes, V., and collaborators, Physikalische Hydrodynamik, Chap. 4, Julius Springer, Berlin, 1933. 3 Brunt, D., Physical ...

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A particular challenge for undertaking urbanization mapping of Beirut is the absence of a unified understanding of the city. Migration, informal settlements, a lack of urban planning, political corruption, as well as internal conflict have made this task even harder. The population in Lebanon is unevenly distributed among regions, where one third of the population resides in the Greater Beirut ...

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