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Can commercial mobile apps for weight management be used in interventions? Bridging the gap between ..
Investigator
Marco Bardus
Goal: This project aims to assess the quality (i.e. aesthetics, engagement, functionality, and information quality) of a previously identified set of 6 commercial apps for weight management, from a br ...
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Public Health | 17 Jan 2020 |
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Investigator
Rima Nakkash
Background: Alcohol use is a major risk factor in premature death and disability, especially among youth. Evidence-based policies to prevent and control the detrimental effect of alcohol use have been ...
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Public policy | 17 Jan 2020 |
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Investigator
Iman Nuwayhid
In the town of Bebnine (population approximately 16,000) in northern Lebanon, a team of researchers from the American University of Beirut and local residents worked together on a community-based rese ...
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Public Health | 14 Dec 2019 |
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Investigator
Iman Nuwayhid
Significant neuroanatomical and neuromaturation changes take place during adolescence and are reflected n the maturation of abstract reasoning, affect, and cognition. Hence, exposure of millions of ad ...
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Public Health | 14 Dec 2019 |
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Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges (SWOC) analysis of Arab countries innovation and research activities is a difficult exercise on various grounds. First, for most of the countries, s ...
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Business & Public administration | 19 Oct 2018 |
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Investigator
Nasser Yassin
Public Policy
Policy studies
Higher Education
Economic Aspect of Education
Public health
Refugees
Refugee camp
Syria
"101 Facts & Figures on the Syrian Refugee Crisis" builds on the work that was commenced in spring 2017, to communicate through social media and other platforms key facts and figures on the Syrian ref ...
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Public policy | 19 Sep 2018 |
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Investigator
John Waterbury
Reform
Political sociology
Economic sociology
Educational sociology
Economic sociology & Socioeconomics
Economic development
Sociology of education
Political anthropology
Political economy
Public Policy
Higher Education
My study of higher education in the Arab World and the MENA is now in print, through AUCPress, Cairo, New York, 2020: John Waterbury, Missions Impossible: Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab ...
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Education | 23 Oct 2020 |
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Investigator
Saleem Haddad
With an estimated 1.5 million Syrian refugees, Lebanon has the largest rate of refugees per capita in the world. Saferworld and the Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies (LCPS) researched dynamics betwee ...
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Public policy | 10 May 2018 |
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Investigator
Elisabeth Longuenesse
Social policy
Sociology of education
Sociology of immigration
Sociology of race and ethnic relations
Migration
Public Policy
Economic Policy
Children of Immigrants
Policy analysis
Cultural policy
Immigration policy
Immigration
Labour
The research project aimed at improving our understanding of the political, economic, social and cultural implications of foreign labour’s presence in Lebanon.
Based on an in-depth analysis of the s ...
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Sociology & Anthropology | 10 May 2018 |
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Investigator
Kawser Ahmed
Conflict theory
Social policy
Sociology of conflict
Sociology of peace, war, and social conflict
Public Policy
Conflict Resolution
Peace and conflict studies
Policy studies
Peace education
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Sociology & Anthropology | 4 Jun 2018 |