Week Ending May 29, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Review of: Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork, by Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa Malkki (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). American Ethnologist, Vol.37, No.3 (Aug 2010): 602-604. Kirsten Scheid.
Department of Social and Behavioral Studies, FAS.

Necessary nudes: Ḥadātha and muʿāṣira in the lives of modern Lebanese. International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol.42, No.2 (May 2010): 203-230. Kirsten Scheid.
Department of Social and Behavioral Studies, FAS.

Review of: Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt, by Jessica Winegar (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006). International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol.42, No.2 (May 2010): 330-332. Kirsten Scheid.
Department of Social and Behavioral Studies, FAS.

Values and justice as predictors of perceived stress in Lebanese organisational settings. Applied Psychology, Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Published Online: 16 Jul 2010. Dania Dbaibo, Charles Harb, Nathalie van Meurs.
Department of Social and Behavioral Studies, FAS.

Welcome to Deadhorse: And Your Other Life. Lap Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010. Iver Arnegard.
Department of English, FAS.

Living against America: Classroom encounters in Beirut. Journal of American History, Vol.96, No.4 (Mar 2010): 1087-1093. Patrick McGreevy.
.Office of the Dean, FAS.

Cultural appropriateness of the Family Assessment Device (FAD) in the case of ethnic armenian adolescents in Lebanon. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, Vol.56, No.3 (May 2010): 230-238. Shahe S. Kazarian.
Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, FAS.

Open source software: A community of altruists. Computers in Human Behavior, Articles not published yet, but available online Article in Press. Hoda Baytiyeh, Jay Pfaffman.
Department of Education, FAS.

Health equity in Lebanon: A microeconomic analysis. International Journal for Equity in Health, Vol.9, art. no. 11 (2010). Nisreen Salti, Jad Chaaban, Firas Raad.
Department of Economics, FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Mechanism for maintaining cache consistency in mobile environments. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol.9, No.6, art. no. 5 (2010): 778-795. Khaled Mershad, Hassan Artail.
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Faculty of Health Sciences

Women's autonomy and support for wife beating: Findings from a population-based survey in Jordan. Violence and Victims, Vol.25, No.3 (2010): 409-419. N. Linos, M. Khawaja, M. Al-Nsour.
Center for Research on Population and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences.

Medical Center

Non-pyogenic infections of the spine. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 May 2010.Ghassan S. Skaf¹, Zeina A. Kanafani², George F. Araj³, Souha S. Kanj².
¹Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, ²Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, ³Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Medical Center.

Solitary sclerotic fibroma on the scalp of a young girl: Reactive sclerosis pattern? The Journal of Dermatology, Vol.37, No.6 (Jun 2010): 575-577. Ossama Abbas, Samer Ghosn, Ruba Bahhady, Salah Salman.
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

Antiviral drug susceptibilities of seasonal human influenza viruses in Lebanon, 2008-09 season. Journal of Medical Virology, Vol.82, No.7 (Jul 2010): 1224-1228. Hassan Zaraket, Reiko Saito, Rima Wakim, Carelle Tabet, Fouad Medlej, Mariam Reda, Tatiana Baranovich, Yasushi Suzuki, Clyde Dapat, Isolde Caperig-Dapat, Ghassan S. Dbaibo, Hiroshi Suzuki.
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center.

Determinants of adoption of protected designation of origin label: Evidence from the French brie cheese Industry. Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 61 No.2 (Jun 2010): 225-239. Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, Jad Chaaban.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

IUDs and adolescents—An under-utilized opportunity for pregnancy prevention. Journal of Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology, Vol.23, No.3 (Jun 2010): 123-128. Sophia Yen, Tammy Saah, Paula J. Adams Hillard.
Faculty of Medicine.

Ethical conduct of research in developing countries. International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare, Vol.8, No.2 (Jun 2010): 43044. Michael Clinton.
Rafic Hariri School of Nursing.

Practical approach to the child presenting with back pain. European Journal of Pediatrics, 2010, Article in press, 1-8. R. Haidar¹, S. Saad², N.J. Khoury³, U. Musharrafieh.^4
1Department of Surgery, Medical Center; ²Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine; ³Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Center; ⁴Department of Family Medicine, Medical Center.

Child sexual abuse in Lebanon during war and peace. Child Care Health Dev., Vol.36, No.3 (May 2010): 361-8. Jinan Usta, Farver J.
Department of Family Medicine, Medical center.

Olayan School of Business

Business-conflict linkages: Revisiting MNCs, CSR, and conflict. Journal of Business Ethics, Vol.93, No.3 (2010): 443-464. Dima Jamali, Ramez Mirshak.
Olayan School of Business.

Organizational and exporting determinants affecting export promotion program awareness, utilization, and usefulness level. Journal of Euromarketing, Vol.18, No.4 (2010): 219-23. Mehmet Haluk Köksal.
Olayan School of Business.

The export competitive advantages of Turkish manufacturing companies. Marketing Intelligence and Planning, Vol.28, No.2 (2010): 206-222. Mehmet Haluk Köksal, Engin Özgül.
Olayan School of Business.

What shapes global diffusion of e-government: Comparing the influence of national governance. Journal of Global Information Management (JGIM), Vol.18, No.2 (2010): 85-104. Bijan Azad, Samer Faraj, Jie Mein Goh, Tony Feghali.
Olayan School of Business.

Week Ending May 22, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Fatah al-Islam in Lebanon: Anatomy of a terrorist organization. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Vol.33 No.6 (Jun 2010): 548-569. Simon Haddad.
Department of Political Studies & Public Administration, FAS.

A cluster-based trust-aware routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks. Wireless Networks, Vol.16 No.4 (May 2010): 969-984. Haidar Safa¹, Hassan Artail², Diana Tabet¹.
¹Department of Computer Science, FAS; ²Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Enhancement of photovoltaic performance of a novel dye, "T18", with ketene thioacetal groups as electron donors for high efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2010, Articles not published yet, but available online Article in Press. Hawraa Kisserwan, Tarek H. Ghadda.
Department of Chemistry, FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Fault localization based on information flow coverage. Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, Vol.20, No.2 (Jun 2010): 121-147. Wes Masri.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

A cluster-based trust-aware routing protocol for mobile ad hoc networks. Wireless Networks, Vol.16 No.4 (May 2010): 969-984. Haidar Safa¹, Hassan Artail², Diana Tabet¹.
¹Department of Computer Science, FAS; ²Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Optimized architecture for computing Zadoff-Chu sequences with application to LTE. 2009 GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, art. no. (2009): 5426248. Mohammad M. Mansour.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Integrating learning curves in probabilistic well construction estimates. 2009 Proceedings of the SPE/IADC Middle East Drilling Technology Conference and Exhibition (2009): 244-249. Jablonowski, C., Ettehadtavakkol, A., Ogunyomi, B., Issam Srour.
Engineering Management Program, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Faculty of Health Sciences

Expanding concern for women's health in developing countries: The case of the Eastern Mediterranean region. Women's Health Issues, Vol.20, No.3 (May 2010): 171-177. Matilda Saliba¹, Huda Zurayk².
Departments of ¹Health Behavior and Education, ²Epidemiology and Population Health, FHS.

The cost impact of hospital-acquired conditions among critical care patients. Med Care., Vol.48, No.6 (Jun 2010): 518-26. Shadi S. Saleh, Mark M. Callan, Mary Therriault, Nancy N. Landor.
Department of Health Management and Policy, FHS.

Homozygous mutations in the conserved ATP Hinge region of the Wilson disease gene: association with liver disease. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2010 May 18. [Epub ahead of print]. Kassem Barada¹, Mazen El-Atrache, Ihab El-Hajj II, Khaled Rida*¹, Jida El-Hajjar, Ziyad Mahfoud³, Julnar Usta².
¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine; ²Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine; ³Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, FHS.

Laryngeal findings and acoustic changes in hubble-bubble smokers. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2010 May 18. [Epub ahead of print]. Abdul-latif Hamdan¹, Abla Sibai², Dima Oubari, Jihad Ashkar¹, Nabil Fuleihan¹.
¹Department of Otolaryngology, Medical Center; ²Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, FHS

Medical Center

Tracheal intubation following training with the GlideScope compared® to direct laryngoscopy. Anaesthesia, Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Published Online: 17 May 2010. C.M. Ayoub, G.E. Kanazi, A. Al Alami*, C. Rameh*, Mohamad F. El-Khatib.
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Center.

A gain-of-function TBX20 mutation causes congenital atrial septal defects, patent foramen ovale and cardiac valve defects. Journal of Medical Genetics, Vol.47, No.4 (2010): 230-235. Posch, M.G., Gramlich, M., Sunde, M., Schmitt, K.R., Lee, S.H.Y., Richter, S., Kersten, A., Perrot, A., Panek, A.N., Iman H Al Khatib, Nemer, G., Mégarbané, A., Dietz, R., Stiller, B., Berger, F., Harvey, R.P., Özcelik, C.
Department of Biochemistry, Medical Center.

Sickle cell disease at the dawn of the molecular era. Hemoglobin., Vol.33, Suppl.1 (2009): 1:S93-S106. Miguel R. Abboud‌¹, Khaled M. Musallam‌².
¹Children's Cancer Centre of Lebanon; ²Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology Division, Medical Center.

The hypercoagulable state in thalassemia intermedia. Hemoglobin., Vol.33, Suppl.1 (2009): S160-9. Ali T. Taher, Khaled M. Musallam, Adlette Inati‌.
Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology Division, Medical Center.

Treatment of recurrent eyelid margin Verruca Vulgaris with Mitomycin C. Ophthal Plast Reconstr Surg., Vol.26, No.3 (May-Jun 2010): 214-215. Riad N. Maaluf.
Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Center.

The analgesic efficacy of subarachnoid morphine in comparison with ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane block after cesarean delivery: A randomized controlled trial. Anesth Analg. 2010 May 20. [Epub ahead of print]. Ghassan Kanazi, Marie Maroun-Aouad, Faraj W. Abdallah, Mohamad Issam Khatib, Al Moataz Billah F. Adham, Diala W. Harfoush, Sahar M. Siddik-Sayyid..
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Center.

Homozygous mutations in the conserved ATP Hinge region of the Wilson disease gene: association with liver disease. J Clin Gastroenterol. 2010 May 18. [Epub ahead of print]. Kassem Barada¹, Mazen El-Atrache, Ihab El-Hajj II, Khaled Rida*¹ , Jida El-Hajjar, Ziyad Mahfoud³, Julnar Usta².
¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine; ²Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine; ³Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, FHS.

Laryngeal findings and acoustic changes in hubble-bubble smokers. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2010 May 18. [Epub ahead of print]. Abdul-latif Hamdan¹, Abla Sibai², Dima Oubari, Jihad Ashkar¹, Nabil Fuleihan¹.
¹Department of Otolaryngology, Medical Center; ²Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, FHS

Successful pregnancy involving a man with chronic myeloid leukemia on dasatinib. Arch Gynecol Obstet. 2010 May 15. [Epub ahead of print]. Hussam Oweini¹, Zaher K. Otrock², Rami A.R. Mahfouz, Ali Bazarbachi^1,3.
Departments of ¹Internal Medicine, ²Pathology Medical Center; ³Bone Marrow Transplantation Program, Faculty of Medicine.

Duration of post-surgical antibiotics in chronic osteomyelitis: empiric or evidence-based? Int J Infect Dis. 2010 May 12. [Epub ahead of print]. Rachid Haidar, Asdghig Der Boghossian, Bishara Atiyeh.
Department of Surgery, Medical Center.

Olayan School of Business

The adoption of deferred share unit plans for outside directors: economic and social determinants. Journal of Management and Governance (2010): 1-25. Articles not published yet, but available online Article in Press. Paul André, Samer Khalil, Michel Magnan.
Suliman S. Olayan School of Business.

Week Ending May 15, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Coaching across cultures.  In: Stephen Palmer and Almuth McDowall (eds.), The coaching relationship: Putting people first., 121-138. New York, NY, US: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2010. Lina Daouk-Öyry, Philippe Rosinski.
FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

A new simply-designed scalar quantizer adaptable for any distribution. 16th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2009, art. no. 5410760 (2009): 864-867. C Diab, M Oueidat.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, , Faculty of Engineerings & Architecture.

Achieving the Nash bargaining solution in OFDMA uplink using distributed scheduling with limited feedback. AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 7 May 2010. Elias Yaacoub, Zaher Dawy.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, , Faculty of Engineerings & Architecture.

Discretization methods of fractional parallel PID controllers. 16th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, ICECS 2009, art. no. 5411002 (2009): 327-330. Mohamad Adnan Al-Alaoui.
Electrical and Computer Engineering department, Faculty of Engineerings & Architecture.

Scanning and measurement of carbon nanofiber nanoelectrode arrays using atomic force microscopy. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2009, art. no. 5420649 (2009): 1-6. Z Dong, UC Wejinya, HD Tourtillott, IH Elhajj, M Meyyappan.
Electrical and Computer Engineering department, Faculty of Engineerings & Architecture.

Faculty of Health Sciences

The nutrient profile of traditional Lebanese composite dishes: Comparison with composite dishes consumed in France. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition, 60, Suppl.4 (2009): 285-295. Carine Issa, Pascale Salameh, Malek Batal, Florent Vieux, Denis Lairon, Nicole Darmon.
Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences, Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences

         
Expanding concern for women's health in developing countries: The case of the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Women's Health Issues, Vol.20, No.3 (May-Jun 2010): 171-177. Matilda Saliba¹, Huda Zurayk².
¹Department of Health Behavior and Education, FHS; ²Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, FHS.

Quality of life in people living with HIV/AIDS in Lebanon. AIDS Care, Vol. 11 (May 2010): 1-10. [Epub ahead of print]. Sarah Abboud¹, Samar Noureddine¹, Huda Abu-Saad Huijer¹, Jocelyn DeJong²,Jacques Mokhbat .
¹School of Nursing; ²Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, FHS.

Hariri School of Nursing

Quality of life in people living with HIV/AIDS in Lebanon. AIDS Care, Vol. 11 (May 2010): 1-10. [Epub ahead of print]. Sarah Abboud¹, Samar Noureddine¹, Huda Abu-Saad Huijer¹, Jocelyn DeJong²,Jacques Mokhbat .
¹School of Nursing; ²Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, FHS.

Medical Center

Thrombotic renal and adrenal manifestations of primary antiphospholipid syndrome. Rheumatology International, Vol.30 No.7 (May 2010): 993-994. Lama Bazzi, Ali Taher, Khaled Musallam, Zeinab Saleh, Karim Masrouha, Imad Uthman.
Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Activated protein C attenuates acute lung injury and apoptosis in a hyperoxic animal model. Shock, Vol.33, No.4 (2010): 467-472. Ahmad Husari, Aline Khayat, Haithan Awdeh, Hadi Hatoum, Michel Nasser, Salman M Mroueh, Ghazi Zaatari, Marwan El-Sabban, Ghassan S Dbaibo.
Faculty of Medicine.

Age but not gender modulates the relationship between PTH and vitamin D. Bone, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 7 May 2010. Asma Arabi, Rafic Baddoura, Rola El-Rassi, Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan.
Calcium Metabolism and Osteoporosis Program, Department of Internal Medicine.

Eradication of acute promyelocytic leukemia-initiating cells by PML/RARA-targeting. Int J Hematol., 2010 May 11. [Epub ahead of print]. Rihab Nasr, H de Thé.
Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Central hepatectomy for hepatic mesenchymal hamartoma in children. Eur J Pediatr Surg. Vol.20, No.1 (Jan 2010): 57-9. M Khalifeh, W Faraj, H Fakih, H Ajami, S Akel, F Jamali.
Department of Surgery, Medical Center.

Week Ending May 8, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Nucleophilic Substitution of Oxazino-/Oxazolino-/Benzoxazin [3,2-b]indazoles: An Effective Route to 1H-Indazolones. Org Lett., 2010 May 3. [Epub ahead of print]. M.B. Donald, W.E. Conrad, J.S. Oakdale, J.D. Butler, Makhlouf J. Haddadin, M.J. Kurth.
Department of Chemistry, FAS.

The problem of open cheating and invigilator compliance in the Lebanese Brevet and Baccalauréat examinations. International Journal of Educational Development, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 29 April 2010. Barend Vlaardingerbroek, Saadeddine S. Shehab, Sahar K. Alameh.
Department of Education, FAS.

The middle eastern biodiversity network: Generating and sharing knowledge for ecosystem management and conservation. ZooKeys, Vol.31, Special Issue 6 (2009): 3-15. Friedhelm Krupp, Maasa Al-Jumaily, Michel Bariche, Maroof Khalaf, Masoumeh Malek, Bruno Streit.
Department of Biology, FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Cache replacement engine: A fuzzy logic approach. Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on the Current Trends in Information Technology, CTIT 2009, art. no. 5423141 (2009): 7-13. H Diab, A Kashani, Ahmad Nasri.
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Characterization of postural stability in a simulated environment of an earthquake using in-shoe plantar pressure measurement. Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009, art. no. 5334272 (2009): 5243-5246. ZO Abu-Faraj, FA Abou-Assi, RK Jaber, HA Khalifeh.
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Faculty of Health Sciences

Prevalence and determinants of suicide ideation among Lebanese adolescents: Results of the GSHS Lebanon 2005. Journal of Adolescence, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 30 April 2010. Ziyad R. Mahfoud¹, Rema A. Afifi², Pascale H. Haddad¹, Jocelyn DeJong¹.
Department of ¹Epidemiology and Population Health; ²Department of Health Behavior and Education, FHS.

Prevalence of antibodies to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B and hepatitis C and risk factors in prisoners in Lebanon. Journal of Infection in Developing Countries, Vol.4, No.3 (2010): 144-49. Ziyad Mahfoud¹, Kassem Kassak¹, Khalil Kreidieh¹, Sarah Shamra², Sami Ramia².
¹Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, FHS; ²Medical Lab Sciences Prog-Mls, FHS.

Effect of women's perceptions and household practices on children's waterborne illness in a low income community. EcoHealth, Vol.6, No.2 (2009): 169-179. Grace E. El Azar, Rima R. Habib, Ziyad Mahfoud, Mutassem El-Fadel, Rami Zurayk, Mey Jurdi, Iman Nuwayhid.
Faculty of Health Sciences.

Development and validation of the Arab youth mental health scale. Community Ment Health J. 2010 May 6. [Epub ahead of print]. Jihad Makhoul¹, Rima Nakkash¹, T. El Hajj¹, Sawsan Abdulrahim¹, Mayada Kanj¹, Ziyad Mahfoud², Rima A. Afifi¹.
¹Department of Health Behavior and Education, FHS; ²Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, FHS.

Hariri School of Nursing

Current evidence shows no reduction in mortality or re-infarction rate with early mobilisation following myocardial infarction. Evid Based Nurs., Vol.13, No.2 (Apr 2010): 39. Samar Noureddine.
Hariri School of Nursing.

Medical Center

Cutaneous non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections: A clinical and histopathological study of 17 cases from Lebanon. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Published Online: 30 Apr 2010. O Abbas¹, N Marrouch¹, MM Kattar², S Zeynoun¹, AG Kibbi¹, RA Rached², GF Araj², S Ghosn¹.
Departments of ¹Dermatology;²Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Center.

Improved treatment satisfaction and convenience with deferasirox in iron-overloadedpatients with β-Thalassemia: Results from the ESCALATOR trial. Acta Haematol., Vol.123, No.4 (27 Apr 2010): 220-225. [Epub ahead of print]. Ali Taher, A. Al Jefri , M.S. Elalfy, K, Al Zir, S. Daar, D. Rofail, J.F. Baladi, D. Habr, U. Kriemler-Krahn, A. El-Beshlawy.
Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Using medical drama to teach biomedical ethics to medical students. Med Teach., Vol.32, No.5 (2010): e205-10. Thalia Arawi.
Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Serum ferritin does not correlate with transfusion rate. Blood, Vol.115, No.14 (2010): 2981-2982. Thomas V. Adamkiewicz, Miguel R. Abboud, Ofelia A. Alvarez, Nadine Odo.
Department of Pediatrics, Medical Center.

First report on HLA-DPB1 gene allelic distribution in the general lebanese population. Genetic Testing and Molecular Biomarkers, Vol.14, No.2 (2010): 259-261. Dina Shammaa, Sara Khansa, Ghazi Zaatari, Rami Mahfouz.
Faculty of Medicine.

Antiphospholipid syndrome: Pathogenesis and a window of treatment opportunities in the future. European Journal of Clinical Investigation, Vol.40, No.5 (2010): 451-464. Ali A. Mehdi, Imad Uthman, Munther Khamashta.
Faculty of Medicine.

Cellular senescence: Many roads, one final destination. Scientific World Journal, Vol.19 (13 Apr 20100: 727-41. Raya Saab.
Department of Pediatrics, Medical Center.

Prevalence of burnout syndrome among medical residents: experience of a developing country. Postgrad Med J., Vol.86, No.1015 (May 2010): 266-71. Khalil Ashkar, Maya Romani*, Umayya Musharrafieh, M Chaaya.
Department of Family Medicine, Medical Center.

Non-infectious subcutaneous emphysema of the hand: A case report and review of the literature. Emerg Med J., Vol.27, No.5 (May 2010): 383-6. Tina Constantine¹, Umayya Musharrafieh¹, Abdallah Rammal*¹, Sami Moukaiber¹, Rashid Haider².
¹Department of Family Medicine; ²Department of Surgery, Orthopedic Division, Medical Center.

Effect of suxamethonium vs rocuronium on onset of oxygen desaturation during apnoea following rapid sequence induction. Anaesthesia., Vol.65, No.4 (Apr 2010): 358-61. Samar K. Taha, M.F. El-Khatib, A.S. Baraka, Y.A. Haidar, F.W. Abdallah, R.A. Zbeidy, S.M. Siddik-Sayyid.
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Center.

IOF position statement: Vitamin D recommendations for older adults. Osteoporosis International, First Online™ (27 Apr 2010): 1-4. B. Dawson-Hughes, A. Mithal, J.-P. Bonjour, S. Boonen, P. Burckhardt, Ghada El-Hajj Fuleihan, R.G. Josse, J. Morales-Torres, N. Yoshimura.
Calcium Metabolism and Osteoporosis Program, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Week Ending May 1, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

A hybrid DV-Hop for localization in large scale Wireless Sensor Networks. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Technology, Application and Systems, Mobility 2009. Fawzi Yassine*, Haidar Safa.
Department of Computer Science, FAS.

Dominating set-based location management architecture for mobile IP networks. Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Technology, Application and Systems, Mobility, 2009. Haidar Safa, Wiaam Kassab.
Department of Computer Science, FAS.

On-the-job training in the turbulent Middle East: Assessing Obama's first year. The Fletcher School, Tufts University, 10 Mar 2010. Rami Khouri.
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, FAS.

Mosques, malls and monarchs: The new/old power balance inside the Arab World. The Fletcher School, Tufts University, 14 Apr 2010. Rami Khouri.
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, FAS.

The Palestinian exile and the Babylonian exile: Reflections on the Arab-Israeli conflict after 62 years. The Fletcher School, Tufts University, 21 Apr 2010. Rami Khouri.
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Resource-constrained multi-project scheduling: Priority rule performance revisited. International Journal of Production Economics, 2010, Articles not published yet, but available online Article in Press. Tyson R. Browning, Ali A. Yassine.
Engineering Management Program, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Compact core drilling in basalt rock using PCD tool inserts: Wear characteristics and cutting forces. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 2010, Articles not published yet, but available online Article in Press. Ramsey F. Hamade, S.P. Manthri, F. Pusavec, K.A. Zacny, L.A. Taylor, O.W. Dillon Jr., K.E. Rouch, I.S. Jawahir.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Effects of jet inclination angle and geometrical parameters on air curtain performance. ASHRAE Transactions, Vol.115, Pt.2 (2009): 617-629. S.R. Traboulsi, A. Hammoud, M.F. Khalil.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Optimal allocation of servers and processing time in a load balancing system. Computers and Operations Research, 2010, Articles not published yet, but available online Article in Press. Bacel Maddah, Muhammad El-Taha, Roy Abou Tayeh.
Engineering Management Program, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

2D analysis of parallel conductors with polygon shape using special boundary segment functions. Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Applied Simulation and Modelling, ASM 2009 (2009): 44-49. Ernest Huijer.
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

HISI: A soft framework for building recognition. 5th International Conference on Soft Computing, Computing with Words and Perceptions in System Analysis, Decision and Control, 2009 (2009): art. no. 5379470. M. Awad, A. El Mobacher.

Privacy as a service: Privacy-aware data storage and processing in cloud computing architectures. 8th IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 2009 (2009): art. no. 5380584, pp. 711-716. Wassim Itani*, Ayman Kayssi, Ali Chehab.
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Faculty of Health Sciences

The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a rural employer-based wellness program. The Journal of Rural Health, Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Published Online: 29 Apr 2010. Shadi S. Saleh, Mohamad S. Alameddine, Dan Hill, Jessica Darney-Beuhler, Ann Morgan.
Department of Health Management and Policy, Faculty of Health Sciences.

Medical Center

Breast cancer in Lebanon: Incidence and comparison to regional and Western countries. Cancer Epidemiology, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 22 April 2010. Najla A. Lakkis, Salim M. Adib, Mona H. Osman, Umayya M. Musharafieh, Ghassan N. Hamadeh.
Department of Family Medicine, Medical Center.

Bilateral asymptomatic extracranial carotid artery aneurysms. Annals of Vascular Surgery, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 April 2010. Ossama M. Reslan, James L. Ebaugh, Joseph D. Raffetto.
Department of Surgery, Medical Center.

Organ donation after cardiac death in the Middle East. Transplantation Proceedings, Vol.42, No.3 (Apr 2010): 713-715. W. Faraj, H. Fakih, D. Mukherji, M. Khalife.
Department of Surgery, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery and Liver Transplant Unit, Medical Center.

Tailoring iron chelation by iron intake and serum ferritin: The prospective EPIC study of deferasirox in 1744 patients with transfusion-dependent anemias. Haematologica, Vol.95, No.4 (2010): 557-566. Cappellini, M.D., Porter, J., El-Beshlawy, A., Li, C.-K., Seymour, J.F., Elalfy, M., Gattermann, N., Giraudier, S., Lee, J.-W., Chan, L.L., Lin, K.-H., Rose, C., Ali Taher, Thein, S.L., Viprakasit, V., Habr, D., Domokos, G., Roubert, B., Kattamis, A.
Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology Division, Medical Center.

Efficacy of deferasirox in reducing and preventing cardiac iron overload in β-thalassemia. Blood, Vol.115, No.12 (2010): 2364-2371. Pennell, D.J., Porter, J.B., Cappellini, M.D., El-Beshlawy, A., Chan, L.L., Aydinok, Y., Elalfy, M.S., Sutcharitchan, P., Li, C.-K., Ibrahim, H., Viprakasit, V., Kattamis, A., Smith, G., Habr, D., Domokos, G., Roubert, B., Ali Taher.
Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology Division, Medical Center.

Age-related complications in treatment-naïve patients with thalassaemia intermedia. British Journal of Haematology, Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Published Online: 29 Apr 2010. Ali T. Taher, Khaled M. Musallam, Amal El-Beshlawy, Mehran Karimi, Shahina Daar, Khawla Belhoul, Mohamed-Salah Eldin Saned, Giovanna Graziadei, Maria D. Cappellini.
Department of Internal Medicine, Haematology-Oncology Division, Medical Centre.

Olyayan School of Business

Social power and information technology implementation: A contentious framing lens. Information Systems Journal, Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Published Online: 27 Apr 2010. Bijan Azad, Samer Faraj.
Olayan School of Business

Week Ending April 24, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences

Physiological and carcass traits in heat-stressed broilers differing in heat acclimatization, chemical or feed restriction treatments. Agriculture & Biology Journal of North America, Vol.1, No.2 (2010): 65-74. Elie K. Barbour¹, Ihsan Tayeb, Houssam Shaib¹, Ibrahim M. Ibrahim.
Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture & Food Sciences.

Characterization of an emergence of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease in Lebanon. Agriculture & Biology Journal of North America, Vol.1, No.2 (2010): 113-120. Elie K. Barbour¹, Marc S. Kaadi¹, Houssam A. Shaib¹, Zeina G. Kassaify², Shady K. Hamadeh¹, Fawwak T. Sleiman¹, Lina S. Jaber¹, Steve Harakeh, Afif M. Abdelnoor.
Departments of ¹Animal and Veterinary Sciences, ²Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture & Food Sciences.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Tamyīz. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics (Leiden: Brill, 2009): 436-437. Ramzi Baalbaki.
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, FAS.

The place of Jāḥiz in the Arabic philological tradition. In: A. Heinemann, J.L. Meloy, T. Khalidi, and M. Kropp, Al-Jāḥiz: A Muslim Humanist for Our Time, 91-110. Beirut: Ergon Verlag Würzburg, 2009. Ramzi Baalbaki.
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, FAS.

Poetry and History: The Value of Poetry in Reconstructing Arab  History. Beirut: American University of Beirut Press, 2010. (In press). Ramzi Baalbaki, Saleh S. Agha, Tarif Khalidi (eds.).
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, FAS.

Al-Jāḥiz: A Muslim Humanist for Our Time. Beirut: Ergon Verlag Würzburg, 2009. A. Heinemann, J.L. Meloy, Tarif Khalidi, M. Kropp (eds.)
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, FAS.

Generating B-spline curves with points, normals and curvature constraints: A constructive approach. The Visual Computer, First Online™ (7 Apr 2010): 1-7. Articles not published yet, but available online Article in Press. Abdulwahed Abbas, Ahmad Nasri, Takashi Maekawa.
Department of Computer Science, FAS.

The effect of reflective discussions following inquiry-based laboratory activities on students' views of nature of science. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Published Online: 22 Apr 2010. Hagop A. Yacoubian, Saouma BouJaoudé.
Department of Education, FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Automating dimensional tolerancing using Ripple down Rules (RDR). Expert Systems with Applications, Vol.37, No.7 (2010): 5101-5109. G. Beydoun, A. Hoffmann, R.F. Hamade.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Design and ground plane consideration of a CPW-Fed UWB antenna. 6th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ELECO 2009, art. no. 5355349 (2009): II151-II153. Mohammed Al-Husseini, Ali Ramadan, Youssef Tawk, Ali El-Hajj, Karim Y. Kabalan.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Design of a small printed monopole antenna for ultrawideband applications. 6th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ELECO 2009, art. no. 5355321 (2009): II154-II156. Ali Ramadan, Mohammed Al-Husseini, Ali El-Hajj, Karim Y. Kabalan.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

A small-sized reconfigurable antenna for ultra-wideband, C-band and X-band operation. 6th International Conference on Electrical and Electronics Engineering, ELECO 2009, art. no. 5355303 (2009): II157-II160. Ali Ramadan, Mohammed Al-Husseini, Karim Y. Kabalan, Ali El-Hajj.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Characterization of vertically aligned carbon nanofibers grown on Ni dots nanoelectrode array using atomic force microscopy. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009, art. no. 5353923 (2009): 1861-1866. Z. Dong, U.C. Wejinya, Imad H. Elhajj, M. Meyyappan.
 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Transient current testing for future CMOS technologies. 4th International Design and Test Workshop, IDT 2009, art. no. 5404128. M.A. Rjeily, Ali Chehab, Ayman Kayssi.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Modeling of gate oxide short defects in MOSFETS. 4th International Design and Test Workshop, IDT 2009, art. no. 5404118. Sarah Chehade*, Ali Chehab, Ayman Kayssi.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Clustering techniques for improving transient current testing. 4th International Design and Test Workshop, IDT 2009, art. no. 5404121. Cezar Serhal, Ali Chehab, Ayman Kayssi.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Wavelet transform-based transient current analysis for detection of gate-oxide shorts in CMOS. 4th International Design and Test Workshop, IDT 2009, art. no. 5404123. Ali Ghandour*, Kassem Fawaz*, Ali Chehab, Ayman Kayssi.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Trust-privacy tradeoffs in distributed computing. In: J. M. Seigneur and A. Slagell (eds.), Collaborative Computer Security and Trust Management, 216-225 (Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010). Rima Deghaili, Ali Chehab, Ayman Kayssi.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

PLEDGE: A policy-based security protocol for protecting content addressable storage architectures. International Journal of Network Security and its Applications, Vol.2, No.1 (Jan 2010): 98-115. Wassim Itani, Ayman Kayssi, Ali Chehab.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Medical Center

Nonepileptic paroxysmal events in a pediatric population. Epilepsy & Behavior, Vol.17, No.2 (Feb 2010): 272-275.  Ekrem Kutluay, Linda Selwa, Daniela Minecan, Jonathan Edwards, Ahmad Beydoun.
Department of Neurology, Medical Center.

Multiple nodules and plaques over the abdomen. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, Vol.35, No.4 (Jun 2010): e190-e192. Joelle Malek, Ossama Abbas, Samer Ghosn, Salah Salman.
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

Painful oral and genital ulcers. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, Vol.35, No.4 (Jun 2010): e184-e186. Ossama Abbas, Z. Shbaklo, Abdul-Ghani Kibbi, Nelly Rubeiz.
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

Antiphospholipid syndrome: pathogenesis and a window of treatment opportunities in the future. European Journal of Clinical Investigation, Vol.40, No.5 (May 2010): 451-464. Ali A. Mehdi, Imad Uthman, Munther Khamashta.
Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

A short case of a splenic arteriovenous fistula coexisting with portal hypertension secondary to hepatitis C: Radiologic diagnosis and treatment. Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology, Vol.54, No.2 (Apr 2010): 134-136. Cecilio R. Azar¹, A.O. Al-Kutoubi², Fadi H. Mourad¹.
Departments of ¹Internal Medicine, ²Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Medical Center.

Vascular at-risk genotypes and disease severity in Lebanese sickle cell disease patients. American Journal of Hematology, Vol.85, No.5 (May 2010): 395-396. Chantal Farra, Laila Zahed, Paul J. Nietert, Hala Hourani, Oussama Jradi, Adlette Inati, Rami Mahfouz, Miguel Abboud, Christian Oberkanins.
Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Medical Center.

Top 10 cited paper 2006-2008 International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia. Middle East Journal of Anesthesiology, Vol.20, No.4 (2010): 481-492. Anis Baraka.
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Center.

Breast cancer in Lebanon: Incidence and comparison to regional and Western countries. Cancer Epidemiol. 2010 Apr 20. [Epub ahead of print]. Najla A. Lakkis, Salim M. Adib, Mona H. Osman, Umayya M. Musharafieh, Ghassan N. Hamadeh.
Department of Family Medicine, Medical Center.

Complete catheter disconnection and migration of an implantable venous access device: The Disconnected cap sign. Ann Vasc Surg. 2010 Apr 21. [Epub ahead of print]. Walid Faraj, Ahmad Zaghal, Ornella El-Beyrouthy, Aghiad Kutoubi.
Department of Surgery and Radiology, Medical Center.

High tibial osteotomy in young adults with constitutional tibia vara. Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2010 Apr 22. [Epub ahead of print]. Karim Z. Masrouha, Shafic Sraj, Suhail Lakkis, Said Saghieh.
Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, Medical Center.

Bilateral asymptomatic extracranial carotid artery aneurysms. Ann Vasc Surg. 2010 Apr 20. [Epub ahead of print]. Ossama M. Reslan, J.L. Ebaugh, J.D. Raffetto.
Department of Surgery.

Cytochrome P4502E1 (CYP2E1) genetic polymorphisms in a Lebanese population: Frequency distribution and association with morbid diseases. Genet Test Mol Biomarkers. 2010 Apr 20. [Epub ahead of print]. Nathalie Khoueiry Zgheib,¹ Zahi Mitri,² Eddy Geryess,¹ and Pakiza Noutsi³.
¹Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, ²Faculty of Medicine, ³Department of Physiology, Medical Center.

Solitary hydatid cyst of the thigh: A challenging diagnosis. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis., Vol.9, No.6 (Dec 2009): 743-745. George S. Abi Saad, Khaled M. Musallam, Zeina R. Korban, Ossama M. Reslan, Mustapha Mneimne.
Department of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, Medical Center.

Faculty Publications Posted April 4-17, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences

Adolescent obesity in Syria: Prevalence and associated factors. Child: Care, Health and Development, Vol.36, No.3 (May 2010): 404-413. Lara Nasreddine,¹ Abla Mehio-Sibai,² M. Mrayati,¹ Nada Adra¹, Nahla C. Hwalla¹.
Departments of ¹Nutrition & Food Science, Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences; ²Epidemiology & Population Health, FHS.

Boron toxicity in barley genotypes: Effects of pattern and timing of boron application. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, Vol.41, No.2 (2010): 144-154. Sui-Kwong Yau.
Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences.

Increased phosphorus content of preload suppresses ad libitum energy intake at subsequent meal. Int J Obes (London). 6 Apr 2010. [Epub ahead of print]. Omar A. Obeid, S. Dimachkie, Sani Hlais.
Department of Nutrition & Food Science, Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences.

Postprandial ghrelin and PYY responses of male subjects on low carbohydrate meals to varied balancing proportions of proteins and fats. Eur J Nutr. 2010 Apr 16. [Epub ahead of print]. Dalia El Khoury¹, Rola El-Rassi¹, Sami Azar², Nahla Hwalla¹.
¹Department of Nutrition & Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences; ²Department of Endocrinology, Medical Center.

Comparison of the level of organic contaminants in bile and muscle of Mugil spp. following a major oil spill in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Veterinaria Italiana, Vol.45, No.3 (Jul-Sep 2009): 405-12. Elie K.Barbour, Fouad Mastori, Houssam A. Shaib, Afif M. Abdel Nour, Lina S. Jaber.
Department of Animal & Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture & Food Sciences.

Standardisation of a new model of H9N2/Escherichia coli challenge in broilers in the Lebanon. Veterinaria Italiana, Vol.45, No.2 (Apr-Jun 2009): 317-22. Elie K. Barbour¹, Fouad A. Mastori¹, Afif M.Abdel Nour, Houssam A. Shaib¹, Lina S. Jaber¹, Ryan H. Yaghi¹, Alia Sabra, Fawwak T. Sleiman¹, Rana K. Sawaya¹, Aleksandra Niedzwieck, Ihsam T. Tayeb, Zeina G. Kassaify², Matthias Rath, Steve Harakeh, Kamil E. Barbour.
Departments of ¹Animal & Veterinary Sciences; ²Nutrition & Food Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture & Food Sciences.

Impact of synergism of calcium phosphomycin/tylosin tartarate supplements on the performance of broilers in the Lebanon. Veterinaria Italiana, Vol.46, No.1 (Jan-Mar 2010): 45-9. Elie K. Barbour¹, Zahi El-Hajj¹, Houssam Shaib¹, Houssam Itani¹, Maya Saadeh¹, Wiam Haidar², Lina Jaber¹, Renia Demloj, Steve Harakeh.
¹Department of Animal & Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture & Food Sciences; ²Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine.

Bioavailability of vitamins E and C: Does Helicobacter pylori infection play a role? Ann Nutr Metab., Vol.56, No.4 (14 Apr 2010): 253-259. [Epub ahead of print] Farah Naja, Nancy Kreiger, Gail McKeown Eyssen, Johane Allard.
Department of Nutrition & Food Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture & Food Sciences.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

The works of Abū Manṣūr al-Tha‘ālibī (350-429/961-1039). Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol.40, No.3 (2009): 273-318. Bilal Orfali.
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, FAS.

Morphology of a 2D Mg²⁺/NH₄OH Liesegang pattern in zero, positive and negative radial electric field. Chemical Physics Letters, Vol.492, No.1-3 (May 2010): 35-39. Layla Badr, Houssam El-Rassy, Samia El-Joubeily, Rabih Sultan.
Department of Chemistry, FAS.

Novel quinoxalinophenanthrophenazine-based molecules as sensors for anions: synthesis and binding investigations. Tetrahedron, Vol.66, No.16 (2010): 2944-2952. Farah S. Raad, Ala'a O. El-Ballouli, Rasha M. Moustafa, Mohammad H. Al-Sayah, Bilal R. Kaafarani.
Department of Chemistry, FAS.

Crystal growth and magnetic properties of tin selenide-doped europium Sn_1−xEu_xSe. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol.322, No.9-12 (2010): 1113-1116. Samih Isber, X.Gratens.
Department of Physics, FAS.

Origin and variability of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5) mass concentrations over an Eastern Mediterranean city. Atmospheric Research, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 10 April 2010. N.A. Saliba¹, F. El Jam², G. El Tayar¹, W. Obeid¹, M. Roumie.
¹Department of Chemistry, FAS; ²Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Satellite image segmentation using self-organizing maps and fuzzy C-means. IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, 2009, art. no. 5407521, 398-402.
Mohamed M. Awad, Ahmad Nasri.
Department of Computer Science, FAS.

Close-to-convexity criteria for planar harmonic mappings. Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, Online First™, March 2010. D. Bshouty, Abdallah Lyzzaik.
Department of Mathematics, FAS.

An empirical study of cache-oblivious polygon indecomposability testing. Computing, Vol.88, No.1/2 (Jun 2010): 55-78. Fatima K. Abu Salem, Rawan N. Soudah.
Department of Computer Science, FAS.

Comparative effectiveness of teacher-described versus discussion-type demonstrations in high school chemistry. School Science and Mathematics, Vol.69, No.7 (17 Mar 2010): 605-609. George I. Za'rour.
Department of Education, FAS.

War of necessity, war of choice: A memoir of two Iraqi wars. Contemporary Arab Affairs, Vol.3, No.1 (Jan 2010): 92-94. Ziad Hafez.
FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Effect of aerosol generation method on measured saturation pressure and enthalpy of vaporization for dicarboxylic acid aerosols. Aerosol Science and Technology, Vol.44, No.4 (2010): 302-307. Rawad Saleh, Andrey Khlystov, Alan Shihadeh.
Aerosol Res. Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Mutual authentication scheme for EPC tags-readers in the supply chain. 3rd International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, 2009, art. no. 5384805. S. Wehbe, A. Kayssi, Ayman Chehab, Izzat Elhajj*.
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Delay-efficient GOP size control algorithm in Wyner-Ziv video coding. IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, 2009, art. no. 5407539, 403-407. Imad Ahmad, Ziad Ahmad, Ibrahim Abou-Faycal.
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Experimental and theoretical study oftransient human thermal comfort responsein convective and radiative environments. HVAC and R Research, Vol.15, No.5 (2009): 855-873. Mohammad Al-Othmani Kamel Ghali, Nesreen Ghaddar.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Environmental Management System (ISO 14001) certification in developing countries: Challenges and implementation strategies. Environmental Science & Technology, Vol.44, No.6 (15 Mar 2010): 1884-1887. May A Massoud¹, Rabih Fayad², Rabih Kamleh¹, Mutasem El-Fadel².
¹Department of Environmental Health, FHS; ²Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Dynamic cruise ship revenue management. European Journal of Operational Research, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 2 April 2010. Bacel Maddah¹, Lama Moussawi², Muhammad El-Taha, Hussein Rida¹.
¹Engineering Management Program, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture; ²Olayan School of Business.

How much training is optimal in adaptive PSAM over markov rayleigh fading channels. IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology, 2009, art. no. 5407530, 366-371. Khalid Zeineddine, Ibrahim Abou-Faycal.
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Semantic caching for mobile Ad hoc networks. 5th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks 2009, art. no. 5401539: 25-32. Khaleel Mershad, Hassan Artail.
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Studies on the prediction of elastomer-to-steel adhesive bond life in cathodic environments. Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, Vol.23, No.4 (2009): 579-600. Ramsey .F. Hamade.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Faculty of Health Sciences

Effect of fasting on voice in males. American Journal of Otolaryngology, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 13 April 2010. Abdul-latif Hamdan¹, Jihad Ashkar², Abla Sibai³, Dima Oubari, Sami Tanbouzi Husseini².
¹Department of Otolaryngology; ³Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery, Medical Center; ³Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, FHS.

Evidence for prostacyclin and cAMP upregulation by bradykinin and insulin-like growth factor 1 in vascular smooth muscle cells. Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction, Vol.30, No.2 (2010): 61-71. Jerry G. Webb, Yan Tan‌, Miran A. Jaffa¹‌, Ayad A. Jaffa².
¹Department of Epidemiology & Population Health FHS; ²Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine.

DeJong et al respond. American Journal of Public Health, Vol.100, No.4 (2010): 583-584. Jocelyn DeJong¹, Ziyad Mahfoud¹, Danielle Khoury, Farah Barbir², Rema Adel Afifi².
Departments of ¹Epidemiology & Population Health; ²Health Behavior & Education, FHS.

Environmental Management System (ISO 14001) certification in developing countries: Challenges and implementation strategies. Environmental Science & Technology, Vol.44, No.6 (15 Mar 2010): 1884-1887. May A Massoud¹, Rabih Fayad², Rabih Kamleh¹, Mutasem El-Fadel².
¹Department of Environmental Health, FHS; ²Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Adolescent obesity in Syria: Prevalence and associated factors. Child: Care, Health and Development, Vol.36, No.3 (May 2010): 404-413. Lara Nasreddine,¹ Abla Mehio-Sibai,² M. Mrayati,¹ Nada Adra¹, Nahla. Hwalla¹.
Departments of ¹Nutrition & Food Science, Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences; ²Epidemiology & Population Health, FHS.

Hariri School of Nursing

Chronic pain: A review. Journal Medical Libanais, Vol.58, No.1 (2010): 21-27. Abu-Saad Huijer.
Hariri School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine.

Education of health professionals for the 21st century: A global independent Commission. The Lancet, Vol.375, No.9721 (3 Apr 2010-9 Apr 2010): 1137-1138. Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Lincoln Chen, Jordan Cohen, Nigel Crisp, Tim Evans, Harvey Fineberg, Julio Frenk, Patricia Garcia, Richard Horton, Yang Ke, Patrick Kelley, Barry Kistnasamy, Afaf Meleis, David Naylor, Ariel Pablos-Mendez, Srinath Reddy, Susan Scrimshaw, Jaime Sepulveda, David Serwadda, Huda Zurayk.
Hariri School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine.

Medical Center

Effect of fasting on voice in males. American Journal of Otolaryngology, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 13 April 2010. Abdul-latif Hamdan¹, Jihad Ashkar², Abla Sibai³, Dima Oubari, Sami Tanbouzi Husseini².
¹Department of Otolaryngology; ³Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Medical Center; ³Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, FHS.

Asymptomatic spontaneous coronary artery dissection. Clinical Cardiology, Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Published Online: 16 Apr 2010. Habib A. Dakik, Gilbert Abou Nader, Wajih A. Arja, Jaber Sawaya, Walid Gharzuddine.
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Nonepileptic paroxysmal events in a pediatric population. Epilepsy & Behavior, Vol. 17, No.2 (Feb 2010): 272-275. Ekrem Kutluay, Linda Selwa, Daniela Minecan, Jonathan Edwards, Ahmad Beydoun.
Department of Neurology, Medical Center.

Prognostic factors of multiple sclerosis in Lebanon. Int J Neurosc.,. Vol.120, No.3 (Mar 2010): 206-10. Bassem Yamout¹, Salam Itani², Asma Arabi², Diana Hamzeh², Shadi Yaghi¹.
Departments of ¹Neurology, ²Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Child sexual abuse in Lebanon during war and peace. Vol.36, No.3 (May 2010): 361-368. J. Usta, J. Farver.
Department of Family Medicine, Medical Center.

Evidence for prostacyclin and cAMP upregulation by bradykinin and insulin-like growth factor 1 in vascular smooth muscle cells. Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction, Vol.30, No.2 (2010): 61-71. erry G. Webb, Yan Tan‌, Miran A. Jaffa¹‌, Ayad A. Jaffa².
¹Department of Epidemiology and Population Health FHS; ²Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine.

TNF Polymorphisms in patients with Behçet disease: A meta-analysis. Archives of Medical Research, 2010, Articles not published yet, but available online Article in Press. Zahi Touma, Chantal Farra, Ayad Hamdan, Wael Shamseddeen, Imad Uthman, Hala Hourani, Thurayya Arayssi.
Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Further evidence of plasmid-encoded bla-_CTX-M-15 and bla-_TEM-1 genes in Lebanese isolates of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium that produce extended-spectrum β-lactamase. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Vol.104, No.1 (2010): 91-94. Ghassan M. Matar, Marie-Thérèse Khairallah, I. Dandache, Ahmad Sabra, J. Mokhbat.
Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Faculty of Medicine.

Partial third nerve palsy involving the superior rectus and levator palpebrae muscles and disruption of central binocular vision fusion from brain stem infarction: A case report. Binocular Vision and Strabismus Quarterly, Vol.24, No.3 (2010): 163-167. Edward Khawam, Carole Cherfan, George Mollayess, Rola Hamam.
Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Center.

Tenon's capsule pseudo-tendon repair of a lost medial rectus muscle. Binocular Vision and Strabismus Quarterly, 24 (2) pp. 93-98. Christiane Al-Haddad, Carole Cherfan, Sandra Haddad, Edward Khawam.
Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Center.

755-nm alexandrite laser epilation as an adjuvant and primary treatment for pilonidal sinus disease. Dermatologic Surgery, Vol.36, No.3 (2010): 430-432. Ossama Abbas , Mustafa Sidani, Nelly Rubeiz, Samer Ghosn, Abdul Ghani Kibbi.
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

Adherence to disease-modifying drugs in patients with multiple sclerosis: a consensus statement from the Middle East MS Advisory Group. Int J Neurosci., Vol.120, No.4 (Apr 2010): 273-9. Bassem I. Yamout, Dahdaleh M, Al Jumah MA, Al-Shammri S, Al Sharoqi I, Al-Tahan AR, Bohlega S, Deleu D, Inshasi J, Khalifa A, Szólics M.
Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

The wanderer at 12 weeks' gestation, the patient presented with abdominal pain and a palpable mass. Am J Obstet Gynecol., 2010 Apr 1. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available. Ghina Ghazeeri¹, Anwar H. Nassar¹, Ali T. Taher², Khaled M. Musallam², Faek R. Jamali³.
Departments of ¹Obstetrics and Gynecology, ²Internal Medicine, ³Surgery, Medical Center.

Postprandial ghrelin and PYY responses of male subjects on low carbohydrate meals to varied balancing proportions of proteins and fats. Eur J Nutr. 2010 Apr 16. [Epub ahead of print]. Dalia El Khoury¹, Rola El-Rassi¹, Sami Azar², Nahla Hwalla¹.
¹Department of Nutrition & Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences; ²Department of Endocrinology, Medical Center.

Tracheal schwannoma: A misleading entity. Middle East J Anesthesiol., Vol.20, No.4 (Feb 2010): 611-3. Abdul Latif Hamdan¹, Roger V. Moukarbel¹, Ayman Tawil², Mohamad E l-Khatib³, Ussama Hadi¹.
Departments of ¹Otolaryngology-Head & neck Surgery; ²Pathology & Laboratory Medicine; ³Aneasthesiology, Medical Center.

Primary malignant melanoma of the trachea. Middle East J Anesthesiol., Vol.20, No.4 (Feb 2010): 607-9. Mohammad Nattout, Nabil Fuleihan, Omar Sabra, Ibrahim Aburizk, Abdul-Latif Hamdan.
Departments of Otolaryngology-Head & neck Surgery.

Dexamethasone with either granisetron or ondansetron for postoperative nausea and vomiting in laparoscopic surgery. Middle East J Anesthesiol., Vol.20, No.4 (Feb 2010): 565-70. Alia S. Dabbous, Samar I. Jabbour-Khoury, Viviane G Nasr*, Adib A Moussa*, Reine A Zbeidy*, Nabil E Khouzam*, Mohamad F El-Khatib, Anis S Baraka.
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Center.

Impact of synergism of calcium phosphomycin/tylosin tartarate supplements on the performance of broilers in the Lebanon. Veterinaria Italiana, Vol.46, No.1 (Jan-Mar 2010): 45-9. Elie K. Barbour¹, Zahi El-Hajj¹, Houssam Shaib¹, Houssam Itani¹, Maya Saadeh¹, Wiam Haidar², Lina Jaber¹, Renia Demloj, Steve Harakeh.
¹Department of Animal & Veterinary Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture & Food Sciences; ²Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine.

Acute extensive bullous eruption. Am Fam Physician., Vol.81, No.8 (15 Apr 2010): 1019-20. Ossama Abbas, Adèle Chedraoui, Samer Ghosn.
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

Ratio between positive lymph nodes and total excised axillary lymph nodes as an independent prognostic factor for overall survival in patients with nonmetastatic lymph node-positive breast cancer. Ann Surg Oncol., Vol.16, No.12 (Dec 2009): 3388-95. Hassan A. Hatoum¹, Faek R. Jamali², Nagi S. El-Saghir¹, Khaled M. Musallam¹, Muhieddine Seoud³, Hani Dimassi, Jaber Abbas², Mohamad Khalife², Fouad I. Boulos⁴, Ayman N. Tawil⁴, Fadi B. Geara⁵, Ziad Salem¹, Achraf A. Shamseddine¹, Karine Al-Feghali¹, Ali I. Shamseddine¹.
¹Departments of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology; Department of Surgery; ²Division of General Surgery; ³Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology; ⁴Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; ⁵Department of Radiation Oncology, Medical Center.

Seasonal variations of glucose control in Lebanese patients with type 1 diabetes. Biological Rhythm Research, Vol.41, No.2 (Apr 2010): 91-97. Khaled El Baba, Mira S. Zantout, Asma Arabi, Sami T. Azar.
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Medical Center.

Olayan School of Business

Dynamic cruise ship revenue management. European Journal of Operational Research, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 2 April 2010. Bacel Maddah¹, Lama Moussawi², Muhammad El-Taha, Hussein Rida¹.
¹Engineering Management Program, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture; ²Olayan School of Business.

The Egyptian worker: Work beliefs and attitudes. Journal of Business Ethics, Vol.92, No.3 (2010): 433-450. Yusuf Sidani, Dima Jamali.
Suliman S. Olayan School of Business.

Week Ending April 3, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Insulin down-regulates the Na(+)/K(+) ATPase in enterocytes but increases intestinal glucose absorption. Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2010 Mar 18. [Epub ahead of print]. MF Serhan, SI Kreydiyyeh.
Department of Biology, FAS.

Faculty of Health Sciences

Full-time homemakers: workers who cannot "go home and relax". Int J Occup Saf Ergon., Vol.16, No.1 (2010): 113-28. Rima R Habib, FA Fathallah, K Messing. rh35@aub.edu.lb
Department of Environmental Health, FHS

Medical Center

Reappraisal of maximal paracentesis in central retinal artery occlusion. Acta Ophthalmologica, Early View (Articles online in advance of print), 19 Nov 2009. Ahmad M. Mansour, Muhammad H. Younis.
Departments of Ophthalmology, Medical Center.

Cricothyroid joint abnormalities in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. J Voice. 2010 Mar 22. [Epub ahead of print]. Ghina Berjawi¹, Imad Uthman², L Mahfoud, ST Husseini, J Nassar, A Kotobi, AL Hamdan.
Departments of ¹Radiology, ²Internal Medicine, Medical Center. gb02@aub.edu.lb

Celiac disease in Middle Eastern and North African countries: A new burden? World J Gastroenterol., Vol.16, No.12 (Mar 2010): 449-57. Kassem Barada, Abbas Bitar, MA Mokadem, JG Hashash, P Green.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center. kb02@aub.edu.lb

Severe cerebral vaso-occlusive disease in macrophage activation syndrome. Pediatr Neurol., Vol.42, No.4 (Apr 2010): 283-6. Mohammad K El-Bitar, Samar A Muwakkit, Rola Hourani, Miguel R Abboud, Raya Saab, Omar Dabbagh.
Division of Pediatric Neurology and Pediatric Epilepsy Program, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Center.

Week Ending March 27, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Week Ending March 20, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences

Determinants of adoption of Protected Designation of Origin Label: Evidence from the French Brie cheese industry. Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol.61, No.2 (Jun 2010): 225-239. Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, Jad Chaaban.
Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences.

Conservation versus conventional tillage on performance of three different crops. Agron J., Vol.102 (2010): 269-276. Sui-Kwong Yau, M. Sidahmed, Mustapha Haidar.
Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

The Surface and the Abyss: Nietzsche As Philosopher of Mind and Knowledge. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2010. Peter Bornedal.
Civilization Sequence Program, FAS.

The works of Abū Mansūr al-Tha'ālibī (350-429/961-1039). Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol.40, No.3 (2009): 273-318. Bilal Orfali.
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, FAS.

Dialects of written Arabic: Syntactic differences in the treatment of object pronouns in the Arabic of Egyptian and Levantine newspapers. Arabica, Vol.57 (2010): 99-128. David Wilmsen.
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, FAS.

Understatement, euphemism, and circumlocution in Egyptian Arabic: Cooperation in conversational dissembling. In: Jonathan Owens and Alaa Elgibali (eds.), Information Structure in Spoken Arabic, Ch.11. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. David Wilmsen.
Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, FAS.

The effect of PEG-coated gold nanoparticles on the anti-proliferative potential of Specific Nutrient Synergy. Nanotexicology, Vol.4, No.2 (Jun 2010): 177-185. Steve Harakeh‌, Roula M. Abdel-Massih‌, Pilar Rivera Gil, Ralph A. Sperling‌, Andreas Meinhardt‌, Aleksandra Niedwiecki‌, Matthias Rath‌1, Wolfgang J. Parak‌, Elias Baydoun‌.
Department of Biology, FAS.

Abiogenesis in upper secondary biology curricula. Evolution: Education and Outreach, Online First™, March 10, 2010. Barend Vlaardingerbroek.
Department of Education, FAS.

CALL in Lebanese elementary ESL writing classrooms. Computer Assisted Language Learning, Vol.23, No.2 (Apr 2010): 151-168. Diana Fidaoui, Rima Bahous, Nahla N. Bacha.
Department of English, FAS.

Shades of Gray: A Reader for Academic Writing. 2nd ed.; Essex, UK: Pearson Education Limited, 2010. Zane Sinno, Rima Rantisi, Gassan Zeineddine, Natalie Honein, Jasmina Najjar (eds.).
Department of English, FAS.

Painting Persia. Play reading at the New York Theatre Workshop, New York, 25 March 2010. Robert Myers.
Department of English, FAS.

Court and courtiers: A Preliminary investigation of Abbasid terminology. In: Albrecht Fuess, Jan-Peter Hartung (eds.), Court Cultures in the Muslim World, Seventh to Nineteenth Centuries, Ch.4. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. Nadia-Maria El-Cheikh.
Department of History & Archaeology, FAS.

The Court of al-Muqtadir: Its space and its occupants. In: J. Nawas (ed.), 'Abbasid Studies II, Occasional Papers of the School of 'Abbasid Studies (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 177). Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishers, 2010 (forthcoming). Nadia-Maria El-Cheikh.
Department of History & Archaeology, FAS.

Higgs for Graviton: Simple and elegant solution. arXiv:1002.3877 (22 Feb 2010). Ali H. Chamseddine, Viatcheslav Mukhanov.
Department of Physics, FAS.

Review of: Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years, H.E.Chehabi, ed. (London: Centre for Lebanese Studies and I.B. Tauris Publishers, 2006). Digest of Middle East Studies, Vol.17, No.1 (Spr 2008), Published Online: Mar 16 2010 : 147-152. LeRoy T. Long.
FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

MorphoSys reconfigurable hardware for cryptography: The twofish case. The Journal of Supercomputing, Online First™, March 11, 2010. Sohaib Majzoub, Hassan Diab.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Shear strength of fiber-reinforced sands. J. Geotech. and Geoenvir. Engineering , Vol.136, No. 3 (Mar 2010): 490-499: Salah Sadek, Shadi Najjar, Fadi Freiha*.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

A clinical decision support framework for incremental polyps classification in virtual colonoscopy. Algorithms, Vol.3, No.1 (2010): 1-20. Mariette Awad, Yuichi Motai, Janne Näppi, Hiroyuki Yoshida.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

SSUM: Smart Server Update Mechanism for maintaining cache consistency in mobile environments. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Rapid Post (11 Jan 2010). Khaleel Mershad*, Hassan Ali Artail.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Medical Center

Prediction of the epileptic events 'Epileptic Seizures' by neural networks and expert systems. International Journal of Biological and Medical Sciences, Vol.5, No.1 (2010): 38-45. Kifah Tout, Nisrine Sinno, Mohamad Mikati.
Adult & Pediatric Epilepsy Program, Department of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine.

Ondansetron is as effective as diphenhydramine for treatment of morphine-induced pruritus after cesarean delivery. Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica, Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Mar 2010. S.M. Siddik-Sayyid, V.G. Yazbeck-Karam, B.W. Zahreddine, A.M.B.F. Adham, C.M. Dagher, W.A. Saasouh, M.T. Aouad.
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Center.

Evidence for prostacyclin and cAMP upregulation by bradykinin and insulin-like growth factor 1 in vascular smooth muscle cells. Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction, Vol.30, No.2 (2010): 61-71. Jerry G. Webb‌, Yan Tan‌, Miran A. Jaffa‌, Ayad A. Jaffa.‌
Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine.

Contact lens-based expansion and transplantation of autologous epithelial progenitors for ocular surface reconstruction: Crossover control. Transplantation, Vol.89, No.4 (2010): 483. Dipak N. Parmar, Hassan Alizadeh, Shady Awwad, Richard W. Bowman, H. Dwight Cavanagh, James P. McCulley.
Department of Ophthalmology, Medical Center.

Effect of suxamethonium vs rocuronium on onset of oxygen desaturation during apnoea following rapid sequence induction. Anaesthesia, Vol.65, No.4 (Apr 2010): 358-361. Samar K. Taha, M.F. El-Khatib, A.S. Baraka, Y.A. Haidar*, F.W. Abdallah, R.A. Zbeidy, S.M. Siddik-Sayyid.
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Center.

Nurses' attitudes toward the use of the bar-coding medication administration system. CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing, Vol.28 (Mar-Apr 2010): 112-123. Sana Daya Marini, Arie Hasman, Huda Abu-Saad Huijer, Hani Dimassi.
Hariri School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine.

Olayan School of Business

Determinants of credit spread changes for the financial sector. Studies in Economics and Finance, Vol.27, No.1 (2010): 67-82. Wassim Dbouk, Lawrence Kryzanowski.
Suliman S. Olayan School of Business.

Week Ending March 13, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences

Letter to the Editor [A letter to the editor, in response to the article "Obesity in Mediterranean region (1997-2007): A systematic review," in the 2008 issue.]. Obesity Reviews, Vol.11, No.3 (2010): 229. Nahla Hwalla.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

American studies without a ground: Relational questions from a war zone. In: Susana Araújo, João Ferreira Duarte and Marta Pacheco Pinto (eds.), Trans/American, Trans/Oceanic, Trans/lation: Issues in International American Studies, 77-84. Newcastle upon Tyne , UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. Patrick McGreevy.
Office of the Dean, FAS.

Arab Society and Culture: An Essential Guide. Karnataka, India: Saqi Books, 2010. Samir Khalaf¹, Roseanne Saad Khalaf².
Departments of ¹Social & Behavioral Sciences, ²English, FAS.

Perceptions of rape and attitudes toward women in a sample of Lebanese students. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol.25, No.4 (Apr 2010): 735-752. Maria J. Rebeiz, Charles Harb.
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, FAS.

Stellar nucleosynthesis: s-Process in Massive Stars. AIP Conf. Proc., Vol.1213 (1 Mar 2010): 74-83. 5th European Summer School on Experimental Astrophysics. Mounib El Eid.
Department of Physics, FAS.

Gravity with de Sitter and unitary tangent groups. Journal of High Energy Physics, No.3 (2010): 1-18. Ali H. Chamseddine, Viatcheslav Mukhanov.
Department of Physics, FAS.

Enhanced conversion of light at TiO2 photonic crystals to the blue of a stop band and at TiO2 random films sensitized with Q-CdS: Order and disorder. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol.114, No.6 (2010): 2806-2813. Maysaa El Harakeh, Lara Halaoui.
Department of Chemistry, FAS.

Mercury removal from aqueous solutions using silica, polyacrylamide and hybrid silica-polyacrylamide aerogels. Chemical Engineering Journal, Vol.159, No.1-3 (2010): 107-115. Hiba Ramadan, Aline Ghanem, Houssam El-Rassy.
Department of Chemistry, FAS.

“To help the nation to save its soul”: Museum purposes in James's the Princess Casamassima. Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol.38 (2010): 239-254. John Pedro Schwartz.
FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Parametric design adaptation for competitive products. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2010, Online First™. Ali A. Yassine.
Engineering Management Program, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

UW-MAC: An underwater sensor network MAC protocol. International Journal of Communication Systems, Vol.23, No.4 (Apr 2010): 485-506. Mohamed K. Watfa, Samir Selman, Hovig Denkilkian.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Experimental and theoretical study of ventilation and heat loss from isothermally heated clothed vertical cylinder in uniform flow field. J. Appl. Mech., Vol.77, No.3 (May 2010): 031011 (8 pages). Nesreen Ghaddar¹, Kamel Ghali¹, Mohammad Al-Othmani²*.
¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, ²Department of Biology, FAS.

Deferasirox (Exjade®) significantly improves cardiac T2* in heavily iron-overloaded patients with β-thalassemia major. Annals of Hematology, Vol.89, No.4 (1 Apr 2010): 405-9. Anil Pathare, Ali T. Taher, Ali , Shahina Daar.
Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology Division, Medical Center.

Effect of female nargile smoking on in vitro fertilization outcome. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol., 2010 Mar 9. [Epub ahead of print]. Antoine Hannoun, Anwar H. Nassar, Ihab M. Usta, Antoine Abu-Musa.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Center.

Spread of OXA-48-encoding plasmid in Turkey and beyond. Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Vol.54, No.3 (2010): 1369-1373. A. Carrër, L. Poirel, M. Yilmaz, Ö.A. Akan, C. Feriha, G. Cuzon, Ghassan Matar, P. Honderlick, P. Nordmann.
Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine.

Central line associated bloodstream infection rates in 166 intensive care units of 54 cities in 23 developing countries: Findings of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC). International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol.14, Suppl.1 (Mar 2010): e255-e256. V. Rosenthal, C. Álvarez Moreno, A. Mehta, H. Leblebicioglu, E.A. Medeiros, L. Raka, B. Hu, S. Jamulitrat, I.A. Khader, M.G. Miranda Novales, Y. Hussain, R. Fernández Hidalgo, Souha Kanj Shararah, Á. Villacres, J.A. Navoa-Ng, T. Mapp, H. Guanche Garcell, A. Barkat, V. Suljagic, Z. Mitrev, L. Dueñas, L. Cuellar, A. Hamdi.
Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Letter: 755-nm Alexandrite Laser Epilation as an Adjuvant and Primary Treatment for Pilonidal Sinus Disease. Dermatologic Surgery, Vol.36, No.3 (2 Mar 2010): 430-432. Ossama Abbas, Mustafa Sidani, Nelly Rubeiz, Samer Ghosn, Abdul Ghani Kibbi.
Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine.

Corrigendum to: “Long-term follow-up on microsurgical free-tissue transfer in foot and ankle reconstruction". Foot and Ankle Surgery, Vol.16, No.1 (Mar 2010): 52 [Foot Ankle Surg. 14 (2008) 82–88]. Moucharafieh, Joseph Wehbe, Ghassan Maalouf, Bishara Atiyeh.
Department of Surgery, Medical Center.

Olyayan School of Business

Governance, ownership structure, and performance of IPO firms: The impact of different types of private equity investors and institutional environments. Strategic Management Journal, Vol.31, No.5 (May 2010): 491-509. Garry D. Bruton, Igor Filatotchev, Salim Chahine, Mike Wright.
Suliman S. Olayan School of Business.

Week Ending March 6, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Quality of College Life (QCL) of students: Further validation of a measure of well-being. Social Indicators Research, Online First™, 2010. M. Joseph Sirgy, Dong-Jin Lee, Stephan Grzeskowiak, Grace B. Yu, Dave Webb, Karma El-Hasan, Jose Jesus Garcia Vega, Ahmet Ekici, J. S. Johar and Anjala Krishen, et al.
Institutional Research and Assessment (OIRA).

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Statistical representation of distribution system loads using Gaussian mixture model . IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Vol.25, No.1 (2010): art. no. 5298967, 29-37. Ravindra Singh, Bikash C.Pal, Rabih A Jabr.
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

A cache invalidation strategy for mobile networks. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol.33, No.2 (2010): 168-182. Haidar Safa¹, Hassan Ali Artail², M. Nahhas.
Departments of ¹Computer Science, ²Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Perceived health and medicinal properties of six species of wild edible plants in north-east lebanon. Public Health Nutrition, Vol.12, No.10 (2009): 1902-1911. Zeinab Jeambey, Timothy Johns, Salma Talhouk, Malek Batal. ntsalma@aub.edu.lb
Department of Landscape Design & Ecosystem Management, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Faculty of Health Sciences

Gender differences in determinants of weight-control behaviours among adolescents in Beirut. Public Health Nutrition, Vol.13, No.1 (2010): 71-81. M.N. Kanaan, Rima A. Afifi. ra15@aub.edu.lb
Department of Health Behavior & Education, FHS

Determinants of change in paternal smoking trends during pregnancy in Lebanon. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand., Vol.89, No.4 (2010): 587-91. Ziyad Mahfoud, S. Saad, Pascale Haddad, M. Chaaya.
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, FHS.

Arytenoid asymmetry in relation to vocal symptoms in singers. Voice, 2010 Feb 25. [Epub ahead of print]. Abdul-Latif Hamdan¹, Sami Tambouzi Husseini, Akaber Halawi*¹, Abla Mehio Sibai².
¹Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Medical Center; ²Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, FHS.

Hariri School of Nursing

Training trainees, young activists, to conduct awareness campaigns about prevention of substance abuse among Lebanese/Armenian young people. Journal of Interprofessional Care, Vol.24, No.2 (2010):173-182. Mary Arevian.
Hariri School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine.

Living with breast cancer, a Lebanese experience. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, Vol.14, No.1 (2010): 42-48. Myrna A.A. Doumit, Naji El Saghir, Huda Abu-Saad Huijer, Jane H. Kelley, Nada Nassar.
Hariri School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine.

Medical Center

Asymptomatic papules and nodules on forehead and limbs. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, Vol.35, No.3 (Apr 2010): e76-e78. Ossama Abbas, Z. Saleh, M. Kurban, N. Al-Sadoon, Samer Ghosn. sg03@aub.edu.lb
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

Multiple asymptomatic skin-coloured papules over the neck and antecubital areas. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, Vol.35, No.3 (Apr 2010): e50-e51. Ossama Abbas, Samer Ghosn, M. Kurban, Salah Salman.
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

Extensive and progressive eruption in a young woman. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, Vol.35, No.3 (Apr 2010): e85-e86. Ossama Abbas, Nelly Rubeiz, Samer Ghosn
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

Bilateral auricular pseudocysts as the presenting sign of hepatocellular carcinoma. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, Vol.35, No.3 (Apr 2010): e34-e36. Ossama Abbas, A. Chedraoui, Jasmin Abd-El-Baki, Abdul-Ghani Kibbi, Samer Ghosn.
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

Asymptomatic swelling of the right ear. Clinical and Experimental Dermatology, Vol.35, No.3 (Apr 2010): e72-e73. Ossama Abbas, Samer Ghosn, Abdul-Ghani Kibbi, Salah Salman.
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

The Lebanese physician: A public's viewpoint. Developing World Bioethics, Vol.10, No.1 (Apr 2010): 22-29. Thalia Arawi.
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine.

Malignancy and hypercoagulability: a two-way association revisited. Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, Online First™, 2010. Elie G. Aoun, Khaled M. Musallam, Mohamad Abou-Ghazal, Ali T. Taher.
Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Paraspinal extramedullary hematopoiesis in patients with thalassemia intermedia. Eur Spine J., 5 Mar 2010. [Epub ahead of print]. Rashid Haidar¹, Hani Mhaidli, Ali T. Taher².
¹Division of Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, ²Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology Division, Medical Center.

Bilateral phrenic nerve paralysis as a manifestation of paraneoplastic syndrome. Acta Oncol., Vol.49, No.2 (2010): 264-5. Zaher .K. Otrock, W.M. Barada, Raja .A. Sawaya, J.F. Saab*, Ali .A. Bazarbachi.
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Center.

Prenatal and neonatal Group B Streptococcus screening and serotyping in Lebanon: incidence and implications. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand., Vol.89, No. 3 (Mar 2010): 399-403. Muhieddine Seoud¹, Anwar H. Nassar¹, Pierre Zalloua¹, Nansi Boghossian³, Jihad Ezeddine¹, Hassan Fakhoury, Joseph Abboud, Imad Melki, George Araj², Ghinwa Nacouzi³, May Sanyoura³, Khalid Yunis³.
Departments of ¹Obstetrics & Gynecology, ²Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, ³Pediatrics.

Treatment of a severe arch-length deficiency with anteroposterior and transverse expansion: Long-term stability. Am J Orthod Dentofacial Orthop., Vol.137, No.3 (Mar 2010): 401-411. Roy Sabri.
Department of Otolaryngology, Medical Center.

Monoclonal antibodies used as prophylactic, therapeutic and diagnostic agents. Immunopharmacol Immunotoxicol., 2010 Mar 3. [Epub ahead of print]. Marita Chakhtoura, Alexander M. Abdelnoor.
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine.

Arytenoid asymmetry in relation to vocal symptoms in singers. Voice, 2010 Feb 25. [Epub ahead of print]. Abdul-Latif Hamdan¹, Sami Tambouzi Husseini, Akaber Halawi*¹, Abla Mehio Sibai².
¹Department of Otolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, Medical Center; ²Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, FHS.

Amiodarone and reperfusion ventricular fibrillation. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth., 2010 Feb 24. [Epub ahead of print]. Chakib M. Ayoub¹, Pierre M. Sfeir², Mohamad F. El-Khatib¹.
Departments of ¹Anesthesiology, ²Surgery, Medical Center.

Daptomycin compared to standard therapy for the treatment of native valve endocarditis. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin., 2010 Feb 24. [Epub ahead of print]. Zeina Kanafani, Helen Boucher, Vance Fowler, Christopher Cabell, Bruno Hoen, Jose Miro, Tahaniyat Lalani, Gloria Vigliani, Marilyn Campion, Ralph Corey y Donald Levine.
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Prophylactic amiodarone versus lidocaine for prevention of reperfusion ventricular fibrillation after release of aortic cross-clamp. Eur J Anaesthesiol., Vol.26, No.12 (Dec 2009): 1056-60. Chakib Maurice Ayoub¹, Pierre M. Sfeir², Pierre Bou-Khalil³, Mireille Azar, Ala's Haddadin, Diala Harfouch*¹, Viviane G. Nasr*¹, Mohamed F. El-Khatib¹.
Departments of ¹Anesthesiology, ²Surgery, ³Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Mental health care in Lebanon: Policy, plans and programmes. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, Vol.15, No.6 (2009): 1596-1612. L.M. Chahine, Z. Chemali.
Faculty of Medicine.

Olyayan School of Business

Exploring consumer boycott intelligence using a socio-cognitive approach. Journal of Business Research, Vol.63, No.4 (2010): 347-355. Maya F. Farah, Andrew J. Newman.
Suleiman S. Olayan School of Business.

Week Ending February 27, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences

Performance and carcass quality of broiler chickens fed a corn-soybean meal diet containing graded barley levels without or with enzyme. Journal of Poultry Science, Vol.47, No.1 (2010): 34-40. M.T. Farran, G.W. Barbour, N.N. Usayran, A.H. Darwish, H.H. Machlab, M. Hruby, V. Ashkarian.
Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Food and feeding habits of the Lessepsian migrants Siganus luridus Rüppell, 1828 and Siganus rivulatus Forsskål, 1775 (Teleostei: Siganidae) in the southern Mediterranean (Libyan coast). Journal of Biological Research, Vol.12 (2009): 115-124. E. Shakman, C. Boedeker, M. Bariche, R. Kinzelbach.
Department of Biology, FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Lot sizing with a Markov production process and imperfect items scrapped. International Journal of Production Economics, Vol.124, No.2 (Apr 2010): 340-347. Bacel Maddah¹, Lama Moussawi², Mohamad Y. Jaber.
¹Engineering Management Program, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture; ²Suliman S. Olayan School of Business.

Wireless systems fixed relaying with adaptive antenna arrays for the downlink of multihop cellular networks. European Transactions on Telecommunications, Vol.21, No.2 (Mar 2010): 167-177. Zaher Dawy, Ibrahim Abdel Nabi.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Faculty of Health Sciences

How to break the cycle of hopelessness? International Journal of Public Health, Vol.54, No.5 (2009): 357-358. I. Nuwayhid.
FHS

Medical Center

Lot sizing with a Markov production process and imperfect items scrapped. International Journal of Production Economics, Vol.124, No.2 (Apr 2010): 340-347. Bacel Maddah¹, Lama Moussawi², Mohamad Y. Jaber.
¹Engineering Management Program, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture; ²Suliman S. Olayan School of Business.

Nontransferrin-bound iron in transfused patients with sickle cell disease. International Journal of Laboratory Hematology, Early View, Published Online: 25 Feb 2010. A. Inati, Khaled M. Musallam, M. D. Cappellini, L. Duca, Ali T. Taher.
Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology Division, Medical Center.

Surgical care delivery and world health. Archives of Surgery, Vol.145, No.2 (Feb 2010): 160. Ismail Khalil.
Department of Surgery, Medical Center.

Effect of religion on the attitude of primiparous women toward genetic testing. Prenatal Diagnosis, Vol.30, No.3 (Mar 2010): 241-246. Ihab M. Usta, Anwar H. Nassar, Antoine A. Abu-Musa, Antoine Hannoun.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Center.

Clinicovirologic analysis of hepatitis C infection in transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia major children. International Journal of Laboratory Hematology, Vol.32, No.2 (Apr 2010): 184-190. L. Ragab, S. Helal, N. Zaghloul, M. El-Raziky, R. Afifi, Khaled M. Musallam, Ali T. Taher.
Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology–Oncology Division, Medical Center.

International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) report, data summary for 2003-2008, issued June 2009. American Journal of Infection Control, Vol.38, No.2 (Mar 2010): 95-104.e2. Victor D. Rosenthal, Dennis G. Maki, Silom Jamulitrat, Eduardo A. Medeiros, Subhash Kumar Todi, David Yepes Gomez, Hakan Leblebicioglu, Ilham Abu Khader, María Guadalupe Miranda Novales, Regina Berba, Fernando Martín Ramírez Wong, Amina Barkat, Osiel Requejo Pino, Lourdes Dueñas, Zan Mitrev, Hu Bijie, Vaidotas Gurskis, Souha Kanj Shararah , Trudell Mapp, Rosalía Fernández Hidalgo, Nejla Ben Jaballah, Lul Raka, Achilleas Gikas, Altaf Ahmed, Le Thi Anh Thu, María Eugenia Guzmán Siritt.
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine.

Dietary exposure to essential and toxic trace elements from a total diet study in an adult Lebanese urban population. Food and Chemical Toxicology, Vol.48, No.5 (2010): 1262-1269. Lara Nasreddine¹, Osanna Nashalian^*2, Farah Naja¹, Leila Itani*¹, Dominique Parent-Massin, Maya Nabhani-Zeidan¹, Nahla Hwalla¹.
¹Department of Nutrition and Food Science, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences, ²Environment Core Laboratory (EVL), Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (PLM).

Impaired sustained attention and executive dysfunction: bipolar disorder versus depression-specific markers of affective disorders. Neuropsychologia, Vol.48, No.6 (may 2010): 1862-1868. Fadi T. Maalouf, Crystal Klein, Luke Clark, Barbara J. Sahakian, Edmund J. LaBarbara, Amelia Versace, Stefanie Hassel, Jorge R.C. Almeida, Mary L. Phillips.
Department of Psychiatry, Medical Center.

Global vitamin D status and determinants of hypovitaminosis D. Osteoporosis International, Vol.20, No.11 (2009): 1807-1821. A. Mithal, D.A. Wahl, J.-P. Bonjour, P. Burckhardt, B. Dawson-Hughes, J.A. Eisman, G. El-Hajj Fuleihan, R.G. Josse, P. Lips, J. Morales-Torres.
Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Weeks of February 7-20, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Comparison of carcinogen, carbon monoxide, and ultrafine particle emissions from narghile waterpipe and cigarette smoking: Sidestream smoke measurements and assessment of second-hand smoke emission factors. Atmos Environ., Vol.44, No.1 (Jan 2010): 8-14. Nancy Daher¹, Rawad Saleh¹, Ezzat Jaroudi¹, Hiba Sheheitli¹, Thérèse Badr¹, Elizabeth Sepetdjian², Mariam Al Rashidi², Najat Saliba², Alan Shihadeh¹.
¹Aerosol Research Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture; ²Department of Chemistry, FAS.

Analytical theory of finite-size effects in mechanical desorption of a polymer chain. J Chem Phys., Vol.132, No.6 (Feb 2010): 064110 (15 pages). A.M. Skvortsov, L.I. Klushin, G.J. Fleer, F.A. Leermakers.
Department of Physics, FAS.

Validation of the Arabic Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale in a Lebanese community sample. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, Vol.26, No.1 (2010): 68-73. Shahe S. Kazarian, Dana Taher.
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Environmental management system (ISO 14001) certification in developing countries: Challenges and implementation strategies (1). Environ Sci Technol., 2010 Feb 12. May A. Massoud¹, Rabih Fayad², Rabih Kamleh¹ , Mutasem El-Fadel².
¹Department of Environmental Health, FHS, ²Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Comparison of carcinogen, carbon monoxide, and ultrafine particle emissions from narghile waterpipe and cigarette smoking: Sidestream smoke measurements and assessment of second-hand smoke emission factors. Atmos Environ., Vol.44, No.1 (Jan 2010): 8-14. Nancy Daher¹, Rawad Saleh¹, Ezzat Jaroudi¹, Hiba Sheheitli¹, Thérèse Badr¹, Elizabeth Sepetdjian², Mariam Al Rashidi², Najat Saliba², Alan Shihadeh¹.
¹Aerosol Research Lab, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture; ²Department of Chemistry, FAS.

Generation self-scheduling with partial information on the probability distribution of prices. IET Gener. Transm. Distrib., Vol.4, No.2 (Feb 2010): 138–149. R.A. Jabr.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Quality assessment of various bottled waters marketed in Lebanon. Environ Monit Assess. 2010 Feb 11. [Epub ahead of print]. Lucy Semerjian.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Faculty of Health Sciences

Women's autonomy and support for wife beating: Findings from a population-based survey in Jordan. Violence and Victims, Vol.25, No.3 (2010): 409-419. N. Linos, M. Khawaja, M. Al-Nsour.
Center for Research on Population and Health, Faculty of Health Sciences.

Health warning labelling practices on narghile (shisha, hookah) waterpipe tobacco products and related accessories. Tob Control., Vol.19, No.3 (Jun 2010): 235-9. Rima Nakkash, Joanna Khalil.
Health Behavior and Education Department, Center for Research on Population and Health, FHS.

Medical Center

Non-pyogenic infections of the spine. International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 21 May 2010.Ghassan S. Skaf¹, Zeina A. Kanafani², George F. Araj³, Souha S. Kanj².
¹Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery, ²Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, ³Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Medical Center.

Solitary sclerotic fibroma on the scalp of a young girl: Reactive sclerosis pattern? The Journal of Dermatology, Vol.37, No.6 (Jun 2010): 575-577. Ossama Abbas, Samer Ghosn, Ruba Bahhady, Salah Salman.
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

Antiviral drug susceptibilities of seasonal human influenza viruses in Lebanon, 2008-09 season. Journal of Medical Virology, Vol.82, No.7 (Jul 2010): 1224-1228. Hassan Zaraket, Reiko Saito, Rima Wakim, Carelle Tabet, Fouad Medlej, Mariam Reda, Tatiana Baranovich, Yasushi Suzuki, Clyde Dapat, Isolde Caperig-Dapat, Ghassan S. Dbaibo, Hiroshi Suzuki.
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center.

Determinants of adoption of protected designation of origin label: Evidence from the French brie cheese Industry. Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 61 No.2 (Jun 2010): 225-239. Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, Jad Chaaban.
Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

IUDs and adolescents—An under-utilized opportunity for pregnancy prevention. Journal of Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology, Vol.23, No.3 (Jun 2010): 123-128. Sophia Yen, Tammy Saah, Paula J. Adams Hillard.
Faculty of Medicine.

Ethical conduct of research in developing countries. International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare, Vol.8, No.2 (Jun 2010): 43044. Michael Clinton.
Rafic Hariri School of Nursing.

Practical approach to the child presenting with back pain. European Journal of Pediatrics, 2010, Article in press, 1-8. R. Haidar¹, S. Saad², N.J. Khoury³, U. Musharrafieh.^4
1Department of Surgery, Medical Center; ²Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine; ³Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Center; ⁴Department of Family Medicine, Medical Center.

Child sexual abuse in Lebanon during war and peace. Child Care Health Dev., Vol.36, No.3 (May 2010): 361-8. Usta J, Farver J.
Department of Family Medicine, Medical center.

aculty of Medicine.

Olyayan School of Business

MNCs and international accountability standards through an institutional lens: Evidence of symbolic conformity or decoupling. Journal of Business Ethics, Vol.92 (2010). Online First™. Dima Jamali.
Suliman S. Olayan School of Business.

Week Ending February 6, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences

Determination of visual detection thresholds of selected iron fortificants and formulation of iron-fortified pocket-type flat bread . Journal of Cereal Science, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 January 2010. Nour El Ouyoun Najm¹, Ammar Olabi¹, Sawsan Kreyydieh², Imad Toufeili¹.
¹Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences; ²Department of Biology, FAS.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

The uncanny precision of the spectral action. Communications in Mathematical Physics, Vol.293, No.3 (2010): 867-897. Ali H. Chamseddine, Alain Connes.
Department of Physics, FAS.

Investigating the mechanism of clofibric acid removal in Fe0/H2O systems. Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol.176, No.1-3 (2010): 48-55. Antoine Ghauch, Hala Abou Assi*, Almuthanna Tuqan*.
Department of Chemistry, FAS.

Foreign ceramic tradition, local clays: The handmade burnished ware of Tell Kazel (Syria). Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol.37, No.7 (Jul 2010): 1678-1689. Marie-Claude Boileau, Leila Badre, Emmanuelle Capet, Reinhard Jung, Hans Mommsen.
Archeological Museum.

Determination of visual detection thresholds of selected iron fortificants and formulation of iron-fortified pocket-type flat bread . Journal of Cereal Science, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 28 January 2010. Nour El Ouyoun Najm¹, Ammar Olabi¹, Sawsan Kreyydieh², Imad Toufeili¹.
¹Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences; ²Department of Biology, FAS.

Fabrication and sub-band-gap absorption of single-crystal Si supersaturated with Se by pulsed laser mixing. Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, Vol.98, No.3 (2010): 589-594. Malek Tabbal, Taegon Kim, David N. Woolf, Byungha Shin, Michael J. Aziz.
Department of Physics, FAS.

Reactive oxygen species mediate thymoquinone-induced apoptosis and activate ERK and JNK signaling. Apoptosis, Vol.15, No.2 (2010): 183-195. Nahed El-Najjar, Manal Chatila, Hiba Moukadem, Heikki Vuorela and Matthias Ocker, Muktheshwar Gandesiri, Regine Schneider-Stock, Hala Gali-Muhtasib.
Department of Biology, FAS.

Role of glucagon-like peptide-1 analogues on insulin receptor regulation in diabetic rat hearts. Can J Physiol Pharmacol., Vol.88, No.1 (Jan 2010): 54-63. Christine M. Hantouche, Khalil M. Bitar¹, Georges M. Nemer², Mounir Y. Obeid³, Lina N. Kadi*, Asdghig H. Der-Boghossian, Anwar B. Bikhazi⁴.
¹Department of Physics, FAS; ²Departments of Biochemistry, ³Surgery, ⁴Physiology, Faculty of Medicine.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Mobile networks uplink scheduling in LTE systems using distributed base stations. European Transactions on Telecommunications, Early View (Articles online in advance of print). Published Online: 1 Feb 2010. Elias Yaacoub, Zaher Dawy.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Robust network dimensioning for realtime services over IP networks with traffic deviation. Computer Communications, Vol.33, No.8 (2010): 976-983. Sanaa Sharafeddine, Zaher Dawy.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Compacting SQL queries for saving resources in mobile ad hoc and sensor networks. International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, Vol.3, No.4 (Dec 2009): 440-460. Hassan Ali Artail, Haidar Safa, Anas Idris*.
Departments of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Medical Center

Successful treatment of severe retro-peritoneal bleeding with recombinant factor VIIa in women with placenta percreta invading into the left broad ligament: Unusual repeated ante-partum intra-abdominal bleeding. Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research, Vol.36, No.1 (Feb 2010): 183-186. Muhieddine Seoud¹, Samer Cheaib¹, Ghina Birjawi², Ayman Tawil³, Faek Jamali⁴.
Departments of ¹Obstetrics and Gynecology, ²Radiology, ³Pathology and ⁴Surgery, Medical Center.

Is combining or alternating antipyretic therapy more beneficial than monotherapy for febrile children? BMJ, Vol.340, No.7737 (9 Jan 2010): 92-93. Mona Nabulsi.
Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine.

Troubleshooting in animal models of colitis: The use of a novel electrocautery model. Journal of Pharmacological and Toxicological Methods, Vol.61No.2 (2010): 122-126. Fadi H. Mourad^1,2, Kassem A. Barada^1,2, Bakiza Noutsi³, Nayef E. Saade^1,2.
Departments of ¹Internal Medicine, ²Physiology, ³Human Morphology, Faculty of Medicine.

Absence of cardiac siderosis despite hepatic iron overload in Italian patients with thalassemia intermedia: an MRI T2* study. Annals of Hematology. Online First. Alberto Roghi, Maria Domenica Cappellini, John C. Wood, Khaled M. Musallam, Pedrotti Patrizia, Maria Rosaria Fasulo, Claudia Cesaretti and Ali T. Taher.
Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology–Oncology Division, Medical Center.

Role of glucagon-like peptide-1 analogues on insulin receptor regulation in diabetic rat hearts. Can J Physiol Pharmacol., Vol.88, No.1 (Jan 2010): 54-63. Christine M. Hantouche, Khalil M. Bitar¹, Georges M. Nemer², Mounir Y. Obeid³, Lina N. Kadi*, Asdghig H. Der-Boghossian, Anwar B. Bikhazi⁴.
¹Department of Physics, FAS; ²Departments of Biochemistry, ³Surgery, ⁴Physiology, Faculty of Medicine.

Olyayan School of Business

Order overlapping: A practical approach for preventing shortages during screening. Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol.58, No.4 (2010): 691-695. Bacel Maddah, Moueen K. Salameh*, Lama Moussawi.
Engineering Management Program, Suliman S. Olayan School of Business.

Week Ending January 30, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author when the work was produced.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

An Oxazolo[3,2-b]indazole Route to 1H-Indazolones. Org. Lett., Vol.11, No.13 (2009): 2760-2763. James S. Oakdale, Danielle M. Solano, James C. Fettinger, Makhluf J. Haddadin, Mark J. Kurth.
Department of Chemistry, FAS.

Cyclopenta[b]pyrroles from triazines: Synthetic and mechanistic studies. Organic Letters, Vol.12, No.1 (1 Jan 2010): 164-167. L. Ye, Makhluf J. Haddadin, D.J. Tantillo, M.J. Kurth.
Department of Chemistry, FAS.

Investigating the mechanism of clofibric acid removal in Fe⁰/H₂O systems. Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol.176, No.1-3 (15 Apr 2010): 48-55. Antoine Ghauch, Hala Abou Assi, Almuthanna Tuqan.
Department of Chemistry, FAS.

A novel method for the synthesis of 3,5-disubstituted-(NH)-1,2,4-triazoles from 3,6-diaryl-1,2,4,5-tetrazines. Tetrahedron Letters, Vol.51, No.13 (2010): 1654-1656. Makhluf J. Haddadin, Ebrahim H. Ghazvini Zadeh*.
Department of Chemistry, FAS.

Reaction–diffusion based co-synthesis of stable α- and β-cobalt hydroxide in bio-organic gels. Journal of Crystal Growth, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 16 December 2009. Mazen Al-Ghoul^1,2, Houssam El-Rassy¹, Thibaud Coradin, Tharwat Mokalled¹.
¹Department of Chemistry, FAS, ²Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences, FAS.

The Prosecutorial Interpretation of the Complementarity Principle: Does It Really Contribute to Ending Impunity on the National Level? International Criminal Law Review, Vol.10, No.1 (2010): 73-96. Nidal Nabil Jurdi.
Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, Middle East Office Lecturer, International Law and Organizations.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

PETRA: A secure and energy-efficient software update protocol for severely-constrained network devices. Q2SWinet'09 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (2009): 37-43. W. Itani, A. Kayssi, A. Chehab.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Faculty of Health Sciences

Effectiveness of wastewater management in rural areas of developing countries: A case of Al-Chouf Caza in Lebanon. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, Vol.161, No.1-4 (Feb 2010): 61-69. May A. Massoud, Jawaria Tareen, Akram Tarhini, Joumana Nasr, Mey Jurdi.
Department of Environmental Health, FHS.

Medical Center

Nonepileptic paroxysmal events in a pediatric population. Epilepsy & Behavior, Vol.17, No.2 (Feb 2010): 272-275.  Ekrem Kutluay, Linda Selwa, Daniela Minecan, Jonathan Edwards, Ahmad Beydoun.
Department of Neurology, Medical Center.

A missense mutation in the P2RY5 gene leading to autosomal recessive woolly hair in a Syrian patient. Journal of Dermatological Science, Vol.57, No.2 (Feb 2010): 132-134. M. Kurban, Samer Ghosn, O. Abbas, Y. Shimomura, A. Christiano.
Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine.

Pancreatic anastomosis disruption seven years post pancreaticoduodenectomy. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.158, No.2 (Feb 2010): 384-385. W. Faraj, Z. Abou Zaher, M. Khalifeh.
Department of Surgery, Medical Center.

Choledochal anomalies in adults: A Middle East experience. Journal of Surgical Research, Vol.158, No.2 (Feb 2010): 385. W. Faraj, H. Ayoub, M. Khalifeh.
Department of Surgery, Medical Center.

Nonepileptic paroxysmal events in a pediatric population. Epilepsy & Behavior, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 25 January 2010. Ekrem Kutluay, Linda Selwa, Daniela Minecan, Jonathan Edwards, Ahmad Beydoun.
Department of Neurology, Medical Center.

The impact of zoledronic acid on regenerate and native bone after consolidation and removal of the external fixator: An animal model study. Bone, Vol.46, No.2 (Feb 2010): 363-368. Said Saghieh¹, Nabil J. Khoury², Ayman Tawil³, Karim Z. Masrouha¹, Khaled M. Musallam⁴, Kinda Khalaf⁵, Laura Dosh⁶, Rosemarie Reich Jaouhari⁶, Ghina Birjawi², Ghada El-Hajj-Fuleihan⁷.
Departments of ¹Surgery, Division of Orthopedic Surgery, ²Diagnostic Radiology, ³Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, ⁴Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology, Medical Center; ⁵Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture; ⁶Animal Care Facility; ⁷Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Medical Center.

An efficient online-battery aware geographic routing algorithm for wireless sensor networks. International Journal of Communication Systems, Vol.23, No.1 (Jan 2010): 41-61. Mohamed Watfa, Linda Yaghi.
Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering & Architecture.

Facility-based audit of maternal mortality in Lebanon: a feasibility study. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand., Vol.88, No.12 (2009): 1338-44. Hibah Osman¹, Oona MR Campbell, Dima Sinno²,  Rana Zarwi², Anwar H. Nassar³.
¹Department of Health Behaviour and Education, FHS, and Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, ²Centre for Research in Population and Health, FHS; ³Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine.

Morvan syndrome following B-cell lymphoma. J Child Neurol., 2010 Jan 28. [Epub ahead of print]. Mohamad K. El-Bitar¹, Samar A. Muwakkit¹, Miguel R. Abboud, Raja A. Sawaya², Rose-Mary Boustany¹.
¹Division of Pediatric Neurology/Pediatric Epilepsy Program, ²Division of Neurology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Concomitant occurrence of kimura disease and mycosis fungoides in a lebanese woman: Significance and response to rituximab. American Journal of Dermatopathology, Vol.31, No.8 (Dec 2009): 814-818. Samer Ghosn¹, Ruba Bahhady*¹, Rami Mahfouz², Ossama Abbas*¹, Abdul Ghani Kibbi¹, Rana Saad, Ali Taher³.
Departments of ¹Dermatology, ²Pathology, ³Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Week Ending January 23, 2010
*Denotes non-faculty, or student/resident co-author.

Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences

Postprandial metabolic and hormonal responses of obese dyslipidemic subjects with metabolic syndrome to test meals, rich in carbohydrate, fat or protein. Atherosclerosis, Vol.210, No.1 (May 2010): 307-313. Dalia El Khoury, Nahla Hwalla, Vincent Frochot, Jean-Marc Lacortea, Michèle Chaberta, Athina D. Kalopissis.
Department of Nutrition & Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences.

Designing and testing of an Arabic version of the hedonic scale for use in acceptability tests. Food Quality and Preference, Vol.21, No.1 (2010): 33-43. Hamza Daroub, Ammar Olabi, Imad Toufeili.
Department of Nutrition & Food Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Al-Mawrid Al-Hadeeth: A Modern English-Arabic Dictionary. Rev. ed.; Beirut: Dar El Ilm Lilmalayin, 2010. Munir Baalbaki, Ramzi Baalbaki.
Department of Arabic & Near Eastern Languages, FAS.

Review of: Structure and Function of the Arabic Verb, by Martin Bahloul (London & New York: Routledge, 2006). British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol.36, No.3 (Dec 2009): 478-480. Ramzi Baalbaki.
Department of Arabic & Near Eastern Languages, FAS.

Renewable Energy Policies in the Gulf countries: A case study of the carbon-neutral "Masdar City" in Abu Dhabi. Energy Policy, Vol.38, No.1 (2010): 378-382. Danyel Reiche.
Department of Political Science and Public Administration, FAS.

Differential expression of hippocampal connexins after acute hypoxia in the developing brain. Brain and Development, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 January 2010. Michele P. Zeinieh*¹, Rabih S. Talhouk¹, Marwan E. El-Sabban², Mohamad A. Mikati^3,4.
¹Department of Biology, FAS, ²Departments of Human Morphology, ³Adult and Pediatric Epilepsy Program/Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, ⁴Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine.

Synchronous fluorescence based biosensor for albumin determination by cooperative binding of fluorescence probe in a supra-biomolecular host-protein assembly. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol.25, No.5 (2010): 1149-1154. D. Patra.
Department of Chemistry, FAS.

Energy policies of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries—possibilities and limitations of ecological modernization in rentier states. Energy Policy, Vol.38, No.5 (May 2010): 2395-2403. Danyel Reiche.
Department of Political Science & Public Administration, FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Drivers, barriers and incentives to implementing environmental management systems in the food industry: A case of Lebanon. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol.18, No.3 (Feb 2010): 200-209. May A. Massoud¹, Rabih Fayad², Mutasem El-Fadel², Rabih Kamleh¹.
¹Department of Environmental Health, FHS; ²Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Faculty of Health Sciences

Symptoms of reproductive tract infections and mental distress among women in low-income urban neighborhoods of Beirut, Lebanon. J Womens Health (Larchmt), Vol.18, No.10 (26 Oct 2009): 1701-1708. Marwan Khawaja¹, Afamia Kaddour¹, Huda Zurayk^1,3, Nathalie Choueiry¹, Faysal El-Kak².
¹Center for Research on Population and Health, ²Department of Health Behavior & Education, ³Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, FHS.

Fluctuations in glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1C) as a predictor for the development of diabetic nephropathy in type 1 diabetic patients. International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus, Vol.2, No.1 (2010): 10-14.. Jocelyn Eid Fares, Mona Kanaan, Monique Chaaya², Sami T. Azar¹.
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Medical Center; ²Department of Epidemiology and Population Heath, FHS.

Drivers, barriers and incentives to implementing environmental management systems in the food industry: A case of Lebanon. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol.18, No.3 (Feb 2010): 200-209. May A. Massoud¹, Rabih Fayad², Mutasem El-Fadel², Rabih Kamleh¹.
¹Department of Environmental Health, FHS, ²Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Medical Center

Addition of sphingosine-1-phosphate to human oocyte culture medium decreases embryo fragmentation. Reprod Biomed Online,, In Press Corrected Proof , Available online 21 January 2010. Antoine Hannoun, Ghina Ghaziri, Antoine Abu-Musa, Tony G. Zreik, Fatiha Hajameh, Johnny Awwad.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Center.

Correspondence between subjective and linear measurements of the palatal airway on lateral cephalometric radiograp hs. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg., Vol.136, No.1 (Jan 2010): 43-47. Mohamed A. Bitar, Anthony T. Macari, Joseph G. Ghafari.
Pediatric Otolaryngology Section, Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Medical Center.

Acral pseudolymphomatous angiokeratoma of children in an elderly man: Report of a case and review of the literature. International Journal of Dermatology, Vol.49, No.2 (Feb 2010): 184-188. Adèle Chedraoui*, Joelle Malek*, Hussam Tamraz*, Shukrallah Zaynoun, Abdul Ghani Kibbi, Samer Ghosn.
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

Severe hemophagocytic syndrome developing after treatment initiation for disseminated Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Case report and literature review. Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol.41, No.6-7 (2009): 535-537. Maher M. Balkis¹, Lama Bazzi¹, Ali Taher¹, Ziad Salem¹, Imad Uthman¹, Nadim Kanj¹, Fouad I. Boulos², Souha S. Kanj¹.
Departments of ¹Internal Medicine, ²Pathology & Lab Medicine, Medical Center.

Optimising the medical management of hyperglycaemia in type 2 diabetes in the Middle East: Pivotal role of metformin. International Journal of Clinical Practice,Vol.64, No.2 (2010): 149-159. M. Al-Maatouq, M. Al-Arouj, S.H. Assaad, S.N. Assaad, Sami T. Azar, A. A. K. Hassoun, N. Jarrah, S. Zatari, K.G.M.M. Alberti.
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology

Drivers, barriers and incentives to implementing environmental management systems in the food industry: A case of Lebanon. Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol.18, No.3 (Feb 2010): 200-209. May A. Massoud¹, Rabih Fayad², Mutasem El-Fadel², Rabih Kamleh¹.
¹Department of Environmental Health, FHS, ²Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Fluctuations in glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1C) as a predictor for the development of diabetic nephropathy in type 1 diabetic patients. International Journal of Diabetes Mellitus, Vol.2, No.1 (2010): 10-14.. Jocelyn Eid Fares, Mona Kanaan, Monique Chaaya², Sami T. Azar¹.
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Medical Center; ²Department of Epidemiology and Population Heath, FHS.

Effect of religion on the attitude of primiparous women toward genetic testing. Prenatal Diagnosis, Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Published Online: 19 Jan 2010. Ihab M. Usta, Anwar H. Nassar, Antoine A. Abu-Musa, Antoine Hannoun.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Center.

Differential expression of hippocampal connexins after acute hypoxia in the developing brain. Brain and Development, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 19 January 2010. Michele P. Zeinieh*¹, Rabih S. Talhouk¹, Marwan E. El-Sabban², Mohamad A. Mikati^3,4.
¹Department of Biology, FAS, ²Departments of Human Morphology, ³Adult and Pediatric Epilepsy Program/Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, ⁴Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine.

Emerging role of CD20 blockade in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 18 January 2010. Mohamed A. Kharfan-Dabaja, Ali Bazarbachi.
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Center.

Week Ending January 16, 2010

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

A load balancing energy efficient clustering algorithm for MANETs. International Journal of Communication Systems, Vol.23, No.4 (Apr 2010): 463-483. Haidar Safa, O. Mirza*.
Department of Computer Science, FAS.

Comparison of carcinogen, carbon monoxide, and ultrafine particle emissions from narghile waterpipe and cigarette smoking: Sidestream smoke measurements and assessment of second-hand smoke emission factors. Atmospheric Environment, Vol.44, No.1 (Jan 2010): 8-14. Nancy Daher¹, Rawad Saleh¹, Ezzat Jaroudi¹, Hiba Sheheitli¹, Thérèse Badr¹, Elizabeth Sepetdjian², Mariam Al Rashidi², Najat Saliba², Alan Shihadeh¹.
¹Aerosol Research Lab, Mechanical Engineering Department, ²Department of Chemistry, FAS.

Isometries of half supersymmetric time-like solutions in five dimensions. Classical and Quantum Gravity, Vol.27, No.2 (Jan 2010): 025003 (15 pp). J.B. Gutowski, Wafic Ali Sabra.
Centre for Advanced Mathematical Sciences and Physics Department, FAS.

School counseling in Lebanon: Past, present, and future. Journal of Counseling & Development, Vol.88, No.1 (Win 2010): 13-17. Huda Ayyash-Abdo, Rayane Alamuddin, Samar Mukallid.
Department of Education, FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Distribution system state estimation through Gaussian mixture model of the load as pseudo-measurement. IET Gener. Transm. Distrib., Vol.4, No.1 (Jan 2010): 50–59. R. Singh, B.C. Paul, R.A. Jabr.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Comparison of carcinogen, carbon monoxide, and ultrafine particle emissions from narghile waterpipe and cigarette smoking: Sidestream smoke measurements and assessment of second-hand smoke emission factors. Atmospheric Environment, Vol.44, No.1 (Jan 2010): 8-14. Nancy Daher¹, Rawad Saleh¹, Ezzat Jaroudi¹, Hiba Sheheitli¹, Thérèse Badr¹, Elizabeth Sepetdjian², Mariam Al Rashidi², Najat Saliba², Alan Shihadeh¹.
¹Aerosol Research Lab, Mechanical Engineering Department, ²Department of Chemistry, FAS.

Updating snort with a customized controller to thwart port scanning. Security and Communication Networks, Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Published Online: 13 Jan 2010. Wassim El-Hajj, Hazem Hajj, Zouheir Trabelsi, Fadi Aloul.
Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Equilibrium and kinetics of cadmium adsorption from aqueous solutions using untreated Pinus halepensis sawdust. Journal of Hazardous Materials, Vol.173, No.1-3 (Jan 2010): 236-242. L. Semerjian.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Faculty of Health Sciences

The effect of war stress on multiple sclerosis exacerbations and radiological disease activity. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, Vol.288, No.1-2 (Jan 2010): 42-44. Bassem Yamout¹, Salam Itani¹, Roula Hourany², Abla Mehio Sibaii³, Shadi Yaghi¹.
¹Department of Internal Medicine, ²Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Center; ³Department of Epidemiology and Population, FHS.

Work and mental health: the case of older men living in underprivileged communities in Lebanon.
Ageing and Society, Vol.30 (2010): 25-40. Monique Chaayaa, Abla Mehio Sibaia, Nabil Tabbal, Hiam Chemaitelly, Zana El Roueiheb, Zeinab N. Slim.
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, FHS.

Eliciting policymakers' and stakeholders' opinions to help shape health system research priorities in the Middle East and North Africa region. Health policy and Planning, Vol.25, No.1 (Jan 2010): 15-27. Fadi El-Jardali¹, Jihad Makhoul, Diana Jamal², Diana, Michael Kent Ranson, Nabil M. Kronfol, Victoria Tchaghchagian².
¹Department of Health Management and Policy; ²Department of Health Behavior and Education, FHS.

Work and mental health: the case of older men living in underprivileged communities in Lebanon.
Ageing and Society, Vol.30 (2010): 25-40. Monique Chaayaa, Abla Mehio Sibaia, Nabil Tabbal, Hiam Chemaitelly, Zana El Roueiheb, Zeinab N. Slim.
Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, FHS.

Medical Center

Alu-repeat-induced deletions within the NCF2 gene causing p67-phox-deficient chronic granulomatous disease (CGD). Human Mutation, Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Published Online: 1 Dec 2009. Marcus Gentsch, Aneta Kaczmarczyk, Karin van Leeuwen, Martin de Boer, Magdalena Kaus-Drobek, Marie-Claire Dagher, Petra Kaiser, Peter D. Arkwright, Manfred Gahr, Angela Rösen-Wolff, Matthias Bochtler, Elizabeth Secord, Pamela Britto-Williams, Gulam Mustafa Saifi, Anne Maddalena, Ghassan Dbaibo^1,2, Jacinta Bustamante, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Dirk Roos, Joachim Roesler.
¹Department of Pediatrics and ²Department of Biochemistry, Medical Center.

Endoscopy in the management of intra-ventricular lesions: Preliminary experience in the Middle East. Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, Vol.112, No.1 (Jan 2010): 17-22. Marwan W. Najjar, Narmer I. Azzam, Tarafa S. Baghdadi, Ali H. Turkmani, Ghassan Skaf.
Department of Surgery, Neurosurgery Division, Medical Center.

Bilateral pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum after treatment with continuous positive airway pressure after orthognathic surgery. British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery,Vol.48, No.4 (2010): e14-e15. Naji Abou Chebel, Dany Ziade, Rana Achkouty.
Department of Otolaryngology, Medical Center.

The interaction of gender and clinical risk profile in patients referred for exercise nuclear imaging versus exercise echocardiography. International Journal of Cardiology, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 13 January 2010. Salam Itani*¹, Katia Sibai², Samir Arnaout, Walid Gharzuddine, Habib A. Dakik.
Departments of ¹Dermatology, ²Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Treatment-resistant infantile Evans syndrome. Pediatrics International, Vol.43, No.5 (Oct 2001): 502-504. Samar Muwakkit¹, Rima Rachid¹, Ali Bazarbachi², Thurayya Araysi ², Ghassan S Dbaibo¹ .
Departments of ¹Pediatrics, ²Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine.

Endocrine dysfunction in a patient with PHACE syndrome including port-wine stain of the right per iorbital area. Endocr Pract., Vol.26 (Nov 2009): 1-14. [Epub ahead of print]. Marie Merheb¹, Roula Hourani², Mira Zantout¹, Sami Azar¹.
¹Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, ²Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Center.

A short cervical length in pregnancy: management options. Am J Perinatol., Vol.26, No.10 (Nov 2009): 761-70. Epub 2009 Oct 6. Review. Abdulrahman Sinno, Ihab M Usta, Anwar H Nassar.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical Center.

Therapy-induced PML/RARA proteolysis and acute promyelocytic leukemia cure. Clin Cancer Res., Vol.15, No.20 (15 Oct 2009): 6321-636. Epub 2009 Oct 6. Review. Rihab Nasr, Valérie Lallemand-Breitenbach, Jun Zhu, Marie-Claude Guillemin, Hugues de Thé.
Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

The effect of war stress on multiple sclerosis exacerbations and radiological disease activity. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, Vol.288, No.1-2 (Jan 2010): 42-44. Bassem Yamout¹, Salam Itani¹, Roula Hourany², Abla Mehio Sibaii³, Shadi Yaghi¹.
¹Department of Internal Medicine, ²Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Center; ³Department of Epidemiology and Population, FHS.

Lumbar disc herniation in young children. Acta Paediatrica (Oslo, Norway), Vol.99, No.1 (Jan 2010): 19-23. Rashid Haidar¹, I. Ghanem, S. Saad², Imad Uthman³.
Departments of ¹Surgery, ²Physiology, ³Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Endobronchial metastasis of osteosarcoma presenting as position-dependent and variable airway obstruction of the trachea. Thorax, Vol.65, No.1 (Jan 2010): 92. Ola Mazboudi¹, Miguel R. Abboud², Samar Muwakkit², Samir Akel³, Ahmad Husari¹.
¹Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, ²Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, ³Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Surgery, ⁴Department of Surgery, Medical Center.

Endobronchial metastasis of osteosarcoma presenting as position-dependent and variable airway obstruction of the trachea. Thorax, Vol.65 (2010): 92. O Mazboudi¹, M R Abboud², S Muwakkit², S Akel³, A Husari¹.
¹Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, ²Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, ³Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical Center.

Week Ending January 9, 2010

Faculty of Agricultural & Food Sciences

Inhibition of endotoxin-Induced pro-inflammatory markers by water extracts of Onopordum cynarocephalum and Achillea damascena. Journal of Medicinal Plants Research, Vol.3, No.9 (Sep 2009): 686–698. Rabih S. Talhouk¹, Malak A. Esseili*¹, Joanna Kogan*³, Marwan R. Atallah*^1,3, Salma N. Talhouk^2,3, Fadia R. Homeidan³.
¹Department of Biology, FAS; ²Department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science, ³IBSAR Nature Conservation Center for Sustainable Futures.

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

A position-based routing algorithm in 3D sensor networks. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Published Online: 8 Jan 2010. Alaa M. Al Tahan, Mohamed K. Watfa.
Computer Science Department, FAS.

Relative deprivation and mortality in South Africa. Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 70, No.5 (Mar 2010): 720-728 . Nisreen Salti.
Department of Economics, FAS.

Inhibition of endotoxin-Induced pro-inflammatory markers by water extracts of Onopordum cynarocephalum and Achillea damascena. Journal of Medicinal Plants Research, Vol.3, No.9 (Sep 2009): 686–698. Rabih S. Talhouk¹, Malak A. Esseili*¹, Joanna Kogan*³, Marwan R. Atallah*^1,3, Salma N. Talhouk^2,3, Fadia R. Homeidan³.
¹Department of Biology, FAS; ²Department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science, ³IBSAR Nature Conservation Center for Sustainable Futures.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

A dimensional tolerancing knowledge management system using Nested Ripple Down Rules (NRDR). Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 4 January 2010. Ramsey F. Hamade, V.C. Moulianitis, D. D’Addonna, G. Beydoun.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Automating dimensional tolerancing using Ripple Down Rules (RDR). Expert Systems with Applications, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 4 January 2010. G. Beydoun, A. Hoffmann, Ramsey F. Hamade.
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Smart encryption channels for securing virtual machine-based networked applications. Security and Communication Networks, Vol.2, No.6 (Nov 2009): 507-518. W. Itani, A. Kayssi, A. Chehab.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Trihalomethane formation potential in selected drinking waters of Lebanon. Water Science and Technology: Water Supply, Vol.9, No.3 (2009): 321-336. L. Semerjian, J. Dennis, G. Ayoub.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, , Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Medical Center

Pulmonary hypertension in children and young adults with sickle cell disease: Evidence for familial clustering. Pediatric Blood & Cancer, Vo.54, No.3 (Mar 2010): 398-402. Hanane A. Dahoui¹, Munya N. Hayek¹, Paul J. Nietert², Mariam T. Arabi², Samar A. Muwakkit¹, Raya H. Saab¹, Abdallah N. Bissar, Nidal M. Jumaa, Fadi S. Farhat, Ibrahim A. Dabbous¹, Fadi F. Bitar, Miguel R. Abboud¹ .
¹Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon, ²Division of Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Medical Center; Faculty of Medicine.

Nonsense mutation in the ALOX12B gene leads to autosomal recessive congenital ichthyosis in a Lebanese family. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, Vol.24, No.2 (Feb 2010): 232-233. M Kurban, Y Shimomura, Ruba Bahhady*, Samer Ghosn, Abdul Ghani Kibbi, AM Christiano.
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

Multiple asymptomatic skin-coloured papules on the left great and second toes. Clin Exp Dermatol., Vol.34, No.8 (Dec 2009): 933-934. Ossama Abbas, A. Chedraoui, Abdul Ghani Kibbi, M. Zayour, Samer Ghosn.
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

Wound cleansing, topical antiseptics and wound healing. Int Wound J., Vol.6, No.6 (Dec 2009): 420-430. Bishara S. Atiyeh¹, Saad A. Dibo², Shady N. Hayek¹.
¹Division Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, SA Dibo,²Department of Surgery, Medical Center.

Solid-pseudopapillary neoplasm: A pancreatic enigma. Arch Pathol Lab Med., Vol.133, No.12 (Dec 2009): 1989-1993. (Resident Short Reviews). Zaher I. Chakhachiro, Ghazi Zaatari.
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical Center.

The potential use of Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonists and antagonists as prophylact ic and/or therapeutic agents. Immunopharmacol Immunotoxicol., Vol.31, No.3 (2009): 331-338. Review. A. Makkouk, Alexander M. Abdelnoor.
Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Medical Center.

Insight onto the pathophysiology and clinical complications of thalassemia intermedia. Hemoglobin, Vol.33, Suppl.1 (2009): S145-S159. Maria D. Cappellini, Khaled M. Musallam, Ali T. Taher.
Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology Division, Medical Centre.

Preoxygenation by 8 deep breaths in 60 seconds using the Mapleson A (Magill), the circle system, or the Mapleson D system. J Clin Anesth., Vol.21, No.8 (Dec 2009): 574-578. Samar K. Taha, Mohamad F. El-Khatib, Sahar M. Siddik-Sayyid, Faraj W. Abdallah*, Carla M. Dagher*, Jules-Marie A. Chehade*, Anis S. Baraka.
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Center.

Lateral shelf acetabuloplasty in the treatment of Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease: improving mid-term outcome in severely deformed hips. Journal of Children's Orthopaedics, Vol.4, No.1 (2009): 13-20. Ismat Ghanem, Elias Haddad, Rachid Haidar, Suha Haddad-Zebouni, Noël Aoun, Fernand Dagher and Khalil Kharrat.
Department of Orthodaedic Surgery, Medical Center.

Long-term outcome of adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia in Lebanon: a single institution experience from the Ame rican University of Beirut. Hematol Oncol Stem Cell Ther., Vol.2, No.2 (2009): 333-9. Khalil M. Charafeddine^1*, H.A, Hatoum²*, Zaher K. Otrock*¹, Rami Mahfouz¹, Ziad M. Salem², A.I. Shamseddine², Ali T. Taher², N.S. El-Saghir², Ali Bazarbachi².
Departments of ¹Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, ²Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Scintigraphic imaging of pericarditis. Clin Cardiol., Vol.32, No.11 (Nov 2009): E89. Habib A. Dakik,¹, Mukbil Hourani², Ali Bazarbachi¹.
¹Departments of Internal Medicine; ²Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Center.

Tumor of the follicular infundibulum: an epidermal reaction pattern? Am J Dermatopathol., Vol.31, No.7 (Oct 2009): 626-33. Ossama Abbas, Meera Mahalingam. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/DAD.0b013e31819c8608

Immediate vitrectomy with silicone oil tamponade in severe ocular injuries. Techniques in Ophthalmology, Vol.7, No.4 (Dec 2009): 158-162. Ahmad Mansour.
Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine.

First occurrence of native cymothoids parasites on introduced rabbitfishes in the Mediterranean Sea. Acta Parasitologica, Vol.54, No.4 (2009): 380-384. Esmail Shakman, Ragnar Kinzelbach, Jean Paul Trilles, Michel Bariche
Department of Biology, FAS.

Week Ending January 2, 2010

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Anopheles gambiae innate immunity. Cellular Microbiology, Vol.12, No.1 (Jan 2010): 1-9. Hassan Yassine, Mike A. Osta.
Department of Biology, FAS.

Signaling pathway underlying the up-regulatory effect of TNF-α on the Na⁺/K⁺ ATPase in HepG2 cells. Cytokine, In Press, Corrected Proof, 2009 Dec 24. [Epub ahead of print]. Ari Kassardjian, Zeina Dakroub, Ola El Zein*, Sawsan Ibrahim Kreydiyyeh.
Department of Biology, FAS.

Challenges for CO₂ mitigation in the Lebanese electric-power sector. Energy Policy, Vol.38, No. (Feb 2010): 912-918. Leila Dagher, Isabella Ruble.
Department of Economics, FAS.

The antiproliferative effect of kefir cell-free fraction on HuT-102 malignant T lymphocytes. Clinical lymphoma & myeloma, Vol.9 Suppl 3 (2009): S198-203. Sandra Rizk, Katia Maalouf, Elias Baydoun.
Department of Biology, FAS.

The current Arab work ethic: Antecedents, implications, and potential remedies. Journal of Business Ethics, Vol.91, No.1 (Dec 2009): 35-49. Yusuf M. Sidani, Jon Thornberry.
Department of Economics, FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

Unfolding landscape in a Lebanese village: Rural heritage in a globalising world. International Journal of Heritage Studies, Vol.15, No.4 (Jul 2009): 317-337. Jala M. Makhzoumi.
Department of Landscape Design & Ecosystem Management, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Medical Center

Persistent left lower abdominal pain. Gastroenterology, Vol.138, No.1 (Jan 2010): e5-e6. Mustafa Z. El-Hakam¹, Ala Sharara¹, Victor Chedid*².
¹Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, ²Faculty of Medicine.

Treatment and prevention of hepatitis B and C in thalassemia. Hemoglobin, Vol.33, Suppl.1 (2009): S139-S144. Michella E. Mallat, Ala I. Sharara.
Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine.

Retinal vascular events after intravitreal bevacizumab. Acta Ophthalmol., 2009 Dec 21. [Epub ahead of print]. Ahmad M. Mansour, Leon A. Bynoe, John C. Welch, Richard Pesavento, Padmamalini Mahendradas, Focke Ziemssen, Sivakami A. Pai.
Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine; Medical Center.

Perspectives on palliative care in Lebanon: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of medical and nursing specialties. Palliative and Supportive Care, Vol.7, No.3 (Sep 2009): 339-347. Huda Abu-Saad Huijer, Hani Dimassi, Sarah Abboud*.
Hariri School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine.

Overview of iron chelation therapy with desferrioxamine and deferiprone. Hemoglobin, Vol.33, Suppl..1 (2009): S58-S69. Maria D. Cappellini, Khaled M. Musallam, Ali T. Taher.
Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology Division, Faculty of Medicine.

Iron overload: Consequences, assessment, and monitoring. Hemoglobin, Vol.33, Suppl.1 (2009): S46-S57. Ali T. Taher, Khaled M. Musallam, Adlette Inati.
Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology Division, Faculty of Medicine.

Week Ending December 26, 2009

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Differential expression of hippocampal connexins after acute hypoxia in the developing brain. Brain Dev., 2009 Dec 22. [Epub ahead of print]. Michele P. Zeinieh¹, Rabih S. Talhouk¹, Marwan E. El-Sabban², Mohamad A. Mikati^3,4.
¹Department of Biology, FAS; ²Departments of Human Morphology, ³Adult and Pediatric Epilepsy Program-Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, ⁴Department of Biochemistry, Medical Center.

Medical Center

Differential expression of hippocampal connexins after acute hypoxia in the developing brain. Brain Dev., 2009 Dec 22. [Epub ahead of print]. Michele P. Zeinieh¹, Rabih S. Talhouk¹, Marwan E. El-Sabban², Mohamad A. Mikati^3,4.
¹Department of Biology, FAS; ²Departments of Human Morphology; ³Adult and Pediatric Epilepsy Program-Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine; ⁴Department of Biochemistry, Medical Center.

Overview on practices in Thalassemia Intermedia management aiming for lowering complication-rates across a region of endemicity: the OPTIMAL CARE study. Blood, 2009 Dec 23. [Epub ahead of print]. Ali T. Taher, Khaled M. Musallam, Mehran Karimi, Amal El-Beshlawy, Khawla Belhoul, Shahina Daar, Mohamed-SalahEldin Saned, Abdul-Hamid El-Chafic, Maria R. Fasulo, Maria D. Cappellini.
Department of Internal Medicine, Hematology & Oncology Division, Medical Center.

Electroencephalographic changes in pyridoxine-dependant epilepsy: new observations. Epileptic Disord., 2009 Dec 23. [Epub ahead of print]. Georges Naasan²*, Mohamad Yabroudi²*, Amal Rahi¹, Mohamad A. Mikati^2,3.
¹Office of the Medical Center Director; ²Adult and Pediatric Epilepsy Program, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, ³Department of Biochemistry, Medical Center.

Endobronchial metastasis of osteosarcoma presenting as positi on-dependent and variable airway obstruction of the trachea. Thorax, Vol.65, No.1 (Jan 2010): 92. O. Mazboudi¹, Miguel R. Abboud², S. Muwakkit², Samir Akel³, A. Husari¹.
¹Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine; ²Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, ³Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical Center.

Nsaid-induced colopathy: case report and review of the literature. J Med Liban, Vol.57, No.4 (Oct-Dec 2009): 274-276. Ihab El Hajj, Mohammad Hawchar, Ala Sharara.
Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Medical Center.

Focus groups findings reveal barriers to teaching communication skills to medical students. J Med Liban, Vol.57, No.4 (Oct-Dec 2009): 248-52. Basim R. Saab, Stella Major, Umayya M. Musharrafieh, Joumana Antoun.
Department of Family Medicine, Medical Center.

Impact of a communication skills audiovisual package on medical students' knowledge. J Med Liban, Vol.57, No.4 (Oct-Dec 2009): 226-30. Basim R. Saab, Jinan Usta, Stella Major, Joumana Antoun.
Department of Family Medicine, Medical Center.

Emergency abdominal radiology: The acute abdomen. J Med Liban, Vol.57, No.3 (Jul-Sep 2009): 178-212. G.A. Birjawi, Lara J. Nassar*, Lamya Ann Atweh*, Samir Akel, Maurice C. Haddad.
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Center.

Imaging in oncology. J Med Liban, Vol.57, No.3 (Jul-Sep 2009): 156-66. Review. M.H. Hourani, Lara J. Nassar*, Mazen Haydar*, Roula G. Hourany-Rizk.
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Center.

Radiology for practitioners. Foreword. J Med Liban, Vol.57, No.3 (Jul-Sep 2009): 149-50. Maurice C. Haddad, F Joffre.
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Medical Center.

Epidermal stem cells: Practical perspectives and potential uses. Br J Dermatol., Vol.161, No.2 (Aug 2009): 228-236. Epub 2009 Apr 22. Review. O. Abbas, M Mahalingam.
Department of Dermatology, Medical Center.

Renal venous thrombosis in a newborn with prothrombotic risk factors. Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis, Vol.20, No.6 (Sep 2009): 458-460. Samar A. Muwakkit, Raya Saab, Sami A. Sanjad, S.I. Bhar*, RS Ishak*, Z.A. Samad, A.K. Chan, Miguel R. Abboud.
Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Medical Center.

Week Ending December 19, 2009

Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Youthful voices in post-war Lebanon. The Middle East Journal, Vol.63, No.1 (2009): 49-68. Roseanne Saad Khalaf.
Department of English, FAS.

Schooling of young adolescents in Lebanon. In: Donald K. Sharpes (ed.), Handbook on International Studies in Education, 77-94. Information Age Publishing, 2009. Karma El Hassan.

Displaced Arab families: Mothers' voices on living and coping in postwar Beirut. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Vol.5, No.3 (Fall 2009): 54-73. Jihad Makhoul, Mary Ghanem.
Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, FAS.

A stamp seal impression from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida. Tempora: Annales d’histoire et d’archéologie, Vol.18 (2009): 45-51. Hermann Genz.
Department of History & Archaeology, FAS.

Tell Fadous-Kfarabida: Regional connections in the early Bronze Age, in: Interconnections in the Eastern Mediterranean. Lebanon in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Proceedings of the International Symposium Beirut 2008. Bulletin d'Archéologie et d'Architecture Libanaises, Hors Série, Vol.6 (2009): 107-116. Hermann Genz.
Department of History & Archaeology, FAS.

Pottery production on the Northern Lebanese coast during the Early Bronze Age II-III: The petrographic analysis of the ceramics from Tell Fadous-Kfarabida. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, No.355 (2009): 51-83. Kamal Badreshany, Hermann Genz.
Department of History & Archaeology, FAS.

On the maps from $X(4p)$ to $X(4)$. Int. J. Number Theory, Vol.5, No.5 (2009): 831-844. Samar Jaafar, Kamal Khuri-Makdisi.
Mathematics Department and Center for Advanced Mathematical Sciences, FAS.

Faculty of Engineering & Architecture

City Debates 2008: Spaces of Faith and Fun. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol.33, No.4 (Dec 2009): 1073-1078. Mona Harb.
Department of Architecture and Graphic Design, Faculty of Engineering & Architecture.

Faculty of Health Sciences

Acute coronary syndromes: Clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, 2002-2005. Clin Cardiol. Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Published Online: 14 Dec 2009. M. Abdallah¹, W. Karrowni¹, W. Shamseddeen¹, S. Itani¹, Loulou Kobeissi², Ziyad Ghazzal¹, Samir Alam¹, Habib A. Dakik¹.
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine; ²Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, FHS.

Medical Center

Retinal vascular events after intravitreal bevacizumab. Acta Ophthalmologica, Forthcoming (Dec 2009). Ahmad M. Mansour, Leon A. Bynoe, John C. Welch,  Richard Pesavento, Padmamalini Mahendradas,  Focke Ziemssen, Sivakami A. Pai.
Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine.

Acute coronary syndromes: Clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, 2002-2005. Clin Cardiol. Early View (Articles online in advance of print), Published Online: 14 Dec 2009. M. Abdallah¹, W. Karrowni¹, W. Shamseddeen¹, S. Itani¹, Loulou Kobeissi², Ziyad Ghazzal¹, Samir Alam¹, Habib A. Dakik¹.
¹Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine; ²Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, FHS.

Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation for adults with sickle cell disease. N Engl J Med., Vol.361, No.24 (10 Dec 2009): 2380-2381. Miguel R. Abboud.
Children's Cancer Center of Lebanon, Medical Center.

Intravenous immunoglobulin therapy in intractable childhood epilepsy: Open-label study and review of the literature. Epilepsy Behav. [Epub ahead of print] (8 Dec 2009). Mohamad A. Mikati, R. Kurdi, Z. El-Khoury, A. Rahi, W. Raad.
Adult and Pediatric Epilepsy Program, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Medical Center.

Efficacy and safety of insulin glargine and glimepiride in subjects with Type 2 diabetes before, during and after the period of fasting in Ramadan. Ibrahim Salti; Diabetes and Ramadan Study Group. Diabet Med., Vol.26, No.12 (Dec 2009): 1255-1261.
Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Center.

Wound cleansing, topical antiseptics and wound healing. Journal : International Wound Journal, Vol.6, No.6 (18 Dec 2009): 420-430. Bishara S. Atiyeh, Saad A. Dibo*, Shady N. Hayek.
Division Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical Center.

Preoxygenation by 8 deep breaths in 60 seconds using the Mapleson A (Magill), the circle system, or the Mapleson D system. Journal of Clinical Anesthesia, Vol.21, No.8 (Dec 2009): 574-578. Samar K. Taha, Mohamad F. El-Khatib, Sahar M. Siddik-Sayyid, Faraj W. Abdallah, Carla M. Dagher*, Jules-Marie A. Chehade*, Anis S. Baraka.
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical Center.

Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia and Endocarditis. In: Kent B. Crossley et al. (eds.), Staphylococci in Human Disease, Chapter 16. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Zeina A. Kanafani, Sara E Cosgrove, Vance G. Fowler.
Division of Infectious Diseases, Medical Center.