Cemeteries constitute some of oldest and largest green and open spaces in Beirut. With the rapid densification of the city, and the extensive loss of green space, understanding the potential of these sites, as multifunctional landscapes, is critical for the health and sustainability of the city. Few...

Revisiting the link between COVID-19 incidence and infection fatality rate during the first pandemic wave

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Benjamin Glemain et al. (5 mai 2025)

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Several studies found an association between COVID-19 incidence, cumulated over the first pandemic wave, and the risk of death for infected individuals. They attributed this association to hospital overload. We studied this association across the French departments using 82,467 serological samples a...

A surfeit of victims: a time after time

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Sadek (24 janv. 2025)

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This essay argues that the questions born of the conditions that marked the post-war period in Lebanon are folded over and replaced by another set of conditions of which neo-victimhood is most dominant. The time of the post war can be said to be over and now is followed by a time after time in which...

MicroRNAs as potential pharmaco-targets in ischemia-reperfusion injury compounded by diabetes

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Dehaini et al. (24 janv. 2025)

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Background: Ischemia-Reperfusion (I/R) injury is the tissue damage that results from reoxygenation of ischemic tissues. There are many players that contribute to I/R injury. One of these factors is the family of microRNAs (miRNAs), which are currently being heavily studied. This review aims to criti...

Impact of historic and future climate on spring recharge and discharge based on an integrated numerical modelling approach: Application on a snow-governed semi-arid karst catchment area

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Doummar et al. (24 janv. 2025)

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Flow in a karst system in Lebanon (Important water supply source; Assal Spring; discharge 0.2–2.5 m3/s yearly volume of 22–30 Mm3), which is dominated by snow and semi-arid conditions, was simulated using an integrated numerical model (Mike She, 2016). The calibrated model (Nash–Sutcliffe coefficien...

Sensitivity of an integrated groundwater flow model to model parameters—application to vulnerability assessment of karst aquifers

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Hassan Kassem et al. (24 janv. 2025)

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The sustainable use and management of groundwater can benefit from improvements to both qualitative and quantitative groundwater vulnerability methods for a variety of hydrogeologic systems. Vulnerability methods in karst aquifers rely on key factors assigned different weights according to their est...

A thiosemicarbazone derivative induces triple negative breast cancer cell apoptosis: possible role of miRNA-125a-5p and miRNA-181a-5p

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El et al. (24 janv. 2025)

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Background: Breast cancer, the most commonly diagnosed malignancy in women, accounts for the highest cancer-related deaths worldwide. Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), lacking the expression of estrogen, progesterone and HER2 receptors, has an aggressive clinical phenotype and is susceptible to...

Estrogen in vascular smooth muscle cells: A friend or a foe?

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Dehaini et al. (24 janv. 2025)

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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) continues to be the leading cause of death worldwide. The effect of estrogen on these diseases has been assessed in in vitro and in vivo models, as well as in observational studies. Collectively, these studies alluded to a cardiovasculo-protective effect of estrogen. How...

7-O-methylpunctatin, a novel homoisoflavonoid, inhibits phenotypic switch of human arteriolar smooth muscle cells

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Fardoun et al. (24 janv. 2025)

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Remodeling of arterioles is a pivotal event in the manifestation of many inflammation-based cardio-vasculopathologies, such as hypertension. During these remodeling events, vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) switch from a contractile to a synthetic phenotype. The latter is characterized by increas...

L'entrepreneuriat familial au Maroc : Dynamiques de transmission, innovation et durabilité face aux défis contemporains

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Soufiane El Broumi et al. (2025)

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Les entreprises familiales occupent une place centrale dans l’économie mondiale, contribuant à la fois aux marchés locaux et internationaux grâce à une combinaison unique de tradition et d’entrepreneuriat. Cette étude s’intéresse aux défis que rencontrent les entreprises familiales marocaines, en pa...

Et si j’avais choisi mon sujet de thèse? Analyse de trajectoires menant à l’obtention ou l’abandon au doctorat

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Mariane Frenay et al. (2025)

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Comment comprendre les différentes trajectoires de doctorat qui peuvent, selon les cas, se terminer par un abandon? De nombreuses études explorent les variables potentiellement explicatives, souvent de manière isolée ou sans mesurer de manière fine leurs interactions ou encore sans prendre en compte...

Le vécu de l’expérience doctorale face aux transformations du doctorat : diversification des profils et professionnalisation

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Elsa Chachkine et al. (2025)

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Ce numéro spécial sur le vécu de l’expérience doctorale face aux transformations du doctorat est traité par des chercheurs de différents espaces de la francophonie : Belgique, France, Canada et Luxembourg. Nous savons que les parcours doctoraux sont extrêmement diversifiés en fonction des spécificit...

Saisir les liens entre dégradations environnementales et climatiques et migrations dans les campagnes du delta du Nil. Perceptions émiques et défis méthodologiques

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Florian Bonnefoi (2025)

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Cet article explore les défis méthodologiques propres à l’analyse des facteurs migratoires environnementaux et climatiques à partir de l’exemple du delta du Nil. Il montre que le déclin environnemental s’est amorcé bien avant les changements climatiques actuels. En proposant le concept de dégradatio...

Crutzen Danièle et Manço Altay (dirs.), Vivre enfant dans la migration

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Luna Russo (2025)

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Causal Inference in Genetics: Latest developments and New Directions

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(16 déc. 2024)

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Séminaire organisé par Iuliana Ionita-Laza du 18 au 23 novembre 2024 Participants Iuliana IONITA-LAZA (Columbia University - New York, États-Unis), Hugues ASCHARD (Institut Pasteur - Paris, France), Xihong LIN (Harvard University & Laboratoire SPHère - Boston, États-Unis), Matti PIRINEN (University...

L'aspiration à se former est-elle performative ? Le cas du souhait et de l'accès à la formation des salariés en emploi non qualifié

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Catherine Béduwé et al. (27 sept. 2024)

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