Reinventing the African State: Issues and Challenges for Building a Developmental State

The Challenges Facing State-Nation-Building in Israel

Completing the nation-building process for survival is one of the challenges that the Zionist regime has always faced. This regime has based its existence on a specific and complex identity that, at first glance, can be a strong point for the survival and formation of a society, but the specific characteristics of this identity based on race and population inequality, for This has posed some ch...

Reinventing State Capitalism

The Current State of Poison Control Centers in Pakistan and the Need for Capacity Building

Background: Chemical exposure is a major health problem globally. Poison control centers (PCCs) play a leading role both in developed and developing countries in the prevention and control of poisonous chemical exposures. In this study, we aimed to assess the current state of PCCs in Pakistan and highlight capacity building needs in these centers. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of the two re...

A South African developmental State: What is possible?

The Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (ASGI-SA) economic policy framework announced by the government in late 2005 has confirmed the return into policy discourse of the role of the state, as compared with the mid-1990s. The focus on state spending on infrastructure and skills development, and the selection of priority sectors both signify a central role for the state in ...

building a syllabic analyzer for persian using finite state transducers

persian follows a concatenative morphology, where new morphemes are generated by chaining different morphemes together to form a new compound word.  whenever, two morphemes bind to form a new morpheme, there is a possibility that the syllables at the morpheme boundaries undergo structural change.  this study suggests that these syllabic alterations may be captured using a finite state approach....