This study examined whether attitudinal and emotional responses to broadcasts of images of terrorist events differ according to ethnic group (Jewish and Arab Israelis) and outgroup affiliation during an intense wave of terrorism that occurred in Israel during 2015. Participants were 118 Jewish and 110 Arab-Israelis adults randomly allocated to a terrorism or criminal violence television broadca...

Genetic disorders are responsible for a significant proportion of perinatal morbidity, mortality, infant deaths, and handicaps. Their incidence in Arab countries is higher than in the developed world. This is attributed to ethnic diversity, consanguineous marriages, large family size, advanced maternal and paternal age, lack of resources that deal specifically with genetic diseases, lack of pub...

The increased use of social media in Arab regions has attracted spammers seeking new victims. Spammers use accounts on Twitter to distribute adult content in Arabic-language tweets, yet this content is prohibited in these countries due to Arabic cultural norms. These spammers succeed in sending targeted spam by exploiting vulnerabilities in content-filtering and internet censorship systems, pri...

Introduction: Arab populations have many similarities and dissimilarities. They share culture, language and religion but they are also subject to economic, political and social differences. The purpose of this study is to understand the causes of the rising trend of diabetes prevalence in order to suggest efficient actions susceptible to reduce the burden of diabetes in the Arab world. Method: ...

This technical report is a supplement to “American and Arab perceptions of an Arabic turn-taking cue”, a paper submitted to the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. It provides additional details, discussion, figures, tables, and references relating to the main finding, that English speakers tend to misinterpret the prosodic pattern used in Arabic to cue back-channel responses, perceiving it a...

In this paper, I tackle the relat ionship between East and West from a cultural perspective.Though the difference is wide, they have in common a considerable number of social norms. Try ing to make a focuson how the West regards the East on the level of normal individuals, I analyse Kim Barnes’ novel “In the Kingdom of Men”. Her protagonists migrate from hometown ‘Oklahoma’ to ‘Saudi Arab ia’ o...

This paper examines how community arts in Sydney, Australia, have created new narratives of multiculturalism, focusing on the everyday diversity found in Sydney’s disadvantaged western suburbs. These narratives respond to the post-9/11 demonization of western Sydney and its multicultural communities, particularly Muslim and Arab-Australians. In contrast to the largely symbolic multiculturalism ...

21 An Examination of the Importance of Core Competencies and Relationship Management in IT Outsourcing Agreements: Empirical Evidence from an Eastern Cultural Context Yong Jin Kim, Department of Global Service Management, Business School, Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea Jaeki Song, Rawls College of Business Administration, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA & Department of Global Ser...

Cystic Fibrosis (CF) is the most common lethal rare genetic disease in the Caucasian populations. It is caused by a variety of sequence alterations in the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Regulator (CFTR) gene. In Caucasian, one over 3,500 new born children suffers from the disease and one over 30 of them is at least carrier of a severe mutation in the CFTR gene. CF and CFTR-related disorders (CFT...

Available evidence suggests that congenital and genetic disorders are responsible for a major proportion of infant mortality, morbidity, and handicap in Arab countries. The population of the region is characterised by large family size, high maternal and paternal age, and a high level of inbreeding with consanguinity rates in the range of 25-60%. 2 4 w1 Certain disorders are common throughout t...